People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — NEW YORK’S UNEMPLOYED. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK’S UNEMPLOYED.

A Partial Census Shows the Number in tho Tenement Districts to Be 67,280. New York, Feb. B.—Mayor Gilroy has received from President Seth Low. of Columbia college, the tabulated census of the unemployed taken by the police. The returns show that in 48,681 families visited one or more persons are out of employment. The families consist of 206,701 individuals, of whom 78,023 are reported to be busy at work, and the actual number out of work is said to be 67,280 —52,592 males and 14,688 females. To the question if in need of assistance 59,311 answered “yes” and 9,(J70 “no.”