Examining other tables, we find that Erie, the largest manufacturing county, has 5,281 establishments, with an aggregate capital of $62,719,399, an average of $11,688.57 per establishment. Forty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight hands find employment, at a cost of $22,867,176 -- an average of $468.62 per hand. But Erie has a large number of industries requiring skilled mechanics, such as the manufacturing of agricultural implements, bridgebuilding, carriage and wagon-building, railroad cars, cooperage, foundry and machine works (which alone employ 2,048 men), ship-building, marble and stove works, tanneries, etc. The mechanics get higher wages, and the average wages of ordinary workingmen are thereby much reduced.

The product of these 5281 manufacturing establishments aggregates the enormous sum of $179,188,685 ; but the material used costs $130,108,417, and this, added to the wages and deducted from the gross toial of products, leaves a profit margin of $26,203,092, or not quite 42 per cent, on the capital invested.

Onondaga County with 1277 establishments used a capital of $13,995,627, or $278.75 per hand. The material used cost $12,222,132, and the gross products aggregate $20,428,477. After deducting wages and cost of material we have here $4,210,718 for profit margin -- not quite 38 per cent, on the capital invested.

We give th&se figures with no desire to makeinviduous comparisons, but to show that Westchester county, with its 502 establishments and modest working capital, is doing a safer business than most of its wealthier sister counties.

The variety of industries is great, as compared to the total number of establishments. They are as follows, the figures showing the number of establishments engaged in the industry : Agricultural implements, 1 ; boots and shoes, 11 ; bread and baking products, 12 ; brick and tile, 21 ; buttons, 1 ; carpets, 1 ; carriages and wagons, 14 ; cheese and butter factory, 1 ; men's clothing, 7 ; combs, 1 ; cooperage, 1 ; files, 2; flouring and grist-mill products, 24; foundry and machine-shop products, 24; men's furnishing good.s, 1 ; gas and lamp fixtures, 2; curried leather, 1 ; malt liquors, 4 ; planed lumber, 2 ; sawed lumber, 13 ; marble and stone work, 8 ; musical instruments, 1 ; floor oil-cloth, 1 ; patent medicines, 1 ; steel pens, 1 ; pickles, preserves and sauces, 5; printing and publishing, 5 ; rubber and elastic goods, 1 ; saddlery and