Painting and kalsomining: House and ship painting and repairing.
Paper hanging: Wall papering.

Plumbing.

Printing: Printing work.

Quarrying: Building stone, rough.

Shoemaking.

Steam fitting.

Stonecutting: Prepared stone for building.

Tailoring.

Tinsmithing: Utensils.

Watch and clock making.

In this list of occupations there is believed to be good and in some of them unusual and exceptional opportunity for the skilled artisan in Porto Rico, and they have been selected from the total for this reason. Better bakeries are much needed. The better wickerwork, familiar in light (tropical) furniture, is needed, as is its repair. Fine horseshoeing and architectural blacksmithing rarely exist. The demand for cooperage will increase steadily, as will also that for carpentering, bridge building, etc. There are few or no steel, copper, or zinc engravers in the island, and the work will increase. There are few modern artists in working gold and silver, the work being done chiefly on old lines. Armorers are few, poor, and not familiar with latest devices. Harness making can not profitably compete with the great cheap producers in the United States, but good workmen are sadly needed for repairs. Small machinist work is with difficulty obtained. There are a few decent establishments, but better tools and plant, better methods, and later trained men are needed and must ere long be had. The work of masons and bricklayers varies; that in stone is much of it excellent, but the wall work at times makes trouble. The standard American brick is needed, and workmen to lay it who are used to it. Painting and interior finish need American methods, materials, and workmen. Paper hanging is an art very little understood, but entirely possible with success, if proper wall papers, glue, pastes, sizings, and skill are used. They can not be had in the island. Plumbing and steam fitting have not now half a dozen competent exponents in the island. The demand must steadily and rapidly increase, and must be met from the States. Good printers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, and electroplaters are increasingly wanted. Good quarrymen and stone cutters and artificial stone (cement) workers are and will be in demand. Good tailors are scarce, and the wellorganized ready-making shops for light goods, with best machinery, would thrive. Tinsmithing is poorly represented and offers inducements. Watch making calls for good men.

The occupations listed afford fair opportunities in connection with trade for competent Americans, according to their capacities, in Porto Rico, but in the ordinary and old-established lines of mercantile pursuits there are practically few or no chances to thrive. The following list shows the present exports from the island:

There are many commodities of American manufacture which will undoubtedly give good returns, and well-established businesses in the several lines named below are likely, if energetically pushed, to be very remunerative:

Among the above occupations considerable opportunity and of vary ing grades exists for both American employment and investment, with probable improvement to all lines thereby.

In either of the above-named professions there is fair opportunity for employment in Porto Rico. The apothecaries and druggists are in sufficient number, and rather more in the large towns and cities, because the business, as everywhere in tropical countries, has been exceedingly prosperous and profitable, though far less so now than formerly. Good openings, however, still exist, especially in improving localities, and will increase. Artists and photographers have, of course, a considerable element of "luck" in their lines, but hard work is effective with them also, as with others. Good dentists and physicians (and surgeons increasingly) are needed, and will be more so. Engineers and surveyors are likely to be busy ere long, and the teacher, if competent, is everywhere demanded.

Barbers.
Coachmen.
Cooks.

Dressmakers.

Hostlers.

DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL SERVICE.

Nurses.
Seamstresses.

Servants.

Waiters.
Watchmen.

As it is in this division of labor that the great surplusage of material, whether good, bad, or indifferent, exists, it will not be expected that even among the best of these occupations there are many oppor tunities or inducements to citizens of the United States. Only those

have been named that may afford an opening for any person, male or female, competent in one or another of these vocations, who, seeking the island for health, or in the hope of investing in a small way or of bettering his or her condition otherwise, wishes meanwhile to be earning a living. American barbers, with their equipment and methods, are more popular than the natives, or even the French or Spanish, and a good one can find a place or make a business for himself. Good American cooks are in great demand, and the supply is far short of the need. Coachmen are rarely wanted, but a good competent American can find a place.

Dressmakers and seamstresses, some of fine abilities, are superabundant throughout the island, but a few familiar with American styles and methods would not lack for employment as soon as known. The native women and girls often do most beautiful needlework, etc., but usually rather of the ornamental than useful order. Good nurses are difficult to get and a really competent one need have no lack of employment. Hostlers of the American type are wanting, and while there are few needed, good ones are generally not long idle if industrious and sober. Servants of all classes abound, but for competent and trained ones there is always place. Of really good restaurant and hotel waiters who speak both English and Spanish (or French) the supply is never equal to the demand. Watchmen there are, as of municipal police, in plenty, but one on whom to rely is not readily found when needed. The demand is, moreover, an increasing one.