The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-27


share. The Third National Bank is
the next largest institution of the kind
In the CITY, 1t has a capital of $4,000
and surplus Of s40s,000 The last sale
of this stock was at $500 per share.
| The Traders National Bank Is one of
the youngest banks in this city, and
has a capital of s2500O0, and sur
| plus of $4,000. They have re-
| cenly erected n handsome seven-story
| steel bank building. The entire first
| floor Is occupied by the bank and the
balance of the building is utilized for
| offices. 1t Is considered one of the fin
est buildings in the city. The Lacka-
wanna Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany, do a large banking business, and
| in addition have a series OF safe de-
| posit vaults Of the latest and most
| improved design. These vaults are
absolutely burglar and fire proof. The
| capital of this bank is $3.50, 900, surplus
| $95.721. The Dime Deposit and Dis
| count Bank. has capital of 100000
| surplus $50, 900; the Merchants' and
| Mechanics Bank, capital S250,000, sur
| plus $4,000; the Scranton Savings
Bank, capital 100000, surplus s131, $50;
| the Scranton Savings Bank and Trust
| Company, capital $4,000, surplus $751;
600; and the West Side Bank, capital
100000, surplus $24,S00. The combined
capital Of the Scranton banks is 81 ,430,
900, and surplus and undivided profits
Of $1,921 900.
There is published in the city of
Scranton, thirty-three news papers,
four of which have daily editions. The
balance are weekly and monthly pub
| lications. The Scranton Republican
is the oldest paper, 1t was estab-
lished as a weekly in 1856, 2nd as a
daily paper in 1867. The Scranton
Times was established in 1868; the
Scranton Truth in 1854 and the Scran-
ton Tribune in 1891. The Republican
and Tribune are Republican in politics;
the Times is Democratic and the
Truth is an Independent paper. In ad-
dition to the above daily papers. is the
| Courier Progress, Dunmore Pioneer,
Index, Industrial News, Lackawanna
Legal News, North End Item, Provi-
dence Register, Scranton Sonnebend
Journal. Scranton Volksgeitung, Scran-
ton Wochenblatt, Scranton Free Press,
| Sunday World, Sunday News and Ty-
godnik Pennsylvanslii all weekly pub
lications; Calvery Tidings, Christian
Endeavor Journal, Colliery Engineer
| and Metal Miner, Christian Life, Home
Study, Railway Employees Journal,
Lackawanna Bell, Middle States Rail-
| way Guide, Real Estate Register, st.
Lukes Churchman, Union Tracts, The
| Lutheran, The Sabbath Defender and
| st. Davlds Guardian, monthly publi-
| cations. New York and Philadelphia
| morning and evening papers are sold
on the streets of the city within few
hours after they leave the press.
| Scranton has become prominent
| among the music loving people of the
| country, from the fact that certain
| nationalities of it's population are so
| gifted in voice culture. Its choirs have
a national reputation, and the presence
| of one or more of these talented organ
| izatons at any of the musical festivals
that are held yearly in all parts of the
country, insures the success Of the en-
| terprise, and in nearly every instance
| Scranton singers are the recipients OF
| the highest honors.
! At the Worlds Fair the Scranton
choirs won the first prize Of $1,000, and
a few years ago concert company,
| composed entirely of "home talent"
! made a tour of Europe and the Con-
| tinent, meeting with most fiattering
| receptions wherever they appeared.
| AS has been remarked, the inhabi-
tants of Scranton are law-abiding
| This fact is apparent when reference
is made to the report of the police de-
| partment for the year 1895. Total
| number of arrests, 2,152. males 1868,
females 1s9. OF this small number $50
were arrested for drunkenness, and 523
for disorderly conduct. When it is
1 hot fy,V, t- n to- Of
| great distances, covering over 10000
acres, with a population of over one
hundred thousand. and with only
| forty-three patrolmen, it is believed
that the above report of the Chief OF
Police will compare favorably with
that OF any city of its size in the
country.
AS previously stated, Scranton is a
healthy city. BY referring to the re-
port of the Board of Health, for the
year 1896. we find that during that
period there were only 1.545 deaths.
Ihirty-three died from typhoid fever.
AZ from scarlet fever, and two from
malaria fever. This good showing is
in large measure due to the abundant
supply of pure water. The following
is taken from a special report to the
Board OF Health, from a committee
appointed in July, 1896, to inspect the
works OF the water companies. "The
recent analysis Of the water has shown
1t to be of very pure quality. with
minimum of organic matter contained
therein. These reservoirs are
all fed from mountain streams, for the
most part running though g. rocky,
rough region not adapted to cultiva-
| tiOn or for residential DurpOses so
that there is no probability Of villages
Of any considerable size being located
along the line Of this supply. After
a careful inspection of all these reser-
voirs, the result OF which was most
satisfactory, developing the fact that
the company is making every effort TO
furnish full and pure supply OF wat
er. This shows that there Is at pres
ent a storage capacity of about 1891,
100000 gallons, in addition to which
can be drawn from the Lehigh River,
a daily supply Of 100000 gallons
whenever needed. AS the daily con-
sumption of the city at the present
time is from 12 to IA million gallons,
it can easily be ascertained what re-
serve the people Of this city can de-
pend on for supply in times Of extreme
drought. Allowing for evaporation,
the company with it's present facilities
has a water supply of 200 days without
rain. Adding the storage of the other
company's system, we have a supply
available at present OF over SA billion
gallons, with the contemplated In
crease Of 1,4OO, 900 900 gallons within a
short time. without reference TO the
daily supply which can be drawn from