EARNERS O
ion of approximately 561,000. The city is growing rapidly. From 1900 to 1910 the increase in the total number of
as one and one-fourth times as many industrial workers as New York, Chicago, St. Louis, or Baltimore, and one and two-fifths times as many as Boston. On the other hand a smaller pro
er cent of the women being engaged in commercial occupations. Of each 100 women in employment 30 are servants, laundresses, housekeepers, or are engaged in some other form of personal service, while only five men of each 100 earn their living in this kind of work. Railroad and street transportation, with the telegraph and telephone and mail systems of communication, requires the services of 11 per
STRIBUTION OF THE WORKIN
CUPATIONS, 1
l group Men
chanical industries
,229 5,9
sonal service 9,
ion 21,530
pations 14,04
service 7,204
rvice 3,4
xtraction of miner
,078 54,8
born outside the United States and, due to the rapid growth of the city, there has been a considerable influx of workers from the surrounding country in recent years, so that a large proportion even of the American
KING POPULATION IN CLEVELAND
ty Men
cent Numb
rn 96,291
d parentage 55,
tage 42,713
,078 100
ntage is approximately the same for both sexes, but the number of women workers of mixed parentage is relatively much larger than a
of employment for native workmen. Cabinet making, tailoring, molding, blacksmithing, baking, and shoe making, are examples. Some of these trades have practically ceased to recruit from American labor. This condition has to be const