Appropriating $25,000 for the college of agriculture at Cornell University, to be expended in giving instruction throughout the State and in carrying on experiments.

Appropriating $22,000 to erect an equestrian statue to Major-Gen. Henry W. Slocum, on the Gettysburg battlefield.

Appropriating $25,000 to pay a bounty of one cent a pound on beet sugar raised in the State.

Abolishing the business of ticket scalping. Authorizing the expenditure of $5,000 a year for five years, under the direction of the Long Island Historical Society, in translating and preserving the old Dutch records and historical documents of Kings County, Brooklyn, New Utrecht, and Gravesend.

To establish a botanic garden in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Providing that any one who is found in possession of an anesthetic (knock-out drops), unless upon a physician's prescription, shall be guilty of a felony. Appropriating $11,000 for the erection of a new building at the New York agricultural experiment station in Geneva.

Appropriating $25,000 to purchase the site of the battle of Stony Point, Rockland County.

Prohibiting the hounding of deer for ten years in the towns of Dresden and Putnam, Washington County.

Amending the fish and game laws by providing that floating devices, boats propelled by hand and sailboats, may be used from which to shoot webfooted wild fowl in Long Island Sound, Great South Bay, Gardiner, Shinnecock, and Peconic Bays.

Providing that railroad companies shall not mortgage their property without the consent of stockholders owning two thirds of the stock.

Amending the election law by including primary elections under that section which makes it a misdemeanor to practice fraud or bribery.

Authorizing the sale of the Onondaga Salt Springs reservation.

Making money due to truckmen or cartmen preferred claims on the estates of debtors.

For the office of United States Senator, to succeed David B. Hill, Democrat, the nominees were Thomas C. Platt by the Republicans and David B. Hill by the Democrats. A joint session of the Assembly was held on Jan. 20, when the vote was as follows: Platt, 147; Hill, 42; Henry George, 4. On the same day Chester S. Lord was elected a Regent of the University of New York, over Henry P. O'Neil, the nominee of the Democratic caucus.

Banks. These are under the supervision of a State superintendent, who is appointed for three years.

The present incumbent is Frederick D. Kilburn, who was appointed Jan. 24, 1896. His report for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1897, shows that the number of active State banks of deposit and discount in New York was 212, a net decrease of one since the last report. The total resources of all the moneyed institutions under the supervision of the department are as follow: Banks of deposit and discount, Sept. 15, 1897, $329,272,539; savings banks, July 1, 1897, $839,671,900; trust companies, July 1, 1897, $443,465,620; safe-deposit companies, July 1, 1897, $4,927,124; foreign mortgage companies, Jan. 1, 1897, $23,427,559; building and loan associations, Jan. 1, 1897, $54,490,218; total, $1,695,254,960. The increase, compared with the resources of the same institutions in 1896, is $137,291,278. The amount of capital employed by the State banks of deposit and discount and by individual bankers on Sept. 30, 1897, was $30,570,700, a decrease of $650,000. The resources of all the State banks of deposit and discount in New York on Sept. 15,

1897, were $329,272,539, compared with $273,795,005 in 1896. The securities and cash deposited with the Superintendent of Banks in trust by the several banks, individual bankers, and trust companies, and held by him, was $4,044,378.98. The report shows that there are still outstanding $77,979 of the circulating notes of banks incorporated under the laws of this State which have not been advertised for redemption, and which are not secured.

Insurance. This department is under the care of a superintendent who is appointed for three years. The incumbent was James F. Pierce, whose term of office expired on Feb. 11, when he was succeeded by Louis F. Payn. The annual report for 1896, issued in May, shows that the business done by all the life companies during the year exclusive of "industrial" was: Policies in force, 269,025, insuring $759,870,302; issued during 1896, 51,638 policies, insuring $127,292,490; premiums received, $26,758,946.95; claims incurred, $12,640.235.97; claims paid, $12,365,947,69. Twenty-five casualty and fidelity companies reported: Assets, $28,563,940.85; liabilities, except capital, $12,749,600.71; capital, $10,179,600; net surplus, $5,673,346.87; receipts, $17.451,219.24; disbursements, $16,274,638.04; risks in force, $2,800,871,565.

