{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3619", "width": "2257", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3442", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3442", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r-,^\\np.\\nJ^\\n1 -f\\nr ^f\\nu", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THK\\nve\\nCity of Bridgeton.\\nNEW JERSEY.\\nITS SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH ITS ATTRACTIONS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094ITS INDUSTRIES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ITS ADVANTAGES AS\\nA MANUFACTURING SITE.\\nSixty -Two Illustrations.\\n1889.\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nBuRK McFhtridc;e, Printers, 306-308 Chestnut Street.\\n1889.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "G0549\\nKXPLANATORY.\\nBelieving that Bridgeton is destined to become, at no distant day,\\na city of commanding importance and influence in the State, and that\\nits superior advantages should be presented to the world in a more\\nattractive shape than heretofore, the writer submits this pamphlet, trusting\\nthat it may be the channel through which much additional capital shall\\nbe secured, thereby increasing the population, and enhancing the\\nmaterial and industrial prosperity of the people.\\nIn preparing the accompanying pages, use has been made of\\ninformation contained in Elmer s History of Cumberland County, and\\nEverts Peck s History of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland. Thanks\\nare due, also, to the proprietors of manufacturing establishments, and\\nother gentlemen who have furnished statistics and facts relative to the\\nindustrial life of Bridgeton.\\nTo Wm. E. Service, Bridgeton s talented artist, much credit is due\\nfor the fine views photographed for the work also, to the Electro-Tint\\nEngraving Company, 726 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, for the hand-\\nsome engravings on copper plate.\\nI. T. Nichols.\\nBridgeton, May, i88g.\\nb\\nr\\\\", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "4\\nCity Government.\\nMayor,\\nJEREMIAH Dubois.\\nTreasurer, Tax Collector,\\nFRANK M. RILEY. LEWIS H. DOWDNEY.\\nSolicitor,\\nFRANK M. PORCH.\\nPresident of Council,\\nFRANCIS C. PROBASCO.\\nRecorder,\\nCHARLES B. MOORE.\\nMEMBERS OF COUNCIL.\\nFirst Ward.\u00e2\u0080\u0094]. D. JOHNSON, FRANCIS SEELEY, JOHN McPHERSON.\\nSecond lVard.\u00e2\u0080\u0094]KQ.Q)^ DAILEY, GEO. E. DUFFIELD, FRED CONNER.\\nThird Ward.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Y. C. PROBASCO, STACY S. LEWIS, FRANCIS B. MINCH.\\nFourth ^\u00c2\u00abn/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 BENJ. F. HARDING, WM. JERRELL, J. A. WOODRUFF.\\nBOARD OF ASSESSORS.\\nFirst IFard.\u00e2\u0080\u0094E. MILFORD APPLEGATE.\\nSecond Ward.\u00e2\u0080\u0094C. F. KRAUTER.\\nThird Wi-;,/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JERE H. LUPTON.\\nFourth JVard.\u00e2\u0080\u0094U. C. ENGLISH.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Board of EouGftTioN.\\nPresident,\\nJOSEPH S. MINER.\\nSeeretary,\\nGEO. W. McCOWAN.\\nSchool Superintendent,\\nDANIEL SHARP.\\nMEMBERS OF BOARD.\\nFirst JT^r^.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WILSON L. SILVERS, J. S. MINER, E. C. LAMBERT.\\nSecond Ward.\u00e2\u0080\u0094O. E. PECK, BENJ. T. BRIGHT, C. R. COREY.\\nThird fF\u00c2\u00abr^/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RICHARD LOTT, \\\\VM. C. WHITAKER, JACOB ftlENZLE,\\nFourth \\\\Vard.\u00e2\u0080\u0094]Q^K. S. AVARS, W. F. HORT, I. T. NICHOLS.\\nBoard of Health.\\nPresident,\\nCHAS. E. SHEPPARD.\\nInspector,\\nM. W. APPLEGATE.\\nMEMBERS OF BOARD.\\nC. E. SHEPPARD, M. W. APPLEGATE,\\nCHAS. E. MULFORD, ELI LOPER.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Fire Department.\\nChief,\\n\\\\V. H. H. ELWELL.\\nFirst, WM. T. BOWEN. ^ng.neers. MYERS.\\nThird, WM. SIMPKINS.\\nCaptain of Hose,\\nFRANCIS WILSEY.\\nFirst Assistant, G. H. EARTH. Second Assistant, ^VM. HUSTED.\\nWater Department.\\nSuperintendent,\\nTIMOTHY WOODRUFF.\\nEngineer,\\nCHAS. W. BAKER.\\nChief of Police,\\nHIS HONOR, THE MAYOR.\\nMEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE.\\nState Senator.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 VWWAY P. BAKER.\\nAssemblymen.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xl\\\\0 \\\\V. TRENCHARD, REUBEN CHEESMAN.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "United States Officials.\\nCollector of the Port,\\nFRANK M. PORCH.\\nPostmaster, Internal Revenue Collector,\\nSAMUEL A. LANING. JOHN SMALLEY.\\nCounty Officers.\\nSheriff,\\nBENJAMIN F. SHAW.\\nClerk,\\nFRANCIS L. GODFREY.\\nSurrogate, Coroner,\\nSAMUEL R FITHIAN. ISAIAH F. BARNES.\\nPresiding Judge County Courts,\\nALFRED REED.\\nAssociate Judges,\\nNATHANIEL STRATTON. ELI B. HENDEE.\\nLaw Judge,\\nJAMES R. HOAGLAND.\\nProsecuting Attorney,\\nWILLIAM A. LOGUE.\\nCrier of the Court,\\nLEWIS YOUNG.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Board of Freeholders.\\nDirector,\\nMORRIS BACON.\\nClerk,\\nHOWARD L. TYLER.\\nSolicitor,\\nJAMES R. HOAGLAND.\\nCounty Physician,\\nJOHN R. C. THOMPSON.\\nCounty Collector,\\nJAMES W. TRENCHARD.\\nCounty School Superintendent,\\nCHARLES G. HAMPTON.\\nBRIDGETON FREEHOLDERS.\\nFirst mird.\u00e2\u0080\u0094CUAS. H. MICKEL.\\nSecotid Ward.\u00e2\u0080\u0094]. M. SHOUGH.\\nThird Ward.~]OS. T. WHITE.\\nFourth Wa,-d.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\\\\\\\M. B. TRENCHARD.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Board of Trade.\\nPresident,\\nDAVID McBRIDE.\\nFirst Vice-President, Second Vice-President,\\nCHARLES G. HAMPTON. DANIEL BACON.\\nSecretary, Treasurer,\\nALEX. R. FITHIAN. DAVID P. ELMER.\\nCorresponding Secretary,\\nGEO. W. McCOVVAN.\\nGENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\\nJACOB DAILEY, DAN L SHARP, JOHN SMALLEY,\\nDAN L B. MAYHEW, FRANK M. RILEY, J. D. JOHNSON,\\nSAMUEL A. LANING, FRANCIS R. FITHIAN, JACOB MENGEL,\\nJAMES J. REEVES, JACOB KIENZLE, LEANDER SHARP,\\nJOS. ARNOLD, SAM L M. ALLEN, J. BOYD NIXON.\\nFRANK EGGMAN,\\nCOMMITTEE ON RAILROADS.\\nS. A. LANING, JACOB DAILEY, FRANK M. RILEY.\\nCOMMITTEE ON MANUFACTURES.\\nJ. NIXON BODINE, FRANK R. FITHIAN, DAN L B. MAYHEW.\\nCOMMITTEE ON NAVIGATION.\\nDANIEL SHARP, JOHN SMALLEY, JAMES J. REEVES.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "The City of Bridgeton.\\nSETTLEMENT AND GROWTH.\\nr rHORTLY after the battle of Culloden, 1746, where\\nC^\\\\ Charles Edward was so disastrously defeated in his\\nstruggle for the English crown, the General Assembly\\nof New Jersey passed a bill setting off certain portions of the\\nthen county of Salem into a district to be thereafter known\\nas the county of Cumberland. The Duke of Cumberland,\\nwho won the battle of Culloden, was the hero of the day, and\\nit was in his honor that the new county was named.\\nUp to this period the country was but sparsely settled.\\nThere w^as a small settlement at Greenwich, one in Fairfield,\\nand another at Port Elizabeth, with a widely-scattered farming\\ncommunity located principally in the vicinity of the Cohansey\\nand Maurice rivers. On the present site of the City of Bridge-\\nton there was a collection of houses, few in number, which\\nsettlement was called Cohansey Bridge. The first white\\nsettlers are unknown, but they were -probably a portion of\\nFenwick s Colony, together with emigrants from New\\nEngland, and perhaps a few Swedes.\\nIt was not till 1754 that the place began to take shape.\\nAt that time Daniel Elmer, who was a surveyor, laid out a\\ntown on the east side of the Cohansey, which was to be called\\nCumberland. The streets were surveyed, and a plan\\nadopted. The site extended from Jefferson street on a line\\nwith the present Broad street bridge, as far north as the\\nCentral R. R. depot covered largely by a forest. From the", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "lO\\nriver it ran as far east as where Orange street is now located.\\nThe survey was made at the request of the owner of the land,\\nAlexander Moore, but the streets were never opened. From\\nthe date of Moore s attempt to lay out a town until 1791,\\nCohansey Bridge made but little progress. The road to\\nDeerfield was laid out in 1768, and the road to Fairfield\\nchanged in 1785. John Moore White, who came to the\\nBridge in 1791, erected a fine dwelling, which afterwards\\nbecame a part of the old Davis Hotel property, and was\\noccupied as a tavern for nearly seventy years. He took a\\ngreat interest in the town, and had several streets laid out,\\nand others straightened. From this time there was a steady\\ngrowth. The early settlers had opened a road to Greenwich\\nby way of Bowentown, in 1769, but the straight road to\\nMillville was not laid till 1805. In 18 10 the road to\\nBuckshutem was laid. Atlantic street was opened in 1800.\\nFranklin street was laid out as early as 1771. The road to\\nRoadstown, through what was then known as Main street,\\nnow Broad, was opened in 1798. Laurel street was laid out\\nabout the year 1791, and was given that name because of the\\nlaurel which grew so abundantly in the woods then situate on\\nwhat is now designated Laurel Hill. The exact date of the\\nlaying out of Commerce street is unknown, but it is supposed\\nto have been about the year 1763. It probably took its name\\nfrom the fact that it was a business street almost from the\\nbeginning. The road to Shiloh was laid in 1825.\\nUp to the Revolution, Bridgeton was but a small hamlet,\\nwith barely two hundred inhabitants. It was a patriotic vil-\\nlage, however, and sent a good-sized contingent to the Revo-\\nlutionary Army. The most distinguished soldier in the ranks\\nof those who enlisted was a young physician, Ebenezer Elmer,\\nfather of the late Judge L. Q. C. Elmer, who came home from\\nthe war a Brigadier-General. He was afterward a member of\\nCongress. Col. David Potter and Col. Enos Seeley, residents\\nof Bridgeton, were also officers of distinction in Washington s\\narmy.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "II\\nThe first bridge over the Cohanse} at Commerce street,\\nbuilt about 1716, had no draw. The latter was finally secured\\nafter a long dispute between John Moore White and the fi ee-\\nholders. Stone abutments were put under the bridge in 1799,\\nand the bridge was built on piles and raised much higher.\\nA new bridge was erected in 1849, and the present handsome\\niron structure built in 1875.\\nAn enumeration of the inhabitants made in 1792, showed\\nthat they numbered 300. In 1 800 the town had grown to some\\nimportance. It was the business centre of the county, and\\nmuch wood and produce was shipped to Philadelphia and\\nother points by water. The most influential citizens and busi-\\nness men at that time were Dr. Jonathan Elmer, Ebenezer\\nSeeley, Jonathan Bo wen, Col. David Potter, Dr. Samuel M.\\nShute, James Burch, Zachariah Lawrence, Enoch Boon, John\\nMoore White, General James Giles. A number of substantial\\nwharves were built along the river about this time. The\\nCourt House stood in the middle of Broad street, and was a\\nquaint, old-fashioned edifice.\\nUp to the year 1800 there were a number of slaves in\\nBridgeton, black persons being held as chattels in New Jersey.\\nIn 1804 the Legislature passed an act for the gradual abolition\\nof slavery, so that the number thereafter decreased continually.\\nIn 1830 there were still two persons owned as slaves, but with\\ntheir death emancipation in this State became complete.\\nIn 1829 the population had reached 1,736. That portion\\nof the town located on the east side of the river began to\\noutstrip that on the western side. There were ten stores and\\nfour taverns in the place. Twenty-five vessels w^ere employed\\nin the wood trade, and there was also several oyster boats.\\nTwenty-five thousand cords of wood were sent every year to\\nPhiladelphia. Stratton Buck were the most enterprising\\nbusiness men.\\nIn the early part of 1830, there began to be a desire\\namong the people of the county for a new and better Court\\nHouse. The subject was agitated until 1836, when the lot", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\non which the building now stands was purchased by the\\ncounty. This action on the part of the Board of Freeholders\\nproduced great excitement, and the inhabitants of the eastern\\nportion of the county clamored for the removal of the county-\\nseat to Millville, In order that the matter might be promptly\\nsettled, an act authorizing a special election was secured from\\nthe Legislature. The election to determine the question was\\nheld July 25 and 26, 1837. Never in the history of the\\ncounty was there so much excitement or so much hot blood.\\nThe result was 1,284 votes for Bridgeton, 1,059 Millville,\\n214 for Fairton. The people of the eastern end of the county\\nwere not satisfied with the result, and they still continued to\\noppose the erection of the Court House. As there were eight\\ntownships at the time, four in the east and four in the west,\\nthe vote was a tie. The politicians then got to work to\\nunravel the difficulty, and through some fine work in the\\nLegislature, a bill was passed forming a new township at\\nShiloh, called Columbia. By the aid of the new Freeholder\\nfrom that section the eastern townships were beaten, and the\\npresent Court House built. It was first occupied in 1845.\\nThe year 1838 opened on a population of 2,315. At this\\nperiod the streets were named as they now are. In 1850 the\\npopulation had increased to 3,303. In i860 it was 5,104. In\\n1885 it had reached 10,050, and it now numbers 12,000.\\nThe first stage from Bridgeton to Philadelphia began\\nrunning in 1774. In 1792 a post route was established from\\nPhiladelphia to Salem, and thence to Bridgeton, the mail being\\ncarried on horseback once a week. Eli Elmer was the first\\nPostmaster. He was succeeded by John Soulard, who lived\\nin a house on Broad street, near Fayette, and kept the office\\nthere. A mail route to Woodbury was established in 1802,\\nthe first carriers being Benaiah Parvin and son, who began\\ntheir work by stage in 1804. The first daily mail commenced\\nin 1 8 16.\\nBenjamin and David Reeves, of Camden, came to Bridge-\\nton in 181 5, and erected the factories known as The", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Cumberland Nail and Iron Works, and commenced the\\nmanufacture of nails the same year.\\nThe first livery stable was started in 1825 by a joint-stock\\ncompany.\\nGlass works were established in 1836 by the firm of\\nStratton, Buck Co. Both hollow-ware and window glass\\nwere manufactured.\\nThe first newspaper published in Bridijeton was started\\nby James D. Westcott. It was called the Argt(s, but con-\\ntinued only two years. In 181 5 the Wasliingtoii IV/iig \\\\\\\\a.s\\nfounded, Peter Hay, editor. It was started as a political paper,\\nand was red-hot against the Federalists. From the date of its\\nfirst publication until the present day, it has continued under\\ndifferent proprietors. It is now known as the Bridgcton\\nChronicle. At one time it was the most popular newspaper in\\nSouth Jersey, and under the editorship of the gifted James M.\\nNewell, was one of the leading journals of the State. Mr. S.\\nSiegfried started a second paper in 1822. It was known as\\nThe West Jersey Observer. In 1826 it was consolidated with\\nthe Whig. Still another paper was started in 1846, called\\nThe West Jersey Telegraph. It was afterward changed to The\\nWest Jersey Pioneer, and still later to the Bridgeton Pioneer,\\nby which name it is still continued. In 1862 Fayette Pierson\\nstarted a Democratic paper called the Aurora, and it is now\\npublished as The Nezv Jersey Patriot.\\nJohn Westcott established and taught the first day school\\nin Bridgeton, about the year 1773. He taught mathematics\\nprincipally. The school-house on Bank street was erected in\\n1847. The school-house in the Third Ward, then known as\\nCohansey township, was built in 1848.\\nCumberland Bank was chartered in 1816, and began busi-\\nness in September of that year, with a capital of $52,000.\\nGen. James Giles, President Charles Read, Cashier.\\nDr. Elijah Bowen was the first practising ph} sician in\\nBridgeton. He began about 1738. Dr. Jonathan Palmer,\\ngrandfather of the present Dr. Wm. Elmer, began practising", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "in 1768. He was prominent in politics, and at one time a\\nRepresentative in Congress, and afterward United States\\nSenator.\\nThe Courts were first established in Bridgeton in Febru-\\nary, 1749, they having previously been held at Greenwich.\\nAn election had decided that Cohansey Bridge should be\\nthe county seat. Until 1752, when the first Court House was\\nfinished, the Courts usually met at the taverns of Messrs.\\nParvin and Cotting. The whipping-post was the principal\\nmethod of punishment for petty crime in those days. John\\nBrick was the first Judge.\\nBridgeton was incorporated as a city in 1865, with a\\nMayor and Common Council. It was divided into three\\nwards, which covered the entire territory formerly within the\\nlimits of Bridgeton and Cohansey townships. It now has\\nfour wards. James Hood was the first Mayor.\\nThe name Cohansey, given Bridgeton by the early\\nsettlers, was the same as that now borne by the Cohansey\\nriver. It is said to have been derived from that of Cohanzick, a\\nchief of a tribe of Indians who at one time made their home\\nnear the banks of the river.\\nUntil the year 1765, the town retained the name of\\nCohansey Bridge, but it was changed, by order of the\\nCourt, that year, and called Bridgetown. This name was\\ncommonly accepted up to the date of the establishment of the\\nCumberland Bank in 18 16, when Gen. Giles, its first President,\\nhad the word Bridgeton printed on the notes. It has\\nretained that name ever since.\\nThe Cumberland County Agricultural Society, now one\\nof the most flourishing associations of the kind in the country,\\nwas organized January 23, 1823; Dr. Wm. B. Ewing was the\\nfirst President Dr. Ephraim Buck, Secretary. The society\\nwas re-organized in 185 1, when Lewis McBride was chosen\\nPresident. It has held annual exhibitions every year since.\\nThe Cumberland Mutual Fire Insurance Company com-\\nmenced business in May, 1845, with Benjamin Sheppard,\\nPresident. It has had a prosperous career.