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CITIES, AMERICAN. (CHICOPEE, COHOES, EEIE.) 



oil and natural gas. Tlie city has been heated 

 and lighted with natural gas since 1879, and 

 was the first place where fuel-gas was system- 

 atically supplied and generally used. Two com- 

 panies are piping gas to the city from the 

 Kane district, 30 miles distant. 



Chieopee, a township in Hampden County, 

 Mass., incorporated as a town in 1848, when 

 its territory was the north part of Springfield. 

 It is about six miles square ; its population 

 numbers about 12,000. The assessed value ot 

 property is $5,844,065. Its railroad communi- 

 cation is by the Connecticut River road. A 

 horse-railroad to connect with the Springfield 

 line has been surveyed, and is to be built in 

 1888. Its leading manufacture is cotton. Two 

 companies have a combined capital of $2,200,- 

 000, with 191,000 spindles and 4,673 looms; 

 hands employed, 2,800 ; value of product, about 

 $3,200,000, consisting of sheetings, shirtings, 

 flannels, and fancy goods. The Ames Compa- 

 ny manufactures general machinery, bicycles, 

 tricycles, tools, and bronze statuary; capital, 

 $500,000. The manufacture of agricultural 

 tools is a large industry, with several shops. 

 There are two shops for the making of society 

 swords and military goods, including army 

 swords. Other manufactures are pistols, rifles, 

 shot-guns, knitting-machines, locks, factory 

 reeds, and bobbins. There are three large brick- 

 yards, established within a few years. There are 

 three Catholic churches and eleven Protestant 

 congregations, a town hall costing $100,000, a 

 free public library of 10,000 volumes, and 

 two high-school buildings with philo- 

 sophical apparatus ; one national bank, 

 and two savings-banks. There is a 

 complete system of sewerage, with 

 water-works for domestic and fire 

 purposes. There are three post-offices 

 Chieopee, Chieopee Falls, and "Wil- 

 liinansett. 



Cohoes, a city in the northeast cor- 

 ner of Albany County, N. Y., at the 

 junction of the Mohawk and Hudson 

 rivers, nine miles north of Albany and 

 three miles from Troy. Two rail- 

 roads and two canals pass through 

 the city, and three horse-railway 

 lines lead to Troy, Lansingburg, and 

 Waterford. The city has within 

 three years expended $90,000 for ad- 

 ditional wnter- works, consisting of a 

 new reservoir, holding 70,000,000 gal- 

 lons, new pumping apparatus, and 

 street-mains. An electric-lighting 

 plant, operated by water-power, was 

 established in 1887. The hydraulic canals of 

 the Cohoes Company, which supply power for 

 all the mills, have recently been permanently 

 improved by vertical stone embankments. The 

 cotton-cloth mills operate 266,000 spindles, 

 and produce 85,000,000 yards of cloth, valued 

 at over $3,000,000, and consume 27,000 bales 

 of cotton annually. The same mills in 1876 

 operated 258,0.00 spindles, and produced less 



than 80,000,000 yards of cloth. Twenty-five 

 mills, operating knitting machinery and em- 

 ploying the equivalent of 205 standard (40- 

 inch) sets of woolen cards, produce annually 

 knit underwear of the value of $4,600,000, 

 and consume 16,450 bales of cotton and 3,360,- 

 000 pounds of scoured wool. In 1876 there 

 were 17 knitting-mills, with 118 like sets of 

 cards, and the annual production was valued 

 at $3,426,000. A rolling-mill, which in 1876 

 turned out 6,900 tons of rolled iron, worth 

 $355,800, has been enlarged so as to produce 

 the past year 11,500 tons, worth $575,500 and 

 tube- works, which ten years ago turned out 

 annually steam, water, and gas wrought-iron 

 piping, valued at $100,000, have been enlarged 

 so as to produce the past year $750,000 worth. 

 The manufacture of special knitting machinery 

 has been nearly doubled in ten years, while 

 that of axes and edge-tools has remained about 

 the same. The population in 1875 was 17,- 

 482; in 1880, 19,416; in 1887, estimated at 

 22,000. 



Erie, a city, port of entry, and county-seat of 

 Erie County, Pa., on Presque Isle Bay, Lake 

 Erie. It is 88 miles southwest of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., 530 miles from New York city, and 450 

 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Population 

 in 1870, 19,646; in 1880, 27,730; present 

 population (estimate based on city census taken 

 in 1885) 37,000. Erie is the terminus of the 

 Philadelphia and Erie and the Erie and Pitts- 

 burg Railroads, and is traversed by the Lake 

 Shore and Michigan Southern, and the New 



York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroads. The 

 streets are broad, and are laid out at right 

 angles, and many of them are paved with 

 asphalt. Horse-cars run through the principal 

 streets. The manufactures are extensive and 

 diversified, consisting of iron and brass, cars, 

 stoves, boots and shoes, engines and boilers, 

 machinery, pumps, organs, flour, sashes, blinds, 

 woodenware, etc. The capital employed in 



