History of Trenton, New Jersey : the record of its early settlement and corporate progress., Part 41

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Trenton, N.J. : John L. Murphy
Number of Pages: 540


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"It has potteries, pork-packing establishments, rolling and wire mills, rubber works, woolen mills, oilcloth works, watch factories, flint mills, lumber mills, spice mills, terra-cotta works and foundries. It manufactures carriages and wagons, boots and shoes, agricultural implements, steam engines, tools and anvils, hardware, bows and felloes, bricks and fire-bricks, brushes, carpets, cigars, chains, saddlery, barrels, fertilizers, paper boxes, organs and pianos, pumps, saws and saw teeth, soaps and watches. Its people are intelligent, liberal and hospitable, and they cordially welcome new residents."


As to the industrial life of Trenton the statistics compiled from the census of 1890, show a marked gain over the preceding decade. The following tabulated statements presented herewith include only establishments which reported a product of $500 or more in value during the census year, and, so far as practicable, only those establishments operating works located within the corporate limits of the city :


COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TOTALS UNDER GENERAL HEADS OF INQUIRY : 1880 AND 1890.


INDUSTRIES.


Number industries reported.


Number establish- ments reporting.


Capital .*


Hands employed.


Wages paid.


Cost of mate- rials used.


All industries ..


1880 1890


73 85


404 777


$6,966,830 14,919,417


8,902 12,284


$3,150,119 6,487,300


$7,421,399 8,740,888


MUNICIPAL DATA.


INDUSTRIES.


Miscellaneous expenses. ¡


Value of product.


Population.


Assessed valuation.


Municipal debt. #


All industries.


( 1880 1890


$938,413


$12,712,762 19,597,601


29,910 57,458


$15,670,017 28,033,248


$664,501 953,528


* The value of hired property is not included for 1890, because it was not reported in 1880.


+ No inquiry in 1880 relating to " Miscellaneous expenses."


# The amount stated represents the " net debt," or the total amount of municipal debt less sinking fund.


A striking feature of these returns is the satisfactory increase in the number of establishments reported. Still more gratifying is the increase during the decade in the number of hands employed and the amount of wages paid ; the wages have increased not only actually but relatively, the average wages per hand increasing from $354 in 1880 to $536 in 1890, or 51.41 per cent.


l'art of this increase is undoubtedly due to the fact that in many industries relatively more men were employed in 1890 and less children, and also to the fact that in ten years many branches of industry have improved the grades of their products, and for this reason require more skilled and higher-paid employes. After making all possible allowance for these changes, for the more thorough enumeration of 1890, and for the advance in quantity of manufactured product, we have a decided relative increase in the amount paid in wages between 1880 and 1890.


The following table briefly shows a detailed statement for 1890 by important industries .*


CLASSIFICATION OF INQUIRIES.


Belting and hose-rubber.


Carriages and wagons.


(8 establishments.)


China-decorating.


Clay and pottery products.


(31 establishments.)


Confectionery.


Flonring and grist mill pro-


Foundry and machine shop


products. (16 establishments.)


Lamps and reflectors.


(3 establishments.)


Printing and publishing.i


(13 establishments.)


(3 establishments.)


Capital employed-Aggregate


$1,283,574


$152,078


$194,042


$4,756,172


$145,766


$167,160


$1,545,370


$234.491


8462,483


$1.115,561


Hired property ....


23,015


35,280


28,165


80,320


33,460


29,985


9,310


64,060


Plant-Total ...


550,920


56,900


33,301


2,628,913


40,207


80,000


810,950


100,000


333,813


710,000


Land ...


139,500


20,700


6,000


621,413


6,800


20,000


240,630


41,500


91,700


270,000


Buildings ..


117,058


28,500


15,000


1,323,253


19,800


24,000


216,250


26,000


47,800


200,000


Machinery, tools and implements.


