AUBURN 



with a mixture of French Canadian, Irish, 

 lish, Hebrews, and Germans, numbered 

 15,0&4 in 1910 and increased to 15,965 in 1914. 

 The area is about forty-nine square miles. 



Auburn is situated in the southwestern part 

 of the state, on the west bank of the Androscog- 

 gin River in Androscoggin County, of which it 

 is the county seat. Lewiston, on the opposite 

 bank of the river, is connected with it by four 

 bridges. Augusta is thirty-one miles north- 

 east, and Portland is thirty-five miles south. 

 The Maine Central and Grand Trunk rail- 

 roads serve the city, and electric lines connect 

 with towns north, east and west. It holds high 

 rank in the shoe-manufacturing industry and 

 its activity is notable in other lines. There are 

 machine shops, canning works, packing houses 

 and manufactures of lumber, marble and cotton 

 products. Abundant water power is supplied 

 by the Androscoggin and Little Androscoggin 

 rivers. 



Buildings of interest are the post office, 

 erected in 1908 at a cost of about $65,000, a 

 $40,000 Home for Aged Women, and a high 

 school which cost $100,000. There are five 

 banks, nine churches and three private hos- 

 pitals. 



Points of interest in the vicinity are Lewiston 

 Falls and Poland Springs. Taylor Pond and 

 Lake Auburn are considered among the most 

 beautiful lakes in Maine, and the landscape 

 surrounding Auburn presents one of the most 

 striking views in the state. R.W.S. 



AUBURN, N. Y., a manufacturing city, the 

 county seat of Cayuga County. It is also a 

 popular summer resort because of its location 

 in the hill and lake country of the western 

 part of the state. It extends along both sides 

 of the outlet of Owasco Lake, which is two 

 and a half miles south and east of the city. 

 Syracuse is twenty-six miles northeast, and 

 Rochester is seventy-seven miles northwest. 

 It is on the New York Central, the Lehigh 

 Valley and the New York, Auburn & Lansing 

 railroads and two interurban lines. In 1910 

 tlirre were 34,668 inhabitants; in 1914 the 

 number had increased to 36,509. The area of 

 the city is nine square miles. 



Auburn Theological Seminary, a Presbyte- 

 rian school incorporated in 1820, and a branch 

 of the Woman's Educational and Industrial 

 Union are situated in Auburn. The city also 

 contains the state armory and the state prison, 

 in connection with which there is a women's 

 prison. Prominent buildings are the Federal 

 building, city hall, Case Memorial building, 



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which contains the Seymour Library, an audi- 

 torium and the county courthouse. The city 

 has a number of parks, athletic fields and free 

 playgrounds. 



An abundance of water for domestic and 

 manufacturing purposes is supplied by Owasco 

 Lake. Auburn is the home of about 200 diver- 

 sified industries, employing nearly 7,000 work- 

 ers whose pay amounts to $3,000,000 annually. 

 The most important industrial enterprises are 

 manufactories of cordage and twine, agricul- 

 tural implements, boots and shoes, carpets and 

 rugs, pianos, engines, rubber goods, flour and 

 machinery. The city owns and operates a 

 number of grey and blue limestone quarries 

 in the vicinity. 



Auburn,' laid out in 1793 by Captain John 

 L. Hardenbergh, a veteran of the War of 

 Independence, was called Hardenbergh's Cor- 

 ner until 1805, when it was made the county 

 seat under its present name. It was incor- 

 porated as a village in 1815 and as a city in 

 1848. After 1823 Auburn was the home of 

 William H. Seward, Secretary of State in Lin- 

 coln's Cabinet. He was buried in Fort Hill 

 Cemetery. In the city is a fine bronze statue 

 of this distinguished citizen. A.G.A. 



AUCKLAND, awk' land, the capital of the 

 New Zealand province of the same name, sit- 

 uated on Waitemata Harbor, one of the finest 

 anchorages in the southern hemisphere. Until 

 1865, Auckland was the capital of New Zea- 

 land, but in that year the more central situ- 

 ation of Wellington was recognized and that 

 city became the seat of government. The 

 domestic and foreign trade of Auckland is ex- 

 tensive. The chief industries are shipbuilding, 

 sugar refining, rope making and glass blowing. 

 Imports consist chiefly of textiles, agricultural 

 implements, machinery, tea and coffee. 



Auckland is 5,440 miles from San Francisco, 

 1,350 miles from Sydney, and about 11,500 

 miles from Liverpool by the Panama Cunal. 

 It is an important port of call for all vessels 

 trading with Australasia. The city is well 

 planned, illuminated throughout by electricity, 

 and has many fine buildings. Population, 

 1911, 40,536; with suburbs, 102,676. 



AUCTION, awk' shun, a form of sale where 

 goods must be offered publicly and must be 

 sold to the person offering the highest price, 

 by public bidding. The owner of the property 

 offered for sale may personally or through an 

 authorized agent make bids on the articles to 

 be sold in order to prevent their being sold 

 for too low a price, but if he should employ 



