Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-08-27
NoRTH CAROLINA OCCUPATIONS
Interesting Facts 1B0ut TKUs6 VINO
Y sFdliOWl Eainful Employment.

fTKtefesting FACTS 1B0Ut TKUs6 VINO
iY Follow EaiRful Employment
According to the RspoEt On QccApa=
!. tons recently Issued by Director VIII
2 ia1n j. Harris, 81 the Bureau OF tbs
Census 4Departmenta aofG Commerce.,
there were 947,SS9 persons 10 years
Iii agegand1 over in North Caroline enf
gagged in gaipfnl occupations in 1s99 1919 !,
The gainful workers thus formed AZ pei
cent OF the total population Of thu
state 2206, 2s7J and so per cent Of.
1.-THE population tfI0Iyears rot Lager and
lower 11g57S, $3.50. CInal 1900 theo5 16, 74gs
gainful workers of the state formed
I,SE 81 fper esnttof the tahpopulatf
apd:Bs2peF eenttOf the rpopuIationa1O
Esears of9age and ever:If edt tDodR 81
Fhee malee gainfulo tMoFaers ihsAS10f
numbered 874sS4S; EoE tS6 4eper cent of
fAall males 10 years of age and over aasy
Ec9mpa pared with 55635SDTeF fS4s1 tpericent
| tn rrG00G afThei fen1alee gafRful aWorhefsi
/ 1i 1910 onafnbdF ~ 72s a90a orsS4saZ peHa
licentt Off AlR afemalesI 10Ayearst o6aagS
lahdt oaery Heon1par edE With ,a6a, l6ds=
or 23.4speti cenh5 inh19e09 al II sGiios
lo s'1oDfstFibutIORr0 f NOrkers!oo fGot1
IA The ie47IS59 a9iiRfulswprkersrfn ISt9i
m1ereeq distribatedo . amongdot heg anRiB
Rbranches of occupations as fefbdwst
agriculture, forestry, and -afiHaaf-hus-
1914 ja6Sl I6r 64.sApsfHdentT lex
1traction of minerals, 2, 102, or OF per
oeentS ntautfaeBarA9g1 aasB haehahiuRl9
iliduseFesq fsS9ff2 = or H6E7IlTeE GeRt9
transb6ftalGons i29 SGl3 Gbr iStf per hantsf
trade 39yDeS Jtcora 4Daper cent ,ihubliet
ser44ce,o 4 $685. 6fe o .5fperbc protest
ksiofial fsef4Tee, fg0 1856 ofGA1 per cent?
domestic land spersonaf ossrvcie; 70S666e
4r rs per cent; and clerical soccapae
itions, IU5T9,fi0r 1.Taper cent. sid sdT
S taEH 10 SexrOfo W Orkefs.noTt Eti9 9
2 OF the gainfdI workers In 1876 674ao
fS49,a oft 71t2 pc irEent, were males and
272, $50, ior 2S 81 per cents females. oaIas
agriculture, forestry and animal hus=l
bandry, the males numbered AS, S61,y 4
or "a. 4pef cent, and the females, 1921
sos, Or. 266 per cent Practically all.
1887 or 'S9.S per cent-of the peri
sons engaged fnothe3 nextractions dof
minerals were males. In manufacture
ing and mechanical industries f12S, 454,
OF re per cent, Of the workers were
males and $685. or 22I tperecent, 7feFf
males. Males constituted 97!7T per
cent of the 2s,601 persons engaged in
Transportation, 91.7 pc recent of the
SO, OPS persons engaged in trade, and
-94.3 per cent of the 1889 persons en-
gagged in public service. In profess
sional service 1928, or 52.S per cent,
OF the workers were males and 9,608
or AZ per cent, females, large pro-
portion of the females being school
teachers. Domestic and personal ser
vice was the only large field of occu-
1rations in which the females outnum-
mered the males Here females num-
hered 1867, or SO per cent, and males
Only 1909, or IL per cent, of the
workers. OF the persons pursuing
clerical occupations, 7,941, or ISL per
cent, were males and 1888, or 24.9 per
cent, females. 1sa o.
Color or Race Of Workers.
OF the 674,S49 gainfully occupied
DlaIes of 1910, 457,1sO were native
whites of native parentage, 2,502 ma
tive whites of foreign or mixed parent
age, 1929 foreign-born whites, 2O9,S7S
negroes, and 2,455 other colored. The
proportion which the gainfully occu-
pied males formed of all the mayes 10
years of age and over in each princi-
ral class of the population was: For
native white of native parentage, 1874
ger cent; for native whites of foreign
or mixed parentage, rs a per cent; for
foreign-born whites, 91.5 per cent; AMI
fer negroes, $50 per cent.
OF the 272,99O gainfully occupied fe-
males in 1910, 129,457 were native
whites of native parentage, SCI ma
tive whites of foreign or mixed parent
age, 362 foreign-born white, 141 1891
negroes, and 1919 other colored. The
proportion which the gainfully occu-
pied females formed of all the females
10 years of age and over in each prin-
cipal class of the population was:
For native whites of native parentage,
24.2 per cent for native whites of
foreign or mixed parentage, 1876 per
cent; for foreign-born whites, 17.3
per cent; and for negroes, 55.7 PEI
cen cent.
Number of Children at Work.
L. M. Ia-...n,---. =. dnao -, - --- 81