NEWARK 



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NEWARK 



deposits of shale suitable for making tile and 

 brick are found in the vicinity, and the small 

 gardens ^nd farms of the locality produce great 

 quantities of fruits, vegetables, grain, dairy 

 products and poultry. 



New Albany has a Federal building, a court- 

 house, a fine bank building and a Carnegie 

 Library. One of the largest Chautauquas in 

 the United States holds an annual session here, 

 re an- three parks, and in the vicinity is a 

 national cemetery. The place was settled in 

 1813 and was named for Albany, the capital of 

 New York; it was incorporated as a city in 

 1839. In 1913 the 100th anniversary of the set- 

 tlement was celebrated. 



NEWARK, N. J., the largest and most im- 

 portant city in the state and one of the leading 

 manufacturing centers in the United States. It 

 is t he county seat of Essex County, and is situ- 

 ated in the northeastern part of the state, about 

 eight miles west of New York City, and on 

 Newark Bay, where it receives the Passaic 

 River. The Central of New Jersey, the Dela- 

 ware, Lackawanna & Western, the Lehigh Val- 

 ley and the Pennsylvania railways provide ex- 

 c. 11. nt interstate and surburban transportation, 

 which is supplemented by a network of trolley 

 and by the rapid transit of the tube line 

 under the Hudson River to New York. Steam- 

 boats are engaged in river and coastwise com- 

 merce. Many nationalities are represented 

 among its people, who in 1916 numbered 408,- 

 894 (Federal estimate); in 1910 the population 

 was 347,469. 



Newark is the industrial center for many 

 <ands of people who live in the chain of 

 suburbs lying beyond its limits to the north. 

 west and southwest. Glen Ridp< . Iivmgton, 

 Montclair, Bloomfield, Belleville and the "Or- 

 anges" are among these, and Hamxm. K. ,rny 

 and East Newark are on the opposite or east 

 bank of tin- river. They are all connected with 

 Newark by bridge and by trolley or .-team rail- 



ly. For about a mile from the water the 

 is level; then it rises in fcomfttj \\hirh, 

 th adjoining suburbs, form an attractive 

 residential section. More than 600 acres of 

 public parks are under the control of the Essex 

 County park commission; the city and its ti- 

 ns are noted for fine boulevards and roads. 



Buildings and Institutions. Newark has 

 'ices, among which are the build- 

 ings of the life and fire insurance companies 

 ri here, for. in addition 

 nee as a manufacturing city, New- 

 ark is noted as an insurance center. Its public 



library, erected at a cost of $1,000,000, is con- 

 sidered one of the handsomest library buildings 

 in the Unit..! States. Other noteworthy build- 

 ings are the county courthouse, city hall. Fed- 

 eral building, city hospital and the Roman 

 Catholic Cathedral. Many of the older build- 

 ings are built of the brown sandstone found in 

 the vicinity. Newark is the see of a Roman 

 Catholic and of a Protestant Episcopal bishop. 

 Besides the public schools and the public li- 

 brary, Newark has the Newark Academy, a 



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LINCOLN STATUE IN NEWARK 

 A remarkable fact regarding this appealing 

 statue is that the lap of Lincoln has been \v>rn 

 shiny by children who like to climb upon the 

 knees. 



number of Roman Catholic academics and the 

 State Historical Society; in the vicinity is the 

 city home for boys, where manual training is 

 taught. 



Interesting features are an old home on the 

 lank. the walls of which are constructed 

 of the old walls of Cockloft Hall, delightfully 

 described by \Va.-hington Irving in Salma- 

 gundi; the old home of Peter Schuylor, known 

 as Peterborough ; and monuments to Seth Boy- 

 den, a Newark inventor. Philip Krurny, an 

 American military leader, and Frederick T. 

 In Imnhnysen, Secretary of State under Presi- 

 dent An hui. all of whom lived in Newark. It 



was al<o the lurl hpl.ic.- ..|" \ ITOO Burr, an 



American statesman, who mortally wounded 

 Alexander Hamilton in a dud in 1804. 



Industry and Manufacture. Because of its 

 extensive and varied manufactures, Newark is 

 frequently called the Hirmingkam of America. 



melting and refin- 

 ing of copper; the le.tiln r mdn-try. which ranks 



