UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (NEW YORK.) 



528.58 was paid to policy-holders, while the cost 

 of management, including dividends to stock- 

 holders, was $103,787,516.88. The New York 

 companies issued 475,088 policies, insuring $895,- 

 333,079, and terminated 227,929 policies, insuring 

 $516,329,117. The companies of other States is- 

 sued 312,059 policies, insuring $574,984,208, and 

 terminated 164,137 policies, insuring $311,973,047. 

 The aggregate is 787,747 policies issued, insuring 

 si. 470,31 7, 887, and 392,066 policies terminated, in- 

 suring $828,302,164. 



Excise. The collection of the tax on liquors, 

 or excise, is under the charge of a commissioner, 

 and the incumbent during the year was Patrick 

 W. Cullinan, who receives $5,000, and whose term 

 of office expires in 1905. His report, issued early 

 in 1902, shows the total amount collected for the 

 year ending Sept. 30, 1901, to be $12,467,674.40. 

 Of this amount the State's share was $4,198,377.- 

 09, and the cities' and towns' share was $8,126,- 

 669.05. The number of certificates issued was 

 30,585, the certificates surrendered numbered 

 3,750. The amount collected under the liquor-tax 

 law from May 1, 1896, to Sept. 30, 1901, was $73,- 

 604,425.93. Attention is called to the fact that 

 the enforcement of the law and the prosecution 

 of offenders rests upon local criminal authorities, 

 as the 60 special agents of the department have 

 no power of arrest, and their time is largely oc- 

 cupied in investigating matters relating to the 

 collection of the liquor tax. Actions and proceed- 

 ings have been brought and maintained in 43 

 counties, and the receipts resulting therefrom ex- 

 ceed $58,000, being $25,000 more than all expenses 

 of litigation. In New York and Kings County 

 the number of places claiming hotel privileges 

 has been reduced from 3,514 to 2,167. The 

 prevalence of sham hotels is shown to be due to 

 local criminal authorities, who neglect or refuse 

 to perform their duties, and therefore is not a 

 cause for criticism of the law itself. Attention 

 is called to the fact that persons holding liquor- 

 tax certificates for short periods in the summer 

 months at summer resorts, fairs, and picnics, and 

 then surrendering them for rebates, do not pay 

 a tax commensurate with the benefits received. 



Education. The Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction is Charles R. Skinner, who receives a 

 salary of $5,000, and whose term of office contin- 

 ues until April 6, 1904. In 1902 1,191,110 children 

 attended public elementary schools during some 

 portion of the year, and the value of schoolhouses 

 and sites was $80,588,083.83. The secondary 

 schools reported 91,583 students, and a total 

 property of $30,725,707.30. The institutions of 

 higher learning, including professional, technical, 

 and other special schools, reported 34,364 stu- 

 dents, and a total net property of $82,931,575.53. 

 In 1902 the common schools and allied interests 

 cost $34,045,785.12, toward which the State ap- 

 propriated $4,929,101.49, a decrease of $93,944.51 

 over 1901. The total expenditvires for common 

 schools and allied interests in 1902 increased over 

 1901 by $30,437.21, while the cost of secondary 

 education in 1902 was $6,627,708.66, or $924,991.14 

 more than in 1901. The total cost of higher edu- 

 cation in 1902 was $8,708,698.01, an increase of 

 $1.132,433.32. In the maintenance of the Univer- 

 sity of the State of New York, the cost was in- 

 creased $23,154.84. The total receipts other than 

 appropriations were $71,847.08, as compared with 

 $44.718.31 in 1901. Through the economies that 

 have been practised, and through this increase 

 of $27,128.77, the regents were able to meet 

 their most pressing needs. In 1902, excluding fees 

 and unexpended balances, the increase in appro- 

 priations was $36,812.13. Reports from New 



York public high schools show that in 1901 $143,- 

 288.92 was paid by 10,888 non-resident academic 

 students. 



Charities. These are under the care of a 

 board, consisting of 12 members, of which Wil- 

 liam R. Stewart is president. Their annual re- 

 port is prepared from the sworn statements filed 

 by the treasurers or other responsible officers of 

 the charitable institutions under their supervi- 

 sion. According to the report, the number of 

 beneficiaries in institutions subject to the inspec- 

 tion of the board on Oct. 1, 1902, was 60,804. 

 The 14 State charitable institutions shelter 8,288 

 beneficiaries. The receipts of these institutions 

 for the year ending Sept. 30, 1902, including bal- 

 ance on hand at the beginning of the year ($66,- 

 577.72), amounted to $1,374,886.21. Their ex- 

 penditures aggregated $1,265,795.01 $994,525.35 

 for maintenance, $244,015.96 for improvements 

 while $27,253.70 was returned to the State Treas- 

 urer pursuant to the provisions of law. The pri- 

 vate schools and institutions mainly supported 

 by State appropriations and subject to the 

 board's inspection care for 3,324 inmates. The 

 receipts of these institutions for the year ending 

 Sept. 30, 1902, were: From cash on hand, $57,- 

 057.15; from public sources, $691,216.42; from 

 private sources, $312,224.06; total receipts, $1,060,- 

 497.63. Their expenditures aggregated $917,259.- 

 63. In the year two special inquiries were con- 

 ducted. The first of these, begun in May, 1901, 

 has recently been completed. This had reference 

 to compliance with those sections of the public- 

 health law which relate to the better preserva- 

 tion of the health of children in institutions. 

 The report says improved compliance with the 

 law may be confidently expected as the result of 

 the inquiry. Another investigation was the mat- 

 ter of examining the records of long-term inmates 

 supported at public expense in children's institu- 

 tions under private control. Of the 4,107 long- 

 term inmates it was shown that the great major- 

 ity are eligible for family life, either through 

 placing out or adoption or by restoration to 

 parents, relatives, or friends. 



Labor Statistics. The charge of matters per- 

 taining to labor is under the care of a commis- 

 sioner, who receives a salary of $3,500. The pres- 

 ent incumbent is John McMackin, whose term of 

 office expires on Dec. 31, 1904. According to his 

 report submitted to the Legislature for the year 

 ending Sept. 30, 1901, the Bureau of Factory In- 

 spection investigated 65,437 places, including 

 4,573 workshops in tenement-houses, resulting in 

 orders for changes to conform to the law in 

 13,445 factories and bakeshops, and in orders for 

 changes in appliances in 12,206 factories. A total 

 of 1,034 complaints were investigated by the De- 

 partment of Labor, of which 631 were sustained 

 and 24 sustained in part, these complaints inclu- 

 ding charges of danger to employees by unsani- 

 tary conditions, unguarded machinery, and insuf- 

 ficient fire protection, illegal employment of 

 women and children, and violation of the labor 

 laws regulating the length of the working day 

 and the rate of wages and methods of paymont. 

 Under the same head are reported the cases of 

 70 employers convicted and fined and 21 convic- 

 tions where sentence was supended. Concerning 

 the maintenance of factories in tenement-houses, 

 the report said most tenement-workers are era- 

 ployed in some branch of the clothing business, 

 the only exception being 5,556 engaged in the 

 manufacture of cigars, 140 on purses, and 105 on 

 umbrellas; 62,030 were employed in the manufac- 

 ture of men's and women's outer garments cloth- 

 ing in the usual sense. Other branches were neck- 



