Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
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tivity has been along lines which do
not interfere with civic beauty.
1.-THE Capital City has become great
national center for news, information,
research and general educational ac-
tivities. It has attracted the head
quarters offices Of organizations in these
fields bringing new stats of workers
to Washington and thus adding to our
population. Mention should be made,
finally, of WaShington's peculiar charms
as a residential city. As the result of
the great increase in tourist and con-
vef1tion visitors, many weather. AM
erican folk have chosen Washington
as their home town and the number
Of newcomers in this class appears
to be on the increase"
Dorsey w. Hyde, ir.. secretary OF the
Washington Chamber of Commerce,
explained that two of the outstanding
commercial enterprises in Washington
are those of ice-making and ice cream
manufacture. These, with the other
industries. have brought numerous
workers to the city in recent years.
The great increase in "the unobjec-
tionable type of manufacturing" &C
counts in large measures for the climb
of washington UP the population ladder,
in the belief or Edward d. Shaw. Sec
rotary Of the Merchants and Manu-
facturefs' Association. Inc. Proof of
this is reflected in the columns of
figures in the Bureau of the Census
reports on manufacturing, for Washing
tons manufacturing jumped from $751;
639 900 in 1921 to $83,576,0 900 In 1925,
an increase Of about as per cent In
four years.
Leading Industries.
Leading In Washington's manufac-
turing Mr.. Shaw explained, is the
| great printing and bookbinding in
| dustry which brings into the Golfers of
the National Capital some sat 1000, 900.
Food products. including bread and
city returns ageregating $1O,OOoOoo.
great Washington industry-outside
that of the National Government
nets some S7,40O, 900, while ice cream
rings the cash register to the tune of
| $4,000 900, Mr.. Shaw asserts.
| washington has several million dol
lar" industries. Included in this cate
CORY are beverages, ice manufacturing,
lumber and planning products, structural
iron work, hthographing and photo
engraving and the manufacture OF fur.
Ranging around the half-million dollar
mark and more are concrete products,
confectionery. foundries and machine
shops, engraving steel and copper plate.
| furniture and food preparations not
included in the other category.
With this mass of manufacturing,
Mr.. Shaw declares. 1t Is little wonder
that the population Of washington has
increased so appreciably. He recalled
that In the postwar period Immediately
following the armistice, the prediction
1 went out that washington would drop
back to the population figure that OBJ
tanned before the war. But this dire
forebodine has proved about as ac-
cNrate as Mother Symptoms prophecy,
and instead OF receding the population
wave has been mounting higher with
the succeeding years.
In addition to manufacturing as a
population magnet, Mr.. Shaw calls
attention TO the point stressed also by
i other ob6efvers-that washington Is
attracting people as q desirable resi-
Dental city. These. he says, fall into
two classes these who desire employ
gmeft and those who have means %
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