The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
] CENSUS BUREAU GIVES SUMMARY Concerns the Manufactures of Connecticut For
 Year 1914.
COMPARISON WITH
 FIGURES OF 1909
Consistent Increase of Busi-
 ness During Five s Years.

Director Samuel l.. Rogers of the census bureau in the department of commerce at Washington has issued a preliminary statement of the general results of the census of manufactures for Connecticut. It consfsts of a sum- and f914s by totals, prepared under the direction of William M. Stewart, chief statistician for manufac cures
 The figures are preliminary and sub- Ject to such change and correction as may be found necessary from a fur ther examination of the original re- ports.
 The census of 1914, like that of 1909, with reference to manufactures,t ex- cluded the hand trades, the building trades, and the neighbcrhood indus tries ,and took account only of estab- hshments, conducted under the factory system In the last census also, as in that for 1909, statistics were not col lected for establishments having pro- ducts for the census year valued at less than $500, except that reports were taken for establishments idle during a part of the census year, or which began operation during that year. and whose products for such req son were valued at less than $500.
 The word estabIfshment as used. in the census reports may mean more than one mill plant, provided they are owned or controlled and operated by a single individual, partnership. corporation, or other owner or opera tor and are located in the same town or city.
 The reports were taken for the cal endar year ending December 31, 1914 wherever the system, of bookkeGping permitted figures for that period to be sefured, but when the fiscal year of an establishment differed from the caIen- dar year a report was obtained for the operations of that establishment for it's fiscal year falling most largely within the calendar year 1914.
 Percentage of Increase.
 The population of Connecticut at the census of 1910 was 1,114,756, and it is estimated that it was 1, ,2o3, 900 on July l, 1914.
 The summary shows an increase at the census of 1914 as compared with that for 1909 with tne exception of number of establishments and proprfe- tors and firm members, which show de- creases The decreases are due prf- Inarily to the fact that at the census of l 909 large number of sports were received from small lumber and flour and grist mills Mills engaged exclu- siyely in custom saving and custom grinding for consumption in the frnnne- diate neighborhood should not be in- cluded in the census, but it is not aI- ways pOSSlDle to conduct the enuN1e- ration in regard to- these esta bIish- ments on uniform lines at different censuses. In 1914. as compared with 1909 there was also a decrease in the number of establishments engaged in the manufacture of patent medicines and compounds, but there was an. in- crease in the value Of products for this industry
 The decreases under the conditions are no indication of a decrease in the manufacturing activities of the state
 The summary for manufactures shows a consistent increase at the cen- sus of 1914, as compared with that for 1909. In the order of their inn portance, from percentage stand point, the increases for the several items rank as follows: Salaries, 3s. 5 per cent; salaried employees, 28 per cent; capital 18.s per cent; wages. 1S-7 per cent; primary horse power, E S-4 per cent; materials. 12.1 per cent; products, liz per cent; value added by manufacture, 1O.2 per cent and wage-sarners, 7.s per cent
 Capital Invested.
 %he capital invested. as reported in l