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CITIES, A iM ERIC AN. (NEW ALBANY, NEW BRUNSWICK.) 



Starved Rock and Deer Park are within a few 

 miles. 



New Albany, a city of Indiana, county seat 

 of Floyd County, in the southern part of the 

 State, on Ohio river. 5 miles below Louisville, 

 180 above Evansville, and 115 from Indianapolis. 

 By the census of 1890 it was the sixth city of 

 Indiana, the population having increased from 

 16,423 in 1880 to 21,059. Four railroads enter 

 the city, leading directly to St. Louis, Chicago, 

 Indianapolis, and Cincinnati, and connected by 

 a belt and terminal line. A large cantilever 

 railroad and wagon bridge spans the river. The 

 location at the base of the Silver Hills is one of 

 irivnt beauty. The city has an altitude varying 

 from 433 to 463 feet/ All the streets, except 

 t hose in the suburbs, are macadamized, and the 

 sidewalks are of brick or flagstone. The princi- 

 pal drainage is by open paved gutters. The 

 residence portion is shaded largely by maples. 

 Gas and electric lighting are in use, and there 

 nre 6 miles of street railway, in addition to 2 

 railroads to Louisville. The water supply is 

 drawn from the Ohio river, and pumped to 

 reservoirs having a capacity of 32,000,000 gal- 

 lons and a pressure of 80 pounds to the square 

 inch. There are 38 miles of pipe and 170 fire 

 hydrants, and the works have cost more than 

 $300.000. The fire department is well equipped. 

 In addition to 68 public schools, held in 14 

 buildings, there are 2 high schools (1 for white 

 and 1 for colored pupils), 3 large Catholic paro- 

 chial schools, a business college, and De Pauw 

 (Methodist Episcopal) College, for both sexes. 

 The United States courthouse and post office is 

 a handsome structure. The other public build- 

 ings are a county courthouse and county jail, 2 

 public libraries, an opera house, 3 public halls, 

 and a Masonic temple that cost $35,000. The 

 charitable institutions include a hospital and 

 home for the friendless, an orphan's home, and 

 a home for old ladies, the last endowed to the 

 amount of $150,000. The 22 churches are divided 

 as follow : 5 English, 1 German, and 2 African 

 Methodist Episcopal; 3 Presbyterian and 2 Mis- 

 sion ; 1 Baptist, white, and 1 colored ; 2 Catho- 

 lic, 1 Protestant Episcopal, 1 German Evangel- 

 ical, 2 Christian, and 1 United Brethren. Three 

 newly erected church buildings cost $80,000. A 

 national cemetery is located here. Four banks 

 have a joint capital of $700,000, and 1 private 

 batik is capitalized at $100,000. There are 5 

 building and loan associations. Two daily and 

 2 weekly newspapers are published. New Al- 

 bany has large manufacturing interests, among 

 which are a rail mill, valued at $300,000, with 

 capacity of 30,000 tons of rail a year, employing, 

 with its foundry, 470 mechanics, and making a 

 specialty of material for cable roads ; a steam 

 forge and rolling mill; 2 other rolling mills ; 4 

 large foundries; 2 sawmills; 12 lumber yards; 

 2 large handle and bent- wood factories ; 3 exten- 

 sive furniture factories ; cotton and woolen mills, 

 capitalized at $400,000, employing upward of 

 700 hands; a cotton-batting factory, a hosiery 

 mill, stove works, 3 flouring mills, 4 breweries, 

 a fruit-box and basket factory, glass works, 6 

 tanneries, a whetstone factory, spice mills, brick 

 works, 3 planing mills. 1 factory of stone pumps, 

 1 of glue, : of carriages, 16 of cigars, 1 of paper 

 boxes, and others of chairs, brooms, brushes, 



collars and saddlery, novelties, ice, candy, and 

 clothing. 



New Brunswick, a city of New Jersey, 

 the county seat of Middlesex County, on Rari- 

 tan river, 12 miles from its mouth, at the 

 head of navigation, and at the northern outlet 

 of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, 31 miles 

 southwest of New York, 26 from Trenton, and 

 17 from Elizabeth. It has a water front of 4 

 miles, the average depth of water in the river 

 being 9| feet (high water, 13 feet), and that in 

 the canal 7 feet. The canal is 75 feet wide, and 

 is navigated by steamers and sloops of 100 to 300 

 tons. Three lines of steamers run daily from 

 New York to Trenton, Philadelphia, and Balti- 

 more via this canal. The Pennsylvania Railroad 

 runs through the center of the city, and the 

 Raritan River Railroad, running from New 

 Brunswick to South Amboy, connects with the 

 New Jersey Central and the New York and Long 

 Branch road?. Trains to New York run, on an 

 average, every thirty minutes. The population 

 is placed at 20,000, of whom 5,500 are employed 

 in manufactories. The water works, which are 

 owned by the city, are valued at $500,000, and 

 the supply is claimed to be remarkably pure and 

 especially* valuable for dyeing. The fire depart- 

 ment is equipped with 6 steam engines, and in 

 addition to gas there is an electric-light company 

 capitalized at $75,000. Two national banks have 

 a joint capital of $350,000, and 1 savings insti- 

 tution has deposits of $1,442,449. In addition 

 there are 8 building and loan associations. There 

 is 1 street railway, o'perated by horse power. 

 Three daily and 6 weekly newspapers are pub- 

 lished. There are 5 public halls, 9 hotels, and 1 

 opera house, with a seating capacity of 1,200 ; 1 

 city hospital, a free circulating library belonging 

 to the city, and 2 other libraries, belonging to 

 educational institutions, which are open to the 

 public. The 21 churches are, respectively, 3 

 Baptist, 2 Episcopalian, 1 German Lutheran, 5 

 Methodist, 2 Presbyterian, 5 Reformed Dutch, 

 and 3 Roman Catholic, one of the last a cathe- 

 dral. There is also a flourishing Young Men's 

 Christian Association. A Reformed Theological 

 Seminary is located here, and the city is the site 

 of Rutgers College, one of the oldest educational 

 institutions in the country, which was organized 

 in 1770 and richly endowed. With it are con- 

 nected the State Agricultural College and a State 

 agricultural experiment station. In addition to 

 Rutgers Preparatory School, there are 3 Roman 

 Catholic schools, a young ladies' seminary, 1 high 

 and 5 ward schools. The tax rate is $2.46 on a 

 moderate valuation. The total output of the 

 manufacturing establishments is about $20,000,- 

 000. India rubber, paper, and hosiery are the 

 leading products. There are three rubber fac- 

 tories ; 1,800 people are employed in the knitting 

 mills, which have an output yearly of $3,000,000; 

 a rubber, and wall-paper machinery manufactur- 

 ing establishment and a factory of fire pots for 

 glass manufacturing are extensive establish- 

 ments, as is also one for the compounding of 

 medicinal preparations, which has an output of 

 $2,000,000 yearly; 50 persons are employed in 

 making needles; color manufacturing realizes 

 $100,000 a year; the cigar industry employs 300 

 persons; a specialties company, 730: and there 

 are also bronze works, factories of metal goods, 



