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wear, 1,413; white goods, 675; artificial flowers, 

 870; feathers, 138; millinery, 436; hats and caps, 

 424; suspenders, 132; furs and fur goods, 366. 

 Of the total number of workers whose sex was 

 stated, 27,409 were males and 42,781 females; in 

 New York city the proportion of women was 

 smaller 27,859, compared with 20,896 men. The 

 number of licenses revoked for illegal manufac- 

 ture was 793. In 322 instances it was necessary 

 to attach the tag " tenement-made " to goods that 

 were being made under conditions prescribed by 

 the law. 



Prisons. In his annual report for the year 

 ending Sept. 30, Cornelius V. Collins, Superin- 

 tendent of Prisons, says, with reference to the 

 State prisons in Sing Sing, Auburn, and Danne- 

 mora, the health of the convicts was excellent, 

 mortality was low; the industries were pursued 

 diligently and with much more favorable finan- 

 cial results than in the preceding year. The most 

 distinctive change in the method of administra- 

 tion in the treatment of the imprisoned popula- 

 tion was the adoption and successful establish- 

 ment of the system of paroling convicts. The 

 daily average number of men in the three prisons 

 was 3,235, against 3,384 in 1901, an apparent de- 

 crease of 149, but, counting as present the men 

 on parole, there was an actual increase of 147. 

 The separate figures showing the number of male 

 convicts are: Auburn, 1,185; Clinton, 900; and 

 Sing Sing, 998. The death-rate at Sing Sing was 

 0.58, at Auburn it was 0.85, at Clinton 1.60. The 

 death-rate at Clinton is due to the fact that pris- 

 oners having consumption are transferred from 

 other prisons to Clinton. Concerning the parole 

 system, installed in October, 1901, the report says, 

 of 757 initial applications for parole, 341 were 

 granted. Of these, 48 were delinquent, 14 were 

 returned to prison, 139 were discharged, and 154 

 paroles remained good at the end of the year. 

 The results of the first year's operations of the 

 parole law are very satisfactory, and seem to 

 warrant the Legislature in extending the juris- 

 diction of the board so far as to embrace all first- 

 term prisoners now confined in the State prisons 

 and the Eastern New York Reformatory, except 

 those under life imprisonment. The report says 

 that the requisitions for the products of the 

 prisons were more numerous in 1902 than in any 

 other year since the present industrial system 

 went into operation. The volume of the output 

 was $542,326.11, and the earnings $94,755.03, and 

 the superintendent provided employment for 

 practically all the convicts in the prisons. 



Canals. The canals are under the charge of 

 the Superintendent of Public Works, and the in- 

 cumbent during the year was Charles S. Boyd. 

 The failure of the Legislature to take favorable 

 action on the canal bills left the condition of these 

 waterways as they were a year ago. At a con- 

 ference of the leaders of the dominant party in 

 New York city in December it was agreed that 

 the inner or Buffalo canal route should be recom- 

 mended to the Legislature for 1903. It is esti- 

 mated that the cost of improving the State 

 waterways for a 9-foot 1,000-ton barge canal will 

 be about $80,000,000. According to Superintend- 

 nt Boyd's report, the opening of the canals in 

 1902 was earlier than in twenty years previous, 

 and navigation was maintained until Dec. 4, 

 largely for coal shipments. In spite of the 

 lengthened season, the total tons carried were 

 3,274,446, against 3,420,613 tons in 1901, a fall- 

 ing off of 146,167 tons. This loss is more than 

 accounted for in through freight, for, whereas 

 there was an increase in way freight east of 

 84,976 tons, the total decrease in through freight 



was 210,219 tons, the loss being about equally 

 divided between Eastern and Western shipments. 

 The beginning of the shrinkage was coincident 

 with the shutting down of the mines, for whereas 

 May showed an increase in tonnage, in June 

 there was a shrinkage from 522,980 tons in 1901, 

 to 392,960 tons for 1902. There continued to be 

 a falling off in coal shipments until November. 

 There was a total decrease in six months of 400,- 

 109 tons. The settlement of the strike and the 

 resumption of mining was directly reflected in 

 shipments, the increase in coal shipments for 

 November over the normal shipments of 1901 

 being 24,085 tons. 



Railroads. This department is cared for by 

 three commissioners, each of whom serves five 

 years and receives a salary of $8,000. Their an- 

 nual report for 1901 shows the length of electric 

 lines of railroad in New York State to have been 

 increased by 117.83 miles; 34 new street-railroad 

 companies were incorporated, with an aggregate 

 length of proposed railroad of 530| miles, and 

 steam-surface railroads increased their mileage 

 from 28,843.30 miles to 32,119.42. The main lines 

 of railroad were increased from 15,664.23 to 17,- 

 518.05. The passengers carried in New York 

 State were 81,909,000; the freight earned ia 

 New York State was 123,561,749 tons; the traia 

 mileage was 191,487,808. The percentage of oper- 

 ating expenses to gross earnings increased froia 

 66.99 in 1892 to 69.52 in 1896 and back to 68.80 

 in 1901. The accidents to persons were 2,345, rt;- 

 sulting in the death of 795 and 1,550 injured. 

 Of passengers, 16 were killed and 375 injured. 

 The Railroad Commission has among its func- 

 tions the investigation of the conditions pertain- 

 ing to the railroads, and made an examination 

 of the collision in the Park Avenue Tunnel, that 

 occurred on Jan. 8, by which many lives wen- 

 lost and several persons injured. They reported 

 that the New York Central Railroad was re- 

 sponsible for the disaster, finding that the com- 

 pany had been negligent, derelict, and unpro- 

 gressive in failing to take measures to increa-t> 

 its terminal facilities at the Grand Central sta- 

 tion. Also, the company had been negligent in 

 failing to examine more closely into the qualifi- 

 cations of new engineers, and failed to hold en- 

 gineers to accountability for violation of run- 

 ning rules of the tunnel. Toward the close of the 

 year the commissioners issued an order to tin? 

 elevated railroad company, of New York city, 

 to increase their passenger facilities by augment- 

 ing the mimber of trains. 



National Guard. The State militia is under 

 the care of the Adjutant-General, on the Govern- 

 or's staff, and the incumbent during the year was 

 Nelson H. Henry, to whom Major-Gen. Charles F. 

 Roe, the immediate commander of the Guard, re- 

 ported its strength as follows: Commissioned offi- 

 cers, 859; enlisted men, 13,551; total, 14,410. di- 

 vided as follows: General and staff officers. ('-'2 

 signal-corps, 174; cavalry, 355; artillery, 1. :<!'"' 

 infantry, 12,424; total, 14,410. Concerning the 

 expulsion of National Guardsmen from labor 

 unions, Gen. Roe says: "In the course of the 

 year it has been reported that two enlisted jnei 

 have been expelled from labor-unions on arc-mini. 

 of their connection with the National (Juanl 

 On former occasions men have reported that the\ 

 have been discharged by their employers on n 

 turn from duties in aid of the civil authority 

 The welfare of the State and country demand- 

 that protection be afforded to the Nationa' 

 Guard against actions so decisively against the 

 best interests of the law-abiding and patriotic 

 citizen, and it is recommended that, the law not. 



