First Presbyterian Church.—Washington Avenue. Rev. S. C.

Logan, pastor.

First Presbyterian Church of Providence.-Church Avenue. Rev. George E. Guild, pastor.

First Welsh Baptist Church.-S. Main Avenue. Rev. J. W. Williams, pastor.

German M. E. Church.-Adams Avenue. Rev. Jacob Kolb, pastor.

Grace Reformed Episcopal Church.-328 Wyoming Avenue. Rev. G. Albert, rector.

Green Ridge M. E. Church.—Corner Monsey Avenue. Rev. J. V. Newell, pastor.

Green Ridge Street Presbyterian Church.-Rev. M. F. Stahl, pastor.

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.-Services held in Y. M. C. A. Hall, Lackawanna Avenue. Rev. M. L. Zweizig, pastor.

Hyde Park M. E. Church.-N. Main Avenue. Rev. G. M. Colville, pastor.

Jackson Street Baptist Church.-Rev. N. E. Naylor, pastor. Methodist Episcopal Church.-Hampton Street. Rev. G. C. Lewis, pastor.

Park Place Chapel (M. E.).-Court Street. Rev. H. H. Dresser, pastor.

Penn Avenue Baptist Church.-Penn Avenue. Rev. David Spencer, D.D., pastor.

Plymouth Congregational Church.—Jackson Street, near S. Main Avenue. Rev. Jonathan Edwards, pastor.

Primitive M. E. Church.-E. Market Street. Rev. H. G. Russell, pastor.

Providence Welsh Baptist Church.-N. Main Avenue.

Second Presbyterian Church.-Jefferson Avenue. Rev. T. R. Beeber, pastor.

St. David's Church (Episcopal).-Tenth Street. Rev. Joseph P. Cameron, S.T.B., rector.

St. Luke's Church (Episcopal).-Wyoming Avenue. Rev. J. Philip B. Pendleton, S.T.B., rector; T. F. Hunt, senior warden; A. D. Holland, junior warden. Vestrymen: John Jermyn, G. L. Dickson, S. M. Nash, B. H. Throop, and J. H. ⚫Bessel.

St. Mary's Church (Catholic).-William Street. Rev. M. Whitty, pastor; Rev. Thomas Kernan, assistant.

St. Mary's Church (German Catholic).-River Street. Rev. John Schelle, pastor.

St. Patrick's Church (Catholic).-Price Street. Rev. J. B. Whelan, pastor.

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church.—Ash, corner Prescott Avenue. Rev. Eugene Weisskopff, pastor.

St. Vincent's Church (Catholic).-Wyoming Avenue, corner Linden Street. Rt. Rev. William O'Hara, Bishop of Scranton Diocese and pastor; Rev. R. A. McAndrews, rector; Rev. T. F. Coffey, 1st assistant; Rev. P. F. Broderick, 2d assistant; Rev. Dr. McManus, 3d assistant.

Washburn Street Presbyterian Church.-Washburn Street, corner S. Hyde Park Avenue. Rev. W. I. Steans, pastor.

Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church.-S. Main Avenue. Rev. R. Faulk Jones, pastor.

Welsh Congregational Church.-W. Market, above Brick Avenue. Rev. R. S. Jones, pastor.

Welsh Congregational Church.-S. Main Avenue. Rev. Lot Lake, pastor.

Zion Lutheran Church (German).—Mifflin Avenue. Rev. P. F. Zitzelmann, pastor.

The total sittings of the churches in Scranton approximate to thirty-five or forty thousand persons, while the membership is considerably less.

OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

The public and private school institutions are thorough and complete. In the city there are thirty public school buildings, with a seating capacity of seven thousand nine hundred and twenty, all erected at a cost of $332,000, including the value of the lots upon which they stand. Two hundred and five teachers are employed at a total salary of $8009 per year, or about $40 per month. In 1879 there were five thousand four hundred and forty-eight scholars upon the rolls, while in 1884 there were seven thousand five hundred and eighty-three, with an average attendance of six thousand seven hundred and seven. In the case of school attendance the increase exhibits the very rapid

growth of the city in population during the five years. In no department is the permanent prosperity of a locality more distinctly located.

HEALTH OF THE VALLEY.

The general health of Scranton is excellent. Located seven hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea, surrounded by mountains two thousand feet high, it enjoys the advantages of an invigorating atmosphere, pure water, and ample drainage, and yet eighty physicians manage to sustain an indifferent degree of thrift and prosperity. Epidemics and endemics, such diseases as distract our seaboard cities, are unknown, while typhoid fever is rarely seen in the valley. Pulmonary troubles are not indigenous. Unless inherited and brought in the system from some other section of country, it is rare to see a case of consumption among us. Sheltered by the Moosic Mountains upon either side from the cold winds of March and December, the Lackawanna Valley, with its genial air and its coal-mines, affords to those predisposed to phthisis the best prospect for hope, recuperation, and longevity of any known place.

OUR CHARITIES.

THE LACKAWANNA HOSPITAL.

An institution originating solely through the agency of Dr. B. H. Throop, one of the oldest in Scranton, was incorporated in 1871, and it has done and is still doing a vast amount of good to the poor, unfortunate occupants of the city. This year (1885) it received an appropriation of $15,000 from the State. Charles W. Roesler is president, E. C. Fuller treasurer, and N. D. Green secretary.

THE MOSES TAYLOR HOSPITAL.

The Moses Taylor Hospital was the result of the thoughtfulness and benevolence and means of that noble man whose name it bears. It was started in 1884. When completed, the maimed and suffering will have occasion to rejoice over the measures of relief afforded them through its instrumentality. Mrs. Payne, his liberal daughter, supplemented this generous gift by donating $100,000 in addition.

DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION.

Scranton looks thoughtfully after the needs of the unfortu nate children found within its precincts. Our young and talented senator, HON. L. A. WATRES, and his able assistants urged a bill through the Legislature in the spring of 1885, appropriating $45,800 for the establishment in this city of an oral school for deaf-mutes. Governor Pattison, however, ignorant of every generous thought or impulse, vetoed the bill because he had the right to do so without the reason. The money thus appropriated was to have been used in the erection of suitable buildings for the maintenance of the school for two years. The oral system was to be taught in preference to the sign system used in all continental Europe except France.

Progress has discovered a much better method, and, instead of the pantomimic action of the fingers, what is called the oral system has been introduced, by which words may be read and ideas communicated by the mere movement of the lips.

The oral school for deaf-mutes was established in this city nearly two years ago, and since that time has been supported by private subscriptions on the part of the directors and others. But thirteen pupils are enrolled, as many mutes from this vicinity attend the institution for deaf-mutes in Philadelphia. According to the census there are in this section between eighty and one hundred deaf-mutes of school age. Applications for admission to the school have lately come from many places in the neighborhood, and one was received from Lynchburg, Va. The school-house is situated on the alley between Jefferson and Adams Avenues, near Vine Street. The building used is the first church building that was erected on the Scranton side of the river. It served as a place of worship for many congregations, and finally became the property of the German Methodists, who moved it on the rear end of their lot. The new building was to be erected on Washington Avenue, on the lot presented the directors by the Pennsylvania Coal Company. The lot consists of between four and five acres, and is pleasantly located.

The directors of the school are as follows: Hon. Alfred Hand, President; Henry Belin, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer; William T. Smith, Rev. Moses Whitty, John B. Smith, William Connell, Fred. W. Gunster, R. J. Matthews, B. G. Morgan, Hon. L. A.