MILLVILLE  , a

city of Cumberland county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on the Maurice river, 40 M . S. by E. of Philadelphia . Pop . (1890) 10,002; (1900) 10,583 (598 foreign-born); (1905, state census) 11,884; (1910) 12,451 . It is served by the West Jersey & Seashore railway, by electric lines to Philadelphia, Bridgeton, Vineland and Fairton, and by schooners and small freight boats . Peaches and small fruit are cultivated extensively in the surrounding country . In the north part of the city is a large public park, in which a beautiful lake 3 M. long and about r m. wide has been formed by damming the river . Glass and moulding sand is found in the vicinity, and the city is engaged principally in the manufacture of glass (especially druggists' ware) . The value of the city's factory products increased from $2,513,433 in 1900 to $3,719,417 in 1905, or 48%; and of the total value in 1905, $2,332,614, or 62'7%, was the value of the glass products . Millville was incorporated as a town in 18or, was chartered as a city in 1866, and its charter was revised in 1877 .