for 5 vendors, at 2_s._ 6_d._ each 1 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Grease-removing Composition._
7 boxes, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money
for 7 vendors, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each 1 1 0
_Street-Sellers of Plating-Balls._
4 boxes, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money
for 4 vendors, at 1_s._ each 0 10 0
_Street-Sellers of Corn-Salve._
8 boxes, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money
for 8 vendors, at 6_d._ each 0 16 0
_Street-Sellers of Glass and China-Cement._
4 boxes, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money
for 4 vendors, at 6_d._ each 0 8 0
_Street-Sellers of Razor-Paste._
6 trays, at 2_s._ each; stock-money
for 6 vendors, at 1_s._ each 0 18 0
_Street-Sellers of Crackers and Detonating-Balls._
55 trays, at 2_s._ each; stock-money
for 55 vendors, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each 9 12 6
_Street-Sellers of Lucifer Matches._
200 boxes, at 6_d._ each; stock-money
for 200 vendors, at 6_d._ each 10 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Cigar-Lights._
Stock-money for 100 vendors, at
6_d._ each 2 10 0
_Street-Sellers of Gutta-Percha Heads._
30 boxes, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money
for 30 vendors, at 1_s._ each 3 15 0
_Street-Sellers of Fly-Papers and Beetle-Wafers._
Stock-money for 50 vendors, at 1_s._
each 2 10 0
_Street-Sellers of Poison for Rats._
Stock-money for 25 vendors, at
2_s._ 6_d._ each 3 2 6
MISCELLANEOUS.
_Street-Sellers of Walking-sticks._
Stock-money for 35 vendors, at 5_s._
each 8 15 0
_Street-Sellers of Whips._
Stock-money for 30 vendors, at 15_s._
each 22 10 0
_Street-Sellers of Pipes (Tobacco)._
Stock-money for 4 vendors, at 5_s._
each 1 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Snuff-Boxes, Tobacco-Boxes, &c._
15 stalls, at 4_s._ each; stock-money
for 15 vendors, at 10_s._ each 10 10 0
_Street-Sellers of Cigars._
Stock-money for 100 vendors, at
10_s._ each 50 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Sponge._
50 baskets, at 1_s._ each; stock-money
for 50 vendors, at 5_s._ each 15 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Wash-Leathers._
Stock-money for 200 vendors, at
2_s._ 6_d._ each 25 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Spectacles and
Eye-Glasses._
Stock-money for 35 vendors, at 5_s._ each 8 15 0
_Street-Sellers of Dolls._
20 stalls, at 4_s._ each; 30 baskets,
at 3_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money for 50
vendors, at 10_s._ each 34 5 0
_Street Lot-Sellers._
50 boxes, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money
for 50 sellers, at 2_s._ 6_d._ each 10 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Roulette Boxes._
2 baskets, at 3_s._ 6_d._; stock-money
for 2 vendors, at 1_l._ each 2 7 0
_Street-Sellers of Rhubarb and Spice._
4 boxes, at 6_s._ each; stock-money
for 4 vendors, at 10_s._ each 3 4 0
_Rat-Catchers._
20 belts, at 3_s._ 6_d._ each; 25 cages,
at 1_s._ each; 25 pair of ferrets, at
2_s._ 6_d._ per pair; keep for 25 pair of
ferrets, at 4_d._ per pair weekly 8 5 10
_Street-Sellers of Combs._
50 stalls, at 3_s._ each; 50 boxes,
at 3_s._ 6_d._ each; stock-money for 50
vendors, at 2_s._ 6_d._ each 22 10 0
_Street-Sellers of Money-Bags._
Stock-money for 50 vendors, at 2_s._ each 5 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Coat-Studs._
70 boxes, at 1_s._ 6_d._ each, stock-money
for 70 vendors, at 2_s._ 6_d._ each 14 0 0
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Total amount of capital 2,833 13 4
INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED
ARTICLES.
METAL.
