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merits, but this form of drama is distinguished 

 from farce in that its plot is worked out 

 through the truthful portrayal of character. 



FARGO, N. D., the largest city of the state, 

 an important distributing center and the 

 county seat of Cass County, situated on the 

 Red River, on the eastern border of the state. * 

 Railway service is provided by the Northern 

 Pacific Railway, constructed to the city in 

 1875; by the Great Northern, built in 1881, and 

 by the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul. 

 Moorhead, Minn., across the river, has electric 

 railway connection with Fargo. Bismarck is 

 197 miles west; Winnipeg, Man., is 226 miles 

 north; Saint Paul, Minn., is 242 miles south- 

 east, and Duluth, Minn., is 254 miles directly 

 east. The city was settled in 1871, was incor- 

 porated in 1875 and named in honor of W. G. 

 Fargo of the Wells Fargo Express Company. 

 In 1912 the commission form of government, 

 with five elective officers, was adopted. The 

 population was estimated to have increased 

 from the official count of 14,331 in 1910 to 

 17,389 in 1916, as estimated by the Census 

 Bureau. 



Fargo is a city of fine streets, beautiful parks 

 and attractive homes. Island Park, containing 

 thirty-five acres; South Park, thirty-five acres; 

 and Oak Grove, thirty acres, are the pleasure 

 resorts of the city. It is the seat of the State 

 Agricultural College, Fargo College, Oak Grove 

 Seminary and Sacred Heart Academy. These, 

 with two business colleges, public schools and 

 a Carnegie Library afford excellent educational 

 advantages. A $150,000 Federal building, a 

 100,000 courthouse, a $95,000 auditorium, a 

 $90,000 jail, a Roman Catholic cathedral, a 

 Protestant Episcopal cathedral and the Ford 

 Building, erected in 1914 at a cost of $150,000, 

 are the most notable structures. A Federal 

 land office is located here. 



The city is situated in the heart of a fertile 

 agricultural region, which produces great quan- 

 tities of wheat, hay, flax and oats. As a dis- 

 tributing point for heavy farm machinery, it 

 ranks possibly second in the United States. 

 There are more than a hundred wholesale and 

 distributing houses, and large shipments go 

 to Canada as well as to points in the United 

 States. Of its many and varied industrial 

 establishments knitting mills, foundries, cream- 

 eries, bottling works, cracker factories and 

 automobile plants are the most prominent; 

 the city is .also actively engaged in the manu- 

 facture of bed springs, mattresses, harness, 

 trunks and artificial limbs. There are also 



car-shops of the Northern Pacific Railway. 

 The city sustained a loss of $2,500,000 in 1893, 

 when the business portion was destroyed by 

 fire. J.P.H. 



FAR'GUS, FREDERICK JOHN (1847-1885), an 

 English novelist whose works were published 

 under the pen name HUGH CONWAY. He took 

 the second part of the name from that of the 

 Conway, an English ship. He was born in 

 Bristol and served in the navy before he be- 

 came an author. Fargus is remembered chiefly 

 for a sensational novel, Called Back, which cir- 

 culated widely in Europe and in America and 

 was also successfully dramatized. It was first 

 published in 1884. Other books written by him 

 are Dark Days, Slings and Arrows and Bound 

 Together. 



FARIBAULT, jair'ibo, MINN., the county 

 seat of Rice County, situated in the southeast- 

 ern section of the state, on Cannon River, at 

 the point where it receives the waters of the 

 Straight River. Saint Paul is fifty-two miles 

 north. Faribault is a railroad center of im- 

 portance in this section of the state, being the 

 junction of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint 

 Paul, the Chicago Great Western and the 

 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railways; an 

 electric line extends north to Saint Paul. In 

 1910 the population was 9,001 ; in 1916 it was 

 estimated to be 9,712. 



Faribault is located in a region dotted with 

 beautiful lakes, and enjoys considerable pop- 

 ularity as a summer resort. The city has 

 ample water power and produces a variety 

 of products, the leading manufactures being 

 furniture, rattan goods, butter tubs, wagons and 

 woolen goods. There are in addition canneries, 

 breweries and planing mills. In its territory, 

 Faribault is an educational center of promi- 

 nence, having the state schools for the deaf, 

 the blind and the feeble-minded, Shattuck Mil- 

 itary School, Seabury Divinity School, Saint 

 Mary's School, and Bethlehem Academy. The 

 city also has a public library. 



The first permanent settlement was made in 

 1853 and named in honor of Jean Baptiste 

 Faribault, a French fur trader. The city was 

 chartered in 1872 and since 1911 has been 

 administered on the commission plan. Fari- 

 bault was the home of Bishop Whipple, who 

 labored many years among the Indians. 



FARLEY, jahr'li, JOHN MURPHY (1842-1918), 

 an American Roman Catholic cardinal, born 

 at Newton Hamilton, County Armagh, Ire- 

 land. He received his early education in Ire- 

 land under a private tutor and was confirmed 



