to return the minors to the islands. In many cases young boys who have been recruited for service in this manner have not gone farther than Hongkong before their families complained and took steps to have them returned.

OFFICE OF THE SUPERVISING RAILWAY EXPERT.

The total kilometerage of railway lines authorized by law, with the length constructed, to be constructed, and in operation on June 30, 1911, is shown below:

Construction. During the year 89.6 kilometers of track were laid by this company, the average required to complete guaranteed lines under legislative concessions by September 12, 1918, being 90 kilometers annually.

Operation, northern lines.-On the northern lines 441.3 kilometers of main track were in operation on June 30, 1911. The results of operation for the calendar years 1909 and 1910 follow:

Miscellaneous income, including income from separately operated properties, interest on securities, loans and accounts, etc., of which no report is obtainable for 1909, increased the operating income for the year 1910 to a gross total of 1,699,110.05.

The year 1910 was unusually free from severe storms, and but few interruptions to traffic were caused by washouts.

Operation, southern lines.-The average kilometerage operated during the year 1910 on the southern lines was 111.8, and the results of operation for the calendar year follow. No report is available for the previous year:

Revenue from transportation

Revenue from operation other than transportation.

Revenue from outside operations_.

Operating expenses

Taxes

Operating income_

P201, 523. 39

346. 34 658. 54 134, 459. 02

1,574. 74 66, 494. 51

PHILIPPINE RAILWAY CO.

CONSTRUCTION.

Island of Cebu.-At the end of the fiscal year there were a few items of construction work unfinished, the majority of which were, under a ruling of the Governor General, required to be finished by August 1, 1911, two items running to October 1, 1911. No construction work has been done on the proposed line from Carcar across the island to Barili and Dumanjug.

Island of Panay.-During the year the construction forces have been engaged in completing the grade, ballasting, bridges, etc., and at the end of the year 11.4 kilometers of final ballasting remained to be done, together with the wharves at Iloilo, several water stations, and a number of miscellaneous items.

OPERATION.

Island of Cebu.-The results of operation for the fiscal years 1910 and 1911 over the 95.6 kilometers of line on Cebu follow:

Island of Panay. The line on this island from Iloilo to Capiz has been in construction operation since September 1, 1910, the average kilometerage under operation during the year being 110.2. In the following table the average operated kilometerage for the fiscal year 1910 is 74.55, and for the fiscal year 1911, 110.2.

The Daet Tramway Co., operating over 7.24 kilometers between Daet and Mercedes, in the Province of Ambos Camarines, reports a total revenue from passengers, freight, and mails of P17,369.19, with operating expenses, including maintenance and taxes, of 12,528.75, leaving an operating income for the year of 4,840.44. The equipment of this short line consisted of 4 passenger cars and 20 freight cars, operated by 22 bulls.

TARLAC RAILWAY CO.

The Tarlac Railway Co., operated entirely by the use of Manila Railroad Co. equipment, under contract with that company, between the towns of Paniqui and Camiling, a distance of 20.58 kilometers, in the Province of Tarlac, reports as follows on the results of operation during the fiscal year 1911:

The architectural designing of 103 projects, representing an approximate construction cost of P12,551,615, was handled during the year. This is far in excess of the work of any previous year.

Of the 103 projects handled, the plans for 62 have been completed and 41 are in course of preparation, the preliminary plans having been prepared and submitted for approval. Work performed for the city of Manila, in the location and treatment of streets and parks, is not included in the above.

Of the 62 plans completed, 40 provide for reinforced concrete construction, costing 2,492,312; 19 for native hardwood construction, costing P345,458; 2 for brick buildings, costing P40,000; and 1 for a granite structure, costing P15,500.

Among the important structures completed during the year were the new customhouse at Cebu; a nurses' home, dispensary, and garage at the general hospital, Manila; a laundry at San Lazaro Hospital; cattle sheds in Pandacan district, Manila; a dormitory school at Vigan, Ilocos Sur; a provincial building at Bontoc, Mountain Province; a municipal market at Tayabas; and a city hall, mess hall, dor

mitory, hall for the Veteran Army of the Philippines, officers' quarters, fireproof record vault, and 69 cottages at Baguio, Mountain Province.

THE CAPITOL GROUP.

Plans have been for some time in course of preparation for a new group of buildings to be erected in Government Center, as plotted on the Burnham plan of Manila, to house the executive offices of the Government, both branches of the Legislature, the supreme court, and most of the bureaus.

Preliminary sketches of the entire group, following the general scheme of the Burnham plan, were submitted to and approved by the committee created in Act No. 1841, in March, 1911. It is proposed to submit a complete set of final plans to the Legislature during its coming fall and winter session.

EDUCATIONAL GROUP.

The normal school, the first of the group of buildings to be erected in educational center, following the Burnham plan, is in course of construction at the corner of Taft Avenue and Ayala Street. It is designed in the shape of a V, will be three stories high, have a large auditorium at the apex of the V, and contain 26 classrooms, a library, and three laboratories. It is being constructed of steel and concrete, and will cost approximately 398,000.

CITY OF MANILA.

The development of the street system of the city of Manila has been continued by the opening up of outlying districts for occupation as circumstances required.

Preliminary work and filling have been commenced on Malate Park, in the southern part of the city, which when completed will take the place of the present botanical gardens on Bagumbayan Drive, the latter property being required for building sites in connection with the development of Government Center.

Work on the moat surrounding the old walls has been slowly progressing, and the completed section, between Palacio Street and the Malecon Drive, aside from presenting a pleasing picture, provides a splendid playground of level turf. The revised plans for the section between Palacio and Victoria Streets provide for four baseball diamonds and ten tennis courts. These, with a football and cricket field in the west section and a large additional space for general recreation between the Bridge of Spain and Victoria Street, will provide ample playgrounds for a large section of the city.

The parking on the Luneta extension is nearly completed, and that part near the new Manila Hotel will be graded by the time that building is completed.

Several new buildings have been commenced in the port district, and one block thereon, opposite the Manila Hotel, has been set aside for a sales-agency building, in which will be exhibited and sold products and manufactures of the schools of the islands and articles produced or manufactured in the Provinces inhabited by Moros and other non-Christian tribes.

Preliminary plans for a bridge across the Pasig River near its mouth, to cost about P1,000,000, have been approved, and the final plans are in course of preparation. This bridge is necessary to give access to the new port district for all classes of rail and wheel traffic for the present business section of the city.

Plans have also been drawn for transit storage warehouses to be erected along the south side of the Pasig River to accommodate shippers dealing with vessels which dock there.

GENERAL.

The cost of operating this office during the year, including the salary of the consulting architect, all employees and inspectors assigned from the bureau of public works, and necessary incidental expenses, was 98,398.27.

CORPORATIONS.

The total number of corporations doing business in the Philippine Islands on June 30, 1911, was, foreign, 221, and, domestic, 377, of which 79 were nonstock and 24 religious corporations. During the fiscal year 1911, 216 documents, consisting of articles and amended articles of incorporation, certificates of increase of capital stock, by-laws and amended by-laws, were registered and filed in the division of archives, patents, copyrights, and trade marks of the executive bureau. There was collected as fees for the filing of the same the sum of P3,462.

One hundred and nine new corporations were authorized and licensed to do business, of which number 13 were foreign and 96 domestic, 24 of the latter being nonstock corporations.

Respectfully submitted.

CHARLES B. ELLIOTT, Secretary of Commerce and Police.

To the PHILIPPINE COMMISSION,

Manila, P. I.

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