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for each patient. The following sums for State 

 institutions, in the appropriation bill, were ap- 

 proved by the Governor: Eastern Penitentiary, 

 $124,000; Western, $126,000; Morganza Reform 

 School, $102,000; Huntingdon Reform School, 

 -$160,800; for the care of indigent and chronic 

 insane, $1,500,000; soldiers' orphans' schools, 

 .$361,200; cottage State hospital, Blossburg, $20,- 

 000; cottage State hospital, Mercer, $11,000; 

 State Board of Charities, $27,200; Institution for 

 Feeble-minded, Polk, $247,425; Asylum for Chron- 

 ic Insane, Wernersville, $3,000; Western Penn- 

 sylvania Institution for Deaf and Dumb, $100,- 

 000; Western Pennsylvania Institution for Blind, 

 $55,000; Oral School for Deaf-mutes, $51,500; 

 Working Home for Blind Men, $25,000; Adri- 

 an Hospital Association, Jefferson County, 

 $12,000; Bradford Hospital, $6,000; friendless 

 children, city of Lancaster, $3,000; Home for 

 Aged and Infirm Women, Easton, $2,000; Chil- 

 dren's Industrial Home, Harrisburg, $4,000; 

 Home for Friendless Children, Reading, $2,000; 

 Lancaster General Hospital, $6,000; Pennsylvania 

 Society for Protection of Children from Cruelty, 

 $2,000; Homoeopathic Medical and Surgical Hos- 

 pital, Reading, $5,000; Reading Hospital, $15.- 

 000; Harrisburg Hospital, $7,000; Children's Aid 

 Society, $10,000; York Hospital and Dispensary, 

 $5,000; Training School for Feeble-minded Chil- 

 dren, at Elwyn, $21,000; Columbia Hospital, $4,- 

 000; Spencer Hospital, Meadville, $5,000; Fred- 

 erick Douglass Memorial Hospital for Nurses, 

 $10,000; Easton Hospital, $12,000; Home for 

 Friendless, Harrisburg, $2,500; Wilkesbarre City 

 Hospital, $25,000; Home for Friendless, Williams- 

 port, $5,000; Lackawanna Hospital, Scranton, 

 $30,000; Institution for Deaf and Dumb, $240,000; 

 Oil City Hospital, $15,000; Mary Packer Hospital, 

 Sunbury, $8,000; Kane Summit Hospital, $6,000; 

 Good Samaritan Hospital, Lebanon, $6,000; 

 Home for Widows and Single Women, Lebanon, 

 $2,000; Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, 

 Johnstown, $2,000; hospital for middle coal fields 

 of Pennsylvania, $40,000; State hospital for in- 

 sane, Warren, $45,000; hospital for insane, Nor- 

 ristown, $71,000; hospital for insane, Danville, 

 $70,700; Cottage State Hospital, Connellsville, 

 $15,650. 



Railroads. About 189 miles of track were 

 added to the roads in 1899. The returns to the 

 Bureau of Railways show an increase of 20 per 

 cent, in the number of employees over last year. 

 There were 296,628 employees in the service of 

 the steam railways at the close of the year, 

 against 245,057 in 1898. There was paid out in 

 salaries $143,664,542. The motive power was fur- 

 nished by 10,208 locomotives, and the number of 

 cars in service was 474,492. 



The total number of passengers carried was 

 161,444,854, an increase of 250,922,394 over the 

 number carried in 1898. 



Of the six classes of products shipped over the 

 lines of the companies reporting, there was in- 

 crease in all except the products of agriculture 

 and the products of animals. 



The gross earnings of the various lines of the 

 Pennsylvania amount to $132,869,470. 



The Pennsylvania, Northern Central, Philadel- 

 phia, Wilmington and Baltimore, and West Jersey 

 and Seashore Railroads, and the Philadelphia and 

 Camden Ferry Company, have adopted a similar 

 plan of pension allowances, and a similar policy of 

 age limitation, to take effect on and after Jan. 

