CARSON CITY 



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CARTER-COTTON 



could be reached the outbreak of the War of 

 the Nations in 1914 indefinitely postponed a 

 decision. When the Asquith Ministry was 

 reorganized, in May, 1915, Carson was ap- 

 pointed Attorney-General, but he held office 

 for a few months only, resigning in October 

 because he was not in sympathy with the 

 views of the Ministry on the campaign in the 

 Dardanelles. See HOME RULE. 



CARSON CITY, NEV., the state capital and 

 county seat of Ormsby County, is thirty-two 

 miles south of Reno and 250 miles northeast 

 of San Francisco, on the Virginia & Truckee 

 Railroad. Northeast twenty-one miles is Vir- 

 ginia City, home of the Comstock, a famous 

 silver mine. The population in 1910 was 2,448; 

 in 1914 it was 3,500. 



Carson City is situated in Eagle Valley, at 

 the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada Moun- 

 tains. Lake Tahoe, on the state boundary, is 

 fourteen miles west. The city is the base of 

 supplies for the surrounding mining and agri- 

 cultural country. The tall green shafts of 

 many Lombardy poplars are a picturesque fea- 

 ture of the town. The important public build- 

 ings are the state capitol, a Federal building 

 erected in 1888 at a cost of $150,000, the 

 United States mint, built in 1869 at a cost of 

 $300,000, and a state library, one of the finest 

 in the West. At Carson City is the state 

 orphans' home; two miles southeast is the 

 state prison, and three miles south is a United 

 States government Indian school. The city is 

 abundantly supplied with water from natural 

 springs. 



Carson City was named for "Kit" Carson, 

 the famous scout and guide. It was settled as 

 a trading post in 1851, and in the early days 

 miners and lumber-jacks, adventurers and for- 

 tune seekers comprised the life of the camp. 

 The place was laid out as a town in 1858, and 

 became the capital of the state in 1861. It 

 was chartered as a city in 1875. E.D.V. 



CARTAGENA, kahrtaje'na, a Spanish sea- 

 port in the province of Murcia, with one of the 

 largest and safest harbors on the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea. It is a naval and military station, 

 the arsenal containing barracks, docks, hos- 

 pitals and machine shops. Lead smelting is 

 largely carried on, and there are in the neigh- 

 borhood rich mines of excellent iron, copper 

 and zinc. Esparto grass is grown in the vicin- 

 ity and is used for making shoes, ropes, mats 

 and a kind of coarse cloth. Lead, iron ore, 

 oranges and other fruits are exported. 



Cartagena was founded by the Carthaginians 



under Hasdrubal about 243 B. c., and was called 

 New Carthage. It was taken by Scipio Afri- 

 canus (210 B. c.) and was long an important 

 Roman town. It was destroyed by the Goths 

 and revived in the time of Philip II. Popula- 

 tion in 1910, 96,983. 



CARTE BLANCHE, kahrt blahNsh, a French 

 term meaning white paper, is a blank paper 

 signed by one in authority and entrusted to 

 another to fill in as he pleases. Thus in 1649, 

 Charles II, king of England, tried to save his 

 father's life by sending a carte blanche from 

 The Hague to the Parliament to be filled up 

 with any terms which they would accept as 

 the price of his safety. The term is now used 

 to mean, in substance, "Do as you please." 



CARTER, MRS. LESLIE (1862- ), one of 

 the leading actresses on the American stage, 

 whose ability to portray powerful emotion has 

 given her the name of "the American Bern- 

 hardt." She made her first appearance as an 

 actress in 1890 in David Belasco's Ugly Duck- 

 ling, at the Broadway Theater, New York. 

 Though she showed promise, her performance 

 in the play was not remarkable, and after a 

 season in Miss Helyett, a musical comedy, she 

 retired from the stage for a period of study. 

 For eighteen months she was trained and 

 coached by Belasco, appearing at the end of 

 that time, October, 1895, as Maryland Calvert 

 in The Heart of Maryland. Her success in 

 this play was immediate and extraordinary, 

 and she repeated her triumph three years later 

 in London. 



Mrs. Carter was equally successful in Du 

 Barry, by Belasco and John Luther Long, a 

 play that she used for three years, and in 

 Zaza, Belasco's English version of a French 

 drama. In 1906 she severed her connection 

 with Belasco and became her own manager. 

 Mrs. Carter's interpretation of any role that 

 calls for emotional acting of a strong and varied 

 character is generally regarded by critics as 

 powerful and impressive. 



CARTER-COTTON, FRANCIS L. (1847- ), 

 a Canadian journalist and legislator, one of 

 the foremost Conservatives in British Colum- 

 bia and a member of the provincial legisla- 

 ture almost continuously since 1890. He was 

 born in Yorkshire, but as a young man settled 

 in Vancouver, which remained his home. In 

 1886 he founded the Victoria News-Advertiser, 

 which became under his editorial direction one 

 of the most influential newspapers in the 

 province. Elected to the legislature in 1890, 

 he served continuously until 1900; he was 