The summary of the department's two joint reports on all kinds of companies shows: Fire-companies, 153; assets, $261,602,530; liabilities, except capital, $124,333,031; surplus, $80,438,624; risks in in force, $18,236,140,779. Marine-companies, 14; assets, $20,525,021; liabilities, except capital. $5,113,584; surplus, $14,411,437; risks in force, $230,675,840. Life-companies, 36; assets, $1,228,324,342; liabilities, except capital, $1,053,608,138; surplus, $164,905,704; risks in force, $5,820,660,739. Casualty-companies, 25; assets, $28,563,940; liabilities, except capital, $12,749,600; surplus, $5,634,740; risks in force, $2,800,871,565.

Excise. In accordance with the so-called "Raines bill," enacted in 1896, the collection of the excise dues was intrusted to a commissioner, and the incumbent during 1897 was Henry H. Lyman. The amount received in 1897 was $12,275,247.60. One third of this amount ($4,091,749.20) was paid to the State, and the other two thirds ($8,183,498.40) divided among different localities. On Oct. 1, there were 28,054 licenses outstanding. The num ber in force before the present law went into effect was 33,437, and the amount of money received therefrom was $3,172,376.58, hardly more than one quarter of the present income from the same source. The receipts have nearly quadrupled, and the number of licenses has decreased almost one sixth. The records of the police courts in 41 cities and 430 incorporated villages show that, notwithstanding an increase in population, the cases of drunkenness have fallen off to a marked degree, The uniform law and rate of taxation throughout the State have done much to equalize the privileges of this traffic and to remove many of its objectionable features. A census of the number of saloons in cities showed that the number of saloons to each 1,000 inhabitants ranged from a minimum of 2-6 in Jamestown to a maximum of 81 in Long Island City.

Civil Service.-The civil-service commissioners are Willard A. Cobb, George P. Lord, and Silas W. Burt. According to their annual report, the num ber of persons examined in 1896 was 3,829, against 1,460 in 1895. The number for 1896 is more than the total for the first ten years of the history of the commission. Of those examined, 1.835 were successful. The number of appointments after exami nation during the same period was 631, or in the ratio of about one appointment to three successful candidates. The largest number of appointments

after competitive examination in any preceding year was that for 1895, when the number was 200; 134 competitive examinations were held, on seventyone days, in 1896, against 51 examinations in 1895. The number of eligible lists prepared during the year 1896 was 129.

Education. This department is under the supervision of a superintendent, whose term of office is three years. The present incumbent is Charles R. Skinner. There are 11,738 school districts, compared with 11,800 in 1896. There is a decrease of 83 in the number of districts in the country, but an increase of 20 in the cities. The total valuation of schoolhouses and sites is $66,077,600, the city schools being valued at $49,784,983. The increase in the valuation is $5,774.474. The number of teachers employed is 34,363, of whom 5,461 are men and 28,902 women, a net increase of 565. In cities 15,283 teachers are employed, and in the country 19,102, being an increase in the cities of 1,794 and a decrease in the country of 1,229. The average annual salary paid to teachers is $495.43, an increase of $8.06. In cities the average is $720.09, a decrease of $5.10, and in the country it is $312.12, an increase of $5.94. The teachers report 1,203,199 children in attendance at school between the ages of five and eighteen, of whom 685,803 live in the cities and 517,396 in the country. The increase is 17,091. The total expenditure for school purposes was $26,689,856, as compared with $23,173,830 in 1896. Of the expenditures, $7,537,212 was devoted to rural districts and $19,152.644 to cities, which shows an increase of $3,610,573 in city districts and a decrease of $94,547 in rural districts. The amount of salaries paid to teachers in cities was $9,158,205, and in rural districts $5,001,854. School buildings erected, repaired, and equipped during the year involved an expenditure of $8,398,676, of which $1,171,976 was spent in the country districts. Health. This charge is under the supervision of a board consisting of Case Jones, president; Baxter T. Smelzer, Daniel Lewis, Owen Cassidy, Frederick W. Smith, George B. Fowler, Frank E. Shaw, and Attorney-General Theodore E. Hancock, State-Engineer Campbell W. Adams, and Health-Officer Alvah H. Doty, ex officio. These gentlemen serve without compensation. In 1897, 124,600 deaths were reported to the State Board of Health, making a death rate for the State of 18.50 per 1,000 of population, against 18-60 in 1895. There were 19,510 deaths from infectious diseases. There were only 3 deaths from smallpox, all occurring in or near the metropolis. Grip recurred in milder form, causing fewer than 3,000 deaths, most of them in March. Typhoid fever caused 1,600 deaths. Diphtheria caused fewer deaths than during the past ten years-4,600. Scarlet fever caused 771 deaths. In contrast with typhoid fever, it is a disease of cities, there having occurred from it in the four large cities, New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo, and Rochester, 3,477 deaths, against 577 from typhoid fever, while in rural towns, with an aggregate population of 1,500,000, there were 307 deaths from it, against 366 from typhoid fever. The most noteworthy feature of the sanitary condition of the State is the steady diminution in the number of deaths from consumption in New York and Brooklyn. In the congested portions of these municipalities are found the largest percentages of deaths from nearly all infectious diseases, and slight variation from previous years, but in tuberculosis the decrease has been steady for five years. The explanation of this gratifying exhibit is the fact that the local boards of health in these cities have recognized that the disease is due to infection, and precautions have been taken to prevent its spread by a more rigid scrutiny of the food supply, espe

