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been peculiarly favourable to manufactures. In 

 the early part of this century, the glassworks at 

 East Cambridge, which have since departed, were 

 somewhat famous, considerable manufactures of 

 soap and leather had been begun, and cars and 

 wagons were made here. At the present time 

 some of our chief manufactures are of engine 

 boilers and various kinds of machinery, of which 

 the annual product exceeds $2,000,000. Among 

 the industries which produce in yearly value more 

 than $1,000,000 may be mentioned printing and 

 publishing, musical instruments (especially pianos 

 and organs), furniture, clothing, carpenter's work, 

 soap and candles, biscuit-baking ; while among 

 those that produce $500,000 or more are carriage- 

 making and wheelwright's work, plumbing and 

 plumber's materials, bricks and tiles, and confec- 

 tionery. Not only our own new Harvard Bridge, 

 but most of the steel railway bridges in New Eng- 

 land, have been built in Cambridge. We supply 

 a considerable part of the world with hydraulic en- 

 gines ; the United States Navy comes here for its 

 pumps, and our pumping machines may be seen at 

 work in Honolulu, in Sydney, in St. Petersburg. 

 In the dimensions of its pork-packing industry, 

 Cambridge comes next after Chicago and Kansas 

 City. In 1842 all the fish-netting used in Amer- 



