EAGLE 



EALINQ 



but those made in 1815 bore the 

 legend L'Empereur des Francais, 

 and the names of the four principal 

 engagements in which the regiment 

 had taken part. The practice of 

 carrying eagles in French regiments 

 was restored by Napoleon III in 

 1852, but was once more abolished 

 by the Republic in 1870. 



Eagle. Gold coin of the U.S.A. 

 value ten dollars, about 2 Is. 6d. 

 Double-, half-, and quarter-eagles 

 are coined. It bears a representa- 

 tion of the U.S.A. crest, an eagle, 

 whence the name. 



Eagle. Floating aerodrome of 

 the British navy. She was built in 

 England for Chile under the name 

 of Almirante Cochrane, but the 

 Admiralty acquired her and turned 

 her into a floating aerodrome. 

 Launched in 191 8, she is 625 ft. long, 

 displaces 30,000 tons, and her hull 

 above water resembles a huge 

 hangar with a flat roof upon which 

 aircraft can take off and alight. 



The first British naval ship of 

 this name dates back to 1650. In 

 1776, when the thirdEagle was lying 

 off Governor's Island, near New 

 York, a member of the American 

 navy undertook to blow her up by 

 means of a submarine-boat. He 

 approached the Eagle, but his tor- 

 pedo exploded before it could 

 reach the vessel. 



Eagle. American warship, the 

 first of a class of 60 submarine 

 chasers built by Henry Ford at 

 Detroit. They are 200 ft. long, 

 25 ft. in beam, have a draught of 

 1 8 f t. , and displace 500 tons. They 

 have oil engines of 2,260 h.p., 

 giving a speed of 18 knots. They 

 carry two 4-inch guns and a depth 

 charge projector. These craft were 

 not completed early enough for use 

 in the Great War, but the American 

 authorities had previously built a 

 large number of wooden submarine 

 chasers of 17 knots speed and 110 ft. 

 long, armed with 3-inch guns and 

 depth charge throwers, over 30 of 

 which operated in the Mediter- 

 ranean. Their base was at Corfu. 



Eaglehawk. Mun. bor. of Vic- 

 toria, Australia, in Bendigo co. It 

 is 5 m. by rly. N.W. of Bendigo, 

 and lies in a rich gold-mining dis- 

 trict. Pop. 6,998. 



Eagle Hut, THE. American 

 Y.M.C.A. centre, in Aldwych, Lon- 

 don. Opened on Sept. 3, 1917, it 

 continued as a " home from home " 

 for American troops in the metro- 

 polis until Aug. 25, 1919, when it 

 was taken over by the Metropolitan 

 Police Force as a training centre 

 for police recruits. It was later de- 

 molished when this site was built 

 on. During the two years it was 

 open, two million meals were 

 served in the hut, the daily average 

 being 3,000. Entertainments of 



varied character were provided, 

 and sight-seeing trips organized. 

 The Eagle Hut had a staff of 

 about 800 voluntary workers, 

 chiefly women. The hut was open 

 dav and night, and was equipped 

 with 410 beds. See Y.M.C.A. 



Eagle Owl (Bubo). One of the 

 largest members of the owl family. 

 Occasionally found in Great Bri- 

 '"im^a^Mm tain, it is over 



wv I 2 ft. long, with 

 hands omely 

 mottled brown 

 plumage and 

 very conspicu- 

 ous ear-tufts. 

 It is nocturnal 

 in habit, is 

 m bold and sav- 

 i age, and preys 

 upon game 

 birds, rabbits, 

 and young 

 fawns. See 

 Owl. 



Eagle Pass. 

 Eagle Owl, a nocturnal Town of 

 bird ol prey Texas, U.S.A. 



Situated in Maverick co., it is 

 about 165 m. S. W. of San Antonio, 

 and is an important stock-breeding 

 centre with considerable trade in 

 coal. Pop. 3,200. 



Eagles' Nest. Hill in co. Kerry, 

 Ireland. Overlooking the Upper 

 Lake, about 6 m. S. W. of Killarney, 

 it rises conically to a height of 

 1,100 ft. Its bare, precipitous 

 summit formerly sheltered eagles. 

 From the lake beneath a remark- 

 able echo can be heard. 



Eakins, THOMAS (1844-1916). 

 American painter. Born July 25, 

 1844, Eakins studied at Penn- 

 sylvania and Paris, painted many 

 studies of American life and sports, 

 and was professor of painting at 

 Pennsylvania Academy. He died 

 on June 25, 1916. 



Ealing. Parl. and rnun. bor., 

 Middlesex, England. It is 5f m. 

 W. of Paddington by the G.W. and 

 Met. Dist. Rlys., there being stations 

 at Ealing Common, Ealing Broad- 

 way, and West Ealing. Until the 

 middle of the 19th century it was a 

 village on the road from London to 



Ealing. 



The municipal buildings, 

 opened in 1887 



Slough and Windsor, and was fre- 

 quented by highwaymen. 



With the advent of the rly., 

 about 1840, Ealing's modern pro- 

 gress began, and 

 in 70 years it 

 was covered 

 with shops and 

 houses, and ex- 

 tended into W. 

 and S. Ealing. 

 Corporate exist- 

 ence began in 

 1863, and since 



1901 it has been a borough. Its 

 chief buildings are the Victoria 

 Hall and the adjacent town hall. 

 Its open spaces include Ealing Com- 

 mon and Wil pole Park. .Perivale, 

 a pretty rural part of Ealing, has 

 a tiny church, probably 800 

 years old. The corporation owns 

 the electric lighting works. The 

 chief churches are S. Mary's, the 

 parish church, and Christ Church. 

 In 1920 a movement was started 

 to unite Ealing with Chiswick, 

 Brentford, Hanwell, and Greenford 

 into one county borough. One 

 member is returned to Parliament. 

 Pop. (1921) 67,753. 



Eagle. Type of swift oil-driven submarine chaser designed for the U.S. navy 



