RAILROAD ACCIDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Employes.

(From statistical report of the Interstate Commerce Commission.)

Passengers. Other persons

Totals.

Killed. Injured."]" Killed. | Injured.'"]' Killed. [Injured.] Killed. Injured.

RIVER AND CANAL TRAFFIC IN 1909.

Upstream traffic at Lock No. 3 on the Monongahela River, representing the maximum downstream movement on that stream, and composed mainly of bituminous coal, aggregated 9,246,556 net tons. in 1909, compared with 7,671,283 net tons in 1908 and 10,280,265 neɩ tons in 1907. The upstream traffic for the year passing Lock No. 1, representing the maximum upstream movement on that river, and composed mainly of sand and gravel, totalled 1,542,810 net tons, compared with 1,271,000 net tons in 1908 and 1,650,051 net tons in 1907. Of the total tonnage 95,292 net tons was made up of iron and steel products, the quantity for the past year being more than double that carried during either of the two preceding years. The river traffic in either direction by way of Davis Island Dam during the year aggregated 3,819,705 net tons, compared with 3,060,089 net tons the year before and 4,021,806 net tons in 1907.

The river traffic on the Kanawha River, as measured at Lock No. 11. amounted to 1,280,087 net tons, exceeding in volume the traffic of the year before, but falling 20 per cent below the 1907 record. The yearly figures of traffic for the Green River (Kentucky), as measured at Lock No. 1, 307,157 net tons, were below the corresponding totals for the preceding two years.

The arrivals by river during the year at Cairo, Ill., at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, totalled 0,722 vessels, of 3,930,177 net tons, this being the smallest yearly total since 1904.

The 1909 traffic figures for the New York State canals, 3.116,536 net tons, while slightly larger than the figures for the preceding years, show a gradual decline since the earlier years. The quantity of grain and flour carried on these canals in 1909, 420,125 net tons, constitutes about one-third of the quantity carried in 1890. The figures for the Erie Canal, 2,031,307 net tons, owing in part to the earlier closing of navigation, were lower than those for the preceding three years. The 1909 receipts and shipments by the Erie Canal at Buffalo, 629,271 and 899,571 net tons, respectively, were below corresponding figures for the two preceding Of the total 1909 canal shipments at Buffalo 16.407,259 bushels was grain, as against 14,404.104 bushels shipped by that route during the preceding year. The relative importance of grain shipments by canal from Buffalo is growing in the proportion as the eastbound rail shipments of grain from that city decrease. VESSEL. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH SAULT STE. MARIE CANALS, CALENDAR YEARS 1881-1909.

years.

*From 1895 figures include traffic through Canadian canal, opened to commerce September 9, 1895. Since 1904 the dates of opening and closing are for American locks only.

COMMERCE OF THE GREAT LAKES.

DOMESTIC RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS BY LAKE AT SIXTEEN PRINCIPAL PORTS ON THE GREAT LAKES, CALENDAR YEARS 1907-'09.

1907.

Receipts.
1908.

1909. 11 1907.

Shipments.
1908. 1 1909.

Net tons. Net tons. [Net tons. || Net tons. Net tons. [Net tons.
| 8,518,407 3,393.079] 9.024.598|| 2,51,527) 1.875,222 3.189.806
[10,944,113 6.988.962 9,075.929|| 5,039,068| 4,526.810| 4.384,677
8.791.289 7,084,255] 8,539,312 2.771,088) 2,007,998) 1,946.211
8.187,099 5,455,375 1,481.606|| 3,612,334 3,521,054 3,154,106
6,581,065 5,386,155) 7,831,603| 653.248 448,718 662,522
1,026,805) 992.019 1,210,128 193.025 167,164 190.135
2,403,013 2,165,865 2,2 5.949||16,746,327 11,298,078 16,495.452
1,347.632 1,718,474) 1,379,452 1,157,536) 984.412
424,396) 470.883 8.949,400 3.613,413) 6.243,752

3,041,881
540.299
2,996,455

2,579,618) 3.128.786)

1,991,285

Superior-W. Superior.
Toledo

Two Harbors.

Total

Per cent of total lake receipts and shipments

NUMBER OF POLICIES AND AMOUNT OF INSURANCE IN FORCE IN ORDI-
NARY AND INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES AND INCOME, PAYMENTS, AS-
SETS, LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS IN 1890 AND FROM 1890 TO 1908.
(Prepared by Frederick L. Hoffman, for Federal Bureau of Statistics.)
Insurance in Force from 1890 to 1908.
Ordinary.

Calendar year. No. of

1890..

1891..

1892..

1893..

1894..

1895..

1896..

1897.. 1898.

No. of policies. Amount. policies. Amount. 1,319,561 $3,620,057.439| 3,883.5291 1,465,450 3,964,491,593] 4,319,817 1,531,231 4.314.204.343] 5,200.777 1,754,303 4.029,774,861 5,751,514 1,868,954 4,765,220,494 6,833.439| 1,940.945 4,917,694,131| 6,952,757 5.054,800.906] 7,388,119 2,201,193 5,329,980,648 8,005,384 2,419,850 5,714,964,251 8,708,4801,110,073,519 11,218,330 6,825,037,770

2,024.927

$429,521,128] 5,203.0901 $4,049,578,567 481,919,116 5,785,276||4,446,410,709 583,527,016 6,732.008 4,897,731,359 662,050,129 7.505.817 5.291,824,300 800,946.170 8.702.393 5,566,166, GE4 820,740,641 8,893,702 5,738,434,772 888,266.586) 9,413,046 5,943,067,402 996,139,424 10.206,577 6.326,120.072

Calendar year.

1899.. 1900..

