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CITIES. AMERICAN. (JAMESTOWN, JEFFERSON CITY, JOLIET.) 



College of Music and Art under the especial 

 patronage of the Methodist Church, Jackson- 

 ville Business College, and an excellent system 

 of public schools. Here also are the Illinois In- 

 stitution for Deaf Mutes (the largest of its kind 

 in the world), the Central Illinois Hospital for 

 the Insane, and the Illinois Institution for the 

 Blind. Three railroads pasfi through the .town, 

 the Wabash, the Chicago and Alton, and the Jack- 

 sonville Southeastern system, the last having 

 its machine shops and headquarters in the city. 

 Several miles of the streets are paved, and along 

 many of them are rows of beautiful trees well 

 grown. The streets are lighted with gas and 

 electricity, and the city has a system of water 

 works supplied by an impounding reservoii', in 

 addition to which' are two artesian wells supply- 

 ing nearly 600.000 gallons daily. A mine of 

 good coal is operated just beyond the city limits. 

 The Jacksonville woolen mills employ a large 

 number of operatives and the Bohne and Garden 

 City knitting works furnish employment to many, 

 making a special quality of silk underwear, and 

 woolen knit garments, while the Jacksonville 

 Manufacturing Company makes a large variety 

 of wooden goods. There is an excellent system 

 of street railways, two large artificial-ice fac- 

 tories, and several brick and tile establishments. 

 Two daily papei's and a monthly magazine are 

 published. There are 10 chin-Che's. The popula- 

 tion in 1890 was 12,357. 



Jamestown, a city of Chautauqua County, 

 N. Y., on the outlet of Chautauqua Lake, 69 

 miles by rail south of Buffalo, at an elevation of 

 1,350 feet above sea-level. It is on the New 

 York, Lake Erie and Western Railway, 446 

 miles from New York, 180 from Cleveland, and 

 539 from Chicago. It is a terminus of the 

 Chautauqua Lake Railway, also of the Buffalo 

 and Southwestern branch of the Erie, and is on 

 the line of the Dunkirk, Alleghany Valley and 

 Pittsburg. It is also connected with the vari- 

 ous points on Chautauqua Lake by steamboats. 

 Its population in 1890 was 15,991. It contains 

 4 banks, 22 churches and chapels, a Young 

 Men's Christian Association, a hospital, an or- 

 phan asylum, 8 newspapers, and a fine system of 

 public schools with 10 well-equipped buildings. 

 An abundant supply of pure water is furnished 

 from artesian wells' by means of the Holly sys- 

 tem. Natural gas for both heat and light* is 

 brought from wells 26 miles distant. Elec- 

 tricity is also used for both light and power. 

 A street railway, 4| miles long, is to be extended, 

 in the coming year, more than twice that dis- 

 tance, and electricity applied for propelling the 

 cars. The Prendergast Library Association has 

 erected a fine library building at a cost of more 

 than $65,000. The circulating library will soon 

 open with 6,500 volumes, and $5,000 will be ex- 

 pended on a reference library. The association 

 lias property yielding an annual income of about 

 $4,500 for the benefit of the library. The con- 

 tract has been let for building a State armory. 

 There are more than 70 manufactories, about 

 one third of which make furniture or articles 

 of wood. Of the 3 worsted mills. 2 give em- 

 ployment to about 500 persons each. Woolen 

 and plush goods, boots and shoes, boilers and 

 engines, and metallic cases for vaults and safes, 

 are among the articles manufactured. Chau- 



tauqua Lake is. a popular summer resort and 

 is widely known as the seat of the Chautau- 

 qua University. During summer 6 large and 

 numerous small steamboats ply between James- 

 town and points on the lake. 



Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri and 

 county seat of Cole County, on the south bank 

 of Missouri river, 143 miles above its confluence 

 with the Mississippi, opposite the mouth of Ce- 

 dar Creek and 125 miles west of St. Louis, with 

 which it is connected by the Missouri Pacific 

 Railroad. It is the southern terminus of a 

 branch of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and 

 a branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad runs 

 thence southwest 50 miles to Osage river. The 

 population in 1860 was 3,082; in 1870 it was 

 4,420 ; in 1880 it was 5,271, of whom 1,017 were 

 colored ; in 1890 it was 6,732. The city is very 

 near the geographical center of the State, and is 

 built on elevated and uneven ground ; command- 

 ing a fine view of the beautiful scenery on the 

 northern bank of the river. Its principal pub- 

 lic edifices are the State House, a handsome 

 building of stone to which two wings have 

 recently been added at a cost of 250,000, the 

 Governor's residence, the State armory, the Su- 

 preme-Court building, the Penitentiary, the 

 United States court house and post-office build- 

 ing, the public-school building, the county court 

 house, and Lincoln Institute, an institution sup- 

 ported by the State for the education of colored 

 teachers and the higher education of colored 

 youth, which has 154 students. There are 12 

 churches, a Jewish synagogue, and 5 hotels. 

 The city is lighted by gas and electricity and 

 has an excellent system of water works, a nation- 

 al bank and 3 State banks, 1 daily and 3 weekly 

 newspapers, a monthly journal of education, 

 flouring mills, breweries, manufactories of wag- 

 ons, shoes, paper boxes, brick, and mineral waters, 

 a planing mill, a book bindery, a foundry and 

 machine - repair shop, and 4 building-and-loan 

 associations with an aggregate capital stock of 

 $900,000. There are within the Penitentiary, 

 under the contract system, extensive manufac- 

 tories of saddle-trees, boots and shoes, clothing, 

 harness, etc. The State library has 20,000 vol- 

 umes. The public schools have 950 pupils. 



Joliet, a city, the county seat of Will County, 

 111., on both sides of Des Plaines river, 35 miles 

 southwest of Chicago. The population in 1S50 

 was 2,659; in 1860 it was 7,102 ; in 1870 it was 

 7,263 ; in 1880 it was 16,659 : in 1890 it was 27,- 

 487. The Illinois and Michigan Canal passes 

 through the city, and it is the point of junction 

 of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the 

 Chicago and Alton, the Michigan Central, the 

 Chicago, Santa Fe and California, the Joliet, 

 Aurora and Northern, and the Elgin, Joliet 

 and Eastern Railroads. It is surrounded by a 

 rich agricultural country, and is the principal 

 shipping point for the produce of this region. 

 The canal and river furnish water power, and 

 there are several flouring mills, wire-fence facto- 

 ries, a large oatmeal mill, and a paper mill. The 

 Illinois Steel Company's plant is by far the 

 largest and most important in the city. It com- 

 prises also the North Chicago and South Chi- 

 cago Rolling Mills. The company's works at 

 Joliet cover 100 acres of level ground. The 

 capacity of these works is over 3,000 tons of 



