232 Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. UNITED STATES PENSION STATISTICS 1874-1918. YEAR Invalids Wid.,etc.Total on Total Disburs.; YEAR | Invalids Wid..etc. Total on Total Disburs. | (Fiscal) on Roll. on Roll. Pen. Roll for Pensions. (Fiscal) on Roll. on Roll, Pen. Roll for Pensions.. Ton In the column "widows, etc.' for 1918 are included 4,866 dependents, 2,586 minors, 932 helpless children and 163 nurses. OTHER 1918 PENSION DATA. Paid to pensioners in foreign countries: (1917) $929,768, (1918) $983,687; Civil War soldiers on the roll, (1917) 329,226, (1918) 298,808; Civil War widows on the roll, (1917) 284,216, (1918) 288,815. Number of deaths: Civil War soldiers, (1917) 33,232, (1918) 30,466; widows, minor children and dependents, (1917) 20,130, (1918) 18,412. The largest number of Civil War soldiers on the roll was in 1898, 745,822; the largest number of Civil War widows on the roll was in 1912, 304,373; War of 1812 widows surviving June 30, 1918, 99. War with Mexico, June 30, 1918: Survivors, 289; widows, 3,064. War with Spain: Total number of original claims allowed by Pension Bureau, 39,694; number ou rolls, June 30, 1918, 27,513. Reimbursements: Amount allowed, expenses of last sickness and burial, (1917) 8220,982.56, (1918) $237,113.35. Medal of Honor Roll (act of April 27, 1916): Total number on roll, 357. The amounts paid for pensions to soldiers, sallors and marines, their widows, minor children and dependent relatives on account of military and naval service in the several wars and in the regular service since the foundation of the Government to June 30, 1917, are as follows: War of the Revolution (estimated), $70,000,000.00; War of 1812 (service pension), $46,010,445.70: Indian wars (service pension), $14,204,296.51; War with Mexico (service pension), 851,264,284.61; Civil War, $4,917,245,599.49; War with Spain and Philippine insurrection, $57,528,347.49; Regular establishment. $42,764,359.73; unclassified, $16.508,447.41; total, $5,215,528,780.04. UNITED STATES RECLAMATION SERVICE. Arthur P. Davis, Director and Chief Engineer: Will R. King, Chief Counsel. Main office: Eighth and E Streets. N. W., Washington, D. C. Employés: Washington office, 100; West, 6,500 (varles). Expenditures per year about $8,000,000. The Reclamation Service, organized in July, 1902, under the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, is engaged in the investigation, construction, and operation of thirty irrigation projects aggregating 3,000,000 acres located in the seventeen arid and semi-arid States of the Far West, including Ariz., Cal., Col., Idaho, Kan., Mont., Neb., Nev., N. M., N. Dak., Okla., Ore., S. Dak., Utah, Wash., Wyo., and Tex. The funds for this work come largely from the sale of public lands; and the money expended is returned to the fund by easy payments of settlers, usually in twenty annual instalments without interest in accordance with the Reclamation Extension Act of August 13, 1914. A Western executive office is maintained at Denver, The Chief Counsel has an office in Washington and field offices in Denver and other points. The Supervisor of Irrigation has his office at Billings, Mont. The Service has built on the thirty projects over 11,000 miles of canals, ditches and drains, including 80,000 canal structures and involving the excavation of 150,000,000 cubic yards of materials. In connection with this work there have been constructed 100 storage and diversion dams, including the Arrowrock Dam, 349 feet high, the highest in the world, the Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande forming the largest irrigation reservoir in the United States, of 2,600,000 acre-feet capacity. and the longest roller crest dam in the world, located on the Grand River in Colorado. The Service has bullt 94 tunnels, 900 miles of road. 83 miles of railroad, 2,800 miles of telephone line, a dozen power plants and 450 miles of transmission lines; and is also