TRENTE-ET-QUARANTE 



5874 



TRENTON 



70,000, and the cost of construction up to 1916 

 was about $14,000,000. 



TRENTE-ET-QUARANTE, trahNt ay kahr 

 ahNt', or TRENTE-UN. See ROUGE-ET-NOIR. 



TREN'TON, a town in Hastings County, 

 Ontario. It is the southern terminus of the 

 Trent Canal, and is situated at the mouth of 

 the Trent River, near the west end of the Bay 

 of Quinte. It is served by the Canadian Pa- 

 cific, Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk rail- 

 ways. By rail it is 101 miles east of Toronto, 

 and 107 miles west of Brockville. Near Tren- 

 ton are iron mines and limestone quarries. Al- 

 though not a large town, Trenton is a manu- 

 facturing center of some importance, its prin- 

 cipal products being canned goods, clothing, 

 buttons and paper. Population in 1911, 3,988; 

 in 1916, estimated, 4,800. 



TRENTON, BATTLE OF, an American victory 

 of the Revolutionary War, of importance be- 

 cause it renewed the courage of the patriot 

 forces and seriously disarranged the plans of 

 the British. The battle was fought on the 

 morning of December 26, 1776, about a month 

 after Washington had begun his retreat across 

 New Jersey. On December 8 he crossed the 

 Delaware River, with the forces of Cornwallis 

 in close pursuit. The British general then led 

 his army to Princeton, stationing a force of 

 Hessians at Trenton. On Christmas night 

 Washington recrossed the Delaware, in which 

 blocks of ice were floating, and marched to the 

 enemy's camp at Trenton. The Hessians, who 

 were sleeping off the effects of a night's ca- 

 rousal, were completely surprised, and after a 

 brief skirmish the Americans captured nearly a 

 thousand prisoners. 



The events leading up to this battle and those 

 immediately following are told in detail in the 

 article REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA, page 

 4987. See, also, PRINCETON, BATTLE OF. 



TRENTON, N. J., the capital of the state, 

 the county seat of Mercer County, and a fore- 

 most center for the manufacture of pottery. It 

 is situated on the Delaware and Rariton Canal 

 and on the Delaware River, at the western 

 border of New Jersey. Philadelphia is thirty- 

 three miles southwest, and New York is fifty- 

 nine miles northeast. Transportation is pro- 

 vided by the Philadelphia & Reading and the 

 Pennsylvania railroads, and by an extensive 

 system of interurban lines, which extend to 

 New York, Philadelphia, Newark and other 

 cities and towns in New Jersey and Eastern 

 Pennsylvania. Many nationalities are now 

 represented among the people of Trenton, but 



for a long time Quaker influence prevailed. 

 The population increased from 96,815 in 1910 

 to 111,593 in 1916 (Federal estimate). 



General Description. Trenton has many land- 

 marks and buildings of historical interest. In 

 the center of the city is Battle Monument, a 

 shaft 150 feet high, surmounted by a colossal 

 statue of Washington; it marks the spot where 

 Washington stationed his guns on the battle 

 field of Trenton. The Swamp Angel, the large 

 gun used by the Federal troops in the swamps 

 during the siege of Charleston, S. C., in 1862, 

 is mounted on a granite pedestal in Perry 

 Street. Trenton's most attractive park, Cad- 

 walader (100 acres), with its zoo, is on the 

 outskirts of the city, and Riverside Park ex- 

 tends three miles along the river front. 



Among other points of interest are Bow 

 Hill, a quaint old home in the vicinity, for a 

 time the residence of Joseph Bonaparte, the 

 elder brother of Napoleon; and the old stone 

 barracks, erected in 1758. Trenton was the 

 home of John A. Roebling, the engineer who 

 designed Suspension Bridge and the Brooklyn 

 Bridge. Noteworthy buildings are the state 

 capitol, constructed of granite (see panel illus- 

 tration, heading the article NEW JERSEY), the 

 Federal building, city hall, courthouse, state 

 prison, armory, arsenal, asylum for insane, re- 

 form school for girls, and a state library and 

 museum. Trenton has also a public library, a 

 beautiful white marble building, Saint Francis 

 College, the state normal school, a school for 

 deaf mutes and a number of private schools. 



Manufactures. The city is located at the 

 head of tidewater navigation, and its fine ship- 

 ping facilities by water and by rail, its nearness 

 to the coal fields of Pennsylvania and its prox- 

 imity to the great markets of Philadelphia and 

 New York combine to make it a great indus- 

 trial city. All grades of pottery, from fine 

 china to the commonest variety of porcelain, 

 are made in the forty potteries of Trenton. 

 Only the clay used for "saggers," the cases used 

 in firing pottery, is found in the locality, the 

 material used in, the manufacture of the fine 

 wares coming from elsewhere. White granite 

 sanitary earthenware, tiles, drain pipes and 

 porcelain bathtubs are also made. The wire 

 mills and iron works here have an extensive 

 output of wire cloth, netting, structural iron, 

 anvils, cables, chains, engines and machinery. 

 Trenton is also an important center of the 

 rubber industry, and there are factories produc- 

 ing linoleum, school and church furniture, 

 watches, carriages, electric lamps and candy. 



