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CITIES, AMERICAN. (QuiNCY, RAWLINS, RICHMOND.) 



ed by public contributions. There are 2 music 

 halls* 1 with seating capacity of 1,500, and a 

 larire skating rink. The Young Men's Christian 

 A m 'ciation building is in course of construction. 

 Netherwood Heights has a large summer and 

 winter hotel, and is a popular resort. There is a 

 macadamized drive to First mountain, on the 

 summit of which is Washington's Rock. Two 

 factories in Plainfield manufacture printing 

 presses, and 1 machine tools. Oil-cloths, car- 

 pets, and wall-paper rolls are also made, and 

 flour and grain foods. 



Qiiincy, a city of Norfolk County, Mass.. 8 miles 

 south by east of Boston, on Quincy Bay, a part of 

 Massachusetts Bay; population in 1890, 16,666. 

 The location is picturesque, the ground rising 

 on the west into hills that command a beautiful 

 sea view. These are adjacent to the Blue Hills 

 of Milton, from the Indian name for which the 

 won! Massachusetts was derived. Quincy is a 

 thriving place which (after having been for nearly 

 J.~>0 years, first as part of old Braintree, and later 

 under its present name, agood example of govern- 

 ment by town meeting) became, in 1889, a city 

 under a charter specially designed to avoid many 

 of the common evils of city government. Up to 

 1825 the chief industries of the town were farm- 

 ing and ship building. In that year a quarry 

 was opened in the syenite granite of its hills to 

 build Bunker Hill monument, and the first rail- 

 way in America was built here in 1826, to trans- 

 port this stone to the water-side. For many 

 years the Quincy granite was used largely for 

 architectual purposes. Some of the surface bowl- 

 der granite had previously been employed in 

 building, about 1750, King's Chapel in Boston, 

 and a little later the old Hancock house, on 

 Beacon Street. In 1828 the Stone Church of 

 Quincy was built from its granite, and subse- 

 quently many of the large buildings of Boston, 

 notably the Boston Custom House, which has 

 thirty monolithic columns of this stone, weighing 

 42 tons each. In recent years, owing partly to 

 changes in architectural style, the granite 'has 

 not been so much used as a building material, 

 but it is in demand for monuments, being suit- 

 able for statuary, and also taking a beautiful 

 polish. There are light and dark granites of 

 bluish gray, and some of a pinkish color. In 

 this industry between 60 and 70 firms are en- 

 ira-ed. having a capital of nearly $400,000 exclu- 

 sive of the quarries, and doing a yearly business 

 of about $1,500,000. The quarries have been the 

 chief cause of the addition of foreign elements 

 to the population. Many Irish and Scotch have 

 thus conic in, and within a few years about a 

 thousand Swedes. Quincy has about a dozen 

 shoe shops, making nearly $1,000,000 worth a 

 year. There are also miscellaneous manufact- 

 ure amounting to about $1,000,000 more. The 

 Old Colony Railroad has 5 stations in Quincy. 

 There are 4 banks and a public-library build- 

 ing which, though not very, large, is finely fin- 

 ished ;,iid is an example of the work of the cele- 

 brated architect Richardson. The library con- 

 tains about 15,000 volumes. The city has a pub- 

 lic high school and a classical preparatory school, 

 Adams Academy, endowed by John Adams, 

 though not established until recently. Its build- 

 ing stands on the site of the birthplace of John 

 Hancock. The schools of Quincy were reorgan- 



ized in 1875, and for some years attracted many 

 visitors, special attention having been drawn to 

 their methods by Mr. C. F. Adams's well-known 

 pamphlet on " The 'New Departure in the Com- 

 mon Schools of Quincy." Within a few years, 

 land has been presented to the town for two pub^ 

 lie parks. One of these, called Merry Mount 

 Park, is in the immediate vicinity of the historic 

 Merry Mount which gives the name to Motley's 

 historical romance. The old Adams houses still 

 stand, and of the colonial houses two others 

 worthy of note remain. The Vassall house 

 belonged to a Tory family, was sequestrated 

 after the Revolution, and was bought by John 

 Adams. In this house he died. The Quincy 

 house was built in 1685. Most of the other old 

 mansions have been destroyed. 



Rawlins, the county seat of Carbon County, 

 Wyoming, 193 miles west of Cheyenne, on the 

 Union Pacific Railroad. The population is over 

 2.000. It is the end of a division of the rail- 

 road, and has round houses and machine shops. 

 It ranks third as a distributing point in the 

 State, having an immense freight depot with 

 Government and private warehouses. Wagon 

 trains arrive and depart constantly during most 

 of the year. Daily and tri-weekly mail stage 

 lines leave the city for all accessible points 

 within nearly 200 miles. In 1888, 17,884,251 

 pounds of freight were received at Rawlins, and 

 14,794,965 pounds forwarded, 2,091,290 pounds 

 going to Lander, Fort W^ashakie, and Shoshone 

 Agency. Carbon County contains 12,000 square 

 miles, and the assessed valuation in 1888 was 

 $3,782,554. The number of cattle in the county 

 was 90,382, valued at $965,783, and the wool clip 

 was estimated at 1,500,000 pounds. Horses are 

 raised for shipment. In 1888 347,754 tons of 

 coal were mined in the county by the railroad at 

 the cost of $1.18 a ton. Hematite iron ore ex- 

 ists in large quantities, and 3 miles north of 

 Rawlins is the mine furnishing raw material 

 for red metallic paint, considered the most valu- 

 able deposit of its kind in the Rocky mountains. 

 Quarries of fine building stone are in close prox- 

 imity to the city. The public buildings embrace 

 a court house, 'which was erected at a cost of 

 $50,000 ; a school-house, costing $35,000 ; a busi- 

 ness block, $75,000 ; and the Penitentiary, now 

 in course of construction, which is to cost $100,- 

 000. There are 4 church buildings in the city, 

 with resident pastors. 



Richmond, a 'city and the county seat of 

 Wayne County, Ind., on Whitewater river. Rail- 

 roads radiate from it in six directions. Fifty-four 

 passenger trains arrive or depart daily from its 

 union station. There are 293 factories in the city, 

 with a capital of about $4,000,000. These facto- 

 ries employ about 3,000 men, and their annual out- 

 put is valued at about $6,000,000. There are 21 

 mercantile establishments in the city, employing 

 a capital of $3,600,000, and doing an aggregate 

 business of $7,000,000 per annum. There arc ;! 

 banks. Six and a half miles of electric street 

 railway wind through the city, equipped with 

 the best of cars. A private water-works com- 

 pany supplies water for fire protection and do- 

 mestic and manufacturing purposes. A private 

 gas company provides artificial gas for street 

 and house illumination, and a private natural- 

 gas company provides natural gas for heating, 



