48; Gold and Silver Workers, 18,508 (males, 17,279; females, 1229); ages, 10 to 15, 357; 16 to 59, 17,621; 60 and over, 530; born in the United States, 11,690; Germany, 3088; Ireland, 1021; England and Wales, 1135; Scotland, 190; British America, 239; Sweden, Norway and Denmark, 238; France, 312; China and Japan, 16. Wax Fruit and Flowers. Maxwell John, 226 North Ninth street, 814. Artificial Feathers, Flowers and Fruits.-Establishments, 54; hands employed, 1451 (men, 400; women, 842; youths, 209); capital, $418,650; wages, $276,331; materials, $369,004; products, $986,125. Weather Vane Manufacturer. Henis William G., 641 and 643 North Ninth street, 745. Whips and Canes. Glendinning & Truitt, 9 North Fourth street, 831. Whips and Canes.-Establishments, 103; steam-engines, 7 (horse-power, 142); water-wheels, 9 (horse-power, 125); hands employed, 961 (men, 621; women, 301; youths, 39); capital, $883,561; wages, 384,544; materials, $503,502; products, $1,243,118. White Lead Manufacturers. Harrison Brothers & Co., 105 South Front street, 704. Wetherill & Brother, Thirty-first street below Chestnut, 797. No special statistics of this branch were given for the whole country, the returns being included in those of Paints, Lead and Zinc. The figures for Philadelphia were as follows: White Lead.-Establishments, 3; steamengines, 3 (horse-power, 120); hands employed, 106; capital, $525,000; wages, $64,800; materials, $750,100; products, $1,108,000. Whiting Manufacturers. Philadelphia and Boston Whiting Company, York and Almond sts., 792. Window-Glass. Magee John A., 1235 Vine street, 835. Sharp J. E., 707 and 709 Filbert street, 848. Witmer D. L. & Bro., Fifth street and Germantown avenue, 786. Window-Glass.-Establishments, 35; steam-engines, 20 (horse-power, 381); water-wheels, 2 (horse-power, 110); hands employed, 2859 (men, 2403; women, 37; youths, 419); capital, $3,244,560; wages, $1,503,277; materials, $1,400,760; products, $3,811,308. Window-Shade Manufacturers. Free Martin, 956 North Second street, 763. Louderbach Edwin, 222 North Fifth street, 745. No special statistics of this branch were given for the whole country. The figures for Philadelphia were as follows: Window-Blinds and Shades. -Establishments, 25; steam-engine, 1 (horse-power, 3); hands employed, 130 (men, 80; women, 36; youths, 14); capital, $94,050; wages, 54,980; materials, $63,605; products, $201,311. Wines and Liquors. Daly H. M., 222 South Front street, 890. Leith Syl. A. & Co., 210 South Front street, 772. Schneyer Charles, 154 and 156 Fairmount avenue, 746. Liquors, Distilled.-Establishments, 719; steam-engines, 411 (horsepower, 12,853); water-wheels, 82 (horse-power, 811); hands employed, 5131 (men, 5068; women, 6; youths, 57); capital, $15,545,116; wages, $2,019,810; materials, $19,729,432; products, $36,191,133. Liquors, Malt.-Establishments, 1972; steam-engines, 726 (horse-power, 10,438); water-wheels, 30 (horse-power, 324); hands employed, 12,443 (men, 12,320; women, 29; youths, 94); capital, $48,779,435; wages, $6,758,602; materials, $28,177,684; products, $55,706,643. Liquors, Vinous.-Establishments, 398; steam-engines, 4 (horse-power, 39); hands employed, 1486 (men, 1426; women, 32; youths, 28); capital, $2,334,394; wages, $230,650; materials, $1,203,172; products, $2,225,238. Traders and Dealers in Liquors and Wines, 11,718 (males, 11,612; females, 106); ages, 16 to 59, 11,504; 60 and over, 214; born in the United States, 4559; Germany, 2672; Ireland, 3211; England and Wales, 387; Scotland, 99; British America, 102; Sweden, Norway and Denmark, 45; France, 357; China and Japan, 4. Wire-Work, Sieves, Screens. Bayliss & Darby Manufacturing Co., 231 Arch and 114 North Sixth street, 808. Macready J. W., 1411 and 1413 Vine street, 747. Needles Joseph A., 54 North Front street, 717. Watson & Kelso, 46 and 48 North Front street, 798. Wire-Work.-Establishments, 141; steam-engines, 22 (horse-power, 470); water-wheels, 20 (horse-power, 422); hands employed, 2526 (men, 1316; women, 1053; youths, 157); capital, $1,667,900; wages, $719,633; materials, $1,548,006; products, $2,959,227. Wire.-Establishments, 32; steam-engines, 23 (horse-power, 2082); water-wheels, 25 (horse-power, 745); hands employed, 1733 (men, 1475; women, 226; youths, 32); capital, $2,520,800; wages, $1,078,184; materials, $2,955,925; products, $5,030,581. Wood-Turners. Cundey E. & Brother, 848 North Fourth street, 724. Rue J., 805 Master street, 747. Wood, Turned and Carved.