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\nThe first steamboat company was incorporated in 1845,\\nand a fine steamboat called the Cohansey, ran regularly to\\nPhiladelphia.\\nThe Bridgeton Gas Light Company was organized in\\n1858, and the present works built in November of that year.\\nA railroad from Woodbury to Bridgeton was completed\\nJuly 24, 1 86 1, and a through route from Philadelphia opened\\nup. The occasion was a great event in the history of the\\ntown, and the day of arrival of the first train was given up to\\nfestivity and general rejoicing. It was an epoch in Bridgeton\\nhistory which will long be remembered.\\nThe City Water Works was established, as per vote of\\nthe citizens, in March, 1877. It was carried by a vote of\\n1,145 in favor, to 171 against. On December i8th of that\\nyear the works were opened, and the pumps started for the\\nfirst time. The event was celebrated by a grand street parade.\\nThe plant has cost the city nearly $100,000.\\nIn the year 181 1 Jeremiah Buck erected a cotton and\\nwoolen factory on the south side of Commerce street. It was\\nafterwards removed to near East Lake, where Dr. Wm. Elmer\\nerected a new mill. Later on it became the property of\\nRobert and Jeremiah DuBois, who built the present handsome\\nfour-story brick factory.\\nEphraim Seeley built the first grist mill in Bridgeton as\\nearly as 1700. The mill was located on East Lake near what\\nis now called Mulberry Cove, but all trace of it has long\\nsince disappeared.\\nBrearley Lodge, No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons, was\\nthe first secret society started in Bridgeton. It was instituted\\nNovember 15, 1790, in the old Court-house on Broad street.\\nGen. James Giles was the first Master. In October, 1798, the\\nLodge moved to the second-story room of the Bank Street\\nAcademy, where it has remained to this day.\\nThe Cumberland County Medical Society was organized in\\nBridgeton, December 18, 18 18. Dr. Ebenezer Elmer, Presi-\\ndent Dr. Wm. B. Ewing, Vice-President Dr. Enoch Fithian,", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6\\nSecretary. The latter is still living, at the ripe old age of\\nninety-six. The society is now one of the most influential\\nmedical fraternities in the State, and has a large membership.\\nThe bridge over the Cohansey at Broad street was built\\nby resolution of the Board of Freeholders, and was opened\\nto the public in 1869. It is an iron structure resting on stone\\nabutments and pier.\\nBridgeton was made a port of entry immediately after\\nthe adoption of the Federal Constitution, and the Custom\\nHouse has remained here ever since. Col. Eli Elmer was the\\nfirst Collector. The total number of vessels enrolled at the\\nport at this time is 460, with a tonnage of 15,000 tons. Nearly\\none-half of the boats enrolled are coasting vessels, the balance\\nbeing engaged in the oyster business.\\nThere are three Educational Institutions in Bridgeton of\\nwhich the citizens are very proud. The West Jersey Academy\\nwas built by the Presbyterians of South Jersey, the corner-\\nstone of the building being laid August 9, 1852. Building\\nand grounds cost over $10,000. The school was first opened\\nin 1854. The building is three stories high, and is built of\\nJersey sandstone, and is located on the handsome property in\\nWest Bridgeton known as Academy Hill. It covers an\\nentire square, fronts on Broad street, and has an extensive\\nlawn, with attractive surroundings.\\nThe South Jersey Institute was established by the West\\nJersey Baptist Association. It was erected in 1869 at a cost\\nof over $45,000. It was opened to the public in October, 1870.\\nThe structure is of brick material, five stories high, and has a\\ncentre or main building, with east and west wings. It stands\\non the bluff overlooking the Cohansey river, near the foot of\\nAtlantic street, in the heart of a fine grove of cedar and oak.\\nThe situation is one of the finest in the State, and the view of\\nthe river and town from the Institute verandas is of rare\\nbeauty. It has proved one of the most successful educational\\ninstitutions in the country.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nIvy Hall Seminar}-, a model school for girls and young\\nladies, located on Commerce street, near the foot of the hill,\\nis an old-time brick edifice, whose walls are covered with ivy.\\nIt was established by Mrs. Margaretta Sheppard in 1859. It\\nis now, and always has been, a very successful institution.\\nThe Bridgeton National Bank was organized July 12, 1883,\\nwith a capital of $100,000. Thomas U. Harris, president;\\nJames W. Trenchard, cashier.\\nCumberland Lodge of Odd Fellows, the first of that\\nOrder organized in the county, was instituted January 15,\\n1846. Martin L. Green v/as the first Noble Grand, and Henry\\nNeff, Secretary.\\nSince the Revolution, Bridgeton has been frequently\\nhonored in the halls of Congress, in the Legislature, and once\\nin the Gubernatorial chair. Dr. Jonathan Elmer was a\\nSenator of the United States from March 4, 1789, to March 4,\\n1791 he was also a Representative in Congress during the\\nyears 1776, 1777, 1781, 1783, 1787, 1789. General Ebenezer\\nElmer was a member of Congress from 1801 to 1807; L. Q.\\nC. Elmer from 1843 to 1845 James G. Hampton from 1845\\nto 1849; John T. Nixon from 1859 to 1863. Elias P. Seeley,\\nwho resided in the residence now occupied by Thomas\\nCummings, on Church lane, which formerly stood on Com-\\nmerce street, about where Pierce Carll s furniture store\\nstands, was Governor of the State of New Jersey from Febru-\\nary 27, 1833, to October 25, 1833, having been elected to that\\nposition by the Legislature to fill the vacancy caused by the\\nresignation of Governor Samuel L. Southard, who had\\npreviously been chosen United States Senator.\\nDaniel Elmer, of Bridgeton, was a Justice of the Supreme\\nCourt from March 9, 1841, to January, 1845. L. Q. C.\\nElmer from February 5, 1852, to February 5, 1859, and again\\nfrom August 22, 1861, to March 15, 1869. John T. Nixon\\nwas appointed Judge of the U. S. District Court in 1870, and\\nstill holds that office.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Gen. Ebenezer Elmer, L. Q. C. Elmer and John T. Nixon\\nwere also members of the New Jersey Legislature, and Gen.\\nElmer and Mr. Nixon were each Speakers of the House of\\nAssembly. In recent years Bridgeton has been represented\\nin the House of Assembly by Lewis H. Dowdney, Isaac T.\\nNichols, Jere H. Lupton and Thos. W. Trenchard. Providence\\nLudlam, a Bridgetonian, was Senator from Cumberland\\nCounty during the years 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867,\\nand Isaac T. Nichols represented the county in the same\\nposition during the sessions of 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885,\\n1886. Both Ludlam and Nichols held the Senatorship a\\nlonger period than any of their predecessors.\\nJonathan Bowen, David Potter and Eli Elmer, were mem-\\nbers of the State Convention which ratified the Constitution of\\nthe United States, at its session in Trenton, Deceniber 18,\\n1787. They were residents of Bridgeton at that time.\\nBridgeton had no organized church or any place of wor-\\nship outside of the Court House for nearly a half century\\nafter it became the county seat. The Old Brick Presbyterian\\nChurch, on Broad street, was the first erected. The founda-\\ntion stone was laid July 26, 1792. The necessary funds to\\ncomplete the building were procured through a lottery author-\\nized by act of the Legislature, and the church was finished,\\nand dedicated Sunday, May 17, 1795, by Rev. John Daven-\\nport. The lottery method of raising money in those days was\\nconsidered entirely honorable, and nothing was thought of it.\\nRev. Wm. Clarkson, of Philadelphia, was the first pastor.\\nThe First Baptist Church was organized in the old Court\\nHouse under the preaching of Rev. Henry Smalley, in 1797.\\nA lot was purchased at the corner of Pearl and Marion streets,\\nand the foundations for a church edifice laid May 31, 18 13.\\nThe building was not completed until December 16, 18 16, on\\nwhich day it was dedicated. Mr. Smalley was the first regular\\npastor. The present structure, known as the Pearl Street\\nBaptist Church, is a part of the original edifice.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nBishop Asbury, the eloquent apostle of Methodism, was\\nthe first Methodist minister that ever preached in Bridgeton.\\nThis occurred in September, 1783. Wm. Brooks was the first\\nMethodist class leader. He resided in a small house at the\\nsoutheast corner of Broad and Atlantic streets. Rev. Jonathan\\nBrooks, a noted exhorter and zealous Christian man, vi as one\\nof the fourteen members of his class. The first regularly-\\norganized Methodist society in Bridgeton was due to the\\nefforts of John Murphy, of Fairfield, who began work here\\nabout the year 1791. The Commerce Street Church, at first\\na frame building, was built in 1807. Rev. Joseph Totten\\npreached the dedicatory sermon.\\nDuring the War of the Rebellion, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864\\nand 1865, Bridgeton s record for patriotism was unsurpassed\\nby that of any other town in the country. More than five\\nhundred volunteers, the flower of the community, enlisted in\\nthe several companies which went out to the seat of war. The\\nfirst company to enroll for three years was that known as the\\nCumberland Grays, afterward Co. F, Third Regiment, New\\nJersey Volunteers James W. Stickney, Captain Samuel T.\\nDu Bois, First Lieutenant; George Woodruff, Second Lieu-\\ntenant. It left home for the field, May 27, 1861. The second\\ncompany became a part of the Twelfth Regiment, and was\\nofficered as follows Richard S. Thompson, Captain Daniel\\nDare, First Lieutenant Wm. E. Potter, Second Lieutenant.\\nThis company departed September 4, 1 862. Three companies\\nwere organized about the same time for the Nine Months Regi-\\nments, and over three hundred men were enlisted in Bridge-\\nton within three days. This patriotic feat was never exceeded\\nin any part of the Nation during the war, and had but one\\nparallel that of the town of Haverhill, Mass., where about\\nthe same number were enlisted in about the same time. The\\nthree companies were known as F, G and H, of the Twenty-\\nfourth Regiment. Co. F was commanded by Captain Samuel\\nHarris Co. G by Captain Jas. R. Hoagland, and Co. H by\\nCaptain Henry Neff Part of a company of soldiers for the", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nFirst New Jersey Cavalry also went from Bridgeton, with\\nEthan Harris as Captain. A portion of the Tenth Regiment\\nInfantry, was also recruited here during the same year.\\nOf the membership of Co. F, Third Regiment, Captain\\nStickney was promoted to Major; Samuel T. DuBois, Captain\\nand Major, and Sergeant Charles F. Salkeld, Captain. Lieu-\\ntenant Wm. E. Potter, of Co. K, Twelfth Regiment, was made\\nCaptain and Major, and Sergeant Ed. M. DuBois, Major and\\nLieutenant-Colonel. Sergeant Frank M. Riley, of the same\\ncompany, was also promoted to Captain. All rendered\\nmeritorious service to the country.\\nAmong those who served in New Jersey Regiments from\\nBridgeton, were Captain F. Marion DuBois, of the Twenty-\\nfourth Regiment, and Sergeant Bowman H. Buck, of the\\nThird Regiment. Both were in the Mexican War with Gen-\\neral Winfield Scott s Army, and both passed safely through\\nthe campaigns of the war for the Union. Sergeant Buck is\\nknown in Bridgeton as Old Chepultepec, from the fact that\\nhe was one of the volunteers engaged in the attack and\\nstorming of that celebrated Mexican fortress. He came out\\nof that bloody siege without a scar, as he likewise did at Bull\\nRun, at Malvern Hill, at Fredericksburg, at Chancellorsville,\\nat Antietam, at Gettysburg, at Spottsylvania, the Wilderness,\\nPetersburg, and in front of Richmond. His term of three\\nyears having expired, he re-enlisted for the balance of the war,\\nand was in at Lee s surrender, at Appomattox. The Sergeant\\nis still hale and hearty, and frequently remarks that he is ready\\nto enter the ranks again whenever the country shall call.\\nAppended is a list of those who have served as Mayor of\\nBridgeton since its incorporation as a city James Hood, 1866;\\nIsaac B. Dare, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872; Ephraim\\nE. Sheppard, 1873, 1874, 1875 Seth P. Husted, 1876, 1877,\\n1878, 1879, 1880, 1881; John Smalley, 1882, 1883, 1884;\\nJeremiah DuBois, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, and is still in office.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "The City of Bridgeton.\\nITS INDUSTRIES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE CUMBERLAND NAIL\\nIRON \\\\VORKS.\\nOne of the leading industries of Bridgeton, and in many-\\nrespects the chief, is the estabhshment that bears the above\\ntitle. It has justly been ranked among the great manufactories\\nof the State. Benjamin and David Reeves, having procured\\na site on the western bank of the Cohansey, above the Com-\\nmerce street bridge, erected a mill, and began the manufacture\\nof nails in 1815. Nails were then made exclusively from\\nre-heated scrap iron, and wholesaled from ten to fifteen cents\\nper pound. They were made differently then from what they\\nare now, being cut altogether across the fibre or grain. The\\nmill on the east side of the river, now known as the Puddling\\nand Sheet Mill, was erected in 1847. This changed the\\nmethod of making nails they being manufactured from pig\\niron instead of scrap. The iron was puddled, made into bars,\\nand re-heated, afterward the bars were rolled into sheets from\\nwhich the nails were cut. The new nails were much better\\nand tougher, being cut with the grain instead of across it.\\nDuring the year 1847 the nail mill on the west side was\\ngreatly enlarged, and the entire water power utilized in the\\nwork of driving the machinery. This gave added power, and\\nbetter and larger quantities of nails were manufactured. In\\n1853 the firm built the large pipe mill on the east side, where\\ngas, steam, and water pipe have been manufactured ever since.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nThe company changed its name in 1856, it having pre-\\nviously been known as Reeves, Buck Co, It was now incor-\\nporated by act of the Legislature, and obtained the title of\\nThe Cumberland Nail Iron Works. Robert C. Nichols\\nwas President and Superintendent of the company in 1856.\\nRobert S. Buck succeeded him in 1867. In 1877, his son,\\nRobert J. Buck, became President, with Chester J. Buck as\\nSuperintendent. The two latter gentlemen still retain the\\npresidency and management of the works, with John M.\\nReeves, Secretary and Treasurer.\\nFrom the twenty-six hands employed in 1822, the number\\nhas increased until the employes now exceed four hundred\\nmen and boys. To this army of workmen the company pays\\nwages at the rate of ^150,000 per annum. The product\\nturned out every year amounts to 4,000,000 feet of pipe and\\n140,000 kegs of nails. There are manufactured at the works\\n220 kinds of nails, from the two-penny to the eight-inch spike.\\nAmong them are boat nails, casing nails, finishing nails,\\ntobacco-box nails, trunk nails, brads, etc. In gas, steam and\\nwater pipes, the smallest pipe made is one-eighth of an inch,\\ninside diameter, and the largest, three and one-half inches.\\nThe nails and pipe are chiefly sold in New York, Phila-\\ndelphia and Baltimore, from which points they are frequently\\nshipped to California, South America, and other remote parts\\nof the world.\\nIn the great business in which it is engaged, The\\nCumberland Nail Iron Works, consumes a vast amount of\\nraw material. In a single year over 11,275 tons of iron are\\nused, at a cost of 5202,950; 5,600 tons of iron ore, at a cost\\nof 539,200; 15,750 tons of coal, at an outlay of $63,000;\\n650,000 feet of lumber, at an expense of 56,500. The amount\\npaid out for raw material, labor, etc., approximates a half\\nmillion dollars annually, which is a sum equal to the capital\\nstock.\\nThe company has fifteen engines of various makes, six-\\nteen steam boilers, ninety nail machines and six welding", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "~0\\nfurnaces. They also own a fine steamer known as the Laura\\nB, and two large barges, which convey nails and pipe, raw\\nmaterial, and other freight to and from the works.\\nNo manufacturing establishment in the country can boast\\nof a better or more faithful class of employes. Many of them\\nhave been continuously in the employ of the company for\\nperiods of from twenty to sixty years. John Husted, weigh-\\nmaster, has served sixty-three years William Hetzell, foreman\\nof the cooper shop, sixty-one years Charles Holmes, nailer,\\nfifty-eight years George Woodruff, sheet mill shears, fifty-six\\nyears William Naglee, roller, fifty-one years James Lindsay,\\nroller, thirty-eight years Sheppard Howell, puddler, forty-\\nfour years Benjamin Shaffer, stocker, thirty-eight years Elijah\\nHider, roller, thirty-one years Henry Hummell, engineer,\\nthirty-seven years Edgar Riley, foreman nail mill, thirty-five\\nyears William H. Loper, roller, twenty-seven years Thomas\\nRose, wheeler, forty-two years Providence Long, carrier, fifty\\nyears Benjamin Ford, nailer, thirty-five years Albert\\nDalton, nailer, thirty-five years Capt. Ephraim Burch, of the\\nLaura, has also served the company thirty years. Robert\\nL. Young, foreman of the rolling mill, has served in that respon-\\nsible position twenty-two years. Also, Hugh Moncrief, nailer,\\nfifty years W. H. H. Elwell, master mechanic, thirty-one\\nyears Charles J, Howell, nailer, thirty-five years Robert\\nSmith, nailer, thirty-eight years Charles H. Boone, nailer,\\nthirty-five years John B. Nieukirk, blacksmith, twenty-six\\nyears Charles H. Dare, assistant blacksmith, twenty-five\\nyears Joseph C. Brooks, prover, pipe mill, thirty-five years\\nJohn W. Seeley, welder, pipe mill, twenty years Frank\\nWoodruff, nailer, twenty-eight years Joseph Abbott, annealer,\\ntwenty years; John V. Booblitz, nailer, twenty vears; Charles\\nF. Booblitz, nailer, twenty years Dennis Dougherty, mason,\\ntwenty-five years Ephriani Buck, mason, twenty years\\nWilliam Ganns, puddler, thirty-five years Joseph Gravies,\\npipe mill, fifty-two years Capt. Levi A. Wood, scrap packer,\\nforty-two years James R. Sellers, foreman, sheet mill, forty-two\\nears.