This issue of The Catholic Journal was 16 pages instead of the usual 8. I’m not sure why they had this special issue. It did have some extra advertising and also had some scenes of Rochester which were terrible looking in the online versions. There was this column that gave statistics of Rochester and the area  at that time.

It is interesting to note that the current population of Rochester is just over 210,000.

THE CATHOLIC JOURNAL

Friday, Aug. 25, 1916

Facts About Greater Rochester in 1916

• Population 260,000, including Charlotte annexed. 23 Wards.
• Live Chamber of Commerce, 2,100 members.
• Pure water by gravity from City-owned lakes 30 miles distant.
• Lake Ontario 7 miles from City center.
• Genesee River drops 267 feet in city, developing 50,000 horsepower.
• Capital investment, $96,000,000.
• Total employees, over 75,000.
• Salaries and wages paid annually, $30,000,000.
• Assessed valuation (1915), $226,200,260.
• Valuation in building permit issue (1915), $9,108,333.
• Total enrollment in public and parochial schools (1915), 58,714
• Tax levy in 1915, %,457,946.16.
• Tax rate, $19.73.
• Theaters, 6.
• Fire companies, 34; firemen, 360; policeman, 371.
• New State Armory.
• Hotels, 57.
• Hospitals, 9.
• Libraries, 6.
• Churches, 133.
• Large Convention and Exposition Hall.
• Value of woodworking output over $6,000,000 annually.
• Large and spend idly equipped public market.
• Largest preserving establishment in the world.
• Seven steam railroads and seven trolley roads enter the city.
• Erie Canal transportation facilities.
• Over 149 miles of trolley road inside city.
• Annual output of beer and ale, 250,000 barrels.
• 2 Car ferries making round trips daily the entire year between the port of Rochester and Cobourg, Canada.
• Manufacturing establishments over 1,400.
• Over 325 distinct commodities manufactured.
• Rochester is the world’s headquarters for photographic goods and supplies.
• Rochester is one of the largest shoe centers of the United States.
• Forty-six boot and shoe manufactories.
• Total output, $17,000,000.
• Total output of leather and leather goods, $25,000,000.
• Total output of high-grade men’s clothing, $23,000,000.
• Increase of $775,000 per year during the last ten years.
• Largest manufacturers of filing devices and office systems.
• Largest custom fur tanning establishment in the United States.
• Largest thermometer plant in the world.
• largest optical works in the world.
• Sixty percent of the carbon paper and typewriter ribbon made in United States is made in Rochester.
• Rochester produces more high class ivory buttons than any other city in the Uited States.
• Rochester and its immediate vicinity are the headquarters of the nursery business in the United States.
• Total area, 16,000 acres; five large and twenty-five small parks containing 1,603 acres; lake park area, 502 acres.
• Exposition Park (now Edgerton Park), area 42 acres; buildings 8, including auditorium, exposition building, zoo, aquarium, shop school, band stand, etc.
• Estimated value of property, $600,000.
• Bank deposits in 15 banks (1915), $185,000,000.