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ger. The number of arrests made in Manhattan 

 and Bronx during the year was 100,738. Of these, 

 19,545 were women and 81,193 men. The arrests 

 included 12 for arson ; attempted suicide, 251 men 

 and 201 women ; burglary, 793, including 5 women ; 

 disorderly conduct, 16,290 men and 8,806 women ; 

 intoxication, 14,174 men and 4,727 women ; grand 

 larceny, 1,726 men 'and 474 women ; petty larceny, 

 3,382 men and 538 women; murder, 2 men ; homi- 

 cide, 198 men and 6 women ; robbery. 270 men and 

 27 women ; vagrancy, 5,019 men and 710 women; 

 excise violation, 1,719 men and 42 women ; viola- 

 tion of corporation ordinances, 11,333 men and 

 women. The Detective Bureau made 2,585 arrests 

 and recovered property valued at $250,487.20. The 

 bureau secured 438 convictions of criminals, whose 

 sentences in prison aggregate seven hundred and 

 eighty-four years. The police found 186 men and 

 25 women dead. Notice was received of 46 runaway 

 boys and 12 runaway girls. The number of lost 

 children received at headquarters was 2,222 boys 

 and 1,137 girls. The number of foundlings picked up 

 was 95 boys and 76 girls and 4 colored boy babies. 



Education. The board having control of this 

 subject consists of 21 commissioners, who are ap- 

 pointed by the Mayor, and receive no salary. The 

 president of the board is Charles B. Hubbell, who 

 was re-elected temporarily on Feb. l,and perma- 

 nently on Feb. 21. The city superintendent is Wil- 

 liam PI. Maxwell, and the headquarters are at 146 

 Grand Street. According to the annual school re- 

 port for the year ending July 31, 1898, the number of 

 children from five to eighteen years in the entire 

 city was 702,162. giving Manhattan and Bronx 382,- 

 000; Brooklyn, 276,662; Queens, 30,000: and Rich- 

 mond, 13,500. The enrollment of pupils between 

 five and eighteen years of age in all the public 

 schools in Manhattan and Bronx was 270,501 ; in 

 Brooklyn, 163,636 ; in Queens. 24,049 ; and in Rich- 

 mond, 10,145 ; a total of 468,329. The expenditures 

 were : Manhattan and Bronx, all school purposes, 

 $5,926,544.03: average for each pupil, $21.89; 

 Brooklyn, $3,694,615 ; average for each pupil, $22.- 

 45; Queens, $600,000; average for each pupil, 

 $24.10; Richmond, $355,611.67; average for each 

 pupil, $34.49 ; total for the entire city, $10,576,770.- 

 80 ; average, $22.48. In Manhattan and Bronx 

 the aggregate daily attendance of pupils was 36,- 

 233.327, and over eighteen years 15,380 ; in Brook- 

 lyn it was 23,019,422, and over eighteen 154,169 ; 

 in Queens, it was 3,655,964, and over eighteen 

 5,700: in Richmond it was 1,352,400, and over 

 eighteen 1,562. The licensed teachers employed 

 were : Manhattan and Bronx, 467 male and 4,673 

 female ; Brooklyn, 180 male and 3,309 female ; 

 Queens, 42 male and 563 female: Richmond, 33 

 male and 183 female ; making totals of 722 male 

 and 8,730 female teachers, and a grand total of 

 9,542 teachers. In Manhattan and Bronx there 

 were 102 brick and 8 frame school buildings. 

 Brooklyn h.-id 106 brick and 23 frame schoolhouses. 

 Queens had 26 brick, 2 stone, and 49 frame build- 

 ings. In Richmond there were 10 brick and 19 

 frame schoolhouses. In Manhattan and Bronx 

 there were 3 high schools, with 66 instructors and 

 1,282 male and 1,309 female pupils enrolled. In 

 Brooklyn there were 4 high schools, with 170 in- 

 structors and 2,455 male and 4.613 female pupils. 

