1857*1U. of Chicago...... Chicago, Ill. 1864*1U. of Denver...... Univ. Park, Col.. Bellevue, Neb..... 1785 U. of Georgia....... Athens, Ga.. Laramie, Wyo. Collegeville, Penn.... EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS OF 1896. (From report of W. T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education, for fiscal year ended June 30, 1897.) The above table is supplemented with the following statistics of totals of other institutions in the United States. 360 58 04 45 89 27 45 273 380,493 State or Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut 1,008.25 Delaware 317.77 Florida 2,999.81 Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas 5,101.59 1,085.28 10,649.28 6,395.28 8,513.37 8,812.03 Kentucky Louisiana 2,105.82 2,235.99 RAILROAD STATISTICS. Missouri Mileage. June 30, June 30, was $10,566,865,771, which shows that the railways of the United States are capitalized at $59,610 per mile. The number of passengers carried during the year was 511,772,737, being an increase of 4,351,375 Reas compared with the previous year. to ducing this it mile passengers per 3,700.59 3,728.61 would show, as per the reports of the rail2,544.22 2,554.50 ways, that the number of passengers carried one mile was 13,049,007, 233, being an 4,853.26 5,055.31 4,550.95 4,590.14 increase of 860,560,962 as compared with The number of tons of freight re1,008.30 1895. 317.42 ported by the carriers was 765,891,385, be3,125.65 ing an increase of 69,130,214 tons over that 5,335.36 of 1895. The number of employes killed 1,085.34 during the year was 1,861, and the number 10,725.97 injured was 29,969. The number of pas6,373.26 sengers killed was 181, and the number in8,521.05 jured 2,873. 8,846.58 3,033.94 3,025.13 CIVIL WAR STATISTICS. 1,724.87 The following, giving the number of per1,300.42 sons in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps 2,121.46 in the war of 1861-'65, is taken from the 7,818.39 latest revised reports of the Government: 2,845.34 Territories, etc. of army. | marines. troops. 5,557.58 Nevada 915.62 915.62 Alabama 2,556 New-Jersey 2,215.62 2,220.21 California 15,725 New-York 8,102.81 8,127.00 Colorado 4,903 51,937 206 Delaware Pennsylvania 9,751.39 9,919.57 Rhode Island 1,811 South Carolina 2,635.76 2,616.35 Indiana 193,748 South Dakota 2,798.30 2,801.41 Iowa Tennessee 3,110.48 3,091.15 Kansas 18,069 2,080 1,374.55, Louisiana 5,224 33,995 3,925 8,718 Washington Wisconsin 2,840.18 2,836.70 Massachusetts West Virginia 1,993.74 2,063.70 Michigan 6,050.93 6,166.18 Minnesota 23,913 3 104 The miles of railway lines constructed reflect, as compared with square miles of territory and population, the rate of development in railway facilities since 1890. Thus in the year 1890 there were 5.51 miles of line for each 100 square miles of territory, which was increased to 6.15 miles of line per 100 square miles of terIn 1890 there were 26.05 ritory in 1896. miles of line per 10,000 inhabitants, as against 26.00 miles in 1896. The total number of locomotives in the employ of the railways of the United States on June 30, 1896, was 35,950, and the total numberof cars in the service of the railways was 1,297,649. The number of persons employed was 826,620, a decrease of 46,982 as compared with 1895. The amount of railway capital, excluding current liabilities, New-York 409,561 35, 164 4,125 North Carolina. 3,156 304,814 3,274 5,092 1,810 315,017 14,307 8,612 Rhode Island. 19,521 1,878 1,837 31,092 1,965 32,549 |