-Establishments, 733; steam-engines, 221 (horse-power, 3830); water-wheels, 235 (horse-power, 4323); hands employed, 4103 (men, 3777; women, 103; youths, 223); capital, $2,751,544; wages, $1,499,565; materials, $1,648,008; products, $4,959,191. Wool, Cotton and Woollen Yarns. Whilldin Alexander & Sons, 20 and 22 South Front street, 850. Statistics of Cotton and Woollen Goods are given on pages 614, 615, and those of Wool produced and imported are found on page 576. ADVERTISEMENTS will be received for the second and all succeeding editions of this book, and the names of those who avail themselves of these opportunities will also be incorporated in the index to each successive edition. Apply either by letter or personally at the office, 152 South Fourth street, Philadelphia. S. W. BURLEY, Publisher. BURLEY'S UNITED STATES CENTENNIAL GAZETTEER AND GUIDE. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS [1497-1733]. FOURTH OURTEEN months before Columbus had seen the main land of the New World, and two years before Americus Vespucius had sailed west of the Canaries, John and Sebastian Cabot, sailing under a commission from Henry VII. of England, discovered the American continent (June 24, 1497). In the following year Sebastian returned and coasted the present territory of the United States for more than seven hundred miles, landing at various points, and planting on the soil the banner of England. By that act he took possession of the country in the name of his royal master. The memory of Columbus, the pioneer in Western discovery, is held in deserved honor. That of Americus Vespucius is perpetuated in the name of the continent which he was the first to describe. It is generally thought that he bought the honor too cheaply by merely happening to be the first reporter in the field. His description of the country was published at Strasburg in 1505, by a German map publisher. In a letter written to the duke of Lorraine (September 4, 1504) he falsely claimed that he had discovered the main land in 1497. On account of the letter and the description his name was given to the New World. How different the fate of Sebastian Cabot! Though he made a subsequent voyage in 1517, entering Hudson's Bay ninety years before the great Dutch navigator whose name it bears; though for sixty years his advice was sought concerning every important maritime enterprise undertaken by 1 more than one nation; though he gave to England such a claim for the possession of this country as discovery and the formalities above mentioned could procure; though even when the navigator was seventy-five years old the emperor Charles V. sent, through his ambassador to England, a special request that Cabot should be sent back to his service,—the date of his death and even his burial-place are not known. The remains of Columbus, who died in poverty and neglect, rest in the cathedral at Havana.* Those of Cabot, who was honored all his lifetime, are covered, so far as is known, by not even a simple memorial stone. The voyages of Cabot were of more immediate importance to the destinies of the United States than any others undertaken during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, excepting, of course, the first voyage of Columbus, upon which all the rest depended. The banners planted upon the coast became the prey of the elements or were carried away by the Indians, but the claim which they symbolized was never forgotten in England. Not counting the effort of Hore and his companions, who were "starved out" of Newfoundland in 1536, eighty years elapsed before the first attempt was made by Englishmen to plant settlements in their new possessions, and more than a century before they obtained a permanent footing. During this long interval, however, their right to the coast was generally respected, even by their inveterate enemies the French, who planted most of their colonies in the inclement climate of Canada. Spain, it is true, laid claim to the whole coast, even as far as Newfoundland, under the name of Florida; but the failure of De Soto's expedition, and the death of De Soto himself on the bank of the Mississippi, discouraged Spanish efforts at colonization. What the Spanish wished were plenty of gold and as little work as possible. These they had obtained in both Mexico and Peru, but when they went farther north the gold they did not find, and the Indians whom they met in their travels seemed very poor material for slaves. It remained for the great Anglo-Saxon race to reclaim these fertile regions, uncultivated, or mis-cultivated, by people well-nigh as wild as the *Nearly every history of any size gives his first epitaph, which was ordered to be put upon his tomb by the ungrateful Ferdinand of Spain: "To Castile and Leon Columbus gave a new world." We translate the following description of his present resting-place from a Spanish work, La Isla de Cuba, by Don Jose G. de Arbolena: "A modest stone, with a bust in bas-relief and a thoroughly prosaical inscription, covers the remains of the immortal navigator who bore to these regions the torch of faith, and gave to civilization the conquest of a new world. Here is the inscription: 'O remains and image of the great Columbus! Arbolena very pertinently asks, "Where were the Muses when these lines were composed ?" |