294,362


7,700


12,301


684,247


13,607


36,000


354,070


22,500


194,313


240,000


Live assets-Total,


732,654


72,163


125,461


2,099,094


25,239


53,700


704,435


125,151


64,610


405,561


Raw materials ........


169,266


16,820


23,069


239,579


4,919


26,000


59,391


33,927


18,510


62,2×6


Stock in process and finished product


196,234


43,193


49,066


1,035,519


7,345


6,700


422,933


45,380


16,220


125,275


Cash, bills and accounts receivable, and all sundries not elsewhere reported.


367,154


12,150


53,326


823,996


12,975


21,000


222,111


45,844


29,880


218,000


Wages paid-Aggregate.


$193,053


$50,829


$71,234


₹2,270,701


$37,000


822,568


$576,612


$85,886


$108,949


$529,004


Average number of hands employed during the year.


343


86


140


3,948


59


35


1.111


190


178


1,664


Males above 16 years ...


313


86


72


2,535


38


35


1,104


113


153


560


Females above 15 years ..


19


63


568


18


3


53


12


1,104


Children ..


3


8


21


8


Materials used-Aggregate cost.


$786,245


$55,322


$179,841


$1,185,090


$51,631


$565,556


$935,792


$284,202


$52,670


៛693,220


Principal materials ....


768,694


53,108


174,867


878,357


50,126


551,680


693,774


272,502


49,831


656,400


Fuel .....


14,389


2,014


3,330


243,600


1,127


2,426


81,474


4,100


1,809


10,720


Mill supplies.


3,162


750


5,096 58,037


378


5,500


28,280


7,600


1,030


26,100


Miscellaneous expenses-Aggregate.


$67,235


$3,275


8,990


$430,254


$6,873


$11,925


$73,827


$12,694


$25,114


$48,835


Amount paid for contraet work.


1,860


2,329


1,800


5,208


2,500


2,560


370


4,504


Power and heat ...


2,229


441


566


25,071


197


678


6,041


991


1,496


1,385


Insurauce ....


3,056


194


1,368


17,916


138


1,147


4,835


866


1,254


2,650


Repairs, ordinary, of buildings and machinery


6,854


376


47,971


406


6,700


8,490


1,500


2,430


14.000


Interest on cash used in the business.


32,180


480


1,570


74,615


50


600


48,551


2,667


3,404


3.000


All suudries not elsewhere reported


22,916


2,781


262,881


274


300


2,650


6,000


12,026


27,800


Goods manufactured-Aggregate value ...


$1,162,709


$142,479


$321,072


$4,531,202


$130,305


$675,890


$1,618,874


$482,300


$210,586


$1,342,400


Principal product .. ...


1,162,709


107,779


321,072


4,531,202


130,305


652,000


1,502,843


482,300


206,886


1,342,400


All other products, including receipts from custom work and repairiug.


34,700


23,890


116,031


3.700


.


5,950


32,264


All other materials ..


200


894


93


752


3


4


3


5


Piece-workers ..


Rent .. .....


700


Taxes ....


* To avoid disclosure of operations of individual establishments, only such industries as have 3 or more establishments engaged therein are included. + Includes several branches of this industry.


THE CITY OF TRENTON.


Woolen goods.


(4 establishments.)


(5 establishments.)


(16 establishments.)


ducts. (4 establishments.)


285


THE CITY OF TRENTON.


