The morning times., 1896-01-26

city. Wilmington, Del, spends but 90 cents
per capita. A vast increase has been made
In the amounts expended annually for
lighting since the decade ending with 1880.
| ChicaGos bills were then S19I ,S05; now
| SG4C,TSi. New York and San Francisco
have almost doubled theirs. New Orleans
has jumped from $4,000 TO more than
| S171,00O. WashiDgton's returns for 1880
| were not given, but between that time and
1890 she averaged Si56,705 annually. At
lanta has increased from $4,000 to $42.-
| TGS. Pittsburg now cuts her murky atmos-
phere with S131, 1886 worth of CLEAN. while
the annual expenditure for that purpose in
1880 was but $47, ,199.
WATER WORKS.
| Two hundred and sixty-six cities, with
| an aggregate OF 6,6S9 population, re-
| ported the total cost OF water works S343,-
| 363,556. The amount of water used in the
| United States was far in excess OF that
| consumed in the old world. Whether that
betokens extrava gauce or cleanliness is
| left to others to find out; but here there is
an average OF 1898 gallOus used daily to
each head of population. Buffalo, Wash
ington and Memphis consumed between iS0
I 20 geo gall0es daily per person. ard one is
| really surprised to find Louisville, KY,
| using T5.
In German cities Hamburg uses most,
but the amount is only fifty-fiye gallons
| daily to each person.
In regard to sewers, indianapolis has the
greatest number OF people to each mile
$500, while, Washington and Detroit have
the least-about 7oo persons. Konigsburg.
MOI t,.sf.
or sewer; Berlin has over 1000; Leipsic.
3, 500. ilii
PARKS OF OUR CITIES.
The Aesthetic eyes OF Americans will
probably scau yery closely the statistics
relating to.QsrkSg They are havens OF rest
for weary workers; outdoor nurseries for
children; trysting places for the much
uniformed -.bHteued" officers of the peace
and spriShtly nurse maids; soft beds for
sly road gentlemen, who scorn all work
except pressing brick" and are the crown
lands-the sole property OF kingly keepers,
who exercise a a.self-satisfying despotism in
bidding us keep Off the grass"
In 2S7 cities the park area is 2.07 per
cent OF the city area. The North Atlantic
division has the greatest number OF i'm
proved acres In parks. II ,003. The South
Central has least, Ills. All the park area
of Washington, 53S acres, has been i'm
proved. San Francisco has 500 improved
acres: Philadelphia, 3.o25; New York, L.
1874; Minneapolis, ,361; New Orleans,
432: Atlanta, 149. Denver has AL acres.
all improved. This city is $500 feet above
the level OF the sea, and to know this fact
is to understand why her parks must be
,t,rf..l f.tl lvalu Ntlny laff
that people can sit in them and enjoy to the
fullest extent the silver lining of the clouds.
Colorado Springs has but ten improved
acres out OF a park area of $50. This is
not to be regretted, for the wild beauty of
Western scenery would be marred by too
much cultivation. Detroit has $50 i'm
proved acres.
All that is necessary to be said on the
subject Of cemeteries is that Philadelphia
keeps up her own reputation for tombstone
quietude by heading the list with 133, as
against 80 in New York.
FIRE DEPARTMENTS.
In 299 cities, with an aggregate of 49,
35S,33S people, we find the fire depart
meDt force with 4O,s56 people in its ser
vice; 1,2O1 steam, and 54 hand engines;
,427 extinguishers and 2,O73 hose carts.
The smallest loss per capita by fire tSl.T3)
was in the Western States. During the
last year of the last decade New York lost
S4,142, ,777-S2.13 per capita; Chicago S2,-
154,34O, per capita, S1.98; San Francis
co, S476 ,695: New orleans, 1858, $50; Wash
ington, Si12,15i; Denver, $4,000. The
smallest loss per capita in cities numbering
so 900 or more people was as follows:
Richmond
Evansville, 32 cents. The greatest loss
was in Lynn, Mass. SS9.S1 per capita; next
to this Is Louisville, KY, S13.51.
POLICE FORCES.
New Yorl's force cost annually during
the decade $4,391, ,766; Chicago's S979,-
S9i; Washington's S399,06O. The aggre-
gate annual amount paid out by the twen-
ty-eight largest cities was between S13,-
OOO, 900 and 81 4, 100000. New York has
1 so of a policeman to each 1,OOO-the
greatest number, proportionateIy, of the
large cities. No wonder New York is Ire
lands Eldorado. Washin gton has to each
900 people 80 Of policeman, and so
per cent of the enc who is divided up Is
always in some other place when he is
wanted. In Denver the people are so good
that they have only 10 Of one policeman
to each 1000, people. New Orleans has
but II. srf
SALOONS AND BEER GARDENS.
1t is to washingtou's credit that out of
263 beer gardens in the $40 cities she has
but g. indianapolis has 10; New York, 27;
Jersey City,. 21.s In the cities Of Massa-
chusetts the highest average alamounts
are paid for saloon Licenses. Cambridge,
Mass, is the largest city which reported no
saloons. The smallest proportiouate num-
ber was reported from Waltham, Mass,
I6 to each 1000 people. Atlantic City,
N. j., had the greatest proportioDate num-
ber, 1885 to each 1000 people. sojourn-
ers at the seaside are evidently not con-
tent with an external wetting. LexiIg.
ton, KY, naturally comes next, with 1891;
then Butte, Monts, 1859; Sacramento had
1928; Atlanta, only 1.22; Memphis, 3.7S;
New Orleans, 2.5S; Washington, 3.41;
Salt Lake City, LA. In small towns the
saloons are about as numerous in proper
tion to population as In large ones.
In the monograph from which these fig
ures are selected statistics of public build
ings, places of amusement, their cost of con-
struction, ETC., are to be found in COM