New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-19
AUTO INDUSTRY GROWS
SOME TALKING FIGURES.
Census Bureau at Washington IN
nounceS Statistics for 1905.

Washington. Feb. 1S.--The remarkable growth IN
the automobile industry and the decline OF bicycle
production stTikingly indicated in statement
issued to-day by the Census Bureau on the manu-
facture Of automobiles bicycles and tricycies toF
1905.
The total production Of automobiles in 1905 was
22.S9O valued at S26645,0G4, as against 3,'23 IN
1900. with value of $4.74S.0i1 thus showing an
increase in value OF 461I per cent. OF the cars
turned out by automobile factories 1869 or 90
per cent. were propelled by gasoene; l,06s' or ~
Per cent, by steam, and 49, or Go per cent by
electricity.
The figures concerning the manufacture Of auto
mobiles represent the output of the 12l establish
ments reporting the complete automobile In addi-
ton these, there We're forty-seven establishments
engaged primarily in other lines Of manufactures
such as carriages and wagons, bicycles. sewing
machines. etc. which during the year covered by
the turned out 1,13S automobiles, valued at
SS79,2C5 and hfty-sevcn establishments which
manufactured automobile bodies and parts to the
value Of $3,.SS.f72
In the period between the two censuses the
number Of establishments turning out the finished
automobile as their principal product increased
from nfty-scven TO III, the amount Of capital In
vested in these establishments from $5,76SS57 TO
$2o,5J5.247, and the average number Of waSe-earn-
ers employed from 2.24l to 1929.
OF the total number of automobiles manufactured
Ia automobile factories i ISL $50 per cent were
runabous. and 7.22o or 1913 per cent touring cars
Buckboards stood third in number turned out, 81;
Stanhopes fourth, with go, and delivery wagons
fifth. with
The yalue of AHe-ican-nade automobiles and
parts exported increased from $9iS52S in 1872. the
first year that they were separately reported to
S24Sl.243 in 1895 The greater part OF these exports
went to European markets, although Europes per
centage of the total foreign purchases appears to
be decreas sing In the years 1902 TO 1905 This er-
ceutage $50, .0.I 53S and DC, respectively.
Nevertheless the absolute value of the exports 60
Europe almost doubled In the three years. To the
lrlted Kingdom more than $bUUU0U worth fOl
American made automobiles and parts has been
exported in each Of the years from 1902 70 1903. In
the same period exports to France have increased
from S59.05l 10 S2521f2: 70 Italy from $500 to
in 1905 there in all sixteen European countries
which imported the American machine.
The exports TO foreign countries OF North America
increased from SI6Vl in 1892 to 500 In lS nearly
went TO Canada. which stood next to the United
Kingdom among all foreign countries in imports
Of the American-made machine. In 1905 the exports
to Mexico amounted to $l199S5 Cuba 296 53S: Asia.
S120264; Oceania. &l0 46i South America 88GS. and
Africa S5I.l21 The total number of countries i'm
porting the American product in 1895 was 50.
The 1898 census OF the manufacture Of bicycles
and tricycles disclosed great decreases since 1900
The number of factories declined from 2l2 10 1ul
the capital invested from SO 1869 s. 49, the
number Of wage earnerS from l7525 to 3.3l9. and
Many establishments that manufactured only bicy-
CIes in 1900 at the later census engaged prin-
clpaHy or TO some extent IN the manufacture Of
automobiles.
reached about 1897 and I'm 1900 the manufacture had
already largely fallen off. The number OF chain
bicycles turned out declined from Il36122 1900
2465oi in 1880 chainless from 1888 4077 and tT-
entirely, childTens toys Motor cycles increased
from l59 TO 2,456