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nIn the cooper shop, where the barrels and kegs of the\\ncompany are made, Charles Hetzell has been employed fifty\\nyears Samuel Wilson, forty years Dayton Riley, forty-eight\\nyears James W. Murphy, thirty-five years William Herman,\\ntwenty-five years. Of such a record, both company and\\nemployes may well be proud.\\nCOHANSEY GLASS WORKS.\\nThe oldest glass manufactory in Bridgeton is that known as\\nthe Cohansey Glass Works. It was founded in 1836 by\\nStratton, Buck Co. The first factory was a small building,\\nwith very primitive facilities. The furnace was of crude manu-\\nfacture, and the pots weak in structure. The fires were fed^\\nby pine wood, of which commodity immense quantities were\\nburned. Small bottles were the first articles manufactured.\\nThe business was not much of a success, and after it had con-\\ntinued a few years the works passed into the hands of a Mr.\\nRosenbaum. He held possession but a short time, when Joel\\nBodine assumed charge. Maul, Hebrew Co. afterward\\ncontrolled the property and managed it until 1857, when a\\nnew firm, Gen. David Potter, of Bridgeton, and F. L. Bodine,\\nof Philadelphia, under the title of Potter Bodine, came to\\nthe front. This partnership continued until 1863, when the\\nfirm again changed and took the name of F. J. N. Bodine\\nCo. The Co. was dropped soon after, and the business prose-\\ncuted under the proprietorship of F. J. N. Bodine solely.\\nIn 1879 it was incorporated and took the style and title of\\nCohansey Glass Manufacturing Company. The present\\nofficers of the company are President, F. L. Bodine Vice-\\nPresident, J. NT Bodine Secretary, W. G. Millikin Assistant\\nSecretary, W. M. Bodine. City office. No. 32 N. Fourth\\nstreet, Philadelphia.\\nThe plant of the company, located at the foot of Pearl street,\\nis one of the most valuable in the State. It is situate directly", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "u", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": ".sfc im^.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "-^3\\non the Cohansey river and has nav^igation at its ver) doors.\\nThe West Jersey Railroad extension runs along Glass street\\ndirectly through the factory yard, thus bringing the works\\ninto connection with the outside world by rail. Shipments\\nare thereby made to almost every point of the compass with\\nbut little delay.\\nThe works cov^er an area of about six acres, and consist of\\nthree window-glass and two hollow-ware factories. They are\\nthoroughly equipped with all the modern facilities for the\\nsuccessful production of glass. The company is now running\\nfour houses, two engaged in the manuficturc of bottles and two\\nturning out window-glass. When all the factories are in opera-\\ntion the company employs about five hundred men and boys.\\nThey are now employing some four hundred, and paying about\\n^10,000 per month for wages. The value of glassware manufac-\\ntured at the Cohansey works exceeds $300,000 annually. An\\nestimate of the amount of raw material used in the factories per\\nannum shows the following 4,000 tons of white sand 800\\ntons of lime; 800 tons of soda; 1,500,000 feet of lumber and\\nbox boards 8,000 tons of coal 1,200 tons of coke 400 tons\\nof German and American clay, and about 2,000 cords of wood;\\ntogether with 200 tons of hay and straw, with large quantities\\nof nails and other necessities incident to the business.\\nThe company manufacture all kinds of hollow-ware such as\\nbottles for druggists use phials, beer and v/ine bottles fruit\\njars bottles and jars for acid, and carboys or demijohns in\\nlarge numbers. Window-glass, double and single strength,\\nand every grade of glass in that line is turned out. The\\nspecialty of the company is the Cohansey Fruit Jar, on\\nwhich the owners have a special patent. This jar is one of\\nthe finest in the market and has a ready sale. From special\\nmoulds the company also manufactures a variety of glass-ware\\nfor private parties, among them a handsome syrup bottle for\\nan Eastern firm. The works are run by steam with a fifty\\nhorse-power engine. This engine runs the machine shop,\\nthe batch-mixer, and almost everything connected with the\\nfactories.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26\\nThe capital stock and plant of the Cohansey Glass Com-\\npany are valued at ^250,000. It is a fine property, and the\\nbusiness since the day when the Bodine Brothers took charge\\nhas proved a great success, so much so, that it is now classed\\nas one of the most prosperous glass establishments in the\\ncountry.\\nThe company also has a large store where a heavy business\\nis done in dry goods, groceries and provisions. George W.\\nIreland is manager.\\nEAST LAKE WOOLEN MILL.\\nThe fine four-story brick structure standing on the western\\nbank of East Lake, at the corner of East avenue and Com-\\nmerce street, is one of the heaviest manufacturing establish-\\nments in the city. Reference has already been made to its\\nearlier history. Within a few years the mill has passed\\ninto the hands of an organization known as the East\\nLake Woolen Co. Its officers are as follows President,\\nJonathan Elmer Vice-president, George W. Patton Secretary,\\nEdward A. Green Treasurer, James G. Shaw Superintendent,\\nJoseph T. Ashworth.\\nRecent improvements have added largely to the capacity\\nof the mill, and it now has facilities equal to those of the best\\nwoolen manufacturing establishments of the country. The\\ncompany has a capital of ;$300,000 invested in its plant, mill,\\nmachinery and raw material. One hundred hands men,\\nyoung women and boys, are given constant employment the\\nyear round. The wages paid to employes exceeds ^3,000\\nper month, or about ^40,000 per annum.\\nThe machinery consists of thirty-five looms, improved\\nBroad Knowles, with every modern appliance for the turn-\\ning out of first-class woolen goods. Wool is taken in its raw\\nstate, cleaned, sorted, and made ready for the loom, from which\\nit emerges in the shape of all-wool cassimeres in the latest and", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "27\\nbest designs. In the manufacture of cloth and cassimere, the\\ncompany uses 250,000 pounds of wool annually, together with\\n510,000 worth of silk thread, assorted colors. The total output\\nof woolen goods per year amounts to 5100,000 in value.\\nThe mill is run by steam power, and has three boilers of\\n125-horse power each. It has powerful engines, and is one of\\nthe best equipped factories in the world. When steam cannot\\nbe used, the company has a fine water power, drawn from\\nEast Lake.\\nFERRACUTE MACHINE WORKS.\\nThe establishment known as the Ferracute Machine\\nWorks is splendidly located on the southeastern bank of\\nEast Lake, a beautiful sheet of water in the immediate vicinity\\nof Bridgeton proper. The original factory was but a small\\nshop on Laurel street, where, twenty years ago, Smith Webb\\ncarried on business with a force of three men. In 1877, the\\ncompany was re-organized and incorporated under the above\\ntitle. Since then it has grown to far greater proportions, until\\nnow its plant, consisting of main shop for the manufacture of\\npresses, the erecting and forging shops, pattern shop, draught-\\ning rooms and offices, etc., etc., cover nearly an acre of territory.\\nEighty men, nearly all skilled workmen, are constantly\\nemployed, turning out one hundred and ten different styles\\nof presses, lathes, dies and other tools for making articles in\\nsheet metal, and for general work in cutting, pressing and\\nforming leather and paper goods, together with special appa-\\nratus, solder tools and other machinery for working bar and\\nsheet metals. Among the products of the Ferracute Co.,\\nare machines for making dust pans, milk pans, dinner plates,\\nbrass bells, electrical gong bells, spear heads, tin colanders, army\\nand sportsmen s buckles, match safes, fruit knives, watch cases,\\nsugar tongs, curtain rings, percussion caps, blacking boxes, lamp", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28\\nframes, metallic shingles, etc., etc. Some of the specialties\\nmanufactured are those articles invented by Mr. Oberlin Smith,\\nthe head of the company, who is one of the most accomplished\\ndraughtsmen and skilful inventors of the day. One of them,\\nknown as the Rotary Squeezer, is in use by the great Stand-\\nard Oil Company for the work of fastening the heads of the\\nsquare five-gallon oil cans, and another is the Dipping\\nMachine, used for soldering the heads on said cans. It is\\nsaid that these machines save ^50 per day in solder alone.\\nOther specialties gotten out at the Ferracute, are pill\\nmachines for producing conxpressed tablets for druggists, at\\nthe rate of 100 per minute a new machine for making nails\\nfrom tin scrap, and a series of presses called Parabolic, which\\nare adapted to a large variety of work. They also manu-\\nfacture the Screw and Drop presses, and many small tools\\nused by can-makers and metal-workers. The presses, dies and\\nother machinery made at these works are shipped to all parts\\nof the world, orders being frequently filled for Newfoundland,\\nNova Scotia, California, the Gulf States, Australia, China,\\nJapan, South America and various sections of Europe.\\nThe Ferracute shops are fitted with the best appliances and\\nlatest improved machinery. They are lighted with electricity\\nthe incandescent light being furnished from the company s\\nown dynamo. Special appliances for loading machinery, with\\nten-ton scales, crane, track and car connecting with the tracks\\nof the West Jersey Railroad, which run close to the establish-\\nment, make facilities for the quick transportation of goods\\nsecond to none in Bridgeton. Additional shop-room for the\\nerection of heavy machinery has been recently made. Power\\nfor running the machinery of the several shops is furnished by\\na fifty-horse engine and sixty-horse boiler.\\nThe company has about ^120,000 invested in its plant, and\\npays out 51,000 per week in wages. It manufactures 100,000\\nworth of goods annually. The following is a list of its offi-\\ncers President, Oberlin Smith Secretary and Treasurer,\\nFred. Smith Superintendent, S. Ashton Hand.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "29\\nCUMBERLAND GLASS MANUFACTURING\\nCOMPANY.\\nCLARK WINDOW GLASS COMPANY.\\nThe Cumberland Glass Company was organized in August,\\n1880, and a factory built the same year. Since then the works\\nhave been moved from the former site on Water street, and\\nfour hollow-ware factories erected on North Laurel street, near\\nthe line of the New Jersey Central Railroad. Its officers are:\\nR. E. Shoemaker, President S. M. Bassett, Superintendent\\nand Secretary C. W. Shoemaker, Treasurer.\\nThis company employs 300 men and boys. It pays wages\\nat the rate of ^$9,000 per month, or about $95,000 annually.\\nCapital invested $150,000. Value of bottles manufactured\\nper fire, $200,000. No specialties are manufactured, but the\\ncompany turns out almost every variety of bottle in colored and\\ngreen glass. Raw material is consumed annually as follows\\n1,400 tons of soda 3,000 tons of sand; 48,000 bushels of lime;\\n6,000 tons of coal 1,400,000 feet of lumber, etc.\\nThe Clark Window Glass Company was established in\\nDecember, 1882. It has a capital of $25,000 invested in one\\nfactory, the latter being fitted with every modern glass-making\\nfacility. Fifty hands are employed, and about $2,500 per\\nmonth paid in wages. Ware produced per annum, $60,000\\nvalue. In the running of the window-glass furnace, the Clark\\nCompany uses two tons of soda per day four tons of sand\\ntwo tons of lime, and large quantities of hay and straw also,\\nGerman and American clay in the manufacture of pots.\\nBoth the Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Company and\\nthe Clark Window Glass Company, are successful companies,\\nand among the best in the country.\\nOfficers of Clark Window Glass Company C. H. Shoe-\\nmaker, President; S. M. Bassett, Secretary W. C. Mulford,\\nTreasurer.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30\\nThe Cumberland Glass Company has a large factory store\\nimmediately connected with their works, in which a heavy\\nbusiness is transacted with the workmen, their families and the\\nresidents of that portion of Bridgeton in which the factories\\nare situated. The store is managed by Richard Brockson.\\nCOX SONS MACHINE WORKS.\\nDuring the year 1868, Stephen Cox, Sr., Wm. E. Cox, and\\nStephen Cox, Jr., established the extensive machine works\\nand iron foundry which bear their name. All the members of\\nthe firm have a practical knowledge of the business they\\npursue, and are skilled mechanics and inventors. The com-\\npany has an office at their works in Bridgeton also at 204\\nNorth Fourth street, Philadelphia, the latter under the charge\\nof Wm. P. Cox. It also has an agency at 75 Water street,\\nPittsburgh, Pa. The shops, foundry and plant, located on\\nWater street. West Bridgeton, near the Cohansey river, cover\\nabout two acres of ground, and extend over 21,000 feet of\\nfloor space. The property has a frontage on Water street\\nof 175 feet, with a wharf line of 250 feet on the Cohansey.\\nCox Sons are manufacturers of improved low-pressure\\nsteam-heating apparatus, improved vertical and horizontal\\nengines and boilers, pipe-screwing and tapping machinery,\\npipe-screwing stocks and dies, cast and wrought-iron fittings,\\nflattening ovens with circular and straight bars, grinding\\nmachines, and other machinery for glass factories. Castings\\nare made in the foundry from an ounce to five tons weight.\\nSpecial attention is paid to the manufacture of engines and\\nboilers. Last year the firm shipped pipe-cutting and thread\\nmachinery to both Russia and Germany also manufactured\\nand shipped to Mexico a 250-horse-power engine and three\\nlarge boilers, for a silver mine in that country, where the\\nMessrs. Cox have an extensive trade. Considerable Govern-\\nment work is also done for the New York and Norfolk Navy", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "31\\nYards, Estimates are now being made for a steam-power\\nplant for a gold mine in South America. Within a few years,\\nCox Sons have furnished steam-heating facilities for the Odd-\\nfellows Home, the Presbyterian Home, the Lutheran Home,\\nand other institutions of Philadelphia. They have also\\nequipped numerous private residences in various parts of the\\ncountry in the same manner.\\nThe raw material used in the shops and foundry is of the\\nbest and finest quality. Bituminous coal is burned in the\\nfurnaces also coke, in large quantities. Five hundred tons\\nof the best pig iron, also many tons of bar iron and steel, are\\nannually worked up into castings, boilers and machinery.\\nThe buildings are three stories high, brick material, with slate\\nroofs, and present an imposing appearance. One hundred\\nskilled workmen machinists, moulders, boilermakers and\\napprentices, are kept constantly employed, to whom wages\\namounting to ^2,500 per month are paid. The plant of the\\ncompany is estimated at $80,000.\\nGETSINGER GLASS WORKS.\\nBridgeton has twenty glass factories, but few of them have\\ntransacted so large an amount of business as the works owned\\nand managed by John E. Getsinger Son. The manufacture\\nof window glass was first begun in a new factory, near Mul-\\nberry street, on what is known as the Steamboat Landing, in\\nthe Spring of 1879. Since then the plant has been moved to\\nthe fine location on Grove street, South Bridgeton. The site\\noverlooks the Cohansey river, and is accessible by both water\\nnavigation and rail a branch of the West Jersey Railroad\\nconnecting the factories with the main line. There are three\\nlarge window-glass factories and one hollow-ware house. The\\nfirm employs two hundred men and boys, the blowers being\\nskilled workmen, and pay wages amounting to $7,000 per\\nmonth; capital invested in business $75,000. The factories", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32\\nand shops which constitute the works cover five acres of land.\\nMason fruit jars and bottles of almost every variety, with\\nwindow glass of the best quality, are annually manufactured\\nto the value of ,$200,000.\\nIn the work of carrying on their large business, Getsinger\\nSon use 6,000 tons of lime per fire 2,500 tons of white\\nsand 600 tons of lime 600 tons of soda 6,000 tons of coal\\nr,ooo tons of coke 300 tons of German and American clay (the\\nfirm manufacture their own pots); 1,000 cords of wood;\\n1,000,000 feet of lumber; 100 tons of hay; 50 tons of straw\\n(both of the latter for packing glass) 20 tons of iron, and 200\\nkegs of nails.\\nGetsinger Son manufacture all sizes of window glass,\\nmaking a specialty of double-thick plates, known as the\\nNewton Brand, which have become famous in the glass\\nmarket. They ship most of their ware to New York, Phila-\\ndelphia and points in the South and West. The factories are\\nrun by steam power.\\nMORE, JONAS MORE GLASS WORKS.\\nThe glass works located on the West Jersey Railroad, in\\nNorth Bridgeton, near Bank street, were established by the\\nfirm of More, Jonas More the individual members being\\nRobert More, Jr., George Jonas and Richard More. This\\ncompany erected a hollow-ware glass factory, and made it a\\nsuccess. The first fire was placed under the furnace in March,\\n1 882. Every description of bottles, principally druggists -ware,\\nare manufactured.\\nSince the hollow-ware business was begun the firm has\\nentered into a partnership with Robert More, Sr., and Wm. H.\\nAllen, for the purpose of manufacturing window-glass. The\\ntitle of the organization is More, Jonas, More Co. They\\nown and run one factory.\\nThe two companies employ one hundred and seventy-five\\nmen and boys, to whom they pay wages to the amount of\\n,$6,000 monthly. Their product in window-glass and bottles", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "^8\u00c2\u00abK~i\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab\\nIf\\nTJS", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "33\\namounts to $125,000 per year. Capital invested, about ^50,000.