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1886 was $7,814,000 ; number of men, 4,642 ; 

 value of product, $10,585,000. There was a 

 considerable increase of manufactures during 

 1887. The harbor is one of the finest on the 

 lakes, being 5 miles long, 1-J miles wide, and 

 land-locked. In 1887 nine vessels in the 

 foreign trade entered and six cleared, with a 

 total tonnage of 2,337. The coastwise arrivals 

 were 832, with tonnage of 709,141 ; cleared, 

 845, with tonnage of 720,606. The principal 

 receipts by lake are grain and iron-ore ; the 

 principal shipments, coal and general merchan- 

 dise. The grain is handled by three large 

 elevators. A new custom-house, court-house, 

 and post-office building is nearly completed, at 

 a cost of $250,000 (see illustration). A new 

 city hall is also approaching completion and 

 will cost $150,000. The State Soldiers' Home 

 was recently completed at a cost of $240,000. 

 St. Peter's (R. C.) Cathedral, nearly completed, 

 is the finest church edifice in the State, and 

 will cost $300,000. The city water- works 

 were enlarged during the year, the present 

 pumping capacity being 6,000,000 gallons daily, 

 to a height of 237 feet in the reservoir, two 

 miles from the lake. The city has recently 

 been connected with the natural-gas wells of 

 the oil region by a pipe-line about 70 miles 

 long, and during the year gas very largely 

 took the place of coal for fuel for domestic use 

 and to some extent for manufacturing. Erie 

 is itself on the edge of the natural-gas belt. It 

 has had several wells for twenty-five years or 

 more ; but the pressure is light and the supply 

 insufficient and uncertain. The city has 4 

 national banks, 1 savings-bank, 31 churches, 

 3 daily and 8 weekly newspapers, and 2 monthly 

 publications. Two new railroad projects, 

 which are likely to be consummated, are .the 

 Ohio River and Lake Erie road, of which Erie 

 will be the northern terminus, and a short line 

 connecting Erie with the New York, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Ohio Railroad. 



Evansville, a city and port of entry of Van- 

 derburgh County, Indiana, on the Ohio river, 

 midway between Louisville, Ky., and Cairo, 

 111. The population in 1870 was 21,300; in 

 1880, 29,248; in 1887, 46,800. Seven rail- 

 roads radiate from it to Chicago, to Brazil, 

 Ind. (in the block-coal field), to Peoria, 111., 

 to St. Louis, to Nashville, to Louisville, and to 

 Princeton, Ky. The latter is intended to run 

 to Memphis, Tenn., and Florence, Ala. There 

 are three horse-car lines, a transfer railroad 

 track through the city, and a belt railroad, and 

 a suburban railroad to Newburgh, Ind., will 

 be built in the spring of 1888. There are 

 steamboat lines to Louisville, Cincinnati, Cairo, 

 Nashville, Florence, Ala., Memphis, St. Louis, 

 Vincennes, and Bowling Green. The city is 

 one of the largest hard-lumber markets on the 

 continent, and also a grain and leaf-tobacco 

 market. It is situated over inexhaustible beds 

 of bituminous coal, there being six mines 

 within the city limits, employing 900 miners. 

 The Government has a fine building for post- 



office, customs, and court purposes, and a 

 $500,000 county court-house is being erected. 

 There are 17 public school-houses, 39 churches, 

 and a handsome city hall. In 1887, 67 steam- 

 boats were registered here. There are 395 

 manufactories in the city, the principal prod- 

 ucts of which are : engines and boilers, mow- 

 ers and reapers, sugar-mills, sorghum-evapo- 

 rators, plows and stoves, chairs and furniture, 

 bricks, drain -pipe, earthenware, cotton and 

 woolen goods, bent-wood boxes, names, horse- 

 collars, iron-railing, wire-screens, doors, sash 

 and interior house-fixtures, hard and soft lum- 

 ber, flour, meal, hominy, and grits, barrels, 

 brooms, carriages, wagons, burial-caskets, beer, 

 wash-boards, wooden butter-dishes, segars, 

 staves and heading, spokes and hubs, mat- 

 tresses, monuments, artificial ice, hoes, ginger 

 ale, crackers and cakes, overalls, blank books, 

 architectural iron, and tin and galvanized- iron 

 work. The total value of manufactured prod- 

 ucts for 1887 was $13,957,000. The amount 

 of capital invested is $30,750,000, and the 

 number of people employed in these industries 

 is 10,800. Among the new manufacturing in- 

 dustries established during 1887, were fruit- 

 canning works, malleable-iron works, veneer- 

 mills and a hames factory. 



Gloucester, a city and port of entry of Essex 

 County, Mass., on the peninsula of Cape Ann, 

 thirty miles north-northeast from Boston, to 

 which it is connected by a branch of the Boston 

 and Maine Railroad ; there is also a line of 

 steamers running to that port. It has a fine, 

 safe harbor which is used as a refuge from the 

 storms by the large fleet of fishermen and coast- 

 wise vessels. It is the largest fishing-port in 

 the United States, employing 419 vessels and 

 boats, aggregating 28,348*97 tons of the finest 

 crafts afloat, most of them being fast sailors and 

 able sea-boats. The number of men employed 

 is 5,000. There are 43 fitting-out establish- 

 ments. The city comprises eight distinct vil- 

 lages, viz. : Magnolia, East Gloucester, "NYest 

 Gloucester, Riverdale, Amesquam, Lanesville, 

 and Bay View (the two last-named are exten- 

 sively engaged in granite-quarrying, shipping 

 large quantities of excellent stone), and lastly 

 the "Harbor," which comprises the central 

 wards. There is a. fine city hall, a public 

 library building, custom-house, water-works, 

 electric lights and gas, with all the modern im- 

 provements. A new high- school building is in 

 process of erection, and there are several fine 

 churches, among which is the elegant St. 

 Anne's Roman Catholic Church, built of Capo 

 Ann granite, with ,a convent and parochial 

 school attached. The last census, 1885, gave 

 a population of 21,703 ; it will now exceed 

 23,000. Is a noted summer resort with fine 

 hotels and boarding-houses near the sea ; two 

 large tracts of land, one at Eastern Point of 

 400 acres, and Willoughby Park at Coffin's 

 Beach, West Gloucester, 150 acres, have re- 

 cently been purchased and are being laid out 

 for first-class summer company. Coffin's Beach 



