The total value of all railroad cars constructed in all establishments throughout the United States, in 1909, was $102,137,396. The value of the steam-railroad cars was $94,874,287: Of these for passenger service were built 1,819 cars, valued at $15,120,961; for freight service, 96,648 cars, valued at $79,753,326. Of street-railroad cars, which were chiefly electric, there were built 2,772 cars, valued at $7,263,109. STEAM-RAILROAD CARS. The total value of the products of this industry in the United States, in 1909, was $123,729,627. Of steam-railroad cars for the passenger service there were constructed 1,601 cars, valued at $13,829,607: of this class there were built 216 baggage and express cars, valued at $1,105,779; 95 mail cars, valued at $600,912; 957 passenger cars, valued at $7,209,425; the chair, dining and buffet, parlor, sleeping, and all other cars, amounted to 333, valued at $4,913,491. For the freight service the number of cars constructed, totaled 73,177, valued at $61,691,825; Of these there were 29,728 box cars, valued at $23,982,446; 11,473 coal and coke, valued at $9,419,655; 3,232 flat cars, valued at $2,033,801; 900 fruit cars, valued at $784,476; 90 furniture cars, valued at $70,515; 19,607 gondola or ore, valued at $18,128,186: 2,618 refrigerator cars, valued at $2,747,957; 2,349 stock cars, valued at $1,586,008; 537 caboose, valued at $525,605; 2.643 other cars, valued at $2,413,176. There were also built 603 street-railroad cars, valued at $2,023,922: Of these 558 were passenger cars, valued at $1,903,317; 45 other cars, valued at $120,605. CARS, STREET-RAILROAD. The total value of the products of this industry in the United States, in 1909, was $7,809,866. There were constructed 1,922 electric-railroad cars, valued at $4.602,435: Of these there were 1,323 closed cars, valued at $3,500.781; 369 combination cars, valued at $704,309; 95 open cars, valued at $141,008; 92 freight, express, and mail cars, valued at $179.293; of all other varieties, 43, valued at $77,044. There were steam-railroad cars built for freight service, 167, all classes--valued at $111,813. SHIPBUILDING, INCLUDING BOAT BUILDING. The total value of work done on the different classes of water craft, not in Govern-、 ment establishments, the value of the repair work, and all other products of the shipbuilding industry, in 1909, was $73,360,315. Work done during the year on vessels and boats, amounted to $42,310,925; vessels of 5 gross tons and over, $37,718,018; boats of less than 5 gross tons, $4,592,907; repair work, $26,678,643. BICYCLES, MOTORCYCLES, AND PARTS. The total value of bicycles and motorcycles, and parts, manufactured in the United States in 1909, was $10,698,567. 168,824 bicycles were manufactured, valued at $2,436,996; 18,628 motorcycles were made, their value being $3,015,988. AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. Gasoline. Buggies. Gasoline. Electric. Runabouts.. Gasoline. Electric. $249,202,075 164.269, 324 153.529.653 352, 121 28.030, 479 27, 116, 901 648 630 264,948 113.403, 188 387,526 126.593 120, 393 3,826 2,374 7.259.430 3,480, 241 123,338 150,039,301 117.633 149.530 232 2,039, 129 268 36.204 35,347 496 109,844, 295 3,171,367 CARRIAGES AND WAGONS AND their there were CARS AND GENERAL SHOP CONSTRUC- The total value of carriages and wagons and materials manufactured in the United States, The cars and general shop construction and in 1909, was $159,892,547. Of carriages made (family and pleasure) repairs by street-railroad companies in 1909, The reached a total value of $31,962,561. 587,685 828,411, valued at $47,756,118; value of the motive power and machinery dewagons, valued at $39,932,910, were manufactured; of these 154,631 were business partment, was $4,510,332. The value of the wagons, value being $16,440,816; repairs to motors, etc., was $4,004,336. The 429,952 farm wagons, valued at $22,615,875; value of the car department was $25,835,463. the remainder, government, municipal, etc., The value of all the cars built was $626,752: 3,102, valued at $876,219. Of public conOf these there were 129 passenger cars, veyances (cabs, hacks, hansoms, hotel coaches. valued at $498,709; 63 freight cars, valued at omnibuses, etc.), 2,243 were manufactured, $59,102; of