firms depend for patronage, but partly to inexperience.

TABLE XXVI. SHOWING LENGTH OF TIME 309 BUSINESS ENTERPRISES HAD BEEN
AT ADDRESSES WHERE FOUND, MANHATTAN, 1909.

--------------------------+----------------------------------------
|Length of time at present address.
--------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Less | 6 mos.| 1 yr. | 2 yrs.| 4 yrs.|
Class of | than | to 11 | to 1 | to 3 | to 5 |
establishment. | 6 mos.| mos. | yr. 11| yr. 11| yr. 11|
| | | mos. | mos. | mos. |
--------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
Barber shops | 5 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 5 |
Brokers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Coal, wood and ice | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Dressmaking and millinery | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -- |
Employment agencies | -- | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
Express and moving vans | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Groceries | 4 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 4 |
Hairdressers, etc. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -- |
Hotels and lodging houses | -- | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
Pool and billiard rooms | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Printers | -- | -- | 3 | 1 | -- |
Restaurant and lunch rooms| 5 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
Saloons and cafes | -- | 2 | -- | 2 | -- |
Tailoring, pressing, etc. | 2 | 5 | 10 | 7 | -- |
Undertakers | 1 | 1 | -- | 3 | 1 |
Miscellaneous | 6 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 3 |
--------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
Total | 30 | 51 | 70 | 66 | 22 |
--------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

--------------------------+-----------------------------------------
|Length of time at present address.
--------------------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+------
| 6 yrs. | 8 yrs. | 10 | |
Class of | to 7 | to 9 | yr. | |Total.
establishment. | yr. 11 | yr. 11 | and |Unknown.|
| mos. | mos. | over |