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Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Review of Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, N. Y Advance summary. - From Kirwin's Directory and other sources we condense the following advance facts. The city had in July, 1887, a population of and which is now fairly estirr ated at The Brooks 'locomotive Works, located here, have a reputation second to none in the United States, and give employment to about hands. A full detail of this and a score of other prominent manufactories will be given on succeeding pages. There are a dozen churches, academy, orphan asylum, excellent public schools, two national banks, club rooms, bands, musical societies, a score of secret societies, express, telegraph and telephone companies, street car line, electric light, gas and water works, two large newspaper and job printing establishments - one of which runs the Daily observer-journal. Dunkirk has 5 bakers, 6 barbers, 6 blacksmiths, 3 book stores, 7 shoe dealers, 8 carpenters and contractors, 3 carriage works, 6 cigar manufactories, 10 clothing and merchant tailoring houses, 6 coal and wood dealers, 4 dentists, 3 druggists, 4 dress makers, 8 dry goods houses, 7 fancy goods and millinery houses, 3 fish dealers, 7 flour, feed and grain dealers, 3 furniture dealers, over 30 groceries, 7 hardware and stoves, 6 or 8 hotels and as many boarding houses, 5 insurance agents, 4 jewelers, 2 steam laundries, 7 lawyers, 2 leather dealers, 3 liveries, 4 lumber dealers, 8 meat markets, 12 physicians, 3 photographers, 5 real estate agents, over 50 saloons; crockery, harness, lime and ice dealers; music stores, plumbers, restaurants, sewing machines, undertakers, and several other stores; an\ opera house, several public halls and many other features of interest which we shall give under their proper headings. Newspapers -the public press has much to do with mould ing the Opinions of the country, and that of Chautauqua county has always held an honorable reputation. The first paper published in the county was the Chautauqua Gazette, which was issued at Fredonia by James Perci val as early as 1817. Since then more than fifty journals have started upon the sea of life, of which about two dozen remain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