\\nIn raw material the two companies consume 3 tons of soda,\\n3 tons of lime, 15 tons of coal and 8 tons of sand per day.\\nThey use 500,000 feet of lumber for boxes, etc., every year.\\nIn the manufacture of pots they use large quantities of both\\nAmerican and German clay, and one ton of straw and hay per\\nweek for packing purposes. The factories are connected with\\nthe West Jersey Railroad by a siding, with one-quarter mile\\ntrack, also by siding with the New Jersey Central Railroad.\\nPERFECTION FUNNEL WORKS.\\nThe manufacture of funnels is a distinct industry, and is a\\nnew thing in this country, and the Perfection Funnel Works,\\nAugustus Gersdorff, Proprietor, located in East Bridgeton,\\nnear East Lake, is said to be the only establishment devoted\\nexclusively to this work anywhere in the world. The works\\nare well supplied with special facilities for the production of\\nthe funnels, which Mr. Gersdorff invented and on which he\\nhas letters patent. Nine machines, presses and lathes are used\\nin the works, besides several soldering machines. The Per-\\nfection Funnel is manufactured, in all standard sizes, of tin,\\ncopper and glass, and when complete, with the strainer, is the\\nfinest and best funnel made. Mr. Gersdorff s shops are\\ndivided into apartments, where the several branches of the\\nbusiness are carried on. There is a room where the tin and\\ncopper is cut and shaped, another where the funnels are burn-\\nished on a cloth wheel until they shine like beaten gold, and\\nstill another where the finishing touches are placed upon them\\nand thus made ready for the market. Twent}- men and boys\\nare employed in the factory. The plant is valued at $30,000.\\nWages paid per month, $600. Product of the establishment,\\n3,000 funnels per day, or about 1,000,000 per year.\\nMain office of the works, 1904 Seventh street, N. W.,\\nWashington, D. C. Nelson Bavier, Superintendent, office at\\nthe works, Bridgeton, N. J.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34\\nBOTTLE MOULD FACTORY.\\nIn 1883 Richard Trenchard and Charles D. Crickler entered\\ninto partnership, and began the manufacture of bottle moulds\\nin a small room on Broad street. They started with the help\\nof a small boy in addition to their own, and from this humble\\nbeginning have advanced, year by year, until they now have\\none of the largest factories of the kind in the country. The\\nbuilding is of brick, three stories, located on Atlantic street, near\\nCommerce. Messrs. Trenchard Crickler employ from twelve\\nto fifteen men, all of them skilful mechanics ^600 per month\\nis paid in wages. The firm have ^15,000 invested in building\\nand machinery. Mr. Crickler, the junior member, is a practical\\nmould maker, and has a perfect knowledge of the business.\\nHe states that the factory can turn out any design of mould\\nfor the manufacture of articles produced in glass. The moulds\\nare fine specimens of workmanship, and are made part by\\nmachinery and part by hand. The raw material is chilled cast\\niron; ;^I2,000 worth of moulds are manufactured every year,\\nand the firm supplies moulds for all of the Bridgeton glass\\nfactories, and also many outside parties. They ship moulds\\nas far as Canada, and have filled orders for factories in Southern\\nStates. In addition to mould production, Trenchard Crickler\\nmanufacture presses for shaping glass into signs, etc. They\\nhave just finished a press for G. G. Green, the patent medicine\\nman, which manufactures the most perfect glass sign ever\\ninvented. It is a fine piece of workmanship. The factory is\\nrun by steam, and is complete with lathes, drilling presses,\\nplaners, and every species of machinery required in the\\nbusiness.\\nLOTT S MILL.\\nLott s Flour Mill, located near the Cumberland Nail and\\nIron Works, West Bridgeton, was founded in 1820, by Daniel\\nP. Stratton. It is run both by steam and water, and has a fine", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "JD\\nwater power, to which there is a perpetual right. Richard\\nLott purchased the mill in 1858. and ran it, continually, for a\\nperiod of thirty years. Recenth the mill passed into the\\ncontrol of R. Lott, Jr., Co., the senior Lott becoming a\\nsilent partner. The establishment is a full roller flour mill,\\ntwelve reductions. It was changed from a stone mill in 1887.\\nCapacity seventy-five barrels per day. The finest grades of\\nroller flour are produced 50,000 bushels of grain are ground\\nannually. The flour under three brands, Excelsior,\\nCream of Wheat, and Low Grade, is sold mainly to the\\nstores in Bridgeton and vicinity, and is very popular with\\nhousewives. Among the special and improved machinery of\\nLett s Mill is one of the Richmond City (Indiana) Packers,\\nwhich packs a barrel or bag of flour within one ounce of the\\ndesired weight. Value of mill property ^25,000.\\nLUCKNOW PAPER MILL.\\nThe Moorhouse Lenhart Paper Manufacturing Establish-\\nment began operations in April, 1886, under the name\\nmentioned. It is located at the foot of Water street, West\\nBridgeton, near the river, an admirable situation for the busi-\\nness. The buildings are of brick, two and a half stories high,\\nwith extensive frame additions, one story. Walter Moor-\\nhouse is the manager in charge of the mill. He employs\\nforty men and women. Wages, ^1,000 per month. The\\nmachinery, which comprises every variety of apparatus for the\\nperfect production of paper, is run by steam power, with two\\nengines, of 150 and 25-horse power, respectively. Five thou-\\nsand pounds of book paper, white and colored, are manufactured\\ndaily. The paper is made from rag sorts purchased of dealers\\nin old paper, and, after cleansing, it goes through a pulverizing\\nand regenerating process, until it finally appears from the rolls\\nin a perfect state, ready for the market. The company values\\nits plant at 5 0,000.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36\\nEAST LAKE GLASS WORKS.\\nMessrs. Kirby McBride, proprietors of the above-named\\nworks, have a fine factory, located in East Bridgeton, on the\\nline of the N. J. Central Railroad, Cumberland and Maurice\\nRiver branch. The works were founded in 1885. Hollow-\\nware only is manufactured, the principal production being\\nwine and beer bottles. Capital invested in the business,.\\n;^io,000; value of glass produced per year, ;^75,ooo. Eighty\\nmen and boys are employed, and wages paid amount to\\n;$3,500 per month. In the work of glass manufacture, Kirby\\nMcBride use 365 tons of soda per annum 840 tons of\\nsand; 12,000 bushels of lime 1,600 tons of coal 400 bushels\\nof salt; 315 cords of wood; and 350,000 feet of lumber (the\\nlatter principally boards for the manufacture of packing boxes).\\nDavid .McBride, Superintendent and Manager.\\nPEARL RIVER MILLS.\\nAt Riverside, South Bridgeton, wonderful improvements\\nhave recently been made. During the past Winter the above-\\nnamed mills were erected. The building is of brick, two\\nhundred and fift}^ feet in length by forty in width, with an L\\none hundred by seventy. The engine house attached is fifty\\nby sixty, and there is an office thirty by forty. The structure\\nhas an elevator with tower, the latter forty feet high. The\\nmill\u00c2\u00a7 are run by steam, and have an engine of one hundred and\\nfifty horse power. The factory proper consists of four long\\nmills for the manufacture of enamelled and rubber cloth, and\\ncarriage goods. These mills take the material and pass it\\nthrough a method somewhat similar to that used in the pro-\\nduction of calico, using the same printing machines. The\\nplant covers 20,000 square feet of floor space, and the premises\\noccupy over two acres of ground. The mills employ sixty\\nmen, women and children, and produce 4,800 yards of cloth\\nper day, about 1,500,000 yards a year. Besides this, they", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "have space and power to double the capacity. $600 per week\\nis paid as wages. Machinery is of latest design, and worth\\n$25,000. The capital invested in the business amounts to\\n$50,000. The cloth, when finished, is of superior quality. It\\nis sent to a commission house in New York, from whence it is\\nshipped to all parts of the world. E. P. Tappey, of Bridgeton,\\nis Superintendent and Manager of the mills.\\nf*r\\nL_.\\nilu.Mu Knithnl. -MiLi.\\nThe Home Knitting Mills, George H. Selb, Proprietor,\\nbegan business at Riverside, South Bridgeton, in April.\\nThe mills are built of brick, three stories high, thirty by forty\\nfeet on the ground floor, with wing fourteen by fourteen. The\\nplant is valued at $10,000. Mr. Selb is a practical workman\\nin his line of business, and has the factory in good shape, well\\nsupplied with machinery and other necessary equipments. The\\nmills contain fifty-two knitting machines, capable of manu-\\nfacturing two thousand dozen of hosiery per week. The\\nmachinery is all new. Four thousand pounds of yarn per\\nweek, or ninety tons per year will be the amount of raw\\nmaterial used, together with large quantities of worsted,", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38\\nEgyptian cotton and Lisle thread. The goods manufactured\\nwill be principally fine seamless hosiery, leggings, mittens and\\nunderwear. Seventy-eight men and women will be employed\\nthroughout the year, and ;^2,ooo wages paid each month.\\nTHE PACKING INDUSTRY.\\nBridgeton has six canning factories where vegetables and\\nfruits are packed. This industry has grown rapidly within the\\npast few years, and is now one of the heaviest in the Middle\\nStates. The canned goods are shipped by water and rail to\\nPhiladelphia, Boston, New York and other leading cities.\\nThe first canning establishment located in Bridgeton was\\nerected by Stein Edwards, about i860. It passed into the\\nhands of Warner Rhodes, of Philadelphia, in 1866, by whom\\nit has since been conducted. In May, 1888, it was incorpo-\\nrated as the West Jersey Packing Company. The works are\\nlocated on Irving avenue, near what is known as Indian Fields,\\nbut the office of the company is at No. 23 South Front street,\\nPhiladelphia. The following is a list of its officers President,\\nChas. M. Rhodes Vice-President, T. M. Towle Secretary,\\nAndrew J. Slack Treasurer, W. F. Hort. T. M. Towle,\\nSuperintendent and Manager of factory. The company manu-\\nfacture their own cans, and pack from 700,000 to 1,000,000\\ncans yearly. About 2,500 boxes of tin plate and four tons of\\nsolder are used in the business. A great variety of vegetables\\nand fruits are packed. Tomatoes and peaches are a specialty.\\nLima beans and sweet potatoes are also among the principal\\nstaples canned. The firm manufacture catsups and salad\\ndressing under three brands, Standard, Bugle, and Daisy.\\nThese constitute the brands of the canned goods which have\\nbecome celebrated. During the busy season from June to\\nNovember the company employ one hundred and seventy-\\nfive hands, male and female, and pays out ^1,300 per week\\nas wages. They pay farmers, for produce, from ^8,000 to\\n1 0,000 each season. The works are run b)^ steam power\\nand the plant is valued at $25,000.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "39\\nThe next oldest canning house is that of John W. Stout,\\nlocated at the corner of Bank street and Irving avenue. It\\nwas formerly the property of Stout, Dyer Wicks. John W.\\nStout obtained entire control in the Spring of 1865, At this\\nfactory, fruits, vegetables, Lima beans, pumpkins, and tomatoes\\nare canned in great abundance. The output will exceed\\n6oo,oco cans per year. In the manufacture of cans 2,500\\nboxes of tin plate and four tons of solder are used. Mr. Stout\\nnot only purchases metal for can making, but also for solder,\\nwhich he also manufactures. The trade mark of goods turned\\nout at this factory is familiar in the canned-goods market. It\\nis known as the Red X. In the Summer and fall months\\nMr. Stout employs one hundred and seventy-five men, women\\nand girls, and has paid as high as i 1 00 wages per week. The\\nfactory is supplied with steam-heating apparatus. Cox s Cap-\\nping Machine, and every improved device for successful pack-\\ning. Wm. L. Morris is Superintendent and Manager of the\\nfactory, and has been for the past twenty-four years. The office\\nis at No. 96 Barclay street. New York. Plant valuation,\\n2 5, 000.\\nThe Cumberland County Packing and Canning Company,\\nformerly the Diamond Packing Company, has been in exist-\\nence as an incorporated organization since the Spring of 1887.\\nThe factory was erected under the eye of Mr. L. J. Wick, who\\nwas an accomplished packer, having a thorough knowledge of\\nthe business. It is situate near Grove street, on the Cohansey\\nriver. South Bridgeton, an admirable location. The plant,\\nvalued at ;^25,ooo, covers some two acres of ground. The\\ncompany manufacture and pack 800,000 cans each year, the\\nprincipal articles being tomatoes, sweet potatoes, Bartlett\\npears, Lima beans. They also put up the famous Diamond\\nCatsup. Two hundred men, women, and children are em-\\nployed in the busy season, and i ,000 wages paid every week.\\nThe company use the patent Packing Machines, and other first-\\nclass facilities. Two thousand tons of tomatoes are packed\\nyearly, and ^15,000 paid farmers for produce. Three thousand", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40\\nboxes of tin plate and five tons of solder are used in the\\nmanufacture of cans. The company is officered as follows\\nPresident, Daniel G. Evans; Secretary, D. M. Huntley;\\nTreasurer, Geo. W. Turner; Superintendent, H. K. Chew.\\nThe B. S. Ayars Canning Factory was located on Water\\nstreet. West Bridgeton, in the Spring of 1880, it having been\\nremoved from Greenwich. The location is near the river.\\nMr. Ayars packs the A brand tomatoes chiefly. In the\\nmanufacture of cans he uses about two thousand boxes of tin\\nplate and three tons of solder, and packs 500,000 cans annually,\\nalthough he has put up as many as 650,000 cans. In Summer\\nhe employs one hundred and fifty men, women and girls, and\\npays wages amounting to about ;^8oo a week. To farmers\\nhe pays from ^8,000 to ^10,000 a season. Valuation of plant,\\n^15,000. It requires a large amount of capital, however, to\\nrun Mr, Ayars business, as he has another canning establish-\\nment located at Snow Hill, Maryland. For produce he has,\\nsome years, paid as high as ;^40,ooo to growers.\\nMessrs. Probasco Laning (a view of their factory\\nappears in this work) began the packing business in 1883.\\nThe Silver Lake Tomatoes are a specialty with them, but\\nthey also can squashes, pumpkins, and some other vegetables.\\nTheir factory is complete in every part. It has the Harrison\\nConveyor, manufactured by Borden, Schick Co., Chicago,\\nwhich carries off all refuse without hand labor, thus econo-\\nmized several days per year in the way of help. The firm also\\nhave Burts Burners for heating purposes, and the Acme\\nAutomatic Oil Engine. The factory is directly on the river,\\nand is connected with the large cities by water and rail. One\\nhundred and forty men, women, and boys are kept busy\\nduring the canning season, and $4,000 per month paid in wages.\\nThe factory is run by steam power. From 500,000 to 600,000\\ncans are manufactured every year. Twenty-five hundred\\nboxes of tin plate and three tons of solder are used. The pack\\nequals 500,000 annually. Capital invested, $20,000. The\\nmembers of the firm are Francis C. Probasco, Wm. Laning.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "41\\nJohn F. Brady, Robert G. McGcar and C. H. Vannaman,\\nstarted a canning factory on Clark street, North Bridgeton,\\nin the Spring of 1887, under the firm name of J. F. Brady\\nCo. They pack the Turkey brand of tomatoes, peaches,\\npears, Lima beans, and manufacture jelhes and catsups. The\\nfactory is connected by siding with New Jersey Central Rail-\\nroad. One hundred and fifty hands are employed during the\\nseason, and $4,000 per month paid in wages. 500,000 cans of\\ngoods are packed. The company s plant is valued at $15,000.\\nPLANING MILLS AND LUMBER YARDS.\\nThere are four large dealers in lumber in Bridgeton, each\\nhaving extensive lumber yards and saw and planing mills.\\nThe oldest firm is that of D. B. W. C. VVhitaker, estab-\\nlished in i860. Their steam saw mill and yard is located on\\nthe river front, No. 16 Cohansey avenue. Messrs. Whitaker\\nwork up and sell over 1,000,000 feet of lumber a year. They\\nemploy from thirty to forty carpenters, and contract and build\\nfrom fifteen to twenty houses, stores and other buildings every\\nyear, in addition to a large amount of jobbing and repairing.\\nDoors, sash, blinds, and all the necessary woodwork for the\\nerection of buildings are put in shape at the planing mill.\\n^2,000 per month are paid out in wages. Mr. W. C. Whitaker,\\nthe senior member of the firm, draws plans and specifications\\nfor buildings in frame, stone or brick, and has a fine reputa-\\ntion both in that line and as a contractor and builder. The\\nfirm have about $25,000 invested in the business.\\nSmith Conover, located at the foot of Broad street,\\nnear the bridge, have large lumber yards and steam saw and\\nplaning mill. They are contractors and builders, and manu-\\nfacture doors, blinds, sash, and other woodwork. Twenty-five\\nmen are employed in building operations, to whom about\\n1^1,500 per month is paid as wages. The firm handle about\\n1,000,000 feet of lumber annually, and build about twenty\\nhouses and stores. The firm furnish plans and specifications\\nfor buildings. The business was established in 1875. Capital\\ninvested, $25,000.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42\\nA. F. Randolph, contractor and builder, has a large steam\\nsaw mill and lumber yard on the Cohansej river, near South\\nLaurel street. He employs some fifty workmen, and pays\\nwages amounting to $2,000 per month. Manufactures doors,\\nblinds, sash, etc., and uses 1,500,000 feet of lumber a year.\\nBuilds from twenty to twenty-five buildings, stores, etc.\\nDraws plans and specifications. ;$25,000 invested in plant.\\nBegan business, on the present site, in 1884.