

M-:U M M:\VI-OKT. 



bom UM ralne mod distribution of the entire com 

 mem of the city fur 



t.v:- : 



Toul 



Forvin. Coaaiwiw. 



$.M5.I71 $M.42.6J8 $,5 



S8,264,M 120,." 



..190,675.369 $89,707,61) $180,382.981 



RecripU of Produce from Interior. 



Tons Vilue. 



By rlTer 2,337,216 $61.911,534 



By rail 1,344,430 106,62,320 



Toul.. 



..3,681,656 $168,633,854 



Interior. 



Ton*. Value. 



By riw 1,390,538 $35,826.230 



By rail 746,146 62,488,920 



Total 2,136,684 $98,315,160 



Total Trade. 



Tom. Value. 



With interior 5,81 8,340 $266,849,004 



Total ocean trade 2,198,575 180,382,981 



Grand Total of Trade. 



Tons. Value. 



For 1886 8,016,915 $447,231,985 



For 1887 8,324.372 462,211,178 



New Orleans up to 1870 was almost wholly a com- 

 mercial city, but since then, and particularly since 1880, 

 it has been forced by trade changes more and more to 

 manufactures, in order to find employment for its 

 working classes. From 1870 to 1880 there were 

 12,000 men employed in handling cotton in the com- 

 preases and placing it aboard ship ; while in 1888 the 

 number was reduced one-half. On the other hand 

 there has been a large increase in the number of per- 

 sons engaged in maiiula'-tiires. The following table 

 gives the manufacturing statistics : 



Tar. 



1S70 

 taw 



6M 



Capital. 



s t iua 

 . no a 



- 



No. 



4.411 

 IjMi 



- . 



PM. 



fl.204.2M 

 S.317,777 

 8.242.M(> 



Vain, of 

 ProdneU. 



$S,4M),439 

 lH,U62,oM 

 41,MM,M 



The chief industries are, boots and shoes (products, 

 $2,227,500), bread and bakery(products ,$1,923,750), 

 rlothing ($4,4124,500), machinery ($1,485,200), beer 

 ($1.877,210), lumber, etc. ($1,484,146), cotton -seed oil 

 and fertilizers ($3.187,100), rice cleaning and polishing 

 ($2,792,750), sugar refining_($7,335,000), and tobacco 

 and cigars ($1.898,500). There were, in 1888, 3840 

 women engaged in factory work against only 120 in 

 LSI > 



With these new factories important changes have 

 come over New Orleans industrially, socially, and 

 otherwise. Many buildings formerly devoted to com- 

 merce have been fitted up as factories. The long 

 period, from May to October, formerly known as "the 

 dull season." when the city went to sleep and business 

 was generally suspended, has disappeared, the factories 

 remaining open and in operation throughout the 



The control of the city debt is in the hands of a 

 'Board of Liquidation,' under whose administration 

 it U being reduced at the rate of $275.0nOa year. The 

 bonded and floating debt amounts to $17.491. 



The street-, square*, and public buildings of New 

 Orleans are lighted altogether by electricity, the tower 

 system prevailing in the suburbs. For drinking water 

 the inhabitants are dependent almost wholly on cisterns 



and rain, the water-works supplying only tin- muddy 

 water from the Mississippi, which has to be tiller, -d 

 lii-lon- UM- Latterly a dozen or inon- artesian wells 

 have been sunk in tin- rity limits, and have struck an 

 .tlitindaiii supply of water, excell-nt tor drinking or 

 manufacturing purposes, at a depth of lOoti I'. 



The hi.-tory of New ( Means since 1880 has been un- 

 cv.-ntt'iil. the most important item Wing the Intern:! 

 tional Exposition lu-ld there in 1*> i-is-sj, and contin 

 ued daring l>vy-isM'i. 



This exiKJsition. known as tin- World's Industrial and 

 Cotton Centennial Exposition, opened in I'ecembcr, 

 1884. The I'nited States contributed $1,000,000 tow- 

 ards its expenses, besides $350.iMK i 1.. .-liable the several 

 Federal departments to make displays. The grounds 

 covered iM'.i acre-. The principal buildings were iln- 

 Main Building, 1378 by 905 feet, or 33 acres, the Mu-ie 

 Hall in its centre having a seating capacity for 13.noi 

 people; the U. S. Building, in which the United 

 States and the several States had their exhibits, 

 885 by 565 feet ; the Art Gallery : Horticultural Hall, 

 wholly of glass; Factory and Mill Building, lor the 

 exhibition of machinery ; and the Mexican National 

 Building, when- the Mexican display was exhibited. 

 All the Statt- :unl Territories had exhibit-, and of for- 

 eign powers there were represented Mexico, all the 

 Central American states, Brazil, England. France, 

 Italy, Russia. Germany, China, Japan. Siam, ana 

 other countries Although the amount of space cov- 

 ered and the number of exhibitors were greater than at 

 any previous World's Exhibition, the attendance was 

 not so large, falling short of 3,000,000. (N. w.) 



N KW P< IKT. a city ot Kentucky, the county-seat of 

 Campbell eo. , is on the Ohio Hi ver. at the mouth of the 

 Licking Hivcr. 1 mile from Cincinnati, on a branch of 

 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the Eliza- 

 bethtownand Big Sandy Railroad. It has a fine court- 

 house, post-office, and Masonic temple, 5 hotels. ^ 

 national banks. 1 tri-weckly and ;i weekly newspapers. 

 20 churches, and 5 schools. The industrial establish- 

 ments comprise large iron-rolling-mills, bolt-works, 

 pipe-foundry, flour-, saw-, and planing-mills. tool- and 

 tile-works. It has gas- and water- works, a paid fire de- 

 partment, and a park. i!ts property is valued at 

 $7,000,000, its public debt is $1,042,000, and the yearly 

 expenses are $143,000. It is connected with Covington 

 by a suspension bridge over the Licking River, and 

 with Cincinnati by a railroad bridge with roadways and 

 footways (see BRIDOES, fig. 40). There is also a 

 steam ferry to Cincinnati, and a line of street cars to 

 Covington. Newport, settled in 1791, had in 1880 a 

 population of 15,693. 



NEWPORT, one of the capitals of the State of 

 , ,,., Rhode Island, is on the west shore of 



D*** l<? 416 R ! lode Island ' in Narragansett Ba y. 5 

 miles from the ocean and 22 miles south 



All). Krp.'. ,.!! T i 



of Providence. It has a spacious 

 and commodious harbor, which is defended Sy Fort 

 Adam.-. 1J miles from the -city. The U. S. torpedo 

 station is on an island in the harbor. Thecity contains 

 a state house, U. S. custom house, city hall, 2 libraries, 

 5 national, 3 State, and 3 savings banks, 15 churches, 

 a high school and other schools, 1 daily and 2 weekly 

 newspapers. The industrial works comprise a brass 

 foundry, - cotton-milk and lead-works. Newjmrt has 

 daily sicamlxiat communication with New \orkand 

 Providence. It is now chiefly noted as a summer re- 

 sort, the whole Miuthern part of the island being occu- 

 .nd villas. The beach is one of the 

 finest in the Tinted Slates for bathing and for prome- 

 nades. Ucllevuc avenue and Ocean drive are noted for 

 their tine equipages during the summer season. New- 

 iiort \\ .'- settled in !''.> by William Coddington. who 

 had separated from Rnjcr William-.' colony. Before 

 the . \iin-i ic-an Revolution the town had become noted for 

 its commercial enterprise. The Redwood Library and 

 several of the public buildings belong to this period. 

 During the revolutionary war the island was occupied 



