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Pennsylvania railroad, and is connected with neighbouring cities by electric lines. It has wide streets and attractive parks, and is, to some extent, a residential suburb of New York and other neighbouring cities. It has a public library (1864), with upwards of 17,000 volumes, and about r 2 m. distant is the New Jersey Reformatory (1903), to which prisoners between the ages of sixteen and See also:

THIRTY

thirty may be sentenced instead of to the State See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

Prison. There are various manufactures. Rahway was first settled in 1720, and was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of the See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief Rahwack, whose tribe owned the site and the surrounding territory; it was chartered as a city in 1858. For many years Rahway was popularly known as Spanktown, and in See also:

JANUARY

January 1777, during the See also:

War of See also:

Independence, a skirmish, known as the See also:

BATTLE

battle of Spanktown, was fought here.

End of Article: RAHWAY

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