AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIA Society; Rhode Island, New-York, Ohio, TION. Wisconsin and Kansas are also active in the movement. OFFICERS-President, J. N. Larned, The Extension Department of the UniBuffalo; vice-presidents, F. H. Hild, Chi versity of the State of New York is simicago; Henry M. Utley, Detroit; Caroline lar to the one in Pennsylvania, and was M. Hewins, Hartford, Conn.; secretary organized in 1891. The headquarters are Frank P. Hill, Newark, N. J.; assistant at the Capitol, Albany, and there are secretaries, Louisa S. Cutler, Utica, centres in very many of the cities and N. Y.; W. S. Merrill, Chicago; Nina B. towns of the State. The Department Browne, Boston; T. L. Montgomery, gives needed advice and suggestions to Philadelphia; recorder, Henry J. Carr, organized centres and those in process of Scranton, Penn.: treasurer, George W. organization, and saves unnecessary duCole, Jersey City. Standing Committees: plication of local expenses by effecting Co-operation-F. M. Crunden, St. Louis; Theresa H. West, Milwaukee; Katherine co-operation among centres in all parts of the State. Its objects are: The proL. Sharp, Chicago; J. K. Hosmer, Minne motion and wider extension of opporapolis; A. S. Root, Oberlin, Ohio. Fi tunities and facilities for education to nance-J. L. Whitney, Boston; Charles C. those unable to attend the usual teaching Soule, Brookline, Mass.; A. W. Whelpley, institutions. Cincinnati. Library School and Train The officers are: Director, Little, ing Classes-George T. Bruns Melville Dewey; assistant director, Myr tilla Avery. wick, Me.: Sarah W. Cattell, New-York; Caroline H. Garland, Dover, N. H. United States Public Documents-R. R. NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR GOOD Bowker, Brooklyn; E. C. Hovey, Brook ROADS. line, Mass.; D. V. R. Johnston, New Organized 1892. President, Senator York State Library. Foreign Documents Charles F. Manderson, Nebraska; gen-W. H. Brett, Cleveland; James Bain, eral vice-president and acting secretary, Toronto; Clement W. Andrews, Boston. General Roy Stone, 45 Broadway, NewSubject Headings-Gardner M. Jones, York; general Western secretary, S. Salem, Mass.; C. A. Cutter, Boston; G. E. Thornton K. Prime, Dwight, Ill. ; treasWire, Chicago. Trustees of Endowment urer, William H. Rhawn, Philadelphia; Fund-Norman Williams, Chicago; E. C. counsel, Chauncey B. Ripley, New JerHovey, Brookline, Mass.; John M. Glenn, sey; executive committee, E. H. Thayer, Baltimore. Endowment-Pliny T. Sex Iowa; Philip D. Armour, Chicago; Clem ton, Palmyra, N. Y.; Eckley B. Coxe, Studebaker. Indiana; Chauncey B. RipDrifton, Penn.; Bernard C. Steiner, Bal ley, New Jersey; August Belmont, Newtimore; J. C. Dana, Denver; J. C. Row York; Aug. T. Gillender, New-York; ell, Berkeley, Cal.; George W. Harris, W. Seward Webb, New-York; George Ithaca, N. Y.; Jessie Allan, Omaha ; Peabody Wetmore, Rhode Island; Charles George Eles, New-York. Annual meet L. Burdett, Connecticut. Objects, "to ing, Lake Placid, in the Adirondacks, awaken general interest in the improveSeptember, 1894. ment of public roads, determine the best methods of building and maintaining UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. them, secure the legislation, State or Na tional, that may be necessary for their The university extension movement, establishment and support, and conduct started in the United States in 1890 by or foster such publications as may serve Dr. William Pepper, provost the Uni these purposes. The League hag conversity of Pennsylvania, is a system of tinued to prosper, having received and Instruction for adults embracing lecture expended over $100,000. It successfully courses, with classes, weekly exercises, maintained a road exhibit at the World's examinations and certificates. Fair, and Congress appropriated $10,000 The American Society for the Extension for a road inquiry, and that work is in of University Teaching (president, Pro progress. fessor Edmund J. James, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania; secretary, IRISH NATIONAL FEDERATION George F. James; treasurer, Frederick B. OF AMERICA. Miles; headquarters, Fifteenth and Chest President, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet; nut sts., Philadelphia), was founded in 1800 by Dr. Pepper, has organized "local secretary, Joseph