CITIES, AMERICAN. (BROCKVILLE, CANANDAIGUA, CARTHAGE.) 



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life-insurance company, and 4 national banks. 

 Two large flouring mills, a plow factory, steam- 

 radiator works, foundries, stove works, cigar 

 factories, and numerous thriving industries are 

 found here. The city has a large retail trade, 

 being one of the chief agricultural centers of 

 the richest section of central Illinois. Its wealth 

 of shade trees has given it the name of "the 

 Evergreen City," and it is sometimes known as 

 ' the Rochester of the West," owing to the fact 

 that 6 large nurseries are located here, one of 

 which covers 600 acres. The city of NORMAL is 

 practically a part of Bloomington, though it has 

 a government of its own. The two are connect- 

 ed by street cars. The State Normal School, 

 with more than 600 pupils, is located here, as is 

 also the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home, with 

 400 inmates. Normal is the greatest Norman- 

 horse shipping-point in the country; it is sur- 

 rounded by hundreds of acres devoted to the 

 cultivation of small fruits, and thousands of 

 crates of strawberries, raspberries, and black- 

 berries and tons of grapes are shipped annually. 

 Bloomington is on the highest land in the State 

 and is remarkably healthful and pleasant. 



Brockville, the chief town and county seat 

 of the united counties of Leeds and Grenville, 

 Ontario, Canada. It is on the north bank of the 

 St. Lawrence, at the foot of the Thousand Isl- 

 ands, midway between Toronto and Montreal. 

 Brockville has a population of 9,000, and pos- 

 sesses extensive iron foundries, agricultural im- 

 plement works, glove works, dye-wood mills, 

 edge-tool works, etc. It is the market town of 

 a rich and prosperous agricultural and dairying 

 district. The Brockville Cheese Board is the 

 most important in the province, 200 factories 

 being represented at its weekly meetings, the 

 annual average value of whose output is more 

 than $2,000,000. It has some of the finest public 

 buildings and business blocks in the province. 

 The assessed value of the town is $3,565,084, and 

 there is exempted property to the value of over half 

 a million more. The total bonded indebtedness 

 of the town is $175,000, which includes the out- 

 lay for a fine system of sewerage just completed, 

 aid to railways, etc. There is a Holly system of 

 water works, electric fire alarm, a paid fire bri- 

 gade, and a salvage corps. There are 2 electric- 

 light companies and gas works. The educa- 

 tional institutions include the Collegiate Insti- 

 tute, business college, art school, 5 public schools, 

 and a kindergarten. There is also a Mechanics' 

 Institute, with a library of over 4,000 volumes, a 

 Roman Catholic separate school, and a convent 

 school for young ladies. There are 12 churches, 

 2 daily and 2 weekly newspapers, 3 banks, 10 

 hotels, a general hospital, and a Roman Catholic 

 hospital. The town has a divisional headquar- 

 ters on the Grand Trunk Railway, and is the 

 southern terminus of a branch of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway and the southern terminus of 

 the Brockville,' Westport and Sault Ste. Marie 

 Railway. It is connected with the American 

 system of railways at Morristown, N. Y., on the 

 opposite side of the river, by a ferry boat capable 

 of carrying five cars. A company has been or- 

 ganized to build a railroad bridge across the 

 river at this point, and a part of the preliminary 

 work is already done. Brockville is an impor- 

 tant lumber-distributing point. 



the county seat of 

 Ontario County, New York, on the southern and 

 western faces of two low-lying hills at the foot 

 of the lake of the same name, at the junction of 

 the Northern Central, a branch of the Pennsyl- 

 vania system, and the Auburn branch of the 

 New York Central Railroad, at the northern ter- 

 minus of the lake steamboat lines, the outlet of 

 the lake trade. The population in 1890 was 

 5,847. There are 2 flouring mills, spring-tooth 

 harrow and chill plough factories, iron works, a 

 brick yard, a brewery, 2 planing mills, gas works, 

 and a grain elevator. The town has 7 churches, 



2 opera houses, 3 hotels, 3 banking houses, and 



3 weekly papers. The Union School, Boys' acad- 

 emy, Granger Place School, Upham School, and 

 parochial school afford exceptional educational 

 facilities. The closing decade has witnessed 

 many marked improvements in the business, so- 

 cial, and intellectual advantages of Canandaigua. 

 There are extensive water works, a street-car 

 service, and an arc and incandescent electric plant. 

 The village authorities maintain a thoroughly or- 

 ganized voluntary fire department, and have 

 recently equipped it with an electric fire-alarm 

 system. They also maintain a well-equipped 

 police force and an efficient streets department. 

 There is a commodious clubhouse, while the 

 Masonic, Ancient Order of United Workmen, 

 and several mutual insurance societies maintain 

 lodges. The union of the public schools with 

 an adjoining district and their reorganization 

 have produced a marked effect upon the attend- 

 ance and the facilities of instruction. The Board 

 of Education have in process of construction ex- 

 tensive additions to their buildings. The New 

 York Central Railroad has recently completed 

 one of the handsomest stations on this road at a 

 cost approximating $35,000. 



Carthage, the county seat of Jasper County, 

 Mo., on Spring river, in the southwestern part 

 of the State, at the crossing of the southern 

 branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and 

 the main line of the St. Louis and San Francisco 

 road. The county seat, which was located in 

 1842, during the civil war was entirely deserted 

 and destroyed, but three houses being left when 

 peace was declared. The census returns for 

 1890 show a population of 8.962, an increase in 

 the last decade of 4,795. Taking in the popula- 

 tion of the proposed addition, which has not 

 yet been admitted, would swell the figures to 

 10,000. One hundred and seventy-six residences 

 were constructed during 1890, and yet the sup- 

 ply falls short of the demand. The enumeration 

 of school children in the spring of 1890 showed 

 3.310. The valuation of school property was 

 $200,000, and the assessed valuation of the city 

 $1.806,079, which is about one third of its actual 

 value. The city is provided with a new central 

 high school, a central building, 4 ward schools, 

 and a colored school, employing 36 teachers; a 

 college under the auspices of the Presbyterian 

 Church, a private seminary, a Catholic convent, 

 a commercial college, and a school of music. 

 The schools are well supplied with philosophical 

 appliances, and there is a public library contain- 

 ing 4,000 volumes. The city has a complete line 

 of water works (with thirteen miles of mains), 

 five miles of street railway, electric light, and 

 gas. The railroads have made extensive im- 



