CAMDEN, N. J., city, port of entry and county-seat of Camden County, on the Dela ware River, opposite Philadelphia, with which it is connected by several ferries. The city is situated on a level plain and the streets cross one another at right angles. It is noted for its immense market gardens and important manu factures and is the site of several large ship building concerns. Area, five square miles. According to the latest Federal census Camden had 817 manufacturing establishments, employ ing $30,000,000 capital and 20,000 persons; pay ing $10,000,000 wages. The most important in dustries are foundry and machine-shop-products, ship-building, worsted goods, oil cloth, boots and shoes, masonry, textile fabrics, talking machines, soups, pens, iron mills, etc. The United States census of manufactures for 1914 recorded 343 industrial establishments of factory grade, em ploying 25,727 persons, of whom 22,490 are wage earners, receiving annually $12,967,000 in wages. The capital invested aggregated $101,
433,000, and the year's production was valued at $71,405,000: of this, $35,436,000 was the value added by manufacture. There are nine banks with a combined capital of $3,000,000. The assessed value in 1915 exceeded $80,000,000, and the tax rate was $2 per $100. In 1917 there were in the city more than 200 miles of paved streets, 60 miles of sewers, 115 miles of water mains; and gas and electric street lighting and waterworks plants, the latter owned by the city. The notable buildings are the city hall, county buildings, hospitals and churches. At the close of the school year 1915 there were 38 public school buildings, 20,000 pupils, 510 teachers, a public and private high school. The city was settled in 1681 by William Cooper and was in corporated as a city under an act passed 14 Feb. 1828. Pop. 102,465.