all other cars there were 51 built, valued at $939,267; 100,899 sleighs and sleds, valued at $68,941. valued at $2,065,850. The total value of these products for the year 1909, was $168,895,365. The value of the brick and tile, terra-cotta, and fire-clay products, was $136,387,846; of common brick there were 9,787,671 thousand, valued at $57,216,789; of fire brick, 838,167 thousand, valued at $16,620,695; of the vitrified, paving, etc., 1,023,654 thousand, valued at $11,269,586; front, including fancy colored and fancy or ornamental brick, 821,641 thousand, valued at $9,886,292; the sand lime brick used had a value of $1,150,580; the enameled brick were valued at $993,902; the value of the drain tile was $9,798,978; the sewer pipe used was valued at $10,322,324; the value of the architectural terra-cotta was $6,251,625; the fireproofing, terra-cotta lumber and hollow building tile, or blocks, was valued at $4,466,708; the value of the tile, not drain, was $5,291,963; the value of the stove lining was $423,583; other material, valued at $2,694,821. The value of the pottery manufactured was $31,048,341. BUILDING OPERATIONS. In 1911 the total cost of buildings, according to reports of municipal authorities to the Bureau of Statistics, was $702,143,956, against $726,436,975 in 1910. The total number of permits for the latter year was 192,978. CEMENT. The total value of the cement product in 1909, for the United States, was $63,205,455. There were manufactured 66,689,715 barrels of cement, valued at $53,610,563; of this 64,991,431 barrels was Portland, valued at $52,858,354: 1,537,638 was natural, valued at $652,756; 160,646 barrels puzzo.an, valued at $99,453. The value of all other products of this industry, was $9,594,892. GLASS. The total cost of the materials used in the manufacture of glass, in 1909, amounted to $32,119,499, while the total value of these products was $92,095,203 Of this amount the value of building glass aggregated $26,308,438; included under this head are 6,921,611 50-foot boxes of window glass, valued at $11,742,959; also included in this division is plate glass, of Of which there was cast a total of 60,105,694 square feet; of this amount 47,370,254 square feet was polished glass, valued at $12,204,875; the remainder, rough glass, made for sale,205,690 square feet, valued at $37,431. cathedral glass there were 7,405,980 square feet, valued at $569.848; 15,409,966 square feet of skylight glass, valued at $788,726. The value of the pressed and blown glass was $27,398,445; Of this goods there was manufactured tableware, 100 pieces, 1,286,056 sets; jellies, tumblers, and goblets, 11,687,036 dozen; lamps, 322,482 dozen; chimneys, 6,652,967 dozen; lantern globes, 952,620 dozen; globes and other electrical goods, 11,738,798 dozen; shades, globes, and other gas goods, 1,541,449 dozen; blown tumblers, stem ware, and bar goods, 9,182,060 dozen; opal ware, 3,095,666 dozen; cut ware, 206,336 dozen. The value of the bottles and jars manufactured, was $36,018,333. Of prescriptions, vials, and druggists' wares, 3,624,022 gross were made; 2,345, 204 gross of beer, soda and mineral glassware; 1,887,344 gross of liquors and flasks; 440,302 gross milk jars; 1,124,485 gross fruit jars; of battery jars and other electrical goods, 9,981 gross; of patent and proprietary glassware, 1,637,798 gross; of packers and preservers, 1,237,175 gross; of demijohns and carboys, 122,570 dozen. ARTIFICIAL ICE, The total cost of the materials used in establishments for the manufacture of ice, in 1909, was $1,021,913. By the compressor system there were used 3,097,191 pounds of anhydrous, costing $826,222. By the absorption system there were used 369,093 pounds of anhydrous, valued at $100,283. There were also used 1,670,698 pounds of aqua, valued at $95,408. The total value of the ice products for the year 1909 was $42,953,055. Of the ice itself there was 12,647,949 tons (2,000 pounds each), valued at $39,889,263: Of the can ice. 11,671,547 tons (2,000 pounds), valued at $37,085,533; of the plate ice. 976,402 tons (2,000 pounds), valued at $2,803,730. The first permanent electric railway was operated near Berlin in 1881, and the first permanent elevated electric railway was operated in Chicago 1895, |