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a sanitarium belonging to the Northern Pacific 

 Railroad, and a Young Men's Christian Associa- 

 tion building, owned by the association, which 

 cost $1 2,000. The city supplies about 10,000 

 mm. who are employed in tno woods lumbering 

 within a radius of 50 miles. There are 2 banks. 

 One lar.uv saw mill employs 200 men, and the 

 Nori hern Mill Company's plant was added in 

 tin- >u minor of 1892, employing 1,000. Two 

 sum HIT mills have an annual capacity of 4,000,- 



000 feet of lumber. There are steam brickyards, 

 which make both red and cream brick. The 

 city has a board of trade. 



Hrattleboro, a town of Vermont, in Wind- 

 ham County, in the southeastern part of the 

 Stale, on the right bank of Connecticut river, 1 

 mile below the mouth of West river, 77 miles 

 from Rutland, 110 from Montpelier, and 119 

 from Boston. A bridge across the river con- 

 ned- it with New Hampshire. Its population 

 was 5,880 in 1880, and 6,862 in 1890. The first 

 settlement in the State was made here, at Fort 



1 hi miner, now in the southeast corner of the 

 town, and the charter for the village was granted 

 by George II in 1753. It has an altitude of 228 

 feet, above sea level, and is at the junction of the 

 Vermont Valley, New London, Northern and 

 Brattleboro and Whitehall Railroads. In 1888- 

 '89 the assessed valuation of property was $3,- 

 460,0(K). The streets are regularly laid out, paved 

 with concrete, and beautifully shaded. Elec- 

 tricity is largely used in illumination. Water 

 from mountain springs is supplied by numerous 

 aqueduct companies, in addition to a reservoir 

 with a capacity of 7,000,000 gallons. The com- 

 mon, on the most elevated of the terraces at 

 the north end, is contiguous to the State Asy- 

 lum for the Insane, founded in 1834. High- 

 land Park, a gift to the town, opened in 1884, 

 contains 30 acres of woodland. The surround- 

 ing scenery is fine. The enrollment in the pub- 

 lic schools in 1888-'89 was 735, and expendi- 

 tures for the school year reached $16,565. Pub- 

 lic-school property was valued at $69,550, and 

 there were 7 public-school buildings and a high 

 school. At West Brattleboro there is a clas- 

 sical seminary for both sexes, dating from 1831. 

 There are 2 national banks, with joint capital of 

 $250.000, and 2 savings banks. Three weekly 

 newspapers are published, 1 semimonthly, and 

 1 monthly. The principal hotel cost $150,000. 

 The works of the Estey Organ Company cover 

 100 acres and occupy 14 buildings, isolated from 

 each other as a protection against fire, and have 

 7 brick dry houses for lumber: 500 persons are 

 emploved. There is also another reed-organ 

 company, occupying a large six-story building, 

 and turning out 2,500 organs yearly." Other in- 

 dustries include planing mills, carriage factories. 

 a foundry, a factory of children's carriages and 

 toys, 1 of knitting-machine needles, 1 of paper- 

 mill and special machinery, 1 of overalls and 

 frocks, I! marliie and granite monumental works, 

 bottling works, a cigar factory, and a jelly com- 

 pany. 



Bridgeton, a city and port of entry of New 

 Jersey, county seat of Cumberland County, on 

 both sides of Cohansey river, 20 miles above 

 its entrance into Delaware Bay, and 38 miles 

 south of Philadelphia. The population in 1870 

 was 6,830 ; in 1880, 8,722 ; in 1890, 11,424. Prior 



to the Revolution Bridgeton was a hamlet of 

 200 inhabitants, dating from about 1745, and 

 known as Cohansey Bridge. In 1765 the name 

 was changed to Bridgetown, and in 1810 (o 

 Bridgeton. In 1749 it was made the county 

 seat, and the first courthouse was built. Tha't 

 at present in use was occupied in 1845. In 1865 

 the city charter was obtained. The 4 wards 

 cover a territory about 8 miles in breadth and 

 more than 4 miles from the northern to the 

 southern boundary. From a valley in the heart 

 of the city there is a gradual elevation on the 

 east and west, the greatest height reached being 

 51 feet above sea level. It is surrounded by a 

 fine agricultural and fruit-growing region, and 

 the vicinity is rich in natural scenery. The 

 river is navigable by steamboats and spanned 

 by 3 handsome bridges. Railroad facilities are 

 afforded by the West Jersey and the New Jersey 

 Central lines, 7 trains leaving the city daily, 

 and by the Cumberland and Maurice River Rail- 

 road to the famous oyster cove, where 300 ves- 

 sels and 1.500 men are employed in planting 

 and catching oysters. During the oyster season 

 the captains and business men of the industry 

 have nearly $1,000,000 on deposit in the city. 

 The gas plant at Bridgeton is capitalized at 

 $31,000, and an electric-light company has been 

 in operation since 1886, with a capital of $50,000. 

 The system is the Thomson-Houston, and 80 

 arc and 1,200 incandescent lamps were in use 

 in 1889. The water works, erected in 1877, have 

 cost nearly $100,000. They draw their supply 

 from East Lake, which has a storage capacity of 

 90,000,000 gallons. From a retaining reservoir 

 near the dam it is pumped by a Worthington 

 engine with a capacity of 1,000,000 gallons daily, 

 supplemented by a Blake pump, to a distribut- 

 ing reservoir, from which there were in 1889 

 16 miles of pipe. The fire department has 28 

 members. Four daily and 4 weekly newspapers 

 are published. The churches number 15, of 

 which 4 are Methodist Episcopal, 3 Presbyterian, 

 3 Baptist, 1 Episcopal, 1 Lutheran, 1 Catholic, 

 2 Methodist Protestant. The 5 public schools 

 have an enrollment of 1,584 pupils. By law 

 these schools receive yearly $10,000 from the 

 surplus in the State school fund. Four aca- 

 demic schools are respectively the South Jersey 

 Institute (erected in 1869 at a cost of $45,000, a 

 brick building 5 stories high, beautifully located). 

 West Jersey Academy, Ivy Hall Seminary, and 

 Seven Gables Boarding School, the two last for 

 young ladies. Two national banks have an ag- 

 gregate capital of $250,000, and there are 2 build- 

 ing associations. All capital employed in manu- 

 facturing in Bridgeton to the amount of $10,000 

 and upward is exempt from city tax for ten 

 years. The manufacturing establishments in 

 1889 numbered 60. with a capital of $2,143,000. 

 employing 3,718 persons, with yearly wages of 

 $1,043,000. The value of the manufactured 

 product was $2,759,000. The leading industry 

 is that of the Cumberland Nail and Iron Works, 

 dating from 1815; 400 men and boys are em- 

 ployed, and 4,000,000 feet of pipe and 140,000 

 kegs of nails, of 220 different kinds, are turned 

 out yearly. The first of 20 glass factories was 

 founded in 1836. Its works now cover 6 acres 

 and consist of 3 window-glass and 2 hollow-ware 

 factories. When it is in full operation, 500 men 



