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general muster was as follows: Cavalry, 107; 

 infantry, 12,084 ; artillery, 392 ; signal corps, 

 88 ; naval militia, 428 ; total, 13,045. With but 

 few exceptions, the percentage of attendance at 

 the annual muster and inspection was good. 

 None of the regiments had 100 per cent, present, 

 but a number of separate organizations did. So 

 did 4 companies (F, G-, H, and I) of the 7th Regi- 

 ment, each of wliich had 103 men on its roll. 

 The largest companies are the 19th, of Pough- 

 keepsie, and the 21st, of Troy. Each has 104 en- 

 listed men on its roll. In the muster of the 21st 

 every man was present. 



Labor Troubles. Matters pertaining to this 

 subject are submitted to a State board of me- 

 diation and arbitration, which consists of Wil- 

 liam Purcell, Gilbert Robertson, and Edward 

 Feeney. They report that during the year the 

 most important strike was that of the Lehigh 

 Valley Railroad during November, of which it 

 is estimated that the cost to the company was 

 over $600,000, while the men lost $300,000. The 

 la^t sum includes $140,000 paid out of brother- 

 hood treasuries as relief money to strikers. 



Railroads. The management of the rail- 

 roads is under the supervision of 3 commission- 

 ers. The present incumbents are Michael 

 Rickard, Samuel A. Beardsley, and Alfred C. 

 Chapin. According to their report, the figures, 

 which are tabulated up to June 30, show that 

 the gross earnings from operations of roads were 

 $234,354,615; gross expenses, $157,128,964; net 

 earnings, $77,225,650. There are 47 street rail- 

 roads operated by the overhead electrical trolley 

 system, and 3 operated by the cable system. 



Factory Inspection. The State Factory In- 

 spector is James Connolly, from whose report it 

 appears that 11,068 factories, workshops, and 

 sweat shops were visited during the year. In 

 these places there were 412,237 persons employed, 

 138,708 of whom were women and girls. These 

 persons were classified as to ages as follow: 

 Females under twenty-one, 48,954 ; females under 

 sixteen, 6,660; males under eighteen, 10,986; 

 males under sixteen, 7,204 ; total children under 

 sixteen, 13,864. 



The report shows the number of children 

 under sixteen employed in 1893 to have been a 

 fraction under 34 in each 1,000 persons, against 

 38 in 1,000 in 1892. 



Banking Department. This is under the 

 management of Charles M. Preston. In his re- 

 port for the year ending Sept 30 he says : 



During the very trying period of the last year, with 

 208 discount banks in operation, there were but 5 sus- 

 pensions, as follow : Tne Canal Street Bank, New 

 York city ; the Cataract Bank, Niagara Falls ; Queen 

 City Bank, Buffalo; the Madison Square Bank, New 

 York city; and the Commercial Bank, Brooklyn, 

 having an aggregate capitalization of $1,608,000. 1 s he 

 Queen City Bank, after having remained closed for 

 about two months, resumed business with a capital of 

 $300,000. Sixteen new banks, including the Queen 

 City Bank, of Buffalo, which has resumed, and one 

 individual banker have been organized during the 

 last year, with a combined capital of $2,150,480. The 

 resources and liabilities of the banks on Sept. 19, 1893, 

 were $251,560,578. The increase of capital amounted 

 to $200,000 during the year. The net increase in 

 State bank capital during the year was $703,480. 



Agriculture. A department having charge 

 of the interests of the farming population was 



established in response to a suggestion made by 

 Gov. Flower last year. The most interesting 

 feature of the first annual report has to do with 

 suppressing the sale of oleomargarine, which was 

 contested by the manufacturers of that article. 

 Armour & Co. brought action in the circuit 

 court of the United States against the com- 

 missioner, seeking to enjoin him from enforcing 

 the law. In the mean time the department pro- 

 cured and introduced in Congress an act sub- 

 jecting oleomargarine and all imitation butter 

 and cheese, upon its entry into the State, to all 

 laws of the State passed as police regulations, 

 whether in original package or not, and irrespec- 

 tive of the interstate commerce law. 



During the year 1,155 cheese factories pro- 

 duced 110,448,691 pounds of cheese ; 255 butter 

 factories, 14.024,019 pounds of butter; and 213 

 factories, where both butter and cheese are made, 

 produced. 5,473,338 pounds of butter and 20,542,- 

 619 pounds of cheese. 



The progress desired in vinegar inspection 

 was not accomplished, owing to the contest as to 

 the constitutionality of the law, which was 

 finally determined by the General Term in No- 

 vember in accordance with the views of the de- 

 partment. 



Canals. The total tonnage carried on all the 

 canals was 4,331,903, an increase of 49,968 tons 

 over the preceding year. It was distributed as 

 follows: Products of the forest. 1,030,604 tons ; 

 products of agriculture, 1,544,146 tons; manu- 

 factures, 66,892 tons ; merchandise, 216,013 tons ; 

 and other articles, 1,474,308 tons; total, 4,331,- 

 963 tons. The amount of freight carried by the 

 various canals was as follows : Erie Canal, 3,235,- 

 726 tons; Champlain Canal, 848,965 tons; Os- 

 wego Canal, 92,634 tons ; Black River Canal, 

 115,877 tons; and Cayuga and Seneca Canal, 38,- 

 761 tons; total, 43,321,963 tons. 



During the season of canal navigation the 

 number of bushels of grain received at the port 

 of New York was 108,962,706, of which the 

 canals carried 43.076,900, or slightly over 39 

 per cent. The cost of superintendence, ordinary 

 repairs, and maintenance of the canals during 

 the fiscal year was $726,087.47. This is the low- 

 est expenditure for these purposes in seven years. 

 In addition, the Legislature appropriated $780,- 

 000 for improvements. These are now under 

 way and will increase the efficiency of the canals. 

 Experiments authorized by the Legislature as to 

 the feasibility of using electricity as a motive 

 power on canals demonstrated, by experiments 

 that were made on the Erie Canal near Roches- 

 ter, that by the trolley system the cost of trans- 

 portation may be lessened at least 25 per cent., 

 and that the increase in speed may be augmented 

 at least 30 per cent. 



Fisheries. The commissioners having in 

 charge the care of the fish interests report that 

 they planned during 1893 to hatch at least 100,- 

 000,000 fry, and they succeeded in distributing 

 over 80,000,000 of the best varieties of fishes in 

 the waters of the State. The total amount of 

 fry hatched and distributed in the waters of the 

 State was 50 per cent, in excess of the hatching 

 and distribution of any previous year. Eighteen 

 million whitefish were planted in Lake Ontario. 

 The commissioners have devoted much time to 

 the protection, and distribution of food fishes. 