cially in the quality of milk and the examination of the cows.

The fertilizer and animal-charcoal manufactories on Newtown creek are still being investigated by order of the Governor.

Charities.-There are more than 1,000 charitable institutions and private charitable organizations in the State. The State Board of Charities, in its report to the Legislature, shows that the number of beneficiaries in the various institutions subject to the supervision of the board are 66,848, who are cared for at an expense of more than $20,000,000. There are 22 institutions wholly or partly maintained at the public expense. This report says: While the State Board of Charities is empowered by law to approve or disapprove of the organization and incorporation of charitable institutions, societies, and associations, and to license institutions for the feeble-minded, it has no direct authority to dissolve such corporations or to revoke licenses. The board believes that the best interests of the State require that such powers should be conferred upon it. thereby providing a speedy way of closing unworthy and undesirable institutions, of which there are not a few."

Canals. The care of these water ways is in charge of the Superintendent of Public Works. The incumbent during the year was George W. Aldridge. The canals were opened May 5, and closed for the season Dec. 1, 1897. The wheat shipments of the season reached 25,964,172 bushels. This is a decrease of 11,000,000 bushels compared with 1896, but an increase of 5,000,000 bushels over 1895. The average rate of freight on wheat was 2.8 per cent., compared with 37 per cent. in 1896 and 2-2 per cent. in 1895. The rate on grain this year is the lowest, with one exception, on record. Toward the close of the year it was shown by Campbell W. Adams, State Engineer and Surveyor, that the amount of $9,000,000 appropriated for the improvement of the canals was insufficient, and that at least $7,000,000 additional will be required. According to Gov. Black, the cost of building all the canals, of maintaining them since the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, and enlarging them now, has been more than $97,628,867.45, and yet the commerce passing over them paid that enormous amount in tolls in less than sixty years.

Prisons. These are under the care of a superintendent. The present incumbent is Austin Lathrop. According to his report submitted to the Legislature, the prison population on Oct. 1, 1896, was: Auburn, 1,089; Clinton, 886; Sing Sing, 1,220; total, 3,195. The population of the State prisons is the smallest for many years. The actual decline in the year in inmates is 388; the decline since Sept. 30, 1891, is 494. The expenditures for care and maintenance were: Sing Sing, $168,153.67; Auburn, $154,763.06; Clinton, $151,998.79. Deficiency in the three prisons, $353,393.12. The expenditures for care and maintenance have risen $7,705.89 in the three prisons. In Sing Sing the increase is $20,293.73, in Auburn the decrease is $7.728.73, in Clinton the decrease is $4,859.13.

The present system of convict labor was adopted in accordance with the provisions of an act of the Legislature of 1896, which followed out the mandate of the new Constitution, prohibiting the sale of prison-made goods in this State in the open market. When the prison authorities were making preparations to carry out the law they were skeptical as to whether there would be a sufficient demand for goods to keep the convicts employed. These fears have been dissipated by the workings of the law during its first eleven months of operation. During that time requisitions have been received for more than $750,000 worth of goods,

which guarantees the continuous employment of convicts. As it costs but about $500,000 annually to maintain the prisons, they are made self-supporting under the new system. Superintendent Lathrop has asked the Legislature for an appropriation with which to build a prison in the central part of the State at which all executions shall take place. He says: "The reformatory prisons do not seem to be the proper place for executions. It has been found that each approaching event of this kind is the cause of perturbation and depression among the prison population; it is sometimes antagonistic to the disciplinary methods of these institutions, and is so obnoxious that the officers do not hesitate to condemn the practice of having such executions in the prison."

