DANVILLE 



1701 



DAPHNIA 



pitals. The parked area exceeds 100 acres and 

 comprises Lincoln, Ellsworth, Cannon, Douglas 

 and Garfield parks. 



Danville is in a soft-coal district and coal 

 mining is among the important industries, 

 which also include founding and the manufac- 

 ture of zinc, hardware, carriages, glass and clay 

 products. 



The town was settled in 1830, incorporated in 

 1839 and became a city in 1867. Four suburbs 

 have been annexed, Vermilion Heights in 1905, 

 South Danville in 1906, Germantown and Rose- 

 lawn in 1907. The city is the home of Joseph 

 G. Cannon, for many years notable 1 in the pub- 

 lic life of the nation. P.L.W. 



DANVILLE, VA., an important industrial 

 center of Pittsylvania County, centrally located 

 on the southern state boundary line, 141 miles 

 southwest of Richmond. It is on the Danville 

 River and on the Danville & Western and the 

 Southern railroads. In 1910 the population was 

 19,020; in 1916 it was 20,021. The area exceeds 

 three square miles. 



Danville is in the fertile Piedmont section, 

 situated on heights which command fine views 

 of the country round about. Tobacco, grain, 

 fruits and other produce are extensively grown 

 in the surrounding region, and the city has 

 an important trade in loose-leaf tobacco and 

 manufactured products. Abundant power is 

 supplied by the river for its industrial plants, 

 which include tobacco factories, a cheroot fac- 

 tory, flour mills, knitting mills, elevator works 

 and manufactories of cotton goods, furniture, 

 trousers and overalls. There are large tobacco 

 warehouses, and the city has important whole- 

 sale interests, supplying a wide territory in 

 Virginia and North Carolina. 



The city is the seat of Roanoke Institute 

 (Baptist), Randolph Mason Institute (Metho- 

 dist Episcopal) and Danville School for Boys, 

 and contains a city hall, public library, Masonic 

 Temple, a hospital, an orphanage and several 

 parks. It was incorporated as a town in 1792 

 and chartered as a city in 1833. The records 

 of the Confederacy were removed to the city 

 after the fall of Richmond in 1865, and it was 

 for a time the Confederate capital. H.B.W. 



DANZIG, dahn'tsik, one of the most im- 

 portant ports and commercial centers of Ger- 

 many, situated on the left bank of the Vistula 

 River, four miles from the Baltic Sea and 

 253 miles northeast of Berlin. The city re- 

 tains much of its picturesque medieval aspect, 

 for it is over 700 years old; it contains, how- 

 ever, many beautiful modern buildings. It is 



noted for its brandy, beer and other liquors; 

 it has for many years been a center of manufac- 

 ture of arms and munitions of war; this im- 

 portant industry gives employment to many 

 thousands of men. Ships of the largest size 

 are built in the imperial shipbuilding yards 

 and those of private concerns. The trade of 

 the city was increased by the opening, in 1899, 

 of the harbor at Neufahrwasser, at the mouth 

 of the Vistula. Steel mills, distilleries, flour 

 mills and sugar refineries have recently been 

 established and these establishments were being 

 rapidly developed before the beginning of the 

 War of the Nations in 1914. Danzig fell to 

 the possession of Prussia in the partition of 

 Poland in 1793; it was taken by the French 

 in 1807 but was restored to Prussia in 1814. 

 Population in 1910, 170,337. 



DAPHNE, daf'ne, in classic myths, a beauti- 

 ful nymph who delighted in woodland sports 

 and hunting, the daughter of the river-god 

 Peneus. She desired to remain unmarried, like 

 Diana, but her beauty brought many lovers. 

 Apollo, especially, 

 pierced by ft gold- 

 en arrow from 

 Cupid's bow, was 

 filled with love 

 for her. But 

 Daphne, pierced 

 by Cupid's leaden 

 arrow, abhorred 

 the thought of 

 loving. One day 

 Apollo chased 

 Daphne through 

 the woods, and 

 when her strength 

 failed she called 

 on her father to 

 change her form. 

 Immediately she 

 was changed into 

 a laurel tree, and 

 ever after the 

 laurel was sacred 

 to Apollo. He 

 wore a wreath of 

 its leaves as a 



crown and since then laurel wreaths 

 been symbols of honor and merit. 

 LAUREL. 



DAPHNIA, daf'ne ah, or WATER FLEA, 

 a very tiny fresh-water shellfish (crustacean), 

 which moves through water in skips and jumps, 

 like a flea, using its feathery feelers (anten- 



APOLLO AND DAPHNE 

 Statue by Bernini, in the 

 Villa Borghese, Rome. 



have 

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