4,053,915 3,116,609 1901-1902 3,909 3,564 3,592,082 2,431,652 15,497 14,386 1900-1901 3,861 3,504 3,413,121 2,207,858 IV. MANUFACTURES. In Austria, in the year 1900, there were employed in the various manufacturing industries 3,138,800 persons, of whom 2,264,871 were workmen and 103,854 labourers. Including families and domestic servants the total number of those dependent on the industries was 7,004,105. In 1902 there were 1,423 breweries, producing in the year 1901-02 19,627,717 hectolitres of beer, and 35,947 distilleries which produced in 1901-02 1,495,667 hectolitres of alcohol. In the year 1901-02 there were 209 sugar factories with 77,252 work-people, and in the year 1902 30 tobacco factories with 40,933 work-people, the output for the year being 386,375 metric centners of raw tobacco. In 1902 a census of the industrial, commercial, and transport_undertakings in Austria was carried out, the results of which as regards their number, the persons employed, and the mechanical horse-power used, are given in the subjoined table : The following tabular statement shows the strength of the commercial marine of Austria on January 1, of the last 2 years : Of the total number of vessels 232 of 253,361 tons were steamers, and 12,917 of 54,732 tons were sailing vessels. The progress of navigation is shown as follows for Austria alone : : Of the vessels entered, an average of 89 per cent. and 91 per cent. of the tonnage, and of the vessels cleared 89 per cent. and 91 per cent. of the tonnage were Austrian, Italy coming next, and Greece third. At the port of Trieste alone in 1903, 10,048 vessels of 2,725,243 tons entered, and 10,093 vessels of 2,737,949 tons cleared. Of the vessels entered, 148 of 245,078 tons, and of those cleared, 148 of 246,732 tons were British. Internal Communications. In 1901 the total length of navigable rivers and canals in Austria was for rafts only, 3,820 km. ; for vessels and rafts, 6,562 km.; of which 1,317 km. were navigable for steamers. The river traffic of the monarchy during five years was as follows: The following are railway statistics of Austria in 1902: State lines, 4,739 miles; companies' lines worked by the State, 2,558 miles; State lines worked by foreign states, 52 miles; State lines worked by companies, 19 miles ; companies' lines worked by companies, 4,985 miles; foreign lines in Austria, 61 miles; total, 12,414 miles. The following table shows the length in miles and the total cost of construction in thousands of pounds sterling of the Austrian railways : The following table shows the traffic on the Austrian railways :— There were, in 1902, 7,909 post offices in Austria. The work of the Post Office (letters and parcels) in 1901 and 1902 was as follows: In Austria in 1902 there were 5,767 telegraph offices, 25,000 miles of telegraph line and 113,760 miles of wire, and the number of messages was 16,137,338. In 1902 there were in Austria 336 urban telephone systems and 117 interurban circuits with altogether 133,300 miles of wire, by which 115,206,583 conversations were held. Money and Credit. The following table shows the issues from the Austrian mint and the value of notes now in circulation: Four-ducat Single-ducat{2,818,311 {3,069,508 6,142,144 6,359,985 6,478,789 Gold Franz-Josefs notes in circulation 737,475,730 728,981,770 1,494,023,320 1,584,934,140 1,640,470,010 The following are statistics for December 31, 1902, of the 69 Austrian joint-stock and private banks, in thousands of crowns: There are, besides (1894), 2,342 alliance banks in Austria. |