Labor Statistics.-This department is in charge of a commissioner. The present incumbent is John T. McDonough. In 1895 reports were received from 927 trade unions, giving their membership as 180,231, including men and women; in 1896, 962 unions sent in reports, but the total membership only reached 170,296, a falling off of about 10,000. In the clothing trade there are 20,000 fewer members this year. Returns from 1,721 establishments, in the 65 general industries covered by the report, show that, in 1891, 200,333 persons employed by these concerns were paid $93,257,541.09, an average of $465.51 to each employee. In 1895, according to the figures presented by 2 290 establishments, 253,139 persons engaged therein obtained in wages $110,427,158.81, an average for the year of $436.23. A good deal of attention was given in the report to statistics relating to wages paid by gas and electric-light companies, the costs of production, and the market values of heating and lighting products. Eight electric-light plants submitted figures showing that the employees received 42.08 per cent. of the cost of the products, and that the percentage of the companies' earnings was 84-24. The figures for 21 gas companies were 26-24 and 108-59, and the figures for 6 companies, conducting both gas and electric business, were 34-71 and 182-83. There were 40 per cent. less strikes and lockouts in 1896 than in 1895,

National Guard. The supervision of the militia is under the charge of the Adjutant General on the Governor's staff. All the organizations of the Guard are now fully equipped for active service, and no delay would be incurred in mobilizing upon short notice. The organizations of the naval militia were found to be in excellent condition. The medical departments of the Guard and naval militia are well supplied with all necessary appliances, and the hospital corps of nearly every organization are most efficient.

Railroads. This department is cared for by three commissioners, each of whom serves for five years. The incumbents at the beginning of the year were Ashley W. Cole, Alfred C. Chapin, and Michael Rickard, who were succeeded on Feb. 3 by Ashley W. Cole, George W. Dunn, and Frank M. Baker. According to their report, the gross earnings for the year ending June 30, 1897, show a decrease, compared with 1896, of $5,901.397.82, and a decrease in operating expenses of $6,977,196.29. The capital stock was increased $3,238,855 during 1897, and the funded debt $28,698,185.40. Other liabilities were diminished $1,388,874.28, and the cost of road and equipment was increased $19,647,093.84. The aggregate of bonds and stock at their par value is greater than the aggregate cost of road and equipment by $81,953,300.51. The percentage of dividends on capital stock was 2:45, against 249 in 1896. The actual increase in steam-railroad mileage in this State during the year was 57.56 miles, to which the New York and Pennsylvania

railroads contributed 27.10 miles, the Depew and Tonawanda Railroad 10-56 miles, South Vandalia and State Line Railroad 4 miles, and small extensions of prior existing roads the remainder. The aggregate railroad mileage for the State is as follows: Surface, steam, 8,113.52; surface, street, 1,178-79; elevated, 65-71; total, 9,358.02.

Forest Preservation.-During 1897 the Forest Preserve Board purchased more than 250,000 acres, and the total sum expended was $940,000. The sum included an item of less than $15,000, covering the total expenses incident to the acquisition of this property, together with services in searching titles and inspection and determination of the value of the property. About $12,000 was expended for the acquisition of timber rights and the payment of back taxes on lands acquired, so that only $913,000 was expended in the purchase of 250,000 acres. This makes the average price about $3.50 an acre. The lands acquired include many of the choicest tracts in the north woods. The sum of $60,000 remains unexpended, and this amount the board has reserved because, for an expenditure of $940,000, a larger acreage has been acquired than was expected from the expenditure of the entire appropriation of $1,000,000. There are altogether about 3,000,000 acres of forest lands in the Adiron dacks. Previous to the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the acquiring of forest lands, the State owned about 800,000 acres of the total 3,000,000. When the Forest Preserve Board has spent the entire $1,000,000, 250,000 acres will have been acquired, bringing the State's ownings up to 1,050,000 acres.

