Appendix C

BUSINESS SCHEDULE.

BUSINESS SCHEDULE--CONFIDENTIAL

DATE: FIRM NAME: ADDRESS:

INFORMANT: WHEN ESTABLISHED: HOW LONG AT THIS ADDRESS? ----------------------------------------------------------------------

1. Organization (underline): individual, partnership, number of partners______, agent.

2. (underline): Manufacture, jobbing, wholesale, retail,______________

3. Kind of service or goods offered (e.g., hotel, barber, groceries, real estate, etc.)______________________________________

4. Number of employees: _____ Estimated total business done past 1907: $__________ 1908: $___________

5. Previous occupations of owners or promoters: ______________________

6. Birthplace of owners or promoters: _______________________________ Years in N.Y. City: _____

7. Valuation of plant, tools, Fixtures, etc.: $________ Of merchandise on hand: $________

8. Other assets: $_________ Liabilities: $_________

9. Insurance: $_________ Rent per month: $_______ Floor space:____

10. Nationality of customers: ________________________________________

11. Account books used (underline): Ledger, journal, cash-book, day-book

12. How often are books balanced? ____________________________________

13. Inventory taken?__________________________________________________

14. For what special reasons did you enter business: ________________ (How was capital secured?):______________________________________

15. Remarks on history, etc., of firm: (Credit given occasionally? Habitually? Received?): __________________________________________

(For further remarks use back).

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No. 1. Mortality among Negroes in cities, pp. 51. Atlanta, Ga., 1896. No. 3. Some efforts of American Negroes for their own social betterment, Atlanta Univ. Press, Atlanta, Ga., 1898, pp. 72. No. 4. The Negro in Business, pp. 77, Atlanta, Ga., 1899.

Brackett, J.R. Status of the Slave, 1775-89. Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies.

Bulkley, William L. Industrial conditions of the Negro in New York. Annals, Amer. Acad., 27: 590-6. 1906.

Chapin, Robert Coit. Standards of living among workingmen's families in New York City. New York, 1909 (Russell Sage Foundation Publication).

Collin, G.L. A city within a city: St. Cyprian's parish. Outlook (N.Y.), 84: 274-7. 1906.

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INDEX

Assembly districts, Negroes in, 52-53

Back-to-the-land movement, 33

Business establishments, nature of, 98 Classified, 99 Floor space occupied by, 106 Gross receipts of, 113-114 Length of residence in New York of proprietors of, 101 Number of employees in, 105 Ownership of, 100 Permanence of location of, 118-119 Table of floor space of, 107 Table of gross receipts of, 115

City growth, causes of, 13 Foot-note on, 43-44

Colonial General Assembly, laws passed by, 94-95

Colored American (newspaper), 67, 96

Crime in cities, 39-41

Death-rates of whites and Negroes, 34-37 Changes in Richmond, Va., 37-38

Diagrams: I. Increase of whites and Negroes in cities, 16 II. Death-rates in cities, 36 III. Distribution of Negro population in Harlem, 50 IV. Distribution of Negro population in "San Juan Hill" district, 51

Freedmen, as shiphands, 66 Property escheated, 95

Health of Negroes in cities, 34-38

Industrial centers, migration of Negroes to, 19-25

Lake George, Negroes in battle of, 66

Lodgers, natural members and, 62 Consist of, 63 Natural members in families, 62-63 Number of lodgers in families, 64

Migration to cities, 15-17 Secondary causes of, 29

Nativity of Negroes, of New York State, 57 Of New York City, 58-59 Of West Indians, 58 Of business proprietors, 100

Negro population of New York, table showing growth of, 47 Distribution of 2,500 families in, 52-53 Segregation of Negro, 48-51

Negro, riot of 1712, 95 So-called plot of 1741, 67

New Amsterdam Colony, slaves as laborers in, 66 Slaves owned land in, 67

Occupations, history of, 66-69 In 1890 and 1900, 69-71 In 1905, 72 Proportion of males and females in, 73 Tables of, 71-72, 74

Reasons for Negroes coming to New York, 27-28 Tables of, 27, 31-32

Slaves, as farm laborers and stevedores, 66 Able to hold land, 67 Forbidden to trade, 94

Soil, divorce of Negro from, 18-19

United Public Waiters, 68 Becomes Beneficial Association, 69

United States, city growth in, 13

Wages, in domestic and personal service, 78-79 In hotel service, 81 Table of, 80-81 Union rates, 82

Wage-earners, sex and age, 54-55 Efficiency of male, 83 Efficiency of female, 84 Efficiency of skilled, 88 Marital condition of, 60-61 Tables of efficiency of, 85, 87

Wilcox, Professor, quoted, 14

Work, M.N., quoted, 40-41

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