REDLANDS 



1953 



RED RIVER 



channel bass, a game fish abundant in the At- 

 lantic coast waters of the Southern United 

 States. The skin of this handsome fish is gray, 

 with a coppery iridescence; sometimes it grows 

 to be five feet in length and weighs seventy- 

 five pounds, but usually it is much smaller. It 

 is esteemed as a food fish, and is one of the 

 most valuable products of the Texas fisheries. 



The term is also applied to a red fi.-h of 

 Southern California, a richly colored fish with 

 a thick, compressed body. It is of a crimson 

 color, shading to blackish-purple on the fins ; it 

 is about three feet long and weighs from thir- 

 teen to fifteen pounds. Because of the fatty 

 lump on its blunt forehead, this fish is also 

 called the flathead. It is caught in the kelp 

 beds near the shore, and its flesh is prized as a 

 food, especially by the Chinese, who dry and 

 salt it. 



Rcdfish is also the Alaskan name for the red 

 or blue-black salmon. See SALMON. 



RED 'LANDS, CAL., a city of much natural 

 beauty, in the southern part of the state, noted 

 as one of the largest orange-shipping centers 

 in the world. It is in San Bernardino County, 

 sixty-five miles east of Los Angeles and ninety 

 miles north of San Diego, on the Southern 

 Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and 

 the Pacific Interurban (electric) railways. The 

 place was settled in 1881, was incorporated in 

 1688 and was so named because of the red soil 

 of the locality. In 1910 the population was 

 10,449; in 1916 it was 14,000 (Federal estimate). 

 The city has an area of sixteen square miles. 



From the heights back of Redlands, which is 

 1300 feet above sea level, a magnificent view is 

 had of its gardens, with their profusion of riot- 

 ous coloring, and of the vast fields of grain, 

 and orange and lemon groves, extending to the 

 mountain slopes, which are covered with for- 

 ests and capped with snow. Smiley Heights 

 is the most famous of the city's twelve parks. 

 Many of the homes, schools, churches, hotels 

 and clubs of Redlands are of a unique style of 

 architecture. The largest of these are the build- 

 ings of the University of Redlands, established 

 in 1909; it has a campus of sixty-three acres 

 adjoining Sylvan Park. The A. K. Sn 

 Public Library, containing 27,000 volumes, pre- 

 sents the appearance of a palatial home in a 

 park setting. 



An immense 1 :." 540 feet long and 



360 feet wide, on the side of Mount Harrison, 

 and visible for sixteen miles, was cut by the 

 students of the university, and it is the task of 

 the freshmen each year to keep the letter free 



from young shoots. Redlands is a residential 

 city, rather than a commercial center, and the 

 people are employed for the most part out-of- 

 doors in growing, picking and packing fruit. 

 About 5,000 carloads of oranges, lemons and 

 grapefruit are shipped from here annually. 

 Over 1,000 tons of dried apricots and 6,500 gal- 

 lons of olive oil are produced in a year, and the 

 yield of almonds and dates is also considerable. 

 RED'MOND, JOHN EDWARD (1851-1918), an 

 Irish political leader, born in Dublin and edu- 

 cated at Trinity College in that city. He studied 

 law and was called to the bar in 1886, five years 

 after his election to Parliament for New Ross. 

 After 1891 he rep- 

 resented Water- 

 ford City. Red- 

 mond's influence 

 grew steadily in 

 the House of 

 Commons, and at 

 the time of the 

 rupture of the 

 Irish party which 

 followed the Par- 

 nell scandal, he 

 pleaded elo- 

 quently for the 

 discredited leader. 

 On Parnell's death he became head of the Par- 

 nellites, and as such kept up a bitter antago- 

 nism to the other section of the Irish party. 

 In 1900, ho\\over, when the two sections joined 

 to form a new Nationalist party, he became 

 the accepted leader, and has taken a prominent 

 part in all the subsequent movements relating 

 to the question of Irish Home Rule. In 1915 

 he was offered a place in the Coalition Cain- 

 net, formed for more effective prosecution of 

 the war. but lie declined the honor. See HOME 



Rl'LE. 



RED RIVER, the southernmost of the more 

 important tributaries of the Mississippi, has its 

 source in several head streams of Northern 

 if.' The main stream follows an easterly 

 course between Texas and Oklahoma, enters 

 ns:u*, ami. cutting off the southwestern cor- 

 ner of that shite, flows southeast erly through 

 Louisiana until it reaches the Mississippi. 

 t\\" UMTS unite 341 miles above the mouth of 

 the Mississippi. The Red River has a length 

 of about 1200 miles and its drainage basin cov- 

 ers 89,970 square miles. For seven months of 

 draught boats ascend the river to 

 Shrevcport, 350 miles above its junction with 

 the Mississippi, and in periods of high water 



JOHN E. REDMOND 



