BRIDGET 



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BRIGADE 



Ah, soon, when winter has all our vales op- 

 pressed, 



When skies are cold and misty and hail is hurl- 

 ing, 



Wilt thou glide on the blue Pacific, or rest 



In a summer haven asleep, thy white sails furl- 

 ing. 



BRIDGET, brij'et, SAINT, the name of two 

 saints of the Roman Catholic Church. The 

 first is a patron saint of Ireland, commonly 

 known as Saint Bride. She was a woman of 

 unusual ability and beauty. Not wanting to 

 marry or be troubled with suitors, 'she prayed 

 to become ugly. Her prayer was answered, 

 and she went into seclusion in a cell built un- 

 der a large oak. Here the Monastery of Kil- 

 dare was founded "the church of the oak." 

 Many wonderful stories are woven about this 

 saint. Her feast is celebrated on the day of her 

 death, February 1. 



Another Saint Bridget, or more properly, 

 Brigitta or Birgitta, of Sweden, is the most 

 celebrated saint of the Northern kingdoms. 

 She married and bore eight children, one of 

 whom was afterwards honored as Saint Cath- 

 erine of Sweden. Saint Brigitta's charitable, 

 saintly life made her widely loved. Her feast 

 is celebrated on October 9. DJ.D. 



BRIDGE 'TON, N. J., the county seat of 

 Cumberland County, situated in the south- 

 western part of the state at the head of navi- 

 gation on Cohansey Creek. Philadelphia is 

 thirty-eight miles north; New York is 126 

 miles northeast. Railway transportation is pro- 

 vided by the New Jersey Central and the West 

 Jersey and Seashore railroads, and electric 

 lines extend east and southeast. Bridgeton is 

 an old place, settled long before the Revolu- 

 tionary War, but it was not incorporated until 

 1865. It is controlled by a modified form of 

 commission government. The Federal census 

 shows an increase in population from 14,209 

 in 1910 to 14,335 in 1914. 



Bridgeton is located in a fertile and well- 

 cultivated district which supplies produce for 

 the large fruit and vegetable canning industry 

 of the city. The manufactories produce 

 hosiery, shirts, dresses, gaspipe, castings, car- 

 riages, wagons and boilers. Bridgeton has fine 

 county and city government buildings, county 

 and city hospitals, an insane asylum and a 

 park. For higher education there are Ivy Hall 

 Seminary, West Jersey Academy, Seven Gables 

 Seminary and South Jersey Institute. There 

 is a good public library. The climate and 

 scenic beauty of the locality attract large 

 numbers of summer visitors. 



BRIDGE 'WATER, a town in Lunenburg 

 County, Nova Scotia, at the head of an estu- 

 ary formed by La Have River, eighty miles 

 southwest of Halifax. It is on the Halifax & 

 Southwestern Railway, whose repair shops and 

 main offices are located here. Lumbering is 

 the chief industry of the vicinity, and Bridge- 

 water exports each year over 50,000,000 board 

 feet of lumber. Naturally there are large saw, 

 planing and shingle mills and several wagon 

 and wood-working factories. Foundries, tan- 

 neries, shipbuilding yards and granite and 

 marble works are also important. The neigh- 

 borhood is a favorite resort for trout and 

 salmon fishing, and for hunters for duck, wood- 

 cock and grouse. Population in 1911, 2,775; 

 in 1916, 2,900. 



BRIDGMAN, brij'man, LAURA DEWEY (1829- 

 1889), a remarkable blind deaf-mute, born 

 at Hanover, N. H. At the age of two a severe 

 illness deprived her of sight, hearing and 

 speech, and to some extent, also, of smell and 

 taste. Learning of her case, Dr. Samuel G. 

 Howe, of the Perkins Institution for the Blind 

 at Boston, undertook her education when she 

 was eight years old. Never before had an at- 

 tempt been made to teach one who had been 

 so deprived of her senses. She made rapid 

 progress, however, and learned to read and 

 write, to reason and to think well. She also 

 learned to do household work and to sew, 

 both by hand and on the machine. After re- 

 ceiving her education, Miss Bridgman taught 

 in the Perkins Institution. Through the suc- 

 cess of this experiment many other cases were 

 brought to Dr. Howe. See BLINDNESS. 



BRIGADE, brigaid', a term applied to a 

 body of troops consisting usually of two regi- 

 ments, although the term is elastic and is 

 often applied to a unit of four or even more 

 regiments. In the United States a brigade 

 usually consists of three regiments. The Ger- 

 man army is divided as follows: three battal- 

 ions equal one regiment (usually 1,000 men); 

 two regiments make a brigade, two brigades 

 equal a division; two divisions make one army 

 corps. A brigade may consist of cavalry, artil- 

 lery or infantry. See ARMY. 



Brigadier-General, a field officer who com- 

 mands a brigade. In rank he is above the 

 highest regimental officer, the colonel, and be- 

 low the major-general. In the United States 

 army the salary of this officer is $6,000; in 

 Great Britain, $4,866; in France, $2,433; in 

 Germany, $2,441, and in Italy, $1,900. See 

 RANK IN ARMY AND NAVY. 