As to the latest returns for details of population, the bulletins of the Census Offiee are of interest. In 1890, the latest available national figures, the total population of the eity was 57,458, of which 14,048 were foreign born. Of the 14,048, Canada and Newfoundland furnished 118, South America 7 and Cuba and the West Indies 16. There were 3,635 Irish, 3,882 English (this very large percentage due to the pottery men and women), 427 Seoteh, 48 Welsh. Of the Teutons, we find 3,974 Germans, 80 Austrians, 23 Hollanders, 37 Swiss. The Seandinavians were represented by 7 Norwegians, 83 Swedes and 43 Danes. Of the Slavonie peoples, there were 214 Russians, 537 Hungarians, 1 Bohemian and 216 Poles, largely ironworkers. The Græeo-Latins furnished 59 Freneh, 511 Italians, 1 Spaniard, 1 Greek. There were also 33 Chinese, 1 Japanese, 68 Afrieans, 4 from Atlantie islands, 1 eivilized Indian, 7 Australians and 2 Turks. The number of males reported in 1890 was 29,116, and the number of females 28,342, with a total white population of 55,726. The number of persons of African descent was 1,697. The population of Trenton under the State eensus of 1895 is as follows, showing the population by wards, with the increase or decrease of each :


Wards.


1895.


18 0.


Inerease


Decrease.


First,


4,738


5,076


338


Second,


3,458


3,063


395


Third, .


7,036


7,331


295


Fourth,


5,020


5,032


12


Fifth,


5,490


5,585


95


Sixth,


2,955


2,791


164


Seventh,


9,832


9,383


449


Eighth,


4,630


3,802


828


. .


Ninth,


6,646


6,128


518


Tenth,


5,963


3,949


2,014


.


Eleventh,


6,800


5,318


1,482


.


Totals,


. 62,568


57,458


5,850


740


This is the population actually within the eity limits. Trenton rightfully can elaim as part of her people those residents directly on her border, which ineludes the following :


Borough of Wilbur, population,


1,500


Cadwalader Place,


200


Part of Hillerest and vicinity,


200


Part of Ewing,


500


Part of Lawrence,


250


Homedell traet,


150


Broad Street Park borough and vieinity,


200


Total,


3,000


This would make the population of the eity 65,568. This outlying territory is in faet a part of the eity.


The figures show that the three Chambersburg wards have a population of 19, 409, nearly one- third the entire population of the eity, while south of the ereek 34,420 of the people live.


The following is the complete school eensus, by wards, for the eity of Trenton :


Wards.


1895.


1894.


First,


932


1,040


Seeond,


737


658


Third, .


1,325


1,498


Fourth,


1,249


1,183


Fifth,


1,129


1,247


Sixth,


762


828


Seventh,


2,708


2,379


Eighth,


1,397


1,235


286


THE CITY OF TRENTON.


1895.


1894.


Wards.


Ninth. .


1,502


1,391


Tenth,


1,356


1,283


Eleventh,


1,576


1,578


Totals.


14,673


14,321


In the statistics for manufactures Trenton reported in 1890, 885 establishments, with $1, 969,662 of hired property in the capital invested. The aggregate capital was $19,278,041. The total value of all the plants was divided into 82, 980, 838 for land, $3, 469,552 for buildings, and $3, 898, 859 for machinery, tools and implements. The live assets were $1.497,351 for raw materials, $3, 689, 934 for stock in process and finished products on hand, and $3, 741,507 for cash, bills and accounts receivable and sundries.


In rent paid for tenaney we find $158, 211 ; taxes, including internal revenue, $107,618; insur- ance, 873,459, and repairs on buildings and machinery, $264, 608, and interest paid on cash in the business, 8250,816.


The average number of employes in Trenton in 1890 was 14,984, with a total wage account of 87.968, 894. Of the officers, firm members and clerks above sixteen years of age there were 1,001, with wages aggregating 81,034,016. The following statistics show the present number of establish- ments in each of the industries mentioned. The figures vary somewhat from those reported by the census of 1890, and are accurate in so far as the present status of the city is concerned :


