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LEFT EASTON 458 EAST ST. LOUIS agricultural implements, gas engines, scales, iron goods, cement blocks, etc. Pop. (1910) 2,665; (1920) 8,675. EASTON, a town of Massachusetts, m Bristol co. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It includes several villages. There are im- portant manufactures of shovels, foun- dry products, hardware, wire goods, automobiles, etc. The city has a public library and a number of fine buildings, gifts of the Ames family. Pop. (1910) 5,139; (1920) 5,041. EASTON, a city and county-seat of Northampton co.. Pa.; on the Delaware and Lehigh rivers; the Delaware, Mor- ris, and Lehigh canals; the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Hudson River and the Lackawanna rail- roads; 67 miles N. of Philadelphia. It has extensive water power and shipping facilities, and contains the shops of the Lehigh Valley railroad, railway sup- ply, chemical, hosiery, machine pumps, stores, blast furnaces, woolen goods, and other manufactories. The city has electric and gas lighting plants, electric street railroads, connecting with Bethle- hem and Allentown, 3 National and sev- eral private banks, high school, public library, old ladies' and children's home, daily and weekly newspapers, and is the seat of Lafayette College (a. v.). Pop. (1910) 28,523; (1920) 33,813. EAST OBANGE, a city ^n Essex co., N. J., on the Lackawanna and Erie rail- roads, 12 miles W. of New York. It is a place of residence for people doing business in New York and Newark. The streets are v/ell paved and lighted by gas and electricity and afford more than 60 miles of macadam road. The city contains many handsome churches, and private residences, public library, and high and graded schools. It was char- tered in 1899. Pop. (1910) 34,371; (1920) 50,710. EAST PALESTINE, a village of Ohio, in Columbiana co. It is on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad. The industries include the manufacture of pottery, terra cotta, and tile. It has also machine shops, and a rubber factory. There are important coal m.ines in the vicinity. Pop. (1910) 3,537; (1920) 5,750. EAST PITTSBURGH, a borough in Pennsylvania, in Allegheny co. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Bessemer and Lake Erie, and the Union railroads. The city contains factories of the Westing- house electric and machine companies, and there are also manufactures of me- ters, machines, steel rails, and furnaces. Pop. (1910) 5,615; (1920) 6,527. EAST POINT, a city of Georgia, in. Fulton CO. It is on the Central of Geor- gia and the Atlantic and West Point rail- roads. Its industries include oil mills, fertilizer factories, saw and planing mills, iron works, cotton mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 3,682; (1920) 5,241. EASTPORT, a city and port of entry in Washington co.. Me., on Moose Island, in Passamaquoddy Bay, into which empties the St. Croix river, the national boundary between the United States and British America; and on the Washington County railroad; 190 miles E. N. E. of Portland. It is the N. E. frontier city of the United States, and has a fine har- bor, with daily steamship service with Boston, Calais, and Portland. The city has extensive fishing and shipbuilding in- terests, a sardine packing establishment with 20 factories, public high school and library, banks and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 4,961; (1920) 4,494. EAST PROVIDENCE, a town of Rhode Island, in Providence co. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad, and on the Seekonk river, which separates it from Providence. Its industries include chemical, electrical, and wire works. Pop. (1910) 15,808; (1920) 21,793. EA3T RIVER, the strait between Long Island Sound and New York har- bor, separating the boroughs of Manhat- tan and Brooklyn. It is about 12 miles long, varies from one-half a mile to 3V^ miles in width, and is navigable by the largest ships. EAST RUTHERFORD, a borough of New Jersey, in Bergen co. It is on the Erie railroad. It is chiefly a residential city for New York business men, and has cotton and linen bleaching works. It contains a mirror and a steam boiler factory. Pop. (1910) 4,275; (1920) 5,463. EAST ST. LOUIS, a city in St. Clair CO. 111., on the Mississippi river, opposite St. Louis, Mo., and on the Baltimore and Ohio, Illinois Central, Burlington and Quincy, and seventeen other railroads. It is connected by a steel bridge vdth St. Louis, Mo., and has excellent passenger and freight steamer service with all leading river ports. The city contains the St. Louis National Stockyards, one of the largest in the United States; has rolling mills, glass works, machine shops, grain elevators, manufactories of pneumatic tools, baking powder, locomo- tives, fertilizer and paint, and is the largest horse and mule market in the world. It has 2 National and several private banks, electric street railroads.