. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. homes, it has quite a business CHELSEA. 233 of its own. The larger manufacturing establishments are the MageeFurnace Company, Suffolk Cordage Company, Forbes LithographicCompany, Lows Art-Tile Works, Eastern Elastic Gusset Company,Woven Hose Company, Chelsea Wire Works, brass works, severalfurniture factories, rubber factory, tanneries, boot and shoe factories,type foundery and printing offices, and others of less note. The foodpreparations amounted to $599,409; iron goods, $406,531; leather,$293,360; wooden goods, $244
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. homes, it has quite a business CHELSEA. 233 of its own. The larger manufacturing establishments are the MageeFurnace Company, Suffolk Cordage Company, Forbes LithographicCompany, Lows Art-Tile Works, Eastern Elastic Gusset Company,Woven Hose Company, Chelsea Wire Works, brass works, severalfurniture factories, rubber factory, tanneries, boot and shoe factories,type foundery and printing offices, and others of less note. The foodpreparations amounted to $599,409; iron goods, $406,531; leather,$293,360; wooden goods, $244,291; and the aggregate of manufac-tures, $4,551,895. The valuation in 1888 was $19,781,480, with atax-rate of $ on $1,000. The First National Bank has a capitalof $300,000. The Winnissimet National Bank was, in July, ,authorized to commence busings with $100,000 capital. ChelseaSavings Bank, at the close of last year, had deposits to the amount of$2,068,933. The population by the last census (1885) was 25,709;voters, 6,116; and the number of dwellings, 4, THE I MTED-STATES MARINE HOSPITAL, CHELSEA. The city has excellent graded schools, occupying twelve build-ings which have a value of about $260,000. There are seventeenlibraries accessible to the public ; of which the city public libraryhas upwards of 10,000 volumes, and an association library about6,000. The city has several bright weekly newspapers, — theChurch Bulletin and Temperance Advocate, Chelsea Gazette, Leader, Record, Telegraph and Pioneer, the Owl and churches are two Baptist, three Congregationalist, two Meth-odist, one Unitarian, one Second Advent, one Universalist, oneEpiscopalian (Saint Lukes), one Roman Catholic (Saint Roses), andone African Methodist. Other buildiners of interest are the NationalBank building on Broadway, the United States Marine Hospital(which occupies an elevated position on a hill overlooking theMystic River), the military and naval magazine, in the rear of the
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