_Street-Sellers of Hardware._
There are at present 100 hardware
sellers, trading in London, &c.; half
of them, I am assured, may be said
to take on an average from 20_s._ to 25_s._,
weekly the year through; a quarter
take 15_s._, and the remaining quarter
from 7_s._ 6_d._ to 10_s._ Calculating an
average receipt of 15_s._ each per week,
throughout the entire class, men,
women, and children, we find there
is annually expended in street-sold hardwares 3,900 0 0
_Cheap Johns._
If we calculate that there are 6
“Cheap Johns” in London throughout
the year, and that they each
take 4_l._ per day for nine months in
the year, or 24_l._ per week; this
amounts to about 5,000_l._ in nine
months. Say that during the winter
or the remaining 13 weeks of the
year, their receipts are 15_l._ each per
week, this amounts to upwards of
1000_l._ additional, thus making a gross
annual outlay with these dealers of 6,000 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Cutlery._
Reckoning there are 30 men who
are engaged regularly in the sale of
cutlery, and that the average takings
of each are about 15_s._ weekly, this
gives a yearly expenditure in the street-trade
of cutlery 1,170 0 0
_Blind Street-Sellers of Tailors’ Needles._
There are now 6 men engaged in
selling needles at the several tailors’
shops, and calculating their average
daily receipts to be 2_s._ 6_d._ or 15_s._
a week each, we find that the annual
takings of the whole are 234 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Metal-Spoons in Publichouses._
From the best information I can
arrive at, the number of metal-spoon
hawkers is 20, each of whom take
upon an average 16_s._ weekly, thus
showing a yearly expenditure in the
street-sale of spoons of 832 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Jewellery._
I am informed that there are at
present 500 persons engaged in the
street sale of jewellery, and calculating
a weekly profit of 10_s._ 6_d._, and
a receipt of 18_s._ per individual, we
find expended in the street-trade 23,400
_Street-Sellers of Card-Counters._
If there be, on the year’s average,
only two street-sellers disposing of
“Jacks” and earning 9_s._ a week,--to
earn which the receipts will be about
20_s._,--we find expended in the streets
on these trifles annually 104 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Medals._
An intelligent man, familiar with
the trade, and who was in the habit
of clubbing his stock-money with two
others, so that they might buy a gross
of medals at a time, calculated that
15 medal-sellers were engaged in
the traffic the year through, and
earned, upon medals alone, 6_d._ a day
each, to clear which they must take
6_s._ 6_d._ weekly, giving a yearly outlay of 253 10 0
_Street-Sellers of Rings and Sovereigns for a
Wager._
One of this class, who is “up to all
the dodges of the trade,” informed me
that there were only 6 men working
the rings and sovereigns now in the
streets, and that the average takings
of each might be about 12_s._ weekly,
thus showing a yearly expenditure of 187 4 0
_Street-Sellers of Children’s Gilt Watches._
Calculating that 25 persons now
vend watches for twelve weeks in the
year and that each clears 8_s._ weekly,
taking 24_s._, we find yearly expended
in London streets on these toy watches 360 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Tin-Ware._
If we calculate an average receipt,
per individual, of 10_s._ weekly: we find,
reckoning 100 sellers, a yearly expenditure
on tins, bought in the street, of 2,600 0 0
_Swag-Barrowmen._
Calculating that 100 of these
traders are, the year round, in London
(some are absent all the summer at
country fairs, and on any favourable
opportunity), and that each takes 2_l._
weekly, we find thus expended in the
streets of London, in a year, no less than 10,400 0 0
_Sellers of Dog-Collars, Key-Rings, &c._
Reckoning 12_s._ weekly taken by
12 men, there is expended yearly in
the streets upon dog-collars 374 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Tools._
There are at present 40 men engaged
in selling tools throughout the
metropolis and they each average
about 15_s._ weekly. This gives a
yearly outlay of 1,560 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Crockery and Glass-Wares._
According to the best calculation
there are 380 vendors of crockery
and glass-wares, and the average takings
of each may be said to amount to
10_s._ weekly, so giving an annual expenditure
in the streets of 9,880 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Spar-Ornaments._
In this trade I am informed that
there are now 12 men, 9 of whom
are assisted by their wives, and that
in the summer months there are
18. Their profits are about 15_s._ per
week on an average of the whole
year. What amount of money may
be expended by the public in the
street-purchase of “spars” I am unable
definitely to state, so much being done
in the way of barter; but assuming
that there are 14 sellers throughout
the year, and that their profits are
cent. per cent., there would appear to
be laid out in the streets every year
on these articles, about 1,000 0 0
_Street-Sellers of China-Ornaments._
There are, I am informed, about
30 persons in this trade. If we
calculate the receipts at 10_s._ weekly
(a low average considering the success
of some of the raffles), we find yearly
expended in the streets in these ornamental
productions 780 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Stone-Fruit._
Supposing that there are 6 persons
selling stone-fruit in the streets
through the year, and that each earns
9_s._ weekly (one man said 7_s._ 6_d._ was
the limit of his weekly profits), we find
140_l._ received as profit on these articles,
and calculating the gains at 33
per cent., an outlay of 420 0 0
TEXTILE.
