WURZBURG 



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WYANDOTTE 



situated in the southwestern part of the coun- 

 try, between Bavaria and Baden. It had an 

 area of 7,534 square miles and a population of 

 2,437,574 in 1910. About one-fifth of Lake 

 Comstance, on the south, belongs to Wiirttem- 



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berg. The surface of the country is generally 

 mountainous, and most of the soil is fertile, 

 producing grain, beets, potatoes, hops, tobacco, 

 flax and hemp; fruit trees flourish everywhere, 

 and excellent wines are produced from its thriv- 

 ing vineyards. The Black Forest, in the south- 

 west, provides vast quantities of timber, and 

 iron and salt are its most important minerals. 



Wurttemberg contains a famous seat of learn- 

 ing, the University of Tubingen; the Stuttgart 

 Conservatory of Music also enjoys a world- 

 wide reputation. It is the principal publishing 

 center in the southern part of the Empire. 

 Textiles, dyes, gold, silver and metal wares, 

 surgical and optical instruments are extensively 

 manufactured, and there are large breweries, 

 brickyards and sugar refineries in the industrial 

 rent ITS. Stuttgart (which see) is the capital. 



WURZBURG, viirtz'boorK, an ancient uni- 

 versity city of Germany, beautifully situated 

 on both banks of the Main, seventy miles 

 southeast of Frankfort. It is the capital of 

 Lower Franconia, a province of Bavaria. The 

 Episcopal Palace, dating from 1722, is .one of 

 flu most magnificent royal residences in Ger- 

 many; among its interesting apartments are 

 the Mirror Room, with paintings in Chinese 

 style on the reverse of mirrors, and the Gobelin 

 Room, hung with valuable tapestries. In con- 

 junction with the university, founded in 1582, 

 is the well -equipped Julius Hospital, with a 

 medical facility of hih repute. The univer- 

 sity, as well as the ho > founded by 

 Bishop Julius, in whose honor a fine statue has 

 been erected. Of the numerous chinches, the 



most noteworthy is the richly-decorated cathe- 

 dral, containing numerous altars, tombs, stat- 

 ues and sculptures; the Neumunster Church, 

 with the tomb of the poet Walther von der 

 Vogelweide; and the Marien-kapelle, a beau- 

 tiful monument of fourteenth-century German 

 art, with many tombs and statues. The im- 

 portant industries include the manufacture of 

 surgical and scientific instruments, machinery, 

 tobacco, etc. ; there are several large distilleries 

 ancr beer is extensively brewed. Population in 

 1910, 84,496. 



WU TING-FANG, woo ting jahng' (1842- 

 ), Chinese diplomat and statesman, three 

 times China's diplomatic representative in the 

 United States. He was born at Singapore, edu- 

 cated at Saint Paul's College in Hong-kong, 

 and for the law at Lincoln's Inn, London. For 

 a. time he practiced law in Hong-kong, but his 

 abilities attracted the attention of the govern- 

 ment and in 1882 he was made a member of 

 the official staff of Li Hung Chang, Grand 

 Chancellor of the Empire. He was one of the 

 peace commissioners who negotiated the treaty 

 of Shimonoseki, at the close of the Chinese- 

 Japanese War, and he held several important 

 offices before his appointment in 1896 as min- 

 ister to the United States. During his minis- 

 try the Chinese Exclusion Act was reenacted, 

 and this measure he vainly opposed. 



In 1902 Wu Ting-Fang was recalled to China 

 to assist in making commercial treaties with 

 various foreign powers, and for several years 

 concerned himself chiefly with the reorganiza- 

 tion of the penal system of his country. From 

 1908 to 1909 he was again minister to the 

 United States, and in 1912 returned to that 

 country for a year as representative of the new 

 republic. 



WYANDOTTE, wi'andot. See HURON. 



WYANDOTTE, Mini., a manufacturing city 

 in Wayne County, in the southeastern part of 

 the state, important as a center for chemical 

 manufactures. It is situated on the Dei 

 River, twelve miles southwest of Detroit. 

 twenty-three miles northeast of Monroe and 

 forty-seven miles northeast of Toledo, Ohio. 

 Transportation is provided by the Lake Shore 

 A Michigan Southern, the Michigan Central, 

 the Detroit. Toledo & Ironton and the Detroit 

 & Toledo Shore Line. Electric lines extend 

 north and south from the city. The place was 

 settled in 1854 by Major John Biddle, and was 

 named for the Wyandotte tribe of Indians. It 

 was made a village in the same year, was incor- 

 porated as a city in 1867 and it adopted the 



