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thopsedic Hospital. Old masters, early Ameri- 

 can painters, and modern painters were included 

 in its 636 numbers, ami it was the aim of the or- 

 ganizers of the exhibition to make it representa- 

 tive of portrait painting of all schools, and espe- 

 cially to illustrate the development of the art in 

 the United States. \Vith a lew notable excep- 

 tions, the contributions by the great modern Eu- 

 ropean portrait painters were unworthy speci- 

 mens of their art. Of the old masters, Mr. Mor- 

 ris K. Jesup's Rembrandt, " The Wife of Burgo- 

 master Six," is the most important. Noteworthy 

 also were Mr. Winthrop Chanter's Lely, "Nell 

 (J wyiine": Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's Lely, "Mrs. 

 Claypole (Daughter of OliverCromwell)"; and Mr. 

 Henry G. Marquand's Romney, " Mrs. Wells." 

 There were also examples of Gilbert Stuart, Hopp- 

 ner, Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Copley, 

 Allston, and many others. Of the American 

 moderns, were represented John S. Sargent, Wil- 

 liam M. Chase, J. McNeill Whistler, Benjamin 

 C. Porter, Winslow Homer, Carroll Beckwith, 

 Thomas W. Dewing, Miss Cassatt, Miss Sears, 

 and Mrs. Rosina Emmett Sherwood. 



FLORIDA, a Southern State, admitted to the 

 Union March 3, 1845 ; area, 58,680 square miles; 

 population, according to each decennial census 

 since admission, 87,445 in 1850 ; 140,424 in 1860 ; 

 187,748 in 1870 ; 269,493 in 1880 ; and 391,422 

 in 1890. Capital, Tallahassee. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Henry L. 

 Mitchell ; Secretary of State, John L. Crawford ; 

 Comptroller, W. D. Bloxham ; Treasurer, L. B. 

 Collins ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 W. N. Sheats : Commissioner of Agriculture, L. 

 B. Wombwell ; Attorney-General, W. B. Lamar ; 

 State Board of Health, W. B. Henderson and 

 James Y. Porter ; State Health Officers, James 

 B. Talliaferro and Dr. W. E. Anderson ; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, George P. Raney, 

 who resigned May 25, when the Governor ap- 

 pointed B. S. Liddon to fill the unexpired term ; 

 Associate Justices, R. Fen wick Taylor and Mil- 

 ton H. Mabry ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, 

 James B. Whitfield. All of these State officers 

 are Democrats. 



The Legislature, which did not meet in this 

 year, consists of 32 Senators, elected for four 

 years, and 76 Assemblymen, elected for two 

 years ; they are all Democrats, with the excep- 

 tion of 1 Populist in the Senate and 4 Populists 

 in the Lower House. 



Finances. The total bonded debt on Jan. 1, 

 1894, was $1.232,500, of which the various State 

 funds held $724,800 and individuals $507,700. 

 The total assessed valuation of taxable property 

 in 1893 was $98,368,014. 



Post Offices. On Dec. 31, 1894, there were 

 1,083 post offices, of which 25 were presidential 

 and 1,058 fourth class. There were 242 money- 

 order offices, 2 money-order stations, and 15 

 limited money-order offices. 



Commerce. During the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1894, the imports of merchandise at 

 the ports of Appalachicola, Fernandina, Key 

 West, Pensacola, St. Augustine, St. John's, St. 

 Mark's, and Tarn pa aggregated in value $1,310,- 

 493, and the exports $8,289.036. 



Banking.- In July, 1894, there were reported 

 56 financial institutions, of which 18 were na- 



tional banks, with combined capital of $1,400,- 

 000; 16 were State banks, of which 13 reported 

 a combined capital of $420,400; 6 were incor- 

 porated firms, 12 were private bankers, 2 \\eiv 

 collection and exchange houses, and 2 were loan 

 and trust companies. On July 1, 1894, the 

 United States Commissioner of 'Labor reported 

 for Florida the existence of 23 building and loan 

 associations, of which 2 were national and 21 

 local. 



The Comptroller of the Currency reports that 

 on July 18, 1894, the national banks of Florida 

 had loans and discounts amounting to $4.()9S.- 

 492; the stocks and securities held aggregated 

 $673.654; the lawful money reserve in the banks 

 was $645,254 ; the surplus fund, $349,904. The 

 individual deposits were $4,917,005 ; the average 

 reserve held was 28'66 per cent. 



Publications. In 1894 Florida had 131 news- 

 papers and periodicals, of which 15 were daily, 

 2 semiweekly, 103 weekly, 1 biweekly, 1 semi- 

 monthly, 1 triweekly, and 8 monthly publica- 

 tions. 



Farm Animals. In 1894 the farm animals 

 and their values were estimated as follows: 

 Horses, 33,144, value $2,200,674; mules, 8,365, 

 value $724,721: milch cows, 114,332, value 

 $1,564,062; oxen and other cattle, 375,981, value 

 $3,111,393: sheep, 112,885, value $202,335; hogs, 

 388,074, value $924,548 ; total head, 1,032,784; 

 total value, $8,727,733. 



Manufactures. According to the United 

 States Census Bulletin of Statistics of Manu- 

 factures, issued March 15, 1894, Florida had in 

 1890 a total of 805 manufacturing establishments, 

 which had an aggregate capital of $11,110,304, 

 of which $3,762,472 represented the value of 

 machinery, tools, and implements ; they em- 

 ployed 13,927 persons, to whom was paid an ag- 

 gregate of $6,513,068 for wages. The various 

 establishments had miscellaneous expenses ag- 

 gregating $1,131,067, used materials that cost 

 $8,021,864, and turned out products valued at 

 $18,222,890. 



Other Industries. The growing of sugar 

 cane has greatly augmented in the State, and in 

 the Kissimmee valley the recently erected St. 

 Cloud sugar works have a capacity of 100,000 

 pounds of dry sugar a day. They make both 

 granulated and clarified sugars, and give em- 

 ployment, on the plantations and in the mills, 

 to several hundred people. The mills are driven 

 by a 200 horse-power engine, and the double- 

 effect evaporating system is used, the plant hav- 

 ing an evaporating surface of 5,000 square feet. 

 The reports of the State Agricultural Depart- 

 ment show that cane is grown and sirup made 

 in every county, and that sugar is made in 28 of 

 the 45 counties of the State. The total product 

 for the year 1892, as reported by the depart inent, 

 was as follows : Acreage, 6,881 ; sirup, barrels, 

 47.273, valued at $524,171.80: sugar, pounds, 

 1,503,650, valued at $65,705.87. 



The gathering and preparing for the trade of 

 Spanish moss has become an important indust IT, 

 and the statistics show that during 1894 about 

 50,000 bales were exported from the State, bring- 

 ing a return of not less than $400,000. 



According to a report from Leon County, there 

 is an important addition made to the industries 

 of the State. A syndicate has purchased 12,000 