_Packmen and Duffers, or Hawkers of Soft Wares._
I am told by a London hawker of
soft goods that the number of his
craft, hawking London and its vicinity,
as far as he can judge, is about 120.
In this number are included the Irish
linen hawkers. I am also informed
that the fair trader’s profits amount to
about 20 per cent., while those of the
not over-particular trader range from
80 to 200 per cent. In a fair way of
business it is said the hawker’s takings
will amount, upon an average, to 7_l._
or 8_l._ per week; whereas the receipts
of the “duffer,” or unfair hawker, will
sometimes reach to 50_l._ per week;
at 7_l._ per week each, the gross takings
will amount to 43,680 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Small Ware, or Tapes, Cottons,
Laces, &c._
From the best data at my command,
I believe there are not fewer than 500
individuals selling these wares in London.
Their weekly receipts do not
appear to average more than 6_s._ each,
hence the expenditure on these articles
will amount to 7,800 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Lace._
100 persons in this trade may be
said each to take 10_s._ 6_d._ weekly, the
profit being about cent. per cent.;
hence the annual sum expended in
the streets in lace and similar commodities is 2,730 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Japanned Table-Covers._
Calculating that 15 street-sellers
each take 25_s._ weekly the year round--one-half
being the profit, including
their advantages in bartering
and raffling--we find there is expended
yearly upon japanned table-covers,
bought in the streets 975 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Braces and Belts._
500 brace-sellers are said to clear 5_s._
a week each on those articles alone,
and estimating the profit at 33 per
cent., it shows a street expenditure of
26,196_l._, and calculating one-eighth
less for belts, we find that the annual
outlay in the streets on braces and
belts is 29,470 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Hose._
A few pairs of women’s stockings
are hawked by women, and sold to
servant-maids; but the trade in these
goods, I am informed, including all
classes of sellers--of whom there may
be fifty--does not exceed (notwithstanding
the universality of the wear)
the receipt of 6_s._ weekly per individual,
with a profit of from 1_s._ 4_d._ to
2_s._; thus there is an aggregate expenditure
yearly of 800 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Waistcoats._
There are sometimes no waistcoat-sellers
at all; but generally two, and
not unfrequently three. The profits
of these men are 1_s._ on a bad, and
2_s._ 6_d._ on a good day. As, at intervals,
the street-sellers dispose
of a sleeve-waistcoat (waistcoat with
sleeves) at from 4_s._ 6_d._ to 6_s._, we may
estimate the average earnings in the
trade at 5_s._ per market day, or 10_s._ in
the week; assuming their profits to
be 33 per cent., this shows an annual
outlay of 312 0 0
CHEMICAL.
_Street-Sellers of Blacking._
There are at present 230 vendors
of blacking in the London streets.