Agricultural implement works, 2; auctioneers, 5 ; bakers, 50; barbers, 88 ; bicycle agents, 8; blacksmiths, 21; bookbinders, 6; boot and shoe dealers, 37; boot and shoe makers, 59; brick manufacturers, 12 ; butchers, 76; candy manufacturers, 5; carpenters and builders, 37 ; carriage builders, 9; cigar manufacturers, 119; coal and wood merchants, 34 ; confectionery dealers, 59 ; contractors, 79 ; cracker manufacturers, 4; dressmakers, 80 ; dry goods, 16; dyeing establishments, 5 ; expresses, local, 22 ; fertilizer dealers and manufacturers, 4; fire-brick manufacturer, 1; flint mills, 2; florists, 7; flour and feed merchants, 18; flour mills, 5 ; foundries, 5; grocers, retail, 262 ; grocers, wholesale, 6 ; hardware merchants, 13; harness manufacturers, 13; ice dealers, 10 ; insurance company, 1; iron companies, 5; iron foundries, 7; jeweler, manufacturing, 1; kiln- buiklers, 3 ; lamp manufacturers, 2; Chinese laundries, 23; steam laundries, 3; wholesale liquor dealers, 11 ; livery stables, 22; lumber dealers, 9; machinists, 13 ; marble yards, 5 ; merchant tailors, 19; milk dealers, 34 ; millinery, 21 ; modelers, 3; newsdealers, 19; oileloth company, 1; opticians, 5 ; painters, house and sign, 35 ; paper bag manufacturers, 5 ; paper box manufacturer, 1 ; photographers, 14 ; piano manufacturer, 1 ; piano tuners, 6 ; planing mills, 8; plumbers, 22 ; pork packers, 4; potteries, 29 ; potters' supplies, 2; book and job printers, 10; produce dealers, 34; registers, cash, 2; rubber manufacturers, 9; roofers, 7; sausage manufacturers, 4; saw factory, 1; shipwright, 1; soap works, 1; spice mills, 2; spring mattress company, 1; stair- builder, 1; starch, 1; stone dealers, 6; storage warehouses, 3; taxidermists, 2; tile works, 2; tinsmiths, 15 ; umbrella-makers, 2; undertakers, 10; upholsterers, 4; veterinarians, 11; wall- paper dealers, 17 ; watchmakers and jewelers, 20; well-diggers, 2; wheelwrights, 4; wire eloth manufacturer, 1 ; wire fence manufacturer, 1 ; wire mills, 2; woolen mills, 2.


Boarding-houses, 29 ; hotels and saloons, 360 ; restaurants, 38.


Architects, 13 ; artists, 16 ; bankers and brokers, 3 ; civil engineers and surveyors, 16 ; dentists, 23 ; dmughtsmen, 4; druggists, 36 ; electrical engineers, 1; engravers, 3; insurance and real estate agents, 40; lawyers, 106 ; music teachers, 47 ; nurses, 16 ; physicians, 82.


THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF TRENTON.


The following is an abstract of the report of the City Treasurer of Trenton for the fiscal year ending February 28th, 1895 :


Dr.


To balance on hand March 1st, 1894, $20,449 64 Receiver of Taxes-


Tax of 1893, $208,102 11 66 1894, 308,134 56


516,236 67


287


THE CITY OF TRENTON.


Delinquent taxes and assessments, $22,714 68


State appropriation to schools, 1894,


84,236 52


State tax on corporations, 3,833 77


License, .


98,498 60 3,622 36


District Court costs, .


1,359 81


Street permits,


331 50


Building permits,


232 50


Rents,


725 00


Old material,


124 51


Premium on bonds,


347 50


Accrued interest on bonds,


31 03


Surplus Street Commissioner's appropriation,


33 80


Sale of city lot,


25 00


Rebate on Police Commission warrant, .


7 60


Mercer county election expenses, November, 1894,


731 40


Lamps on railroad crossings, 478 80


64 45


Temporary loans,


20,000 00


Redemption of Martin Act sales, 314 79


Bonds issued during the fiscal year,


213,900 00


Temporary improvement certificates issued,


108,700 00


To street assessments, .


55,794 14


$1,152,794 07


Cr.


