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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WATERBURY , a See also:

city and one of the See also:county-seats of New Haven county, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., since 1900 coextensive with the township of Waterbury, on the See also:Naugatuck See also:river, in the See also:west central See also:part of the See also:state, about 32 M. S.W. of See also:Hartford. Pop. (1900) 51,139, of whom 15,368 were See also:foreign-See also:born (5866 being Irish, 2007 See also:Italian, 1777 See also:French See also:Canadian, 1265 See also:Russian, 1195 French, and 938 See also:English); (1910 See also:census) 73,141. See also:Area 29 sq. m. Waterbury is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and is connected by electric lines with New Haven, See also:Bridgeport, Thomaston, See also:Woodbury and See also:Watertown. It has four public parks (the See also:Green, See also:Chase, See also:Hamilton and See also:Forest), with a See also:total acreage of 8o acres, and a Soldiers' and Sailors' See also:Monument, designed by See also:George E. See also:Bissell. The most important public buildings are the Federal See also:building, the county See also:court See also:house, a state armoury, the See also:Silas Bronson Public Library (1870; with an endowment of $200,000 and with 81,5oo volumes in 1910), the See also:Odd See also:Fellows See also:Temple, a Y.M.C.A. building and the See also:Buckingham See also:Music See also:Hall (1907); and among the charitable institutions are the Southmayd See also:Home (1898) for aged See also:women, the Waterbury See also:hospital (1890) and the St See also:Mary's hospital (1908). In the city are the St See also:Margaret's Diocesan School for Girls (See also:Protestant Episcopal, 1875), the Waterbury See also:Industrial School and the See also:Academy of Notre See also:Dame (1868). There is See also:good See also:water See also:power here from the Naugatuck river and its tributaries Mad river and See also:Great See also:Brook. In 1905 Waterbury ranked third among the manufacturing cities of Connecticut (being surpassed only by Bridgeport and New Haven), with a factory product valued at $32,367,359 (6.7 % more than in 1 goo).

The most important manufactures are rolled See also:

brass and See also:copper (value in 1905, $12,599,736, or 24.3 % of the total for the See also:United States), brass-See also:ware (value in 1905, $7,387,228, or 42.2% of the total for the United States), clocks and watches—over a million watches are made here each See also:year—and stamped ware (value in 1905, $1,037,666). The manufacture of brass-ware originated here in 1802 with the making of brass buttons; See also:iron buttons covered with See also:silver were first made here about 1760, See also:block See also:tin and See also:pewter buttons about 'Soo, See also:bone and See also:ivory buttons about 1812, See also:sheet brass in 1830, and pins and plated metals for daguerreotypes in 1842. Old-fashioned tall wooden clocks were made in Waterbury in the latter part of the 18th See also:century, and cheap watches were first made here in 1879; these were See also:long distinctive of Waterbury, and were often called " Waterbury watches." The manufacture of See also:cloth See also:dates from 1814, and broadcloth was first made here in 1833. The city has a large wholesale See also:trade and is a See also:shipping point for See also:dairy products. The See also:municipality owns and operates the water-See also:works. The township of Waterbury was incorporated in 1686, having been since its See also:settlement in 1677 a part of Farmington township known as Mattatuck. The city of Waterbury was first chartered in 1853. The city and the township were consolidated in 1901. City elections are held biennially and the See also:mayor, city clerk, treasurer, See also:comptroller, city See also:sheriff and aldermen hold See also:office for two years. With the consent of the See also:Board of Aldermen the mayor appoints five See also:electors who with the mayor constitute a See also:department of public works; appoints three electors who with the mayor, comptroller, and See also:president of the Board of Aldermen constitute a department of See also:finance; appoints five electors who with the mayor constitute a department of public safety; and appoints five electors who constitute a department of public See also:health. In 1902 there was a destructive See also:fire in the business See also:district of the city, and during a strike of See also:street railway employees in 1903 state troops were called out to maintain See also:order. WATER-See also:DEER, a small member of the deer-tribe from See also:northern See also:China differing from all other Cervidae except the See also:musk-deer (with which it has no See also:affinity) by the See also:absence of antlers in both sexes.

To compensate for this deficiency, the bucks are armed with long sabre-like upper tusks (see DEER). The See also:

species typifies a genus, and is known as Hydrelaphus (or Hydropotes) inermis; but a second See also:form has been described from See also:Hankow under the name of H. kreyenbergi, although further See also:evidence as to its claim to distinction is required. Water-deer frequent the neighbourhood of See also:tire large See also:Chinese See also:rivers where they crouch amid the reeds and grass in such a manner as to be invisible, even when not completely concealed by the covert. When See also:running, they See also:arch their backs and scurry away in a See also:series of See also:short leaps. In captivity as many as three have been produced at a See also:birth. This is one of the few deer in which there are glands neither on the hock nor on the skin covering the See also:cannon-bone. These glands probably enable deer to ascertain the whereabouts of their fellows by the See also:scent they leave on the ground and herbage. The sub-aquatic habits of the See also:present species probably render such a See also:function impossible, hence the absence of the glands. The tail is represented by a See also:mere stump. (R.

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