210 of these sell cake and liquid
blacking, each taking 6_s._ weekly,
while the 20 others “work” the
Mews with a superior kind of blacking,
taking 15_s._ each; thus there is a
yearly expenditure in the sale of
blacking in the streets of 4,056 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Black-Lead._
There are, I am informed, 100 to
150 persons selling and hawking
black-lead in the streets; it may
be estimated that they take 4_s._ each
weekly (the adults selling other small
articles with the black-lead); thus
we find--averaging the number of
sellers at 125--that there is expended
yearly in the street-sale of this article 1,300 0 0
_Street-Sellers of French Polish._
The French-polish-Sellers, I am assured
by a man familiar with the
business, take 2_s._ a day each; the
2_s._ leaves a profit of 10_d._ The street
expenditure is, therefore (reckoning
five regular sellers) annually 156 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Grease-removing Composition._
Calculating that 7 grease-removers
carry on the sale of the article 3 days
each week, and clear 1_s._ 6_d._ per day,
we find a yearly expenditure on this
commodity equal to 81 18 0
_Street-Sellers of Plating-Balls._
Reckoning that 4 men are engaged
in selling plating-balls 3 days in each
week, and that each take 2_s._ a day,
we find there is an annual outlay on
the sale of this article of 62 8 0
_Street-Sellers of Corn Salve._
Calculating that 8 of these traders
take 10_s._ weekly, we find there is
expended in the streets on this salve 208 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Glass and China-Cement._
There are at present 4 men vending
this article in the streets of London,
and if each seller take 5_s._ weekly (of
which 4_s._ may be profit), we find
there is expended yearly by street
customers in this cement 52 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Razor Paste._
Calculating that 6 men “work”
the metropolis daily, taking 2_s._ each
per day (with 1_s._ 2_d._ profit), we find
the amount of the street outlay to be
upwards of 187 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Crackers and Detonating-Balls._
I am assured that for a few days
last November, from 50 to 60 men
and women were selling crackers in
the streets. The most intelligent man
that I met with, acquainted, as he
called it, “with all the ins and outs
of the trade,” calculated that during
the month of November and at Christmas,
100_l._ at least was expended in
the streets in these combustibles, and
another 100_l._ at other times of the
year, thus giving altogether a yearly
outlay of 200 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Lucifer-Matches._
Supposing that each of the 200
traders take, on lucifers alone, but
4_s._ weekly, selling nine dozen (with
a profit to the seller of from 1_s._ 9_d._ to
2_s._ 6_d._), we find on lucifer-matches
bought in the streets an annual outlay of 2,080 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Cigar-Lights or Fuzees._
It will, I believe, be accurate to
state that in the streets there are
generally 100 persons subsisting, or
endeavouring to subsist, on the sale of
fuzees alone. It may be estimated
also that each of these traders averages
a receipt of 10_d._ a day (with a
profit exceeding 6_d._), so that the sum
yearly laid out in the streets in this
way amounts to 1,300 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Gutta-Percha Heads, &c._
There are at present, I am informed,
30 persons selling gutta-percha
heads in the streets, some of
them confining their business solely
to those articles. Their average receipts,
I am assured, do not exceed
5_s._ a week each, for, though some
may take 15_s._ a week, others, and
generally the stationary head-sellers,
do not take 1_s._ The profit to the
street retailer is one-third of his
receipts. From this calculation it
appears, that if the present rate of
sale continue, the sum spent yearly in
these street toys is 390 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Fly-Papers and Beetle-Wafers._
Last summer, I was informed, there
were 50 or 60 persons selling fly-papers
and beetle-wafers in the
streets; some of them boys, and all
of them of the general class of street-sellers,
who “take” to any trade for
which 1_s._ suffices as capital. Their
average earnings may be estimated at
2_s._ 6_d._ a day, about one-half being
profit. This gives a street outlay, for
a “season” of ten weeks, of 375 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Poison for Rats._
Calculating 25 sellers of rat-poison,
and each taking on an average 1_s._
daily for the sale of their article, we
find that the sum annually expended
upon this commodity amounts to 390 0 0
MISCELLANEOUS.