By Commissioner of the Sinking Fund-


Appropriation to loans, 1893, $48,366 53


66 1894, 44,775 44


Street assessment collections, 1893, 7,316 89


66 66 1894, 31,421 14


$131,880 00


Interest on bonds-


Interest on coupon bonds, $45,693 50


" registered bonds, . 7,980 00


53,673 50


66 66


66 improvement certificates,


28,352 50


State school tax, 1894,


77,105 12


Fire Commission,


60,839 65


Police Commission,


64,934 27


Park Commission, .


16,485 29


Public Schools-


City appropriation, 1893,


$20,000 00


66


1894,


8,865 13


State 66


1893,


62,426 35


66


66


1894, 68,100 00


159,391 48


Lamps, .


28,334 05


Streets-


Streets,


$28,381 08


Sewer maintenance,


1,070 79


29,451 87


Salaries, .


32,985 39


Almshouse,


6,837 42


Poor,


6,471 86


Interest on temporary loans,


5,788 38


Trenton Passenger Railway Company, for street work,


Police Court fines,


288


THE CITY OF TRENTON.


Board of Health,


$3,500 00


Garbage and ashes, .


5,046 34


Elections, 6,344 36


Printing. 5,072 44


City Hall, 3,796 01


Contingent,


6,235 84


Mercer county tax, 1893,


87,134 74


Police Commission ( Poor),


766 37


6 66 (Almshouse), 630 96


Citizens' Relief Committee, 1,500 00


Fire Department (extra hose),


5,400 00


Excise Commission,


3,051 53


Commissioners of Adjustment,


8,000 00


Almshouse heating apparatus, .


1,748 00


Poor (Poor, AAlmshouse and Printing loan ), .


1,502 57


Almshouse (Poor, Almshouse and Printing loan ),


482 38


Printing 66


2,161 28


Monument School building, No. 17, 500 00


John A. Roebling School building, No. 19, . 500 00


Temporary loans,


20,000 00


Temporary improvement certificates,


139,800 00


Redemption of Martin Act sales,


314 79


Water Department, accrued interest and premium on $75,000 loan, 763 92


Warrants issued prior to March 1st, 1894,


13,018 76


Street improvements, . 30,209 18


Sewers and drains. . 67,106 37


Balance on general account,


35,697 45


$1,152,794 07


WATER DEPARTMENT.


Dr.


To balance on hand March 1st, 1894, . $481 00


Cash received from Treasurer of Water Department, 15,000 00


$15,481 00


By interest on water bonds, .


$14,937 50


Balance to the credit of the Water Department,


543 50


SURPLUS ACCOUNT, SALES UNDER MARTIN ACT.


Amounts Held for Owners.


Received from Receiver of Taxes, $1,132 30


Paid upon redemption of property, 232 07


Balance on hand March 1st, 1895, $900 23


Abstract of the financial statement of the city of Trenton, New Jersey, at the close of the fiscal year, February 28th, 1895 :


Dr.


Bonds to be paid by general taxation, $390,000 00 School building loans-limit, $50,000, 4,500 00


School building loans-limit, $30,000, 30,000 00


$15,481 00


289


THE CITY OF TRENTON.


School building loans-act of June 3d, 1890, $93,000 00


Park improvement loans-act of March 14th, 1883, 131,000 00


Police Department loan-limit, $20,000, 18,000 00


General loans-limit, $50,000, . 46,100 00


Paid Fire Department loan, 45,000 00


Chambersburg bonds, 54,000 00


$811,600 00


Volunteer bonds, due January 1st, 1895, not presented for payment, on which interest has ceased, 2,500 00


Defieieney loan bond, due May 1st, 1894, not presented for pay- ment, on which interest has ceased, . 500 00


Total bonded debt to be met by taxation, $814,600 00


Cr.


By amount in the Sinking Fund to the eredit of the above loans as reported by the Commissioner, . 238,425 55


Net bonded debt to be met by taxation, $576,174 45


STREET IMPROVEMENT LOANS.


Assessed upon the city, $25,828 16


Assessed upon property benefited, 170,771 84


Cr.


