The Federal Government has always been a large employer of colored labor; 9 per cent of the force in all the Federal departments are negroes. In Chicago the percentage of colored men is higher. Out of a total of 8,012 men, 755 or 10.61 per cent of the whole are colored, approximately their just proportion to the population. The negroes, however, do not fare so well in local government. A study made of the city departments in Chicago showed the percentage of colored employes to be 1.87 per cent, in Cook County to be 1.88 per cent. Three colored men have also been elected as County Commissioners, and there is said to be no instance on record in Chicago of a negro office holder having betrayed his trust. [Sidenote: =The Colored Man in Business=] The investigators found, in regard to the colored man in business: (1) That the greater number of their enterprises are the outgrowth of domestic and personal service occupations. (2) That they are in branches of business which call for small amounts of capital and very little previous experience. There are at present in the city of Chicago, managed by colored men, twenty-three manufacturing establishments of various kinds, seventy-two barber shops, sixty-three van, moving, and storage places, fifty restaurants, thirty-four pool rooms, twenty-six real estate dealers, twenty-six tailors, twenty-five coal and wood dealers, twenty-four hair dressers, twenty-three groceries, twenty cigar venders, twelve builders and contractors, eleven undertakers, nine printing plants, and eight hotels, besides a small representation in forty-one other lines of business. Table showing number of colored men employed by the city of Chicago: Department of Police 83 Fire Department 11 Corporation Counsel Office 1 Health Department 22 Board of Education, not including educational employes of the Board 9 Department of Public Works 32 Board of Local Improvement 3 Mayor’s Office 1 Municipal Court 1 Municipal Court--Bailiffs’ Office 1 Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium 2 Department of Smoke Inspection 1 City Comptroller’s Office 2 Public Library 23 Labor Service 100 ------ Total colored 292 Total number employed 15,597 Percentage colored 1.87