Thus, it is seen that the typical Negro business enterprise occupies small floor space, since 234, or 75.7 per cent, of the 309 establishments occupied 999 square feet or less. Table XXII (p. 107) is included to show the details as to floor space in square feet occupied by each class of establishment. Monthly rental is also a fair indication of the size of a business establishment. In a few cases in which the proprietor said he was owner of the building, a rental was estimated for the portion of the building used for the particular enterprise; in the cases, mentioned above, where the proprietor lived in the rear rooms only a part of the whole rental was estimated as a charge upon the business establishment. So that the figures here given are good measurements of their kind. The facts about 86 establishments could not be secured. With the remaining 223, we meet again the evidence of small size of typical establishments, for 180 establishments, or 80.7 per cent, had a monthly rental of $39 or less, and 30 others had a monthly rental between $40 and $79; 16 out of the 223 establishments had a rental of $80 or more per month, and of these 7 paid $150 or more per month. TABLE XXII. ESTIMATED SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR SPACE OF 309 NEGRO BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, MANHATTAN, 1909. -----------------------------+-------------------------------- | Estimated square feet of floor | space. -----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ | | | | 1000 | | Less | 150 | 500 |sq. ft.| Class of establishment. | than |sq. ft.|sq. ft.| to | | 150 | to 499| to 999| 1999 | |sq. ft.|sq. ft.|sq. ft.|sq. ft.| -----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ Barber shops | -- | 44 | 3 | 2 | Brokers | 3 | 11 | 2 | -- | Coal, wood and ice | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | Dressmaking and millinery | -- | 4 | 2 | -- | Employment agencies | 1 | 10 | 1 | -- | Express and moving vans | 3 | 4 | 1 | -- | Groceries | 1 | 29 | 4 | 1 | Hairdressing, etc. | 1 | 3 | -- | 1 | Hotels and lodging houses | -- | -- | -- | 1 | Pool and billiard rooms | -- | 1 | 1 | 5 | Printers | -- | 3 | 2 | -- | Restaurants and lunch rooms | 1 | 19 | 3 | 1 | Saloons and cafés | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | Tailoring, pressing, etc. | -- | 20 | 1 | -- | Undertakers | -- | 3 | 4 | 2 | Miscellaneous | 5 | 27 | 3 | 2 | -----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+