The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-11-28
LEXINGTON DOES
NOT SHOW UP WE'LL
In Industrial Growth During
Five Years, According
TO The Report.
OUR GAINS ARE GREATEST.
Covington Has More Industries and
Men, but She Has Not Kept
Pace With Paducah.
OUR GAINS ARE GREATEST.
CHILD LABOR is DECREASING.

Paducah is the third city in inn
portance, indnstrially, in Kentucky.
and advancing more rapidly than
Others, according to statistics In the
! latest bulletin issued by the depart
ment of commerce and labor at
Washington. The two cities ahead OF
it are Louisville and Covington.
The statistics deal solely with
manufactures. In view of the fact
that Covington practically is a sub
urb of Cincinnati and derives its im-
portance, in a large degree. from its
proximity to that city, Paducah rest
ing on its intrinsic merits. may be
considered the second city In the
state.
However, while Covington, as an
absolute fact is larger in manufac-
turing industries than Paducah, rela-
lively, these statistics show that in
every phase of industrial Develop
ment, Paducah is advancing more
rapidly than Covington. While Lex
ington probably is a third larger in
population than Paducah, Paducah Is
so far ahead of 1t in manufactures.
as not to warrant comparisons.
This latest bulletin from the de-
partment at Washington gives
comparative summary for 544 mu-
inequalities in the United States hav-
ing a population of over 5000. for
the period from 1900 to 1905.
II shows that the amount paid ont
in wages in Paducah has Increased
so per cent. in that period. That
wage-earners have increased. 3S per
cent; That child labor has decreased
20 per cent. And that the employ
ment of women has increased $50
per cent.
These figures are only few from
a large list of startling facts about
:. Paducah manufacturing industries.
Il must be borne in mind that the
figures given concern purely manu-
featuring plants, railroad shops.
wholesale and retail houses and the
thousand and one other means OF
employment not being included.
The amount of capital invested In
the S4 manufacturing plants In Pa
ducah is $4.393.176. or an average
to each plant of s52.29s. From 1900
to 1905 the increase in the number
of such plants was IA, or 20 per
cent.
In 1900 the capital invested in
manufacturing industries in Padu-
cab was s2.559.349, or an increase
in five years of II per cent. Coving-
ton increased co per cent, 29l Off
GERS and clerks, receiving s27l. 500
in salaries were required In the OPP
Grafton Of these plants.
Wage Statistics.
The statistics on wage-earners and
wages are interesting because they
oHON mat tue dhiounl paul Out III
wages have Increased faster In pro-
portion than wage-Sarners.
Seven hundred and eighty was
the increase Of wage-earners In Ave
years. or 80 per cent. The total num-
Der employed in 1905 was 2,s41.
s1,1S5,255 are paid out in wages in
a year. or an increase of so per
cent. in FIVE years
In Covington the number OF wage
earners increased only 10 per cent.
and wages increased only Fl per
cent. Compared with Paducah's o.
S1l wage-earners. receiving sl.1S5,-
255 in wages. Lexington has Liza
wage-earners, receiving $454,S4S.
Child Labor Decrease.
Tie decrease in child labor is one
of the most interesting facts in the
statistics about manufacturing con-
ditions In Paducah. In 1900 lac
children were employed in these fac
) tories. In 1905, III were employed
Or a decrease of 20 per cent In