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MASSACHUSETTS. M[)a]s-sa-ch[=u]'sets.
"OLD BAY STATE."
One of the thirteen original States; first permanent settlement made by
English Puritans, at Plymouth, 1620.
Area, 8,315 square miles; length, northeast and southwest, 160 miles;
breadth, 47 to 100 miles. Number counties, 14.
Temperature at Boston: winter, 27deg to 38deg; summer, 66deg to 71deg;
rainfall, 45 inches.
Boston, capital and metropolis; pop., 390,406. Lowell, Lawrence and Fall
River famous for cotton manufactures; pops., 64,051, 38,845 and 56,863.
Worcester, great railroad and manufacturing centre; pop., 68,383.
Cambridge, seat of Harvard College, the oldest in America, pop., 59,660.
Lynn, famous for manufacture of boots and shoes; pop., 45,861. New Bedford,
greatest whaling port in the world; pop., 33,393. Springfield contains
greatest arsenal in the United States; pop., 37,577.
Number of farms, 38,406; average value per acre, cleared land, $85;
woodland, $43.25. Hay, the most valuable crop; wheat, 1884, 19,000 bushels;
oats, 717,000; corn, 1,941,300 bu. Ranks first in cotton, woolen and
worsted goods, and in cod and mackerel fisheries, owning over half of the
fishing vessels of the United States; second in wealth and commerce; third
in manufactures and in printing and publishing; fourth in silk goods; fifth
in soap; sixth in iron and steel; ninth in agricultural implements.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $5,000
Lt. Governor 2,000
Sec'y of State 3,000
Treasurer 4,000
Auditor 2,500
Attorney Gen. 4,000
Chief Justice 6,500
6 Asso. Justices 6,000
District Judge 4,000
Senators, }
Representatives } $650 per year.
Pension Ag't 4,000
3 Collectors Int. Rev. 3,000 to 4,500
Coll. of Customs, Boston 8,000
Naval Officer 5,000
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Presidential P. O.
Boston $6,000
Brockton 2,500
Fall River 2,800
Fitchburg 2,600
Gloucester 2,500
Haverhill 2,600
Holyoke 2,700
Lawrence 2,700
Lowell 3,200
Lynn 3,100
New Bedford 3,000
Northampton 2,500
Pittsfield 2,700
Salem 2,700
Springfield 3,200
Taunton 2,600
Worcester 3,300
101 Offices 2,400 to 1,000
Population 1,941,465; male, 932,429; female, 1,009,036; native, 1,459,982;
foreign, 481,483; white, 1,920,498; colored, 20,361; Chinese, 229;
Japanese, 8; Indians, 369.
State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after first Monday
in November. Number Senators, 40; Representatives, 240; sessions annual,
meeting first Wednesday in January; limit of session, none; terms of
Senators and Representatives, one year each. Number electoral votes, 14;
number voters, 544,192; native white, 353,347; foreign white, 184,439;
colored, 6,406; Paupers, persons under guardians, non-taxpayers, and men
unable to read and write excluded from voting.
Number quarries, 113; ports of entry, 9; customs districts, 11. First
American newspaper, Boston, 1690; first freight railroad in United States,
Quincy; first American library at Harvard College.
Number colleges, 7; education compulsory; schools excellent; school age,
5-15.