business
establishment. In a few cases in which the proprietor said he was
owner of the building, a rental was estimated for the portion of the
building used for the particular enterprise; in the cases, mentioned
above, where the proprietor lived in the rear rooms only a part of the
whole rental was estimated as a charge upon the business
establishment. So that the figures here given are good measurements of
their kind. The facts about 86 establishments could not be secured.
With the remaining 223, we meet again the evidence of small size of
typical establishments, for 180 establishments, or 80.7 per cent, had
a monthly rental of $39 or less, and 30 others had a monthly rental
between $40 and $79; 16 out of the 223 establishments had a rental of
$80 or more per month, and of these 7 paid $150 or more per month.

TABLE XXII. ESTIMATED SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR SPACE OF 309 NEGRO BUSINESS
ENTERPRISES, MANHATTAN, 1909.

-----------------------------+--------------------------------
| Estimated square feet of floor
| space.
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| | | | 1000 |
| Less | 150 | 500 |sq. ft.|
Class of establishment. | than |sq. ft.|sq. ft.| to |
| 150 | to 499| to 999| 1999 |
|sq. ft.|sq. ft.|sq. ft.|sq. ft.|
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
Barber shops | -- | 44 | 3 | 2 |
Brokers | 3 | 11 | 2 | -- |
Coal, wood and ice | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
Dressmaking and millinery | -- | 4 | 2 | -- |
Employment agencies | 1 | 10 | 1 | -- |
Express and moving vans | 3 | 4 | 1 | -- |
Groceries | 1 | 29 | 4 | 1 |
Hairdressing, etc. | 1 | 3 | -- | 1 |
Hotels and lodging houses | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
Pool and billiard rooms | -- | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Printers | -- | 3 | 2 | -- |
Restaurants and lunch rooms | 1 | 19 | 3 | 1 |
Saloons and cafes | -- | -- | 1 | 1 |
Tailoring, pressing, etc. | -- | 20 | 1 | -- |
Undertakers | -- | 3