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BERLIN 



country than I did for the murder of my 

 father." Berkeley was recalled to England by 

 the king in 1677, and died soon after reaching 

 home. 



BERKELEY, CALIF., a residential suburb of 

 San Francisco, situated in Alameda County, 

 near the eastern coast of San Francisco Bay. 

 Adjoining it on the south is Oakland, the 

 county seat. The Southern Pacific and Santa 

 Fe roads provide excellent railway accommoda- 

 tions, and electric and ferry lines connect with 

 San Francisco, seven miles across the bay; five 

 electric lines join Berkeley and Oakland. The 

 population, of which three-fourths are native 

 Americans, shows a rapidly growing city; in 

 1910 it numbered 40,434, and in 1914 had 

 increased to 52,105. The area of the city is 

 eight and a quarter square miles. 



A bird's-eye view of Berkeley gives one the 

 impression of an immense park dotted with 

 attractive homes of modern architecture. It 

 has a -fine location on the heights, commanding 

 a beautiful view of San Francisco Bay and of 

 the Golden Gate. There is a water front of 

 three miles, offering inducements to manu- 

 facturers; a new wharf was constructed at a 

 cost of $100,000. The city has manufactures of 

 refined petroleum, soaps, health foods, eleva-. 

 tors, aeroplane motors and pumps. One of its 

 fruit establishments has an annual output of 

 $1,100,000; that of a cocoanut-oil plant is 

 $750,000, and that of an ink company, $500,000. 

 The fisheries are also important. Berkeley has 

 a United States post office which was completed 

 in 1915 at a cost of $180,000; a $300,000 high 

 school building, a $150,000 city hall, a Masonic 

 Hall, Newman Hall and an armory building. 



The city is noted as the seat of the Univer- 

 sity of California, with an enrollment of over 

 8,500 students (see CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF). 

 Three theological seminaries, the State Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College, the California 

 School of Arts and Crafts, the State Institution 

 for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Boone Univer- 

 sity Academy, Snell Seminary for Girls and 

 Saint Joseph's Academy are also located here. 

 The library was the joint gift of Mrs. Rosa 

 Shattuck and Andrew Carnegie. 



The site which Berkeley now occupies was 

 a farming district until it was chosen as the 

 seat of the university. It was settled in 1868, 

 was incorporated as a town in 1878 and was 

 named in honor of George Berkeley, bishop, 

 philosopher and author, on account of his 

 famous line, "Westward the course of empire 

 takes its way." In 1909 the city adopted the 

 commission form of government. W.D. 



BERKSHIRE, burk' shir, HILLS, one of the 

 most beautiful resort regions of the Eastern 

 United States. These hills are not a separate 

 range but are a continuation into Berkshire 

 County, Mass., of the Green Mountains of 

 Vermont. They attain in Greylock a height 

 of 3,535 feet, the greatest altitude in the state. 

 The wooded slopes are cut by mountain 

 streams, which find their way to the Hoosac, 

 the Housatonic and the Deerfield rivers. 

 Quaint inns are located in picturesque spots. 

 The towns of Pittsfield, Stockbridge, Lenox and 

 Great Barrington, besides various summer 

 resorts, are situated in this region. The Hills 

 provide one of the most delightful motoring 

 trips in the eastern part of America, and are 

 visited by thousands of tourists every year. 



ERLIN, the capital city of the for- 

 mer kingdom of Prussia and from 1871 to 

 1918 of the German Empire. Greater Ber- 

 lin, which includes numerous suburbs, stands 

 third in size among the world's great cities. Its 

 population according to the last census (1910) 



is 3,974,300. Only Greater London and Greater 

 New York are larger. The city proper, with a 

 population of 2,071,257, ranks fifth among the 

 world's cities. Greater Berlin has an area of 

 1,376 square miles, but Berlin proper covers 

 only twenty-four and one-half square miles. 