\\nAckley Allen have a steam saw mill and lumber yard\\non Railroad avenue, near the West Jersey Railroad Depot.\\nThey began business in 1886, and are contractors and builders.\\nThey make doors, sash and blinds, and use about 800,000 feet\\nof lumber each year. Employ fifteen men, and pay 1,200 per\\nmonth as wages. Capital invested, about $15,000.\\ncEDARBROOKb GREENHOUsLa.\\nOne of the most beautiful places near Bridgeton is that\\nowned by Stein Edwards Sons, at Cedarbrooks, Irving\\navenue. This enterprising firm was first established in 1873,\\nbut the senior Edwards had previously carried on the business\\nin a small way for a number of years. In the year named\\nthe business of growing hothouse plants and flowers was taken", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "43\\nup in earnest, and a large amount of capital invested. One\\ngreenhouse was built, but now the firm own thirteen, which\\ncontain 40,000 square feet of glass. The houses have all the\\nlatest improvements for the successful growing of plants and\\nflowers, and are heated by pipes filled with hot water. The\\nstream that furnishes the City of Bridgeton with water flows\\nwithin a few feet of the greenhouses, through scenes of great\\nnatural beauty. Cut flowers are a specialty with the Edwards\\nand thousands are shipped yearly to New York and Philadel-\\nphia. Roses Jacks, Marechal Neil, La France Violets,\\nPansies, Carnations, are grown in profusion. The firm will\\npick 100,000 Carnations this year. Forget-me-nots, Mignon-\\nettes, and other beautiful flowers are also grown. The Freesia-\\nRefrecta-Alba is one of the flowers in greatest demand, and the\\nfirm now have orders for 73,000 bulbs of that variety. The\\nBigonia Venusta is another specialty, 1600 clusters of which\\nare cut each year. Messrs. Edwards have a large stock of\\npalms and foliage plants, and value their plant at 20,ooo.\\nThey grow from ;^7,ooo to 10,000 worth of plants and\\nflowers yearly.\\nBUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.\\nThe building association has done much toward making\\nBridgeton a city of homes, thus adding to its wealth and\\ngeneral prosperity. The small deposit monthly has grown\\nin volume until wealth has come in the shape of handsome\\nhomes and attractive surroundings.\\nThe oldest association is The Bridgeton Saving Fund\\nand Building Association, established in June, 1865. Since\\nthat time it has loaned 1,500,000 on bond and mortgage.\\nEvery two years a new series is issued and stock taken.\\nPayments are made monthly, at the rate of ;^l per share.\\nAbout eleven years is required for the maturing of the series,\\nwhen the ^i share has reached the value of $200. The share-\\nholder is then paid the value of his shares in cash, or, if he\\nhas drawn them out for the purpose of building, his account", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44\\nis cancelled, and he comes into possession of his property,\\nfree of incumbrance. Seven series of stock have already run\\nout in this association. The eighth series will be complete\\nAvithin a year. Five series are now running. At the last\\nannual report they were valued as follows: 192 shares, 8th\\nseries, ^171.24 per share, ;$32, 878.08 402 shares, 9th series,\\n^122.90 per share, ;^49,405.8o; 659 shares, loth series, ;^88.42\\nper share, $58,268.78; 573 shares, nth series, $57.21 per\\nshare, $32,781.33 758 shares, 12th series, $27.1 1 per share,\\n$20,549.38. The monthly dues paid in amount to $31,096,\\nand the association has bonds and mortgages amounting to\\n$190,000. The following are officers of the society: Presi-\\ndent, Benjamin Hancock Secretary, T. U. Harris Treasurer,\\nR. M. Seeley Board of Directors, Albert F. Randolph,\\nBenjamin Hancock, Constant Albertson, David P. Elmer.\\nThe Merchants and Mechanics Savdng Fund and Building\\nAssociation was organized in April, 1870. It has done a big\\nwork, and is the model building association of the State. A\\nnew series has been successfully issued each year since the\\ndate of its organization, makiag nineteen series in all. The\\nfirst eight of these have matured, been paid off and cancelled.\\nThe whole number of shares issued since April, 1870, is\\n6,830. The amount of money received and disbursed exceeds\\n$1,000,000, as follows: Received from monthly instalments,\\n$446,895; premiums, $50,778; interest on loans, $119,833;\\nfines, $7,546; repayment of loans, $340,600; sale and rents\\nreal estate, $37,079.49. Disbursements Loaned on bond and\\nmortgage, $551,000; purchased real estate, $41,372.28 with-\\ndrawing amounts and matured stock, $368,420 taxes from\\n1870 to 1888, $24,035 legal expenses, salaries, losses, etc.,\\n$14,419.27; amount now in treasury, $3,484.94. The amount\\nnow loaned on bond and mortgage is $210,400; amount\\ninvested in real estate, $4,292.79. Number of series now\\nrunning in Association, 1 1. Present number of shares of stock,\\n3,299. Value of stock 9th series, 79 shares, $186.61 per\\nshare; loth series, 145 shares, $162.43 pci share; nth series,", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "45\\n204 shares, $140.92 per share 12th series, 199 shares, $124.39\\nper share; 13th series, 169 shares, $105.22 per share; 14th\\nseries, 227 shares, $87.65 per share; 15th series, 431 shares,\\n$71.02 per share; i6th series, 410 shares, $56.05 per share;\\n17th series, 330 shares, $40.69 per share; i8th series, 569\\nshares, $26.72 per share; 19th scries, 536 shares, $13.49 per\\nshare. Dayton B. Whitaker was elected President of the\\nBoard of Directors at the organization, in 1870, and remained\\nin that capacity until April, 1881, when sickness incapacitated\\nhim from further service. Since then George Donaghay has\\nbeen the faithful and efficient head of the Board, Charles F.\\nDare, the popular druggist. No. 94 Commerce street, was\\nelected Secretary in June, 1870, and still serves in that capacity.\\nHe has proved a most accomplished officer, and to his efforts\\nand business ability much of the success of the Merchants and\\nMechanics Association is due. Samuel Applegit was the first\\nTreasurer, followed by W, H. Woodruff. Wilson L. Silvers is\\nthe present efficient Treasurer. The Association is officered\\nas follows President, George Donaghay Secretary, Charles\\nF. Dare Treasurer, Wilson L. Silvers Directors, George\\nDonaghay, Oscar E, Peck, Ji. D. C. Evans, E. C. Lambert,\\nTnscnh W^oodnifr\\nThe West Jersey Nursery\\nCompany is located on Irving\\navenue, on the Charles S.\\nFithian farm, a handsome\\nand fertile tract of country.\\nThe depots of the W^est\\nJersey Railroad and New\\nJersey Central Railroad are\\nwithin easy distance. The\\ncompany is regularly organ-\\nized, with R. D. Cole, Presi-\\ndent; S.B.Cole, Secretary and\\nui..M JERSEY NURSERY. Trcasurcr. Both R. D. Cole\\nand sons have been engaged in the nursery business many\\nyears, and are practical tree growers. Their nursery was", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46\\nestablished in 1876. Since that date they have transacted a\\nlarge and increasing business yearly. So extensive has their\\ntrade become that they now ship trees and plants as far north\\nas Canada, and as far south as Texas. The Messrs. Cole grow\\nevery variety of nursery stock, trees, plants, vines, but make\\na specialty of the peach tree, called Meech s Prolific Quince.\\nThey have grafted as high as 80,000 in one year. This year\\nthey will grow about 250,000 peach trees. The Pearl Straw-\\nberry is another specialty of this firm, of which they grow\\nand ship 250,000 plants annually. Capital invested in the\\nbusiness, 18,000, ^10,000 of which is, this Spring, placed in\\npeach trees. The firm employs twenty-five men, and are busy\\nthe year round.\\nC. E. LANING S FOUNDRY.\\nThe Iron Foundry on Railroad avenue, near West Jersey\\nR. R. Depot, was established by David W. Laning, in 1869.\\nIt is now owned and managed by Charles E. Laning. The\\nbuilding is of brick, two stories high, and well equipped for\\nthe business. Mr. Laning does general jobbing, and manu-\\nfactures wrought-iron fencing, vessel and other castings.\\nCastings of large dimensions are made for the Ferracute\\nMachine Works. Large quantities of pig iron are used in the\\nfoundry for castings, and much bar iron in railing work. Ten\\nskilled workmen are constantly employed, and ^450.00 wages\\npaid monthly. Capital invested, $8,000.\\nTHE CUMBERLAND NATIONAL BANK.\\nOne of the oldest banking institutions in the State of New\\nJersey is that which bears the above title. It was organized in\\n18 16 by virtue of a charter granted by the Legislature, and\\nbegan business September 26th of that year. The capital stock", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "47\\nwas 552,000. General James Giles was elected President and\\nCharles Reed, Cashier. Gen. Giles deceased in 1825, and was\\nsucceeded, as President, by Judge Daniel Elmer. The judge\\nresigned in 1S41, when James B. Potter was chosen. He\\noccupied the position until 1865. Charles E. Elmer was elected\\nMr. Potter s successor, and held that place until 1886, when\\nhe retired, and William G. Nixon was chosen. Charles Reed\\nwas succeeded as Cashier by William G. Nixon, who held the\\noffice until 1S86, serving from 1844, the long period of forty-\\ntwo years. Mr. Nixon was succeeded as Cashier, by I rank\\nM. Riley in 1886, who had been identified with the bank\\nsince 1865.\\nIn 1857 the capital stock was increased to $102,000, by the\\naccumulation of the surplus earnings, without any additional\\npayments by the stockholders. This was a remarkable feat,\\nbut the great financial success of the bank was amply sufficient\\nto warrant it. In 1865 the title of the bank was changed from\\nCumberland Bank by which name it had been known under\\nits State Charter, and it was authorized to do business as The\\nCumberland National Bank, under the then new National\\nBanking Act. The capital was increased to $150,000.\\nDuring the first fifteen years of its history, the bank s\\ndeposits averaged $20,000 for the next fifteen, $30,000 the\\nnext fifteen, $50,000; later on they reached $100,000, and then\\n$150,000 annually. At the last report, January i, 1889, the\\nindividual deposits amounted to $615,296.34. For the first\\nthirty years there was a regular dividend of three per cent,\\nevery six months, beside an extra dividend in 1844 of twenty-\\nfour per cent. Since that year the dividends have reached\\nfour, five, six, seven and eight per cent, semi-annually, the\\ndividend for the past year reaching fifteen per cent.\\nThe bank owns real estate valued at $25,000, and has a sur-\\nplus fund of $150,000, an amount equal to its capital stock. Its\\nundivided profits amount to $32,181.15. This is a remarkable\\nshowing, and when it is remembered that during its entire history\\nCumberland Bank has never failed to keep its notes at par, and", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "4S\\noften continued to pay specie when other banks did not, it may\\nbe truly said, that as a banking institution, it has few equals\\nand no superiors anywhere in the country.\\nIn the summer of 1886 the corporation began the erection\\nof a new bank building, which was finished in May, 1887.\\nIt is located on the northwestern corner of Commerce and\\nLaurel streets, the most prominent business corner in the city\\nof Bridgeton. The structure is from plans drawn by Messrs.\\nHazelhurst Huckel, the Philadelphia architects. It is built\\nof handsome pressed brick, two and a half stories high, with\\nConnecticut sandstone trimmings. The design is very fine\\nand the appearance imposing. The principal entrance\\nbetween two massive sandstone pillars, with highly orna-\\nmented pediment, faces both Commerce and Laurel streets.\\nThe interior is divided into counting-rooms, offices, and other\\nbusiness apartments. The vault was manufactured and put up\\nby the Hall Safe and Lock Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and\\nis one of the most complete and perfect in the world. Every\\nappointment of the building is first class, and like the corpora-\\ntion itself, is sound, solid, rounded and finished. Every\\nBridgetonian has a pride in the veteran institution, and it is a\\nsaying among the people of the county, when reference is\\nmade to a good or substantial thing that it is as sound as\\nold Cumberland. This is high praise, but it is deserved.\\nNo bank in the country has a better record. Its business life\\ncovers a period of nearly three-quarters of a century, part of\\nthat time the most critical in the nation s history, yet come\\nfinancial panic, or storm, or civil war, the bank went on with\\nsuccess, each succeeding year bringing it additional laurels.\\nAppended is a list of the officers and members of the Board\\nof Directors President, William G. Nixon; Vice-President,\\nJ. Boyd Nixon Cashier, Frank M. Riley Directors, Jonathan\\nElmer, Theophilus Trenchard, Richard Lott, William G. Nixon^\\nCharles S. Fithian, Ephraim Bateman, Chester J. Buck, Daniel\\nBacon, J. Boyd Nixon, Daniel Elmer, Timothy Campbell.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "o\\n23\\nO\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0w- vj", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "K n", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "49\\nTHE BRIDGETON NATIONAL BANK.\\nIn the spring of 1883, a number of citizens of Bridgeton,\\nbelieving that the business interests of the city demanded\\nadditional banking facilities, met at the law office of John S.\\nMitchell, Esq., where initiatory steps were taken toward the\\norganization of a new bank. A charter from the Government\\nwas soon obtained, and it was largely due to Mr. Mitchell s\\nefforts that the new bank w^as so promptly and successfully\\norganized. At the first meeting of the Board of Directors,\\nThomas U. Harris was chosen President, and James W.\\nTrenchard, Cashier. Both gentlemen still remain in those\\npositions. The bank began business July 12, 1883, with a\\ncapital of $100,000, and by October ist had secured a line of\\ndeposits amounting to ^^73, 243. 1 1, with loans and discounts\\nof $103,009.45.\\nWithin a few months after its organization, the Board of\\nDirectors purchased a lot on South Laurel street, in the busi-\\nness heart of the city. A handsome banking house, of Gothic\\ndesign, w^th pressed-brick front and brownstone ornaments,\\nwas soon erected. Business grew with the better accommoda-\\ntions and, by a recent statement, the loans and discounts arc\\nshown to have reached $323,727.63, with individual deposits\\nof $268,256.83 surplus, $50,000; undivided profits, $5,188.74;\\nreal estate, 1 5 ,ooo.\\nThe following compose the Board of Directors Gen.Wm.\\nJ. Sewell, Benjamin Hancock, Jas. R. Hoagland, Joseph H.\\nElmer, Martin Anderson, Charles F. Dare, Wilson L. Silvers,\\nFrancis B. Minch, Thomas U. Harris, Jacob Dailey, Jacob\\nKienzle, Isaac M. Smalley, Jeremiah N. Ogden, Jos. A.Wood-\\nruff, Ner Allen, Robert M. Hitchner.\\nSOUTH JERSEY INSTITUTE.\\nIn the South Jersey Institute, the citizens of Bridgeton claim\\nto have one of the best educational institutions in this or any", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "50\\nother State. Established in 1868, it has constantly grown in\\nfavor and efficiency until the present time.\\nWith its large and commodious brick building, furnished\\nwith modern conveniences, situated upon high and extensive\\ngrounds, with plenty of pure air and pure water and perfect\\ndrainage, it has been found to be unsurpassed for healthful-\\nness. Not a case of serious illness has occurred in the build-\\ning since the school was opened, nineteen years ago.\\nThe school is well supplied with chemical and philosophi-\\ncal apparatus, maps and charts, and extensive cabinets of\\nminerals and geological specimens. It has also a large and very\\nvaluable museum of specimens in natural history. Few schools\\nare so well supplied with the means for illustration in the\\nvarious branches taught. Principal H. K. Trask has been at\\nthe head of the school from the start. Under his management,\\nthe Institute has attained an enviable reputation for thorough\\ninstruction, kind and paternal, and yet successful discipline.\\nHe has always been aided by an able and experienced faculty\\nof teachers, and supported by a generous Board of Trustees,\\nwho have looked to the financial interests of the Institute.\\nThe courses of study are College, Preparatory Institute,\\nBusiness and Music. Students who complete the first of these\\ncourses are admitted into many of our colleges without exami-\\nnation. The Institute course requires three years for comple-\\ntion, and is designed to give a practical preparation for life.\\nIt includes the languages, ancient and modern, mental and\\nmoral philosophy, natural science, mathematics, history and\\nhigher English. The business department is in charge of a\\npractical book-keeper, and the course compares favorably\\nwith that afforded by the best business colleges. Pupils are\\ngraduated in the music department after four years of study,\\nbeginning with the rudiments. A high standard of instruc-\\ntion is maintained, and no pains has been spared to make this\\ndepartment all that can be desired by those who wish to\\nobtain a thorough musical education. In the drawing and\\npainting department, also, excellent instruction is furnished.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "51\\nThus, while the Institute does not claim to rank as a\\ncollege, in many respects it furnishes equal opportunities and\\nadvantages.\\nIVY HALL SEMINARY.\\nIvy Hall, on the northwest corner of Commerce and\\nAtlantic streets, has been a flourishing young ladies school\\nalmost from the date of its establishment, in 1861, by Mrs.\\nMargaretta C. Sheppard. Some of the principals succeeding\\nMrs. Sheppard have been eminent in their profession, and one\\nof them, Miss Ada L. Howard, was called from this post to\\nthe Presidency of Wellesley College. A large number of\\ngraduates and others have gone out from this school to the\\nneighboring States and to other portions of our own State to\\nbecome, with their educational endowments, useful members\\nof society. The commencement exercises, in June, held in\\none of the largest churches, furnish annually an event of con-\\nsiderable interest in the annals of education in our city. For\\ncollege preparation, the certificate of this institution will admit\\nto Wellesley College without further examination.