The Washington times., 1902-02-17
PENNSYLVANIA
HOLDS Her OWN
Has Ranked Secondin Popu-
latiOn Since 1900.
EXPIRE STATE HEADS TE LIST
Per Capita Tax Has Taken n Big
Drop. Reports the Treasury Bu-
rcau of Sratistics-Gives Analysis
OF Many Important Questions.

"A picture on every page is the term
by which an enthusiastic student of sta
tistics describes the Statistical Abstract
Of the United States" just issued by the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
While sclid columns of figu, IS are not
perhaps looked upon by the average citi-
zen as especially picturesque, an exam
ination of the PAGES of the publication
above mentioned, the Statistical Abstract,
presents some interesting if not abso-
lutely picturesque facts.
States Have Crown
1t is interesting, fer instance, to OBJ
serve by enc of its earliest pages that
the gross area of the United States. ex-
elusive of Alaska and Hawaii, has grown
from S27,Sii square miles in 1900 to 3.O25.-
600 in 1890; and the population mean
time from 5,@CS,is in 1900 to Il, $50. .724 in
1860.
Another page shows that Virginia
ranked first in population in 1900 and
in 1900 ranked seventeenth; that Penn
sylvania has sturdily held her own. hav-
ing ranked second in population in 1890
and the same in 1900; New York. which
ranked third in 1900 stands first in the
list in 1900; North Carolina which stood
fourth in rank in 1900, was fifteenth in
1900 Kentucky has moved downward
from eighth in rank in 1890 to twenty
ninth in 1850; Delaware. from seventeenth
TO forty sixth; while Indiana moved up
ward from tweDty-frst in rank in 1900
10 eighth in 1900, and Ohio from eighteenth
place in 1850 to fourth in rank in 1900
Public Debt Decreased
Another page which presents an inter-
esting picture is that devoted to the
analysis OF the principal of the public
debt OF the United States. 1t shows that
the debt of the United States, which in
1865 was S1S.25 per capita, was in 1901
Sl3.i5 per capita, and that the interest
charge, which in 1865 was i.29 per capita
was in 1901 3S cents per capita; the low
est rate of interest in outstanding bonds
in 1865 was 4 per cent, and of these there
were but $91,0000G0, against S245, coo, 900 in
> per cent bonds. 81 2l3 600 900 at G Der
cent, and $6I1, goo 600 at 73 per cent |
while in 1901 practically one half Of tho |
outstanding debt stood at per cent, and |
even those bonds were selling at a pre- |
MUM in the mai bets.
hanks Prosperous.
Another interesting picture is found on !
the page. which shows the condition of !
the savings banks Of the United States in |
1901. Deposits in savings banks in 1920 |
were S1,1SS,576 and the number of de-
positors, $685.; in 1901 the amount of de- |
posits vas $2,ii9. 9.J47. SS5, and the number |
Of depositors. 6,l07,Gs3; the average sum
due each depositor in 1920 was $13lS5 in
1901 it was SiOllg.
Another interesting picture is found in
the statement showing the transactions +
OF the New York clearing house from 1854
TO 1901. In 1854 the number Of banks was
30. the capital $4,000, ,000 and the clear
lngs %5,'JO JO,i'5,sSi; IN 1901 the number of
banks bad only increased TO 81. their capi-
tai to $S2,600000, while the clearings had
increased to $1,000 $40 iJi, the number of
banks having thus increased about p per
cent. the capital about - per cent. while
the clearings in 1901 were thirteen times
as much as IL 1854
Tells Of Commerce.
Still another interesting picture is that
which shows in single table the story of
he foreign commerce of the United States
rom 1900 to 1900 In 1900 the imports
we're s5l.0oO.0G0 ana the exports s71 600
700, imports exceeding exports by S20, 600
100, or nearly 80 per cent: in 1901 i'm
ports were S23,GoO,OG0 and exports s., 49,
'OO,COO, the excess OF exports being s664-
100 600, or so per cert greater than the
mports, Imports in 1901 were nine times |
Is great as in 1900, and exports were
wenty-one times as great as in 1900.
Another interesting picture is that
which divides the imports into great
lasses and shows the relative growth OF
'ach. Articles of food in 1856 formed 81 |
,er cent Of the imports and in 1901 26 ,
,er cent; manufactures ready for con-
in 1856 formed 20 per cent OF
he imports and in 1901 1913 per cent; ar
icles in a crude condition for use of
formed % per cent of the
IMPORTS in 1856 and 33.j per cent in 1901
howing that manufacturers are steadily |
Increasing their importa:ions of raw ma
erials required in manufacturing, while
n most other classes the percentage of
IMPORTS is decreasing.