MONEY IN CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES JULY 1, 1918.

CLASSIFICATION.

Gold coin (inc. bullion in treas.)
Gold certificates....

Standard silver dollars

General stock
of money
in the U. S.
July 1, 1918.

Subsidiary silver..

217,206,560 194,415,104

67,982,601

Treasury notes of 1890.

United States notes..

1,851,130 1,970,414 339,936,233 336,251,854

310,288,511

106,186,350 1,711,411,695 544,749,215

15,343,975 12,699,660 704.137,008 698,632,391

314,339,398

National bank notes..

Total....

6,742,225.784 356,124,750 1,001,303,125 5,384,797,909 4.850,359,720 816.266,721 Population of continental United States July 1, 1918, estimated at 105,869,000; circulation per capita, $50.86.

$20,533,469 916,364 $1,584,717,001 429,521,128 5,203.090 4,049,578,567 3,176,051 7,093,152,380 11,219,296 1,468,986,366 14,395,347 8,562,138,746 6,954,119 13,227,213,168 23,034,463 3,177.047.874 29.988.582 16,404,261,042 ..10,698,452 19,868,270,425 34,997,474 4,767,759,910 45,695,926 24,636,030,335 Payments to

Total income. policyholders. Assets.
Liabilities. Surplus.
$196,938,069 $90,007,820 $770,972,061 $678,681,309 $92.290,752
400,257,603 168,687,601 1,742,414,173 1,493,378,709 249,035,464
781,011,249 387,302,073 3,875,877,059 3,325,878,366 549.998.693
.1,117,860,328 566,386,275 5,536,607,483 4,966,580,921 570,026,562

Com

FRATERNAL LIFE INSURANCE. Claims Insurance Insurance panies. Income. Disbursement. paid. written. in force. 489 $81,628,596 $77,343,460 $64,128.047 $799,626,678 $5.656,453,465 497 128,631,649 110,168,334 92,279,662 1,331,552,713 9,562,511,910 523 146,369,847 130,537,338 107,635,637 1,155,784,564

FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE.
Com-

CASUALTY AND OTHER INSURANCE.

9,162,111,616

Companies.

Payments to

Income.

policyholders.

Yr. panies. Income. Losses. Dividends. Year. 1890.580 $157,857,983 $75,334,517 $5,334,495 1890. 1900.493 198,312,577 108,307,171 8.446.110 1910.597 381,545,814 166,789,763 20.709,261 1916.608 535,753,022 244,812,685 16,972,807

MANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOBILES IN THE UNITED STATES.
[From U. S. census report, 1916.]

In 1914 there were in the United States 338 establishments manufacturing complete automobiles, their output being 573,114 machines, valued at $465,642,474, as compared with 315 establishments in 1909 with an output of 127.287 machines valued at $165,099,404. Following is a comparative summary of the various kinds of machines made in 1914 and 1909 with the percentage of increase. Only two establishments made steam automobiles in 1914, and to avoid disclosing their operations the statistics for these companies were consolidated with those for gasoline machines.

Type.
1914. 1909. Inc.
Gasoline and steam.....568.399 123.452 360.4
Family and pleasure..544,255 119,190 356.6

CRUDE PETROLEUM PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES. Gallons. Year. Gallons. Year. Gallons. Year. Gallons. 8,801,354,016 1912......... 9.328.755.156 1914....... 11,162,026,470 1916........ 12,632,220,636 9,258,874,422 1913........ 10,434,741,660 1915........ 11,806,372,368

TELEGRAPH STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES. [From reports of federal census bureau.] The figures are for the year ending Dec. 31, | Net income.. 1912, and cover commercial operating companies Expenses, total.. only.

LAND TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS. Number of companies or systems...... Miles of pole line......

$4,738

$664,420

General operations and maintenance..
Interest and taxes..

$588,712

$7,826

22

All other expenses..

$67,882

Miles of single wire owned and leased
Number of messages..

*247,528 +1,814,196

Assets, total...

.$10,377,197

Construction and equipment

$1,205,770

$103,536,418

Liabilities, total....

Cash and current assets..

$9,171,427 .$10,377,197

$9,602,570 $18.483

$583,160

$3,956,258

Profit and loss surplus..

$172,984

$$3,431,044

Capitalization-Stock

outstanding,

par

$52,862,425

$39,067,011

Average number employes.

958

$2,740,827 Salaries and wages..

