FORT WAYNE 



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FORT WILLIAM 



sorrow at her own pleasure, and without regard 

 to law. In Italy she was worshiped from a 

 very early period, and had temples at Antium 

 and Praeneste. In Greek art she is usually 

 represented with a rudder, indicating her guid- 

 ing power; with a cornucopia, as a symbol of 

 prosperity, or with a ball, wheel or wings, 

 typifying her fickle character. The English 

 word fortune is therefore understood. 



FORT WAYNE, IND., the county seat of 

 Allen County, is a railroad center and manu- 

 facturing city in the northeastern part of the 

 state, 102 miles northeast of Indianapolis and 

 150 miles nearly east of Chicago. It is on the 

 Saint Joseph and Saint Mary's rivers, which 

 continue from their junction within the city 

 as the Maumee River, and on the Fort Wayne, 

 Cincinnati & Louisville; Pennsylvania; Grand 

 Rapids & Indiana; New York, Chicago & 

 Saint Louis; Wabash and New York Central 

 railroads. There is also interurban electric 

 service. The area of the city is eleven square 

 miles. In 1910 the population was 63,933; 

 in 1916 it was 76,183, by Federal estimate. 



Public Buildings and Institutions. Fort 

 Wayne has a Federal building; a county court- 

 house, completed in 1902 at a cost of $1,000,- 

 000; a public library, costing $100,000, of 

 which amount Mr. Carnegie donated $90,000; 

 Saint Joseph's, Hope and Lutheran hospitals; 

 a high school building, erected at a cost of 

 $300,000, and several noteworthy churches. 'In 

 Lawton Park (thirty-one acres) is a monu- 

 ment erected in honor of Major-General Henry 

 Ware Lawton, who was killed while fighting 

 in the Philippines. Other parks include Lake- 

 side (twenty-two acres) and the smaller parks, 

 Reservoir, Piqua and Old Fort, the last named 

 being the site of Old Fort Wayne. The educa- 

 tional institutions include Concordia College 

 (Lutheran), a college of medicine and surgery, 

 a conservatory of music, a school of art and a 

 school of oratory, expression and physical cul- 

 ture. Among the larger charitable institutions 

 are the Indiana School for Feeble-minded 

 Youth and several orphan asylums. 



Industry. Fort Wayne is the distributing 

 center of an extensive agricultural district. It 

 has large shops of the Pennsylvania and the 

 Wabash railroads, and among the important 

 manufactures are Corliss and other steam en- 

 gines, locomotives, freight and passenger cars, 

 car wheels, boilers, electrical machinery, elec- 

 trical fittings and fixtures, organs and pianos 

 and many others of lesser importance. About 

 10,000 operatives are employed in the various 

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industries, and the manufactured products 

 have an annual value in excess of $15,000,000. 

 Wholesale and jobbing houses distribute dry 

 goods, groceries, hardware, drugs, millinery, 

 paper and other commodities valued at $10,- 

 000,000 yearly. 



History. Kekionaga, the principal village 

 of the Miami Indians, was formerly within the 

 present limits of Fort Wayne. A stockade 

 fort, now the site of Old Fort Park, was built 

 in 1794 by General Anthony Wayne. In 1813 

 it was besieged by Indians, who were routed 

 after a hard fight. Six years later the fort 

 was abandoned. A permanent settlement was 

 made in 1815 and until 1830 it was an im- 

 portant fur-trading post. The town was in- 

 corporated and made the county seat in 1824, 

 and in 1840 it became the city of Fort Wayne. 



FORT WILLIAM, a city in the Thunder 

 Bay district, Ontario, is a distributing point 

 of importance. It is situated at the head of 

 navigation on Lake Superior, at the point 

 where it receives the waters of the Kaminis- 

 tiquia River, and three miles southwest of Port 

 Arthur, with which it has steam and electric 

 railway connection. Winnipeg is 419 miles 

 northwest, and Montreal is 992 miles south- 

 east, by rail; Duluth is 180 miles southwest, 

 Sault Sainte Marie is 237 miles southeast, and 

 Montreal is 1,056 miles also southeast, by 

 water. Fort William is a meeting point for 

 the Canadian Pacific, Canadian Northern and 

 Transcontinental railways, and is a port of 

 call for all passenger and freight steamer lines 

 on the upper lakes. The Mount McKay and 

 Kakabeka Falls Railway, built and operated 

 by local capitalists, runs from Fort William 

 to Kakabeka Falls, where water power for the 

 city is developed. 



Fort William was established as a Hudson 

 Bay post in 1805, and was named in honor of 

 William McGillivray, then chief factor of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, but it was not in- 

 corporated as a city until 1907. With the 

 development of the Canadian Northwest, the 

 city's growth has been rapid. The population 

 increased from 3,633 in 1901 to 16,499 in 1911; 

 in 1916 it was estimated at 20,000. Of this 

 number about 10,000 are Canadians, the re- 

 mainder being chiefly United States citizens, 

 Finns, Swedes and Norwegians. 



Fort William is located in a district rich in 

 timber and agricultural products, especially 

 grain; silver, copper and iron ores are also 

 found here. Through excellent shipping facili- 

 ties by water and by rail, the city and Port 