\\nIn two respects the situation is favorable the institution\\nis as nearly central as a school of the kind can well be, and it is\\nprotected on the north and west from the winds of winter, by\\nthe high bluff or river terrace. The school is for boarding\\nand day pupils. In both the main and intermediate depart-\\nments the English branches are made prominent, while French,\\nGerman and the ancient languages, the piano, pipe organ,\\nviolin, guitar, vocal music, and all the branches of art are taught\\nto those who desire them. Of late years among the regular\\nteachers are three college graduates, while seven other instruc-\\ntors teach daily or at stated times. The present Principal,\\nRev. Henry Reeves, Ph. D., entered upon the work here in\\n1 88 1, and under his management the school has been highly\\nprosperous.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52\\nWEST JERSEY ACADEMY.\\nThe West Jersey Academy, situated on the west side of the\\ntown, was substantially built of native stone, by the Presbytery\\nof West Jersey, in the year 1852, and fitted as a first-class\\nmodern school. Not long ago, in order to give additional\\nschool accommodation, a two-story wing was erected of the\\nsame stone as the main structure.\\nThe buildings are thoroughly warmed, drained and venti-\\nlated, and, standing on rising ground, command a fine view of\\nBridgeton and the surrounding country. Fourteen acres of\\npartially-wooded grounds surround the institution.\\nThe school is divided, upon the Rugby plan, into six forms.\\nThe course of each form occupies one year. A complete\\ncourse prepares a student for any college he may select,\\nwhilst an extra year will fit him for advanced standing. A\\ncommercial department gives thorough training in business\\nmatters. Prof Caleb Allen, is the able Principal.\\nSEVEN GABLES.\\nThis school, founded in 1874, now ofiers to young ladies a\\nfull course of instruction, and, if desirable, prepares the\\nstudent for any woman s college.\\nThe school comprises three departments primary, inter-\\nmediate and academic. All departments under the care of\\ncollege graduates. Native French and German teachers.\\nMusic, drawing, painting, and other branches of art, are in\\ncharge of good masters.\\nThe residence, which is one of the finest in South Jersey,\\nis built on high ground, surrounded by large forest trees and\\nbelted by pines. The interior is handsomely furnished in\\nhard woods throughout, with open fires on first floor. All the\\nrooms, including large bath-rooms, well warmed, well lighted", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "53\\nand ventilated. Every attention has been paid to sanitary-\\nrequirements. Wire springs and hair mattresses in each bed-\\nroom. Extensive shaded lawns add greatly to the charm and\\nbeauty of the place, and afford opportunity for all out-door\\namusements, including tennis; while connected with the\\ngrounds is an exquisite sheet of water, covering a row of\\nseveral miles, which is greatly enjoyed by the students, who,\\naccompanied by a teacher, have free access to the boats\\nbelonging to the school.\\nThe Principal, Mrs. Sarah S. Westcott, is a lady of ability\\nand culture, and it is her endeavor to make the education of\\nthe young ladies committed to her care so distinctively com-\\nprehensive, that the body, in every respect, shall be equally\\nimproved with the mind at the end of their educational career.\\nAn experienced teacher has charge of the gymnasium, which\\nis well supplied with the best apparatus adapted to Dr.\\nSargent s method of physical training.\\nS. E. McGEAR BRO S DRY GOODS HOUSE.\\nTho most extensive dry goods establishment in Bridge-\\nton is that of S. E. McGear Bro., founded in 1855. The\\nlocation southwest corner of Commerce and Laurel streets\\nis the best in the city. During their thirty-three years of\\nbusiness life, the Messrs. McGear have made but one change\\nof situation. They began in a small way in Grosscup s build-\\ning, where they rapidly built up a business. Nineteen years\\nago they erected the fine three-story block (a picture of which\\nis given) which they now occupy. It is the finest business\\nblock in Bridgeton, and cost $50,000. The McGear Bros,\\ndo a splendid trade, which has increased each and every year.\\nTheir sales reach $150,000 per annum, and they carry a stock\\nof $50,000, employing twenty salesmen. They deal only in the\\nbest of dry goods, and have thereby secured a great reputa-\\ntion. Their line of silks, dress goods, coats and cloaks, is", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "54\\nimmense in variety and value. Both proprietors are trained\\ndrygoods men from their youth up, and thoroughly familiar\\nwith every department of the business. This is the chief\\nreason why they have stood the test of time, and become\\nleaders in trade, while so many others who have flourished\\nfor a season were swept away by financial storm and disaster.\\nIt is a solid house, built upon the solid rock of financial honor.\\nRIVERSIDE.\\nWalter H. Bacon, Esq., whose office is No. 14 South\\nLaurel street, is a young man who has done much for Bridge-\\nton. Having purchased a tract of land at Riverside, South\\nBridgeton, he has offered special inducements to manufac-\\nturers, and has succeeded in getting several establishments\\nto locate there. Riverside is situate on a high bluff over-\\nlooking the Cohansey. It is level land and, as it will soon\\nbe connected by rail with the West Jersey Railroad extension,\\nit will have the advantage of both rail and water communica-\\ntion. The tract covers a territory of one hundred and fifty\\nacres, directly along the river, unusually well situate for\\nmanufacturing sites. On the river front there will be fine\\nwharfage, and every facility for the transportation of goods\\nby water. Manufacturers who desire to locate in Bridgeton,\\nwill do well to write Mr. Bacon for particulars.\\nINDUSTRIAL ITEMS.\\nThe firm of Garrison Minch, No. 70 South Laurel street,\\nbegan business in December, 1884. (A fine view of their new\\nbuilding appears on another page.) They manufacture a\\nbrand of fertilizer known as Pride of Cumberland. In\\n1885 they sold fifteen tons, but last year the demand had\\nreached one thousand tons. The firm mixes and erinds this", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "55\\nfertilizer in its own mill, and this guarantees its purity. It is\\nsold principally to farmers in Cumberland, Salem and neigh-\\nboring counties. This year over a carload a day is being\\nshipped. Garrison Minch also deal in agricultural imple-\\nments, coal, terra-cotta pipe, garden seeds, paints, etc., in which\\nthey do a large business.\\nDavid O. Frazeur and J. Lenhart Rice do a business as\\nFrazeur Rice on the wharf property at the foot of Broad\\nstreet, near the bridge. They started in 1877. The firm\\ndeals in lime, hair, cement, plaster, and masons supplies. In\\ntwo kilns they burn about 120,000 bushels of oyster shells,\\nand manufacture shell and stone lime for glass factories,\\nfarmers, and builders. They employ several men, and have\\nabout $8,000 invested in the business.\\nThe Atlantic Refining Company, Bridgeton Branch,\\nfounded in 1888, is located at the foot of Grove street. South\\nBridgeton. Its plant consists of two large tanks, of 90,000\\ngallons capacity, with workshop and office. 100,000 gallons\\nof oil are refined in the busy season, and two wagons are con-\\nstantly traveling distributing the oil to dealers in the country.\\nThe quality is 150\u00c2\u00b0 test headlight. Manager of works, F.\\nVanderbucken, Philadelphia.\\nThe Bridgeton Beef Company, L. T. Gaskill, Superin-\\ntendent and Manager, commenced business May 7, 1888. It\\nhas a fine building on Cohansey avenue, near the New Jersey\\nCentral R. R. Depot. The company is a branch of the well-\\nknown Swift Meat Co., of Chicago. The Superintendent\\nfurnishes the Bridgeton public with dressed beef and mutton,\\nalso Swift s sugar-cured hams, bologna sausage and breakfast\\nbacon. 28,000 pounds of Chicago beef are sold by the com-\\npany in Bridgeton and vicinity every week, an amount equal\\nto forty cattle. This business in meat is in addition to that of\\nthe local dealers, who are numerous.\\nRice Brothers Co. do an extensive business as ship\\nbuilders, on South Water street. West Bridgeton. They\\nbegan in 1865. In the summer months the firm employ", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "56\\ntwenty men, and pay ,$200 wages per week. Seventy-five\\nvessels are drawn on the marine railway, and repaired every\\nyear, and fi om one to five new vessels built. Messrs. Rice\\nwork up $25,000 worth of iron, lumber, and other shipbuilding\\nmaterials annually. Their plant is worth $10,000.\\nG. W. Rush, trunk manufacturer, No. 3 Commerce street,\\nnear the bridge, turns out 1,000 trunks and 1,700 valises\\nevery year. The materials used are basswood and fine russet\\nleather and alligator. Mr. Rush employs several men. He\\nhas recently invented and patented a self-locking metalic trunk\\nbrace, which is proving a great success.\\nAt the West Jersey Steam Soap Works, Broad street,\\ncorner of Water, Henry C. Kienzle, Proprietor, an extensive\\nbusiness is carried on. Mr. Kienzle employs five skilled\\nworkmen, who manufacture 15,000 pounds of soap per week.\\nThe chief brands produced are Oleine, White Float-\\ning, Satin Gloss, Borax, Blue Soap, and all grades of\\ntoilet soaps. He also deals in starch and washing soda\\nextensively.\\nThe segar trade is carried on by several Bridgeton firms,\\nnine in all. The heaviest manufacturer is Jacob Mengel,\\ncorner of Commerce and Laurel streets, next to Post-office,\\nwho employs a large number of segarmakers, and manu-\\nfactures about 300,000 segars per annum. Newton Elmer,\\nNo. 89 South Laurel street, comes next, with a manufactured\\nproduct of about 200,000 segars.\\nThe J. L. Rice Shoe Company was founded in January,\\n1888, and is one of the flourishing industries of Bridgeton.\\nThe company has an extensive factory on Cohansey avenue,\\nnear the Central R. R. Depot, where the latest improvements\\nin shoemaking machinery are found. Fifty men and\\nwomen are constantly employed, who manufacture two hun-\\ndred pairs of shoes per day. $300 a week, and sometimes\\n;^400, is paid for labor alone. The product consists of ladies\\nmisses and children s fine shoes, in Kangaroo, French Kid,\\nDongola, Patent Leather, Ooz Calf, Oil Goat. The company", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "57\\nis incorporated, and has a capital stock of $25,000. Officers:\\nPresident, J. Lenhart Rice Secretary, Wallace C. Rice\\nTreasurer, David O. Frazeur; Superintendent, Charles H.\\nMaurer.\\nThe Parker Brothers Glass Factory is located in West\\nBridgeton, at the foot of West Commerce street. The com-\\npany is composed of five brothers, all practical glassworkers,\\nwith Clayton Parker, President; Benj. Parker, Secretary and\\nTreasurer. They began business in September, 1885, and\\nwere incorporated in 1888. They have a well-fitted establish-\\nment, with three-pot furnace, and manufacture pressed ware of\\nvarious designs, but make a specialty of the Ointment Jar,\\nwith nickel-plated screw top, from one-quarter of an ounce to\\nsixteen ounces in weight. They also make jar lids, and are\\nnow filling an order for 50,000 gross for the Mason Improved\\nJar. Many private orders are also filled, aggregating forty in\\nnumber. Fifteen persons are employed, and $150.00 per week\\npaid as wages. Capital invested, 320,000. The furnace is run\\nb) natural draught. Forty tons of coal are used per month.\\nEight tons of soda and thirty tons of sand are also used each\\nmonth. The business is growing, and promises to be one of\\nthe most successful in Bridgeton.\\nThe manufacture of shirts is a thriving industry. The\\nchief factory is located on Broad street, near Atlantic. It is\\nthe Burgess Montelius Shirt Company, and occupies nearly\\nthe entire brick building known as Riley s block. This com-\\npany has transacted a large business since 1885. It now\\nemploys one hundred and twenty-five persons, principally\\nwomen and girls. As an incorporation it has a capital of\\n;^25,ooo, with the privilege of increasing to $40,000. Two\\nhundred dozen shirts are manufactured every week. The\\nmaterial used amounts to 6,000 yards of flannel, cheviot, and\\nmuslin. The Capitol Shirtisthecompany sfavorite, and it has\\na wide popularity. Mr. F. H. Burgess, the Superintendent and\\nManager of the factory, is a practical shirt cutter and designer,\\nand designs all of the patterns used in the business. Se\\\\-enty-fiv e", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "58\\nsewing machines are kept constantly at work. Attached to\\nthe factory is a laundry one of the most complete in the\\nworld where all the goods of the company are beautifully\\nlaundered. They are then packed in pasteboard boxes and\\nmade ready for market. $20,000 per year are paid to their\\nhelp by Burgess, Montelius Co. Office and salesroom, No.\\n837 Market street, Philadelphia, A. B. Hoar, Manager. Both\\nfactory and laundry are run by steam power.\\nIn the Garrison Minch building, South Laurel street,\\nthere is another shirt factory. It was established in the Spring\\nof 1888, and is the property of Sol. Miller Company, of Phila-\\ndelphia. At this factory flannel shirt manufacture is a\\nspecialty. Fifty sewing machines, run by fifty women and\\ngirls, turn out three hundred and fifty dozen shirts per week.\\nFifty thousand yards of material are used, and $1,200 wages\\npaid each month. The factory is run by steam. Super-\\nintendent, Robert Neill.\\nElmer s Mill, near East Lake, was built in 1808. It is\\nrun by water power exclusively. The present proprietor is\\nJonathan Elmer, Jr. It has the full roller process, and manu-\\nfactures a first-class brand of flour, known as East Lake.\\nThree grades are made, and packed in barrels and bags. The\\ncapacity is twenty-five barrels per day. Fifty thousand\\nbushels of grain are ground yearly. Capital invested, $25,000.\\nTwo extensive carriage factories are located in Bridgeton.\\nRobert M. Rocap, No. })J and 39 Franklin street, has a fine\\nbrick building, with elevator and all the modern appliances.\\nHe manufactures light carriages, buggies, phaetons, jump-seats,\\nmarket, and business wagons. Output, thirty carriages and\\nwagons annually. He employs eight men skilled mechanics\\nand has the best carriage trimmer in the State, a workman\\nof marvelous skill in trimming and block-stitching of carriage\\nbacks and seats.\\nLoudenslager Harker, North Laurel street, also have\\na large carriage factory, where twenty-five carriages and\\nwagons are manufactured in a year. They employ seven", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "59\\nmen, and do both carriage niaking and trimming, also general\\njobbing and blacksmithing.\\nJ. Howard Ferguson, No. 44 Jefferson street, does general\\nmachinist work, and manufactures a capping machine of his\\nown invention. He has in hand a contract for five thousand\\nbrass ferrules for the Rumrille Umbrella Tent Company, of\\nCamden.\\nBridgeton has two potteries. One on Cohansey avenue,\\nWm. J. Smith, Proprietor, and one on East avenue, Geo. F.\\nHamlyn, Proprietor. At both establishments large quantities\\nof earthenware, stone and Rockingham ware are manufactured.\\nMr. Hamlyn, at the East avenue pottery, is an expert potter,\\nand makes a specialty of fine ware of the latest designs.\\nThe Cohansey Tannery, located on Fayette street. West\\nBridgeton, Jacob Kienzle, Proprietor, was established by that\\ngentleman in 1858. It has an extensive plant, and employs\\na number of workmen who tan hides into leather. The\\nproducts are calf-skin, upper, butt and harness leather. Mr.\\nKienzle has, in some years, tanned as many as 2,500 hides\\nand 1,500 calf-skins, most of which are finished and sold in\\nBridgeton and vicinity.\\nAlfred H. Lupton has extensive brick yards on South\\nWater street, where he manufactures 1,300,000 red brick\\nannually; 100,000 of which are extra quality pressed brick.\\nClay in abundance, and of fine quality, is found on the premises,\\nMr. Lupton has thirty brick makers, whom he pays ^800 per\\nmonth wages. He has ^12,000 capital in the business. An-\\nother brick yard is located on Water street, near the Moorhouse\\nPaper Mill, Isaac W. Mulford, Proprietor. Mr. Mulford has\\nfine clay on his property, and manufactures about 500,000\\ngood red brick per year.\\nJ. Lewden Robeson, Nos. 18 and 20 Water street, has an\\nextensive machine shop. He manufactures presses, dies, can-\\nhouse machinery, and does general repairing. Began business\\nin September, 1885. Runs shop by steam power, and employs\\nfive men.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "City Notes.\\nThe City of Bridgeton is growing rapidly. Two hundred\\nand two building permits were granted by the mayor during\\nthe past year.\\nLemuel Johnson, West Bridgeton, contractor for stone\\nand brick work, also plastering, does a large business. He\\ndoes the stone work for at least forty houses a year.\\nA million boxes of strawberries are shipped from the\\nregion near Bridgeton,by way of the Cumberland and Maurice\\nRiver Railroad, every year during the berry season.\\nMayor Jeremiah Du Bois has served the city four years,\\nand served it well. He is a progressive official, honored by\\nmen of all parties. Under his administration the city has\\ngrown and prospered.\\nThe fire department of Bridgeton has twenty-eight mem-\\nbers. There are two hose carriages, a hook-and-ladder com-\\npany and a Silsby engine, with a forcing capacity of ninety\\nfeet in the perpendicular.\\nThe Bridgeton Post-office has a free delivery department,\\nwith six letter carriers. It ranks as second-class, and is a\\nPresidential appointment. Receipts of office, 12,000 per\\nyear. Postmaster s salary, ^2,300.\\nThe police department consists of six officers, with the\\nmayor as chief This is a small force, but it does its work\\nwell. No city of the size in the country is more free from\\nlawlessness, mob rule, drunkenness, or disorderly conduct.