HUNTSVILLE 



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HURON 



portant shipping point for coal, iron, salt and 

 lumber. T.W.H. 



HUNTSVILLE, a popular summer resort in 

 Muskoka County, Ontario, on the Grank Trunk 

 Railway, 146 miles north of Toronto and sixty 

 miles north of Orillia. Though best known as 

 one of the Muskoka Lakes resorts, Huntsville 

 is also important for its lumber mills and tan- 

 nery. Population in 1911, 2,358; in 1916, about 

 2,750. 



HUNTSVILLE, ALA., an important cotton- 

 manufacturing city and the county seat of 

 Madison County, situated in the north-central 

 part of the state, about eighteen miles south 

 of the Tennessee line. It is ninety-six miles 

 directly northeast of Birmingham and ninety- 

 seven miles southwest of Chattanooga, and is 

 on the Southern and the Nashville, Chatta- 

 nooga & Saint Louis railways. The city was 

 reduced in area in 1909, causing a reduced fig- 

 ure, 7,611, for the census of 1910. Surround- 

 ing the city are a number of populous suburbs, 

 and within a radius of four miles from the 

 county courthouse there was a population in 

 1910 of over 27,000. 



Huntsville is in the Tennessee Valley, about 

 ten miles north of the Tennessee River, and 

 is surrounded by a large and fertile agricul- 

 tural, cotton, fruit and live-stock raising coun- 

 try. In the large cotton mills of the city there 

 are 203,000 spindles and 4,374 looms, having 

 an annual product in sheet cloth, knitted goods, 

 khaki cloth, drilling and printing cloth valued 

 at $8,500,000. The land owned by the mills is 

 over 1,200 acres in extent, and their floor space 

 is thirty-four acres. In addition to the cotton 

 mills there are foundries and machine shops, 

 cotton seed and fertilizer plants, oil mills, hoop 

 and heading factories, fiber and planing mills 

 and brick plants. Huntsville is in one of the 

 most extensive nursery sections of the United 

 States. 



In the city is a state normal and industrial 

 school, and four miles north is located the 

 Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College 

 for Negroes. The more prominent buildings 

 include a Carnegie Library, Elks' Home, Fed- 

 eral building, Y. M. C. A., banks and hotels. 

 Among near-by places of interest is a summer 

 health resort on Monte Sano, a hill 1,700 feet 

 in altitude. 



Huntsville was settled in 1805 by John Hunt, 

 trapper and backwoods pioneer. In 1809 the 

 town was incorporated as Twickenham and in 

 1811 as Huntsville, and was the first Alabama 

 settlement to receive a charter. It was char- 



tered as a city in 1844, and since then has 

 adopted the commission form of government. 

 The city owns its waterworks. P.O.A. 



HUR'DLING, a foot race which combines 

 running and jumping. In American track 

 meets two hurdle races are usually held, the 

 120-yard high hurdles and the 220-yard low 

 hurdles; in Olympic games (which see) the 



HURDLING 



distance is made 440 yards. The object of a 

 hurdler is to clear the obstructions with the 

 least possible interference to his stride and the 

 least necessary rising from the ground. His 

 feet and legs almost graze each bar, sometimes 

 overturning a hurdle, though if a runner upsets 

 a stated number of hurdles (usually either 

 three or four) he is disqualified. In England 

 the race is run on the grass, and the hurdles 

 are fixed sb that they cannot be knocked down. 

 The high hurdles are ten in number and set 

 ten yards apart; the first is fifteen yards from 

 the start and the last an equal distance from 

 the finish. Their height is three feet six inches. 

 The low hurdles are equal in number, but are 

 placed twice as far from each other; they are 

 only two feet six inches high. w.c. 



HUR'DY-GUR'DY. See HAND ORGAN. 



HU'RON, or WYANDOTTE, wi'andot, a 

 powerful confederation of Indian tribes who 

 lived in Canada, between Lake Simcoe and 

 Georgian Bay east of Lake Huron. The name 

 is French, and means bristly, or rough haired. 

 When the Hurons were first known to the 

 French, about 1615, they were a well-organized 

 people numbering about 10,000. The chiefs 

 were elected in an unique manner, by the 

 vote of all the mothers of the tribe. Their 

 councils were divided into legislative and judi- 

 cial bodies, and their military affairs were en- 

 tirely separate from both of these. The blood 

 feud was sacred among them, and revenge for 



