| 4 | 2 |
Miscellaneous | 5 | 27 | 3 | 2 |
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
Total | 17 | 186 | 31 | 17 |
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

-----------------------------+---------------------------------------
| Estimated square feet of floor
| space.
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+------
| 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | |
|sq. ft.|sq. ft.|sq. ft.| |
Class of establishment. | to | to | and |Unknown.|Total.
| 2999 | 4999 | over. | |
|sq. ft.|sq. ft.| | |
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+------
Barber shops | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 50
Brokers | -- | -- | -- | -- | 16
Coal, wood and ice | -- | -- | -- | 5 | 19
Dressmaking and millinery | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 8
Employment agencies | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 14
Express and moving vans | -- | -- | -- | 4 | 12
Groceries | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 36
Hairdressing, etc. | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 8
Hotels and lodging houses | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 17
Pool and billiard rooms | -- | 2 | -- | 1 | 10
Printers | -- | -- | -- | -- | 5
Restaurants and lunch rooms | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 26
Saloons and cafes | -- | -- | 2 | 1 | 5
Tailoring, pressing, etc. | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 24
Undertakers | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 11
Miscellaneous | 1 | -- | 1 | 9 | 48
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+------
Total | 4 | 10 | 8 | 36 | 309
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+--------+------

Judging, then, by the number of employees, by the square feet of floor
space occupied and by the monthly rental paid, the typical Negro
enterprise is a small retail establishment.

To summarize this chapter: Negroes have had to begin business on a
small