senting 7.0 per cent of all persons employed. Of the minors under 16 years of age, 50.2 per cent were males, while 49.8 per cent were females. In other words, there were about an equal number of male and female minors, under 16 years of age, employed in stores and factories throughout the State. Of the minors between 16 and 18 years of age, the males constituted 56.1 per cent, while the females constituted 43.9 per cent. It will be noticed that in San Francisco, the very center of industrial activity, the percentage of minors employed in factories is very low as compared with the rest of the State. This is particularly true with regard to the number of minors employed under 16 years of age which, in the factories, amounts to only 1.0 per cent. This low percentage is due in a large measure to the effective work of the officers of this Bureau in carrying out the provisions of the Child Labor Law. We regret that we were unable to make our influence felt over a wider area, but the limitation of our funds compelled us to confine our attention principally to San Francisco, where there still remains a great deal of work to be done in this direction. In the preceding table are shown the minors employed in some of the more important industries in the State, where child labor exists. The minors stand out most prominently in the cotton and woolen mills, constituting 37.7 per cent, or over one third of the total number of all persons employed in such establishments. It is also worth noting that those minors under 16 years of age made up 22.0 per cent of the total; and further, that over 60.0 per cent of such minors were females. In the canneries, minors under 16 years of age constituted 7.0 per cent of the total number of employes, while those between 16 and 18 years of age constituted 7.3 per cent, making a total of minors employed of 14.3 per cent, of whom females comprised 74.2 per cent. In the confectioneries minors under 16 years constituted 4.2 per cent of the total employes and those between 16 and 18 years of age 10.3 per cent, making a tota of all minor employes of 14.5 per cent, of whom 78.9 per cent wer females. In the department stores, minors under 16 years of age con stituted 7.8 per cent of the total number of employes, and those between 16 and 18 years 7.1 per cent, making a total of all minors of both sexe of 14.9 per cent, of whom 74.8 per cent were females. In dry goodstores, minors under 16 years constituted 5.8 per cent of the total num ber of employes, while those between 16 and 18 years of age amounted to 7.3 per cent, making a total of minor employes of 13.1 per cent, of whom females were 47.1 per cent. In drug stores, minors under 16 years of age constituted 7.1 per cent of the total employes, and those betwe 16 and 18, 9.6 per cent, making a total of minor employes of 16.7 per cent, of whom 97.3 per cent were males. The minors employed in the machine industry are mostly all apprentices. Permits Issued by the Juvenile Court of San Francisco to Minors under 14 Years During the Fiscal Years 1906-07 and 1907-08. During the two fiscal years of 1906-07 and 1907-08, 83 permits grant ing minors between the ages of 12 and 14 years of age the right to work under certain conditions, were issued by the Juvenile Court of San Fran cisco. Sixty-nine, or 83.1 per cent of these permits were issued to males and 14, or 16.9 per cent, to females. Thirty-four of the permits wer issued in the fiscal year 1906-07, while 49 were issued in 1907-08. By far the greater part of the permits issued were to minors between 13 and 14 years of age, and very few were issued for a period longer than su months. ORIENTAL STATISTICS. In our estimate of the number of Japanese in California, we have used data available from previous reports of the Bureau and the United States Census Report of 1900. The Federal census report of 1900 gives the number of Japanese in California 10,151 Japanese landed from foreign ports at San Francisco, from October, 10,524 2,040 5,230 672 Net increase of arrivals over departures, port of San Francisco, for 13,658 1,213 Total.. 43,488 The above table does not include the arrivals from Hawaiian ports for the two years ending December 31, 1902, nor those from Victoria for the three years ending December 31, 1903. .These arrivals, undoubtedly, offset the departures of 1900 to October 1, 1904. The Bureau has continued the work of recording all arrivals and departures of Orientals at the port of San Francisco, from and to the Hawaiian Islands and Asiatic ports. This record was commenced with October 1, 1904. The arrivals and departures of Orientals for the two years ending October 1, 1908, are presented in another table, with their respective increase and decrease. No records are available of arrivals from Victoria or Puget Sound ports by water, or overland by rail, from January, 1905, to October 1, 1908, nor is there any data as to the number of Chinese and Japanese entering the United States illegally over the Mexican border. We From various Japanese sources of information, the estimates of the numer of Japanese in California are placed at not less than 50,000. would, after careful consideration of all available data, estimate the Japanese population in California at not less than 45,000. This number is distributed through the State, approximately, as follows: San Francisco and vicinity, including the cities of Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley Los Angeles Sacramento and vicinity Fresno and vicinity All other parts of the State Total.... 12,000 6,000 6,000 3,000 18,000 45,000 |