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manufacture of glass. Some varieties are of 

 beautiful shades of gray, others are red or 

 brown. Formerly brown sandstone was exten- 

 sively used in the construction of palatial resi- 

 dences in New York and other cities. Some 

 varieties are soft when taken from the quarry, 

 but harden on exposure to the air. Sandstone 

 is a good building stone, since it is easily 

 worked and durable, but it is not desirable for 

 structures in which great strength is required. 

 The fine-grained varieties are used in making 

 grindstones and whetstones. Among the best- 

 known kinds of sandstone are the Berca of 

 Ohio, the Triassic brownstoncs of the Connecti- 

 cut Valley, the Potsdam quartzite of New York 

 and the Old Red Sandstone of England. 



Related Subject*. The reader Is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes: 

 Building Stone Glass 



Geology Stratified Rocks 



SANDUSKY, sandus'ki, OHIO, the county 

 seat of Erie County, situated on the south 

 shore of Sandusky Bay, about five miles from 

 Lake Erie. Toledo is forty-eight miles north- 

 west and Cleveland is sixty miles east. The 

 city is on the Baltimore & Ohio, the Cleveland, 

 Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint Louis, the Lake 

 Erie & Western, the New York Central and the 

 Pennsylvania railroads, and has extensive elec- 

 tric intenirban service. Steamers are operated 

 to Canadian and United States lake ports dur- 

 ing the greater part of the year. In 1910 the 

 population was 19,989; it was 20,193 (Federal 

 estimate) in 1916. 



Sandusky is well situated on sloping land 

 overlooking an excellent harbor. Near the city 

 are several islands; on Put-in-Bay is the Perry 

 Memorial; Cedar Point is a summer resort with 

 homes and clubs, and Lakeside is a famed 

 Chautauqua resort. The courthouse and new 

 $250,000 high school building are in a parked 

 squan in t of the city. Other promi- 



nent buildings are the public library, Ohio Sol- 

 diers' and Sailors' Home, the Masonic and Odd 

 Fellows' temples, two hospitals and several 

 churches. Other noteworthy features are tin- 

 bureau station, the customhouse and 

 United States fish hatch* IT, the latter at Put- 

 in-Bay ; there is a state hatchery at Lakeside. 



Along the harbor are extensive loading docks. 

 Coal and ore, sugar, lumber, fish, ice, grain, 

 fruits, sand and lime arc the principal articles 

 of trade. The industrial establishments inr! 

 shipyards and manufactories of iron and steel 

 products, glass and baskets, crates and 



barrels, underwear, dynamos, engines, straw- 



board, crayons and furniture. The total an- 

 nual value of manufactured products is about 

 $6,000,000. 



Sandusky was settled in 1817, was incorpo- 

 rated as a city in 1845 and in 1915 adopted the 

 commission form of government. 



SANDWICH, OXT., the county seat of Essex 

 County, on the Detroit River, opposite De- 

 troit. It is two miles from Windsor, its bank- 

 ing point, and is connected with that and other 

 cities by the Essex Terminal Railway. The 

 town has a Dominion fish hatchery of impor- 

 tance, and it manufactures, among other arti- 

 cles, salt, robes and chemicals. A Roman 

 Catholic school, Assumption College, is here. 



SANDWICH ISLANDS. When Captain 

 James Cook discovered in 1778 a group of 

 green-clad islands in the middle of the wide Pa- 

 cific, he called them the Sandwich Islands, in 

 honor of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sand- 

 wich (1718-1792), who was then First Lord of 

 the British Admiralty. This was the earl whose 

 name survives as the inventor of that popular 

 article of food, the "sandwich." As the islands 

 became better known, however, and of more 

 importance commercially, this English name 

 was gradually replaced by Hawaii, applied by 

 the natives to the group. See HAWAII. 



SANDY HOOK, a low, sandy peninsula, about 

 eighteen miles south of Manhattan Island, 

 partly enclosing New York Bay and between 

 the Atlantic Ocean and Sandy Hook Bay. It 

 runs about six miles northward from the coast 

 of New Jersey and is less than a mile in great- 

 est width. Its northern extremity is guarded 

 by a beacon light, and about one mile %outh 

 of this there is a lighthouse ninety feet hiph. 

 Fort Hancock is situated at the outermost point 

 of the peninsula, a portion of which is also used 

 by the United States government as a testing 

 ground for heavy ordnance and armor) 1 ' 



SANFORD, ME., an industrial town of York 

 County in the southwestern comer of the state, 

 thirty-six miles southwest of Portland and 

 ninety-two miles north and east of Boston. 

 An electric line connects with the Boston A, 

 Maine Railroad, one mile distant. The town 

 is on the Mousam River, which furnishes water 

 power for a number of mills whose principal 

 products are shoes, plush, linings, blankets, 

 yam, woolen goods, carriage robes and lumber 

 products. The shoe factory of Sears, Roebuck 

 Company is located here. Sanford was settled 

 about 1740 and was incorporated in 1768. The 

 population in 1910 was 9,049; in 1916 it was 

 10,916 (Federal estimate). C.E.V. 



