TRINIDAD 



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TRIP HAMMER 



TRIN'IDAD, the second largest island of 

 the British West Indies, lies six miles east of 

 the coast of Venezuela, near the mouths of the 

 Orinoco River. It is larger than the state of 

 Rhode Island, for it is about 1,754 square miles 



LOCATION MAP 



The nearness of Trinidad to the mainland of 

 South America is shown on the map in the west 

 and in the southwest corner. 



in area, and except for one projection is rectan- 

 gular in shape. In the north and south there 

 are ranges of hills furrowed with many ravines 

 and covered to the very top with dense forests. 

 The most striking natural features are Maracas 

 Falls, where a river leaps in a torrent over a 

 wall of rock 312 feet high, and Pitch Lake, 

 which furnishes the bulk of the world's supply 

 of asphalt (which see). The soil around Pitch 

 Lake is full of asphalt, but is very fertile. The 

 road from the lake to Labrae, the nearest port, 

 is built on a bed of asphalt, and is constantly 

 moving towards the sea, like a glacier. 



Trinidad is an English crown colony, with the 

 seat of government at Port de Spain. Its popu- 

 lation in 1911 was 333,552. About a third of the 

 people are East Indians, whose immigration 

 from India has been encouraged by the English 

 government. The upper classes are Creoles of 

 British, French and Spanish blood; the rest of 

 the people are negroes. Besides asphalt, Trini- 

 dad exports cocoa, sugar, rum, molasses, coffee, 

 tobacco, fruit, timber, dyewoods and India rub- 

 ber. See WEST INDIES. 



TRINIDAD, COLO., the county seat of Las 

 Animas County, situated in the stock-raising, 

 coal-mining and agricultural section, in the ex- 

 treme southern part of the state. Trinidad is 



ninety-one miles south of Pueblcuand 685 miles 

 southwest of Kansas City. Its site is on the 

 Las Animas River, about fifty miles east of the 

 Continental Divide. It is served by the Atchi- 

 son, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Denver & Rio 

 Grande, the Colorado & Wyoming and the 

 Colorado & Southern railways, and electric 

 lines operate north and south. The prosperity 

 of the city depends mainly on the mines and on 

 the agricultural products of the vicinity; the 

 annual output of the mines is estimated at 

 $6,750,000. The industrial establishments in- 

 clude railroad offices and shops and a wool- 

 scouring mill. Trinidad has a $380,000 county 

 courthouse, constructed in 1916; a $200,000 Fed- 

 eral building, erected in 1903; a high school, a 

 business school, Saint Joseph's Academy, San 

 Rafael Hospital and a Carnegie Library. In 

 1910 the population was 10,204; in 1916 it was 

 13,875 (Federal estimate). 



TRINITY, trin'i ti, the conception of God as 

 one, and yet as having a threefold personality, 

 Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The doctrine is a 

 development of Christian theology, not being 

 taught in the Old Testament, but capable of 

 being deduced from passages in the New Testa- 

 ment. The first authoritative statement of be- 

 lief in Father, Son and Holy Spirit was made 

 by the earliest general council of churches, held 

 at Nice in 325, which also declared the Son to 

 be of equal substance with the Father. With 

 regard to the Holy Spirit, the East and West 

 subsequently divided, the Eastern Church hold- 

 ing procession of the Spirit from the Father 

 through the Son, and the West procession alike 

 from Father and Son. In the Protestant view, 

 Father, Son and Holy Spirit are equal, each 

 having a specific activity, the Father that of 

 creation, the Son that of redemption, and the 

 Spirit that of sanctification, but the doctrine of 

 the three in one is considered to be a mystery 

 for which there is no adequate explanation. 



TRINITY SUNDAY, the Sunday after Pente- 

 cost, or Whitsunday, sacred to the celebration 

 of the Trinity, and introduced into the Church 

 calendar by Pope John XXII (1316-1334). It 

 concludes the principal Church festivals of the 

 year, and the succeeding Sundays till Advent 

 are called Sundays after Trinity. The receiving 

 of Holy Communion between the first Sunday 

 of Lent and Trinity Sunday is obligatory on all 

 communicants in the Roman Catholic Church. 



TRIP HAMMER, a power hammer used 

 principally in such forgings as do not require 

 the heavy blows of a steam hammer. It is 

 mounted on a pivoted beam, which has an 



