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dioceses. There are more than 100 places of 

 worship, about thirty being for negroes. The 

 most notable churches are the cathedrals of 

 Saint Matthew and of the Sacred Heart. 

 Three orphanages offer shelter to the homeless 

 children of the city and two homes arc for 

 aged women. There are twelve hospitals, three 

 rescue homes and several other benevolent 

 institutions. 



Government. In 1907 Dallas adopted the 

 commission form of government, which is 

 vested in a mayor, and four commissioners 

 in charge of water works and sewerage, finance 

 and revenue, police and fire, and streets and 

 public property, respectively. R.H. 



DALLES, dalz, a name derived from the 

 French dalle, meaning trough, or drain, was 

 applied by French explorers in America to 

 rocky gorges through which rivers flow at great 

 speed. There are several in North America, 

 among which are the picturesque dalles in 

 Wisconsin, near Kilbourne; the Saint Louis 

 dalles, a series of cataracts in the Saint Louis 

 River, near Duluth, Minn.; the Saint Croix 

 dalles, in the same state ; and the famous dalles 

 of the Columbia River, which have given the 

 name The Dalles to the oldest town in Oregon. 



The dalles of the Columbia begin five miles 

 above the town and extend up-stream from 

 that point for nearly eight miles. Within this 

 distance there is a fall of eighty feet, including 

 a sheer fall of twenty feet at the upper, or 

 eastern, end. This fall is known as the Celilo, 

 but the Indians and pioneers called it, more 

 picturesquely, Turnwatcr. At the western end 

 is the Big Eddy, terminating what is known as 

 the Long Narrows or Ics grandes dalles. This 

 latter is a channel cut by natural forces 

 through perpendicular walls of basaltic rock. 

 It is 9,000 feet long and from 135 to 300 feet 

 wide, and at low water the distance from the 

 top of the wall to the water is fifty feet. 



Through this gorge, which is so workman- 

 like in appearance that it seems to have been 

 constructed by the hand of man, the entire 

 volume of the river rushes, and the water 

 boils and surges so violently that the river 

 seems, so to speak, to be turned on edge. 

 Beyond this stretch to Celilo Falls there are 

 powerful currents and numerous eddies; the 

 dalles are therefore an impassable barrier to 

 navigation. To overcome this obstacle, the 

 United States government has constructed a 

 canal and lock system at a cost of $5,500,000, 

 which was opened to commerce in 1915. See 

 COLUMBIA RIVER. L.D.C. 



DALMATIA, dal ma' she a, the most south- 

 erly of what was once Austria, bordering on 

 the Adriatic Sea. It covers an area of 4,940 

 square miles, and is therefore about the same 

 sizr ;us the state of Connecticut. Because of 



LOCATION OF DALMATIA 

 With the provinces to the north and east, it is 

 now a part of Jugo-Slavia. 



a generally-mountainous surface agriculture is 

 in a very backward state, though the valleys 

 in the south produce olives, grapes, figs and 

 other fruits. Dalmatia is noted for the pro- 

 duction of maraschino, a liquor made from a 

 cherry peculiar to that country. The trade is 

 not very extensive and is confined to coast 

 towns, the most important of which are Zara, 

 the capital; Cattaro, with one of the finest 

 harbors in Europe, Spalato, and Ragusa. The 

 fisheries are important, the catches of tunny 

 and sardines being particularly valuable. Dal- 

 matia was an Austrian province from 1815 to 

 November, 1918. Population, 1912, 660,336. 

 DALMORES, dalmorez', CHARLES (1872- 

 ), a noted French tenor, who was born at 

 Nancy, France, and received his musical edu- 

 cation at the Paris Conservatoire. Before he 

 discovered that he was the possessor of a voice 

 which promised a 

 career, Dalmores 

 devoted much 

 time to the vio- 

 loncello. He 

 made his debut as 

 a singer at Rouen, 

 in 1899, with such 

 success that after 

 three years he 

 was engaged to 

 appear in Brus- 

 sels at the The- 

 ater Royal. His 

 Brussels triumphs were repeated 

 Garden, London, and at Bayreuth, Bavaria. In 

 1906 he first appeared in the United States as 



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CHARLES DALMORES 



at Covent 