_Street-Sellers of Walking-Sticks._
For 12 weeks of the year there are,
I am told, every day 35 stick-sellers,
each taking, on an average, 30_s._ a
week (with a profit, individually, of
about 12_s._); we find thus that the sum
expended yearly in walking-sticks in
the streets is 630 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Whips, &c._
Averaging that 30 whip-sellers
take 25_s._ each weekly (with profits of
from 5_s._ to 10_s._) in London alone, we
find that the yearly sum expended in
the streets in whips amounts to 1,950 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Pipes (Tobacco)._
If we calculate that 4 persons sell
pipes daily the year through, taking
each 25_s._ (and clearing 10_s._), we find
the yearly sum expended upon the
hawkers’ pipes amounts to 260 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Snuff-Boxes, Tobacco-Boxes, &c._
Reckoning that 15 persons trading
on snuff and tobacco and cigar-boxes
take 18_s._ weekly (clearing 7_s._ or 8_s._),
we find the sum thus expended annually
amounts to 702 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Cigars._
Reckoning the number of vendors
of cigars at 100, and the average
takings of each to be 20_s._ weekly, we
have a yearly outlay of 5,200 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Sponge._
Calculating, then, that only 50 persons
(and so allowing for irregularities
in the trade) vend sponge
daily, and that each takes 15_s._ weekly,--some
taking 25_s._, and others but
5_s._--with about half profit on the
whole (the common sponge is often
from 200 to 300 per cent. profit), we
find the outlay to be 1,950 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Wash-Leather._
There are, I am assured, 100 individuals
selling little or nothing else
but wash-leather in London (for these
traders are found in all the suburbs),
and that they respectively take 10_s._
weekly, with a profit of from 4_s._ to
5_s._ There are, also, 100 other persons
selling them occasionally, along
with other goods, and as they vend
the higher-priced articles, they probably
receive nearly an equal amount.
Hence it would appear that there is
annually expended in the streets in
this purchase, upwards of 5,000 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Spectacles and Eye-glasses._
It may be estimated, I am assured
that there are 35 men who
vend these articles daily, taking 15_s._
a week (with a profit of 10_s._), the
yearly expenditure being thus 1,365 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Dolls._
There are, at least, at this time of
year, when the fairs are coming on,
50 doll-hawkers, who vend nothing
else. Say that each of these sell one
dozen dolls per day, and that their
average price is 4_d._ each; that is just
10_l._ a day, and 60_l._ per week. In the
winter time so many are not sold; but
I have no doubt that 50_l._’s worth of
dolls are sold each week throughout
the year by London hawkers alone,
hence the annual outlay on street-dolls
would be close upon 3,000 0 0
_Street Lot-sellers._
It may be estimated that 50 men
carry on this trade. Each of these
may take 13_s._ weekly (with a profit
of 7_s._ 6_d._), so showing the annual
street outlay to be 1,690 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Roulette Tables._
Calculating the 2 sellers of Roulette
tables take 30_s._ each weekly, we find
the annual outlay amounts to 156 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Rhubarb._
Reckoning 4 street-sellers of rhubarb
and spice each taking 18_s._
weekly, we find the sum annually
spent in the sale of these articles to
be upwards of 187 0 0
_Rat-Catchers._
There are, I am told, 100 rat-catchers
resorting, at intervals, to London,
but only a fourth of that number
can be estimated as carrying on their
labours regularly in town; their average
earnings, I am assured, do not exceed
15_s._ a week; thus there is a
yearly expenditure of 975 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Combs._
From the best information I have
gained, there are 50 persons who sell
nothing but combs, the average takings
of each are 9_s._ a week, showing the
yearly outlay in the streets on these
articles to be 1,170 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Money-Bags._
There are at present 50 persons consisting
of men, women, and children
vending money-bags in the streets of
London, each taking on an average
1_s._ 6_d._ daily, or 9_s._ per week, and so
giving a yearly expenditure of 1,170 0 0
_Street-Sellers of Coat-Studs._
There are, I am informed, no less
than 70 persons, consisting of men,
women, and children. These, I am told,
take upon an average 15_s._ a week each,
their usual profits being cent. per cent.;
thus we find a yearly outlay on
studs bought in the streets of 2,730 0 0
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Total amount of income £188,189 0 0
ERRATA.