PRINCETON 



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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 



population of 4,184, and in 1916 its estimated 

 population was 6,000. 



The country surrounding Prince Rupert has 

 almost unlimited agricultural, mineral and for- 

 est resources, and the bay and near-by streams 

 abound in fish. The halibut fisheries are per- 

 haps the greatest in British Columbia, and the 

 Skeena River salmon fisheries are second only 

 to those of the Fraser River. Prince Rupert 

 has reaped greater benefits than any other city 

 from the order in council of March 9, 1915, by 

 which American fishermen are allowed to ship 

 their catch in bond from Canadian territory 

 into the United States. The city has the larg- 

 est cold-storage plant exclusively for fish in the 

 world. Lumber mills and sawmills are also con- 

 spicuous, as is the great, floating dry dock, large 

 enough to accommodate 23,000-ton ships, which 

 the Grand Trunk Pacific was completing in 

 1917 at a cost of 82,500,000. This dry dock is 

 the largest on the Pacific coast. Facilities for 

 shipbuilding are excellent, and it is expected 

 that within a few years this will be a flourish- 

 ing industry. . W.B. 



PRINCE 'TON, BATTLE OF, an engagement of 

 the American Revolution which revealed the 

 superior generalship of George Washington. It 

 was fought on January 3, 1777. This battle, 

 which resulted in victory for the Americans, 

 was of great strategic importance. On the night 

 of January 2, Lord Cornwallis, in command of 

 a force of about 8,000 men, had taken a posi- 

 tion on the west shore of the Assunpink River, 

 a small creek south of Trenton, N. J. Wash- 

 ington, with a much smaller force, was en- 

 camped at Trenton. He could not retreat 

 across the Delaware because the river was 

 blocked with ice, so he resolved to take the 

 offensive. Leaving his camp fires burning, he 

 led his army by a brilliant maneuver around 

 the British, and at daybreak arrived on the 

 outsk-'rtt of Princeton. Here a detachment 

 maicning to join Cornwallis came into con- 

 flict with the Americans, and after a brisk en- 

 gagement, in which Washington revealed splen- 

 did personal bravery, the British withdrew, 

 having lost over 300 in killed, wounded and 

 prisoners. Washington then seized the military 

 stores at Princeton and returned to Morristown, 

 where he established winter quarters. This bat- 

 tle, following the important victory at Trenton 

 (see TRENTON, BATTLE OF), greatly encouraged 

 the Americans and inspired them to renewed 

 efforts. Another important result was the with- 

 drawal of all the British forces in New Jersey 

 from that state into New York. 



PRINCETON, N. J., a borough in Mercer 

 County, situated in the west-central part of 

 the state, ten miles northeast of Trenton, on 

 the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad. This fine old residence town 

 is the seat of one of the great American uni- 

 versities (see PRINCETON UNIVERSITY), and it 

 has many interesting historical associations. 

 Here Washington defeated the British in the 

 Battle of Princeton, and in Nassau Hall Con- 

 gress was in session when the news was brought 

 that England and America had concluded peace. 

 Grover Cleveland spent the last years of his 

 life in Princeton, and he is honored with the 

 Cleveland Memorial Tower, shown below. Be- 

 sides the university the town has Princeton 

 Theological University, Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research, Princeton Preparatory 

 School and Saint Joseph's College. Population 

 in 1910, 5,136; in 1915, 5,678 (state census). 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, one of the old- 

 est and most influential universities in the 

 United States. 

 But three Ameri- 

 can colleges pre- 

 ceded it, Harvard, 

 Yale and William 

 and Mary. The 

 institution is the 

 outgrowth of the 

 College of New 

 Jersey, founded 

 in 1746 at Eliza- 

 bethtown through 

 the efforts of in- 

 fluential Presby- 

 terians. The first 

 commence- 

 ment exercises 

 were held in 1748 

 at Newark, 

 whither the col- 

 lege had been re- 

 moved the same 

 year. In 1752 it 

 was decided to 

 make Princeton 

 the permanent 

 seat of the in- 

 stitution, and two CLEVELAND MEMORIAL 

 ., TOWER 



years later the It was complete a in 1913, 

 corner stone of and Is 273 feet high. 

 the first building, Nassau Hall, was laid. Ses- 

 sions were begun at Princeton in the fall of 

 1756, and 140 years later the corporate title 

 of the school was changed to Princeton Uni- 