Fisheries.-The commissioners in charge of this department are Barnet H. Davis, Edward Thompson, William R. Weed, H. S. Holden, and Charles S. Babcock. Their report for the year ending Sept. 30 gives the following items: During 1897 there were hatched and planted in public waters in the State 191,726,678 fish of various kinds, all the eggs having been taken from stock fish at the hatchingstation ponds or secured from wild waters in the State. The fish were hatched and distributed at a total cost of 196 cents a thousand. The commis sion reared and planted 130,400 trout eight and ten months of age and 14,858 trout from twelve to eighteen months of age, or a total of 144,855 above the age of what are commonly called "fingerlings." In addition to the fish hatched and distributed from the State hatcheries, the United States Fish Commission contributed to the State 27.417,533 fish and eggs, the eggs being hatched at the State hatcheries, making a grand total of 219,144,211 fish of all kinds planted in State waters. The increase in the output of commercial fishes from the State hatcheries for 1896 was more than 34,000,000 over that of 1895. A systematic attempt was made to cultivate the Labrador whitefish, one of the most delicious of the whitefishes, and 250,000 eggs were taken at a temporary station at Canandaigua lake and hatched at Caledonia. Since the close of the year further operations have been conducted at Canandaigua lake on a greater scale, and 13,160.000 whitefish were hatched at Caledonia from eggs taken in this lake, showing the possibilities of this branch of fish culture, should a perfectly appointed hatching station be erected.

State Capitol.-The Capitol Commission in existence at the beginning of the year was abolished by the Legislature at the instigation of the Governor, and the completion of the work was given to the Superintendent of Public Works. On May 29 the contract for completing the Capitol was awarded to the Hallowell, Me., Granite Works. The bid of this company was $259,000, and the award was approved by Gov. Black. During the year there was contract work under way aggregating $80,000,

bonds during 1897 is the greatest in the history of New York city. In addition to the foregoing, bonds to the amount of $114,000 issued by the territory of Westchester County, annexed in 1895, were assumed by the city in 1897. The returns, as given below, resulted, in August, in the announcement of a tax rate of $2.10 for each $100 of assessment, compared with $2.14 for 1896.

Board of Estimate and Apportionment. This body-consisting of the Mayor, the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Comptroller (Ashbel P. Fitch), the President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments (Edward P. Barker), and the Corporation Counsel (Francis M. Scott)-allowed the following amounts for 1898: State taxes and common schools for State, $5,704,871.81; interest on the city debt, $6,126,801,14; redemption of city debt, $3,352,139.85; the Mayoralty, $42,155; the Common Council, $90,000; Finance Department, $360,988.21; Law Department, $212,550; Bureau of Public Administrator, $17,390; Department of Public Works, $3,745,700.16; Department of Public Parks, $1,440,025; Department of Street Improvements, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, $1,010.275; Department of Public Charities, $1,364, 608; Department of Correction, $488,100; Health Department, $653,770; Police Department, $7,051,630.12; Department of Street Cleaning, $2,999,002.40; Fire Department, $2,608,753; Department of Buildings, $340,785; Board of Education, $6,962,145.92; College of the City of New York, $175,000; the Normal College, $150,000; Department of Taxes and Assessments, $170,720; the Judiciary, $1,958,110; printing, stationery, and blank books, $220,000; asylums, reformatories, and charitable institutions, $1,578,517.06; municipal service examining boards, $30,000; Bureau of Elections, $312,000; commissioners of accounts, $60,000; judgments, $250,000; fund for street and park openings, $734,568.86; coroners' salaries and expenses, $57,700; the sheriff, $130,982; Register's Office, salaries and expenses, $129,250; miscellaneous, $915, 105.11; total, $51,443,643.64; deduct general fund, $5,040,900.48; grand total, $46,402,743.16.

This statement shows that the amount allowed for 1898 is $51,443,643.64, which is reduced by deducting from the general fund made up by receipts from various sources during the year, the unexpended balance of previous years amounting to $5,040,900.48. The total amount to be raised by taxation is $46,402,743.16, which represents an increase of $1,973,187.97 over that of 1897, and of $8,825,783.12 over that of 1894. The increase is due chiefly to the greater amounts required for the administration of the larger territory, and notable among the increased amounts is that of $1,030,906 for education, $202,518 for public works, $172,824 for the Fire Department, and $69,691 for police.