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "6i\\nEvery branch of mercantile business is carried on in\\nBridgeton, and many enterprising men are engaged therein,\\nbut there is room for others, and the outside world is invited\\nto come and settle in a goodly town among a goodly people.\\nThe farmers of the county raise 2,330 tons of dressed\\npoultry annually, which they ship to city markets, and\\nreceive in return about ;$65 0,000. The entire poultry interest\\nin county, eggs included, is said to exceed ^750,000 per year.\\nJohn R. Graham, dealer in carpets, No. 40 Commerce\\nstreet, is one of Bridgeton s most successful merchants. He\\nhas transacted business at the store which he now occupies,\\nfor thirty-five successive years. A longer period than any\\nother person doing business in Bridgeton.\\nThe city markets are always filled to repletion with the\\nfinest and best products of the sea as well as the soil. In the\\nspring the Delaware shad, the best in the world, is found as\\nearly as the last week in February. In March, April and May,\\nthe toothsome fish appears in abundance, at very low rates.\\nAyars Mulford, merchant tailors and clothiers, occupy\\nthe large three-story brick building 59 and 61 Commerce\\nstreet, next to the Cumberland National Bank. They employ\\neighteen cutters, tailors and clerks, doing the heaviest clothing\\ntrade in Bridgeton. Their building was recently erected at a\\ncost of ^20,000.\\nIn the month of June a large crop of small fruits and\\nberries is gathered from the farms near Bridgeton. Last year\\n140,000 boxes were shipped from the New Jersey Central\\nRailroad depot, and 70,000 boxes from the West Jersey Rail-\\nroad station. Over 100,000 baskets of peaches were also\\nshipped from the Bridgeton stations.\\nThe heaviest dealer in groceries and provisions in\\nBridgeton is Ed. M. Fithian, No. 50 Commerce street, who\\ndocs a retail trade amounting to $50,000 a year. Wilson L.\\nSilvers, No. 1 13 East Commerce street, dealer in groceries and\\nprovisions, also docs a large business. He has been engaged\\nin that line of trade for thirty-three years.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "62\\nAt Edwards Sons Park, Cedarbrooks, Irving avenue,\\nbeautiful views of the head of East Lake are found. The\\nscenery is grand, especially at one point in the dense wood,\\nwhere the stream winds gracefully among the trees. A view\\nof this delightful spot is published on another page under the\\ntitle of The Cedars at Edwards and Sons Park.\\nUnder a beneficent law, of the State of New Jersey, the\\nschools of the city of Bridgeton receive about $iO,ooo, annu-\\nally, from the surplus in the State School Fund. This large\\nsum added to that raised by local taxes, gives the city ample\\nfinancial means to run the schools on the best methods.\\nWith this help and the energetic management of the Board\\nof Education the Bridgeton schools have attained the front\\nrank.\\nOne of the finest churches in Bridgeton is the West Pres-\\nbyterian, on West Commerce street, corner of Giles. It is of\\ngrey stone, well built. The interior is beautiful. The Second\\nPresbyterian church. North Pearl street, has a picturesque\\nexterior, the walls being covered with ivy, thus giving the\\nedifice the appearance of an old-time English abbey. St.\\nAndrew s Episcopal church has a striking interior, a view of\\nwhich is given.\\nThe leading physicians are Dr. T. G. Davis, No. 122\\nCommerce street; Dr. J. G. Streets, No. 133 Commerce\\nstreet Dr. Thos. J. Smith, S. W. cor. Commerce and Atlantic\\nstreets Dr. Henry W. Elmer, No. 64 Commerce street Dr.\\nM. K. Elmer, S. E. cor. Commerce and Franklin streets Dr.\\nJohn H. Moore, No. 135 Commerce street; Dr. J. R. C.\\nThompson, No. 236 Commerce street; Dr. David Streets, No.\\n133 Commerce street.\\nThere are many beautiful private residences in Bridgeton.\\nAmong the number are the following, views of which are\\ngiven: Mrs. R. C. Nichols, East avenue; Dr. J. G. Street,\\nEast Commerce street Mrs. C. E. Elmer, Broad street Capt.\\nF. M. Riley, West Commerce street; A. F. Randolph, Broad\\nstreet B. H. Minch, West Commerce street Miss Sarah", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "63\\nBuck, Giles street B. T. Bright, East Commerce street Mrs.\\nKate Knight, Atlantic street.\\nThe shipments of poultry and eggs from Bridgeton to\\nthe New York, Philadelphia and Boston markets are very-\\nheavy. J. Dailey Son estimate that they purchase and sell\\none hundred thousand pounds of poultry annually; Timothy\\nCampbell, one hundred thousand pounds C. G. Davis, from ten\\nto twenty thousand pounds, and other smaller dealers in pro-\\nportion. The value of the poultry and egg product shipped\\nannually will exceed ^250,000.\\nBridgeton has very efficient telegraph and telephone ser-\\nvice. The Delaware and Atlantic Telephone Company has\\nfifty miles of Avire covering the entire city, and seventy-five\\nsubscribers Samuel H. Meyers, Superintendent. The Western\\nUnion Telegraph Company, Miss M. E. Schofield, operator,\\ndoes an average business of one hundred messages per day.\\nBoth offices are centrally located, in the basement of the\\nHotel Cumberland, North L.aurel street.\\nBridgeton contains three thousand dwellings, more than\\none-half of which are owned by the occupants. It also has\\nfour large dry-goods houses sixty grocery and provision\\nstores two flour mills sixty manufacturing establishments\\nof various character; two banks; fifteen churches; three\\nhotels eight drug stores six newspapers four lumber yards,\\nwith saw-mills four academic schools five public schools\\nsix canning establishments a tanyard, soap factory and\\nshipyard.\\nThe old Presbyterian Church, on Broad street, with its\\nmoss-grown roof and ivy-covered walls, grey with age, and\\nthe cemetery beside it, rich with memories of the honored\\ndead sleeping within its precincts, are points of interest to\\ncitizen and stranger. In this cemetery are buried several\\nofficers of the Revolution, many soldiers of the late war, and\\na numerous company of men and women, many of them dis-\\ntinguished in life as lawyers, physicians, theologians, philan-\\nthropists and statesmen.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "64\\nNot quite a score of miles below Bridgeton is the famous\\nMaurice River Cove, where oysters are grown in never-ending\\nabundance. Three hundred vessels and fifteen hundred men\\nare employed in the business of planting and catching oysters\\nin Maurice River Cove and Delaware Bay. During the\\noyster season, the oyster captains and leading business men of\\nthe industry have on deposit in the National Banks of the city\\nnearly 1,000,000. The oyster crop brings a vast sum of\\nmoney into the city and county.\\nAmong late improvements on our business streets, the\\nnew Pioneer building is considered one of the finest blocks\\never built in Bridgeton. It is a fine three-story pressed-brick\\nbuilding, with brown-stone trimmings. It contains the office\\nof the Daily Pioneer, the Arnold clothing establishment, law\\noffice of Walter H. Bacon, and the hall of Bridgeton Castle,\\nNo. 13, Knights of the Golden Eagle, the handsomest lodge-\\nroom in the State. The Pioneer building was erected by\\nMessrs. McCowan Nichols, at a cost of ^20,000.\\nThe leading lawyers of Bridgeton are John S. Mitchell,\\nNo. 83 Commerce street; James R. Hoagland, No. 80 Com-\\nmerce street Potter Nixon, No. 60 Commerce street\\nWalter H. Bacon, 13 North Laurel street; Jas. J. Reeves,\\nNo. 95 Commerce street Wm. A. Logue, over County Clerk s\\nOffice, Commerce street Charles E. Sheppard, No. 29 Com-\\nmerce street; Thomas W. Trenchard, No. 107 Commerce\\nstreet Orestes Cook, No. 34 Commerce street Jas. L. Van\\nSyckle, No. 70 Commerce street; Frank M. Porch, No. 103\\nCommerce street.\\nAt a meeting of citizens, held October 11, 1888, H. K.\\nTrask, President, it was resolved to organize a stock com-\\npany for the purpose of building a street railway. The system\\nsuggested by Mr. Oberlin Smith, of the Ferracute Machine\\nWorks, and the one likely to be adopted, is that known as\\nThe Sprague Electric Railway Motor. The engine, dynamo,\\ncars, tracks and necessary equipments, will cost about ;^5O,000.\\nIt is proposed to track Commerce street first, and afterward", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "65\\nBroad, Laurel, Pearl and other thoroughfares. Work will\\nprobably be commenced during the summer.\\nThe gas consumed in the cit\\\\- is furnished by the Bridge-\\nton Gas Light Company. Jona Elmer, President; Wm. C.\\nMulford, Secretary Benjamin F. Harding, Superintendent and\\nTreasurer. The works are located on Water street, and con-\\nsist of a valuable plant, with two tanks of 40,000 feet capacity,\\nand several large buildings where the furnaces are situate,\\ntogether with office, etc. The gas is produced from bitumi-\\nnous coal, and is a first-class article. Capital stock of the\\ncompany, $31,000. Price of gas, $1.50 per thousand feet to\\ngeneral consumers, and as low as $1.20 to manufacturers.\\nOne of the leading business establishments of Bridgeton\\nis that of Wm. W. Robbins, 33 and 34 North Laurel street.\\nThe building is one of the largest in town, being three stories\\nhigh, with seventy feet front, and a depth of one hundred and\\nthirty feet. The edifice is of brick, and is divided into boot\\nand shoe and clothing departments. At No. 44 Commerce\\nstreet, Mr. Robbins has a large dry goods store, in which he\\nhas an extensive stock, and considerable capital invested. His\\nstores and contents are valued at $So,ooo. He does a business\\nof 100,000 per annum, and employs eighteen salesmen and\\nwomen.\\nBeside the Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist ceme-\\nteries, a new cemetery has been recently opened. It is called\\nOverlook, and is located on the land lately occupied by\\nChas. S. Hunt as a farm. The site is on the road to Bo wen-\\ntown. West Bridgeton, and contains eighteen acres, hand-\\nsomely laid out in squares, with graveled walks, lined with\\nNorway maples. The company owning the cemetery is incor-\\nporated, and has the following officers President, Dr. G. W.\\nBailey; Secretary, L. D. H. Gilmour Treasurer, George\\nJonas Executive Committee, G. W. Bailey, B. F. Shreeve,\\nRichard More.\\nIn no town in America is there a better class of people than\\nthose to be found in Bridgeton. It is an intelligent community.\\n5", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "66\\nSociety is good, the churches are many, and everybody is\\nwelcome. Opportunities are offered for the cultivation of the\\nmind rarely found outside of the great cities. There is a\\ncourse of lectures each winter, under the auspices of the\\nYoung Men s Christian Association, from whose platform the\\ngreatest orators and musicians hold forth. There is a local\\nsinging society which gives public concerts twice a year, with\\nlawn concerts in the summer, and an opera house where the\\nfirst companies of the land appear. There is every desirable\\nform of platform, musical and operatic entertainment.\\nCaptain Frank M. Riley, the City Treasurer of Bridgeton,\\nis a very popular officer. He has served in that capacity twelve\\nyears, and is re-elected every three years by a unanimous\\nvote of the people. The Captain was an officer in the Twelfth\\nRegiment New Jersey Volunteers during the late war, and\\nparticipated in many battles. At the Wilderness he was\\nwounded in the face, a Minie ball passing through the flesh\\nnear the right eye and coming out in the mouth. The wound\\nhealed, and only a scar shows where the bullet entered.\\nAfterward he was taken prisoner and lay for three months\\nin a loathsome cell in Libby Prison. Of such a citizen\\nand officer Bridgetonians are justly proud.\\nEli Minch, the learned farmer of Hopewell, has a cider mill\\non Water street. West Bridgeton, which turns out, in the apple\\nseason, 2,000 gallons per day, and 60,000 gallons all told.\\nThe capacity of the works is 4,000 gallons daily. In addition\\nto this business Mr. Minch carries on farming the year round.\\nOne of his specialties is the Minch apple, which he grows very\\nextensively. He is also a famous potato grower, having fre-\\nquently produced, in a season, over three hundred bushels of\\nSilver Lake potatoes to the acre. Such results can only be\\nproduced in good soil, and that we have in Cumberland\\ncounty at the very gates of the city of Bridgeton. Why go\\nWest, then, with such land and such results at home?\\nSeveral very handsome improvements are in contempla-\\ntion this Spring. A new county building for the Clerk and", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "67\\nSurrogate s offices will be erected on the site of the present\\nstructure on Commerce street. It will be built of stone, and is\\nto be a fine edifice. It is proposed, also, to erect a large brick\\nschool-house in the Third Ward at an early date. A new City-\\nHall is also to be built, but the site is not yet selected. By the\\nclose of the next session of Congress it is believed that a\\nsufficient appropriation will be received to erect a Government\\nbuilding for the Post-office and Custom-house. Thus it will\\nbe seen that Bridgeton is to have a boom in the public building\\nline, and a class of structures erected that will prove ornaments\\nto the city.\\nThe following newspapers are published Evening- News,\\ndaily, J. Ward Richardson and David C. Appclgate, proprietors.\\nFounded in 1876, and is the oldest daily in the city. Inde-\\npendent. Circulation (largest in the county), three thousand\\nper day. The same firm publish the Weekly News. Circula-\\ntion, two thousand. The Pioneer, daily, George W. McCowan,\\nproprietor. Established 1887; Republican; circulation, fifteen\\nhundred per day. The Bridgeton Pioneer, weekly. Fovmded\\nin 1848; Republican; circulation, one thousand. Bridgeton\\nChroinele, weekly, F. R. Fithian, publisher. Founded in 181 5\\nRepublican; circulation, twelve hundred. New Jersey Patriot,\\nweekly, John Cheeseman, editor and proprietor Democratic\\ncirculation, one thousand.\\nThe new Central Methodist Episcopal Church edifice,\\nsoon to be erected at the corner of Bank and Commerce\\nstreets, a fine picture of which can be found in one of the\\ngroups contained in this pamphlet, will be, when completed,\\none of the handsomest churches in the State. The design is\\nGothic, and is the work of Messrs. Hazelhurst and Huckel,\\nPhiladelphia. The structure will be built of Avondale stone,\\nwith Indiana stone trimmings. The side-walls of the interior\\nare to be frescoed the ceilings will be chestnut and the\\nrafters cherry. The new church will be cushioned and car-\\npeted throughout, and will seat one thousand persons. The\\nscats will be circular, arranged in amphitheatre style. Cost of\\nbuilding and furniture ^$40,000.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "The Cumberland Mutual Fire Insurance Company is one\\nof the substantial business institutions of the town. It is\\nlocated in the handsome two-story brick edifice, on Commerce\\nstreet, near Pearl. It does a large business in fire insurance.\\nSince its organization, in 1845, it has issued 30,700 policies,\\nand has policies still outstanding amounting to over ^10,500,000.\\nThe following constitute the Board of Directors David P.\\nElmer, Jonathan Elmer, James Stiles, Geo. Tomlinson, Joseph\\nK. Riley, Edwin Stokes, Charles S. Fithian, Daniel T. Howell,\\nJames B. Ware, Ephraim Bateman, Albert F. Randolph, Ben-\\njamin F. Harding, Robert M. Hitchner, Francis Reeves, Reuben\\nTownsend. President, D. P. Elmer Secretary and Treasurer,\\nCharles S. Fithian.\\nSecret societies flourish. There are two Masonic Lodges\\nBrearley No. 2, and Evening Star, No. 97 with a membership\\nof ninety and eighty respectively. There are three lodges\\nof Odd Fellows: Cumberland, No. 35; Bridgeton, No. 129;\\nCohansey, No. 205. The three have a joint membership of\\nover five hundred. The Knights of Pythias have two lodges\\nExcelsior, No. 4 Calanthe, No. 103 membership about one\\nhundred and fifty each. There is also an Encampment of Odd\\nFellows, a lodge of the Junior Order American Mechanics,\\nan Assembly of the Knights of Labor, a lodge of the Inde-\\npendent Order of Mechanics, several Life Insurance societies;\\nA. L. Robeson Post, No. 42, G. A. R.; Bridgeton Castle,\\nNo. 13, Knights of the Golden Eagle, and other benevolent\\nand fraternal associations.\\nThe Bridgeton Electric Light Company, which lights the\\ntown by electricity, was founded April 12, 1886. It is incor-\\nporated under an act of the Legislature, and has the following\\nofficers President, Charles O. Baird Secretary and Treasurer,\\nSamuel T. Given Superintendent, William A. Logue. The\\ncapital stock of the company is $50,000. The plant is located\\non Washington street, near Cohansey avenue. There are two\\nengines of sixty and one hundred and twenty horse power,\\nand two boilers of one hundred and two hundred horse.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "69\\nOne dynamo is for arc lighting, and one for incandescent. The\\ncompany covers the entire city with fifteen miles of wire\\neighty arc lights, of 1,200 candle power; 1,200 incandescent\\nlights, of sixteen candle power. The system is the Thomson-\\nHouston.\\nBridgeton has been fortunate in having many men of\\ncharacter and ability who have served as members of City\\nCouncil. Among those recently retired from office, after\\nhaving served the city faithfully and well, may be mentioned\\nRobt. M. Seeley, of the First Ward; Benjamin Hancock,\\nof the Third Ward, and Eli E. Rogers, of the Fourth Ward.\\ni\\\\Ir. Rogers gave his time and ability for eight consecutive\\nyears, serving four years as President of Council. Mr. Hancock\\nserved six years in Council, the larger portion of the time with\\nrare ability as a member of the Finance Committee, a position\\nof great responsibility. Mr. Seeley rendered valuable service\\non the same Committee. As a rule, nearly all the members of\\nCouncil have studied the city s interest, and because of that\\nfact good government has resulted.\\nThe religious denominations are represented as follows\\nMethodist, Episcopal, four churches Commerce street, Rev.