The New Student's Reference Work/Barmen

Bar'men, a busy city in Rhenish Prussia. Nowhere else in Germany are so many factories found in one place. It has the largest factories for ribbon-weaving on the continent, and also manufactures lace, thread, buttons, braid, cotton cloth, silk goods, steel wares and plated goods. It is made up of a number of villages, which form almost one continuous street six miles long. Population, 169,201.