P. Ryan; treasurer, Eucentres in neighboring States, and gene Kelly; John Byrnes, chairman Board of Trustees. through branch societies and affiliated Founded New-York June, 1891, colleges has stimulated general diffusion by Dr. Joseph Francis Fox, M. P., as the of the system. representative of the Irish Parliamentary The "unit of instruction" is a course of party of which Justin McCarthy is the six or twelve weekly or fortnightly lect head. The Federation in both Ireland ures, followed by a special conference or and America takes the place of the Irish class. The "unit of organization" is a National League, which continues in the committee of citizens or the directors of control of Parnell's last partisans. a literary or social club, willing to as-object is "earnestly and actively to sussume the local management of the course. tain the cause of Home Rule for Ire. Lecturers are secured through the cen land, with moral and material aid." tral office, either from the faculty of a New-York headquarters, Room 22, ('ooper neighboring college or from the society's I'nion. It has remitted to Ireland, since regular stafr. In 1892-93 there was an July 2, 1892, $73,359 55; direct to Buffalo, attendance of 25,000 students. Connecti- $5.000; to St. Paul, $1.600; to other cut has a State branch of the American places, $2,500; total, $82,459 55. Its SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. OFFICERS.--Acting President-general and Vice-President-general, Robert M. McLane, Maryland; secretary-general, Asa Bird Gardiner, LL. D., Rhode Island; treasurer-general, John Schuyler, C. E. New-York; assistant secretary-general, Thomas Pinckney Lowndes, South Caro. lina; assistant treasurer-general, Henry Thayer Drowne, Rhode Island. The office of the secretary-general is at Garden City, L. I. The society was founded by American and French officers of the American Revolutionary Army in May, 1783. Baron Steuben presided at the meeting for organization. The institution was drafted by General Knox, and declared that the officers of the American Army "associated themselves into one society of friends to endure as long as they shall endure or any of their eldest male posterity; and in failure thereof, the collateral branches who may be judged worthy of becoming its supporters." At the first general meeting of the society in Philadelphia in 1784 an effort was made to modify the constitution, but failed. Washington was elected president-general in 1183. Robert Burnett, of New-York, who died in 1854, was the last survivor of the original mem Seven of the original thirteen State societies still survive, and hold annual meetings on July 4. At the last meeting of the General Society, in June, 1893, the Connecticut State Society was revived. Its principal officers are: President-general. Dwight Morris, Bridgeport; treasurer, Nathan Pond, Milford; historian, Rev. A. N. Lewis, The general society, which consists of the general officers and five delegates from each State society, will hold its next triennial meeting The secretaries of the State societies are as follows: Massachusetts, David Greene Haskins, jr., No. 83 Devonshire-st., Boston; Rhode Island, Asa Bird Gardiner, Garden City. L. I., N. Y.; Thomas Arnold Peirce, assistant secretary, East Greenwich, R. I.; New-York, John Schuyler, No. 63 William-st., New-York; New-Jersey, William Chetwood Spencer, Elizabeth; Pennsylvania, Francis Marinus Caldwell, No. 4,814 Chester-ave., Philadelphia; Maryland, Wilson Cary McHenry, No. 103 St. Paul-st., Baltimore; South Carolina, Daniel Elliott Huger Smith, Charleston: Connecticut, Augustus W. Merwin, Wilton. bers. Missouri; Marsh Will Bailey, for Wisconsin, Minnesota and lowa; Ralph E. Johnson, for North and South Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska; F. W. Niedermeyer, for Kansas, Colorado, NewMexico and Utah; A. D. Falkner, for Washington, Idaho and Oregon; E. N. Wolfe, for California, Nevada and Arizona. Advisory Board-Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, jr., Chauncey M. Depew, James S. Clarkson, James A. Blanchard, William W. Tracy, J. Sloat Fassett, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Walter Phelps, Russell A. Alger, Cornelius N. Bliss, Joseph H. Manley, Edward B. Harper, George Gunton. National Executive Committee-Delmer E. Hawkins, Syracuse