STOCKTON 



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STODDARD 



Clipp's Yacht; 

 Afloat 



ably his most popular story, Rudder Grange, 

 appeared, and firmly established his fame 

 among American humorists. Among other 

 stories are The Lady or the Tiger? his best- 

 known short tale, which has been translated 

 into several other 

 languages ; The 

 Christmas Wreck 

 and Other Sto- 

 ries; The Casting 

 Away of Mrs. 

 Leeks and Mrs. 

 Aleshine, and its 

 sequel, The Du- 

 santes; The Bee- 

 man of Orn; The 

 Hundredth Man; 

 Pomona's Trav- FRANK R STOC KTON 

 els; The Adven- when he wrote The Lady 

 inrpt ni Cn-ntmn or the Tiger? he created a 

 11 situation the like of which 

 Horn; Mrs. probably never confronted any 

 other author. He could not 

 bring the story to a close be- 

 a n d cause ne was unable to decide 

 whether the lady or the tiger 

 Ashore; The Girl should come through the 



at Cobhurst, and doorwa y- 



Ting-a-Ling Stories, a collection of tales for 



children. 



After 1899 he lived at Claymont, in the Shen- 

 andoah Valley, near Charlestown, W. Va., an 

 estate formerly owned by the Washingtons and 

 planned by the first President of the United 

 States. He died at Washington, D. C. 



STOCK 'TK)N, CAL., the metropolis and 

 county seat of San Joaquin County, located 

 seventy-eight miles east of San Francisco and 

 forty-eight miles southeast of Sacramento. A 

 canal two and one-half miles long extends from 

 the center of the city to the San Joaquin River, 

 furnishing a water route of eighty-five miles 

 to San Francisco. Railroads entering the city 

 are the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the 

 Southern Pacific, the Western Pacific, the 

 Stockton Terminal & Eastern and the Tide- 

 water Southern. Electric interurban service 

 extends north and south. The population was 

 23,253 in 1910 and 35,358 in 1916 (Federal esti- 

 mate). The area exceeds four square miles. 



Prominent features of the city include a 

 Federal building erected at a cost of $142,190, 

 Hazleton Public Library, the Western Normal 

 School, Saint Agnes Academy, a state hospital 

 for the insane, a county hospital, Saint Joseph's 

 Home, Dameron Hospital and several bank 

 buildings. Within the city are ten parks, each 

 a block in size, and at the outskirts is a park of 

 twenty-seven acres. Along the canal within 



the city limits are warehouses, shipyards, lum- 

 ber yards and flour mills. Steamers sail daily 

 between Stockton and San Francisco, and water 

 commerce is extensive. Stockton is the princi- 

 pal market of this great central valley, a sec- 

 tion of grain fields, orchards and vineyards, 

 sheep and cattle farms and dairies. The city 

 has large grain, hay and produce warehouses, 

 and contains important manufactories of har- 

 vesters, traction engines, disk harrows and other 

 agricultural machinery, window glass, woolen 

 goods, mining machinery, wheat starch, maca- 

 roni, olive oil, wine, leather and canned goods. 

 Each year Stockton sends to market large 

 quantities of general merchandise and agricul- 

 tural produce, of which the most important 

 items are grain and millstuff, barley, beans and 

 potatoes. 



Stockton was settled in 1847 by Capt. C. M. 

 Weber, on a grant of land secured from the 

 Mexican government. Stock raising was at 

 first the only industry, but with the discovery 

 of gold in the Sierra Nevada Mountains the 

 settlement became an important supply sta- 

 tion. Boats were used to facilitate trade with 

 San Francisco, and with the agricultural de- 

 velopment of the valley Stockton grew as a 

 commercial and manufacturing center. It be- 

 came a city in 1850 and was named in honor 

 of Robert Field Stockton of the American 

 navy. The commission plan of government 

 was adopted in 1911. N.F.DEE. 



STODDARD, stod'ard, RICHARD HENRY 

 (1825-1903), an American poet, essayist and 

 critic, born at Hingham, Mass., the son of a 

 sea captain. While he was still a boy the 

 family moved to New York, and he attended 

 the public school there, later studying law. 

 After working for a time in a newspaper office 

 he learned the trade of a blacksmith and then 

 that of an iron molder, at which he worked 

 for several years. In 1849 he produced a vol- 

 ume of poems,. Footprints, and from that time 

 published frequently either prose or verse. 

 From 1853 to 1870 he had a place in the New 

 York customhouse, and from 1880 until his 

 death was literary editor of the Mail and Ex- 

 press, a New York evening paper. His works 

 include Songs of Summer, The King's Bell, The 

 Book of the East and Under the Evening 

 Lamp, besides biographies, juvenile books and 

 editions of the works of other poets. Stoddard 

 was a true poet, and his imaginative power at 

 times equals that of any other American poet. 

 Delicacy and sincerity are the chief character- 

 istics of his work, and some of his lyric poems 



