PATERNOSTER ROW. A noted Loondon street, long the focus of the publishing and book trade of the city. Its name is derived from the makers of rosaries and prayer.books, who formerly made it their headquarters.
pArERSON. All important manufacturing city, the eounty-seat of Passaic County, N. J., 16 miles northwest of New York I itv: 011 the Bassaie River, the Morris ('anal, and the Erie. the Laekawarina, and the New York. Susque Imnna and Western railroads (Map: New Jer sey, 1) 2). The city, with an area of about Sl_ square miles. extends over a broad 1)1:1111 around a curve of the river. The Passaic has a perpendicular fall of 50 feet at this point, and a descent of 20 feet more to the plain, affording great water power. The streets are broad and well drained. Sixty-four miles are paved, the great proportion with macadam. The street railroad system, including 50 miles of track, extends beyond the city, connecting with im portant towns and cities of the vicinity. Pater son has a public library of about 37,000 volumes: two city parks—East Side and West Side parks; an imposing soldiers' monument; Paterson General Hospital and Saint Joseph's and isolation hospitals; Old Ladies' 'Home and Children's Nursery, and other charitable insti tutions. Among prominent structures are also the new city hall, court-house, post-office, and several banking buildings. The manufactures, which make this the third city of the State in importance, include silk and silk goods, loco motives, steel trusses and bridge work, engines and boilers. iron and steel, brass castings. general machinery, cotton goods. linen thread, jute, paper. malt liquors. etc. The silk mills are the most extensive in the United States, employ ing an army of operatives, and representing a considerable amount of capital.
The government is vested in a mayor, elected every two years; a council; and in subordinate administrative officials, appointed or elected as follows: hoard of education and library trus tees, by the executive; park commissioners and health board, by the executive, subject to the consent of the council; and heads of city depart ments such as are employed in the city hall, by the council. Paterson spends annually. in main tenance and operation, about $1.175,000. the main items of expense being $295,000 for schools, $143,001) fur interest on debt, $120.000 for the tire department, $115,000 for the police depart ment, $75,000 for municipal lighting. $60.000 for charitable institutions, and $55.000 for street (leaning and sprinkling. The city's bonded debt is (1901) over $3.200.000. and the valuation of property (real and personal) is assessed at near ly $50,000,000.
Paterson was founded in 1792 by "The So ciety for Establishing Useful Manufactures." in whieh Alexander Hamilton was much interested. It was thought that the town would soon be come the manufacturing metropolis of America. It was incorporated as a town in 1791, William Paterson then being Governor of the State. and was chartered as a city in 1851. The steady growth of the city is indicated in the following statistics: Population. in 1840. 7596: 1850, 11. 334: 1860, 19.586; 1870. 33.579: 1880. 51.031: 1590, 78.347; 1900, 105.171. The population in 1900 included 38,800 persons of foreign birth and 1200 of negro descent.