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Bureau of Boiler Inspection $15,650.00 



Bureau of Fire 979,501.20 



Bureau of Police 2,732,483.31 



Department of Public Works — 



Director's Office 27,963.49 



Bureau of City Ice Boats 22,900.00 



Bureau of Highways 3,343,789.92 



Bureau of Street Cleaning 903,033.00 



Bureau of Lighting 287,690.00 



Bureau of Surveys 5,014,008.36 



Bureau of Water 2,519,425.00 



Board of Port Wardens 20,208.40 



Board of Eevision 147,255.00 



Department of City Commissioners 921,054.50 



Department of City Comptroller 60,249.52 



Department of Law 155,490.00 



Department of City Treasurer 4,416,867.43 



Department of Clerks of Councils 140,237.95 



Fairmount Park Commission 596,104.69 



Reed Street Prison 87,172.25 



Holmesburg Prison 84,307.43 



Public Building Commission 1,011,194.43 



Department of Receiver of Taxes 163,205.93 



Department of Sinking Fund Commissioners 1,450.00 



Department of Education 5,068,253.94 



Nautical School of Pennsylvania 20,000.00 



Department of Gas 5,921.54 



Total $30,958,382.88 



In the year 1897, $3,399,672.43 were appropriated to the Bureau of 

 Gas; but in that year the city (through its Councils and the Mayor) 

 leased the gas works to a private corporation, so that now the city has 

 to maintain a department for inspection only. 



The population in 1800 was 70,287, the budget $68,485.92; the per 

 capita expense, therefore, 97 cents. The population in 1899 was ap- 

 proximately 1,115,000; the budget $30,958,382.88; the per capita ex- 

 pense, $27.76. This great increase is due mainly to the fact that the 

 city does more for the citizen than it did one hundred years ago, and is 

 constantly doing more, and partly to the fact that a much larger ter- 

 ritory is covered. 



In 1897 Philadelphia had 433 public schools, with 3,465 teach- 

 ers; in 1800 there were none. In 1899 there were 2,191 policemen, 

 commanded by 6 captains, 34 lieutenants, 196 sergeants, with 23 patrol 

 wagons, and requiring an appropriation of $2,732,483.31; in 1800 there 

 was a handful of constables, paid out of an appropriation of $18,000 

 'for lighting and watching the city', and another of $156 for 'patrolling 

 streets on the Sabbath day\ In 1899 there were 46 fire engines, 32 

 combination wagons and chemical engines, 15 chemical engines, 13 



