MALDEN, marden, Mass., city, in Middle-• sex County, on the Malden River, and on the Boston and Maine Railroad, about four miles north of Boston. It is connected by electrical railway with Boston, Lowell, Haverhill, Lynn, Salem and a number of other cities and towns. Malden includes several villages. The first settlement was made in 1641, but the place re mained a part of Charlestown until 1649, when it was made a separate, incorporated municipal ity. It was chartered as a city in 1881. It is a manufacturing city, having over 630 manufac turing establishments, representing nearly 50 different industries. The chief products are rubber boots and shoes, boot and shoe lasts and boot-trees, wire cord, leather, cotton goods, fibre goods, hosiery and hosiery supporters, knit goods, furniture, soap and picture molding. The manufactories have a combined capital of nearly $8,000,000, and the annual output is nearly $21,000,000. The number of employees
is about 6,200. The municipal expenditures are annually about $604,520; the principal items of which are for schools, $282,300; for water works, $55,000; charities, $60,000; for fire de partment, $69,000; police, $68,000; for munici pal lighting, $34,000. Metropolitan District water system supplies water to the city, also to Melrose and Medford. Malden has excellent public and parish schools, a number of fine church buildings, a Y. M. C. A. building, four libraries which contain about 65,000 volumes, Malden Public Library, a Home for the Aged and a city home— private hospital. The Con verse Library building, designed by Richardson, is beautiful and commodious. The government is vested in a mayor and a council. The execu tive appoints, subject to the approval of the council, the administrative officials. Pop. 48,850.