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HATTERAS, hat 'eras, a cape on Hatteras 

 Island, on the coast of North Carolina, the 

 projecting point of a long reef of sand, which 

 storms and shoals make dangerous to naviga- 

 tion. A lighthouse over 190 feet high has a 

 light that flashes every ten seconds, and three- 

 quarters of a mile south there is another steady 

 white light thirty-five feet above the sea. The 

 Gulf Stream flows only twenty miles east of 

 the cape and, in avoiding it, sailing vessels are 

 liable to be driven too near the coast and to 

 founder on the treacherous shoals. A great 

 sea wall parallel with the coast has been pro- 

 jected, behind which safe anchorage will then 

 be afforded for boats, and there will be fewer 

 wrecks along this point of land. 



HATTIESBURG, hat' iz burg, Miss., one of 

 the largest yellow-pine centers of the South, 

 situated in the southeastern part of the state, 

 in Forrest County, of which it is the county 

 seat, and on the Hastahachee (or Leaf) River. 

 Jackson is ninety miles northwest; New Or- 

 leans, La., is 110 miles south, and Mobile, Ala., 

 is 111 miles southeast. Transportation is pro- 

 vided by the New Orleans & North Eastern 

 (Q. & C. Route), the Mississippi Central, the 

 New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago and the Gulf 

 & Ship Island railways, all constructed to the 

 city between 1885 and 1895. Hattiesburg was 

 incorporated as a town in 1884, received its 

 charter in 1899 and was named in honor of 

 "Hattie" Hardy, wife of a railway official. 

 Until January, 1908, it was the "courthouse" 

 of the second district of Perry County. In 

 1911 the commission form of government was 

 adopted, with a mayor and two commissioners. 

 The area of the city is eleven and one-half 

 square miles. In 1916 its population was esti- 

 mated by the Census Bureau to be 16,482; in 

 1910 it was 11,733. 



The surrounding country is a rich timber and 

 truck-gardening region, as is suggested by the 

 character of its industries. More than $7,000,- 

 000 worth of lumber is manufactured annually 

 in the immediate vicinity of Hattiesburg, one 

 firm employing about 800 people. There are 

 also cotton compresses, foundries, fertilizer 

 plants, oil mills, wood-reduction plants, planing 

 mills, wood-alcohol, canning-syrup and sash- 

 and-door factories. Its notable buildings are 

 a $75,000 Federal building, erected in 1912, and 

 a $50,000 Y. M. C. A. building, completed in 

 1915. Besides its public school system, the 

 city has a state normal college, South Missis- 

 sippi Women's College, a business college and 

 a library. 



HAULTAIN, hawltairi , FREDERICK WILLIAM 

 GORDON (1857- ), a Canadian statesman 

 and jurist, for many years the foremost Con- 

 servative leader in the Northwest and since 

 1912 chief justice of the province of Saskatche- 

 wan. Of English birth, he came to Canada at 

 an early age, and received his schooling at 

 Montreal High School, Peterborough Collegi- 

 ate Institute and the University of Toronto. 

 He was called to the bar of Ontario in 1882, 

 but two years later removed to the Northwest 

 Territories where he practiced law first at Mac- 

 leod and after 1887 at Regina. In 1887 he 

 was appointed to the Northwest Council, and 

 from 1888 to 1905 was a member of the Assem- 

 bly. In 1891 the lieutenant-governor called on 

 him to form the first executive committee of 

 the Northwest Territories, and in 1897, when 

 the committee was displaced by an executive 

 council, Haultain became the first premier, 

 attorney-general and , commissioner of educa- 

 tion of the Territories. These positions he 

 held until the organization of Saskatchewan 

 as a province in 1905; then he entered the 

 legislature and became leader of the Conserva- 

 tive opposition. G.H.L. 



HAULTAIN, THEODORE ARNOLD (1857- ), 

 a Canadian man of letters, regarded as one of 

 the most brilliant of contemporary essayists. 

 Haultain was born in India, but went to Can- 

 ada as a young man and was educated at the 

 University of Toronto. He was for several 

 years editor of the Educational Weekly at 

 Toronto, and from 1889 to 1893 was on the staff 

 of the Toronto Public Library. Thereafter he 

 was private secretary to Goldwin Smith until 

 the latter's death in 1910. Among his numer- 

 ous published volumes are Memoirs of Goldwin 

 Smith; Goldwin Smith: His Life and Opinions; 

 A Fragmentary Dialogue on Love and Re- 

 ligion; Of Walks and Touring Walks; and A 

 Critique of Cardinal Newman's Exposition of 

 the Illative Sense, regarded by many critics 

 as his best work. 



HAUPTMANN, houpt'mahn, GERHART (1862- 

 ), popularly considered the greatest Ger- 

 man playwright since Goethe. In 1912 the 

 Nobel prize ($37,000) was conferred upon him 

 for his encouragement of idealism in literature. 

 He is the priest of individualism. "Live thy 

 own life ! " is his belief. His dramas depict in 

 a marvelously natural manner the maladies 

 of his age and the actions and struggles of the 

 people in everyday life, without offering a 

 theory for the future. Although much of his 

 work seems hard and relentless, underneath is 



