The Washington times., 1910-07-30
Census Director Reports
Gain of IS Establishments
in Five Years.
CAPITAL INVESTED
FOOTS $3O,971,168
Bakery Products and Publishing
Industries Record the Larg-
est Earnings.

business and manufacturing during
the last five years in proportion to
its growth IN population, is shown
by a preliminary comparative sum
mary announced today by the Director
OF the Census
According TO these statistics, there
were 517 manufacturing establish
ments in the District of Columbia in
1909, compared with 4S2 in 1904.
gain Of thirty-7ve- These 5IT estab-
lishments had, at the time they were
recorded. a total investment OF $50
S71,16S, as compared with S2O,19S,TSS
invested in 1904 by the establish
Iaents in existence at that time
This gain Of 80 per cent is pointed
to with much pride in the report, and
IS considered TO Indicate that the
Capital has bright prospects as a
business and manufacturing city
AT least s. per cent Of the total
amount Of capital invested during the
latter part Of 1909. when these sta
tistics were collected, was confined
10 fourteen Of the ninety-fve separate
industries
The fourteen were: Gas. malt liz
uors, newspapers and periodicals,
bread, book and Job printing ice. flour
and grist mills, foundry and machine
shops, wholesale slaughtering and
meat packing, cars and general shop
construction and repairs by street
railroad companies, baking and yeast
powder, iron and steel works and roll
ing mills, and paper and wood pulp.
In 1894 there were sevenJy-seven sepa-
rate Industries.
Industries Separated
In the tabular and analytical presen-
tatiOn Of the District data, the Census
Bureau has separated all those indus
tries, IN each Of which three or more
Establishments are n operation from
those having but one establishment
The object Of this is to insure sec
recy concerning individual firms It
is pointed out that II the complete de-
tails were published concerning every
industry it would be easy, where only
two firms are operating in one particu-
lar industry for each firm TO learn the
others business simply by substracting
its own figures from the totals In view
Of this method OF maintaining business
secrecy. where Necessary, the indus
tries in which less than three estab-
1893. separately specified, and hfty-eIgb-
were classed as "aT other Industries
with a subjoined notation giving only
the descriptions Of the various indus
tries concerned
There were thirty-seven industries IN
1909, separately specified. and fifty
eight were cIassed as "au industries
Five years ago there were thirty-siZ
in the main class and forty-one In the
other
Book-bindinE and printing lead. with
the greatest number OF establishments,
having eighty, as compared Win
SeTeuLv-SiE in 1904
The number Of establishments in each
OF the other lines were Bread ana
other bakery products SeVeuty-One N
1909 seVenLy-Seven IN 1904 newspapers
and other periodicals. dfty'-nve N LOO,
and the same number IN lSJ1- foundry
and machine shop products. eighteen IN
1868, ten in 1901, copper, Tin and sheet
iron products. seventeen IN lSJy, tWeiEe
IN 1901. confectionery fifteen IN 1913,
thirteen in 1904; patent medicines ana
compounds, fifteen in 1899, SIX IN 1904;
marble and stone works, fourteen II
1909 seven in 1901 lumber ana pianinS
mill products. ten in 1900, and SIX IN
1903 The other industries in tbs group
have from three 10 nine establishments
each. OF the AS concerns operating IN
the specified class, there are 80 eSJaO-
Iishments, or 20 per cent Of the total
number, engaged IN ten out OF the
6hirty-seven industries
Capital Invested.
Of the S3og7I,I5S total capital invested
IN 1903 in all Industries. S5,1S0.513 was
posing he specified class, having three
or more establishments per industry In
1904 the total invested capital was SO
80. 7S3. and there were a04 esta blishments
in the specified class credited with SIS
l57.715 Of the total sum Therefore, the
increase between 1894 and 1903 exceeded
100000 for the firms engaged IN the
specified industries
The group Of '-au other industries IN
HHF IS
an Investment Of S5,4s9,o97, as coSlpareo
with IS having S2.l42--5l invested IN 1874
Among the Industries. IN each OF
which three or more eSJa DilSnTneulS are
engaged there was One-that Of the
manufacture Of artificial stone-whlch
was not separately specified in 1904
In the AL others there were $ in
dustries in 1853; IN 1903 there were IL
Therefore, since 1898, there have been
IS new Industries established IN Ene
District On the other hand, Of the Il
in Iof. there were IS that passed out OF
business life before 1903
OF the 81 specified industries IN 1SlS
with AS establishments and S25-lSo,5lS
capital invested, there were nine N
dustries IN which 90 establishments in
vested about So. G0O,009. or fully s. per
cent Of the total, as compared with 81
este af.shments in the same industries
in 1904 with SI5.270.S4S invested The
other . industries. IN 1913. with lSS Is
Adjustments, had a little more than
S3,G0o.s00 invested.
Amons the industries in the all
others class. with an investment Of
s.. T90, 500 ,Rpital, there were nine n 1s5s,
engaging thirteen establishments. nav
ing an investment Of about S5,eoo.e03
capital. as compared with six industries.
having thirteen establishments and
S951, 993 capital invested IN 1904
Earning Capacity.
The industries whose products in 1903
were Of che greatest value, in their
ranking order, were
Bread and bakery products, S3-5S9, 554
as compared with S2.575.9St in 1901: news
paper and periodical publishing. s., 49,
SS5, as against S2Cs1, 15S in 1904; gas,
S2Sl5,34C. as compared with 81 901 So IN
1904; book and job printing 8 004-0S3, as
against sl.740,50 in 1901, malt liquors,
s.. S04, 791, in comparison with S1167.l57 if
1864: slaughtering. $-194 356 in 1903 and
S6I5.46-- in 1894 planning mills, sash doors
and inds, S50e. 4SS IN 1909 and 1892 IS2 in
1924. structural lron- S56g.Sl& as against
SZ21.15f in 1So4- coffee and spice. S533- 404
IN 1893 and S26S.452 in 1904: marble and
stone works, S500195 in 1909 as com
pared with S165,Sff IN 1894. patent medi-
zines Ss7S-213 in 1893 and S254 rs in 1884 !.
Zee, S34o,5f7 in 1909 and $3.50 go in 1904. and
copper, etc S3z0.I27 IL 1913, as compared
with SIS, $50 in 1904.