==================================================================== | White | Per | Negro | Per | | cent | | cent ------------------------------+-----------+-------+---------+------- Agricultural pursuits | 9,853 | .9 | 251 | 1.2 Professional service | 60,037 | 5.6 | 729 | 3.6 Domestic and personal service | 189,282 | 17.6 | 11,843 | 58.1 Trade and transportation | 398,997 | 37.1 | 5,798 | 28.4 Manufacturing and mechanical | | | | pursuits | 417,634 | 38.8 | 1,774 | 8.7 ------------------------------+-----------+-------+---------+------- Total | 1,075,803 | 100.0 | 20,395 | 100.0 ==================================================================== But in examining in detail the occupations under these different headings, we get a clearer view of the place the Negro maintains as a laborer by finding out how many workers he supplies to every thousand workers in a given occupation. He should average eighteen if he is to occupy the same economic status as the white man. Taking the first (numerically) important division, Domestic and Personal Service, we get the following table: DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL SERVICE Key to column headers-- A: Total number of males in each occupation. B: Number of Negroes in occupation. C: Number of Negroes to each 1000 workers in occupation. ======================================================= | A | B | C ------------------------------+---------+--------+----- Barbers and hairdressers | 12,022 | 215 | 18 Bootblacks | 2,648 | 51 | 20 Launderers | 6,881 | 70 | 10 Servants and waiters | 31,211 | 6,280 | 201 Stewards | 1,366 | 140 | 103 Nurses | 1,342 | 22 | 16 Boarding and lodging house | | | keepers | 474 | 10 | 21 Hotel keepers | 3,139 | 23 | 7 Restaurant keepers | 2,869 | 116 | 40 Saloon keepers and bartenders | 17,656 | 111 | 6 Janitors and sextons | 6,184 | 800 | 129 Watchmen, firemen, policemen | 16,093 | 116 | 7 Soldiers, sailors, marines | 3,707 | 56 | 15 Laborers (including elevator | | | tenders, laborers in coal | | | yards, longshoremen, and | | | stevedores) | 98,531 | 3,719 | 38 | | | Total, including some | | | occupations not specified | 206,215 | 11,843 | 57 =======================================================