$393,606

$11,054,587

$191,516,700

.$143,910,631 ·
$17,122,592

$29.672.528

*Includes 5,013 land messages sent over a leased land wire by a wireless company doing land telegraph business also.

OCEAN CABLE SYSTEMS (U. S.).
Number of companies or systems*.
Nautical miles of ocean cable*.
Number of messages*.

7

67,676

+5,841,280

Income, total...

$8,469.374

$8,065,798

$403,576

.$104,274,435

$34,741,000

$5,254,329

Telegraph traffic..

All other sources..

Net income.

Expenses, total..

General operation...

Interest and taxes.

$12,175,438

$1,460,733

$23.447.146

$10,163,619

$9,352,670

All other expenses..

$104,274,435

Assets, total..

$3,139,861

$34,741,000

Construction and equipment..

Stocks and bonds, treasury stock,
Cash and current assets..
Liabilities, total...

Capital stock..

Funded debt and. reserves.
Accounts payable..

$2,952,847

$5,516,527 $4,008,218 $1,214,554 $293.755 .$107,583.155 $78,136,115

etc. $16,811,087

$12,635,953 $107,583,155 $55,489,400

$43,549,451

$1,459.797

Dividends due and sundries...
Profit and loss surplus...

$587,229

$6,497,278

Capitalization-Stock outstanding, par

$55,489,400

$3,040,200

1,656

$1,167,014

value

Dividends on stock..
Average number employes..
Salaries and wages...

*Includes returns for Western Union Telegraph company, but no segregation could be made of financial statistics or employes for the cable business of this company. +Number for one company estimated by company reporting.

4

*285,091
74
$669,158

WESTERN UNION

STATISTICS.

INSTITUTION IN WASHINGTON.
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mediate direction of the secretary of the Smith-
sonian institution, who is the executive officer of
the board and the director of the institution's
activities. The institution aids investigators by
making grants for research and exploration, pro-
viding for lectures, initiating scientific projects
and publishing scientific papers. It has adminis-
trative charge of the national museum, the na-
tional gallery of art, the international exchange
service, the national zoological park, the astro-
physical observatory and the regional bureau for
the international catalogue of scientific litera-
ture. The institution's original endowment of
$541,000 has been increased by gifts and accu-
mulated interest. The secretary of the institu-
tion is Charles D. Walcott.

THE SMITHSONIAN The Smithsonian institution was established by statute in 1846, under the terms of the will of James Smithson, who bequeathed his fortune in 1826 to the United States for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." From the income of the fund a building, known as the Smithsonian building, was erected in Washington, D. C., on land given by the United States. The institution is legally an establishment having as its members the president and vice-president of the United States, the chief justice and the president's cabinet. It is governed by a board of regents consisting of the vice-president, the chief justice, three members of the United States senate, three members of the house of representatives and six citizens appointed by

SINKING OF THE CITY OF ATHENS.

The City of Athens, an American steamship, of the Savannah line, was rammed in a fog by a French cruiser off the Delaware coast at 1 a. m., May 1, 1918, and sank in seven minutes. Only two lifeboats were successfully launched and most of the passengers and crew were compelled to jump into the sea in

the darkness. Sixty-seven lives were lost and sixty-eight persons were saved. Most of the latter were picked up by boats from the cruiser. Those lost included twelve civilian passengers. fourteen French sailors, seven United States marines and thirty-four officers and members of the crew of the liner.

MERCHANT MARINE OF THE UNITED STATES.

[From the reports of the bureau of navigation. Data for years later than 1916 withheld by the government.]

Port.

PRINCIPAL SEAPORTS OF THE WORLD.
NET VESSEL TONNAGE IN FOREIGN TRADE.
[From statistical abstract of the United States.]
Entered. Cleared.
423,000
967,000

Year, Adelaide, Aust...1916

Antwerp, Belgium.1912 13,757,000 13,722,000
Archangel, Rus...1915 939,000
Baltimore, Md...1917 2,665,000

Barcelona, Spain..1913

2,641,000

2,015,000

1,383,000

2,824,000

2,012,000

5,299,000

3,402,000 716,000 375,000 4,775,000 4,777,000 8,598,000 8,593,000 1,613,000 1,663,000 1,979,000 1,996,000 5,120,000 5,033,000 2,833,000 3,019,000 12,913,000 13,187,000 1,044,000 1,081,000 1,171,000 1,067,000

