CHAPTER VI

The Distribution of Workers Employed in Manu¬
factures IN Greater New York and Environs

The workers employed in the factories located above 14th
Street in Manhattan, from whom information has been col¬
lected, form by no means a homogeneous group. The fac¬
tories include shoe and wood manufactures, printing,
slaughtering and cigar making, and even storage ware¬
houses. They are located in various parts of this section
of Manhattan; some are on the West Side, others are on the
East Side, some are near 14th Street, still others are as far
uptown as 75th Street. It will be reassuring, then, if we
find the same general tendencies operating as were indi¬
cated by the analysis of the statistics of the workers em¬
ployed in Lower Manhattan.

The data for Upper Manhattan are not as numerous nor
as well distributed among the industry groups as might be
desired. No special attempt was made to secure a large
number of data from the uptown factories. These factories
are not located in the extremely congested districts nor are
they located in as favorable positions as the suburban es¬
tablishments. They are, therefore, not especially useful in
our study of congestion, and the presentation of the data
here aims merely to represent this large and important sec¬
tion of the city and not to study it with thoroughness. The
total number of males who furnished information is 608 and
the number of females is 954.

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