For the females, the increases are no less telling, especially for Negro workers. In ten selected occupations for Southern cities, the white female workers decreased 29.1 per cent and the Negro female workers increased 36 per cent from 1890 to 1900. The decrease for the whites was due to an excessive decrease among dressmakers, milliners and seamstresses, which may be a discrepancy of the census returns. The full list of selected occupations in Southern cities for 1890 and 1900 are given in full in Table IV, following: TABLE IV. INCREASE OF WHITE AND NEGRO WAGE-EARNERS IN SELECTED OCCUPATIONS, SOUTHERN CITIES, 1890-1900.[A] KEY: A: No. of cities. B: Per cent increase. ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- | Male. +----+--------------------+-------------------- | | Native white. | Negro. | +-------+-------+----+-------+-------+---- Occupation. | A | 1890. | 1900. | B | 1890. | 1900. | B ----------------------------+----+-------+-------+----+-------+-------+---- Domestic and personal | | | | | | | service | -- | 29,407| 41,854|42.3| 54,179| 71,047|31.1 Barbers, hairdressers | 10 | 1,436| 2,208| -- | 1,946| 2,317| -- Bartenders | 8 | 1,688| 2,486| -- | 277| 389| -- Laborers (not specified) | 10 | 19,843| 27,759| -- | 35,868| 51,346| -- Restaurant and saloon | | | | | | | keepers | 9 | 1,577| 2,107| -- | 377| 474| -- Servants and waiters | 10 | 1,395| 1,128| -- | 15,358| 16,071| -- Watchmen, policemen, | | | | | | | detectives, etc. | 10 | 3,441| 6,166| -- | 353| 450| -- Trade and transportation | -- | 71,291| 89,294|25.2| 18,305| 25,459|39.1 Agents, collectors and | | | | | | | commercial travelers | 10 | 8,571| 13,031| -- | 287| 411| -- Bankers, brokers and | | | | | | | officials (bank) | 8 | 2,309| 1,824| -- | 76| 13| -- Draymen, hackmen, | | | | | | | teamsters | 10 | 6,385| 8,117| -- | 11,246| 14,545| -- Messengers, packers, | | | | | | porters, etc.[B] | 9 | 3,302| 4,486| -- | 3,554| 6,225| -- Steam railway employees | 10 | 11,033| 11,532| -- | 2,213| 3,048| -- Street railway employees | 8 | 1,987| 3,366| -- | 85| 170| -- Bookkeepers, accountants, | | | | | | etc.[C] | 10 | 37,704| 46,638| -- | 844| 1,057| -- Manufacturing and | | | | | | |