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GOOD HOPE, a cape near the southern ex- 

 tremity of Africa, at the termination of a small 

 peninsula extending south from Table Moun- 

 tain, which overlooks Cape Town. The cape, 

 locally known as Cape Point, or "the Point," 



CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 



(a) Cape of Good Hope. The most southerly 

 point of the continent is (b) Cape Agulhas. 



forms the west side of False Bay, and on its 

 inner or eastern coast is Simon's Bay and 

 Simon's Town, where there is a safe anchorage 

 and a British naval station. Bartholomeu Dias, 

 a Portuguese, who discovered the cape in 1487, 

 called it Cape of Storms, but John II of Portu- 

 gal changed this to its present name, as its 

 discovery aroused a hope of finding a sea 

 route to India. This hope was verified by 

 Vasco da Gama in 1497 when he sailed around 

 the Cape of Good Hope and found his way to 

 Calicut, on the west coast of India. 



The Cape of Good Hope is not the most 

 southerly point of Africa. That distinction 

 belongs to Cape Agulhas, about 100 miles to 

 the southeast. 



GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT, the name iden- 

 tified with the attempt to secure better roads 

 throughout the United States and Canada. 

 For details, see ROADS AND STREETS, subtitle 

 The Good Roads Movement. 



GOOD TEM'PLARS, INTERNATIONAL ORDER 

 OF, a fraternal society organized at Fayette- 

 ville, N. Y., in 1851, having for its object indi- 

 vidual total abstinence and world-wide prohibi- 

 tion of the liquor traffic. The Order was intro- 

 duced into England in 1868 and soon spread 

 throughout the civilized world, its code being 

 translated into eighteen different languages. 

 The question of the admission of colored per- 

 sons caused a division in 1874; a section of the 

 society then organized under the name of the 

 Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the World. In 

 1887 the two branches were reunited. 



The national prohibition party was formed 

 in 1869 by a committee appointed by the 

 Right Worthy Grand Lodge, and thus the 

 Order was primarily responsible for putting 

 the temperance question into politics; and the 

 Woman's Christian Temperance Union was 



organized in 1874 by Good Templar women. 

 The Washingtonian Home for Inebriates at 

 Chicago, 111., and the Orphans' Home at Val- 

 lejo, Calif., were founded by this Order. In 

 1916 .the organization comprised two national 

 grand lodges (United States and Canada) and 

 seventy grand lodges, with a total membership 

 of 680,665, including 263,410 in the juvenile 

 branch, distributed over a larger part of the 

 world. Members are required to pledge them- 

 selves to the temperance cause. 



GOOD WILL, the advantage acquired by a 

 business concern beyond the valuation of its 

 capital, property, stock or funds employed in 

 it. It arises in consequence of business loca- 

 tion, the reputation established by honest and 

 fair dealing, and on the assumption that old 

 customers will continue to buy at their accus- 

 tomed place. Legally, good will may not be 

 assigned or mortgaged, but when a business 

 is sold, the seller is not supposed to enter into 

 the same business again near enough to affect 

 the pecuniary interests of the purchaser. In 

 most states and provinces a written contract 

 to this effect is secured, and if the agreement 

 is broken the former owner of the property is 

 liable to an action for damages. 



GOODWIN, NATHANIEL CARL (1857-1919), an 

 American actor who attained a large measure 

 of success in comedy roles. He was born in 

 Boston, and made his first appearance in a 

 play entitled Law in New York. His second 

 success, Black-Eyed Susan, established his repu- 

 tation as a comedian of the "legitimate" type. 

 Among the other plays in which he assumed 

 leading parts are A Gold Mine, A Gilded 

 fool, Nathan Hale, When We Were Twenty- 

 One and The Genius. He was married four 

 times, his second wife being Maxine Elliott, 

 a popular actress; his last union was with 

 Miss Edna Goodrich, also an actress. His first 

 wife died; the others divorced him. He has 

 appeared in vaudeville, telling stories and 

 imitating some of his actor friends; he has 

 also played in leading roles before the moving- 

 picture camera. 



GOOD'YEAR, CHARLES (1800-1860), an 

 American whose work made possible the won- 

 derful development of the rubber industry. 

 Imagine a rubber coat which in winter was so 

 stiff that it would stand unaided, but on a 

 hot summer's day became soft and sticky and 

 if stretched would remain out of shape! Dan- 

 iel Webster, who was Goodyear's lawyer in 

 his patent suits, had such a coat, and' if Good- 

 year had not spent all his spare time and 



