THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

made here. On December 26th, 1776, General Washington
fought the Battle of Trenton in the streets of the town.
The stream on the southern boundary of Trenton is the
Delaware River, which divides the States of New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. Villages and towns alternating with farm lands
bound the road until the great manufacturing city of Philadel
phia is reached.
Philadelphia is the third city in America in population,
containing 1.203.697 inhabitants, and covers 129 square miles
of territory. It possesses mauy places of interest in connection
 with the early history of the country, notably Independence
Hall, where the declaration of American independence of
Great Britain was ratified in 1776; and the grave of Benjamin
Franklin, printer, statesman, and philosopher. Philadelphia is
the largest manufacturing city in America. It has the largest
shipbuilding works (Cramp’s), the largest locomotive building
shops (Baldwin's), and its production of carpets, woolen goods,
hats, and a large number of other articles of commerce is
varied and extensive. It is the headquarters of the Pennsylvania
 Railroad, whose terminal station at’ Broad Street is the
handsomest structure of the kind in America.
The journey south from Philadelphia to Washington is
interesting. It traverses the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, and the District of Columbia. The first town of
importance is Chester, in Pennsylvania, noted for its manu-‘acture
 of iron products and its shipbuilding.

TurOUGH DELAWARE AND MARYLAND

The next fifteen miles to the southward is Wilmington, in
the State of Delaware, a city of 76.508 people, all busy workers
 in the building of ship-engines. steamships, and railroad
cars, or in the manufacture of fine leather, gunpowder, and
other articles of trade.
Through the farming lands of Delaware and Maryland and
across the great Susquehanna River the route leads to Baltimore.
 This is an old city, as the age of cities is counted in
this new land, and an important one. It contains 508,957 inhab-