earners show a very large percentage employed
in domestic and personal service, 40.2 per cent male and 89.3 per cent
female, a large percentage of whom doubtless were married women and
widows with children.[61] But it is to be noted as important that
among the males, 20.6 per cent were engaged in some occupation
classified under Trade and 9.4 per cent under Transportation. While
some of these occupations may differ little in character from domestic
and personal service, yet the occupations that are entirely removed
from that classification are sufficient in number to show, as did the
figures for 1890 and 1900, the possibility of Negroes in considerable
numbers securing a scope of employment which includes other
occupations than those of domestic and personal service.

The State Census figures are more detailed than those of the Federal
Census. For example, under domestic and personal service, the Federal
Census has grouped together male waiters and servants, while the State
Census figures have been tabulated separately. It is also probable
that the classification in 1890 and 1900 included wage-earners who
were classified differently in 1905 and _vice versa_. And in 1905
professional occupations as well as all persons doing business on
their own account were excluded. Differences in the figures may,
therefore, be allowed.

Table XVII, which follows, shows the latest figures available on the
scope of employment of Negro wage-earners:

TABLE XVII. OCCUPATIONS OF NEGRO WAGE-EARNERS, FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE
AND OVER, MANHATTAN, 1905.[A]

MALE
-------------------------------------+--------+-----+---------
Occupation. | Totals.| No. |Per cent
-------------------------------------+--------+-----+---------
Public service | 55 | -- | 1.4
Sailors and mariners (U.S.) | -- | 3 | --
Federal employees (custom house, | | |
immigration, etc.) | -- | 6 | --
Post office (clerks) | -- | 13 | --
Post office (carriers) | -- | 9 | --
Street cleaning department | -- | 23 | --
Miscellaneous | -- | 1 | --
| | |
Domestic and personal service | 1,527 | -- | 0.2
Barbers | -- | 27 | --
Bartenders