Jersey City
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Jersey City. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and countycity and county Hudson co., N. J., on the Hudson river, seat on the Hudson Morris Erie, canal, and the Pennsylvania, d the Pennsylv the Lehigh Valley, the New Lehigh Valley, the Central, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Baltimore and West Shore, the New Jersey and New he New Jersey and , the New York, Susquehanna and York, Susquehanna Western, and the Lackawanna railroads; Lackawanna railro opposite New York City, with which it rk City, with whiconnected by ferries and tunnels; area erries and tunnels; square miles. Public Interests. - The business pors. The business of the city lies in a level stretch lies in a level st the river, about a mile in width. about a mile in w of this is an abrupt bluff, on which abrupt bluff, on w the residential portion of the city. portion of the City is the second largest city in second largest cit State Newark. It, has trolley connections as trolley connect Elizabeth, Hoboken, and lizabeth, Hoboken, nearby cities. There is a public es. There is a p y,, the Hasbrouck Institute, Gerck Institute, American School, St. Aloysius ol, St. Aloy Academy, St. Peter's Roman Catholic eter's Roman Cath , Christ's and St. Peter's Hosd St. Peter's , and public high schools. The tohigh schools. The assessed $ 139,075,028 real estate valuation in 1920 state valuation in: , and the bonded debt and the bonded $ 10,697,372. The budget for the The budget for same year was $13,710,539. 13,710,539. Business Interests. The business insts. The business of Jersey City are closely allied City are closely al those of New York City ew York City. terminus of several large railroads . Being several large railro steamship lines, the commercial lines, the commer is very extensive. It has extensive nsive. It has exten yards, slaughter houses, grain elechter houses, grain , and meat - packing establishments. acking establishme manufactures are varied and extenare varied and ex and include iron and steel goods, iron and steel go machinery, locomotives, boilers, firemotives, boilers, f , furnaces, lead pencils, crucibles, lead pencils, crucib windmills, watches and jewelry, watches and jewe and chemicals, tobacco, zinc goods, tobacco, zinc goo , bridges, oakum, glass, soap, canglass, soap, c pottery, and foundry products. In products. there were 3 National banks, and ional banks, private banks, savings instituanks, savings insti tions, and trust and loan companies. nd loan companies. History. Jersey City was formerly City was forme as Paulus Hook; was laid out in Hook; was laid out chartered as the city of Jersey as the city of Jer 1820; incorporated as Jersey City rated as Jersey C ; enlarged by annexation of Hudby annexation of Hand Bergen in 1870, and by Greenn 1870, and by Gre in 1872; and was rechartered in d was rechartered Pop. ( 1910) 267,779; ( 1920) 298, - 267,779; (1920) 20
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
the second city of New Jersey . It has five miles of Hudson River frontage immediately opposite New York City. It is the New York terminus of numerous Western and Southern railway lines. Communication is maintained with New York City by immense steam ferries carrying passengers and freight. When a traveller desires to leave New York City by any of these lines he repairs to the city depot on the New York side of the Hudson. He and his baggage are conveyed westward across the river and transferred to the train which stands in waiting. A railroad tunnel, designed to obviate the river transit, is well under way . Numerous transatlantic lines of steamers, especially freight steamers, connect with the railways at the Jersey City wharves. There are immense grain elevators, coal docks, and storage depots for freight. In addition to shipping and transfer facilities there are large manufacturing interests. Slaughtering and meat packing are carried on on an enormous scale. There are manufactures of tobacco, implements, locomotives, boilers, furnaces, and iron bridges. Cars, carriages, boxes for the shipment of goods, barrels, and casks are made in immense numbers. One of the largest leadpencil factories in the world is located here. There are immense sugar refineries. Many other articles of trade, such as brass and copper goods, scientific apparatus, crucibles, watches, jewelry, organs, pianos, mineral water, patent medicines, perfumes, chemicals, paints, roofing material, paper, rubber goods, silk thread, oakum, fireworks, ink, varnish, and other articles too numerous to mention, are made here. The city has the usual wholesale, retail, and residence districts, and, like other American cities, it is struggling with the various municipal problems of lighting and paving, and of maintaining a system of education. In 1900 the population was reported at 206,433, about one-third being foreign born. The state census of 1905 reports a population of 232,699. See Hoboken ; New Jersey