CITIES, AMERICAN. (CoasicAMA, DANBURT.) 



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>t of the railway station, has more 



Ihaii ::iK) |>ii|.ils and ii numerous n.rps of in- 

 structors. A largo building has j" s ' l "' 1 ' 11 erect- 

 ed. which maki - a valuable addition to the hamlet 

 .\\-ii u|> around tin- school. The new 

 chapel, recently < ...... pleted, is unequaled by tins 



chapel <.f any like institution of learning. Tim 



churches of Concord are : 1 Advent, 3 15apti>t. 1 



i. v! Umnan Catholic, 4 Congrega- 



tional, :.' Kpiscopal (including the one at St. 



Schoi.l), :; Methodist, 1 Unitarian, 1 I'ni- 



ist, ami an Fpi-copal mission at East. Con- 

 The charitable institutions are an Or- 

 i. dans' II< une. near St. Paul's School; an Odd- 

 Fellows' Home, oj)en to members of the frater- 

 nity in tin- State; a Home for the Aged; and 

 irgaret Pillsbury General Hospital, just 

 completed at an expense of $70,000. and given 

 in the city bv lli>n. George A. Pillsbury, of 

 Mntiii'apolis, Minn., to commemorate his golden 

 wedding. It has accommodations for 50 patients. 

 There are :> Masonic lodges, 1 chapter, and 1 

 oommandery of Knights Templars; 8 Odd-Pel- 



lodges, 2 encampments, and 1 canton of 

 Patriarchs Militant; 1 Knights of Pythias lodge ; 

 :{ Grand Army posts; a Foresters* Court; St. 

 Patrick's Benevolent Society; French Canadian 

 Society ; and other benevolent and fraternal or- 

 pin i/.ations. The Odd Fellows have a fine build- 

 ing, recently completed. The Fowler Library 

 building, containing the free public library of 

 16,000 volumes, is a recent gift to the city from 

 a MID and a daughter of the late Hon. Asa 

 Fowler. It contains a room for the meetings of 



il Shakespeare clubs. The New Hampshire 

 HiMorieal Society's building contains a valuable 

 collection of books, documents, and papers, and 

 is open to the public. The State Library has 

 ou thrown its accommodations in the State 

 House, but in due time will be removed to the 

 new library building, which will also contain 

 rooms for the accommodation of the Supreme 

 Court when holding its law terms and special 



us. The State House Park has bronze 

 statues of Daniel Webster and Gen. John Stark, 

 and one of the late Senator John P. Hale will be 

 placed there in 1892. A soldiers' memorial arch 

 is soon to be erected at the entrance. Concord 

 has 3 national banks and 4 savings banks, the 

 latter having over $8,000,000 of deposits and 18,- 

 284 depositors in 1890. The largest and oldest of 

 tin- savings banks is the New Hampshire, with 

 $3,786,000 deposits, which occupies a fine block 

 of its own. All the banks have convenient and 

 elegant rooms for the transaction of business, 

 built or remodeled within the past few years. 

 The First National Bank has the best banking 

 rooms in the State, just completed. There are 

 2 daily and 3 weekly newspapers. The building 

 recently erected by the Republican Press Asso- 

 ciation as a home for the Concord "Evening 

 Monitor" and " Independent Statesman" is one 

 of the Wst arranged and most complete print in g 

 establishments in New England. It is lighted 

 by its own electric plant. This association liM 

 introduced incandescent lighting in the city six 

 years ago. Klectric power is now supplied to 

 run small machinery and printing proses by the 

 Street Railway Electric 'Car Company. The 

 electrical railway has been extended about a 

 mile through the west end of the city, and is 



largely increasing its business. The water 

 power on OontOOOOOk river ha been utilized re- 

 cently by the erection of a new woolen mill, 

 about a mile west of Penacook, by the Concord 

 Manufacturing Company of Wot Concord, and 

 there is still largo water power unused on the 

 M. rrimack river. There are 2 parks in the cen- 

 tral part of t lie city, and another at the outlet 

 of Penacook lake. The fire department com- 

 prises 178 men, 60 of whom belong to 2 hand- 

 engine companies in Ka>t and West Concord, 

 and the others to steamer, hose, and hook and 

 ladder companies in the central part of the city 

 and in Penacook. The New Hampshire Asylum 

 for the Insane accommodates 850 patients. The 

 State Prison is a model penal institution, and, to 

 the credit of the State, is only about half filled. 



Corsicana, a city of Texas, county seat of 

 Navarro County, near the center of the State, 60 

 miles from Dallas and Waco, at the intersection 

 of the Houston and Texas Central and the St. 

 Louis Southwestern Railroad. The first railroad 

 reached the city in 1880, from Tyler. Water is 

 reached in wells at a depth of from 10 to 40 feet, 

 and there are numerous tanks or artificial lakes, 

 5 of which around Corsicana have a water sur- 

 face of 160 acres, are stocked with fish and 

 visited as resorts. Corsicana has a population, 

 by the census of 1890, of 6,285, an increase of 

 2,912 over 1880. Good county roads enter the 

 city. Drainage is natural from north to south, 

 and there is a good sewerage system, with sev- 

 eral miles of mains. Water works have been 

 erected at a cost of $100,000, and there are gas 

 and electric-light plants valued at $50,000. The 

 public schools had 1,500 pupils, with 23 teachers, 

 m 1890-'91, the Catholics having also a convent 

 school. The churches number 11. There are 

 3 national banks, one with a capital of $100,000, 

 and 2 loan agencies, the capital of one of which 

 is $400,000. A fire department was organized in 

 1883. One daily and 6 weekly newspapers are 

 published. There are 5 miles of street railway. 

 The industries include a wheat elevator and 

 flouring mill, with capacity of 300 barrels daily, 

 a gin factory, iron foundry, bottling works, an 

 ice factory, a soap factory, carriage and wagon 

 works, a cotton-seed-oil mill, machine shops, and 

 a cotton compress with capacity of 1,000 bales 

 daily. The County Court House, of brick and 

 stone, cost nearly $85,000, and the City Hall $20,- 

 000. The State Orphans' Home consists of two 

 large buildings, contains 100 children, and cost 

 $50,000, to which the city contributed 200 acres 

 of land. There is also a State Odd-Fellows' 

 Home worth $30,000. 



Danbury, a city of Connecticut, one of the 

 capitals of Fairfield County, in the southwestern 

 part of the State, 20 miles from Bridgeport, 28 

 from New Haven, and <>"> from New ^ ork, to 

 which last city lucre are 14 passenger trains 

 daily. Direct communication east and west is 

 afforded by the New York and New England 

 and the Housatonic Railroads. The city is the 

 northern terminus of the Danbury and Norwalk 

 Railroad, and has also the New York Citv and 

 Northern. The first settlement was made at 

 Danbury in 1684, and the first church erected in 

 1696, the Indian name for the section being Pah- 

 quioque. During the Revolution it was made a 

 depot of supplies, and Gen. Tryon, marching 