Port. Year. Entered. Cleared. 156,000 Liverpool, Eng...1914 11,959,000 10,813,000 Aden, Arabia....1916 2,077,000 2,088,000 London, England..1914 13,006,000 10,453,000 Alexandria, Egypt.1916 1,344,000 Marseilles, France.1916 Melbourne, Aust..1916 861,000 Meji, Japan... ..1916 2,407,000 Montevideo, Urug.1912 1,856,000 Montreal, Canada.1916 1,940,000 Nagasaki, Japan.. 1916 1,318,000 Naples, Italy.....1914 1,014,000 New Orleans, La. 1917 1,448,000 New York, N. Y.1917 613,000 317,000 Odessa, Russia...1914 1,511,000 1,506,000 Petrograd, Rus...1914 2,038,000 1,945,000 Philadelphia, Pa..1917 7,962,000 6,285,000 Piræus, Greece....1914 1,441,000 1,734,000 Pt.Natal (Durban) 1916 2,960,000 3,236,000 Puget Sound, U. S.1917 7,285,000 8,938,000 Riga, Russia....1914 230,000 4,869,000

1914

Bilbao, Spain....1913
Bombay. India...1916
Bordeaux, France.1916
Boston, Mass....1917
Boulogne, France. 1916
Bremen, Germany.1913
Bremerhaven, Ger.1913
Buenos Aires, Arg.1912
Calcutta, India...1916
C. Town, U.of S.A.1916
Cardiff, Wales.
Cherbourg, Fr...1916
Colombo, Ceylon..1915
Const'nople, Tur...1913
Copenhagen, Den..1912
Cork, Ireland.
Dunkerque, Fr.....1916
Fiume, Austria...1912
Fremantle, Aust..1916
759,000 Sydney, Australia.1916
Galveston, Tex...1917 1,096,000 1,246,000 Tampico, Mexico. 1912
Genoa, Italy .1914 5,336,000 5,119,000 Trieste, Austria..1913
Gibraltar
6,315,000 6.161,000 Tyne Ports, Eng..1914
Glasgow, Scot...1914 3,012,000 3,987,000 Valencia, Spain..1913
Hamburg, Ger...1913 12.997,000 13,192,000 Valetta, Malta...1914
Havana, Cuba.. .1916 3,914,000 3,450,000 Vancouver, Can...1916
Havre, France...1916 2,642,000 1,112,000 Vera Cruz, Mex..1912
Hongkong-Victoria1914 11,045.000 11,025,000 Victoria, Canada..1916
Kobe, Japan.. .1916 5,709,000 5,722,000 Vladivostok, Rus. 1915
Lisbon, Portugal..1914 9,337,000 9,206,000 Yokohama, Japan.1916

..1914

.1913

57,000 R. de Janeiro, Bra.1916
4,907,000 Rotterdam, Hol..1916
14,319,000 S. Francisco, Cal.1917
3,441,000
3,484,000 Santos, Brazil....1916
3,120,000 2,954,000 Shanghai, China. .1916
1.201.000 109,000 Singapore, Sts.Sets.1916
2,125,000 2,144,000 S'thampton, Eng..1914
736,000

4,347,000 4,342,000 3,192,000

772,000

823,000

5,331,000

1,287,000 1,508,000 2,650,000 2,652,000 8,316,000 8,503,000 6,602,000 6,612,000 4,652,000 4,655,000 1,079,000 1,102,000 1,521,000 1,516,000 3,466,000 3,460,000 5,999,000 7,242,000 1,705,000 1,523,000 5,546,000 5,552,000 1,889,000 1,593,000 1,447,000 1.427,000

1,955,000 2,214.000 1,246,000 1,216,000 3,187,000 3,113,000

Antarctic.

1774-Capt. Cook....
1823-Capt. Weddell...
1842-Capt. Ross...
1895-Borchgrevink

1898-De Gerlache..
1900- Borchgrevink

1902-Capt. Robert F. Scott.
1909-Lieut. Shackleton.
1911-Roald Amundsen..
56 1912-Capt. Robert F. Scott..

Deg. Min.

80

82

16

DISASTERS TO SHIPPING.

On and near the coasts and on the rivers of the United States and American vessels at sea and on the coasts of foreign countries.

N. Jersey.. 2,417,527 Tot. 1916.39,434,797

NOTE-In the foregoing table Colorado in

COAL PRODUCTION BY CALENDAR YEARS. cludes Missouri, Washington, California and

Oregon; Connecticut includes Massachusetts; Kentucky includes Mississippi and West Virginia; Georgia includes Texas; Michigan includes Indiana; New Jersey includes New York, and Wisconsin includes Minnesota.