Some facts concerning the people, industries and schools of Hammond and a suggestive program for elementary industrial, prevocational and vocational education . in workers was a much greater rate of increase than in Indianapolisor any Indiana city of the same class of Hammond. The actualand percentage increase in the number of workers in manufac-turing establishments in Hammond and other cities is indicatedin Table 8 and Chart 3. TABLE 8 Actual and Percentage of Increase of Workers in Manufacturing Plants inHammond and Other Indiana Cities, 1904-1909 CITIES Workers Employed in Ma
Some facts concerning the people, industries and schools of Hammond and a suggestive program for elementary industrial, prevocational and vocational education . in workers was a much greater rate of increase than in Indianapolisor any Indiana city of the same class of Hammond. The actualand percentage increase in the number of workers in manufac-turing establishments in Hammond and other cities is indicatedin Table 8 and Chart 3. TABLE 8 Actual and Percentage of Increase of Workers in Manufacturing Plants inHammond and Other Indiana Cities, 1904-1909 CITIES Workers Employed in Manu-facturing Plants 1909 1904 Increase in Workers1904-1909 Number Per cent. Anderson Muncie AlbanyLafayette .. ?Decrease. 4,3795,1094,4444,43337,9292,1351,983 1,7023,4913,1063,48331,4312,4442,097 2,6771,6181,.3389506,495—309*—114* 15746432726 12* —7* 11 12 INDUSTRIES AND SCHOOLS OF HAMMOND CHART 3 Percentage Increase of Workers in Manufacturing Establishmentsin Hammond and Other Cities DECREASE //? o _ I I c/ry H/SMMOND ANDERSON MUNC/E /RICHMOND /ND/ANAPOLIS^^ NEW ALBANr INCREASEo ss so TS^ /oo _l_ /as _L_ /so. XLArAYETTE That the industries of Hammond employ a larger percentageof the total population than many other cities in Indiana is in-dicated in Table 9 and Chart 4. TABLE 9 Percentage of Total Inhabitants Employed in Manufacturing Establish-ments in Hammond and Other Cities. Derived from Numberin Industries in 1909, and Population in 1910 CITY Per cent, inIndustry CITY Per cent, inIndustry Hammond Indianapolis Anderson New Al >any Lafayette Muncie , Richmond In 1909, the capital invested in Hammond manufacturingestablishments ainounted to $16,270,, the value of the manu-factui-ed products for that year amounting to $15,580,250. Thecapital invested at the present time is far greater than indicatedfor 1909 and the number of employes has probably increased atleast 40 per cent. Reports of the
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