Wealth of the City. This department is a county charge, and is cared for by a board of three tax commissioners, as follows: Edward P. Barker, president, Theodore Sutro, and James L. Wells. The office is at 280 Broadway. They report the total valuations of real and personal property as assessed for taxation in 1897, at $2,168,635,856, against $2,106,484,905 for 1896, showing a net increase of $62,150,951, which is distributed as follows: Increase in real estate, $55,677,648; personal, $6,473,303; total, $62,150,951. The total taxation on personal estates was distributed as follows: Insurance companies, $3,201,461; trust companies, $5,341,508; railroad companies. $28,426,511; miscellaneous, resident corporations, $47,438,915; miscellaneous, nonresident corporations, $19,934,462; resident, personal, $87.693,719; nonresident, personal, $27,580,833; estates. $79.886,270; banks, $81,936,386 total, $381,449,065. The real-estate taxa

tion was distributed as follows: Net result of realestate valuations for 1896, as shown by the books sent to Receiver of Taxes, $731,509,143; gross increase of real-estate valuations over 1896, as shown by the books when opened for revision in January, 1897, $64,129.648 (of this amount, $35,000,000 was for improvements on real estate); increased realestate valuations made by consent and notice, $17,355; total, $1,795,656,146; total personal and real estate, $2,168,635,856. The Aquarium, formerly Castle Garden, is rated at $1,000,000, including the Battery wall and engine house. A valuation of $4,200,000 is given to the land occupied by the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge. This prop erty includes lots on Park Row, and North William, Rose, Vandewater, Cliff, Pearl, Cherry, Water, and Front Streets. Washington Market is valued at $600,000, and Fulton Market at $400,000. Washington Bridge is valued at $1,000,000, and Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, which crosses Spuyten Duyvil creek, is entered at a valuation of $500. High Bridge is valued at $400,000. Bellevue Hospital and grounds have an official valuation of $1,500,000. The sections of ground on which the Washington equestrian statue and the Lincoln statue stand (at Union Square) are each valued at $1,000. The regimental armories appear on the records at conservative valuations, that of the Seventh Regiment being $700,000; the Eighth Regiment and Troop A, at $650,000; the Seventy-first Regiment, $900,000; the Ninth Regiment, $450,000; the Twelfth Regiment, $300,000; and the Twenty-second Regiment, $350,000. The old distributing reservoir in Fifth Avenue, between 40th and 42d Streets, is valued at $2,250,000, the Jerome Park Reservoir at $1,050,000, and the reservoir on Gun Hill Road at $400,000.

Public Works.-This department is under the charge of a commissioner appointed by the Mayor. He holds office for four years. The incumbent during the year was Charles H. T. Collis. Active work on the widening of Elm Street was carried on. The commissioners (Joel B. Erhardt, Charles H. Truax, succeeded by William G. Davies and William G. Choate) appointed in 1895 to assess the value of property condemned reported in April that 150 parcels of property were affected by the improvement. They reported $5,108,847 as the value of the property condemned and $291,565 as the value of benefits that will accrue to property formerly in block centers, but which is now changed to corner lots. The site selected for the new building for the Hall of Records is the eastern part of the block bounded by Chambers Street on the south, Broadway on the west, Center Street on the east, and Reade Street on the north. The block so bounded will be cut in two by the extension of Elm Street from Reade Street to Chambers Street. The area of the property to be taken for the new building is 31,000 square feet. The appropriation of $500,000 for the new wing of the American Museum of Natural History became available in May, and work on the building was begun. The improvement will make this museum the largest structure of its kind in the world. More than $500,000 was expended in asphalting streets. Of great importance was the completion of the repairing of Fifth Avenue, from Washington Arch to the end of the street, together with the laying of 48-inch water mains and new sewers in that thoroughfare. This work was begun Sept. 3, 1896, and completed Dec. 31, 1897, having cost $800,000. During Commissioner Collis's administration 60 miles of block pavements were cov ered with asphalt, and about 42 per cent. of the new pavement was laid in the tenement-house district. The city has now 128-87 miles of asphalt pavement, against 62-34 miles in 1895. There are