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LI.KWKI.I.YN PARK occupies about 750 acres on 



the eastern side of the mountain, between t In- 

 city of Orange and Eagle Hock. This inclosure 

 was laid out about 1350 by Llewellyn lloskell 

 fora residential park, and is now almost com- 

 pletely taken up by about 00 families, who unite 

 to keep the ineloMire as one large estate. There 

 are small pieces of woodland, plantations of rare 

 shrubs and trees, small but carefully kept water 

 courses in rural glens, a ramble of 50 acres, and 

 about 12 miles of drives. 



SOUTH ORANGE township covers about 12 

 square miles, and is the southern boundary of 

 the city and the two other townships. The town- 

 ship has a population of about 6,000. It was or- 

 gani/.ed in lb(JO, and is governed by a committee 

 consisting of the chairman and 4 members. It 

 is connected with Orange and with Newark by 

 separate and direct lines of trolley electric rail- 

 road. The oidy industry in the place is a grist 

 mill. The township is principally occupied by 

 farms and by residences of Newark and New 

 York business men. There are 4 graded schools, 

 2 Presbyterian churches and 1 chapel, 8 Metho- 

 dist churches, 1 Episcopal, and 1 Roman Catho- 

 lic. The Roman Catholic College, Seton Hall, 

 occupies a large estate with several imposing 

 buildings, and a large orphanage is on the 

 main road to Newark. There are 5 post-offices 

 in the township Valesburg, Hilton, Manhattan 

 Park, Maplewood, and South Orange. The vil- 

 lage of South Orange, which covers about 2 

 square miles round the railroad station of the 

 same name, was incorporated in 18G9, and has a 

 separate government from the township, vested 

 in the Board of Trustees, consisting of a presi- 

 dent and 6 members. The village has its own 

 pipes for water, which it buys of the Common- 

 wealth Water Company. It is lighted by gaso- 

 line, and has police and fire departments. The 

 farthest station in the township is within an 

 hour of New York. 



Ottawa, a city of Illinois, the county seat of 

 La Salle County, on the north bank of Illinois 

 river, just below the mouth of the Pox, 98 miles 

 east of Rock Island and 83 from Chicago, with 

 which city it is connected by the Illinois and 

 Michigan Canal, flowing through its center and 

 terminating at its western boundary. It is on 2 

 great trunk lines of railroad the Chicago, Rock 

 Island and Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington 

 and Quincy. In 1880 it had a population of 

 7,834, which increased to 9,985 in 1890. The 

 city was settled in 1830. and was made the 

 county seat a year later. It was incorporated as 

 a village in 1838, and as a city in 1853. The 

 streets are well graded, and are being paved ex- 

 clusively with brick, with tile sidewalks. In 

 1888 5 miles of these were laid. In 1891-'92 a 

 complete system of sewers was put in. In addi- 

 tion to more than 150 artesian wells, the average 

 depth of which is 300 feet, water works supply 

 an abundance of spring water obtained in the 

 suburbs. There is an efficient volunteer fire de- 

 partment, also an electric street railway, while 

 both electricity and gas are employed in illu- 

 mination. Two of the 3 banks are national, and 

 have a joint capital of $500,000. Three daily 

 and 7 weekly newspapers are published, also 1 

 quarterly. The public-school property is valued 

 at $100,000, of which $15,000 belongs to the 



high school, and the school fund reaches nearly 

 |40,000 yearly. There is a Catholic parochial 

 school, and an academy for young ladies. A pub- 

 lic library was given to the city in 1885, and a 

 business university is located here. The churches 

 are. respectively, 2 Congregational (1 French), 2 

 Methodist, 2 Presbyterian, 1 Baptist, 1 Episco- 

 pal, 1 German Lutheran, and 1 (icrmaii Evan- 

 gelical, and 2 Catholic (1 Irish and 1 German, 

 the former being very handsomely finished and 

 ornamented, and valued at $72,000). The county 

 courthouse, completed in 1883, cost $181,888, 

 and there are also a county jail, a supreme 

 court building for the northern judicial district 

 of the State, which cost $45,000, and a county 

 infirmary 4 miles west of the city, with 200 acre's 

 of land attached. The public parks contain fine 

 native forest trees, ana the city, lying in the 

 valley of the Fox and Illinois rivers, is sur- 

 rounded by much beautiful scenery. Especial 

 points of interest are Starved Rock where the 

 last of the Illinois Indians perished miserably, 



Elving the place its name Deer Park Glen, 

 over's Leap, Bailey's Falls, and Shabbona's 

 Winter Retreat. In addition to its extensive 

 manufactures, Ottawa has large agricultural in- 

 terests, and ships great quantities of grain. 

 Immense deposits of clay of all varieties^ are 

 found in the county, and also beds of cement 

 and glass sand. The industrial establishments 

 include a window-glass factory, established in 

 1867, which turns out 100.000 boxes of such 

 glass yearly, and employs 250 men ; a mold, bot- 

 tle, and glass and a bottle and flint-glass com- 

 pany; lamp-chimney glass works with a capacity 

 of 25,000 barrels of chimneys yearly ; an immense 

 fireproof construction company ; a sewer-pipe 

 factory, capitalized at $1,000.000; 1 factory 

 of drain tiles, fire clay and brick companies, 

 terra-cotta works, a pottery or stoneware works. 

 3 planing mills, flouring mills, a foundry and 

 machine shops, wagon, carriage and buggy, 

 and refrigerator factories, marble works, facto- 

 ries of agricultural implements, 1 of cottage 

 organs, 1 of overalls and shirts, 1 of boxes, 9 of 

 cigars, and 5 of harness and saddlery, pump 

 works, and a photo-engraving establishment. 

 In the South -Park there is a celebrated medici- 

 nal spring. The city has a driving-park associ- 

 ation. 



Oxford, a city of Mississippi, the county seat 

 of Lafayette County, on the main stem of the 

 Illinois Central Railroad, in the northern part 

 of the State, 74 miles from Memphis, Tenn. By 

 the last Federal census it had a population of 

 1,546. It is the seat of the University of Missis- 

 sippi, which was founded in 1844. and cost, with 

 its grounds, which embrace 640 acres and 16 

 buildings, $200,000. The institution is sup- 

 ported by a 6-per-cent. fund, invested in State 

 bonds, which yields $33,000 per annum, and in 

 addition it receives grants from the Legislature. 

 Students from all States are admitted free to all 

 the departments, excepting only that of the law. 

 There are also 2 large female colleges, a pub- 

 lic-school building for whites which cost $15,- 

 000, and a separate building for colored pupils. 

 The church property is valued at $50.000. The 

 Presbyterians, Cumberland Presbyterians, Meth- 

 odists, Baptists, and Episcopalians have church 

 edifices, and there are 3 others belonging to 