mining coal and has manufactured 1,500,000 barrels of cement and sand-cement. The total expenditures to date are about $125,000,000. Over 100,000 persons are living on the 25,000 farms irrigated by the Service, and the value of the crops in 1917 on the 1,100,000 acres cropped was about $50,000,000. About 3,000,000 acres of land (60,000 farms) will be irrigated on the completion of these projects and the annual value of the crops will be approximately $100,000,000. Information in regard to farms open to settlemout may be obtained by addressing Statistician, U. S. Reclamation Service, Washington, D. C There are many farms of from 40 to 80 acres on these public lands open to settlement, the cost of which, including perpetual water right, ranges from $30 to $60 per acre, and a farmer has twenty years to make the payments without interest. The largest irrigbale area is that of the Boise project, in Idaho, 277,366 acres; gross cost of construction, $12,487,390. The next is the North Platte, in Nebraska-Wyoming, 229,891 acres; gross cost, $8,069,893. During construction, the Irrigative projects have produced $6,534,184, reducing the net cost of construction to $115,164,177. ANCIENT ARABIC ORDER OF THE NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE. Imperial Potentale-Elias J. Jacoby, Indianapolis. Deputy Potentate-W. Freeland Kendrick, Philadelphia, Chief Rabban-Ellis L. Garretson, Tacoma, Wash. Assistant Rabban-Ernest A. Cutts, Savannah, High Priest and Prophet-James S. McCandless, Honolulu, H. I. Treasurer-William S. Brown, Pittsburgh, Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate Staics. UNITED STATES STEAMBOAT INSPECTION SERVICE. (By George Uhler, Supervising Inspector General of that Bureau of United States Department Commerce.) THE Steamboat Inspection Service by act of Congress approved February 14, 1903, was transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Commerce. The transfer went into effect July 1, 1903. The Supervising Inspector General of the Steamboat Inspection Service, George Uhler, reported to the Secretary of Commerce for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916: Number of annual certificates of inspection Issued to domestic steam, motor vessels and barges, 6,788; number of certificates issued to foreign steamers, Increase in 227; total number of annual certificates of inspection issued to domestic and foreign, 7,015. number of certificates to domestic vessels from previous year, 12; increase in number of certificates to forelgn vessels from previous year, 19; increase in number of certificates of all kinds of vessels from previous year, 31. Gross tonnage of domestic vessels, all kinds inspected, 6,846,356; incrcase over previous year, 886,046. Gross tonnage of foreign steamers inspected, 1,618,340: increase from previous year, 329,061. Number of officers' licenses issued, 32,058. Increase in number of officers' licenses issued from previous year, 5,494. Number of new life preservers inspected, 319,259, of which number 5,474 were rejected. Increase in number of new life preservers inspected over previous year, 116,676. Increase in number of life preservers rejected over previous year, 4,115. Number of marine boiler plates inspected at the mills by assistant inspectors, 9,605. Number of accidents resulting in loss of life, 217, a decrease of 49 over previous year. Decrease in number of lives lost over previous year, 92. During the year 335,141,118 passengers were carried on steam vessels that are required by law to report the number of passengers carried. Dividing this number by 77, the total number of passengers lost shows that 4,352,462 passengers were carried for each passenger lost. Number of lives directly saved by means of life-saving appliances required by law, 1,356. LIFEBOAT REQUIREMENTS. By the Steamboat Inspection Service of the Department of Commerce.) Every inspected steam vessel and motor vessel navigating the ocean, Great