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schools can be admitted without examination. 

 The courses of study in mechanical, in electrical, 

 and in chemical engineering have been considera- 

 bly improved. In a more marked degree the ag- 

 ricultural course has been strengthened. A spe- 

 cial building for agriculture is being erected at an 

 c.\ [it-use of $30,000. It will be ready for occu- 

 pancy early in 1903. 



Normal School. This year the enrolment was 

 140, an advance of 40 per cent, over the previous 

 year. The model school is well equipped, and is 

 under the supervision of 2 teachers who are spe- 

 cialists in their respective lines. It has a liberal 

 course of study, including nature study, art work, 

 and manual training, and is thoroughly up to 

 date. In the Normal School the work in each 

 subject has been placed under the direction of 

 heads of departments. Room and apparatus have 

 been provided for thorough physical training, 



irtly through the agency of the Students' Ath- 

 letic Association. The school has a well-chosen li- 

 brary of 5,000 volumes, while a special reference 

 library of text-books has just been established. 

 The principal of the school is Mr. J. E. Klock. 



Board of Health. The most important work 

 of the year has been in the State Laboratory of 

 Hygiene. In its chemical department much at- 

 tention has been given to the analysis of public 

 and private water-supplies with excellent results. 

 Numerous cases of lead-poisoning have also been 

 discovered, and its causes eliminated. In its 2 

 bacteriological departments many examinations 

 have been made for the determination of tubercu- 

 losis, diphtheria, typhoid fever, malaria, etc., 

 which have proved to be of great value. 



Smallpox has existed in various parts of the 

 State for two years, and the board has been inde- 

 fatigable, and very successful, in its efforts to 

 stamp it out. 



The State Board of Health also constitutes the 

 State Board of Commissioners of Lunacy, having 

 luthority to commit worthy indigent patients to 

 the State Hospital for treatment at the expense of 

 the State. 



Charities and Corrections. The Legislature 

 )f 1901 provided for a secretary and clerk outside 

 the membership of the board ; for the return of ac- 

 curate statistics of all pauper relief given by 

 towns throughout the State; that all the county 

 reports should be prepared in a uniform manner, 

 giving certain statistics as to the insane, feeble- 

 minded, and prisoners, to be returned to the 

 "aoard ; for an indeterminate sentence of prisoners ; 

 ind for a State school for the feeble-minded, ap- 

 propriating $30,000 wherewith to establish it. 

 This school has been located at Laconia, and will 

 be^opened Jan. 1, 1903, with about 60 pupils. By 

 thfs action of the Legislature the Board of Chari- 

 ties was put upon a level with the other State de- 

 partments, and its scope largely increased. 



Old Home Week. This distinctively New T 

 Hampshire festival was celebrated with more than 

 the usual enthusiasm by 100 towns and cities. It 

 brought back to the State thousands of her long- 

 absent children, and was an interesting aug- 

 mentation of the bulk of the summer travel. New 

 roads through the mountain passes, under the pat- 

 ronage of the State, and new and magnificent ho- 

 tels are meeting the visitors at every turn. 



Antisaloon League. The principal officers of 

 the league for 1902 are: President, Hon. D. H. 

 Goodell ; superintendent, Rev. J. H. Robbins. The 

 business of the league has been prosecuted with 

 the accustomed vigor. The question of a change 

 of the State policy from absolute prohibition to 

 license or local option came prominently before 

 the people at the biennial election in November, 



and will be brought before the Legislature for con- 

 sideration at its coming winter M->sion. Some of 

 the purposes of the league are to insure united ac- 

 tion in the churches in the cause of temperance; 

 to enforce all temperance laws; to secure ad- 

 vanced additional prohibition legislation; and to 

 circulate temperance literature freely among the 

 people. 



Bureau of Labor. The biennial report of this 

 department for 1901-'02 was issued in December. 

 It reports unusual activity and prosperity in all 

 departments of business, and gives some interest- 

 ing and exhaustive statistics concerning the fore- 

 most industries of the State. In manufactures, 

 for 1891, the cotton interest leads, with manufac- 

 tured goods to the value of $29,143,660; with boots 

 and shoes a close second, $22,988,189. The woolen, 

 lumber, paper, and granite industries have made 

 remarkable strides, the business of each running 

 into the millions, while many other industries are 

 reported as equally prosperous. The New Hamp- 

 shire creameries, in quality of goods manufactured, 

 lead the whole country, as shown by the awards 

 at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and at Buffalo. 

 The number of creameries reported is 50. 



State Grange. The master of the grange is 

 Gov.-Elect Nahum J. Bachelder. Its present mem- 

 bership is 25,109, and it has held 6,000 meetings 

 during the year. Its receipts have been $8,898.48, 

 and the total cash in the treasury is about $17,000. 

 It encourages the observance of Arbor Day by of- 

 fering prizes to subordinate granges for the plant- 

 ing of shade-trees by the country roadsides, the 

 number of such trees desired being 50,000. For 

 fourteen years the Grange Mutual Fire-Insurance 

 Company has been maintained, furnishing insu- 

 rance exclusively to its members. Property upon 

 which policies are now in force exceeds $6,000,000. 

 All losses and expenses have beep nromptly met, 

 and the saving to the insured in premiums sinoe 

 the inception of the company has exceeded $100,- 

 000, as compared with the cost of insurance for the 

 same amount on the same property in stock com- 

 panies. 



There are more than 3,000 summer hotels and 

 boarding-houses in the State, including the most 

 costly and elegant summer hostelry in the United 

 States, and they accommodate 75,000 guests. 

 About 1,200 (abandoned?) farms have been pur- 

 chased by wealthy non-residents for summer 

 homes, who have expended nearly $3,000,000 on 

 their purchases in addition to the purchase price. 



Political. The whole number of votes cast for 

 Governor at the November election of 1902 was 

 79,162, as follows: Nahum J. Bachelder, Repub- 

 lican, 42,115; Henry F. Hollis, Democrat, 33,844; 

 John C. Berry, Prohibition, 1,621; Michael H. 

 O'Neill, Socialist, 1,057; scattering, 525. Repub- 

 lican plurality, 8,271. 



The new Legislature consists of 24 Senators 

 21 Republicans and 3 Democrats; House of Repre- 

 sentatives, 393 members 256 Republicans and 

 137 Democrats. 



The Governor's Council consists of 5 members, 

 all Republicans. 



Constitutional Convention. The Constitu- 

 tion of New Hampshire has remained unchanged 

 since 1889. The General Court (the Legislature), 

 by an act approved March 21, 1901, provided for 

 the election, on Nov. 4, 1902, of delegates to a 

 constitutional convention, to assemble at Concord 

 in the following December. The convention as- 

 sembled as provided, and finally submitted to the 

 people for ratification 9 amendments to the Consti- 

 tution, as follow: 



1. For the prohibition of trusts. 



2. For the extension of the suffrage to women. 