University; Julius C. Travis, University of Michigan; James B. Kurtz, Dickinson College; E. N. Wolfe, University of California; A. L. Squires, Columbia College; F. W. Niedermeyer, Missouri State University; N. McGiffin, Hamilton College; H. P. Brown, Center College; L. V. Gould, Purdue University: A. J. Falkner, University of Michigan; _B. B. McAlpin, Princeton College; c. F. Harper, Franklin and Marshall College; A. O. Lindstrum, Knox College; Shirley E. Johnson, Harvard University: Ralph E. Johnson, University of Nebraska. Total membership, 10,000. Annual meeting, May, 1894, Syracuse University. PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. This order was founded on December 4, 1866, its special objects being "to develop a better and higher manhood and womanhood among ourselves; to enhance the comforts and attractions of our homes, and strengthen our attachments to our pursuits; to foster mutual understanding and co-operation; to maintain inviolate our laws, and to emulate each other in labor; to reduce our expenses, both individual and corporate; to buy less and produce more, in order to make our farms self-sustaining; to diversify our crops, and crop no more than we can cultivate; to discountenance the credit system, the mortgage system, the fashion system, and every other system tending to prodigality and bankruptcy." There are forty-one State organizations, having total of 26,954 subordinate granges. The headquarters is at 514 Fst., Washington, and the principal omcers of the National Grange are: Master, J. H. Brigham, Delta, Ohio; overseer, E. W. Davis, Santa Rosa, Cal.; lecturer, Mortimer Whitehead, Middlebush, N. J.; steward, Ava E. Page, Appleton City, Mo.; chaplain, Charles McDaniel, West Springfield, N. H.; treasurer, F. M. McDowell. Penn Yan, N. Y.; secretary, John Trimble, Washington, D. C. Fiscal agency-The Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 22 William-st.. New York City, N. Y. NEW-YORK REPUBLICAN COUN TY COMMITTEE. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.-Ist District, Martin H. Healy: IId, Denis Shea; IIId, Charles H. Murray: IVth, John Collins; Vth, John Simpson; VIth, George Hilliard; VIIth, Jacob M. Patterson: VIIIth, Lucas L. Van Allen; IXth, George B. Deane; Xth, William F. Daly: AMERICAN REPUBLICAN COL LEGE LEAGUE. Headquarters, 202 Fifth-ave.. NewYork. President, Delmer E. Hawkins, Syracuse University; secretary, Julius C. Travis, University of Michigan; treasurer, J. Banks Kurtz, Dickinson College. Organizers - George W. Benedict, for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont; Shirley E. Johnson, for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island; Arnon L. Squires, for New-York; James B. Kurtz, for Pennsylvania and New Jersey; C. F. Harper; for Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina; J. C. Travis, for Ohio and Michigan; A. D. Rose, for Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee; A. O. Lindstrum, for Illinois and XIth, Job E. Hedges; XIIth, William 1891, 688,000,000 acres; 1880, 536,081,835 Cantor; Product. Acres. Bushels. Values, XVIIth, Robert Gordon; XVIIIth, George Corn... 70,626,668 1,628, 464,000 $642, 146,630 W. Wanmaker; XIXth, John Reisen Wheat.38,554, 430 515,949,000 322, 111,881 weber; XXth, John Little; XXIst, Will Oats...27,063, 835 661,035,000 209,253, 611 iam Brookfield; XXIId, John H. Gunner; Flaxs'a 1,477,361 11,104,440 XXIIId, C. N. Bovee, jr. ; XXIVth, Rich The corn crop of 1892 has been exard M. Hillis: XXVth, Edward Dubois; ceeded in rate of yield in five of the past XXVIth, Peter H. McDonald; XXVIIth, Frank Raymond; XXVIIIth, Michael ten years, and was considerably below Kerwin; XXIX, W. that of 1891 being 2,060,H. Ten the average, Eyck; XXXth, J. Thomas Stearns; Kingsbridge, 154,000 bushels. The wheat crop of 1892 was slightly above an average one in George W. Stevens. All the officers of the Republican Coun yield per acre, and in volume was ex ceeded only in 1891, when it was 611,ty Committee are members of the Ex 780,000 bushels. The yield per acre was ecutive Committee ex-officio. 13.4 bushels, and the value 62.4 cents per Officers.-President, John Sabine Smith; bushel. There was a material increase first vice-president, Donald McLean; second, Thomas in the acreage of oats as compared with L. Hamilton; treasurer, Alexander Caldwell, 5 Washington Place; that of 1891, but a falling off in yield of recording secretary, William H. Bellamy, more than 17,000,000 bushels, due to the grain aphis, blights and other causes. 