LADYSMITH 



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LAFAYETTE 



center of the .-t ru^le. 9,000 British troops 

 under Sir George White sustaining a siege of 

 118 days, until relieved by General Buller on 

 February 28, 1900. The town has railway 

 shops, electric lights, schools and churches. It 

 is the capital of the district of Ladysmith. 

 Population, 1911. 5.340. 



LADYSMITH, a city in British Columbia, on 

 i lii> east shore of Vancouver Island. It is on 

 thi Ksquimalt & Xanaimo Railway (now part 

 of the Canadian Pacific system), fifty-eight 

 miles northwest of Victoria and fourteen miles 

 south of Nanaimo. The Canadian Pacific oper- 

 ates a ferry for freight trains between Van- 

 couver, on the mainland, and Ladysmith. A 

 large copper smelter, shingle mill, boat-building 

 plant and aerated water works are the princi- 

 pal industrial establishments. Oyster cultiva- 

 tion is an important pursuit, and there are 

 large coal mines near by. Ladysmith has had 

 a rapid growth since 1901, when its population 

 was only 700; in 1911 it was 3.295, and in 1916 

 about 3,800. 



LADY'S SLIPPER, a group of beautiful 

 plants belonging to the orchid family, whose 

 name has been given them because of the 

 large, inflated lip 

 of the corolla, 

 which bears :t 

 curious resem- 

 blance to a slip- 

 per. They are 

 found throng! i out 

 the temperate 

 regions of the 

 world, excej it in 

 Africa and Aus- 

 tralia. About ten 

 species h a v e 

 been identified in 

 Xorth America . 

 Among these are 

 the m occasi n 

 flower, or pink 

 lady's slipper, the 

 yellow moccasin 

 flower, a n d t h e 

 xhowy lady's slip- 

 per, whose i n - 

 Hated white lip is 

 marked with pur- 

 plish pink or 

 crimson stripes. 

 See ORCHID. 



LA FAROE, lafahrzh', JOHN (1835-1910), an 

 American painter who worked with equal suc- 



THE 

 LADY'S 

 SLIPPER 



rrss in <Jil- water colors, on wood and on n;la.->. 

 His subjrcts included flowers, religious themes, 

 portraits and landscapes. He was born in Xew 

 York City and studied in Paris. After the 

 completion of the mural decorations for Trin- 

 ity Church, Boston, he turned his attention 

 to glass-painting and window-designing. To- 

 gether with Saint Gaudens he designed ihc 

 King sepulchral monument at Xewport. R, I. 

 lie executed glass church windows and deco- 

 rated many churches in various large American 

 cities. A notable example of his work in mural 

 decoration may be seen in the Minnesota State 

 Capitol, Saint Paul. 



His finest work is the large altarpiece in 

 the Church of the Ascension, New York City, 

 executed in 1887. The Arrival of the Magi is 

 one of his best-known paintings. His trip to 

 Japan and the islands of the Pacific Ocean 

 resulted in the completion of innumerable 

 water-color sketches of native life and scenes. 

 La Farge wrote many valuable articles on art 

 for the leading periodicals. His greatest con- 

 tributions to art outside of his mural paintings 

 were his successful experiments in glass-cut- 

 ting, painting arid designing. In certain phases 

 of this work he has not been surpassed. 



LAFAYETTE, lahfayct', IND., the county 

 seat of Tippecanoe County, seventy-four miles 

 by rail northwest of Indianapolis, in the north- 

 western part of the state. It is on the Wabash 

 River and on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 

 & Saint Louis, the Lake Erie & Western, the 

 Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville and the 

 Wabash railroads. The city has electric inter- 

 urban service. In 1910 the population was 

 20.018; in 1916 it was 21,286 (Federal estimate). 

 The area of the city is six and one-half square 

 miles. 



Lafayette is in the valley of the Wabash 

 Hiver, somewhat below the level of the sur- 

 rounding plains. It is the seat of Purdue Uni- 

 versity (which see), and has a county court- 

 house, city hall, public library, high school, 

 Wabash Valley Sanitarium (Seventh Day Ad- 

 ventist), Saint Elizabeth and Home hospitals. 

 Saint Joseph's Orphan Asylum and the Indiana 

 State Soldiers' Home, which provides also for 

 the wives and widows of soldiers. 



Lafayette is the market for a rich surround- 

 ing agricultural country. It has an important 

 horse market, pork-packing plants, foundries 

 and machine shops, and manufactories of soap, 

 flour, paper, strawboard, cardboard, wagons and 

 farming implements, automobile accessories and 

 electric meters and transformers. 