Lakes, lakes, bays, or sounds, except ferry-boats, are required to be provided with sufficient lifeboat and liferaft capacity to carry every person on board, except that in the case of steamers navigating coastwise, the Great Lakes, lakes, bays and sounds the required capacity is reduced on steamers navigating shallow waters near land and in the warm season of the year. Ferry-boats, barges, and steam vessels navigating rivers are required to be provided with such boats and rafts as in the judgment of the inspectors may be necessary, a minimum lifeboat capacity being required for these classes of vessels. LIFE-PRESERVER REQUIREMENTS. Every inspected vessel, except ferry-boats navigating rivers, is required to be provided with a life preserver (or float on river steamers) for adults for every person carried, and on every vessel navigating the ocean, Great Lakes, lakes other than the Great Lakes, bays, or sounds, in addition thereto, a number of life preservers suitable for children equal to at least 10 per cent. of the total number of persons carried. Ferryboats navigating rivers only are required to be provided with life preservers or wooden floats according to deck measurement. NUMBER OF VESSELS INSPECTED. During the year ended June 30, 1917, the Steamboat Inspection Service inspected 5,530 domestic steam vessels. 665 motor vessels of over 15 gross tons, 21 passenger barges, and 560 sea-going barges, or a total of 6.776 domestic vessels inspected; also inspected 208 foreign passenger steam vessels. SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. Honorary President-Duncan U. Fletcher, Jacksonville, Fla. President-Robi. W. Bingham, Louisville, Ky. First Vice-President—Thomas S. Southgate, Norfolk, Va. Second Vice-President—Leland Hume, Nashville, Tenn. Managing Director-Clarence J. Owens, Washington, D. C. Treasurer—William H. Saunders, Washington, D. C. Directors-Charles H. Henderson, Montgomery, Ala Albert P. Bush, Mobile, Ala.; Wm. G. Hutton, Little Rock, Ark.: C. R. Breckenridge, Fort Smith, Ark.; D. U. Fletcher, Jacksonville, Fla.; Perry Wall, Tampa, Fla.; Harvie Jordan, Monticello, Ga.; Bennett H. Young, Louisville. Ky.; Robert W. Bingham, Louisville, Ky.; John M. Parker, New Orleans, La; Oscar Dowling, Shreveport, La.: C. J. Owens, Riverdale, Md.; Walter Clark. Clarkdale, Miss.: Alex. Y. Scott, Rosedale, Miss: . John G. Lonsdale. St. Louis, Mo.; Ben Altheimer, St. Louis, Mo.; Albert E. Tate, High Point, N. C.; E. L. Daughtridge, Rocky Mount, N. C.; H. S. Shelor, Muskogee, Okla.; F. W. Wagner. Charleston, S. C.; Leland Hume. Nashville, Tenn.; T. R. Preston, Chattanooga, Tenn.; J. S. Williams, Paris, Tex.; Geo. W. Littlefield, Austin, Tex.; Thos. S. Southgate, Norfolk, Va.; S. T. Morgan, Richmond. Va.; G. A. Northcott. Huntington, W. Va.; Louis Bennet, Weston. W. Va.; W. H. Saunders, Washington, D. C. Baltimore Commitice-James H. Preston, Honorary Chairman: S. Davies Wartield, General Chairman; Clarence J. Owens, General Secretary. National Co-operating Committee-Oscar S. Straus, General Chairman. The headquarters of the Congress is at the Southern Building. Fifteenth and H Streets, Washington, D. C. The purpose of the organization is to promote and develop the interests of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida. Georgia. Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. SOCIETY OF THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES. President- Lieut. McHenry Howard. Vice-President-Lieut. Joseph Packard. Secretary Capt. William L. Ritter, Reisterstown, Md. Treasurer-Capt. F. M. Colston. There are twelve Vice-Presidents and an Executive Committee of seven members. The Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland was organized in 1871 "to collect and preserve the material for a truthful history of the late war between the Confederate States and the United States of America; to honor the memory of our comrades who have fallen; to cherish the ties of friendship among those who survive, and to full the duties of sacred charity toward those who may stand in need of them." The membership is 720. 