DENVER 



1771 



DEPARTMENT STORE 



Among the most important hospitals are Den- 

 ver County, Saint Luke's and Saint Joseph's. 



Industries. The annual output of the 

 smelters of the city is valued at nearly $8,000,- 

 000. The smelting of lead, copper, iron, gold, 

 silver, radium, uranium and other ores is one 

 of the principal industries. There are exten- 

 sive stockyards which annually handle about 

 1,500,000 head of stock. For the annual live 

 stock show, which is next in size to that held 

 in Chicago, a Stadium has been built of steel 

 and concrete, at a cost of $250,000. There are 

 large slaughtering and meat-packing plants, 

 sugar beet factories, railroad construction and 

 repair shops, foundries and machine shops, and 

 over 800 manufacturing plants which have an 

 annual output valued at $50,000,000. Mining 

 machinery is an important manufactured prod- 

 uct. The number of railroads entering the city 

 and the great distance from places of competi- 

 tive advantages make Denver the largest dis- 

 tributing point of the Rocky Mountain states. 



History. Denver was settled by miners in 

 1852, and was named in honor of General J. 

 W. Denver, governor of Kansas, of which state 

 Colorado was then a part. The city was in- 

 corporated the following year by a provisional 

 legislature and was rei'ncorp orated by the first 

 territorial legislature in 1861. It became the 

 capital of the territory in 1867. The town of 

 South Denver was annexed in 1894. H.C.T. 4 



DENVER, UNIVERSITY OF, the oldest institu- 

 tion for higher education in the Rocky Moun- 

 tain states. It was founded at Denver in 1864 

 by Governor John Evans, and for the first six- 

 teen years was known as Colorado Seminary. 

 In 1880, when a reorganization took place and 

 the educational work was greatly broadened, 

 the present name was adopted. On the campus 

 at University Park are conducted the college 

 of liberal arts, the graduate school, the summer 

 s'chool and Warren Academy* The professional 

 schools of law, dentistry and commerce, and 

 the teachers' college are located in the heart of 

 the city. Among the buildings at University- 

 Park is the Chamberlain Observatory, one of 

 the most important astronomical observatories 

 in the world. The faculty numbers about 130; 

 the student enrollment is over 1,150, and the 

 university library contains nearly 40,000 

 volumes. 



DEPARTMENT, one of the chief territorial 

 and administrative divisions of France, corre- 

 sponding in some measure to a state of the 

 American Union, or to a province of Canada. 

 When the kingdom was divided into depart- 



ments at the time of the French Revolution 

 the division was determined by the number of 

 people, amount of direct taxes and extent of 

 territory. This division was effected in 1789, 

 the thirty-four provinces being replaced by 

 eighty-three departments, which were subse- 

 quently increased by four after the close of 

 the Franco-German War in 1871. Each depart- 

 ment is subdivided into arrondissements, or 

 congressional departments, for political pur- 

 poses; these into cantons, or electoral districts; 

 and the cantons into communes, or the smallest 

 administrative districts. A prefect, appointed 

 by the central government, presides over each 

 department. 



I DEPART ' MENT STORE . " Although of com- 

 paratively recent development, the modern de- 

 partment store has proved one of the greatest 

 successes of the times from an economical 

 point of view. The creation of such stores was 

 prompted by the unquestioned advantages a 

 person could derive from being able to do all 

 necessary purchasing under one roof instead of 

 being obliged to make a tour of a number of 

 stores. 



The modern department store is equipped to 

 meet the needs not only of individuals but of 

 entire families. Not only are necessities such 

 as food provided, but dry goods, clothing, mil- 

 linery, furniture, hardware and a wide variety 

 of other articles are all to be found, each in a 

 special department which is in itself a com- 

 plete store. It would be more difficult to men- 

 tion an article in daily use that could not be 

 obtained at a department store than to enu- 

 merate the vast number of things that are 

 daily sold there. 



> The department store is generally supposed 

 to be entirely an American development, but 

 such is not the case. The same principles 

 were adopted in London in 1863 by William 

 Whiteley, who became known as the "Universal 

 Provider." He added department after de- 

 partment to his original store until his busi- 

 ness grew into one of the largest in England. 

 However, the department store has reached its 

 highest stage of efficiency, in organization and 

 in service, in the United States and Canada. 

 The opening of a large department store in 

 one of the most fashionable streets of Lon- 

 don in 1909 by a prominent Chicago business 

 man was regarded as an event of great impor- 

 tance in the English business world. Undoubt- 

 edly the introduction of more up-to-date 

 methods had a great influence on shopping 

 in London. This influence was quickly seen 



