Key to Column Headers-- A: Total number of males in each occupation. B: Number of Negroes in each occupation. C: Number of Negroes to each 1000 workers in occupation. ============================================================= | A | B | C --------------------------------------+---------+------+----- Agents--commercial travellers | 27,456 | 67 | 2 Bankers, brokers, and officials of | | | banks and companies | 11,472 | 7 | 0 Bookkeepers--accountants | 22,613 | 33 | 1 Clerks, copyists (including shipping | | | clerks, letter and mail carriers) | 80,564 | 423 | 5 Merchants (wholesale and retail) | 72,684 | 162 | 2 Salesmen | 45,740 | 94 | 2 Typewriters | 3,225 | 36 | 11 Boatmen and sailors | 8,188 | 145 | 18 Foremen and overseers | 3,111 | 18 | 6 Draymen, hackmen, teamsters | 51,063 | 1439 | 28 Hostlers | 5,891 | 633 | 107 Livery stable keepers | 967 | 9 | 9 Steam railway employees | 11,831 | 70 | 6 Street railway employees | 7,375 | 11 | 1 Telegraph and telephone operators | 2,430 | 6 | 2 Hucksters and peddlers | 12,635 | 69 | 5 Messengers, errand and office boys | 13,451 | 335 | 25 Porters and helpers (in stores, etc.) | 11,322 | 2143 | 188 Undertakers | 1,572 | 15 | 9 | | | Total, including some occupations | | | not specified | 405,675 | 5798 | 14 ============================================================= This, however, does not apply to government positions, and a large number of the 423 colored clerks in 1900 were probably in United States and municipal service. The latter we shall consider later as we study the Negro and the municipality. Of the former, in 1909 there were about 176 in the New York post-offices.[5] Ambitious boys work industriously at civil service examinations, and a British West Indian will even become an American citizen for the chance of a congenial occupation. The clerkship, that to a white man is only a stepping-stone, to a Negro is a highly coveted position.