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Show - OUR GIGANTIC OUTPUT. . Statistics Showing . Immensity of Manufacturing Interests. (New York Herald.) The immensity of our manufacturing interests dawns dimly upon one's befogged be-fogged imagination only when one reads some of the statistics regarding them. It is almost impossible to conceive the idea represented by the words "American "Ameri-can manufactures." even when we read Jn the census reports that there are more than half a million establishments for the manufacture of some article of commerce. com-merce. And these establishments are using capital to the amount of $!).S3.0S6.-and $!).S3.0S6.-and employing "07.174 clerks and officials of-ficials and wage earners to the number of 5,:ii.s. But if the mind refuses this high hurdle, hur-dle, what is the mental condition of the man who trios to jump vo the fact that $7.3-18.141,7.15 worth of raw material is consumed annually by thia arry of factories, fac-tories, which make out of this material manufactured products worth altogether $13,014.1!)'.' That sum is nearly ten times the authorized capitalization of the greatest great-est cornoration on earth the Tinted States Steel corporation. It represents the actual value of .the states of New York and Pennsylvania combined. The product in 1M was less by nearly $4.0;O.O0rt.iXK. while that of 1ST0 was only a little more than $1,000,000,000. We rank first among the manufacturing nations of the earth, for we produce, according to the most accurate authorities, about half as much as all of Kurope combined, the United Kingdom ranking next. Germany Ger-many third. France fourth and Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary fiftn. Further statistics show that 20.000.000 people more than 10 years of age are engaged in productive industry. More than one-third are in agriculture, a filth in domestic and personal service, a fifth in trade and transportation, the professions profes-sions hold a meager twentieth, while, a fourth are in the manufacturing and the .mechanical pursuits, including min-Injr. min-Injr. An ingenious statistician has figured out the relath proportions of the sexes employed in these manufacturing pursuits pur-suits as follows: If a given establishment establish-ment employing 100 persons desired the tvpical division of men. women and children, chil-dren, it would bo obliged to employ sev-entv-se.ven men more than IS years ot atre". twenty women more than Iti. and three children or young persons more than lt. |