Schenectady
a city and countyseat of Schenectady co., N. Y., on the State Barge canal, the Mohawk river, and the New York Central and Hudson River, and the Delaware and Hudson railroads; 17 miles W. of Albany. Here are UNION COLLEGE (q. v.), Home for the Friendless, Children's Home, public library, Ellis Hospital, court house, State armory, city hall, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, numerous churches, National, State, and savings banks, and a number of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. city has manufactories of agricultural implements and machinery, copper and sheet iron, shawls, knit goods, underwear, stoves, steel springs, varnish, sashes, doors, and blinds, electrical apparatus, fire engines, locomotives, pumps, carriages, brushes and brooms, flour, etc., of about 1,600 feet, and forms a capacious and brooms, flour, etc., and an assessed and secure harbor. About 15 miles below Antwerp, shortly after reaching the Dutch frontier, it divides into the East and West Scheldt, thus forming a double estuary. The whole course is 267 miles, about 210 of which are navigable. Until 1863, when navigation was made free by the Treaty of Brussels, the Dutch monopolized it and levied tolls on foreign vessels. As a result of the World War and the Peace Treaty of Versailles, control of the Scheldt became again a subject of controversy between Holland and Belgium.
SCHELLENBERG, a village 9 miles S. of Salzburg, Austria; was the scene of the first engagement in the War of the Spanish Succession in which the English took part. Marlborough's army of 40,000 men drove a Bavarian corps of 12,000 from the fortified heights above the vil lage, after a short, fierce fight, on July 4, 1704.
SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WIL- HELM JOSEPH VON, a German philosopher; born in Leonberg, Württemberg, Jan. 27, 1775. He studied first at Tübinwhere he and Hegel became intimate friends, thence he went to Leipsic and Jena. At Jena he studied under Fichte, whom he succeeded in the chair property valuation exceeding $142,000,- Schenectady is one of the oldest cities in New York State. It was settled in 1661; was burned and nearly all the inhabitants massacred by the French and Indians in 1690; and was the scene of a second massacre in 1748. It received a city charter in 1798. Pop. (1910) 72,- 826; (1920) 88,723.