2. PERMANENCE OF LOCATION No less interesting than the length of time a firm had been established was the length of time it had been located at the address where it was found by the canvasser in 1909. The exact causes which induce the Negro firms to change addresses could not be ascertained, but 81 out of 275 had been at the address where they were found less than one year, although, as shown above, only 51 were less than one year old; 72 had been at their present address between one year and two years, which leaves a smaller margin between that number and the 67 shown to have been established that length of time. There was a similar small margin of comparison in the groupings of two to four and four to six years between the time the firms were established and the length of time they had remained at the one address. This shifting is due probably to the movements of the Negro population upon which the firms depend for patronage, but partly to inexperience. TABLE XXVI. SHOWING LENGTH OF TIME 309 BUSINESS ENTERPRISES HAD BEEN AT ADDRESSES WHERE FOUND, MANHATTAN, 1909. --------------------------+---------------------------------------- |Length of time at present address. --------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ | Less | 6 mos.| 1 yr. | 2 yrs.| 4 yrs.| Class of | than | to 11 | to 1 | to 3 | to 5 | establishment. | 6 mos.| mos. | yr. 11| yr. 11| yr. 11| | | | mos. | mos. | mos. | --------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ Barber shops | 5 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 5 | Brokers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Coal, wood and ice | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Dressmaking and millinery | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -- | Employment agencies | -- | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | Express and moving vans | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Groceries | 4 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 4 | Hairdressers, etc. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -- | Hotels and lodging houses | -- | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | Pool and billiard rooms | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Printers | -- | -- | 3 | 1 | -- | Restaurant and lunch rooms| 5 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 2 | Saloons and cafés | -- | 2 | -- | 2 | -- | Tailoring, pressing, etc. | 2 | 5 | 10 | 7 | -- | Undertakers | 1 | 1 | -- | 3 | 1 | Miscellaneous | 6 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 3 | --------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ Total | 30 | 51 | 70 | 66 | 22 | --------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+