PINE BLUFF 





PING PONG 



arc grown. In recent years the finer van- 

 of 'pineapples hav. \\ in 



Florida under sheds built of lath nailed t\vo or 

 three inches apart on a light frame, to pr< 

 the plant froi: ' and fn - 



The lartreM j>.trt of tin .-upply of canned 

 pineapple found in American markets comes 

 from the Hawaiian Islands; the value of the 

 annual shipment from Hawaii is about $6.000.- 

 000, and of pineapple juice, about $50,000. The 

 pineapples from li !1 for 1< -s in the 



Tnited States than the home-grown fruit, be- 

 M of the greater expense of raising the lat- 

 ible (juant it it-s are also imported 

 from Porto Rico, tin- \Ve-t Indies and the Phil- 

 ippe A delicate fabric, the Pina mus- 



lin of the Philippi: \ en from the fiber 



of the leaves. 



Consult Rolfs' "Pineapple Growing." in 



:nent of Agriculture Fanners' Bul- 

 letin HO. 



PINE BLUFF, ARK., the county seat of Jef- 



>n County, is located in the southeastern 



of the state, forty-two miles southeast of 



Little Rock, the state capital, and 140 miles 



hwest of Memphis, Tenn. It is on the Ar- 

 kansas River, which Ls crossed here by a com- 

 bined highway and railroad bridge costing 

 $700,000, and has a packet line to the mouth 

 of the river, which connects there with Missis- 



: River boats. It is served by the Saint 

 Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern and the Saint 



;s Southwestern railroads. The population 

 in 1910 was 15,102; it was 17,447 (Federal esti- 

 mate) in 1916. The area of the city exceeds 

 four square mil<-. 



Pine Bluff is in the extensive pine and oak 

 lumber belt of the South and in a fertile agri- 

 cultural section where crop failures are prac- 

 tically unknown. Cotton is the principal crop. 

 The chief industrial plants are cotton com- 



-es, cottonseed-oil and meal mills, boiler 

 and sheet-iron works, a foundry, large lumber 

 ami stave mills, a spoke factory, and hardwood 

 flooring plants whose annual output is worth 

 $2,000,000. Here are located railroad shop 

 the Saint Louis Southwestern. Natural gH 

 pipr-d to the city from the Caddo fields. Pine 

 Bluff has the State Colored Normal College, 

 Merrill Institute, with a gymnasium and free 

 library, a Federal building and a courthouse. 

 The annual fairs of the state fair association 

 are held here. 



PINERO , pi ner ' o, ARTH n< WING ( 1855- ) , 

 an English dramatist, born in London, the son 

 of a Jewish solicitor. He began to prepare 



himself for the profession of law but soon be- 

 came interested in the theater and appeared as 

 an actor in Edinburgh in 1874. Later he \\as a 

 member of the Lyceum Company of London, 

 gaining much valuable knowledge, under Henry 

 Irving, of Mage lift 1 and stagecraft . which doubt- 

 less had much to do with his later success as a 

 writer of plays. 



Tin Second Mrs. Tanqueny, a drama some- 

 what startling in plot, possibly is his greatest 

 -; Tnltnrney of the HY//.s- was long a 

 favorite 1 ; Tin \aturioux .1/r.s. Ebbxtnith was a 

 problem play. Other dramas presenting social 

 problems were The Profligate and The S</uire. 



PINES, IsLK OF. See Isi.K OF Pl.NKS. 



PINE-TREE SHILLING. From 1652 to 

 1682 there were coined in Massachusetts shil- 

 ling pieces which bore on one side the date of 

 issuance with the words New England and on 

 the other a pine tree, surrounded by the word 



THE PINE-TREE SHILLING 

 Obverse and reverse. 



Masathusets. These coins, which were of sil- 

 ver and almost as large as a modern half-dollar. 

 were at first called Boston shillings, or Bay 

 shillings, but it is the later name of "pint-tret 1 

 shilling," first used in IHSO, by which the coin 

 became known in history. 



The original coins issued in Massachusetts 

 had had no raised edge and had thus suffered 

 much from clipping, and it was to prevent this 

 evil that the pine-tree money was surrounded 

 with a double border with the words "Masa- 

 thusets" and "New Kngland" between. Three- 

 pence and sixpence pieces similar to the pine- 

 free .-hillings wen- also coined. In Grnndja- 

 llnr'x (')i(tir Hawthorne presents an interesting 

 tali of colonial days in which the famous old 

 pine-tree shilling figures largely. 



PING PONG is the outdoor play of lawn ten- 

 nis adapted to parlor purposes. Almost any 

 table can be used, though there are regulation 

 : playing surfaces which range from five 

 and a half to nine feet in length and from three 

 to five feet in width. The height of the little 

 net should be three-fourths of an inch for each 



