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SHAW 



holes and filled with oil is sunk; as the latter 

 escapes it attracts the fish, which are caught by 

 chains and hooks baited with salted seal meat. 

 As soon as a monster is hooked it is stunned 

 by a heavy blow on the head. 



In some countries sharks' flesh is used as 

 food. Abundant oil is taken from the livers, 

 and in China the fins, from which gelatin and 

 soups are made, are in great demand. M.K. 



Consult Dean's Fishes, Living and Fossil. 



SHARON, shair'un, PA., a borough in Mercer 

 County, north of the center near the west state 

 boundary line, seventy-five miles northwest of 

 Pittsburgh. It is on the Shenango River and 

 on the New York Central, the Erie, the Penn- 

 sylvania and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 

 (freight only) railroads and has electric inter- 

 urban service. Here is located Hall Institute, 

 a Baptist school. The industrial establishments 

 of the borough include stone quarries, boiler 

 and machine shops, rolling mills, ordnance 

 works and manufactories of explosives, nails, 

 horse collars, stoves, chains and lumber prod- 

 ucts. There is also considerable trade in coal. 

 Sharon was settled in 1795, and was incorpo- 

 rated as a borough in 1841. The population, 

 which in 1910 was 15,270, had increased to 

 18,616 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 



SHAS'TA, MOUNT. In the northern ex- 

 tremity of the beautiful Sierra Nevada range 

 of California there rises a lofty, snow-covered, 

 conical mountain, which towers to a height of 

 over 10,000 feet above the plains of the Sacra- 

 mento Valley. This mountain, dominating the 

 whole landscape, is Mount Shasta. (See illus- 

 tration, in article CALIFORNIA.) 



Mount Shasta is a typical volcanic mountain, 

 attaining a height of 14,350 feet above sea level, 

 and is formed of two peaks. The western, 

 12,900 feet high, known as Crater Peak, or 

 Shastina, has at its top a crater about three- 

 fourths of a mile in diameter and 2,500 feet in 

 depth. Mount Shasta is a remarkable product 

 of the great volcanic activity traces of which 

 are so abundant in the whole Sierra Nevada 

 range to which this region was subjected in 

 the remote past. On its northern slope are 

 several glaciers, some of considerable size. A 

 number of these are found at as low an altitude 

 as 9,500 feet, while on other mountains glaciers 

 are seldom at a lower altitude than 11,000 feet. 



These glaciers are only the r emnants of the 

 numerous large glaciers which in a former 

 geological age covered the summits of these 

 mountains. They have left indelible evidence 



of their existence in the numerous valleys and 

 amphitheaters with their towering walls and in 

 the thousands of glacial lakes and ponds. 



Consult Muir's Picturesque California and his 

 The Mountains of California. 



SHAUGHNESSY, show' ne si, THOMAS 

 GEORGE, First Baron (1853- ), a Canadian j 

 railroad executive, president of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. Shaughnessy was born at 

 Milwaukee, Wis. As a boy of sixteen he began 

 railroading with the old Milwaukee & Saint 

 Paul Railway and later with the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & Saint Paul. In 1882 he entered the 

 employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway as gen- 

 eral purchasing agent. Later he became in 

 turn assistant general manager, assistant to the 

 president, vice-president and finally, in 1898, 

 president. His prominence in railroad affairs 

 led to his election as officer or director in 

 various industrial and financial corporations. 

 He was knighted in 1901, and in 1916 was raised 

 to the peerage as Baron Shaughnessy of Mon- 

 treal [Canada] and Ashford [County Limerick, 

 Ireland]. 



SHAUNAVON, shaw'navon, a town in 

 southern Saskatchewan, a division point on the 

 Weyburn-Lethbridge branch of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. It is 230 miles west of Wey- 

 burn, eighty-four miles east of Altawan, at 

 the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, and about 

 175 miles east of Lethbridge. Shaunavon is the 

 market and distributing point for a wheat- 

 growing and ranching country which is being 

 opened up by the Weyburn-Lethbridge line. 

 It has numerous general stores, lumber yards, 

 grain elevators and a flour mill. The town was 

 founded in 1914. Population in 1916, estimated, 

 1,200. 



SHAW, ALBERT (1857- ), the founder and 

 editor of the American Review of Reviews, 

 was born at Shandon, Ohio. He was graduated 

 at Iowa College (now Grinnell) in 1879, spent 

 several years as an editorial writer on the 

 Minneapolis Tribune, in study abroad, and as 

 professor of international law at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, before he began editing the Review of 

 Reviews, in 1891. Since that time he has 

 proved that as an editor of a current-events 

 magazine he has few equals. He has also an 

 established reputation as a writer on eco- 

 nomics and municipal government, and is the 

 author of Cooperation in the Northwest, Local 

 Government in Illinois, Municipal Government 

 in Great Britain, Municipal Government in 

 Continental Europe, Cartoon History of Roose- 

 velt's Career and other books. 



