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GLOUCESTER CITY 



with several circles showing the thirty-two 

 points of the compass, the twelve signs of the 

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GLOBE, ARIZ., a copper-mining and smelting 

 town and cattle market of Gila County, sit- 

 uated in the southeastern part of the state. 

 It is 575 miles east and south of Los Angeles, 

 Cal., eighty-two miles directly north of Tuc- 

 son, and on the Arizona Eastern Railroad. 

 The number of inhabitants, in which are in- 

 cluded Americans and Mexicans, was 7,083 in 

 1910. Globe is situated in a mountainous 

 region. Copper mining and cattle raising are 

 the principal industries, and gold and silver 

 mining are also carried on. About 2,500 men 

 are employed by one copper company. Nearly 

 thirty miles northwest of the town is the great 

 Roosevelt Dam, the construction of which cost 

 more than $8,000,000. In the vicinity may be 

 seen the Apache Trail and ruins of the Cliff 

 Dwellers (which see). 



The city contains the Old Dominion Li- 

 brary, a high school, Gila Valley Bank, Elks' 

 Building, two hospitals, Kinney Park and a 

 Federal building costing $30,000. Globe re- 

 ceived a city charter in 1910. L.M.B. 



GLOUCESTER, glahs' ter, one of the oldest 

 cities of England, the capital of Gloucester- 

 shire. It is beautifully situated on the left 

 bank of the River Severn, thirty-three miles 

 northeast of Bristol, and about seventy-five 

 miles northwest of London, in a valley shel- 

 tered by the Cotswold and the Malvern Hills. 

 It is an important port and industrial center, 

 with manufactures of engines, railway cars, 

 agricultural implements, cutlery, large ship- 

 building yards, foundries and flour mills. All 

 public utilities are municipally owned and the 

 town is progressive and enterprising. A canal 

 admits vessels from the estuary of the Severn 

 to spacious docks, and extensive commerce is 

 carried on with foreign ports, especially those 

 of the Baltic Sea. Population, in 1911, 50,035. 



In the days of the "Venerable Bede" Glouces- 

 ter was "one of the noblest cities of the land." 

 The Norman kings, beginning with William the 

 Conqueror, favored it as a place of royal resi- 

 dence. The most important building is the 

 great cathedral, whose construction was begun 

 in the eleventh century. In it Henry III was 

 crowned. Population in 1911, 50,035. 



GLOUCESTER, MASS., the principal fishing 

 port in the United States and one of the 

 largest in the world, is situated on the south 

 side of Cape Ann, on Gloucester Harbor, an 

 arm of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann is a 



rocky and barren headland whose coasts have 

 witnessed many marine disasters. Norman's 

 Woe, made famous by Longfellow's poem, The 

 Wreck oj the Hesperus, is a reef just outside 

 the harbor. The city has an area of about 

 twenty-three square miles and includes the 

 villages of Annisquam, Bay View, East 

 Gloucester, Freshwater Cave, Lanesville, Mag- 

 nolia, Riverdale and West Gloucester. It is 

 served by the Boston & Maine Railroad and 

 several electric lines, and has steamer service 

 to Boston, about thirty miles southwest. The 

 population, which in 1910 was 24,398, was 

 24,478 in 1915, according to the state census. 



The city offers its many summer visitors an 

 excellent climate and fine beaches, while the 

 quaint villages and the rocky coast are espe- 

 cially attractive to artists. There are a num- 

 ber of parks, a Federal building, city hall, 

 Y. M. C. A. building, state armory, Magnolia 

 and Sawyer libraries, the Gilbert Hospital, 

 Home for Aged Fishermen and the Huntress 

 Home. 



Gloucester has a wide, deep harbor, and is 

 the port of 300 fishing vessels; 6,000 men are 

 engaged in the cod, halibut, herring and mack- 

 erel fisheries. 



The first settlement, which lasted from 1623 

 to 1625, was made by fishermen from Dor- 

 chester, England. At the end of that time 

 some of the settlers returned to England and 

 some went to Naumkeag, now Salem. A per- 

 manent settlement was made about 1633, the 

 township was incorporated in 1642, and 

 Gloucester became a city in 1873. In 1908 the 

 commission form of government was adopted. 



GLOUCESTER CITY, N. J., a city of Cam- 

 den County, where battleships and the largest 

 of merchant steamers are constructed. It is 

 on the Delaware River, and by rail is four 

 miles south of Camden and eight miles south 

 of Philadelphia. With the latter city it has 

 connection by ferry; it is served by the At- 

 lantic City and the Pennsylvania railroads. 

 The population, which in 1910 was 9,462, was 

 reported by a Federal census of 1916 to be 

 11,109. There is a small per cent of Irish and 

 German inhabitants. 



At Gloucester City are a United States im- 

 migration station, a detention house, adminis- 

 tration building and other buildings connected 

 with the port of Philadelphia. The city con- 

 tains Buena Vista Park and Gloucester Beach. 

 More than 5,000 men are employed in the 

 great shipyards. Gloucester City was incorpo- 

 rated in 1868. A.D.K. 



