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BROOKLYN 323 establishments remarkable for the extent of their operations. In Kent avenue, in the Eastern District, is the printing house and book manufactory of the firm of D. Appleton and co., the most extensive and completely arranged es- tablishment of the kind in the United States. The buildings are constructed of brick with white marble trimmings, and occupy three sides of a square, enclosing one and a quarter acre. Each corner has a tower-like structure, the one on the N. side being 100 ft. high. The establishment contains commodious press, com- posing, and store rooms, stereotyping and elec- trotyping departments, and the extensive book- bindery. In 1870 the number of manufactur- ing establishments in Kings county, including minor industries, nearly all within the limits of Brooklyn, was 1,043 ; capital invested, $25,- 287,981 ; number of hands employed, 18,545; value of products, $60,848,673. The most ex- tensive interests were : ESTABLISHMKNTS. No. CpiUl. V*lMof products. Coal oil, rectified ft |H800 $1,747,255 ir> 843,000 1 799 857 is 821 645 487001) B 645,000 2,692,000 Gas 4 2.200 000 2166,884 1'* 460 666 993464 7 816,000 1,074948 30 96S055 1 588724 Linseed oil 1 250.000 1,608 000 10 668000 1 3(i4,100 8P> 786100 1 108,998 ?T 1 481 000 1 489 529 Marble and stone work Paints 80 8 852,900 618 000 '661J565 1 206,850 Sash, doors, and blinds Ship building and repairing. . . Sugar (refined) and molasses. Tin, copper, and sheet-iron 26 12 T si i:iii.-nii 127,800 8,090,000 762 100 658.897 218,007 16,706,881 1 218 495 Tobacco (not cigars) and snuff 5 V 755.000 512000 4.036,912 1 280000 Among other extensive manufacturing estab- lishments are the Brooklyn brass and copper company, the New York agricultural works, the American steel company's works, Camp- bell's printing press manufactory, and the Bushwick chemical works. The numerous buildings of the last named are built of brick and cover an area of six acres. In the Eastern District are extensive sugar refineries and dis- tilleries, and numerous lagerbier breweries of immense size. Brooklyn contains 11 in- surance companies chartered by the state of New York, with assets aggregating $3,748,- 557. There are 5 national banks, with an ag- gregate capital of $1,552,000, and 6 state banks acting under special charters, with a capital of $1,600,000. In 1872 there were 17 savings banks, with 115,693 depositors and deposits amounting to $39,458,630. The principal of these were the Brooklyn savings bank, which had 24,293 depositors and deposits to the amount of $10,375,872, and the Dime savings bank, with 26,458 depositors and $6,695,503 deposits. There are also two safe deposit companies and a trust company. The city is divided into 25 wards, and is governed by a mayor (salary $10,000) and a board of 36 alder- men ($1,000), elected by the people for two years. There are also 13 departments, the heads of which are in most cases appointed by the mayor with the consent of the aldermen for two years, viz. : finance, audit, treasury, collection, arrears, law, assessment, police and excise, health, fire and buildings, city works, parks, and public instruction. Besides the United States circuit and district courts for the eastern district of New York, the supreme court of the state for the second judicial dis- trict, and the county court of Kings county, which hold sessions here, there are the city court of Brooklyn, consisting of three judges, a police court, and six courts of justices of the peace. Brooklyn with the rest of Kings coun- ty elects three members of congress, and two senators and nine assemblymen in the state legislature. For police purposes the city is divided into 10 precincts and 3 sub-precincts. The department of police is under the control o'f a board of commissioners, consisting of a president and two other members. The force consists of a superintendent, an inspector, 10 captains, 51 sergeants, 25 roundsmen, 389 pa- trolmen, and 30 doormen, constituting the or- dinary force, besides a superintendent of tele- graphs with 3 operators, a detective force of 8 under command of a sergeant, 4 boiler inspec- tors, a drill captain, and a fire marshal. The pay of the superintendent is $4,000 a year, of the inspector $3,000, of the captains $2,000 each, of the sergeants $1,500, and of the patrol- men $1,100. According to the latest report of the police department, the 'whole number of persons arrested during the 8 months ending Dec. 31, 1872, was 15,906, of whom 10,124 were foreign and 5,782 native born. The prin- cipal offences were : drunkenness, 6,421 ; as- sault, 3,204; disorderly conduct, 1,142; viola- tion of city ordinance, 1,005 ; petit larceny, 718; grand larceny, 247; felonious assault, 242 ; burglary, 84 ; robbery, 22 ; murder, 14. Lost children recovered, 1,112 ; value of prop- erty recovered, $77,316, of which $75,805 was restored to owners. The fire department is under the control of a board, consisting of a president and two commissioners. The force consists of a chief and an assistant engineer, 6 district engineers, 16 steam fire engines, and 5 hook and ladder trucks, with a total of 189 men. The pay of the chief engineer is $3,000 a year, of the assistant engineer $2,000, and of the district engineers $1,500 each ; the other members of the force are paid from $800 to $1,000 a year each. There are 90 points in the city whence alarms may be trans- mitted by telegraph. The city is supplied with water from a chain of ponds extending from Jamaica E. to Hempstead plains, whence it is brought in a brick-covered conduit to Ridge- wood reservoir, into which it is forced by three powerful engines. The furthest of these ponds is 19 m. distant from the city hall. The Ridge- wood reservoir is 170 ft. above the East river.