SCHENECTADY

city and county seat of Schenectady co., N.Y., on the Mohawk River and Barge Canal, 16 miles W. of Albany, served by the New York Central, West Shore, Boston and — Albany and Delaware and Hudson railroads. An elaborate electric traction system connects it with many nearby cities. While it carries on a considerable trade in farm and dairy products, it is, preeminently, an industrial center. ‘The principal manufacturing establishments are the General Electric Company and the American Locomotive Company which, together, employ about 30,000 of the inhabitants. Other industrial plants are those producing brooms, brushes, mirrors, picture frames, furniture, patent medicines, riages, varnish and boats. The chief public buildings are the County CourtHouse, Post-Office, Y.M.C.A. Building and the State Armory. ‘There are 70 churches, 24 public schools, two parochial schools, two busine colleges, several private schools and three libraries. ‘The city is the site of Union University. There are eleven newspapers and periodicals and nine banking institutions. The first settlement was in 1661. It was incorporated as a borough in 1765 and chartered as a town in 1798. In 1690 a force of French and Indians captured and burned the town and ma acred all but sixty of its inhabitants. It was the scene of a disastrous fire in 1819 that swept away almost the entire busine portion of the city. Pop. 1920, 88,723. E.), fishing town, watering-place, on North Sea, 8S. Holland province, Netherlands; Brit. fleet defeated Dutch off S., 1653. Pop. 24,000. town, S. Holland province, Netherlands, at junction of Schie and Maas; manufactures gin. Pop. 35,000. (1866), an American chemist; b. at New York. ‘ In 1887 graduated from the Columbia School of Mines. He was civil service commi ioner of New York in 1896 and in the Spanish-American War as adjutant 12th New York Infantry. President of companies_ and societies including the Citizens Union of the City of New York since 1908.