1901.

1902.

1904. 1905. 1908. 1207.

Calendar year.

No. of |
policies. Amount. policies. | Amount.

No. of

Total.

policies. Amount. 2,820,950) 6,481,154,483|10,050,847|1,293,125,522|12.871.797| 7,774.280,005 3.176,051 7,093,152,380 11,219,296 1,468,986,326|14.395,347) 8,562.138,740 [3,693,702) 7,952.989,395|12,337,022|1.640,857.553|16,030.724| 9,593,846,948 4,160,088 8,701.587,912)13,448, 124|1,806,890,864 17,608,212 10,508,478,776 4,694,021 9,593,008,148|14,603,694|1,977,599.397|19,297.715 11,570,607,545 5,507,759 10,412,078,338|15,674,384|2,135,879,103 | 21,182,143|12.547.937,441 5,621,417 11,054,255,524|16,872,583|2,309,754,235 |22,494,000] 13,364,009,750 5,792.956 11,253. 194.07717,841.396|2,453.616,207 23,634,352|13.706,810,284 5,945,780 11,486,518.261| 18,849,357|2,577.896.941|24,795,137) 14,064,415,202 [6,164.730|11,850,032,58119,687,675 2,668,919,696|25,852.405 14,518,952,277 Income, Payments, Assets, Etc., from 1890 to 1908.

$92,290.752

213.444.589

97,026.344

840,579.127

740,226,450
802,677,076

100.352.677

116.664.955

304.945,675 139.405,708

325.452,134

1.344.903, 198

146.804.522|

365,368,002

159,987,686)

NUMBER AND AMOUNT OF POLICIES IN FORCE, ASSETS, LIABILITIES
AND SURPLUSES OF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES REPORTING
TO THE N. Y. STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, 1885-1909.

6,355.288,330 1.576.334.673 1.351.932.067] 224,402,606

6.947,096,609 1.723,737.723 7,572 802,805 1,879.624.564 8.440.713.352) 2.062,430.804 9.241.273.431| 2.226.423.202 10,028,090,981) 2,454,669,486] 10 553.839.955 2,651.316.714 45,398.449 +10,613,333,644 2.851.910,924 2.625,657.071/*226.253.853 45.324.517410.404,726,638) 2.917.908.918) 2.771.917.717145.991.201 |45,437,007|+10,553,957,857| 3,204.193.351| 2.978,056.2771*226,137.074 +5.757,447 +11.110.457.172 3.467,474,821| 3.293,868,289 | *173,606,532

5.306,1010

Includes "special funds," see Table. III. "Paid-for basis."

1,55.459.781 158.277.942 1.571.389,722 *308,234.842 1.734.520.340|*327 910,403 1.907,621.145| 318,802,057 2,097,322 958]*357,346.531 2.289,030,513 | *362,357,798

SUMMARY OF BUSINESS IN 1909 OF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES REPORTING TO NEW YORK STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENTS. New York State Life Insurance Compannies.

Totals

| $2,031,878,877|$1,956,065,901|$273,108,444|$119,888,052|3,107,336

Companies of Other States.

$91,732,132 $83,724,237 $10,547,295

588,865,115]

78,625,027

31,178,880

981,590

380,406

247,898

16,974

2,125

10,080,416)

2,301,724

1,312,824

28,106

4,858,564

1,602,766

540,028

26,828

8,081.028

958,546

730,952 16,669

Etna, Conn.

Berkshire, Mass.

18,140,377

16,750,731

2,336,110

1.435.595,944 1.337.802.387 238.946,591 87,036,909 2,469,923

| $3,467.474,821|$3 293,868,288 $512,055.036|$206,924,961 5,486,731

TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES.

SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES.

[From the Census Bureau's Bulletin No. 102.]

The first telegraph line in the United States was opened for business in 1844. and thirty-two years later the telephone was introduced. At the census of 1880 the telegraph companies reported the operation of 291,213 miles of wire, as compared with 34,305 miles reported for the telephone companies. By the census of 1902 the amount of wire for the telegraph systems had increased to 1,318,350 miles and

that for the telephone systems to 4,900,451 miles. Thus in 1902 the mileage of wire devoted to the transmission of telephone messages was almost four times as great as that used for telegraph purposes. The extent of the systems in 1907 is shown in the following table:

TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS-COMPARATIVE SUMMARY, 1907.

Includes 17,702 independent farmer or rural lines.

Includes 486.294 miles of wire on independent farmer or rural lines.
Exclusive of 7,188 miles of leased wire.

Nautical miles.

COMPARATIVE SUMMARY, 1880 TO 1907.

The following table shows the operations of the telegraph and telephone companies in 1880, 1902 and 1907:

Expenses, total.

ing salaries and wages and legal expenses.

$41,879,613

$34.057,298

$2,653.004

$1,950,282

$564,341

$5,169,311

$4,542,241

5$1,526,114

All other expenses.

Balance sheet"

Assets, total....

$210.045,959 $161,679.579)
T$36.486.446|

$25.939.944
$1,512, 129

$161,603,900 $123.233.075 $75.907,250 $155,0 9.5751 $117,053,525 | 19$66,529,200

$83,004,000 | $49.893,000)

$7.477.083

$65,204,000

$2,651,511

28.034 $17,808,249|

$6.236.603

$45.893,000|

$1,949,150

27.627
$15,039,673]

$4.136,750
(11)
$8.167,493
(8)

14.928 $4,886,128

Includes six operated by Western Union Telegraph Company, one not in regular operation and one which failed to report income and expenses.

Includes miles of wire operated by Western Union Telegraph Company outside the United States.

Not reported separately.