7 Pine-st.; reading secretary, Edward M. The flaxseed shows a falling off in acreage Morgan; sergeant-at-arms, C. H. Wheel of 450,000 acres. The crop has been pracock. tically abandoned as a farm crop East of the Mississippi River, while West of that PATENT OFFICE PROCEDURE stream the production has been concenAND STATISTICS. trated in five States. Number and value of live stock on Applications for United States patents farms: Horses, 16, 206,802, valued at must be addressed to the Commissioner of $992,225, 185; mules, 2,331, 128, $164,763, 751; Patents, Washington, D. C., and signed milch cows, 16,424,087, $356,876,353; oxen and sworn to by the inventor. The in and other cattle, 35,954, 196, $547,882,204; vention must not have been in public use sheep, 47,273,553, $125,909,264; swine, or on sale for more than two years prior 46,094,807, $295,426,492. These figures to the application. The applicant must show an increase over 1891 of 708,662 fully describe his invention and distinctly horses, 16,429 mules, 7,736 milch cows claim those parts which he believes to be and 2,335,188 sheep. but a decrease of new. The application must be illustrated 1,697,043 cattle and 6,303,212 hogs. The with drawings when possible. When filed, increase in the value of hogs was 39 per a first fee or $15 is payable, and a second cent over the price of 1891, the result of fee of $20 is exacted, if the application is a change from an apparent plethora to allowed, before the patent will be issued. absolute scarcity. The patent runs 17 years from date of Issue. Extensions can be obtained only by special act of Congress. A pamphlet OKLAHOMA'S GROWTH. of rules and forms is distributed free by Governor Renfrow, in his report to the the Commissioners of Patents. Suits to Secretary of the Interior, in November, enjoin infringement of letters patent are estimated the population of the Territory brought by bill in equity in U. S. Dis proper at 151,304 and of the trict or Circuit courts. The profits real Cherokee Strip at 100,000, making a total by an infringer can also be recoy of 251,304. The value of the taxable ered. property of the Territory is given as The total number of United States Pat-$13,951,056, as against $11,485,162 in 1892. ents granted up to November 30, 1893, There are six National banks, each having including 22,913 Design Patents, was a capital stock of $50,000, and twenty-four 542,754. The average issue is about private banks, with capital stocks rang25.000 a year. The average number of ing from $10,000 to $50,000. The latest applications for patents is 40,000 a year. financial statement of the Territory shows Since 1881, the annual receipts of the warrants outstanding amounting to $27.Patent Office have exceeded $1,000,000. 331; as against this indebtedness are The figures for the fiscal year ended June amounts due the Territory from various 30, 1893, were $1,288,809 07. The expendi sources aggregating $35,055, leaving a tures for the same year were $1,111,444 62. balance of $8,624 in favor of the TerThe total balance to the credit of the ritory. The people of the Territory maniPatent Fund in the United States Treas fest great interest in public schools, and ury on June 30, 1893, was $4,279,805 94. good progress is being made in that diThe two main items of expense are sal rection. In agriculture, the Governor aries, about $688,000. and printing and says, the Territory has a never-failing photo-lithographing about $400,000 an source of support and income, and with nually. The Patent Office Library con the exception of one year the seasons tains 65,000 volumes. The model hall has have been excellent. Wheat last year 154,000 models. The office does not re made a fine yield, averaging about twenquire models now, except in special cases. ty bushels to the acre all over the Ter ritory, some pieces yielding sixty-two bushels an acre. There are 6 Episcopal, AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. 165 Methodist, 25 Baptist, 24 CongregaTotal Improved acreage in the United tional, 25 Catholic and 24 Presbyterian States, 1891, about 365,300,000 acres; 1880, churches, 3 Epworth Leagues and 50 284,771,041 acres. Total acreage in farms, Christian Endeavor Societies. 