Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24

bers of little children at work in all
kinds of occupations.
Besides the public schools there is
a large number of private profess
sional schools" and private special
schools" private middle Schools"
private higher schools" for females,
private continuation schools" The
private elementary schools had an
enrolment of 29,5e4 pupils in 1904 as
against 4O,190 in 1899.
An Elevated Road Building.
Toxic has a very complete railway
system which carried in 1905 an aver
age of S05,965 passengers per day at
a uniform fare of two and one-halr
cents, one-half cent of which goes TO
the government as a tax. An especial
ly reduced rate is made for workm en-
in the early morning, with return priv
ileges. The service is very good. but
the cars are greatly crowded. In
place of them jinrikishas are much
used, of which there were more than
$4,000 in private and public use in
Toxic at the end of 1905. An elevated
road is we'll ON it's way to compile
ton. 1t is built of brick, and is of
solid bridge construction, reminding
one of the one at Berlin. In addition
to all these means of communication
the city is well supplied with
water ways, whach are crowded
with freight and passenger
junks and small boats. Carriages are
comparatively rare, the total number
being less than two hundred in the
whole city.
Telephones and Lights.
In 1905 100000 were deposited
in the postal savings bank and little
over $1,400,000 withdrawn. Telephone
subscribers numbered 1889 against
3,S49 in 1898, 1854 in 1901. The city
is disfigured by telegraph and tele-
phone poles, as is the landscape in
many rural districts. However, there
is some considerable amount of under
gound wire already in existence in
the city and the future may have more
beauty in store. Besides the regular
telephone there are a largen number
of automatic telephones. The tele-
phone sevice is bad, judged by our
American standard, and inadequate
1t is governmental monopoly, and
pays well, but the demand for addit
ional telephones is not met, and
would-be subscribers have been oblig-
ed to wait so long until their turn TO
have telephone installed comes, and
so urgent is their need that am told
rights to have telephones installed are
commonly sold for from $3.50 to $500
by men who have entered their name
on the list of would-be subscribers
not because they wanted telephone,
but because they wanted to sell their
right.
The city ON the whole is fairly well
lighted. Most of the houses have Ian
terms attached in front of them and
$4,000 of the houses are lighted by
gas and more than $4,000 have cleo
trio light. The gas company belonged
to the city twenty-five years ago, but
was not successful. The lack of sue
cess in the old days under municipal
management was explained to me by
one of the higher officials to be chiefly
due to inexperience.
There are some 224 business asso-
Citations in the city and the member
ship of the Toxic chamber of com.
merce at the end of 1905 was 1857.
In 1905 Toxic had 44u public bars,
513 restaurants, of the better class,
and 6,174 of the lower class, 4,7S4
"icewater shops" IS tea houses, and
1,490 geisha houses more than 400
theaters, opera houses, chess houses,
shooting alleys and other places of
amusement. 1t has 119 joint stock
banks with total capital of 100000,
900 tesides a number of limited part
nership banks, and total deposits Of
more than S200,000,000. There are a
large number of savings banks and
over 1,0U0 pawnbrohers. Toxic has "a
hospitals of all kinds and maintains
sanitary and laboratory for the ex-
animation of medicines, water, bever-
ages and food stuffs, chemical and in.
dustrial articles and so forth. The
number of charitable institutions
seems surprisingly small to a western
er, but perhaps Japanese habits, in
situations and thought are against
public charity, which is replaced by
the family or clan care for their men,
bers, and the neighborliness, which
shows itself indeed In times of need.
A Japanese householder is bound not
alone by goodwin, but by custom, to
freely help those living in the three
houses opposite him and the one on
each side of him.
How Taxes Are Raised.
The total revenue of the municipal
ity in 1904, the last figures that / can
find was a little over 100000, and
the expenditures about $2,500,000.
The principal items of this munich
pal revenue are as follows: S4S7, 1000
mn E.z--