STATE OF NEW Jersey,

OFFICE OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS,

TRENTON, October 31, 1912.

To His Excellency Woodrow Wilson, Governor:

SIR:-In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 105, Laws of 1878, and the several supplements thereto, I have the honor of submitting to the Senate and General Assembly through you, the thirty-fifth annual report of the Bureau of Statistics of New Jersey.

INTRODUCTION.

The main features of this, the thirty-fifth annual report of the Bureau of Statistics, are on the same lines as those of preceding years. Part One, which is devoted entirely to the Statistics of Manufactures, shows the condition of manufacturing industry in New Jersey for the twelve months covered by the report, with regard to the character of management-corporate, partnership or individual; the number of persons who as stockholders, partners, or individual owners have a proprietary interest in the establishments considered; the quantities and cost values of all raw material used; the selling value of all products; the number of persons employed; the total amount paid in wages; the classified weekly and yearly earnings of wage workers; the proportion of business done, by which is meant the extent to which the actual work performed in each establishment during the year approached its full productive capacity-full capacity being represented by 100 per cent.

This statistical presentation is in fact a complete census, fully equal in comprehensiveness and accuracy, so far as the real manufacturing industries of the State are concerned, to that which is made by the Federal Government every five years, and, because of the greater variety of important details of an interesting character presented in its tables, much more useful for all purposes of economic and sociological research. A careful examination of these tables and a perusal of the explanatory text preceding them will convey a more correct understanding of all matters relative to employment, earnings, female labor, child labor, etc., than can be obtained in any other way. This part runs from page 3 to page 128.

Employment, working hours and wages on steam railroads in New Jersey, in which occupation nearly 47,000 men are em

ployed-pages 131-147; a study of the cost of living in New Jersey as exemplified in a succession of tables showing retail prices for a selected bill of table supplies, and comparisons of the same with prices of previous years, occupies pages 149-158, and the review of the vegetable and fruit canning industry, with a most interesting study of the British National Insurance Act of 1911, which went into operation throughout Great Britain and Ireland on July 15, 1912 (pages 169-182), completes the contents of Part Two.

Part Three (pages 185-269), under the general title “Industrial Chronology of New Jersey," contains a tabulated record of the industrial accidents of the year, their causes and results, with other details relating to industrial occurrences which are interesting alike to the general public and to employers and wage earners. Each particular subject is prefaced by a brief introduction, indicating its particular points of interest, and the contents of the entire volume very fairly reflect the spirit of the act under which this Bureau was established thirty-five years ago.

It is, perhaps, not inappropriate to bestow a word of well deserved praise on the office force, whose interest in the work of the Bureau and whose zeal and intelligence displayed in the performance of their several duties entitle them collectively and severally to the highest commendation in my power to bestow.

I regard the paying of this justly earned tribute from me as being particularly appropriate at this time for the reason that my official relation to the office, which covers a period of ten years back, will terminate with the publication of this report.

WINTON C. GARRISON,

Chief, Bureau of Statistics of New Jersey.