UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. 



TS.) 



713 



in 1810; 523,159 in 1820; 010,408 in 1830; 737,(iJ)9 

 in 1840; 994,514 in 1850; 1,231, 0(5(5 in 1800; 

 1,457,351 in 1870; 1,783,085 in 1880; 2,238,943 in 

 1890; and 2,805,346 in 1900. Capital, Boston. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Winthrop Murray 

 Crane; Lieutenant-Governor, John L. Bates; Sec- 

 retary of State, William M. Olin; Treasurer, 

 Edward S. Bradford; Auditor, Henry E. Turner; 

 Attorney-General, Hosea M. Knowlton ; Insurance 

 Commissioner, Frederic L. Cutting; Prison Com- 

 mission, F. G. Pettigrove, Margaret P. Russell, 

 Henry Parkman, Mary V. O'Callaghan, Arthur H. 

 Wellman; Chief of the Bureau of Labor Statis- 

 tics, Horace G. Wadlin; Savings-Bank Commis- 

 sioner, Warren E. Locke; Adjutant-General, 

 Samuel Dalton; Secretary of the Board of Edu- 

 cation, Frank A. Hill; Secretary of the Board of 

 Agriculture, James W. Stockwell; Chief Justice 

 of the Supreme Court, Oliver W. Holmes; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, Marcus P. Knowlton, James M. 

 Morton, John Lathrop, James M. Barker, John 

 W. Hammond, and William C. Loring; Clerk, 

 Henry A. Clapp. 



The term of the State officers is one year. They 

 are elected in November. The Legislature meets 

 annually on the first Wednesday in January; the 

 time of the session is not limited. 



Census Figures. Following are additional 

 figures from census bulletins : Males in Massachu- 

 setts, 1,367,474; females, 1,437,872; native, 1,959,- 

 022; foreign born, 846,324; white, 2,769,764; col- 

 ored, 35,582, including 31,974 negroes, 2,968 Chi- 

 nese, 53 Japanese, and 587 Indians. The percent- 

 age of colored population is 1.3; of foreign born, 

 30.2. In Boston there are 274,922 males and 

 285,970 females, and 197,219 foreign born. The 

 urban population constitutes 86.9 per cent, of the 

 population. 



Finances. The Auditor's estimate of the 

 amount of expenditures required for 1902 for all 

 the departments is $6,376,242.60. The actual 

 State debt is $26,996,423.30; the sinking-funds 

 applicable to the debt amount to $15,292,256.85. 



Military. In the militia apportionment of the 

 Government, Massachusetts received this year 

 $31,862. The force consists of about 6,000 officers 

 and men, in 5 regiments of infantry, 1 of heavy 

 artillery, 2 cadet corps, 3 troops of cavalry, and 

 an artillery battalion, besides a naval brigade in 

 10 divisions. 



On Dec. 19 a monument was dedicated at An- 

 dersonville, Ga., to the memory of the Massa- 

 chusetts soldiers who died there during the civil 

 war. The monument was unveiled and presented 

 by Major Charles G. Davis, chairman of the 

 Memorial Commission, and addresses were made 

 by Lieut.-Gov. Bates and Hon. J. J. Myers, 

 Speaker of the House. Major Davis said, in the 

 course of his address : " More than half as many 

 sons of Massachusetts gave up their lives within 

 the precincts of these few acres of land from 

 March, 1864, until March, 1865, as were killed 

 in action among the officers and men of the first 

 15 Massachusetts infantry regiments during the 

 entire civil war. One son of Massachusetts died 

 here for every 5 sons of Massachusetts killed 

 in battle during the war. One son of Massachu- 

 setts died here for every 16 sons of Massachusetts 

 who died in battle or of wounds or disease dur- 

 ing the war. Nearly four times as many sons 

 of Massachusetts were killed here as were killed 

 in action in the United States army during the 

 Spanish War." The number of the known men of 

 Massachusetts who died there is 767. 



The monument is on land bought by women 

 of Massachusetts comprising the Woman's Relief 



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Education. l'l;iiv;iid I 

 year a gift of $402,000 iK,, 

 Robinson for an architect i 

 than $1,000,000 from .J. I 

 medical-school buildings 

 biological research." 



Within the year Wellesley College 

 of more than $325,000. Another noi 

 is that of a library of Italian literature, in 



50 manuscripts, from George A. Plimpioi 



degree of B. A. was conferred on 113 caiulieluie-. 



Phillips Andover Academy graduated ;i ela-s 

 of 82 this year. A gift of $250,000 was received . 



At Amherst, in June, 67 students received the 

 degree of B. A., and 16 that of B. S. 



At the first public graduation exercises of the 

 New Bedford Free Textile School, Oct. 23, there 

 were 88 graduates, 79 in night courses of instruc- 

 tion and all mill operatives. 



A college of horticulture, for women only, is 

 announced to open soon at a farm in Groton, 

 under the control of Mrs. E. G. Low, its sole 

 promoter, who has given the institution the name 

 Lowthorpe. 



Charities. The State Board of Charity re- 

 ports that last year it cared for 4,085 persons 

 at the State Hospital and Farm at Bridgewater, 

 expending $215,045.98 and having a balance of 

 $1,619.43 left. On the State Farm was expended 

 $153,294.82. The population of the farm is made 

 up of prisoners, paupers, and insane. 



Four nurses' homes have been built at Worces- 

 ter Hospital, Taunton Hospital, Medfield Asylum, 

 and at the State Farm in Bridgewater. These 

 will accommodate 210 persons at a cost of 

 $149,000, furnished and equipped. 



At Northampton Hospital an infirmary build- 

 ing is erected for 60 patients, the upper stories 

 to furnish temporary quarters for 25 nurses. This 

 will cost $55,000. At Westboro Hospital $50,000 

 has been spent in construction and repair of 

 buildings to accommodate a colony of 100 pa- 

 tients. The Danvers farmhouse will cost $25.000. 

 For this total expense of $130,000, 225 additional 

 patients will be accommodated, at an average 

 cost of $577.77. In all, the additions this year 

 will accommodate 435 additional patients, at a 

 total cost of $295,000. 



Land has been bought in Gardner for a State 

 colony for the insane, which was provided for by 

 the Legislature of 1900. 



Railroads. The Boston elevated railway was 

 opened in June. It was estimated that 300,000 

 passengers were carried on the opening day. The 

 cost of the railway is estimated at $10,000,000; 

 the length of double track is 6 miles; of single 

 track, | mile. About twenty minutes is saved 

 from the surface-car time in going from Sullivan 

 Square to Dudley Street. 



The trolley-line between Springfield and Palmer 

 has taken away much of the passenger traffic 

 from the steam roads. 



Court Decisions. The curfew ordinance of 

 West Springfield was adjudged illegal in the Su- 

 perior Court in June. 



In May the Supreme Court affirmed the validity 

 of a marriage entered into in the State dining 

 the existence of slavery in the South by a fugitive 

 slave who maintained his actual freedom, on the 

 ground that, being de facto beyond reach of his 

 master's authority, he could marry as a freeman. 

 Anniversaries. South Natick' began on July 

 3 a two-days celebration of the two hundred and 

 fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the town 

 by John Eliot and his Indian followers. The town 



