Arizona republican., 1910-08-01
BILLION AND A QUARTER
Gathered BY Cen
sus Bureau Cover Liquor
and Business Licenses,
Taxes and Receipts From
Public Service Plants

Washington. d. c.. July 31.-The to-
tai municipal receipts in 1908 by
the 1873 largest cities in the United
States, each having an estimated pop
uIation of 10000 or more, in 1908,
amounted to $1.22S, ,G35. .496. according
to the census bureaus annual report
on the statistics of cities for the year
1908. which is now in press.
OF the 15S largest cities in 1908. "a
were no-Iicense or prohibition cities
OF the 151 cities for which complete
returns were available for 1905, 1907
and 1908. there were 10 no-license
cities in 1905, IL in 1907 and 21 in
1903.
The number of places licensed for
the sale or Intoxicating liquors by the
drink was Il ,3G6 i'm 1905, 67,131 in 1907
and 63.S74 in 1908. This decrease was
not confined to any section of the
country, but is apparent in every
group of states except in certain of
the Rocky Mountain states. The de-
crease has been most marked in the
cities Of the South Atlantic states.
The increase in the number of places
selling by the drink from 1907 to 1908
was 100 per cent in Chelsea and
Fitchburg. Mass. as these cities
changed from no-license to license.
The only other cities showing an in
crease of as much as 10 per cent
were Yonkers, 272 per cent; Whining
ton. 25.7 per cent; Newcastle, 16.7 per
cent, and Spokane, 14.6 per cent
Despite a large decrease in the num-
Der of licensed places. the receipts
from liquor licenses and taxes by the
151 cities mentioned above increased
from $3O,S1O,SS3 in 1905 to $39 9,234, ,223
in 1907 and to $41,95O, ,1SS in 1908. The
reason is a general increase in the
amount of license fees.
The largest number of places Ii
censed to sell by the drink i'm proper
tion To population is shown for the
cities of Texas, Wisconsin and New
York; and the smallest number for
the cities of Pennsylvania, MassachuN
setts and Nebraska. The smallest and
largest number of inhabitants to each
place selling by the drink in the cities
of the different groups were as fol-
lows:
Three hundred thousand Inhabitants
and over-Milwaukee, 142. Philadelphia
15S: 100000 to 100000, Paterson 231,
Fall River 1,O42; 10000 to 100000,
Hoboken 49, Lincoln 2,O3S; and 10000
to $4,000, Galveston 1SS and Chelsea
I,G34
To meet municipal payments, the
15S cities mentioned collected $652, ,334,-
$50 from taxes, licenses, special as
and other revenues, and
borrowed $500, O,9O5.414. The balance
of the municipal receipts. amounting
to $135, 1896, SOP, was made up of re
funds. and general transfers The to-
tai municipal receipts. therefore,
amounted to S1.2SS. .635 496, and were
made up of the following items: S72
per cent from taxes and other general
revenues; per cent from special as
sessments. 5.4 per cent from services
per cent from loans, and 14.5 per cent
from refunds, general transfers and
sources.
Taxes and other general revenues.
including licenses and permits, fines
and forfeits, and subventions, grants
and gifts, were the chief source of
revenue for nearly every city. Re-
ceipts from the general property tax
formed the chief item of general reve-
nue., and for the cities of Massachu-
sets, New York and Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Iowa, Louisiana, Virginia and
Georgia, comprising more than 75 per
cent of the total
Liquor licenses and taxes formed
1874 per cent of the general revenues
in the cities of Ohio and 10.2 per cent
in the cities of California. New York
city received $1927,SOO; Chicago. ST.
2.6S7, and Philadelphia $780, .459
from this source. The only other cit
les deriving more than $1,O0O.00O from
liquor licenses were st. Louis, Boston,