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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 769 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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hall, the U.S. See also:government See also:building, St See also:Matthew's See also:cathedral (Prot. Episc.), the cathedral of the Sacred See also:Heart (Rom. Cath.), the See also:city See also:hospital, St See also:Paul's sanitarium (Rom. Cath.), and the Baptist Memorial sanitarium. Educational institutions include See also:Dallas medical See also:college( 1901) ,the colleges of See also:medicine and See also:pharmacy of Baylor University, the medical college of See also:South-western University (at See also:Georgetown, See also:Texas), See also:Oak Cliff See also:female See also:academy, See also:Patton See also:seminary, St See also:Mary's female college (Prot. Episc.), and See also:Holy Trinity college (Rom. Cath.). The city had in 1908 three parks—Bachman's See also:Reservoir (Soo acres); See also:Fair (525 acres)—the Texas See also:state fair grounds, in which an See also:annual See also:exhibition is held—and City See also:park (17 acres). See also:Lake Cliff, See also:Cycle and Oak See also:Lawn parks are amusement grounds. A Confederate soldiers' See also:monument, a See also:granite See also:shaft 50 ft. high, was erected in 1897, with statues of R. E.

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Lee, See also:Jefferson See also:Davis, " Stonewall " See also:Jackson and A. S. See also:Johnston. Dallas was in 1900 the third city in See also:population and the most important railway centre in Texas. It is a See also:shipping centre for a large See also:wheat, See also:fruit and See also:cotton-raising region, and the See also:principal jobbing See also:market for See also:northern Texas, See also:Oklahoma and See also:part of See also:Louisiana, and the biggest distributing point for agricultural machinery in the South-See also:west. It is a livestock market, and one of the See also:chief centres in the See also:United States for the manufacture of See also:saddlery and See also:leather goods, and of cotton-See also:gin machinery. It has See also:flour and grist See also:mills (the products of which ranked first in value among the city's manufactures in 1905), wholesale slaughtering and See also:meat-packing establishments, See also:cooper-See also:age See also:works, railway repair shops, cotton compresses, See also:lumber yards, See also:salt works, and manufactories of cotton-See also:seed oil and cake, boots and shoes and cotton and agricultural machinery. In 1900 and 1905 it was the principal manufacturing centre in the state, the value of its factory product in 1905 being $15,627,668, an increase of 64.7 % over that in 'See also:god. The See also:water-works are owned and operated by the city, and the water is taken from the See also:Elm See also:fork of Trinity See also:river. There are several artesian See also:wells. Dallas, named in See also:honour of G. M.

Dallas, was settled in 1841, and first chartered as a city in 1856. The city is governed, under a See also:

charter of 1907, by a See also:mayor and four commissioners, who together pass ordinances, appoint nearly all city See also:officers, and generally are responsible for administering the government. In addition a school See also:board is elected by the See also:people. The charter contains initiative and See also:referendum provisions, provides for the recall of any elective city See also:official, and prohibits the granting of any See also:franchise for a longer See also:term than twenty years.

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