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JOHORE 



Hold, a colonial story of Virginia, is her most 

 successful novel. She portrays her characters 

 vividly, and the spirit of the times with which 

 the story deals is well sustained. Her novels 

 include Audrey; The Long Roll, a war story; 

 Cease Firing, and The Witch. 



JOHNSTOWN, N. Y., the county seat of 

 Fulton County, is a town in the east central 

 part of the state, whose supporting industry 

 is the manufacture of gloves. It is forty-eight 

 miles northwest of Albany and is near Glovers- 

 ville, another glove-making city. It is on 

 Cayadutta Creek and on the Fonda, Johnstown 

 & Gloversville Railroad and has an interurban 

 line to Schenectady. The area is three and a 

 half square miles. In 1910 the population was 

 10,447; by the state census of 1915 it was then 

 10,688. 



The historical landmarks of the city are of 

 great interest. One of them, Johnson Hall, 

 the only baronial hall left standing in the 

 United States, is a fine old building, once the 

 home of Sir William Johnson. It was erected 

 by him in 1762. One of the two stone block- 

 houses which stood on either side still remains. 

 The building is now owned by the state and 

 is a museum of colonial relics. The Drumm 

 House, the old jail and the county courthouse 

 were built by Sir William, the first in 1763, the 

 last two in 1772. The courthouse is still in 

 use, and court sessions are announced by the 

 ringing of the old original triangle. Sir Wil- 

 liam Johnson, who directed the settlement of 

 a colony of Scots at this place in 1760, and 

 for whom the town was later named, was the 

 British Governor of Indian Affairs, and his 

 home was the scene of many conferences with 

 the Indians. 



The prominent buildings are the city hall, 

 Federal building, Y. M. C. A. building and 

 Carnegie Library. Johnstown is one of the 

 most important glove-making cities in the 

 United States and employs over 3,000 workers 

 in this industry. Other manufactures are mit- 

 tens, knit underwear, leather, baseballs, glove- 

 makers' tools, fur coats, etc. 



In 1808 Johnstown was incorporated as a 

 village, and in 1895 was chartered as a city. 



JOHNSTOWN, PENN, a manufacturing city 

 in Cambria County, in the southwestern part 

 of the state, seventy-five miles east and south 

 of Pittsburgh. It is situated at an altitude of 

 1,200 feet, and occupies an area of five square 

 miles in a deep, level valley in the western 

 hills of the Alleghany Mountains, at the junc- 

 tion of Little Conemaugh and Stoney Creek, 



which continue as the Conemaugh River. It 

 is served by the Pennsylvania and the Balti- 

 more & Ohio railroads and by interurban elec- 

 tric lines. The population increased from 

 55,482 in 1910 to 68,529 (Federal estimate) in 

 1916. Russians predominate among the twenty- 

 six per cent who are foreign born. 



Johnstown is the center of a rich bituminous 

 coal region; in Cambria County there are more 

 than two hundred mines. Here also are found 

 iron ore, fire clay and limestone, extensively 

 used in manufacture. The value of manufac- 

 tured products annually exceeds $50,000,000. 

 One steel company employs 17,000 men, and 

 makes a great variety of steel goods ranging 

 from wire brads to steel freight cars. Among 

 many industries is a second large iron and 

 steel plant, extensive manufactures of radia- 

 tors, stoves, fire clay products, furniture, paints, 

 and wall and tar paper. 



The city has several small public parks, a 

 Federal building, city hall, Cambria Free 

 Library, a Y. M. C. A. building, erected at a 

 cost of $300,000 and housing an organization 

 of 2,600 members, Memorial, Mercy and City 

 hospitals, and Cambria Hospital for employees. 

 The city has a number of parochial schools. 



Grand View Cemetery is the burial place of 

 800 victims of a great flood which occurred 

 here on May 31, 1889. Conemaugh Lake, 

 twelve miles east of the city, a body of water 

 two and one-half miles long, one and one-half 

 miles wide and averaging fifty feet in depth, 

 swollen by heavy rains, burst a retaining dam 

 and released an enormous body of water which 

 in a short time flooded the valley, practically 

 destroying the city. More than 2,200 lives 

 were lost, and the property destroyed was 

 valued at $10,000,000. Every part of the 

 United States shared in the $3,000,000 in money 

 and supplies sent to relieve suffering and re- 

 build the city. 



Johnstown was settled in 1791 and became 

 a city in 1889. The commission form of gov- 

 ernment was adopted in 1912. In 1916 the 

 construction of a sanitary sewerage system to 

 cost $1,500,000 was commenced. J.K.J. 



JOHORE, johohr', a small state 9,000 square 

 miles in area in the southern part of the Malay 

 Peninsula. It is under the control of Great 

 Britain, but is practically independent because 

 of the wise management of the native sultans. 

 Of the 200,000 (estimated) inhabitants there 

 are a great many more Chinese than Malays. 

 Johore is only 100 miles north of the equator, 

 but the climate, moderated by the waters of 



