The New Student's Reference Work/Harrison, N. J.

Har'rison, N. J., formerly called East Newark, a town in northeastern New Jersey, on the Passaic, connected by a bridge across it with Newark. Its industries include large steel-works, shade-roller and trunk factories, cloth, thread, wire, cutlery and machineshops and establishments for the manufacture of electrical supplies, marine engines, machinery, tubes, leather, ink and refrigerators. The famous Worthington pumpworks, although not yet completed, employ between five and seven thousand men. Its civic outfit includes, besides good schools and churches, the usual adjuncts of an ambitious, modern city, and it has the service of three railroads. Population 14,498.