New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-22
THE DIRECTORY FOR 1901.

The New-York City Directory for the year
ending May 1871 is out. The last issued was for
the year ending May l. 1870, and the present volume
might according TO ordinary precedent have been ex-
pected month ago. Yesterday however, was the
first day of its appearance The volume Is larger than
its predecessor by 2l pages The whole number of
contained in it 2O Last years Directory contained
names. The increase s 1914 against an increase
during the previous year Of 3692 But whether these
figures indicate increase Of population or accelerated
activity on the part of the Directory canvassers can be
better asceraned after the result Of the United States
Census is made known This is the th year of the pub
LEGATION Of the Directory, the first number having ap-
peared in the year 1876.
In the beginning of the volume the usual lists Of
those contumacous persons who have refused to give
their to the collector and Of the professional
whose important charge is to help into and out
this world the individuals which compose the pOpula
ton OF this great city There whole page full more
of reealcrants than there were last year. which seems
TO indicate that the public opposition 10 directories is
increasing Those who concerned in such matters
may interested in knowing that tho professional
nurses number 254.
Among the names the interesting family of Smiths is
cor SDcuOus covering pages with about 40
each page increase OF page and half since last
year The plain John Smiths who last year l9 in
number. foot up l49. Next to the Smiths in
bers come the Browns spreading pages, the
Joneses having only half many, and the Robosons fill
Emerald Isle the Suivans seem to be most numerous.
The Patrcks and Michae and Bridgets with the family
cOgnOnen of Sullivan, cover less than three and
half pages and that az the respectable old
family OF JOhnsoDs do. and half page than the
Wiamses. The names which are least common are too
TO mention, though Ii is gratifying TO notice
among them the appellatOns OF SkOg and Jobbns each
OF them being horne by single individual.
The following statistics are compiled from the cot
Register" There 1874 churches in the CITY, divided
among the respective denominations follows 80 BaI
fist, Congregational, Friends q Jewish IL Lutheran
40 Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Epis-
cOpa, AZ Presbyterian, 8 Reformed Presbyterian, 7
Reformed Dutch 80 Roman Catholic, 8 Unitarian,
UnveTsalst, 10 miscellaneous. There AZ asyums
homes for the INDECENT and unfortunate Is hospitals
dspensares and 81 benevolent societies For the ed
ucaiOn OF youth in religious matters there two the
illogical semnaes for legal education there two law
there the extraordinary number of 5medfcal colleges
Of which rank with the best in the world The inter
of general education intrusted to five colleges
and l05 public schools, beside numerous private
Fifteen large public corporation libraries furnish the
people with the classic literature OF the past and TO sup
ply with the literature OF the day. less than
newspapers and 100 magazines are published on Manhat
tan Island.
one singular fact to be observed among these state
is the number OF cemeteries In all this vast city
there are but two where bodies be buried-One,
limited one on SecOnd-st and the other up Humid
redandfitty thst few of the old ONES still remain
untouched though too much crowded with stones ad
NIT any tenants, but most OF them have disap |
before the advance Of business and land specu
ton. In this live city there is no room for the dead
be gained from the statements that there are S4
panies for manufacturing, 152 for mining purposes IS
steam-raroads, and 10 hOrserailroad companies, 80
petroleum companies, and IL telegraph companies.