EVERETT, Mass., city in Middlesex County, three miles north of Boston, on the Boston and Maine Railway and with connection by electric surface lines with Lynn, Salem, Chelsea, Boston and adjacent towns. Accord ing to the report of the 13th United States census there were in Everett 62 establishments, with a capital of $22,905,000, employing 2,6f!0 wage-earners at wages amounting to $1,979,000 and having a product valued at $8,747,000. The most important manufactories are a chemical plant, structural iron foundries, steel works and gas and coke works, radiators, shoes, coal-tar products, leather, beds, concrete blocks, tools, wagons, boxes, trunks, etc. The United States census of manufactures for 1914 showed within the city limitg 85 industrial establishments of factory grade, employing 3,788 persons; 3,226 being wage-earners receiving annually a total of $2,047,000 in wages. The capital invested
aggregated $26,409,000 and the year's output was valued at $13,219,000; of this, $6,708,000 was the value added by manufacture. There are two public libraries, the Shute Memorial and the Parlin Memorial, and the Whidden Memorial Hospital is also located here. Everett was settled in 1643 and until 1870 it was a part of Malden. It received its city charter in 1892. Its chief development was in the decade 1890-1900. The government is administered by a mayor, chosen annually, and a municipal council in which members of the lower chamber are elected by wards for one year, those of the upper chamber at large for two years. The more important of the subordinate officials are nominated by the mayor and confirmed by the council; the others are chosen by the council. Pop. 37,381.