[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] assistant manager. The company is incorporated under the general State law, and operates under licenses from the Ameri-can Bell Telephone Company. Nearly all the stock is held by parties outside of Y'onkers, and the central effices of the company are in New Y'ork City. Its officers are Dexter A. Smith, president; H. L. Storke, vice-president and general manager; and C. F. Cutler, secretary and treasurer. The district of its opera-tions comprises the territory north of New Y'ork City to a line thirty-three and one-third miles from the City Hall, and including Haverstraw and Nyack on the west side of the river. The exchanges are at Peekskill, Sing Sing, Tarry town, White Plains, Mount Vernon, Hartsdale, Port Chester. Rye, New Rochelle Westchester, Haverstraw and Nyack. These ex-changes have connections with smaller towns and villages near them. The district is connected with New Y'ork, and by this means connections may be made with any city or locality in this section of the country. The Yonkers Exchange has two hundred and sixty-four subscribers and in the whole district there are about six hundred subscribers more. There are in the district about one thousand miles of wire, and the work of maintaining and operating is done by thirty-nine employes. Medicinal Manufactures. — On the 12th of