DENMARK 



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DENMARK 



Denison is the commercial center of a large 

 agricultural region. It is on the northern 

 border of the great cotton belt. Cotton and 

 cottonseed-oil factories, flouring and peanut 

 mills, creosote works, grain elevators and a 

 mattress and felt factory constitute the chief 

 manufacturing enterprises. There are large 

 locomotive and machine shops of four railway 

 systems. 



The Federal building, erected in 1909 at a 

 cost of $175,000, a $250,000 union depot, a city 

 hospital, the public library (provided by the 

 Women's Club), a $125,000 high school, banks 

 and hotels are among the important buildings. 

 Denison is the seat of Saint Xavier's Academy 

 (Roman Catholic). Forest Park and Play- 

 ground, of sixteen acres, and Munson's Park, 

 of 125 acres, are the city's recreation spots. 



The early newspapers of the Southwest were 

 the first to refer to Denison as the Gate City, 

 for through it passed the pioneers who settled 

 Texas. It was the first Texas city south of the 

 Red River and was for many years a typical 

 border town. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas 

 Railroad was completed to this point in 1873, 

 the year in which the city was founded, and 

 the place was named for George Denison, a 

 director of that road. It received a city charter 

 in 1891, and in 1905 adopted the commission 

 form of government. W.N.K. 



DENISON, GEORGE TAYLOR (1839- ), one 

 of Canada's most patriotic citizens, well known 

 as a writer on military history and tactics. He 

 was born in Toronto and received his education 

 at Upper Canada College and the University 

 of Toronto. He was called to the bar in 1861 

 and engaged in active practice for a number of 

 years. He served for forty-four years in the 

 Canadian militia, becoming lieutenant-colonel 

 in 1866 and honorary colonel in 1907. He took 

 an active part in suppressing the Fenian raid 

 in 1866 and the Riel Rebellion in Saskatchewan 

 in 1885. In 1877 he won the grand prize of- 

 fered by the Emperor of Russia for the best 

 work on the History of Cavalry. This book 

 has been translated into several languages, and 

 is accepted as an authority on modern strategy. 

 He also wrote a Manual of Outpost Duties, 

 Soldiering in Canada and The Struggle for 

 Imperial Unity. He has been president of the 

 British Empire League in Canada since its 

 organization in 1896, and has contributed to 

 British and Canadian magazines frequent arti- 

 cles on the relationship between the colonies 

 and the mother country. Colonel Denison has 

 taken an active interest in the work of many 

 literary and historical societies, has served a 

 term as president of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, and has been police magistrate in 

 Toronto since 1877. G.H.L. 





The palace of the King 



ENMARK, a north-central penin- 

 sula-and-island kingdom of Europe, the small- 

 est of the three Scandinavian kingdoms. The 

 Baltic Sea, the Sound and the Cattegat sep- 

 arate it from Sweden on the East; the Skager- 

 rak lies between it and Norway on the north; 

 and across the North Sea lies Great Britain 

 on the west. On the southern boundary, along 

 less than forty miles, lies Schleswig-Holstein, 

 formerly a part of Denmark, and possibly to 

 be returned by Germany. Comprising the 

 Jutland peninsula, the Danish archipelago east 

 of the peninsula, the island of Bornholm far- 

 ther east and south of Sweden, and the Faroe 

 Islands north of Scotland, the kingdom of 



Denmark covers an area of 15,582 square miles, 

 almost twice the area of the state of New 

 Jersey, but the population does not quite equal 

 that of the same state. It is only about one- 

 eighth the size of its neighbor, Norway; still 

 its population of 2,775,076 is almost as great 

 as that of the larger country. Its lands sup- 

 port in prosperity and contentment 178 people 

 to the square mile, nine times Norway's 

 average. 



The People, Their Language and Religion. 

 Descendants of a race of heroes and conquerors, 

 the Vikings of history and literature, the Danes 

 are a Teutonic people, with light hair and blue 

 eyes. They are intelligent, industrious and 



