COMPARATIVE SUMMARY, 1880 TO 1907 (Continued). Includes six operated by Western Union Telegraph Company, one not in regular operation and one which failed to report income and expenses. Includes miles of wire operated by Western Union Telegraph Company outside the United States Not reported separately. *Includes cable messages-1907, 5,869,317; 1902, 820,498. In 1880 messages were reported for fifty-four companies only. Includes $40,000 sinking fund appropriation. Reported by only forty-two companies in 1880. 'Includes $558,800 treasury stock; not reported separately in 1902 and 1880. Reported as profit and loss. 10Issued for cash. 11 Not reported. 12There were two companies in 1907 and one in 1902 which were unable to separate the amount paid for salaries and wages from the general operation and maintenance expense. The two companies in 1907 failed to report the number of employes. TELEPHONE STATISTICS. There were more than 11,000,000,000 messages sent over the telephone wires in the United States in 1907, an increase of 124 per cent over the 5,000,000,000 similar conversations reported in 1902, according to estimates presented in the Census Bureau's reports for 1907, covering the physical equipment, service and financial operations of the commercial, mutual and independent rural telephone lines for 1907. In 1907 the total number of systems and lines was 22,971, as compared with 9,136 in 1902, an increase of 151.4 per cent. The miles of wire in 1907 were 12,999,369, as compared with 4.900.451 in 1902. The salaried employes in 1907 numbered 25,298, as compared with 14,124 in 1902. Salaries amounted to $19,298,423, against $9,885,886 in 1902. The average number of wage earners in 1907 was 118,871, as against 64,628 in 1902, an increase of 83.9 per cent, belonging to the Bell system, and outstanding in 1907 was $814,616,004, while in 1902 it was $348,031,058, an increase of 134.1 per cent. The income in 1907 was $184,461,747, as compared with $85,825,536 in 1902, a gain of 112.5 per cent. Of the 22,971 systems and lines represented in the census of 1907, 175, or 8 per cent, belonged to the Bell system, and 22,796, or 99.2 per cent, were independent. But the Bell company operated 8,947,266 miles of wire, or 68.8 per cent of the total. The Bell system in 1907 had 31,132,063 stations or telephones, 51.2 per cent of the total, and the non-Bell operated 2,986,515, 48.8 per cent. The Bell system controlled more than half the telephones in the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, South Central and Western divisions, and in twenty-eight states and territories. OCEAN CABLES OF THE WORLD. The first ocean cable to be laid was one across the English Channel between Dover and Calais, which was opened in 1850. This line was laid with English capital, There were in 1910 in France 774,358 births and 703,777 deaths, not including those of still-born children, which numbered 35,944. and English capital still controls more than half the length of the submarine lines of the world. Of the 252,436 miles of ocean cables in operation in 1904, only 38,797 miles, or about 15 per cent, were owned by governments, the remainder belonging to private owners. Of the total, 189,136 miles were owned by English corporations and 14,963 miles by the British Government. The most important of these English cables are the five lines which stretch across the North Atlantic, and the one across the Pacific connecting Vancouver with the Fiji Islands, Norfolk Island, New Zealand and Australia. The United States ranks next to Great Britain in number of miles of ocean cable operated. The most important of these lines are the five across the Atlantic and the Pacific cable which connects San Francisco with Honolulu, Midway Island, Guam, the Philippines, China and Japan. France ranked third among the nations in 1904 as to miles of ocean cable owned, the French Government owning 10,092 miles, or 42 per cent of all the French lines. Denmark was fourth, with 9,488 miles, and Germany fifth, with 9,288 miles, of