235 18 AM СА: FEI SAMUEL GOMPERS, President. .14 Clinton Place, New-York. CHRIS. EVANS, Secretary...... .14 Clinton Place, New-York. REGISTER OF THE NATIONAL TRADE UNIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. No. of Total Official Addresses. Local Member Unions. ship. G.L. Horn, Gratiot-av.&Hastings-st., Detroit 116 12,500 Journeymen Barbers' International Union of A. J. C. Myers, Lock Box 279, St. Louis, Mo. 1101 3,400 J. C. Knight, 7311 Penn-ave., St. Louis... 27 1,800 W.J.Gilthorpe, 82 St. And'ws-st., N.Orleans 48 10,500 20 2,500 E. Kurzenknabe, 404 Market-st., St. Louis 64 9,000 32,000 15 1.200 1,300 720 57,000 2,750 2,000 ('igarmakers' International t'nion of America. i. W. Perkins, Commerce Bldg.. Chicago.... 340 29,000 P. McBryde, Clinton Bldg., Columbus, O.. 255 20,000 32 2,000 W. P. Daniels, Cedar Rapids, Iowa... 260 9,000 P. M. Arthur, Cleveland, Ohio. 425 31,000 Brotherhood of Stationary Engineers........ W.H. Cronley, 17 Ocean-ay., Jersey City, N.J. 125 5,000 F. P. Sargent, Terre Haute, Ind. 4401 20,000 Furniture Workers International Furniture Workers' Union of Amer. A. Schwarz, 949 Willoughby-av, Bklyn, NY, 401 6,000 Furriers Furriers' Union of U. S. of A. and Canada.... R. Bernegger, 25 Rivington-st., N. Y..... 61 1,000 C. Reichers, 28 Lafayette Place, N. Y... 40 5,500 600 J. Kunzler, 18 Excelsior Blk., Pittsburg. 1031 7,200 14 2.500 Thos. Purseglove, Bay State, Mass. 111 1,000 Grinders Pen & Pocket Knife Grinders&Finishers' Nat. U. J. S. Flood, 139 Park-av.,Bridgeport, Conn. 7 350 Granitecutters Granitecutters' National Unions... J. B. Dyer, 98 Main-st., Concord, N. H. 125 3,000 Hatters Hatfinishers' International Ass'n of N. America J. Philips, 477 Park-ave., Bklyn, N. Y.. 5,500 Hatters .... Hatmakers' International Union of N. America.. J. P. Penrose, 523 Snyder-av., Philadelphia 11 2,500 Hatters .... Silk Hatters' Association of North America.. D. Arthur, Park & Nostrand aves., Bklyn... 7 1,000 8 1,800 22 1,500 500 R. Kenehan, 148 Wazee-st., Denver....... 29 2,900 Martin Fox, Box 388, Cincinnati, Ohio... 2601 29, 600 651 3,200 Iron and Steel Workers Amalgamated Associat'n of Iron & Steelworkers J. Kllgallon, 108 4th-ave., Pittsburg, Penn. 2001 34,000 Knife makers Spring Knife Makers' Nat'l Protective U. of A. W. Wagstaff, Box 795, New-Britain, Conn. 6 500 Laborers ...... Building Laborers' Int'n'l Pro. Un. of N. Amer. Iw. Cross, 70 Park-st., Meriden, Conn.. 50) 9,000 13 25 420) Seamen .... AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR-Continued. No. of Total Trades. Titles of Trades Unions. Oficial Addresses. Local Member Unions. ship. National Longshoremen's Associat'n of the U. S. H. C. Barter, 31 St. Aubin-ave., Detroit. 121 2,000 N. Morse, 28 Lafayette Place, New-York. 201 1,500 20,000 J. Beck, 1730 Market-st., Philadelphia... 551 10,000 30 4,000 G. McVey, 231 E. 33d-st., New York City. 401 4,500 Operative Plasterers' International Association M.K.Shoemaker, 887 Oakdale-st., Clevel'd. SO 10,000 Journeymen Plumbers&Gas&Steam Fitters of U.S. M.J.Connahan, Carleton, nr. 46th, Pittsb'g. 321 6,000 Metal Polishers, Buffers & Platters' L'n. of N. A S. W. Lever, 1238 Brown-st., Dayton, 0.. 181 1,000 81 1,000 7 900 International Typographical Union......... A. G. Wines, 59 Vance Blk., Indianapolis. 370 37,100 28 3,150 20 1,500 C. A. Keller, 204 Garden-st., Hoboken, N.J. 12 5,000 75 3,000 T. J. Elderkin, 47 W. Lake-st., Chicago. 14 3,500 E. L. Daley, 620 Atlantic-ave., Boston.... 75 8,000 551 7,000 J. Sinninger, 71 W. 130th-st., N. Y. City. 101 500 14 8,000 J. F. McHugh, 341 Penn-ave., Wash'gt'n. 151 2,400 61 800 Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association....... W. A. Simsrott, 16 Pacific-ave., Chicago. 115 6,000 W. A. Sheahan, Galesburg, Ill. 489 25,000 6 450 J. B. Lennon, Box 30, Station D, N. Y... 215 18,000 9 750 8 2,800 751 ,000 301 2,000 National Union of Textileworkers of America. . T. B. Cahill, Box 117, Lawrence, Mass... 161 5,000 Hardwood Furniture&Piano Varnishers'Int.U.ofA. E. Findeisen, 168 Edgemont-ave., Chicago, 12 2,000 20 2,000 5 350 Machine Wood Workers' International Un, of A. T. I. Kidd, 146 W. Madison-st., Chicago, 401 4,000 Woodcarvers' National Union of North America W. Brannan, 210 Aberdeen-st., Chicago.. 7,1821 610,200 Waiters ..... |