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 TKOY of this king, the Sczean gates before it, the walls of Neptune and Apollo, the streets of the city, houses which must have been two or three stories high, sacrificial altars to Miner- va, and 20 fountains, besides inscriptions of various dates and in several languages and dia- lects. In view of the fact that but few schol- ars are yet inclined to consider the existence and destruction of the Homeric Ilium a histori- cal fact, and that almost all authorities are agreed that only the Balidagh near Bunarbashi was chosen by the poet as the central scene of his epic, the results of Schliemann's ex- cavations have so far been looked upon, if not with suspicion, yet with little confidence in the identification which he claims to have made. At present (1876) the opinion general- ly entertained is that he has accidentally hit upon the site of some unknown Hunnic settle- ment, Lydian town, or Phoenician trading post. See Lechevalier, Voyage de la Troade (3 vols., 3d ed., Paris, 1802) ; Forchhammer, Be- schreibung der E~bene von Troja (Frankfort, 1860) ; Hahn, Die Ausgrabungen auf dem ho- merischen Pergamos (Leipsic, 1865) ; Tozer, " Lectures on the Geography of Greece " (Lon- don, 1873) ; and Schliemann, " Troy and its Kemains," edited by Dr. Philip Smith (1875). TROT, a city of New York, capital of Rens- selaer co., on the E. bank of the Hudson river, at the head of steamboat navigation, and also at the head of tide water, 151 m. by the course of the river N. of New York city, and 6 m. K of Albany ; pop. in 1840, 19,334 ; in 1850, 28,785; in 1860, 39,235; in 1870, 46,465, of whom 16,219 were foreigners, including 10,- 877 Irish, 1,699 British Americans, 1,576 Eng- lish, and 1,174 Germans; in 1875, 48,821. The surface of the city comprises the alluvial flats three fourths of a mile wide on the river, and the hills on the east known as Mt. Ida. Wynant's Kill on the south, and Poesten Kill m. N., break through these hills in narrow ravines and in a series of cascades, the former furnishing 12 mill sites with 2,000 horse pow- er, the latter 10 sites with 1,000 horse power; while the state dam across the Hudson, at the N. part of the city, furnishes 4,000 horse pow- er. There is also an immense amount of steam power in use. The pure water with which the city is supplied by the Troy water works is drawn from Piscawin creek into reservoirs high enough to carry the water to the top of most of the houses. A new city hall, costing $150,000, is in course of construction. The savings bank building is an elegant edifice, costing $450,000, and there are several fine business structures. Troy is situated at the principal outlet of the Erie and Ohamplain canals, and is connected with Lake Champlain and the north by the Rensselaer and Saratoga, and Troy and Boston railroads, the latter con- necting it with the east also ; with the west by the New York Central railroad ; with the south by the Hudson River railroad ; and with the east by the Boston and Albany railroad. There is a daily line of steamers to New York in summer. In the centre of the city is the union railroad depot, one of the largest struc- tures of the kind in the United States, 404 by 240 ft., with walls at the sides 27 ft. high sup- porting the roof in a single arch. All the rail- road lines centre at this depot, and 60 trains arrive at or depart from it daily. The river is spanned by a bridge 1,600 ft. long, which is provided with two carriageways, a railway, and a walk for foot passengers, and also by a new iron bridge for pedestrians and carriages, costing $250,000. The iron manufactures of Troy are of great importance, and by means of them the city has become a controlling point in the iron interest on this side of the Alle- ghany mountains. One of the largest manu- facturing establishments of the country is the Albany and Rensselaer iron and steel company, which owns the Albany iron works, the Rens- selaer iron works, Bessemer steel works, the Fort Edward blast furnace, and the Hudson blast furnace. The company employs- 1,500 hands, and produces pig iron, merchant and angle iron, merchant steel, nails and spikes, axles, bolts and nuts, boiler rivets, iron and steel rails, horse shoes, &c. The Burden iron works, established in 1813, have an annual ca- pacity of 40,000 tons, and employ 1,400 hands, producing pig iron, merchant iron, horse and mule shoes, and boiler rivets. The other iron manufactures of the city are carried on by more than 30 firms, and consist of stoves, hol- low ware, hot air furnaces, machinery, steam engines, scythes, shovels, malleable iron, safes, butts, hinges, steel springs, agricultural imple- ments, &c. The Troy stamping works manu- facture stamped and pressed wares, coal hods, shovels, dampers, &c. The Troy car works are at Green Island, a suburb on the opposite side of the river. The annual product of the shirt and collar (linen and paper) business, which is more extensive here than anywhere else in the United States, and employs more than 30 fac- tories, is valued at $3,000,000, requiring the labor of 6,000 hands, chiefly women. The lar- gest manufactory of mathematical instruments in the United States is in this city, as is also one of the largest of the few American globe man- ufactories. There are brass founderies, brew- eries, two distilleries, two bell founderies, a cotton mill, carriage factories, a manufactory of stoneware, and several of boots and shoes, fire brick, and hosiery. The total annual value of the manufactures of Troy is about $10,000,- 000. The lumber trade is important. There are ten national banks, with an aggregate cap- ital of $2,800,000, of which four have savings departments ; a state bank, with $300,000 cap- ital; and a savings bank, established in 1823. The city is divided into 13 wards, and is governed by a mayor and a board of 26 alder- men. It has horse railroads and a good fire department. The assessed value of prop- erty in 1874 was $15,441.845. The taxation for city purposes was $575,801 25 ; for state