 Queens showed 6 high schools, with 24 instructors 

 and 221 male and 276 female pupils. Richmond 

 had 3 high schools, with 11 instructors and 74 male 

 and 117 female pupils. Brooklyn and Queens alone 

 were credited with teachers' training schools and 

 classes. Brooklyn had 12, with 1 male and 295 

 female teachers, and Queens had 1, with 35 female 

 teachers. Manhattan and Bronx had the largest 

 number of kindergartens, 35, with 41 instructors 



and 2,643 pupils, quite evenly divided as to sex. 

 Brooklyn had 18, with 1,240 pupils; Queens had 6, 

 with 453 pupils; and Richmond had 2, with 177 

 pupils. Manhattan and Bronx had 34 evening 

 schools, with 601 teachers and 29,552 pupils ; 

 Brooklyn had 16, with 234 teachers and 9,689 

 pupils. The statistics of the department showed 

 that the amount spent was $16,028,801.54. For the 

 salaries of regular day-school teachers $6,959,400.45 

 was spent; for kindergarten teachers, $27,145.80; 

 and for night schools, $211,835.64. The amount 

 spent for libraries was $48,146.51. The sum of 

 $647,979.18 was spent for free text-books for the 

 poor, which is nearly double the total amount spent 

 in the territory now included in the city in any pre- 

 ceding year. The sum of $6,42o,273.84 was spent for 

 school sites and houses. The report says that 39 

 school buildings were in course of construction, to 

 have a total seating capacity of 50,000. The city also 

 owns 22 school sites on which buildings are to be 

 erected, which will accommodate 39,000 pupils. Pro- 

 ceedings are under way for acquiring 46 additional 

 lots for schools in Manhattan and Bronx, and the 

 board has approved the purchase of 14 other lots. 



The success which attended the vacation schools 

 and playgrounds kept open in the city last summer 

 after the regular school year had ended has resulted 

 in the approval of the idea by the municipal 

 authorities. For the coming year the Board of 

 Estimate and Apportionment appropriated $10,000 

 for the maintenance of the vacation schools and 

 $15,000 for the playgrounds. 



Adult education is provided by courses of lectures 

 to the people, which are given during the period 

 from October to May, in the evenings, in' school- 

 houses and halls. Lectures are given in forty-five 

 places; about two hundred lecturers are engaged, 

 eighteen hundred lectures given, and the total at- 

 tendance for the season about five hundred thou- 

 sand. The amount .appropriated for the year 1898 

 for the free lectures is $60,200 for the Boroughs of 

 Manhattan and the Bronx. 



Rapid-Transit Railroad Commission. This 

 body consists of Alexander E. Orr, president; 

 Woodbury Langdon, John Claflin, George L. Rives, 

 John H. Starin, and Charles S. Smith, together 

 with the Mayor and Comptroller, ex officio. The 

 office is at 256 Broadway. On Jan. 12 the Metro- 

 politan Street Railway addressed a communication 

 to the commission, withdrawing from further con- 

 sideration the construction of an underground 

 road as projected by the commission and approved 

 by the Supreme Court. Previously, however, the 

 Manhattan Elevated Railway Company presented 

 a system of extension of the elevated roads^for 

 the consideration of the commissioners, in which 

 it was maintained that the company would solve 

 the problem of rapid transit. The commissioners 

 took expert opinion on the plan submitted, and 

 then decided that the plan was advantageous only 

 from the view point of the elevated company. 

 The Manhattan Elevated Railway Company sub- 

 sequently announced their intention to introduce 

 electricity on their system, and that they would 

 " proceed to effect a general installation with as 

 little delay as possible." Meanwhile a petition 

 was presented to the Supreme Court, asking for 

 some modification of the decision relative to the 

 bond to be required under section 34 of the 

 rapid-transit act. In reply to this petition the 

 Supreme Court, on March 18, declared a decision 

 modifying its previous decision requiring a contin- 

 uous bond of $15,000,000 to be given by the con- 

 tractors for a term of fifty years, by stipulating that 

 $14,000,000 of that bond be conditioned upon the 

 construction and equipment of the underground 

 railway, and that $1,000,000 should be a continuous 





