Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-14
CITIES AND THEIR NIcKNAMEs.
IN Interesting Peculiarly of Amer
lean Centcrs of Population.

lean Centers of Population.
BY the last federal census OF 3,7l5 cities
towns and villages in the United States
! separately organized only 124 had a popula
| tion in excess of $4,000, reports the New
! York Sun. They were the American cities
for usually a place having $4,000 or more
inhabitants makes claim to recognition as a
! city" whereas a place of a smaller number
Of inhabitants is called (though the residents
| do not always agree in calling 1t sol q
! town" Every one, or nearly every one, is
| familiar with the designations 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
Philadelphia, the City of Churches ap-
piled to Brooklyn, Forest city as applied to
Cleveland and Crescent city as applied to
I New Orleans, but every one is not familiar
with the fact that nearly all of the other
cities claiming a population in excess OF
5000 make claim to some distinctive mark.
Thus, Denver, Colo, has the distinction OF
having more bicycles in proportion to popu-
lation than any other city in the United
States-40,0 900 in a city OF 100000. 1t has
come to be called in consequence 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 Jewelry city, Lowell as the City Of
Spindles, Lynchburg, Va, as the Tobacco
city, Peoria as the Dstillery city, Virginia
City as tho 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 it stands at
ha of Anne Cit aS in ho oh pt
of apples. There are two cold storage plants
in Leavenworth, one of which is built 20
accommodate $4,000 bushels OF apples and
the other $4,000.
Joplin, Mo-, has come to be known as the
Zinc city, especially since the very eX-
tensive development of zinc mines in the
neghborhood this year, and the extension Of
the work of the smelter concern thereabouts
Louisville has long been known as the City
of Falls, Cincinnati as "Porkopolis," though
its Importance as pork packing city has
been eclipsed by Chicago, Omaha and Kansas
City, and the distillery interests of Cincn-
natl are now very much more important
than are those connected with pork packing
Wheeling, w. Va. is known as the Glass
city; Rochester, formerly known as the
Flour city, has surrendered that distinction
to Minneapolis; Milwaukee is the Beer city;
st. Louis is sometimes called-erroneously,
its inhabitants declare-the Sauer Kraut
city; Elgin, ILL.,, is the Dairy city; South
Bend, Ind, the Wagon city; Wilmington,
Del, the Match city; Wichita, Kan, the
Corn city; Grand Rapids, Mich, the Furni-
ture city; Elizabeth. N. j., the Sewing Ma
chine city; Holyoke, Mass, the Paper city;
Haverhill, Mass, the Shoe city, a distinction
which Brockton and Salem dispute; Kala-
mazoo, Mich, the Celery city; Barre, VT,
the Granite city; GAINESVILLE, the Brick city;
Paterson, N. j., the Silk city; Gloversville,
N. Y, the Glove city; Amsterdam, N. Y,
the Carpet city; New Bedford, Mass, the
Goldfish city; Savannah, the Cotton city;
Plttsburg, 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 American
cities which do not lay claim to at least one
distinction, though in the variety of it's
claims New York Of course stands first.
Among tho large states Illinois is the one
whose cities have fewest distinctions.