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by the people to have an ideal city, and their 

 degree of success is possibly one reason why it 

 is locally called The Bright Spot. Riverfront 

 Park, Eagle Point Park and De Witt Clinton 

 Park contribute their share to the beauty of 

 the city. A post office erected at a cost of 

 $100,000 in 1902, an $80,000 Coliseum and a 

 Scottish Rites Cathedral are the most notable 

 buildings, but there are some substantial busi- 

 ness buildings and a number of fine churches. 

 Mount Saint Clare Academy, Our Lady of 

 Angels Seminary, Wartburg Lutheran College, 

 a business college and a Carnegie Library sup- 

 plement the public school system. 



The region within a radius of fifty miles has 

 Clinton for its main trading center; it is a 

 distributing point for timber and its saw mill 

 industry is important. The principal indus- 

 trial plant, however, is a sugar refinery which 

 has an annual output valued at $5',000,000. Fur- 

 niture, gasoline engines, boats, automobiles, 

 wagons, harness, locks and wire-cloth are manu- 

 factured here, and there are cracker and sash- 

 and-door factories, and iron bridge works. An 

 iron drawbridge across the river at Clinton 

 cost $600,000 to construct and has a length of 

 4,100 feet. The machine shops of the Chicago 

 & North Western Railway are located here. 



The city was founded in 1855 by the Iowa 

 Land Company, was incorporated in 1857 and 

 named in honor of De Witt Clinton, the Amer- 

 ican statesman. In 1867 the city was again 

 incorporated, this time under a law of the state 

 for the incorporation of cities. In 1890 Lyons, 

 with a population of 5,800, was included within 

 the city limits. O.T.R. 



CLINTON, MASS., one of the earliest and 

 best-known manufacturing towns in the United 

 States. It is in Worcester County, in the north- 

 eastern part of the state. Boston is thirty- 

 five miles east, Worcester is twelve miles south- 

 west, and Lowell is twenty-five miles north- 

 east. Clinton is on the Nashua River and 

 on the Boston & Maine and the New York, 

 New Haven & Hartford railroads. The area 

 of the city is about five square miles. The 

 population in 1910 was 13,075; in 1914 it was 

 13,192. Americans predominate, but there are 

 a large number of Irish and Germans. Clinton 

 is picturesquely situated in hilly country. Near- 

 by in 1896-1905 was built the immense Wa- 

 chusett dam and reservoir, the main source of 

 the metropolitan water-works system which 

 supplies water to Boston and eighteen cities 

 and towns within a radius of ten miles of the 

 State House. 



Three manufactories of international reputa- 

 tion, making ginghams, wire-cloth and carpets, 

 are located at Clinton. They were all founded 

 by Erastus Brigham Bigelow, one of the in- 

 corporators of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, and an inventor whose various 

 looms revolutionized the weaving industry. 

 The Lancaster mills, making ginghams, em- 

 ploy over 2,000 workers. Machinery, thread, 

 worsteds and yarns are also manufactured at 

 Clinton. The city has one of the finest munici- 

 pal buildings in the state; it also has the Clin- 

 ton Historical building, a public library, a hos- 

 pital, a home for aged people, and an at- 

 tractive union railway station. 



The earliest settlement on the site of Clin- 

 ton was made in 1645. It was included in 

 Lancaster until 1850, when it was incorporated 

 as an independent town. E.G.O. 



CLISTHENES, klis'theneez, an Athenian 

 statesman who introduced ostracism, or banish- 

 ment by public vote, and who was one of the 

 first to suffer this punishment. .He was a 

 member of the celebrated family of Alcmaeon- 

 idae and was noted for his democratic ten- 

 dencies. Some of his plans for reform met 

 with popular approval, but he was eventually 

 forced to retire from Athens in disgrace. The 

 date of his birth and death are unknown, but 

 many of his improvements in the Athenian 

 constitution are dated about 510 B. c. See OS- 

 TRACISM. 



CLIVE, klyve, ROBERT, BARON CLIVE OF 

 PLASSEY (1725-1774), the military and adminis- 

 trative genius to whom Britain owes its empire 

 in India. In his day the government of English 

 colonies east of the Cape of Good Hope was 

 vested in the East India Company, to whom 

 the eighteen-year-old Clive was sent as a 

 "writer," a clerk of the lowest degree, because 

 of his fondness for adventure and apparent 

 inability to apply himself to school work. 



Clive began his military career in 1747 as an 

 ensign, after escaping from a French prison 

 at Pondicherry. In 1751, in command of only 

 320 natives and British and aided by inex- 

 perienced officers, he successfully defended 

 Arcot against thousands of fanatical Moham- 

 medans, and followed this exploit by several 

 victories in the field. In 1757, at the Battle 

 of Plassey, he established British supremacy 

 in India by routing over 50,000 natives with 

 his 3,200 men. 



At his home-coming in the year 1760 Clive 

 was given his title, and he entered Parliament. 

 Five years later he was returned to the East 



