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Plainville, and Newington the total is about 

 170,000, against 120,000 in 1890. The larger towns 

 and their populations are: New Haven, 108,827; 

 Hartford, 79,850; Bridgeport, 70,990; Waterbury, 

 51,139; Meriden, 28,695; New Britain, 28,202; 

 Norwich, 24,637; Norwalk, 19,932; Danbury, 19,- 

 474; Stamford, 18,830; New London, 17,548; Mid- 

 dletown, 17,486; Ansonia, 12,681; Torrington, 

 12,453; Greenwich, 12,172; Manchester, 10,601; 

 Naugatuck, 10,541; Windham, 10,137; Bristol, 

 9,643; Wallingford, 9,001; Stonington, 8,540; Ver- 

 non, 8,483; Derby, 7,930; Winchester, 7,763; Put- 

 nam, 7,348; Orange, 6,995; Killingly, 6,835; 

 Enfield, 6,699; Thompson, 6,442; East Hartford, 

 6,406; Groton, 5,962; Branford, 5,706; Hunting- 

 ton, 5,572. Of the 39 incorporated cities and bor- 

 oughs, only 6 have fewer than 2,000 inhabitants 

 in 1900. 



Finances. The Treasurer's statement, showing 

 the condition of the treasury Sept. 30, is as fol- 

 lows: The receipts increased from $2,749,273.20 

 in 1899, to $2,876,856.83, a gain of $127,583.63. 

 The principal items of increase were: Military com- 

 mutation tax, from $150,598 to $154,711; mutual 

 life insurance companies, from $283,817 to $291,P66; 

 steam railroads, from $965,502 to $975,143; street 

 railroads, from $138,502 to $157,450; savings banks, 

 from $392,782 to $418,780; avails of courts, from 

 $31,418 to $54,223; insurance department, from 

 $77,946 to $87,114; and succession tax, from 

 $115,195 to $165,930. 



The expenditures were $2,528,514.13, a decrease 

 of $1,766.20. The receipts for the year exceeded 

 the expenses by $384,342.70, and as there is in- 

 cluded in the expenditures $100,000 paid for the 

 redemption of State bonds, the treasury, as com- 

 pared with its condition a year ago, is $448,000 

 better off. 



The balance in the treasury to the credit of 

 the civil list funds was $682,884. 



The funded debt less the civil list fund in the 

 treasury is now $2,108,873.29, as compared with 

 $2,557,215.99 a year ago. 



The State has claims against the United States 

 Government growing out of the Spanish war, now 

 in process of collection. These claims will be about 

 $150,000. The State also has unsettled claims on 

 account of the civil war. 



The principal items of expenditure were: Ex- 

 penses of the General Assembly, $148,355.08; com- 

 mon schools, $440,415.93; judicial expenses, $339,- 

 424.55; humane institutions, $314,943.58; National 

 Guard, $215,330.32; normal schools, $68,747.97; 

 board of prisoners in county jails, $112,682.62; 

 salaries and expenses in executive offices. $38,- 

 417.23; State Capitol and grounds, $45,294.16; 

 State Board of Education, $28,865.88 ; State Pris- 

 on, $64,917.30; School for Boys, $68,195.10; School 

 for Girls, $42,240.82; sick and wounded soldiers, 

 $75,246; agricultural affairs, $48,767.14; printing 

 and circulating documents, $43,973.92; Highway 

 Commissioner, $117,973.56; Insurance Commission- 

 er, $32,459.31 ; interest on State bonds, $104.700. 



Education. The annual report of the State 

 Hoard of Education, submitted in July, contains 

 in its opening pages a revieAV of the work of educa- 

 tion in Connecticut for the past twenty-five years, 

 from 1875 to 1899. The report says: "The total 

 expenditure from all sources on public education 

 in Connecticut, including maintenance of normal 

 schools during the period under review, is $52,- 

 145,677.78; or, if we leave out of account the in- 

 debtedness at the end of the period, the amount is 

 ^48,965,217.83. In the twenty-five years ending 

 Sept. 1, 1899, $5,789,064.72 had' been paid for com- 

 pletion or enlargement of schoolhouses. The value 

 of all school property, including buildings and 

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GEORGE P. MCLEAN, 

 GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT. 



sites, increased from $4,284,401.35 in 1884 to $10,- 

 192,747.35 in 1899. The value of school property 

 per capita of the population is $11.62. The number 

 of pupils on the enumeration lists increased from 

 134,976 to 189,717; the number on the registers in-, 

 creased from 119,489 to 151,325, and the number 

 in average attendance increased from 68,593 to 

 109,951. The num- 

 ber of public kin- 

 dergartens has in- 

 creased from 5 in 

 1890 to 77 in 1900, 

 and the number of 

 children from 628 

 to 6,895. 



" An increasing 

 interest in the pro- 

 viding of school li- 

 braries is attested 

 by the fact that 

 the number has in- 

 creased from 240 

 in 1884 to 771 in 

 1898-'99. The num- 

 ber of books is re- 

 ported to be 158,- 

 073, compared with 

 28,035 in 1885. 

 Since 1875 the 

 State has contributed to these libraries $113,105, 

 and districts and individuals have added $244,- 

 060.99. The total expenditure for libraries has 

 been $357,165.99. 



" The number of teachers has increased from 

 2,613 to 4,085. There has been a great increase 

 in the number of women, compared with the num- 

 ber of men, engaged as teachers. The average 

 monthly salary of men rose from $70.05 in 1875 to 

 $89.87 in 1899, and that of women from $37.35 

 to $43.61." 



By the enumeration this year, the children of 

 school age were 194,817, a gain in one vear of 

 5,100. The cost for each was $24.20. 



The State Normal School at New Britain cele- 

 brated its fiftieth anniversary June 21. It was 

 the sixth in date of establishment in the United 

 States. New Britain, then a parish of Berlin, 

 appropriated $16,250 for a building, and the school 

 opened with 67 pupils for its first term. Only one 

 of its first graduating class of 5 in 1851 is now 

 living. The graduates number about 1,720. Of 

 these about 1,500 are living, about 700 being en- 

 gaged in educational work. The number of schol- 

 ars registered in 1899 was 250 and the number in 

 attendance in June, 1900, was 225. 



There were 18 graduates from the Agricultural 

 College in June, 10 of whom were women. The 

 whole number previously graduated since the open- 

 ing is 166, of whom only 12 were women. 



The enrollment of undergraduates at Wesleyan 

 University in October was 332. The alumni con- 

 sidered majority and minority reports, and sub- 

 mitted one to the trustees in the summer in regard 

 to woman students. The trustees referred the first 

 minority report, after one change, to a special 

 committee, to be reported upon in six months. 

 This declared Wesleyan to be a man's college, but 

 as women had been admitted it agreed that the 

 college should continue open to them to the extent 

 of admitting 15 girls to each 100 young men, and 

 that these chosen few should have privileges in 

 all respects equivalent to those accorded to men. 

 The majority and the first minority reports, how- 

 ever, agreed in many provisions for keeping the 

 work of the man and woman students separate, 

 including careful provision against their com- 

 peting in public. The only change made in the 



