The Washington herald., 1911-08-19
INDUSTRIES HERE
SHOW INCREASES
Census Office Reports on Dis
trict Factories.
PRINT SHOPS m THE LEAD
Statistics for Year 1909 Give 156
Plants of This Kind in Operation
in the Capital-Few Employees
Under Age Are Found-Fffty-
six Hours the Average Week.

Statistics of the leading industries Of
the District for the year 1909. collected
at the thirteenth census, were made pub
lie yesterday in a bulletin issued by
Census Director Durand The bulletin
was prepared under the supervision of
William M. Steuart, chief statistician for
manufactures.
The general increase in the manufac-
turing interests in Washington since 1904
are shown to have been large as COM
pared with former reports. The bulletin
sets forth that in 1899 there were 491 es-
Establishments in the District of Columbia,
which gradually decreased until the year
1904, when a total Of 4S2 were shown, a
percentage decrease of lS. The interests
began to pick up after 1904. and the bull
letin issued yesterday shows that there
are now in existence in Washington, ex-
elusive of the establishments operated
by the government, 51S manufacturing
establishments, or an increase from 1904
TO 1909 Of 7.5 per cent.
The statistics show that in 1909 estab-
lishments operating under the factory
system gave employment to an average
Of s.75s persons, and that sS,S35,0o0 was
paid In salaries and wages. The total
to have been s25, ,2ss, ,0O0 to produce which
materials costing s10.24s.0OO were con-
sumed.
Printing and publishing establishments
are in the majority. there being 1b6 in oper-
alton. with a total value of products of
81, $50, 900. The table shows that there are
seventy-one bread and other bakery man.
ufacturers, with a value of product of
S, S,5S0 900; foundry and machine shop prod
p,tth Of
900; liquors. malt, s. with a valued
product of 81, SO6,oOO, and flour mill, lum-
Der, and marble and stone establishments,
81, with total value of products set forth
at more than 81. 600, ,o0o There are 81 other
industries, with a total value Of products
at 81, ia, 900.
Few Under Age.
OF the total number of persons en-
gagged in manufactures, s,59S were male
and 1,16o female. But eighteen males
and one female are shown to have been
under sixteen years of age. The figures
show that the majority of wage earners
employed in manufacturing industries
were in establishments where the pre-
vailing hours of labor did not exceed
fifty-four a week. OF the total number,
S.7 per cent were employed in estab-
lishments running forty-eight hour q
week or less, and 29.9 per cent In es-
tablishments running more than forty
eight hours, but less than fifty-four
hours a week., while 31.4 per cent were
IN establishments operating more than
nine hours a day.
The total number of persons employed
in the Federal manufacturing establish
ments is u,666, of which number 1,00s
are officials and clerks, and 10,657 are
wage earners. The combined salaries of
H. s~r- IL -
been S1,o16,754, while that Of the wage
earners was $10,6s3,o ,o40, or a total of SIS
704, ,242- The cost of material, including
fuel and rent of power, is set forth in
the bulletin to have been $500, ,626 in 1909,
as compared with s4502,o9o in 1904.