HO'BOKEN. A city in 'Hudson County, N. J., on the Hudson River. opposite New York. of which it is a suburb, and adjoining Jersey City. It is the terminus of the North German Lloyd, Netherlands-American, and Thingvalla steamship lines, and of the Delaware, Lackawanna and II estern lia it read ( Map : New Jersey. I) 2.) The city lies at the base of the the principal streets running north and south, parallel to the river. In the eastern section rises a hill. The site of Stevens Insti tute of Technology (q.v.) is fronted by Hud son Park. In the latter is a soldiers' monument; and in Chureh Square Park are situated the public library and a fir•men's monument. Saint Ma ry's 'Hospital is a noteworthy structure. Ho boken is it great. shipping place for coal. The most important manufactures comprise foundry and machine-shop products. lead leather goods, silk, wall-paper, and caskets. The gov ernment is administered by a mayor, elected every t WO years. who appoints assessors. and school, health, tire, and library commissioners, and, \rill] the etonsent of the council, police commissioners, of which board lie is the presi dent. The council is unicameral and elects the city clerk and assistants, and inspectors. All other administrative otlivials are chosen by popular vote. The municipal income and ex penditures annually amount to about $1,910, 000 and $1,810,000, respectively, the main items of expense being $75,000 for the fire depart ment, $115.000 for the police department, $150.
000 for operation of the water-works, and $175, 000 for schools. Population, in 1s70, 20,297 ; in POO, 43.644; in 1900, 59.364. including 21,100 persons of birth and 100 of negro descent.
The land on which Hoboken stands was !Part of the patroonship granted to Michael Panto in 16:30, and was then called Holmean Racking, `the land of the tobacco-pipe,' in allusion to the fact that Indians carved pipes from a kind of stone found here. A house was built about 1640 by Arendt TeuniSS011 Van Put ten, and a straggling settlement grew up; but the present city really dates from 1SOL when John Stevens. 'the founder of Hoboken,' bought the land and laid out a town. During the first quarter of the nineteenth century the Elysian Fields in Hoboken were the favorite pleasure resort for New Yorkers, and became noted as the meeting-place of Federalist politicians. was incorporated as a town in 1849. its population then being about goo, in 1S55, with a population of about t;700, it was chartered as a city. In 1900 a lire at the wharves of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company caused the loss of about 2t)0 lives, and destroyed property. including three steamers, valued at $5,000,000. Consult Win field. History of the County of Hudson (New York, 1874).