UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (MASSACHUSETTS.) 



ton and Albany bonds, a part of the investment, 

 matured and were paid. Other investments in 

 time securities are constantly maturing, so that 

 on Nov. 5 there was $871,288.43 of the fund in 

 cash, producing only 2 per cent, per annum. 



The deputy chief of the district police asks 

 for the fire marshal's department $21,800, an 

 increase of $1,000 for traveling expenses and of 

 s si H I for additional stenographer; for the district 

 police proper the chief asks $104,100. an increase 

 of $500. Judge Dewey. for the bar examiners, 

 asks $1,500. as last year; the State Board of 

 Charity $526.!)00, an increase of $15,800. 



Education. The number of illiterates in the 

 State reported by the census of 1900 was 134,043. 

 In the percentage of children from ten to fourteen 

 who were able to read and write Massachusetts 

 stood ninth in the list of States and Territories, 

 with 99.33 per cent. In 1890 it stood second, with 

 '.''.'.17 per cent. 



Caroline Hazard succeeds Alice Freeman Palm- 

 er (deceased) as member of the State Board of 

 Education. 



The enrolment at Harvard for 1902-'03 shows 

 534 instructors and 4,201 students. The propor- 

 tion of instructors to students is greater than 

 ever. There are 120 more students than in the 

 year preceding, and 51 more instructors. Count- 

 ing Radcliffe College and the Summer School, the 

 total number of persons enrolled for instruction 

 in 1902 is 5,206. The Law School shows its usual 

 steady gain in number of students, this year's 

 total being 640. The requirement of a college 

 degree as a qualification for admission to the 

 Medical School, the full force of which is felt this 

 year for the first time, results in a decrease of 

 about 50, 445 men being registered. The Dental 

 School shows an increase, with 112 students. 

 The Graduate School has 316 students, against 

 312 last year. The Theological School remains 

 as before, and the Bussey Institute; or Agricul- 

 tural School, registers an increase of one. The 

 catalogue notes the opening of two museums 

 the geological section of the University Museum 

 and the new Germanic Museum. 



Harvard has a new hospital, the Stillman In- 

 firmary, opened in September. It is the gift of 

 .lames Stillman, of New York, and is as nearly 

 complete and modern as any hospital in the 

 United States. 



A gift of $250,000 from Mrs. Collis P. Hunting- 

 ton in March completes an aggregate of nearly 

 $3,000,000 for the enlargement and endowment of 

 the Harvard Medical School. 



Funds have been collected for a building at 

 Radcliffe to serve as a home for the use during 

 college hours of the day-students who come from 

 the various parts of the city and vicinity. The 

 fund is at present about $125,000. The house is 

 to be known as the Elizabeth Gary Agassiz Hall. 



Tufts College celebrated its fiftieth anniversary 

 in April. There were 903 men ana women cata- 

 logued in 1901-'02, and 141 degrees were conferred 

 in course in June. 



Simmons College, provided for in the will of 

 John Simmons, a Boston merchant who died 

 about forty years ago. leaving for the purpose 

 property now amounting to more than $2,500". - 

 000, was opened in Boston in October with about 

 120 women as students. It has as yet no perma- 

 nent home. Four lines of instruction are opened 

 household economics, secretarial, library, and 

 scientific courses. For entrance a high-school 

 education or its equivalent is required. The sec- 

 retarial courses, whieli are now the most popular, 

 give instruction in modern languages, history, 

 stenography, and typewriting. 



Banks. At the beginning of the year there' 

 were 18(5 savings-banks in the State, with 1 ..">'. i:!.- 

 640 depositors, and deposits aggregating $5liU,- 

 000,000. The Central National Bank ot Boston 

 closed its doors Nov. 14, the Comptroller of the 

 Currency having ordered the Bank Examiner to 

 take charge of its business. The closing is said 

 to be due to excess loans and a lack of quick 

 assets. No dishonesty was charged. 



A final dividend was paid in December to the 

 creditors of the Globe National Bank. 



Building and Loan Associations. There are 

 of these 128 in the State, with 74,771 members 

 and assets amounting to $28,674,207. 



Industries and Products. The value of 

 farms in the State in 1900 was given as $!">:>.- 

 646,704. Only 95 acres were devoted to wheat 

 in 1899; dairying and market gardening have in- 

 creased in late years, and also the cultivation of 

 fruit. 



The wooded area is estimated at 4.200 square 

 miles. 



The value of manufactured products in 1900 

 was about $1,035,000,000. The value of cotton 

 manufactures, exclusive of . cotton small wares. 

 was $110,478,327. The capital invested was $1.V>.- 

 761,193, and the number of looms 179,280. For 

 cotton small wares the figures were: Capital, 

 $528,258; value of products, $646,848; looms. 302. 



In the value of woolen manufactures Massa- 

 chusetts stood first among the States, with a 

 value of $81,041,537. 



In 1901 the number of textile mills added to 

 those of the State was 4, with 134 looms and 

 30,000 spindles. 



Peabody. The Historical Society of Peabody 

 has erected a monument to the memory of John 

 Proctor, of that place, who was hanged a> a 

 wizard on Gallows Hill, Salem, Aug. 19, Iti!i2. 

 Proctor's wife and children were prosecuted at 

 the same time, but escaped death. The monu- 

 ment consists of a boulder bearing, a tablet. 



Boston. The number of immigrants to this 

 country through the port of Boston in the yen- 

 ending July 1, 1902, was 41,462. The great e-t 

 number ever admitted in one year into this port 

 was 52,416, in 1882. In the year ending July 1, 

 1901, the port admitted 29,998. 



In December the Dominion Line established 

 direct service with ports on the Mediterranean, 

 and this is held accountable in large measure tor 

 the increase of immigration. 



By the report of an expert on the municipal 

 finances, it appears that the cost of admin; 

 tion in Boston is greater than that of any other 

 city in this country. The total expenditures per 

 capita exceed those of New York by 18A per 

 cent., and exceed those of the average of 10 cities 

 by 172 per cent. These 10 cities are Chicago. 

 Philadelphia, St. Louis, Baltimore, Cleveland, 

 Buffalo, Milwaukee, Providence, Indianapolis. 

 and Kansas City. Some reason* are given to 

 show that a part, at least, of this disparity i- 

 rather apparent than real. For instance. Boston. 

 unlike many other cities, does not, as a rule. 

 charge the cost of street improvements and 

 other public works wholly on abutting property, 

 but pays for them from the general tax levy. 

 Hence the great cost of streets $2..11. compared 

 with '40 cents in the 10 cities named. AIM in. 

 the cost of ferries and bridges is due to the i;eo- 

 graphieal position of the city. The great. : 

 penditnrc for charities and that for streel clean- 

 ing may indicate greater relief and better sani- 

 tation, or they may indicate more expensive ad- 

 ministration. 



At the November election the question of ac- 



