QUIN'CY. A city and the eounty-seat of Adams County, Ill., 265 miles southwest of Chi cago; on the Mississippi River, here spanned by a splendid railway bridge, and on the Wabash, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City railroads (Map: Illinois, A 4). It is regularly laid out on an elevated bluff It is the seat of Saint Francis Solanus College (Roman Catholic), opened in 1860; and has a boys' industrial school (Metho dist Episcopal), formerly known as Chaddoek College, and Saint Mary's Institute (Roman Catholic), besides commercial schools. Other institutions comprise a Conservatory of Music, Saint Mary's and Blessing hospitals, and several homes for the aged and orphans. The public library contains more than 23.000 volumes. The fine buildings of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, the Federal Government building, the court house, and the city ball are among the architectural features of the town. In the pub lic park system of about 107 acres are South Park, Riverside, Washington, Madison, Indian Mounds, and Primrose parks.
Quincy is admirably equipped with transporta tion facilities for an industrial and commercial centre. It carries on an active trade, and its industries, according to the census of 1900, rep resented an aggregate capital of $6,880,000, with a production valued at $9.235.000. The more
important establishments include stove foun dries, machine shops, breweries, show-ease works, n :aim factories of incubators, brick-making plants, carriage factories, lime works, clothing factories, flouring mills, a meat-packing estab lishment, governor and engine works, plow and hay-press works, canning factories, and maim factories of sawed lumber, egg eases, buttons, brass castings, wire fence, etc. The government is vested in a mayor, elected every two years, and a unicameral council, and in administrative of ficials. many of whom are named by the mayor. Quincy spends annually in maintenance and operation about $275,000, the principal items of expense being: For schools, $83.000; for interest on debt, $49,000; for the fire department, $28, 000: for the police department, $21.000; and for municipal lighting, $20,000. Population, in 1S90, 31.494; in 1900, 36,252. Settled in 1822 and laid out three years later, Quincy was in corporated as a town in 1834 and in 1839 was chartered as a city. Consult: Redmond, History of Quincy (Quincy, 1869).