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NEW YORK (STATE). 



for Secretary of State, 14,608. Judges of the 

 Supreme Court were chosen in the first five 





267.98. The balance in the State treasury 

 was $2,711,144.21, which represented not the 



judicial districts, there being practically no op- available cash but the condition of the gen- 



position to the re-election of Judges Barrett, 

 Democrat, in the first ; Barnard, Democrat, in 

 the second; Ingalls, Democrat, in the third; 

 and Hardin, Republican, in the fifth. In the 

 fourth there was a contest, but Judge Joseph 

 F. Potter, Republican, was elected over Hand, 

 Democrat, by a vote of 52,836 to 37,440. A 

 member of Congress was chosen in the Eighth 

 District to succeed S. S. Cox, who had been 

 appointed Minister to Turkey. The candidates 

 were both Democrats, and Timothy J. Camp- 

 bell was elected, receiving 11,931 votes to 11,- 

 044 for Mr. Galvin, his opponent. The Legis- 

 lature chosen at the same election consisted of 

 20 Republicans and 12 Democrats in the Sen- 

 ate, and 78 Republicans and 50 Democrats in 

 the Assembly. This was a gain of one in the 

 Senate and five in the Assembly for the Re- 

 publicans. 



Finances. The State debt on Sept. 30 was 

 $9,339,160, including $1,000,000 bonds issued 

 for the purchase of the Niagara Falls Reserva- 

 tion, payable in annual installments of $100,- 

 000, and excluding the Indian annuity fund, 

 amounting to $122,694.87. The remaining $8,- 

 339,160 is the remnant of the canal debt, the 

 last of which matures in 1893. The canal sink- 

 ingfund amounted to $4,663,188.61, an increase 

 of $600,351.76 in the year preceding. This 

 leaves the total debt unprovided for, $4,798,- 

 666.26. The rate of taxation for the fiscal 

 year 1885- 1 86 is 2'96 mills on the dollar, the 

 total valuation of taxable property being $3,- 

 094,731,457. This will yield $9,160,405.11, to 

 be devoted $3,094,731.46 to school purposes, 

 $1,702,102.30 to maintenance of canals and 

 canal debt, and $4,363,571.35 to general pur- 

 poses. The receipts from the tax on corpora- 

 tions for 1885 was $1,673,879.09, of which 

 $1,032,466.70 was derived from transportation 

 companies, $238,871.79 from insurance compa- 

 nies, $125,339.54 from telegraph and telephone 

 companies, $244,626.35 from gas, mining, and 

 miscellaneous companies, and $32,574.71 from 

 foreign banks and bankers. There still remains 

 due of the unpaid tax of the Western Union 

 Telegraph Company for 1880 about $132,000, 

 notwithstanding the judgment in favor of the 

 State was affirmed by the Court of Appeals, 

 and its payment without further contest was 

 promised, when the law was amended so as to 

 limit the corporation tax to capital employed 

 within the State. Execution for the collection 

 of the amount was issued to the Sheriff of the 

 County of New York by the Attorney-General 

 on the^lOth of December, and certain property 

 was seized, but the judgment remained unsatis- 

 fied at the close of the year. The value of the 

 various State funds on the 30th of September 

 was as follows: Common-school fund, $3,880,- 

 657.39; United States deposit fund, $4,017,- 

 220.71; literature fund, $271,980.76; college 

 land scrip fund, $474,409.12; total, $8,644,- 



eral fund, assuming all valid appropriations to 

 have been liquidated and all collections made. 

 For the fiscal year the direct school-tax pro- 

 duced $3,180,393.90, and the total expenditures 

 of the State for educational purposes amount- 

 ed to $3,622,987.02. Both State and local 

 expenditures for the maintenance of public 

 schools amounted to $13,466,367.97. 



Prisons. The number of inmates in the three 

 prisons of the State, on the 30th of September, 

 was 2,961 at Auburn, 876; at Clinton, 544; 

 and at Sing Sing, 1,541. The cost of care and 

 maintenance for the year preceding was $373,- 

 222.53, which was exceeded by the earnings 

 by $3,441.44. At Sing Sing, where the con- 

 tract system of employing convicts remained 

 in force, the earnings were $235,731.54 and 

 the expenditures $162,729.23, showing a sur- 

 plus of $73,002.31. At Auburn, where the 

 average number of inmates for the year was 

 834, of whom 235 were still employed under 

 contracts and 74 on State account in the 

 manufacture of boots and shoes, the earnings 

 were $76,166.08 and the expenditures $112,- 

 131.53, leaving a deficiency of $35,965.45. At 

 Clinton, where for most of the year the in- 

 mates were employed on State account in the 

 manufacture of clothing, the earnings were 

 $64,766.35 and the expense of care and main- 

 tenance $98,361.77, leaving a deficiency of 

 $33,595.42. 



Railroads. There was no material increase in 

 the mileage of railroads for the year. While 

 there was a substantial increase in the volume 

 of traffic, there was a considerable diminution 

 cf earnings. The number of passengers car- 

 ried one mile was 1,834,580,425, against 1,737,- 

 103,087 in 1884, an increase of 5-61 per cent.; 

 tons of freight carried one mile, 9,902,683,295, 

 against 9,326,068,865 in 1884, an increase of 

 6-18 per cent. The gross earnings were $111,- 

 632,961.47 in 1885, and $120.227,871.72 in 

 1884 ; operating expenses, 1885, $77,175,826.01, 

 in 1884 $83,240,858.36; net earnings, 1885, 

 $34,457,135.46, in 1884 $36,987,013.36. The 

 aggregate of capital stock and debt for all the 

 roads in the State was $1,292,395,622.44; cost 

 of roads and equipment, $1,175,948,966.0; 

 The percentage of gross* income to cost and 

 equipment was 3'46, and that of net income to 

 capital stock, 1'09. The average earnings per 

 ton per mile for freight in 1885 was '73 cent 

 and in 1884, -83; the average per passenger per 

 mile was, in 1885, 2-13 cents, and in 1884, 

 The principal incident in the railroad history 

 of the year was the passing of the New York, 

 West Shore, and Buffalo ^Railway under the 

 control of the New York Central and Hudso 

 River. The property of the former was bong! 

 under a foreclosure of the mortgage by a con 

 mittee in the interest of the latter on the 24 

 of November for $22,000,000. A new com- 

 pany was organized under the name of I 



