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UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (CONNECTICUT.) 



over last year of $10,466,052.81. The State banks 

 had total assets of $10,862,446.98. The liabilities 

 were $10,862,446.98, the principal items 'fing: 

 Capital stock, $2,240,000; surplus, $439,850* un- 

 divided profits, $547,250.18; and deposits, $7,484,- 

 578.1-2. 



The trust companies had assets of $15,160,824.10. 



The number of State banks reporting was 8. 

 The number of trust companies was 16. 



Life-Insurance. The premiums of all life 

 companies doing business in the State increased 

 from $309,303,947 in 1900 to $337,911,766 in 1901. 

 The increase of the Connecticut companies was 

 $1,180,546; of others, $18,908,211; of industrial 

 companies, $8,519,061. Payments for death claims 

 and to endowment policy-holders increased $14,- 

 024,471. 



The total of the admitted assets of all compa- 

 nies showed a gain from $1,701,204,685 to $1,858,- 

 241,350, and the Connecticut companies alone 

 showed an increase from $164,021,504 to $171,- 

 674,653. 



The insurance increased, for the Connecticut 

 companies, from 277,719 to 294,283 policies, and 

 in amount from $544,067,128 to $574,590,791. 



Highways. About 133 miles of roadway were 

 improved in one year under the old appropriation 

 of 1899-1900, amounting, with the sums contribu- 

 ted by the towns, to $466,000. Since 1895 about 

 500 miles have been improved, with the aid of the 

 State. 



Industries and Products. Of the dairy in- 

 terests/of the State Commissioner Noble says: 

 " We have 26,948 farms in this State, valued at 

 $97,425,069. The value of our farm-products in 

 1899 was $28,276,948. Of this amount $6,178,000 

 worth was fed to live stock on the farm. All farm 

 property, including land, buildings, implements, 

 and live stock, was valued, June 1, 1900, at $113,- 

 305,580. The oleomargarine made in the State 

 amounted in 1901 to 10,786,302 pounds. 



The pole-rot in 1901 caused a loss to the tobacco 

 farmers of the State estimated at about $1,000,000. 

 Experiments with the shade-grown Sumatra to- 

 bacco have been successful. 



The Labor Commissioner's report gives the fol- 

 lowing items in regard to manufacturing inter- 

 ests in 1901 : Eighty-seven concerns erected 92 

 additions and new factories. This stands in com- 

 parison with 245 manufacturing buildings and ad- 

 ditions erected the twelve months previous by 

 173 parties. These expansions have occurred in 

 36 of the 168 towns, against 59 the year previous. 

 From Jan. 1, 1901, to Oct. 30, 1901, 93 strikes and 

 3 lockouts were chronicled. Only one-third were 

 failures. The totals show that 11,250 employees 

 were involved in the strikes and that the result- 

 ing loss of time was 250,168 working days, which 

 meant a loss of wages to the amount of $375,252. 

 In 684 establishments 104,256 persons employed 

 received an average of $441.53 each in earnings, 

 while the daily earnings per person were $1.50 a 

 day. 



The Putnam House. A deed conveying the 

 historic Putnam cottage to the Israel Putnam 

 House Association was passed at Greenwich Nov. 

 25, the consideration being $7,125. The associa- 

 tion received a charter from the last Legislature 

 for the purpose of taking possession of this prop- 

 erty, which consists of a house and 1 acre at the 

 top of Putnam's Hill on the Boston Post Road. 

 The house will be used as a museum by the local 

 chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 

 tion. 



Derby. A memorial library given to the city 

 by Col. and Mrs. H. H. Wood in memory of their 

 son, Harcourt Wood, was dedicated Dec. 27. 



Farmington. At Farmington, Oct. 28, a 

 building erected as a memorial to Miss Sarah Por- 

 ter, of the Farmington School, was opened and 

 presented with appropriate exercises. 



Simsbury. A chapel in memory of Adelbert 

 S. Hay was given by his father and mother to the 

 Westminster School at Simsbury and dedicated 

 Nov. 1. 



Kensington. A free library presented to Ken- 

 sington by Henry Peck, of Waterbury, was dedi- 

 cated Nov. 5. 



Hartford. A new hospital for consumptives, 

 built on the crest of Newington mountain, an aux- 

 iliary to the Hartford Hospital, was opened in 

 May. 



Waterbury. This city was devastated by two 

 fires in February, with the loss of about 100 busi- 

 ness buildings, involving from $4,000,000 to 

 $5,000,000. 



New Milford. A fire at New Milford, May 5, 

 entailed a loss of $500,000 to $700,000. 



Constitutional Convention. This conven- 

 tion, called by a vote of 47,317 for to 26,745 

 against it, met in Hartford, Jan. 1, with 168 dele- 

 gates, 1 from each town. It was in session more 

 than four months, adjourning May 15. A special 

 election, held June 16, to decide whether the Con- 

 stitution framed by the convention should be ac- 

 cepted, resulted in its rejection. The vote wa.i 

 very light; while the vote for President in 1900, 

 the largest ever cast in the State, aggregated 

 180,118, and the registered vote of the State was 

 207,762, only 31,374 voters expressed their will in 

 regard to the proposed Constitution 10,250 for its 

 adoption and 21,124 against. 



The interest in the work of the convention cen- 

 tered on its action in the matter of representation. 

 The existing Constitution was framed in 1818, and 

 has been modified by 30 or more amendments, 

 Avhich, however, did not materially change the sys- 

 tem of town representation. The act providing 

 for the convention provided that delegates should 

 be chosen on the basis of town representation in- 

 stead of that of population, thus giving the small 

 towns the same control that they have in the 

 Legislature. No radical change in the principle 

 of apportionment was therefore to be expected. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 was held in Hartford, Sept. 17. Gov. McLean had 

 declined to be a candidate for another term, and 

 Abiram Chamberlain, the Comptroller, was nomi- 

 nated for Governor. The other nominations 

 were: For Lieutenant-Governor, Henry Roberts; 

 Secretary of State, Charles G. R. Vinal ; Treasurer, 

 Henry H. Gallup; Comptroller, William E. Seeley; 

 Attorney-General, William A. King; Congress- 

 man at Large, George L. Lilley. 



The resolutions approved the policy of the Presi- 

 dent and favored his renomination ; opposed a gen- 

 eral revision of the tariff; favored the reelection of 

 Senator Platt; favored also measures in the in- 

 terests of labor and supervision of trusts ; thanked 

 Gov. McLean for his able administration; anl 

 said further: 



" We pledge the Republican party at the com- 

 ing session of the General Assembly to a fair and 

 equitable readjustment of the senatorial districts 

 in accordance with the constitutional amendment 

 passed by 2 Republican Legislatures and la?t 

 year ratified by the people at the polls. 



" We declare our faith in the historic town sys- 

 tem of Connecticut, but, recognizing the natural 

 desire of the populous towns for increased repre- 

 sentation in the house, we believe that change;), 

 which shall preserve the fundamental features of 

 the present system and at the same time satisfy 

 all reasonable demands, should be effected, and 



