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CITY HALL AND SOLDIERS MONUMENT IN SCRANTON. 



Photograph by J. Horgan 

 PENNSYLVANIA 



Probably no other city of its class in the world is richer than Scranton. Five billion tons 

 of anthracite in the hard-coal region have been used or wasted, but fifteen billion tons have 

 not yet been touched within a radius of two or three hours' ride of Scranton. Its prosperity 

 is founded upon the civic pride of its people no less than upon its mines. 



sanitarians adequate support can go be- 

 fore the world with a clean health slate. 

 In 1906 the State's typhoid death rate 

 was 56.5 persons for each 100,000 popu- 

 lation. In 191 5 it was 12.2. In other 

 words, Pennsylvania's health agencies are 

 rescuing 3,700 people from typhoid 

 graves every year. 



The same situation prevails with ref- 

 erence to tuberculosis. In 1907, 129.6 

 persons died of that disease out of each 

 100,000 population. In 191 5 there were 

 only 97.8 such deaths — a rescue of 2,600 

 people from tubercular ends each year. 



Through a system of sanitary inspec- 

 tion of water supplies and sewage dis- 

 posal ; through its sanatoriums, its visit- 

 ing nurses, and free medical aid for the 

 tubercular ; through its free antitoxin 

 service in diphtheria and other diseases, 

 and through the employment of all mod- 

 ern agencies for keeping the peopie free 



from contagion, the State has won the 

 lasting gratitude of its citizens for the 

 lonsrer, better, and healthier lives it is en- 



abling them to live. 



MILLIONS OP SPPDPING TRLLS PLANTED 



Only threescore years ago Pennsylva- 

 nia was richly provided with forests. A 

 former commissioner of forestry relates 

 how in his youth he traveled through al- 

 most unbroken forests of splendid trees 

 from the mouth of the Sinnamahoning 

 to the Allegheny River at Warren — 75 

 miles — and also from Clearfield via St. 

 Marys to Smethport — 60 miles. In his 

 day, he says, he has seen one-seventh of 

 the total area of the Commonwealth cut 

 over and made barren and desolate. 



Aroused to the necessity of saving her 

 upland soils by restoring to the bare hills 

 and mountain sides the trees that thought- 

 less industry removed, the State organ- 



