HOBOKEN, a city of Hudson county, N.J., U.S.A., on the Hudson river, adjoining Jersey City on the south, opposite the lower part of New York city, with which it is connected by the Hudson River tunnels, four ferries, and (through Jersey City) the Vehicular tunnel. It is served by the Hudson and Manhattan and the Lackawanna railways, and for freight also by the Erie, the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, the West Shore and the Hoboken Manufacturers railways and steamship lines. The population was 68,166 in 1920 (34.5% foreign-born white), but decreased to 261 in 1930. The city has a restricted area of 1.3 sq.m. Its water-front of 1.3 m. is lined with piers, including those of the United States line, the North German Lloyd, Lamport and Holt, the Munson, the Scandinavian American and the Holland-Ameri can lines and other steamship companies. Much of the surface has been filled in, to raise it above the level of high tide. Castle Point, rising 1 oo ft. above the river near the centre of the shore line, is occupied by Hudson park, formerly the residence and private estate of the founder of the city, John Stevens (1749 1838), and the Stevens Institute of Technology (opened 1871), endowed by his son, Edwin A. Stevens (1795-1868). The city has numerous and varied manufacturing industries, with an output in 1925 valued at $59,536,561. The assessed valuation of property for 1926 was $100,089,371. Bank deposits on June 3o, 1925, amounted to Hobocan was an Indian word, meaning tobacco-pipe. The site of the city was bought by the Dutch West India company in 1635 for $1,040, and was occupied by 1640 by a Dutch farm, which was laid waste by the Indians in 1643. In 1658 the land was deeded by the Indians to Peter Stuyvesant. In 171f Samuel Bay ard, a New York merchant, acquired title to it and built his sum mer residence on Castle Point. The property was confiscated in 1780 by the state of New Jersey from his descendant, a loyalist, and in 1784 it was bought (for $90,000) by John Stevens, the inventor. He laid it out as a town in 1804, and for the next 35 years its Elysian Fields were a famous pleasure resort of New York city. Hoboken was incorporated as a town in 1849 and as a city in 1855. In 1860 the population was 9,662. In the next decade, and again in the 20 years 1870-90, it more than doubled, and in 1910 it reached 70,324. The city has a commission form of government.