$196,600 00


By amount in the Sinking Fund to the credit of the above loans as reported by the Commissioner, . 144,055 06


Net bonded debt to be met by collections from assessments, $52,544 94


Water Department loans,


$283,500 00


Cr.


By amount in the Sinking Fund to the credit of the above loans as reported by the Commissioner, . 183,195 78


Net bonded debt to be met by earnings from the water works, $100,304 22


TEMPORARY SEWER CERTIFICATES.


Statement showing the total amount of certificates issued for the construction of sewers in the city of Trenton. The principal on these certificates is raised by assessments on the property benefited, . $821,500 00


REFUNDING LOANS.


Issued to refund temporary improvement certificates, . $325,400 00 Amount of certificates not refunded, 496,100 00


$821,500 00


290


THE CITY OF TRENTON.


RECAPITULATION OF THE INDEBTEDNESS OF THE CITY.


Total amount.


Amount to credit in Sinking Fund.


Net indebtedness.


Bonds to be met by taxation, . 8814,600 00


$238,425 55


8576,174 45


Bonds for street improvements, 196,600 00 144,055 06 52,544 94


Cost of sewers and drains, . 821,500 00


821,500 00


Bonds of Water Department, . 283,500 00


183,195 78


100,304 22


82,116,200 00


$565,676 39 81,550,523 61


Total unfunded indebtedness, 8395,896 17


TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS UNPAID AND DUE THE CITY AND CASH IN BANK.


Cash in bank, general account, $35,697 45


Amount due and available for taxes, 1894. 264,751 09 Taxes to be collected from Commissioners of Adjustment, 25,000 00


Deficiency,


70,447 63


VALUE OF CITY PROPERTY. $395, 896 17


The following statement will show the approximate value of properties belonging to the city :


City Hall property, $75,000 00 47,000 00 Police stations, 35,000 00


Almshouse, .


School-houses, 468,000 00


Engine-houses, 75,000 00


Public parks, 180,000 00


Water works, 1,500,000 00


$2,380,000 00


Herewith is shown an abstract of the report of the Commissioner of the Sinking Fund for the fiscal year ending February 28th, 1895 :


The amount of the fund at the date of last report, March 1st,


1894, was .


There have been received during the year the appropriations for 1894,


44,775 44


From assessments on street improvements, 31,421 14


From surplus rents of the water works, 5,000 00


Interest on securities of the fund, 20,947 00


$694,706 39


Redemption of bonds, . 129,030 00


Leaving the present amount of the fund, . 8565,676 39


Of which there is invested in securities, 405,500 00


And there is cash in bank, 160,176 39


The changes in the securities of the fund since the last annual report are the following :


Bonds matured and canceled- Volunteer bonds, $1,500 00


Trenton Institute bonds, 7,500 00


Deficiency bonds of 1874, 30,000 00


Temporary certificates redeemed by City Treasurer, 63,300 00


$102,300 00


$592,562 81


291


THE CITY OF TRENTON.


Bonds bought for investment-


Temporary certificates of 1894, $8,200 00


The bonds redeemed and canceled amount to $129,000 00


The loans chargeable upon the fund which will become due within the year prior to March 1st, 1896, are :


May 1st, 1895. Water loan of 1875, . $160,000 00 January 1st, 1896. Volunteer bond installment, 15,000 00


$175,000 00


CHAPTER XXXIV.


BOOKS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF TRENTON.


GENERAL HISTORIES-SPECIAL MONOGRAPHS-THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF DR. CHARLES C. ABBOTT-THE PRINTED CHARTERS AND FIRST ORDINANCES.


EGARDING the history of this city, those books appertaining directly thereto are "Ilistory of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, N. J., from the First Settlement of the Town," by John Hall, D. D. (1859). Of the many church histories which have been printed throughout the United States, this is one of the best. Accuracy and scholarly treatment of the subject have left this book one of the noblest monu- ments to the life of this distinguished man.