234 Internal Revenue Receipts, Fiscal Year 1918, by States. INTERNAL REVENUE Receipts, FISCAL YEAR 1918, BY 8TATES. $2,839,083,585.531 $855,619,748.52| $3,694,703,334.05| RECEIPTS BY OBJECTS OF TAXATION, 1918. (The 1917 figures are in parentheses.) $359,685,147.50 Spirits, $317,533,687 ($192,111,319); fermented liquors, $126,285,857 ($91,897,194) tobacco, $156,188,660 ($102,576,998); oleomargarine, $2,336,907 ($1,995,720); capital stock of corporations, $24,996,204 ($10,471,689); brokers, $333,396 ($460,251); amusement places, $S65,360 ($1,073,535); bowling alleys. billlards, $1,086,308 ($1,331,763); adulterated butter and mixed flour, $66,129 ($103,110); Alaska railroad income tax, $28,044 ($32,257); opium, $185,359 ($277,165); compromises, $1,091,812 ($12,815,080); syrups and extracts, $724,232; unfermented juices, $412,094; mineral waters, $85,377; carbonic acid gas, $993,478; tax on freight, $30,002,163; tax on express, $6,458,995; tax on passengers, $24,306,350; tax on seats, berths and state rooms, $2,236,700; oil by pipe lines, $1,433,324; telegraph and telephone and radio messages, $6,299,017; tax on insurance, $6,492,025, tax on admissions to amusement places, $26,357,360; tax on club dues, $2,259,056; automobiles and motor cycles, $23,981,268; planos, jewelry, alms, perfumes, medicines, chewing gum, cameras. yachts, etc., $12,995,732; tax on stock speculations in futures, $2,355,925; tax on bonds and on capital stock issues and sales, $12,921,485; tax on ordinary stock sales or transfers, $2,261,088; playing cards, $1,276,544 ($820.897); estates, inheritance tax, $47,452,880 ($6,076,575); munitión manufacturers, $13,296,927 ($27,663,940). The miscellaneous taxes for 1918 include certain receipts from taxes on Philippine and Porto Rico products and from income tax assessed on railroads in Alaska, which are required to be paid into the treasuries of the Philippine lsiands, Porto Rico, and the Territory of Alaska, respectively. These revenues and the laws providing for their collection and disposition are as follows: Philippine Islands (act of August 5, 1909), $803.899.88; Porto Rico (act of March 2, 1917), $1,045,919.06; Territory of Alaska (act of July 18, 1914), $28,044.23: total, $1,877,863.23. The total collection from excess profits tax in the scal year 1917 amounted to $37,176.37, which was on account of advance payments of the tax under the act of March 3, 1917. Miscellaneous taxes collected in Alaska in 1918 include $28,044 on railroads; in New York, include $1,045,949 from sale of stamps on Porto Rico products. The Philippine 1918 total does not include $18,449 reported by various collectors from sale of stamps on Philippine products. The total 1918 internal revenue receipts from the New York State districts were: First (Brooklyn), $63,026,908 (including $349.039 in stamps on Porto Rico products); Second (Wall Street and Lower Manhattan), $458,156,339 (including. $696,879 in stamps on Porto Rico products); Third (Uptown Manhattan). $170,002,874; Fourteenth (Albany), $45,266,754; Twenty-first (Syracuse), $31,911,085; Twenty-eighth (Buffalo), $71,014,105. Internal Revenue Receipts, Fiscal Year 1918, by States-Cont. 235 INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS, 1908 TO 1918. The internal revenue tax on Porto Rico products was $1,045,919 in 1918, as against $761,218 in 1917, and covered distilled spirits ($350,000), cigars and cigarettes. Of the taxes on Philippine products, about $793,000 was on cigars. It is estimated by Internal Revenue Commissioner Daniel C. Roper that of the collections in 1918, $383,999,024.04 were from taxes under laws enacted prior to October 3, 1917, and $471,620,724.48 additional revenue from taxes imposed by the War Revenue Act of October 3, 1917. The latter revenue, according to classifications enumerated in the War Revenue Act, are distributed as follows among ordinary objects of taxation: - Distilled spirits (including $113,727,536 floor tax), $198,240,730; rectified spirits, $3,912,381; fermented liquors, $50,450,688; still wines, $3,928,358; grape brandy, $190,029; unfermented and soft drinks and syrups, $2,215,181; total beverages, $258,837,366; tobacco, cigars, etc., $49,107,345. WITHDRAWALS TAX ON LIQUORS AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS DURING THE LAST SIX FISCAL YEARS. PAL YEAR. 1913. 