\\nGeo. C. Stanger; Trinity, Fayette street, Rev. Geo. H. Neal\\nCentral, corner Commerce and Bank streets. Rev. John Hand-\\nley; Fourth, South avenue. Rev. J. B. Whitten. Presbyterian,\\nthree churches First, Laurel street, Rev. S. W. Beech; Second,\\nNorth Pearl street, Rev. H. H. Beadle; West Presbyterian,\\nWest Commerce street. Rev. W. H. Belden. Baptist two\\nchurches First, Rev. T. G. Cass; Pearl Street, Rev. W. R,\\nMcNeil. Episcopal St. Andrew s, East Commerce street. Rev.\\nS. C. Cheevers. Lutheran, corner Oak and Giles, Rev. Thos.\\nSteck. Catholic\u00e2\u0080\u0094 St. Mary s, Rev. C. WYnst. Methodist,\\nProtestant, two churches. Laurel street and South avenue.\\nRev. W. D. Stultz. Mt. Zion African M. E., West Bridgeton,\\nRev. L S. Yemmans, Third Baptist, Rev. S. D. Kelly.\\nFew towns have finer hotels. The Hotel Cumberland,\\non North Laurel street, Robert S. Tice, manager, has lately", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "70\\nbeen erected, at a cost of $40,000. The building is of brick,\\nfour stories high, and of fine design. It is the property of a\\nstock company, of which F. B. Minch is President Walter\\nH. Bacon, Secretary. The house has forty-six rooms, ele-\\ngantly furnished hot and cold water; bath elevator; electric\\nbells heated by steam. The parlors and reception rooms of\\nthis model hostelry are said to be among the handsomest in\\nthe country. The Hotel Hohenstatt, South Laurel street,\\nFrederic Hohenstatt, proprietor, a three-story brick building,\\nis of modern design and finish. It has thirty-four rooms, with\\nevery convenience, such as hot and cold water, etc., and cost\\nabout $20,000. The City Hotel, corner of Broad and\\nFranklin streets, C. G. Cast, proprietor, has twenty rooms, with\\nlatest improvements. Each of these hotels have stables\\nattached.\\nThe peach crop of Cumberland county is the most profit-\\nable of all its farm crops. In the townships of Hopewell,\\nStoe Creek, Greenwich and Fairfield, bordering on Bridgeton,\\nimmense orchards yield many thousands of baskets of this\\nluscious fruit. The orchards on the bay shore, in Greenwich\\ntownship, grow the finest peaches in the United States, supe-\\nrior in quality to those of Maryland and Delaware. It is\\nestimated that there are 800,000 peach trees in the orchards of\\nthe county. The returns from freight agents, packing houses,\\nand an estimate of the quantity consumed in the home market,\\nshow the crop to be not less than 750,000 baskets annually,\\nnetting farmers and growers about $400,000. It is thought\\nthis year the crop will amount to $500,000. Thomas E. Hunt,\\nof Greenwich, is a specimen peach grower. During the sum-\\nmer of 1886 Mr. Hunt gathered from his orchard of 1,200\\ntrees, 4,381 baskets of fruit, for which he received, net,\\n$2,080.59. This is peach-growing that cannot be surpassed\\nanywhere.\\nThe Bridgeton Opera House, one of the handsomest in\\nthe State, was built in 1880, by J. M. Moore Son. It is a fine\\nfour-story brick edifice, located on South Laurel street. It", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "71\\nhas a seating capacity of one thousand, and is elegantly fitted\\nup with the Demaris Patent Opera Chair. The floor is an\\ninclined plane, and the seats are so arranged that a view of the\\nentire interior can be had from any part of the house. There\\nis a circular gallery, and a fine stage, sixty-five by thirt) with\\nstage opening of thirty feet. The decorations are beautiful, the\\nwork on walls, ceiling and scenery being by the hand of\\n\\\\V. F. Wise, the well-known scenic artist. There are sixteen\\nsets of scenery. Dressing rooms with every convenience are\\nconnected with the stage. The entire building is heated by\\nsteam, and is lighted by gas. The acoustic properties are first-\\nclass. The building complete cost the Messrs. Moore about\\n;$40,ooo. Under the Opera House Wm. J. Moore, one of the\\nproprietors of the building, has one of the largest boot and\\nshoe stores in South Jersey, where he carries a heavy stock\\nof the best goods.\\nThe Young Men s Christian Association was organized\\nFebruary, 1859, and is the oldest association of the kind in\\nthe State. In membership it is surpassed only by that of the\\nNewark association. It now numbers four hundred and\\nthirty. The rooms of the association, in Robbins block,\\nNorth Laurel street, are large and handsome. They comprise\\na library, reading room, two parlors, class room and gymna-\\nsium. The library contains four thousand volumes, and is the\\nmost extensive Y. M. C. A. library in New Jersey. Educa-\\ntional classes are carried on each season, and social receptions\\nheld from time to time. Medical and practical talks are given\\nto young men, during the winter months, by business and\\nprofessional men of the city also, each winter, a Star Course\\nof Lectures and Concerts, given in the Opera House. The\\nassociation has a Boys Branch, with eighty members, and a\\nLadies Auxiliary, with thirty-eight active members. The\\nreading room is supplied with the leading daily and weekly\\nnewspapers, illustrated and otherwise, also the leading monthly\\nmagazines. The parlors are neatly furnished, and contain\\npiano, organ, and two cabinets filled with various kinds of", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "72\\ncuriosities. Meetings for young men are held every Sunday\\nafternoon, when music is furnished by an orchestra of ten\\npieces. The officers of the association are as follows Presi-\\ndent, Dr. Thos. J. Smith First Vice-President, C. W. Shoe-\\nmaker; Second Vice-President, C. R. Corey; Treasurer, H.\\nW. Fithian; Recording Secretary, Wm. J. McCowan; General\\nSecretary, W. R. Southwell Librarian, Mrs. Maria Elmer.\\nThe common schools of Bridgeton are organized on the\\ngraded system, with grammar, secondary, primary depart-\\nments. They are governed by a Board of Education, con-\\nsisting of twelve members, chosen for three year terms, four\\ngoing out annually. The schools are all ably managed, and\\namong the most successful in the country. There are five\\nschool buildings. The Pearl Street School, in north Bridge-\\nton, is the most modern. It is built of brick, three stories is\\nheated with steam. The Second Ward School, on South\\navenue, ranks next, it being same size and style of architecture.\\nThe Bank Street School is the oldest in the city. It is a large,\\nthree-story frame building. The Third Ward School, on Giles\\nstreet, and the Vine Street School, are also frame. All the\\nschools are thoroughly equipped with educational appliances,\\ntogether with latest and best text-books. At the Bank Street\\nSchool, Prof A. E. Prince, Principal, one hundred and ten\\nscholars are enrolled in the grammar department; one hun-\\ndred and thirty-four in the secondary; two hundred and two\\nin the primary. Second Ward, Prof C. H. Platts, Principal,\\ntwenty-four in grammar department seventy-three in secon-\\ndary two hundred and eighty-five in primary. Third Ward,\\nProf. E. J. Hitchner, Principal, sixty-five in grammar depart-\\nment ninety-three in secondary two hundred and forty-eight\\nin primary. Pearl Street, Miss M. E. Foster, Principal, in\\nsecondary, seventy-one primary, two hundred and seventy-\\nnine. Total number of children enrolled in the schools, one\\nthousand five hundred and eighty-four. The teachers in\\ncharge of the several departments are ladies and gentlemen of\\nability and culture. They are doing splendid work.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "1", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "73\\nNo city in the country has a better water supply, or a\\nmore perfect system of waterworks. East Lake, from which\\nthe water supply is chiefly obtained, is fed by a stream which\\nrises in a cedar swamp. The stream is five miles long, and\\nits waters are as clear as crystal. The lake has a storage\\ncapacity of 90,000,000 gallons. From the lake the water\\npasses into a Retaining Reservoir near the dam, which has\\na storage of 2,000,000 gallons. It is pumped thence to the\\nDistributing Reservoir, situate on East Commerce street, at an\\nelevation of 103 feet above high-water mark in the Cohansey\\nriver. It has a capacity of 1,500,000 gallons. The water is\\nforced through a sixteen inch main to the Distributing Reser-\\nvoir by a compound duplex Worthington engine, which has a\\npumping capacity of 1,000,000 gallons per day. This is sup-\\nplemented by a Blake pump which adds 500,000 gallons every\\ntwenty-four hours. Two boilers of thirty and eighty horse-\\npower respectively, are required to furnish the necessary steam.\\nRecently the water supply has been increased by putting\\ndown a well a short distance below the retaining reservoir.\\nIt is thirty feet in diameter, and twenty feet in depth, and\\nis sunk through pure white sand, from which an abundance\\nof pure water has been secured. Temperature of water in\\nthe well from fifty-three to fifty-six degrees. Temperature\\nin surface water of East Lake ninety degrees. The well\\nyields 500,000 gallons of pure water per day. The daily\\nconsumption of water by the city is 247,000 gallons. The\\nplan of distribution covers the entire city. There are sixteen\\nmiles of pipes, with 1,100 taps, and about the same number\\nof houses supplied. The mains are eleven inches in diameter,\\nwith three-inch galvanized-iron connections. The office and\\nengine house are located near East Lake, on Commerce\\nstreet, in a commodious brick structure of fine appearance. The\\nworks were built for the city in the year 1887, by Engineer\\nI. S. Cassin, of Philadelphia. Under the management of\\nSuperintendent Timothy Woodruff they have been a success\\nfrom the beginning.", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "The City of Bridgeton.\\nLOCATION, ATTRACTIONS, ADVANTAGES.\\nThe City of Bridgeton is located in a region remarkable\\nboth for situation and climate. It is the shire town of the rich\\nand fertile county of Cumberland. The business centre of the\\ncity lies directly along the Cohansey, a navigable stream\\nspanned by three handsome bridges, and most of the indus-\\ntrial and manufacturing establishments are within a few rods\\nof the river. The heart of the city is a valley which gradually\\nrises into elevations both to the east and west. The town\\nitself covers a territory about three miles in breadth, and more\\nthan four miles from its northern to its southern boundary.\\nA CHARMING LOCATION.\\nThe country round about is of a charming character, part\\nhill, part woodland, with lake and pond nestling here and\\nthere in picturesque beauty. Few towns possess such a varied\\nlandscape, or such attractiv^e surroundings. The drives from\\nthe city to the rich agricultural region beyond, disclose many\\nbeautiful views of farmhouse and farm lands, occupied and\\ncultivated by an industrious and prosperous people.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "75\\nRICH IN NATURAL SCENERY.\\nThe vicinity is ricli in natural scenery, as the numerous\\nviews along the Raceway, at the Tumbling Dam Pond,\\nat East Lake, on Jeddy s, and on the Cohansey, near the\\nSouth Jersey Institute, fully attest. So romantic, indeed, are\\nmany of the drives and walks near the lakes and streams of\\nsuburban Bridgeton, that one \\\\yho has traveled much, both in\\nEurope and America, has recently declared, that in all his\\njourneyings, he has rarely gazed on scenes of greater loveli-\\nness than those to be found at the head of the Cohansey, near\\nthe silvery waterfall at the Dam.\\nA MILD CLIMATE.\\nThe latitude is that of Baltimore, Maryland, the average\\ntemperature being about thirty-two degrees in winter and\\nseventy in summer. While severe weather occasionally pre-\\nvails in the winter months, and heat at periods of the summer,\\nthe seasons, as a whole, are mild and healthful. The spring\\nand fall months are delightful. There is no rai7iy season of\\nhalf a year, as upon the Pacific slope; or long weeks of dronth,\\nas on tlic plains of Kansas or terrible ivinds and bitmg blasts,\\nas in ice-bound Minnesota or months of ititense heat, to\\nparch the earth, and compel irrigation, as in Colorado neither\\nis there epidemic of fever or the touch of malaria, as in the\\nsunny lands of the South. On the contrary, there is an\\nabundance of sunshine, and a wholesome quantity of rain, with\\nthe coming and going seasons in the fullness of time, bringing\\neach in their turn, the bud, the blossom, the flower, and the\\nfull corn in the ear. Nowhere on the earth s surface, take\\nit all in all, can there be found a more genial climate or more\\nproductive soil than that of Bridgeton and its vicinit\\\\", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "76\\nRICH SOIL, FRUITFUL RETURNS.\\nThe vegetable kingdom finds its true home in Cumber-\\nland county, while our fi. uits cannot be surpassed in any\\nquarter of the globe. One need not go to California for a\\nhome, when the grape, the plum, the pear, the apple, the\\npeach, can be produced as prolific and as luscious here.\\nCOUNTY FACTS AND FIGURES.\\nAccording to the census of 1880, Cumberland county\\nagricultural products were wheat, 157,952 bushels; corn,\\n602,546 bushels; oats, 63,324 bushels; buckwheat, 3,162\\nbushels; rye, 4,131 bushels. Dairy products on farms\\n72,000 gallons of milk 282,040 pounds of butter, and 886\\npounds of cheese. There were in the county, 3,849 horses,\\n419 mules and jacks 59 working oxen 5,139 milch cows;\\n3,485 other cattle; 3,663 sheep; 6,979 swine. There were\\n291 manufacturing establishments, with ^1,706,834 capital;\\nnumber of hands employed, 5,085; wages paid, ^735,416;\\nvalue of goods manufactured, :$3, 35 1,730. Since then the\\ncounty has largely increased in population, manufactures and\\nagriculture. It is believed that the census of 1890 will show\\na population of at least fifty thousand. Located in the midst\\nof such a prosperous agricultural and manufacturing commu-\\nnity, Bridgeton is indeed fortunate.\\nIMMIGRATION INVITED.\\nIn the midst of so many great advantages, with freedom\\nfrom the tornado and earthquake, a death rate of barely\\nseventeen persons to the thousand per annum, Bridgeton is", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "77\\nencompassed round and about by almost every blessing which\\nit is possible for man to receive. Wh) then, should the\\nyoung man turn his face westward, or the old man sigh for a\\nhome in other lands Immigration is invited to come hither,\\nas it certainly will when the resources and advantages of\\nBridgeton are better known and understood by the outside\\nworld. In no other section are the people better housed,\\nbetter clothed, better fed, or more generally prosperous.\\nTHE FINEST MARKET.\\nThe Bridgeton markets are filled to repletion with the\\nchoicest meats, finest fruits and vegetables, fish, oysters,\\npoultry and game in their respective seasons. Prices are\\nreasonable, especially as to meats, while butter and eggs rarely\\nexceed twenty-five cents per pound, or twenty cents per dozen.\\nMilk can be had from four to six cents per quart, and of\\nsuperior quality. The surrounding countiy, through its many\\nAvell-tilled farms, furnishes the cit\\\\^ with fresh produce every\\nday.\\nRENTS REASONABLE.\\nRents are reasonable, the best houses with modern\\nimprovements, gas and water, can be had for from tweh e to\\nfifteen dollars per month.\\nA CITY OF HOMES.\\nBridgeton is pre-eminently a cit) of homes. The greater\\nportion of the inhabitants own the houses in which they live,\\nand because of this fact there is more interest taken in home\\nimprovements, and more security for life and property. It is\\nalso well eoverned.\\nL\u00c2\u00abIC. U", "height": "3448", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "78\\nNEARNESS TO THE GREAT CITIES.\\nPhiladelphia and New York, the two imperial cities of\\nthe continent, are within a few hours by rail. For the former\\ncity seven trains leave Bridgeton daily, five by West Jersey\\nRailroad, and two by the New Jersey Central. Close commu-\\nnication is also had with the great watering places on the\\nDelaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean. Cape May, Atlantic City,\\nLong Branch, Ocean Grove, Sea Isle City, Holly Beach,\\nAnglesea, and other popular resorts, are at our very doors.\\nIt is only two hours sail from Bridgeton by river to the sea,\\nand a shorter time by rail.\\nADVANTAGES ON THE SOUTH.\\nOn the south the city is brought, by the Cumberland and\\nMaurice River Railroad, to the mouth of the great river from\\nwhose famous cove come the celebrated oysters so much in\\ndemand in all the city markets. Connection is also had by\\nthe same road with many towns in Cumberland and Cape May\\ncounties. This road opens up a broad country and thrifty\\npeople, who add much to the business interests of Bridgeton.\\nLOW TAXES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ECONOMICAL GOVERNMENT.\\nWhile the city has the electric light, a splendid system\\nof water works, good roads and streets, first-class schools and\\nother modern improvements, yet the taxes are low. The rate\\nper one hundred dollars of assessed property has never yet\\nexceeded $i.6o. Property is taxed for two-thirds value, and\\nnot for the whole as in other towns and cities. The City\\nGovernment is economically administered.", "height": "3432", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "cityofbridgetonn00nich_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "79\\nSPECIAL MANUFACTURING ADVANTAGES.\\nManufacturers locating in Briclgeton have special advan-\\ntages guaranteed them. By an act of the New Jersey\\nLegislature\\nAll capital employed in manufacturing in\\nBridgeton, to the amount of ten thousand dollars\\nand upward, is exempt from city tax for a period\\nof ten years.\\nWith the many fine manufacturing sites offered at low\\nrates, a number of them free, on both sides of the Cohansey\\nRiver, and in other sections of the city, coupled with other\\ngreat advantages, capital ca7i have no more inviting field.\\n;^2, 143,000 capital is invested in the manufacturing\\nestablishments of Bridgeton. Number of hands employed,\\n3,718. Wages paid per annum, 1, 043, 500. 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