The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-13
CITIES AND MECHANICS.
An Interesting Popularity OF
American CenterS.

By the last federal census of BIB cities,
towns and villages in the United States
separately organized, only 124 had pop
ulation in excess of $4,000, soys the New
York Sun They were the American cities,
for usually place having 25,000 or more
inhabitants makes claim to recognition as
a city" whereas a place of a SmalIef
number of inhabitants is called Qhougn
the residents don't always agree IN cali
ing it so) a town" Every one, or nearly
every one, is familiar with the designa-
lions Empire City, as applied to New
York; Monumental City, as applied to
Baltimore; Elm City, as applied to New
Haven; Quaker City, as applied to Phlla-
delphia; the City of Churches. as applied
to Brooklyn; Forest City, as applied to
to New Orleans; but every one is not ia
miliar with the fact that nearly all of the
other cities claiming a population In ex-
cess of 5000 make claim to some distinc-
tive mark.
: Thus, Denver, COL has the distinction
of having more bicycles In proportion TO
population than any other city in the
United States-400000 in city of 1901 900.
the Bicycle City In similar fashion,
though on account of their manufacture
and not their use, Newark has come to be
known as the Trunk City, or City of
Trunks, Providence is known as the jew
elry City, Lowell as the City of Spindles,
Lynchburg Va, as the Tobacco City,
Peoria as the Distillery CITY,, Virginia
City as the Silver City, and there has
come recently to LeaVenworth,, Kan, the
seat of the United States military prison
and of, the Western Soldiers Home, new
distinction, not official, but agricultural,
for 1t stands at the head of American
cities in the shipment of apples. There
are two cold storage plants in Leaven-
WORTH one of which Is built to accommo-
date 1900 bushels of apples and the other
so, 600
Joplin, Mo-, has come to be known as
the Zinc City, especially since the very
extensive development of zinc mines in
sion of the work of the smelter concerns
there abouts. Louisville has long been
known as the City of Falls Cincinnati as
"Porkopolis, though its Importance as a
pork-packing city has been eclipsed by
Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City, and
the distillery interests of Cincinnati are
those connected with pork-packing.
Wheeling. West Virginia is known as the
Glass City; Rochester formerly known as
the Flour City, has surrendered that dis
tinctione to Minneapolis; Milwaukee is the
Beer City; st. Louis is sometimes called
Enormously, its inhabitants declare) the
sauerkraut City; Elgin, Ill, is the Dairy
City; South Bend, Ind. the Wagon City;
Wilmington, Del, the Match city WIGHT
ia, Kan, the Corn City; Grand Rapids,
Mich, the Furniture City; Elizabeth N.
j.. the Sewing Machine City. I1olyoke,
Mass, the Paper City; Haverhill, Mass,
the Shoe City, distinction which Brock
ton and Salem dispute; Kalamazoo.
Granite City; GAINESVILLE. the Brick City;
Paterson, n. j., the silk City; Glovers-
Vile NJ Y, the Glove City; Amsterdam,
n. Y, the Carpet City; New Bedford
Mass, the Goldfish City; Savannah, the
Cotton City; Pittsburg, the Steel City;
Troy, N. Y. the Nail City; Danbury,
Conn, the Hat City: Napa, Cal, the Wine
City, and Salem. Ore, the Hop City
The list might be extended almost in
definitely. for there are very few Ameri-
can cities which do not lay claim to at
least one distinction, though in the va
riety of it's claims New York. of course,
stands first Among the large states. IL
inois is the one whose cities have fewer
distinctions.