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NEW YORK (CITY). 



birth. Widows to the number of 1,245, and 

 1,590 widowers, were married a second time ; 

 215 bridegrooms and 2,964 brides were under 

 twenty years of age ; 42 bridegrooms and six 

 brides were over sixty years of age ; 24 bride- 

 grooms and one bride were over seventy, and 

 two men were married at the age of eighty- 

 odd years. Of the 37,330 persons that died, 

 5,482 lost their lives by consumption, 3,665 by 

 pneumonia, and 1,707 by bronchitis, or 10,854 

 from pulmonary diseases. One person died 

 from yellow fever, 31 persons from small-pox, 

 677 from measles, 370 from scarlet fever, 1,731 

 from diphtheria, 966 from croup, 576 from 

 whooping-cough, 14 from typhus fever, 324 

 from typhoid fever, and 224 from cerebro- 

 spinal meningitis, or 4,914 from contagious 

 diseases. There were 224 suicides. While 

 2,475 deaths were of persons over seventy 

 years of age, 9,871 were of infants that lived 

 less than a year. 



Fire Statistics. The following information 

 about fires in recent years shows a marked im- 

 provement in the work of the fire department : 



Immigration. The report of the Emigration 

 Commission shows the following numbers of 

 passengers arriving in New York in 1886 : 

 Cabin, 36,929 aliens and 41, 721 citizens; steer- 

 age, 284,885 aliens and 16,002 citizens. Total, 

 321,814 aliens and 57,723 citizens, or a grand 

 total of 379,537. There were 153 deaths and 

 76 births on shipboard. Alien immigration 

 has increased 30,748 over that of 1885. Of 

 the aliens arriving during the year 180,478 

 were adult males, 85,368 adult females, and 

 55,968 children under twelve years of age. 

 Of the arrivals, the following were the desti- 

 nations: Connecticut, 8,000; California, 5,600; 

 Canada, 2,500; Dakota, 4,500; Illinois, 25,- 

 500; Iowa, 7,800; Kansas, 4,300; Michigan, 

 9,700; Missouri, 5,300; Minnesota, 12,300; 

 Massachusetts, 10,200; Nebraska, 5,000; New 

 Jersey, 10,400; New York, 110,000; Ohio, 

 9,200; Pennsylvania, 42,000; Texas, 3,000; 

 and Wisconsin, 9,100. Of the immigrants, 

 23,839 were met at Castle Garden by friends, 

 535 husbands met their wives, and 502 parents 

 their children. There were treated at the hos- 

 pital 640 patients. Employment was found in 

 1886 for 8,345 men and 5,912 women. Dur- 

 ing the year the commission expended $125,- 

 700 derived from the fifty cents per capita tax 

 on steamship companies. There were 997 im- 

 migrants returned as paupers, insane, cripples, 

 and convicts. 



Less than ten years ago the Hebrew popula- 

 tion of the city, according to the statistics, was 

 fewer than 50,000. It now largely exceeds 

 that number. From the annual report of the 

 Board of Relief of the United Hebrew Chari- 

 ties, it appears that the number of Hebrew 

 immigrants landed at Castle Garden during the 

 year that ended on October 1 was 27,368. In 

 1885 the number was 18,535. Only 6,135 were 

 bound for other points than New York. Thus 

 the accessions to the local Hebrew population 

 in a single year, apart from natural increase, 

 was by foreign immigration at this single land- 

 ing-place, 21,213. Most of them came from 

 Russia and Austria, religious and race perse- 

 cution stimulating them to the adventure; 

 17,796 were Russian subjects, and 7,056 Aus- 

 trian. Of the remainder, 1,554 were Rouma- 

 nians, also driven forth by persecution, and 

 857 were Germans. Then the schedule sud- 

 denly sinks to English subjects, fifty- nine; 

 French, eight; Dutch, seven; Turkish and 

 Danish, each five; and Swedish, one. There 

 were 6,992 children and 20,376 adults, dis- 

 tributed between the sexes in the proportion 

 of 13,723 men to 6,653 women. Besides these 

 poor Hebrews who entered New York through 

 Castle Garden, there were hundreds that came 

 in through other avenues. A Jewish theologi- 

 cal seminary was opened in the autumn. 



Political. The mayoralty contest presented 

 some novel features. For the first time the 

 workingmen, organized in the labor unions, 

 presented a candidate for mayor in the person 

 of Henry George, who was supported also by 

 the Irving Hall branch of the Democracy. 

 Tammany Hall and the County Democracy 

 united on Abram S. Hewitt. The Republicans 

 nominated Theodore Roosevelt. Fear of the 

 agrarian views of Mr. George drove many Re- 

 publican voters from Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. 

 Hewitt, and he was elected. The vote on No- 

 vember 2 was: Hewitt, 90,552; George, 68,- 

 110; Roosevelt, 60,435. 



The following is the platform on which Mr. 

 George made the canvass : 



1. Holding that the corruptions of government and 

 the impoverishment of labor result from neglect of the 

 self-evident truths proclaimed by the founders of this 

 republic that all men are created equal and are en- 

 dowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, we 

 aim at the abolition of the system which compels men 

 to pay their fellow-creatures for the use of God's gifts 

 to all, and permits monopolizers to deprive labor of 

 natural opportunities for employment, thus filling the 

 land with tramps and paupers and bringing about an 

 unnatural competition which tends to reduce wages 

 to starvation rates and to make the wealth-producer 

 the industrial slave of those who grow rich by his toil. 



2. Holding, moreover, that the advantages arising 

 from social growth and improvement belong to society 

 at large, we aim at the abolition of the system which 

 makes such beneficent inventions as the railroad and 

 telegraph a means for the oppression of the people 

 and the aggrandizement of an aristocracy of wealth 

 and power. We declare the true purpose of govern- 

 ment to be the maintenance of that sacred right of 

 property which gives to every one opportunity to em- 

 ploy his labor and security that he shall enjoy its fruits ; 

 to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak and the 