which more than one-third was owned by the Government. The seventeen other countries having financial interest in submarine cables had only 11,131 miles of lines, almost all of which were owned by the various governments. LIFE INSURANCE. NUMBER OF POLICIES AND AMOUNT OF INSURANCE IN FORCE IN ORDI- 1,319,561 $3,620,057,439 8,883,5291 $429,521,128 5,208,090 $4,049,578,567 1,465,459 8,964,491,593 4,319,817 481,919,116 5,785,276 4,446,410,709 1,531,231 4,314,204,343 5,200,777 583,527,016 6,732,008 4,897,781,359 1,754,303 4,629,774,861 5,751,514 662,050,129 7,605,817 5,291,824,990 1,868,954 4,765,220,494 6,833,439 800,946,170 8,702,393 5,566,166,664 1,940,945 4,917,694,131 6,952,757 820,740,641 8,893,702 5,738,434,772 2,024,927 5,054,800,906 7,388,119) 888,266,586 9,418,046 5,943,067,492 2,201,193 5,329,980,648 8,005,384 996,139,424 10,206,577 6,326,120,072 2,419,850 5,714,964,251 8,798,480 1,110,078,519 11,218,830 6,825,037,770 2,820,950 6,481,154,483 10,050,847 1,298,125,522 12,871,797 7,774,280,005 3,176,051 7,098,152,880 11,219,296 1,468,986,866 14,395,847 8,562,138,746 3,693,702 7,952,989,395 12,337,022 1,640,857,558 16,030,724 9,593,846,948 4,160,088 8,701,587,912 13,448,124 1,806,890,864 17,608,212 10,508,478,776 4,694,021 9,593,008,148 14,603,694 1,977,599,397 19,297,715 11,570,607,545 5,507,759 10,412,078,338 15,674,384 2,135,859, 103 21,182,143 12,547,937,441 5,621,417 11,054,255,524 16,872,583 2,309,754, 235 22,494,000 13,864,009,750 5,792,956 11,253,194,077 17,841,396 2,453,616,207 23,634,352 13,706,810,284 5,945,780 11,486,518,261 18,849,357 2,577,896,941 24,795,187 14,064,415,202 6,164,730 11,850,032,581 19,687,675 2,668,919,696 25,852,405 (14,518,952,277 6,534,983 12,513, 125, 180 21,552,344 2,967,596,031 28,087,327 15,480,721,211 (6,954,119 13,227,213,168 23,034,463 3,177,047,874 29,988,582 16,404,261,042 Income, Payments, Assets, Etc., from 1890 to 1910. The net excess of births over deaths in France was 70,581 in 1910, against an excess of only 13,424 births over deaths in 1909. 1,780,807 4,657,588,046 †1,056,881,683 NUMBER AND AMOUNT OF POLICIES IN FORCE, ASSETS, LIABILITIES 1,671,089 4,511,036,550 971,857,224 855,808,088 116,549,186 916,591,188 189,740,545 982,669,752 159,750,174 1890 1891 .... 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 3,071,258 1901 1902 1903 3,458,464 1904 1905 1900 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1,877,808 *Includes "special funds." "Paid-for basis." COMPANIES SUMMARY OF BUSINESS IN 1911 OF LIFE INSURANCE |$2,260,146,752 | $2,181,200, €99 $289,933,397 $128,505,652|3,369,264 Between 1899 and 1909 wood pulp used in the manufacture of paper in the United States increased from 1,178,000 tons to 2,834,000. Totals Totals, New York Life |$1,681,997,603|$1,546,139, 450|$274,821,486 $103,343,098 3,252,122 Insurance Companies.$2,260,146,752 $2,181,200, 699 $289,933,397.$128,505,652 3.360,264 Totals, Life Insurance Cos. of other States.. 1,681,997,603 1,546,139,450 274,821,486 103,343,098 3,252, 122 Aggregate |$3,942,144,356 $3,727,340,149|$564,754,884|$231,848,750|6,621,386 ......... FIRE, MARINE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE. FIRE AND MARINE CASUALTY AND MISCELLANEOUS INSURANCE IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1890, AND FROM 1895 TO 1910. TOTAL INCOME OF COMPANIES AND PAYMENTS TO POLICY HOLDERS. (Data from "The Spectator" Company, New York.) America's national anthem, "My Country, "Tis of Thee," was first sung at Park Church, Boston, in 1822. FIRE, MARINE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE (Continued). FIRE LOSSES IN THE UNITED STATES. ESTIMATED VALUE, CALENDAR The fire losses in the United States and Canada in 1910 were reported unofficially as $234,470,000, an increase of $30,000,000 over the total for 1909. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP LINES OUT OF NEW YORK. North German Lloyd. Office, No. 5 Broadway. New York, Southampton, Cherbourg, Bremen. The Conscience Fund in Washington was opened by the Register of the Treasury In 1811. |