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dations for 800 patients. Their total cost will be 

 kept within the legislative appropriation. 



The Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and 

 Dumb, which for more than sixty years has oc- 

 cupied the site at the corner of Broad and Pine 

 Streets, Philadelphia, has been removed to 

 Moiuit Airy, one of the most elevated and at- 

 tractive suburbs. The grounds comprise 63 

 acres. Three buildings are already erected. The 

 plan of the board contemplates the further erec- 

 tion of a building for the industrial department, 

 which is assured by the gift of $50,000 by a 

 friend of the school, who withholds his name, of 

 a gymnasium, and of an additional building for 

 dormitory and schoolroom piirposes. 



The Soldiers' Orphans' Schools, of which there 

 are 3, contained 527 children at the end of the 

 year. The children are maintained and educated 

 at a cost of $140 per capita. In 1883 the Legis- 

 lature enacted a law providing that " no admis- 

 sion shall be granted to any of the soldiers' or- 

 phans' schools or homes after June 1, 1887, and 

 all schools or homes shall close, and all children 

 shall be discharged from said institutions on 

 June 1, 1890." When the commission under the 

 act of 1889 reorganized the schools, assuming 

 control, there were under the charge of the State 

 1,788 children. By graduation and withdrawal 

 these have been reduced to 527, and it is esti- 

 mated by Sept. 1, 1893, the number will not ex- 

 ceed 400. 



An investigation into the management of the 

 soldiers' orphans' schools by the syndicate that 

 had charge of them before they were organized 

 under the care of the State commission has been 

 dragging for more than a year. There were 4 

 schools under the charge of the syndicate. The 

 State paid $150 annually for each child ten years 

 of age or over, and $115 for each one under that 

 age. Charges were made that the children were 

 badly fed and had insufficient care, in order to 

 yield a large profit to the syndicate. 



Reformatory. The brush factory and the 

 carpenter shop at the Huntingdon Reformatory 

 were destroyed by fire on Aug. 14, supposed to 

 have been intentionally set on fire by some in- 

 mate. The loss was estimated at $40,000. There 

 were about 450 inmates. 



An investigation was made during the year 

 into charges of cruelty and excessive punish- 

 ments at the Reformatory, and the charges were 

 not sustained, 



The Fisheries. The report of the State Fish 

 Commission shows a great increase in the output 

 of shad from the Delaware river during,the years 

 1890 and 1891. In 1881 the value of the 'shad 

 caught in this river was $80,000. In 1890 it was 

 seven or eight times that amount. There has 

 been also a very large increase in the output of 

 trout fry. from' 300.000 in 1885 to 2,500,000 in 

 1881 : and yet, with all .this increase, the supply 

 is largely exceeded by the demand. Last year 

 applications were received for 4,000,000 fry, and 

 this year bids fair to reach 5,000,000, or double 

 the output. 



The National Guard. The year 1892 pre- 

 sented the first occasion when the entire force of 

 the National Guard has been called out for the 

 suppression of strife and violence, in the State 

 since it was reorganized in 1878. It was in serv- 

 ice in connection with the Homestead troubles 



ninety-five days. The local military companies 

 were placed in charge of Oil City and Titusville 

 at the time of the flood and fire, in order to pro- 

 tect the inhabitants and their property, and re- 

 store order. 



The Adjutant-General's report says the aggre- 

 gate strength of the Guard, Nov. 30, was 8,493, a 

 gain of G5 during the year. 



Applications for permission to raise .companies 

 of infantry, cavalry, and artillery are constantly 

 received. If all were accepted the strength of 

 the Guard could easily be doubled. 



The division now contains 6,507 qualified 

 marksmen, an increase over last year of 753. 



The World's Fair Exhibit A report of 

 the Executive Committee, in December, showed 

 the total number of applications for space so far 

 made to be 1,088. A statement of all expendi- 

 tures made thus far was presented, together with 

 an itemized estimate of the probable cost of 

 Pennsylvania's exhibit, which shows there will 

 be a balance of $24,800 of the original $300,000 

 appropriated. 



The following is from a statement made by 

 the chairman in reference to the building : 



We can get through and make a highly creditable 

 exhibit on the $100,000 appropriated to collecting, 

 transporting, and installing the work of these various 

 departments ; at the same time we could spend more 

 to advantage and with credit to the State. There 

 will be a great many valuable treasures and articles 

 belonging to the State at the close of the exposition, 

 which it is my earnest wish to use as a nucleus for 

 a museum, which should be built here at the capital 

 of the State. 



Among the institutions to which space has 

 been allotted are the University of Pennsylvania, 

 Bryn Mawr College, the Manual Training School, 

 the Drexel Institute, the Philadelphia School of 

 Design for Women, the School of Industrial Art, 

 Girard College, and the Woman's School of Art 

 Needlework. 



Girard College has in preparation a model of 

 the original building, surrounded by those of 

 more recent date, in addition to other valuable 

 exhibits. 



Railroads. The latest report at hand of the 

 Secretary of Internal Affairs gives the following 

 summaries of statistics of railroads : Total length 

 of roads reported was 11,784'78 miles, an in- 

 crease of 903-33 since the last report. The actual 

 combined length of lines within the State bound- 

 aries is not far from 9.000 miles. The capital 

 stock paid in for the year ending June 30, 1890, 

 was $799.987,217.65, and for the following year 

 $859,535,920.82, an increase of $59,548,703.17. 

 For the year previous the capital stock per mile 

 of road was $73,559. Returns this year have re- 

 duced this amount to $72,936.10 per mile. The 

 funded debt now amounts to $918,771,209.62, or 

 $77.906.25 per mile of road. Last year the fund- 

 ed indebtedness was shown to be $880,589,509.72, 

 or $80.976.31 per mile. To ascertain the entire 

 capitalization of the roads the funded debt and 

 capital stock are added together, and the sum is 

 $1,778,307,130.44, or a capitalization of $150,- 

 898.71 per mile. As shown by the reports of 

 railway interests in the United States to the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission, the capitaliza- 

 tion is $60,340 per mile, making the capitaliza- 

 tion in Pennsylvania $90,558.71 more per mile 



