Banks and Six banks have a combined capital of slightly more than $6,600. 000 with a large surplus. Two savings banks have 85,000 depositors and $48,000,000 of assets.
Buildings.— The business section is com pactly built up of brick and Onondaga lime stone mainly; there are a number of exhibits of present-day architecture and construction, such as the Onondaga County Savings Bank building, the University buildings, City Bank building, University Club, Young Men's Chris tian Association, Keith Theatre building, First Trust and Deposit building, Syracuse Trust Company, the Hunter-Tuppen Company and Dey Brothers and Company's department stores, the high schools, courthouse, library and others. There are many stately and handsome business and public buildings, and fine private residences are seen in large numbers on all of the principal avenues. James street, it is very generally conceded, is second to no avenue in this country in point of attractiveness. The buildings of the Syracuse University, particu larly the John Crouse College of Fine Arts, are all models of good architecture, and the Hall of Languages is a fair example of the excellence of Onondaga limestone, which ex ists in such vast quantities for building pur poses.
Education.— The public schools are under the direction of eight commissioners, who ap point a superintendent at a salary of $4,000 per year. There are 38 public school buildings, having a valuation of $3,444,838. The number of pupils registered in the public schools for the year ended 1 July 1918, was 22,344, and in the high schools 3,358. The buildings are of brick, substantially constructed and supplied with the most modern sanitary appliances and heating apparatus. The course of study is according to the most advanced ideas, and a graduate of the high. school is quite as well equipped as were graduates of most colleges half a century ago. Teachers' meetings are held monthly under the direction of the super intendent, not only to preserve uniformity in the system, but also for the instruction of teachers in their general as well as special duties. The Syracuse University (q.v.), em
bracing the colleges of liberal arts, fine arts, law, medicine, forestry and applied science, is situated on the highlands in the southeastern part of the city and has an ample campus of 100 acres. The property, including endowments, is valued at $3,156,711. There are 3,540 students in attendance; the professors and instructors number 344. It is under the control of a chan cellor and board of trustees and allied reli giously to the Methodist Church, though very liberal in this respect. The library comprises over 99,000 volumes and 43,000 pamphlets. An observatory is one of its essential fixtures. In the tower of the buildings of the College of Fine Arts is a chime of bells, and on an upper floor in the Hall of Languages building the Central New York Weather Observation Bu reau is located and maintained by the United States government. All of the athletic sports are maintained, and the secret societies all have fine fraternity houses. There are 12 parochial schools and two non-parochical under Roman Catholic control, with 122 teachers and 5,400 pupils. They are under the general super vision of the bishop of the diocese, and are mainly intended for academic instruction.
Libraries.— The Syracuse Public Library system including three branches and 34 stations centres in the Carnegie Building which was completed in 1905 at a cost of $268,000. The library contains about 140,000 hooks and in 1918 had a circulation of 556,437 among 43,921 bor rowers. The main library is the centre of many public activities, including the Americanization work of the city. The servce of the library is free. The library of the Court of Appeals in the Court House is one of the three best libra ries of the State, by which it is maintained.
The general library of Syracuse University is housed in a building donated by Mr. Carnegie and is rich in certain lines of research material. The State College of Forestry connected with Syracuse University maintains a special library for forestry students. The College of Medicine has a well-equipped library for physicians and surgeons.