 1, 1900. The basis upon which pensions will be 

 allowed is as follows: For each year of service 

 1 per cent, of the average regular monthly pay 

 for the ten years preceding retirement. 

 VOL. xxxix. 44 A 



The total income of street railways in the State 

 for the fiscal year was $22,5(59,256, an increase of 

 nearly $2,000,000 over that of the previous year. 

 The operating expenses of the street railways 

 for the year were $10,519,810. There was paid 

 in dividends $9,133,647. The mileage is 1,493.21; 

 number employed, 12,506. 



Business. The records of the State Depart- 

 ment for 1899 show a much larger volume of busi- 

 ness than was ever before transacted during the 

 same time in the commonwealth. More charters 

 of every kind were issued than during any pre- 

 vious year. The iron and steel business comes 

 first in importance. 



Labor. There have been strikes during the 

 year in Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Hudson, Nanti- 

 coke, in the Dubois region, and at the Homestead 

 works, but all seem to have been conducted peace- 

 ably. Advances in wages^ have been announced in 

 some prosperous industries. 



Lawlessness. The superintendent of con- 

 struction of a coke company at Dunbar was shot 

 and killed by a negro employee, Dec. 19. The 

 murderer was pursued by an angry mob to the 

 mountains and killed by a shower of bullets. 



The Bird Book. The ex-State printer brought 

 suit to compel the Superintendent of Public Print- 

 ing to approve the payment of $55,662 for work 

 on the famous "bird book" (see Annual Cy- 

 clopaedia for 1898, page 619). Payment was re- 

 fused on the ground that the book was not a 

 reproduction of the original pamphlet, as ordered, 

 and the court sustained the defendant. This is 

 not all the trouble over the book. It is in great 

 demand, and the allotment of copies to members 

 of the Senate is not satisfactory, the Attorney- 

 General having decided that the Senate's share 

 belongs to the Senators of 1899, while it is 

 claimed by those of 1897, the Legislature that 

 ordered the publication. 



General Hartranft. A portrait statue of 

 Gen. John Frederick Hartranft, Governor of the 

 State in 1872-78, was unveiled on the Capitol 

 grounds at Harrisburg, May 13, with fitting cere- 

 monies. For a sketch of the general's life, see 

 Annual Cyclopaedia for 1889, page 634. 



Legislative Session. The biennial session of 

 the General Assembly opened Jan. 3 in the new 

 Statehouse; it closed April 20. William P. Sny- 

 der was President pro tcmpore of the Senate, and 

 John R. Farr was Speaker of the House. On 

 joint ballot the Republicans had 164 votes, the 

 Democrats 84, and the Fusionists 6. 



The term of United States Senator Matthew S. 

 Quay having expired, it was in order to elect his 

 successor; but the Republicans were divided, and 

 adjournment w r as finally taken without any choice 

 having been reached. A large number of the Re- 

 publican members stayed away from the caucus 

 where Mr. Quay was renominated, and refused to 

 vote for him throughout the session. The ballot- 

 ing began Jan. 17, and on that day he received his 

 highest vote, 112. The seventy-ninth ballot was 

 taken April 19. The Democrats supported George 

 A Jenks. The Republicans opposed to Mr. Quay 

 voted for John Dalzell, B. F. Jones, Charles Tubbs, 

 George E. Huff, E. A. Irvin. John Stewart, C. 

 W. Stone, C. E. Rice, G. A. Grow, Alvin Markle, 

 C. E. Smith, J. E. Downing, Hugh R. Eastburn, 

 and Messrs Widener and Riter. The contest 

 was most bitter, and was marked by several un- 

 pleasant episodes. The rulings of the presiding 

 officer of each House were in turn sharply criti- 

 cised by resolutions adopted by vote of the Demo- 

 cratic and independent Republican members. A 

 committee was appointed to investigate charges 

 of bribery or attempts at bribery in connection 



