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endowment, student body and number of pro- 

 fessors and instructors than any other uni- 

 versity in the Maritime Provinces. The teach- 

 ing staff numbers about eighty, and there are 

 about 400 students. Degrees are awarded in 

 arts, science, music, law, pharmacy, medicine 

 and dental surgery. In music the practical 

 instruction given at the Halifax Conservatory 

 of Music and other approved schools is ac- 

 cepted as a part of the required work; the 

 university offers only historical and theoretical 

 work. In pharmacy the Nova Scotia College 

 of Pharmacy is similarly affiliated. Other 

 affiliated institutions are the Presbyterian 

 College, Halifax Ladies' College, Convent of 

 the Sacred Heart and Mount Saint Vincent 

 Academy, all at Halifax, and Prince of Wales 

 College, at Charlottetown, Prince Edward 

 Island. 



DALLAS, dal'as, TEX., the leading industrial 

 city of the state, ranking next to San Antonio 

 in population. According to an estimate in 

 1916 the population was 124,527, an increase of 

 32,423 since 1910. About eighteen per cent 

 of the entire population are negroes. The city 

 is situated on the Trinity River, in the north- 

 eastern part of the state, and in Dallas County, 

 of which it is the county seat. Forth Worth 

 is thirty-one miles west, and Austin, the cap- 

 ital, is 210 miles southwest. Dallas has the 

 Missouri, Kansas & Texas; the Texas & Pa- 

 cific; the Texas & New Orleans; the Gulf, 

 Colorado & Santa Fe; the Frisco; the Chicago, 

 Rock Island & Gulf; the Saint Louis South 

 Western; the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf, and 

 the Houston & Texas Central railroads. Be- 

 sides, there are five electric interurban lines in 

 operation to Denison, Waco, Corsicana, Fort 

 Worth and Cleburne, respectively. In 1841 

 the first settlement was made, and in 1866 it 

 was incorporated as a city and named for 

 George Mifflin Dallas, Vice-President of the 

 United States under James K. Polk. The area 

 of the city is nearly sixteen and one-half square 

 miles. 



Parks and Boulevards. The city provides 

 ample recreation grounds, 713 acres being di- 

 vided into twenty parks, of which City Park, 

 Fair Park and Forest Park, with its "zoo," are 

 especially attractive. Oak Lawn, Cliff, Turner 

 and Central parks are among the other beauty 

 spots of the city. There are also many well- 

 equipped playgrounds. Dallas has handsome 

 residences and fine streets, and improvements 

 are still in progress, a boulevard system about 

 sixty miles long being under development in 



1917. Oak Cliff, on the west side of Trinity 

 River, is one of the residential districts. In 

 1903 it was annexed to the city, with which it 

 is connected by one of the longest concrete 

 viaducts in the United States, completed in 

 1912 at a cost of $657,466. 



Commerce and Industry. The surrounding 

 region is a part of the black-waxy belt, famous 

 for its agricultural products, especially cotton. 

 Dallas is the largest inland cotton market in 

 the United States, 1,500,000 bales being handled 

 annually. It is also a leading center for the 

 manufacture of harness, saddlery and cotton- 

 gin machinery, and a distributing center for 

 agricultural implements. The city is also the 

 distributing center of the Southwest for auto- 

 mobiles, two assembly plants being located here. 

 Among other important industrial enterprises 

 are flour mills, cement plants, oil refineries, 

 iron and metal works, cottonseed-oil mills, 

 cotton compresses, packing houses and grain 

 elevators. 



Public Buildings. The city has a number of 

 noteworthy buildings, the most prominent be- 

 ing the Adolphus Hotel, erected at a cost of 

 $1,600,000, the county courthouse, the $500,000 

 municipal building, which contains thirty-five 

 acres of floor space, the Pretorian building, 

 the Wilson building and the Federal building; 

 the last-named was erected in 1883 at a cost 

 of $11,000, but a site has been purchased for 

 a new building which will cost about $250,000. 

 In 1914 Dallas was chosen as the location of 

 a Federal Reserve Bank. The state fair of 

 Texas has been held here annually since 1886. 

 Its handsome permanent buildings are con- 

 structed of reinforced concrete, and of these 

 the Coliseum, having a seating capacity of 

 5,000, is the largest. This fair is unique in its 

 organization, as it accepts no aid from the 

 state, and devotes its receipts to defraying the 

 expenses of the fair and to the improvement 

 of the fair grounds, which belong to the city. 



Education. Dallas is the seat of two uni- 

 versities, Dallas University and the Southern 

 Methodist University, the latter of which has 

 625 acres of grounds and an endowment of 

 $2,000,000. These, with Saint Mary's Academy, 

 Saint Edward's College, Patten's Seminary, 

 Saint Joseph's Academy, Terrell School for 

 Boys, five business colleges, about fifty private 

 schools, thirty-two public schools, two medical 

 colleges and a Carnegie Library, comprise the 

 educational institutions of the city. 



Churches and Institutions. Dallas is the see 

 of Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal 



