Statistics of Cities 



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from us, the total being 16 million 

 yards, valued at i}i million dollars, as 

 against less than 440,000 yards in 1904, 

 valued at 55 thousand dollars. 



Leather and manufactures of leather, 

 fourth in importance in the list of manu- 

 factured articles exported, showed an 

 increase of 4 million dollars, the total 

 in 1905 having been 38 million dollars, 

 as compared with 34 millions in the 

 preceding year. In this class, also, 

 Japan should be credited with the chief 

 increase. To Japan we exported 16 

 million pounds of sole leather, valued at 

 $4, 146,428, as against 2 million pounds, 

 with a valuation of about a half million 

 dollars, in the preceding year. The 

 increase in boots and shoes is princi- 

 pally in exports to the West Indies and 

 Mexico, each of those countries being 

 credited with about $400,000 in excess 

 of the 1904 figures, while the total in- 

 crease in boot and shoe exports to all 

 countries was but little over $818,000. 



Other important articles exported 

 were : Agricultural implements, 20^ 

 million dollars ; chemicals, drugs, dyes, 

 etc., nearly 16 millions; wood manu- 

 factures, \2]4 millions; cars, carriages, 

 and vehicles, ioyi millions ; scientific 

 instruments, 8 millions ; paper and 

 manufactures of paper, 8^ millions ; 

 paraffin and paraffin wax, 7^ millions ; 

 fiber manufactures, 6^ millions ; to- 

 bacco manufactures, 5^ millions ; 

 books, maps, etc., nearly 5 millions, and 

 india-rubber manufactures, 4^ mil- 

 lions. 



STATISTICS OF CITIES 



THE Bureau of the Census has just 

 issued a very useful report, Bul- 

 letin 20, presenting statistics of cities 

 having a population of over 25,000. 

 This bulletin contains comparatively 

 few statistics relating to the population 

 living in these cities, but is for the most 

 part a compilation of data relative to the 

 resources, transactions, plant, and ma- 

 chinery of the municipal corporations. 

 One finds in these tables such facts 



as the length (in miles) and the area 

 (in square yards) of the paved streets 

 classified with reference to kind of pav- 

 ing ; miles of sewer ; number of street 

 lamps ; miles of street railway track ; 

 number of school buildings and number 

 of teachers and pupils ; the number of 

 public libraries with the number of vol- 

 umes they contain ; the number of alms- 

 houses and orphan asylums with the 

 number of inmates ; the number of po- 

 licemen and the number of arrests they 

 have made ; the number of firemen and 

 fire engines, the number of fires occur- 

 ring during the year, and property loss 

 from such fires; the number of marriages 

 recorded in the office of the city or 

 county clerk and likewise the number 

 of divorces. There are also tables show- 

 ing the total population of each city, and 

 the deaths and death rates from each of 

 the principal causes of death. 



But by far the greater part of the 

 tabular matter consists of financial sta- 

 tistics presenting the expenditures and 

 receipts of each city classified by de- 

 partments and offices, the public debt, 

 sinking funds, etc. By reference to 

 these tables one may readily compare 

 the cost of government and of the sev- 

 eral departments of government in differ- 

 ent cities. 



In the aggregate the financial trans- 

 actions of the 175 cities included in this 

 report equal in magnitude those of the 

 national government. The total corpo- 

 rate receipts for these cities amounted 

 to $541,624,203, while the revenues of 

 the United States government in the 

 fiscal year 1904, exclusive of postal rev- 

 enues, were $540,631,749. The total 

 corporate expenditures of the cities were 

 $535,804,200; the expenditures of the 

 United States government were $582,- 

 402,321. The national debt in 1904 

 amounted to $895,157,410 ; the aggre- 

 gate debt of the 175 cities, exclusive of 

 sinking fund assets, was$i , 134,578,783. 

 The receipts, expenditures, and debt for 

 the city of New York represent about 

 one-third of the city totals. 