1914. 1915 1916 1917. 1918 Totals Cigarettes. Tobacco, Pounds. 404,362,620 412,505,213 402,474,245 417,235,928 33,170,680 Number. 799,998,905| 360,576,301 51,757,367,320|136,054,446,880| 2,499,988,721| 199,400,275 PRODUCTION OF DISTILLED SPIRITS, 1917. (In tax, gallons, 1916 production figures in parenthesis.) California and Nevada, 17,851,482 (11,845,251); Connecticut, 132,054 (127,215); Rhode Island, 224 (237); Hawail, 14,015 (13,672); Illinois, 79,320.617 (66,868,865); Indiana, 43,361,275 (51,108,395); Kentucky, 36,441 777 (33,254,130); Louisiana and Mississippi, 26,545,832 (23,291,661); Maryland, Pennsylvania, 24,065,320 (3,327,842); District of Columbia, 608,812 (1,664,389); Massachusetts, 12,511,238 (11,609,189); Michigan, 819,907 (2,575,375); Missouri, 289,660 (194,172); Montana, Idaho and Utah, 244,772 (52,386); Nebraska, 2,938,594 (2,476,219); New Jersey, 54,493 (56,158); New Mexico and Arizona, 314 (296); New York, 13,856,053 (13,802,024); Ohio, 10,114,572 (12,448,348); Pennsylvania, 12,190,763 (14,408,130); South Carolina, 1,159,308 (1,179,890); Texas, 13,904; Virginia, 122,957 (547,560); Wisconsin, 2,527,244 (2,428,480). Total, 286,085,463 (253,283,273). Wyoming produced 259 gallons in 1917. The total for United States includes 8,521,097 gallons of fruit brandy NOTE-Since September 10, 1917, distillation of spirits for beverage purposes has been prohibited, and no grain has been lawfully used since then in making beverage spirits. The amount of whiskey held in bond in Government warehouses on September 1, 1918, was between 100,000,000 gallons and 120,000,000 gallons. There was also estimated to be in the hands of dealers, tax paid, approximately 30,000,000 gallons at that time. Grain used in making distilled spirits in United States in 1917: Corn, 33,973,268 bushels: rye, 2,375,439 bushels: malt, 4,239,677 bushels; wheat, 2,533 bushels; barley, 148 bushels; oats, 6,730 bushels; other materlals. 72,172 bushels: molasses, 112,497,633 gallons; dilute saccharine liquid, 78,462,969 gallons. The estimated average yield per bushel of grain used for the production of spirits, was 4.62+ gallons of spirits. The estimated average yield per gallon of commercial molasses used for the production of spirits was 0.757+ of a gallon. The average yield per gallon of commercial molasses used for the production of rum_was 0.788+ of a gallon. The average yield per gallon of dilute liquid containing small quantities of saccharine matter used for the production of spirits was 0.39+ of a gallon. GALLONS OF SPIRITS RECTIFIED, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1917. California, 3.695,795.1; Connecticut, 1,674,194.8: Delaware, $14.939.7; District of Columbia, 324,032.2: Florida, 1,234,790.8; Hawaii, 52,875.3; Illinois. 14,317,210; Indiana, 1,565,614.7; Iowa, 27,494.8: Kentucky, 7.815,805.2; Louisiana, 1,177,697.9: Maryland, 4,328,479.7; Massachusetts, 6,038,171.6; Michigan. 