. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . steep inclined plane over whichboats are passed and repassed by the appli-cation of water-power from the capital, amounting to twenty-twomillions of dollars, is employed in the activebusiness of the place, and the first bankestablished in New Jersey is located hotel accommodations are extensive andgood.
. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . steep inclined plane over whichboats are passed and repassed by the appli-cation of water-power from the capital, amounting to twenty-twomillions of dollars, is employed in the activebusiness of the place, and the first bankestablished in New Jersey is located hotel accommodations are extensive andgood. There are five passenger stations inthe city limits, used by the PennsylvaniaRailroad Company for the accommodationof local travel, in addition to the Marketstreet depot, which is used for through trains per day pass over thisroad to and from New York. Population,105,059: native, 69,175; foreign, 35, of manufacturing establishments,1015; capital invested, $34,407,670; handsemployed, 29,147; wages paid, §14,767,527;value of products, §72, (The manu-facturing statistics are from the board oftrade report for 1872.) , twelve miles.—The State agri-cultural fair grounds are at this station. 48 THE PENNSYLVANIA STREET SCENE IN ELIZABETH. Elizabeth, fifteen miles,—the county seatof Union county,—was named after LadyElizabeth Carteret, the wife and executrix ofGovernor Sir George Carteret. It is pleas-antly situated in a level and fertile country,highly improved. It was formerly the capi-tal and principal town of the State, and con-tains many imposing and substantial publicedifices and several important manufac-tories, the principal of which are those ofoil cloths. This town was the first Englishsettlement made in the State. The land waspurchased for a company called the Eliza-bethtown Associates, from the Indians, in1664. These associates, seventy-four innumber, were originally from Jamaica, LongIsland. They held adversel
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