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For the more iraj>ortant industries (or groups of industries}, judged by the value of output in 1910, see Thb Statesman's Year-Book for 1917, p. 572.

In 1910 there were 2.082 newspapers, be., of which 203 were dailies, 969 weekly, 35 semi-weekly, 8 tri-weekly, 700 monthly, 51 semi-nioniMy, 38 bi-monthly, 1 tri-monthly, 69 quarterly. 2 semi-annual, 2 five times a year, 2 four times a year, 1 twenty tunes a year, and 1 every forty davs. In English 1,874 were published ; of the foreign languages there were 28 In Spanish, 24 in Italian, 22 each In German and Yiddish, 12 in Hungarian, 11 in Polish, 10 In French, 7 in Bohemian, rt each in Arabic, Greek, Portuguese and Swedish, 5 in Russian. 4 eai-h in Lithuanian, Slovak and Slovenian, 3 in Chinese, Croatian, Finnish and Serbian, 2 ea.-h in Albanian, Hebrew, Japanese, Judaeo-Spaniah, Swiss, Welsh, 1 each in Armenian, Danish, Lettish, Norwegian, Persian, Roumanian and Ukrainian.

New York City now ranks as the first shipping port of the world. The imports, including specie and bullion, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, amounted to the value of 2,904,648,933 dollars, and the exports to the value of 3,383,638,588 dollars. The exports consist largely of grain, flour, cotton, sugar, tobacco, apples and other fruits, preserved provisions, cattle, and frozen meat. Most of the great railway lines which bring merchandise from the west have their terminals on the New Jersey side of the harbour, but there are ample facilities for the transfer of goods to the docks on the eastern side by means of lighters and of barges which carry the loaded care across.

In 1919 the bank clearings in New York City amounted to 189,237,015,492 dollars for the first ten months of the year.

lu New York State there were in 1917 8,534 miles of railway track and 6,039 miles (1919) of single track electric railway. The canals of the State, used for commercial purposes, have a length of 638 miles, of which the Erie canal has 361 miles. The State Barge Canal to connect New- York City with Buffalo by means of a deep water route of 790 miles, having a minimum depth of 12 feet, is completed. It has a capacity of 20,000,000 tons per season.

In the year ending June 30, 1919, there were 141 savings banks in .the State, with total resources of 2,367,041,901 dollars, 3,579,057 depositors who had 2,179,034,583 dollars to their credit, being 608 dollars to each depositor.

British Consul-General at New York. — H. G. Armstrong

There are six Vice-Consuls.

Books of Reference.

Legislative Manual of New York.

New York Red Book, by James Malcolm. Albany, 1919.

Annual Report New York State Education Department.

Reports of the various Executive Departments of the State.

Development of the State of New York. New York, 1912.

Alexander (D. S.), Political History of New York. New York, 1906.

Douglas (James). New England and New France. London, 1914.

Mores (W. C), The Government of New York. New York, 1902.

Peterson (A. E.), New York as an Eighteenth Century Municipality. New York, 1919

Rensselaer (Mrs. Schuyler van), History of the City of New York. 2 vols. New York.

Roberts (E. H.), New York : The Planting and Growth of the Empire State. 2 vols. Boston, 1887.

Sowert (D. C), The Financial History of the New York State from 1789 to 1912. London and New York, 1914.

Stebbint (H. A.), A Political History of the State of New York, 1S65-1S69. New York and London, 1013.

William* (Sherman), New York"s Part in History. New York, 1915.

Wilton (R. R.), New York, Old and New. New York.— New York in Literature. New York, 1907.

Ten ran Jfa, The Finances of the City of New York. London and New York, 1914.