947,280.2: Minnesota, 2,559,089.2; Missouri, 4,074,795.2; Montana, 36,270.4; Nebraska, 365,111.5; New Hampshire, 107,732.7; New Jersey, 3,209,265; New Mexico, 21,882.4; New York, 24,398,085.9; Ohio, 14.009,547.6; Pennsylvania, 16,357,592.4% Rhode Island, 451,163.6; Tennessee, 1,356,014.9; Texas, 451,218.6; Utah, 113.198.3; Virginia, 482,349.5; Wisconsin, 2,585,297.8; Wyoming, 3,204.7; total, 114,596,201.7. EXPORTS OF AMERICAN LIQUORS, 1918. Alcohol (wood), 2,538,001 gallons (823,694); grain alcohol, 8,351,142 (51,941,634): proof gallons; rum. 461,571 (1,394,796) proof gallons; whiskey (Bourbon), 65,955 (59.611) proof gallons; whiskey (rye), 90,386 (139,618) proof gallons; whiskey (all other kinds), 110,646 (515,113) proof gallons; wines, 2,765,395 (2,245,013) gallons; malt liquors, $1,731,159 ($1,442,025); other beverages, $508,112 ($386,894). Gin, 112,649 (263,520) proof gallons; whiskey, 796,267 (1,676.151) proof gallons; brandy, 234.912 (420,567) proof gallons: cordials, 76,120 (357.211) proof gallons; malt liquors, 762,066 (2,240,177) gallons; wines (champagnes), 124,230 (195,714) dozen quarts: wines (still), $4.447,076 ($5.043,100). INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS, FISCAL YEAR 1918, BY STATES-Continued. PRODUCTION OF BEER IN UNITED STATES. The estimated beer production in the United States in the calendar year 1918 was 50,184,594 barrels, as against 60,817,379 barrels in 1917, and 58,633,624 in 1916. The brew, in barrels, by chief States, in 1917, was as follows: California, 1,542,876; Illinois, 6,223.097; Indiana. 1,548,615: Kentucky, 673,272; Louisiana and Mississippi. 514,361; Maryland, 1,164,121: Massachusetts, 2,518.887; Michigan, 2,338,521; Minnesota, 1,539,321; Misssouri, 3,434,174; Montana. 319,313; Nebraska, 362,354; New Hampshire, 268,564; New Jersey, 3,402,420; New York, 13,198,400; Ohio, 5,458,868; Pennsylvania, 8,174,457; Rhode Island, 680,558; Texas, 755,582: Wisconsin, 4.919,014. TOBACCO STATISTICS, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1918. Production in United States (estimated by Government): 1,228,081,000 pounds, as against 1,196,451.000 pounds in 1917, and 1,153,278,000 pounds in 1916. Exports of domestic tobacco: 258,781,511 pounds, as against 406,431,021 pounds in 1917, and 436,466,512 pounds in 1916. Imports of raw tobacco: 74,852,219 pounds, as against 42,194,411 pounds in 1917, and 42,943,027 pounds in 1916. Imports do not include 4.515,344 pounds of wrappers in 1918 and 3,941,936 pounds in 1917. Production, 1918, by States (pounds): Connecticut, 35.588,000; Illinois, 591,000; Indlana, 15,152,000: Kentucky, 361,171,000; Maryland, 21,622,000; Massachusetts, 14,623,000; Missouri, 2,768,000; New York, 3,775,000; North Carolina, 237,475,000; Ohio, 110,352,000; Pennsylvania, 65.664,000; South Carolina, 60 411,000: Tennessee, 56,911,000; Virginia, 151,781,000; West Virginia, 11,560,000; Wisconsin, 70,347,000; all other States, 8,290,000. The 1917 tobacco crop was valued at $297,442,000 at the plantations. In 1918 over 40,000,000,000 cigarettes were made in the United States. In 1917 the number was 34,832,385,676, in which year also 9,050,960,224 cigars and 34,873,626 pounds of snuff were made in the United States. From tobacco Sources of customs revenue: From malt liquors (1917) $686,000; (1918) $0,000,000. From wine (1917) $4,768,000; (1918) $0,000,000. From spirits (1917) $7,946,000; (1918) $00,000,000. (1917) $29,837,000; (1918) $00,000,000. AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION. (Headquarters, 126 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston.) Président-Charles J. Hastings, M. D., Toronto, Ont. Vice-President George M. Kober, M. D., Washington, D. C. Secretary-A. W. Hedrich, 126 Massachusetts Avenue. Boston. Frankel, Ph. D., New York City. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF CRAFTSMEN. Headquarters, 119 East Nineteenth Street, New York City. Founded, 1905. 300. Purpose, to promote the creation and sale of products of the arts and crafts. Bacon. Secretary-Robert Dulk. Annual meeting, last week in April. SONS OF TEMPERANCE. Treasurer-Lee K. Number of members, Membership, 17,000, Headquarters, Philadelphia. Founded, September 29, 1842, in New York City. in the United States and Canada. Most Worthy Patriarch-Emil L. G. Hobenthal, South Manchester, Conn, Most Worthy Scribe-Ross Slack, 4539 North Twentieth Street, Philadelphia. Next annual meeting, June 18, 1919, at Philadelphia. |