The city of New Brunswick; its history, its homes & its industries . ORIGINAL FIRST REFORMED CHURCH Johnson; and, after that, the New Bruns-wick Rubber Company in the building onWashington Street. 35 f 1^ iiiiiitf*^. STEAMER R. W. JOHNSON Shortly after the first rubber industrywas started, the wall paper industry wasbegun. Janeway and Company com-menced this branch of business in 1 844. After this came the National IronWorks, established by Elijah Kelly, theNorfolk and New Brunswick HosieryCompany, the Consolidated Fruit JarCompany; and, following these, havecome to our city many other industr
The city of New Brunswick; its history, its homes & its industries . ORIGINAL FIRST REFORMED CHURCH Johnson; and, after that, the New Bruns-wick Rubber Company in the building onWashington Street. 35 f 1^ iiiiiitf*^. STEAMER R. W. JOHNSON Shortly after the first rubber industrywas started, the wall paper industry wasbegun. Janeway and Company com-menced this branch of business in 1 844. After this came the National IronWorks, established by Elijah Kelly, theNorfolk and New Brunswick HosieryCompany, the Consolidated Fruit JarCompany; and, following these, havecome to our city many other industrialenterprises such as Johnson & Johnson,Hirschorn & Mack, the National MusicalString Corrpary, and a host of others. The opening of the railroad and canalgreatly affected the trade of the city byallowing farmers to ship their producewithout carrying it to New Brunswick,and the completion of the Central Rail-road in 1852 as far as Somerville was agreat blow to the shipping interests of NewBrunswick. It was about that time, however, thatthe establishment of several manufactories,especially in the rubber business, indicatedthat New Brunswick was to become in thefuture a manufacturins; centre. It was KAL
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