The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-03-11
u. S. CENSUS OF
MANUF ACTURES
Agents Started Their In
Vestigations in This City
on Monday.
QUESTIONS THEY ASK
Canvass While Thorough
Does Not Cover AS Much
Ground AS That
Of 1900.

Through the Department of Commerce
and Labor, Uncle Sam has started in to
take the census of manufactures. and
every corporation and every firm or IN
dividual engaged in the manufacturing
business will have to open the ledger
and tell the census agent just what the
profits Of the business were during the
calendar year Of 1904 Heretofore the
census of manufacturers was taken but
once every ten years. but Uncle Sam
is getting to be more inquisitiye about
the industries of the country and now
the census is being taken every FIVE
years.
Special blanks have been issued for
the leading industries, there being up
wards Of fifty of these. Manufacturing
plants for which special blanks have not
been issued will be recorded on a gem
eral blank arranged to fit all lines While
the canvass win be thorough this year,
it viii not cover as many lines as the
census of 1900. Five years ago every
millinery shop. cobbler shop, etc, was
included in the canvass. but this year
only those establishments manufactnr-
ing for the trade will be recorded
The following establishments win not
be canvassed Awnings, bicycle repair
ing. blacksmith and wheelwright shops
that manufacture less than FIVE vehicles
year, bottling works, carpenter shops,
confectionery stores. custom and mer-
4chant taiIorss custom gristmills, custom
sawmills, daries, dressmaking, drug
stores, dyeing and cleaning, electrical
repair and construction work, fur goods,
hair work, harness, ice cream saloons,
jewelry stores, kindling wood locksmith
and gunsmith shops, all quarries ma
sonry, brick and stone, millinery, monu-
mental work, opticians, house and sign
painting, paper hanging, paving. photo
graphy, picture framing, plastering and
stucco work, plumbing, printing and
publishing, repairing and upholstering
furniture. roofing, sewing machine re-
pairing. taxidermists, tin shops, type
writing repairing Any Of the above
lines. however. engaged in manufacture
for the trade will be included in the
census.
The special census schedules are very
elaborate, and go into the smallest de-
tails, for Uncle Sam wants TO know just
how prosperous the country has been
during the past year. The general
schedule will be sufficient 10 keep the
average manufacturer busy. The infor-
nation which will have to be given on
this schedule is as follows:
Name of establishment
Name of corporation, firm or indi-
vidual owner.
Character of organization Designate
the form Of organization, as it existed
on the last day of the period covered by
the report. whether. individual, firm,
limited partnership, cooperative associa-
tion. Incorporated company or some other
form.
Character of industry-Specify the
kind Of goods manufactured, as for ex-
ample, cut nails, chairs, leather betting,
mems clothing. or the kind Of work done,
as for example, job printing, machine
shop work. RetuW with the schedule
card or other printed matter describ
ing the business.
Capital invested owned or borrowed
The answer must show the total
amount Of capital both owned and bor-
rowed All the items Of fixed ana live
capital may be taken at the amounts
on the books If land or buildings are
rented that fact should be stated aud
no value given. II i part Of the land or
buildings is owned, the remainder being
rented. the fact should be stated and
only the value Of the owned property
given Tile value of al items of live
capital, bills receivable, unsettled,