The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-06

girls Tho wages and salaries paid
that year totaled 31,s21.S7o. Tho
capital invested in tho st. Louis
plants, this division OF the industry.
totaled s5.1Si.675.
Automobile Industry, Kansas City,
1919
The worth of manufacturing. as
sembling and reconstructing automo-
biles and power trucks In Kansas
City in 1919 reached 2a4.2i5.sOs. The
establishments considered employed
671 workers, four being women. and
this host that year drew t1.IIl.541
In wages and salaries,
Missouri manufacturing, 1919. bod
les, tops, accessories and supplies for
automo obiles, trucks, carriages, wagons
and buggies. had a total worth OF
s6.e13.747 and gave employment to
1894 workers. divided between 1.S2S
male and Sc females They drew
sl.954.2l7 in wages and salaries that
year.
St Louis also IS Mlssourls chief
center for the manufacturing OF vo-
hlcle bodies, tops, accessories and sup
plies. The 1919 output OF this city
had a total factory value Of S6,234,-
337. This ST Louis branch OF the
MI
ment to 1879 workers. 50 being wom-
en-. They were paid s1.sO3.5ss for tho
time they put In and the work they
did.
Manufacturing HORSE Drawn Vehicles,
1919
Missouri manufacturing. 1912. car
riagcs, wagons, buggies and other
horse drawn vehicles had a total
worth Of ss,is6.s31. The sum paid
In salaries and wages to 1885 work.
ers reached S1,s64.OS4.
st. Louis, alone, year 1919, manu-
factured horse-drawn vehicles TO the
value of s4,373.137 and paid to 7s9
workers still following this industry.
ss1O.213.
Missouri's 1919 repair work, the
larger establishments automobiles,
| power trucks and all horse-drawn We
hicles, had a total worth Of $9,l11,-
206. The workers following this line
aggregated 4,265,, consisting Of 1924
men and youths and III of the other
sex Salaries and wages paid to these
toilers that year reached S3.430.ll2.
Passing OF the yiIlnge BLACKSMITH
1t is probably well to say at this
point that the coming OF automobiles
and power trucks has driven out of
existence the historic and formerly
useful village blacksmiths, industrial
geniuses who will live forever in the
annals of the country, chiefly for the
reason that Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow immortalized this simple hon
est calling In his plain, truthful bal
lad, The Village Blacksmith" famil-
lar to every school boy and girl OF
the land.
\ War Imerfered With Industry I'm
1918
That the Missouri vehicle industry
did not hold its own during 1918 is
: due solely to the United States gov
ernment communicating the larger
st. Louis and Kansas City automobile
and power truck plants to manufac-
ture war munitions But even then
that year the worth of output, all di-
visions and classificauons of Mis-
: souri's vehicle industry. was S43,
SOC. Tho workers numbered s,eo3
divided between $3.50 Of the sterner
: sex and 3z3 women and girls. They
were paid s7.s2s.l6s in salaries and
wages.
For the year 1917 Mlssouris FAC
: tory worth the output of all varieties
vehicles reached S55,331.764 The
employed totaled s.951. consisting OF
s,5ls men and youths and 433 womeI
and girls. There was paid in wage:
and salaries .7,s7O,Slo.
: Half q Hundred Million
With repairing the year 1919 added
: the total worth OF manufacturing. as
sembllng. reconstructing and repair
: ing Of power and horse-drawn vehicle:
y az