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Plainfield City Directory for 1891 and 1892, 1891
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1PREFACE.
3I have found a trifle over fifteen hundred new names to be added to my last Directory, while those that have been dropped, caused by removals and death, have hardly reached a hundred.
5The cities of New York and Brooklyn, Philadelphia—and Newark, and others around us, have not given us their usual proportion compared with former years, but our increase has come mostly from rural districts. New York, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania have furnished the largest portion, and those that come have generally settled down to stay.
7The removals of families from one house into another numbers nine hundred and ninety-four, counting only one removal for each family, while some have moved twice and a few three times.
9Our foreign population has not increased, but rather diminished, excepting the Italians gathered to work on the water-works whose names I have not taken, as they will probably remove in body when their work has been completed.
11As my observations cover both the City and the Borough, therefore speak for both.
13Our schools are the pride of our cities, and I take pleasure in saying that, with few exceptions, no child above the age of ten or twelve years can be found who cannot read and write splendidly. This educational reformatory influence upon the rising generation is indeed wonderful.
15The Public Library, I am sure, is exerting a most healthful influence on society. Our churches and other public institutions appear to be in a prosperous and flourishing condition. Our city is growing finely, and that by a class of people who will strengthen the elements of good society, and do honor to our citizenship. In making this canvass from house to house, I have taken special pains to obtain correct information, so as to have the Directory as reliable as possible.
17If names do not appear in the business department, which apparently should be there, the reason for their non-appearance is to be found in their own choice.
19Having completed my work, I present to you, my patrons, the Directory for 1891-92, hoping that you may for the next two years be benefited by its use far above the expense you have incurred.
21H. H. BAKER,
23PLAINFIELD, June, 1891.
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