"History of the City of Trenton, New Jersey, Embracing a Period of Nearly Two Hundred Years," by John O. Raum (1871). Mr. Raum's history is the only one of a general nature treating of the city. The work is especially noteworthy in the completeness of its records of the churches and of the fire department.


There is also a useful illustrated "History of Burlington and Mereer Counties," by Major E. M. Woodward and John F. Hageman. It was issued at Philadelphia by Everts & Peck, in 1883, from the press of J. B. Lippincott & Company. The history of Trenton is practically embraced in that portion of the book from page 664 to page 756, inclusive.


The attention of the student of local history is especially called to the "History of State Street Methodist Episcopal Church," a pamphlet of great value, issued June 14th, 1886, by a committee consisting of the Rev. J. L. Sooy, Gen. James F. Rusling, George W. Macpherson and Ira W. Wood, Esquires. The "History of the Trenton Academy," by the Hon. William L. Day- ton, is of much interest. This was issued in 1881. "The Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing," Trenton, William S. Sharp Printing Company, 1883, the original notes being col- lected by the Rev. Doctor Eli F. Cooley, author of the article on Mercer county in Barber & Howe's " Historical Collections," 1844. These notes were later edited by Prof. William S. Cooley, of Philadelphia, and Miss Hannah Cooley, of Ewing, N. J. Three of Adjutant-General William S. Stryker's able monographs deal directly with Trenton. "The Old Barracks" (1885) ; " Washing- ton's Reception by the People of New Jersey in 1789" (1882), and "Trenton One Hundred Years ago" (1878).


The histories of the Trenton Banking Company and the Saving Fund Society have also been printed. Other reference-books are the publications of the Board of Trade, the short sketches of the town in encyclopædias, such as the "Britannica," Johnson's and Appleton's "Lossing's Field- Book of the American Revolution," and like sources of information. In the "New Jersey Archives," the "Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society," the "Pennsylvania Maga- zine," printed by the Historical Society of that State, and the general histories of the State of New Jersey, such as Smith, Mulford, Barber & Howe, Raum, &e., may be found, under proper indices, many allusions to the city of Trenton. The pamphlets published by the Hon. Charles C. Haven relative to Trenton are of the highest value. The one best known is "Thirty Days in New Jersey Ninety Years Ago," which is usually printed with the "Annals of Trenton." The poems of "Clementine" contain allusions to patriotic incidents in this city.


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DR. ABBOTT'S BOOKS.


Although not published in Trenton, the works of Dr. Charles C. Abbott throw much light upon the paleontology, archeology, flora and fauna of Trenton and its vicinity. The following titles of his books show the elaborate scope of his work. Charmingly written, with passing allu- sions to colonial and Revolutionary history, Dr. Abbott's volumes have given the author and Trenton an international reputation. Beside nearly one hundred uncollected articles of a strictly technical character, published in American and English scientific serials, he has published as separate volumes :


"The Stone Age in New Jersey," in annual report of Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 1875 ; "Primitive Industry, or Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone, Bone and Clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantie Seaboard of America," Salem, Mass., George A. Bates, 1881 ; "A Naturalist's Rambles About Home," New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1, 3 and 5 Bond street, 1884; "Upland and Meadow, a Poaetquissing's Chronicle," New York, Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1886 ; "Waste-Land Wanderings," New York, Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square ; London, 30 Fleet street, 1887 ; "Days Out of Doors," New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1889 ; "Outings at Odd Times," New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1890; "Recent Archaeological Explorations in the Valley of the Delaware," University of Pennsylvania Archæological and Philological Monographs, Ginn & Company, Boston, Mass., 1892; "Recent Rambles, or In Touch with Nature," Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1892 ; "Travels in a Tree-Top," Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Company, 715, 717 Market street, 1894; "The Birds About Us," Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Company, 715, 717 Market street, 1894; "A Colonial Wooing," Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Company, 715, 717 Market street, 1895.




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