The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-01

following is given as the amount of stock of
Bour rye -four, corn, wheat, ETC., in the hands
OF the commission houses, ETC., at the close OF
the present year:-ll6,s50 barrels Of flour;
ZOE, 200 bushels Of wheat; 1856 barrels corn meal:
and 1871 barrels rye -four. The total inspections
Of nour and meal for the past year are officially
given as folows:-426, ,823 barrels flour; 1867 halt
barrels -four; 2479 fine barrels; 22s9 barrels mid
dings; 4774 barrels rye; Ia, ,022 barrels corn NEAL
le4S barrels were condemned.
The following we're the operations of the local
telegraph during 1867
POLICE TELEGRAHH.
Total messages transmit cd. ................. 81 OH
MISSING persons restored TO friends, ........ 2Gtb
Lost children restored 10 parents. 32l9
Police officers summoned 10 Court and Grand 80
Messages notifying Coroner OF cases Of sudden
death and death bv vto ence. .........,...,. 51e
Strayed and stolen animals recovered ........ 15l
Web cles restored to owners. s...,.,.,..,..,... 2gl
Messages Descriptive OF stoe property .... l,2O1
Messages describing new counter tets, and no -
hfving storckeepers OF their appearance. isS
2oSs of the missing persons were males and 677
OF the lost children, 2Ois wero boys, and 1l76 grls
FIRE TELEGRAPH.
During the year intelligence of 4O2 fires was re-
ceiVed over the wires, which were distributed
among the several Fhe Districts as follows:-
First FIRE District. 92 Fifth Fire District. 13
Second ERE District. w sixth Ere DisIriet 26
Fourth Fire District. 10Y
Of this number only 1877 were of sufficient inn
portance to warrant the ringing OF the gongs in
the engine houses and police stations.
Six false alarms of tire-fve from the First Fire
District and one from the Second-were also re-
ceived and communicated to the Fire Depart
ment
These alarms were all caused by unauthorized
persons tampering with the signal stations.
Two general alarms we're rung; one for the
destructive fire at Ninth and Washington streets,
last February, an the other, on the occasion OF
the burning of MerT ok & Sons foundry, in May.
The ambulances belonging to the Fire Depart
ment were called out by signal six times in the
course of the year, for the conveyance of sick
and wounded soldiers.
GAS TELEGRAPH.
Total messages transmitted, 80
The above is brief summary of the valuable
statistics that will be contained in the annual
report of the Superintendent of the Police and
Fire Alarm Telegraph. The statistics we're COM
piled by William r. Helms, ESQ.,. one of the
operators at the Central Station, and are the
result OF several weeks of hard and tedious labor
No department In our city is better managed
than the Police and FIRE Alarm Telegraph, which
Is under the superintendent OF William j.
Phillios, Esq, assisted by his able superinten-
dent Mr.. David r.. Walker.
We must conclude our hasty summary with
something about gas-a subject in which every
body s intcrested:-Thp official statistics of the
gas WORKS OF Philadelphia are not yet completed
for tie yClr 1866. They will be ready in few
days. The "oal purchased in 1864 cost Sl0lO per
ton; that purchased in 1865 $l1'79 per ton, being
tioual cost OF labor was S55,9I5 more in 1866
than in 1867 This was owing to the advance of
wages, consequent upon the extraordinary prices
for the common necessarles of lite.
The company sustained a loss of S250,00
during the year in the lighting OF street lamps.
There are 1900 public lamps. Each lamp con-
sumes 10000 feet of gas per year. The company
have been furnishing this amount of gas at the
rate of $4S per lamp; also including in this
amount the cost for repairs, lighting, eXtin-
gushing, and cleansing the lamps. For this
work the company pay SIS per year for each
lamp.
The entire cost for making one thousand feet
of gas is two dollars The amount of gas re-
quired 10 light the city lamps Tor one year, ac-
cording to Mr.. Bulkley's schedule, is one hun
dred and ninety-hve million feet. But taking
cloudy nights into consideration, the number of
extra feet of gas is enormous. BY deducting the
amount of $l5 from the $iS, for lighting each
lamp, it will be seen that $4,000 feet of gas is
actually furnished for the sum of $33, which is
at the rate Of about $l'33 per 1000 feet, or 67
cents less per 1000 feet than first cost for max
ing it.