Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-23
sAvINcs BANKS STATISTICS.
The Large Proportion of Deposit
 Owned by HEIll Operatives.

The Large Proportion of DepOsits
 Owned by HEiIl Operatives.
 The figures from the savings banks in this state for the last year show that 50 per cent of the adult population were depositors. The amount in bank per capita of the total enumeration was $164.26, being gain of $34 95 as com pared with the figures of ten years ago. There was an increase of 92, ,559 in the number of depositors during the decade. Last year the total number was 317 ,925, and the amount on deposit $123, ,595, ,159.
 Of the whole number of depositors, 211, ,123 had accounts in the city banks, the accumulations aggregating $S4, ,733,- IF. The minor depositors with accounts running from $1 upward to $1 ,O00, numbered 166, ,661. The total be- longing to them was $26, sos, ,112.
 A prominent bank officer is authority for the statement that not one-tenth of these savings belong to skilled artisans and mechani, 8. Mill operatives, laborers, farmers, and women are the ones who save.
 New Haven with a population of S6,- | GOO, artisans and mechanics being a large element numerically, has only 3S,- 29S depositors and $14, ,358, 1868 in de- posits.
 Hartford with population of 53. 900, the contingent of trained artisans being one of the smallest in the state, shows a depositors roll of 54 ,421, with accounts amounting to $20, ,333, ,172.
 Bridgeport is essentially a manufac- turing city. The total number of say. ings bank depositors is %, ,595, the actual savings amounting to $10, ,110, ,163. This is less than half the sum on deposit ir the Hartford savings institutions. The average amount held by depositors N I,0r ic c1iDhf1U ir fo nf Iora
 port.
 In New Britain, which is manufac
 turing town, there are 6,841 depositorl
 out of population of 19,OOO. Of th'
 whole number, 6,259 belong to the clas
 having each less than S1,OOO.
 Danbury, with it's large colony of op
 eratives, has il, ,242 deposltors. Tn,
 population is practically the same a
 New Britain where the deposits amour
 to .5O1, while in Danbury tn,
 total is $3.787, ,970.
 Meriden with population of 25, ,OOO
 has 10, ,032 depositors, the number beinl
 less than Danbury's total.l The deposit
 also fall below the total in Danbury by
 half million dollars.
 Norwich. which is the centre of ex tensive colonies of operatives, stand next to Hartford in amount of deposit , returned, the figures being $115, ,116, ,7S1 This is S1, 1,7OO, 900 in advance of Nev
 Haven's aggregate, the population no
 exceeding one-fourth of that of the ex
 capital.
 In Waterbury, which possesses th ? largest brass manufactories in the state
 large numbers of skilled artisans ar e employed. The whole number of de 2 positors in the'savings banks of this cit
 is 15,534, the total on deposit being $5 . 159 ,264.
 In New London, which is in no re Q spect manufacturing town, there ar | 10, ,125 depositors, with accumulation F amounting to $5,596, ,976. On the basis of total deposits, Har . ford and Norwich, with comparativel | small contingents of artisans an :. mechanics, rank first and second, rt n spectively. New Haven and Bridgepor a the principal centres of mechanical CT J terprises in the state, stand third an s fourth on the list as respects deposit 2 New London and Waterbury rank alik,
 while New Britain is below Danbury l- Meriden and Norwalk.