sired to be buried beside his daughter; and he claimed the right to select the spot where the man should be buried. Lloyd George advised that the rector's action was illegal, the gates of the churchyard were forced, and the interment took place in accordance with the quarryman's last wishes. The case was fought out in the courts, and in the end the young solicitor's action was fully vindicated. In the same year he married. Miss Maggie Owen, of Mynydd Edynfed Fawr, Criccieth. Four children-two sons and two daughters have been born of the union.

In 1888 Mr. Lloyd George was chosen Liberal candidate for the Carnaroon Burghs, and was returned at a bye-election in 1890 by a narrow majority on a platform the chief plank in which was Welsh Nationalism. He did not at first take much part in the debates; but in 1894 led a revolt against the Rosebery ministry because Welsh Disestablishment was not given a place in the government's legislative program for the session. His rise into prominence dates from the South African War. He was traveling in Canada when in September 1899 the crisis approached in the relations between the British and the Transvaal governments. He hurried home, and on the outbreak of war at once took up a position of strong antagonism to the government's war policy, and became the real leader of what was termed the "pro-Boer" section of the Liberal party. It required courage to face the hostility of popular audiences when the war spirit was running high; and at a meeting in Birmingham - the stronghold of the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Chamberlain - his platform was stormed, and he was compelled to make his exit. He specially singled out Chamberlain for attack, and was by no means scrupulous in the line he took, as when he charged that the Colonial Secretary had brought on the war in order to fill the pockets of his relations; but his boldness and pertinacity began to tell, and from that time he was a force to be reckoned with. He took a prominent part in the opposition to Balfour's Education Act of 1902. and strongly opposed Chamberlain in his tariff reform campaign. On the accession of the Liberals to power in 1905 he was invited to become president of the Board of Trade (11 December). To this time he had been known chiefly as a platform speaker with a gift for repartee and as an adroit and effective debater. president of the Board of Trade he applied himself assiduously to the duties of his office, spoke little, and presently began to manifest qualities hitherto held in the background- skill in constructive legislation, open-mindedness and tact in the handling of men. The Patents Bill of 1907 and the Port of London Bill, and his adroit handling of the railway strike and the cotton trade dispute, were proofs that a new Lloyd George had arisen. On the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and the accession power of Mr. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George succeeded the latter as Chancellor of the Exchequer (12 April 1908). In the following month he passed the Old Age Pensions Bill, which had been framed by his predecessor. His first budget, introduced 29 April 1909, gave rise to a prolonged and bitter controversy. It provided, among other things, for heavy increases on the income tax, and an entirely novel provision for a tax of 20 per cent on the unearned increment in land values- the moneys

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thus provided to be devoted to social legislation. The budget was received with enthusiasm by advanced Liberals; but it was strenuously opposed by powerful interests. The Chancellor conducted a vigorous campaign on behalf of his budget, in which he gave full rein to his wit and homely eloquence; but he did nothing to reconcile his opponents beyond hitting them on the head, a notable example of his method being furnished in the famous Limehouse oration. So strong was the opposition that the House of Lords was emboldened to take the dangerous and unconstitutional course of rejecting the Finance Bill introduced to give effect to the resolutions of the budget. There is no reason to suppose that the Chancellor was anything else than completely satisfied with the action of the House of Lords; for in the result it had signed its own death warrant. The Prime Minister promptly accepted the challenge, Parliament was dissolved, and with the assistance of Nationalists and Laborists- the government was again returned to power and the disputed budget put through. Meantime the Parliament Bill had been introduced providing for the effective curtailment of the powers of the Upper Chamber -a measure which was passed only after the verdict of the country had again been taken and after a political deadlock which ended when the assent of the Crown was announced to the creation of a sufficient number of peers to force the measure through the House of Lords in the event of that assembly proving obdurate. In 1911 the Chancellor passed the National Insurance Act a far-reaching but somewhat hastily constructed and insufficiently deliberated measure making provision for wage-earners. In 1913 a foolish investment of his in the shares of the American Marconi Company, with the parent company of which the British postoffice had contracts, laid him open to personal attack and was the subject of parliamentary inquiry. During the Home Rule controversy in the years immediately preceding the Great War, Mr. Lloyd George's influence was cast on the side of moderating counsels.

When Great Britain, following on the violation of Belgian territory, declared war on Germany on 4 Aug. 1914, eyes were naturally turned to Lloyd George, and there were not a few who expected him, owing to what were regarded as his pacifist tendencies, to resign from the Cabinet; but his speech in the Queen's Hall on 19 September showed that he was wholeheartedly in favor of its prosecution. As Chancellor of the Exchequer he took prompt and wise measures to maintain financial stability. Right from the outset of the war he appeared to realize, better than others in the Cabinet, the magnitude of the task that confronted the Allied nations, and early began to manifest some impatience with the slowness with which munitions were being supplied especially high-explosive shells. Partly as a result of this combined with the attacks of the Northcliffe press on Lord Kitchener's administration of the war office. on the formation of the Coalition Ministry in May 1915, appointed Minister of Munitions. This task called for a combination of qualities; and under his direction a network of arsenals soon covered the land, new workmen were trained, and women enlisted into the service. Not the least difficult of his tasks was in inducing the trade unions to forego for the

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duration of the war at least the exclusive and "ca' canny" policy dear to the heart of the British workman, in order that by dilution of labor the claimant needs of the nation might be met; and where his stirring appeals had no result, he succeeded in shaming them into acquiescence. Realizing the need of men, he supported from the outset, and forced to a head, the movement for compulsory national service. On the death of Lord Kitchener (June 1916) he became Secretary for War.

A crisis in his relations with the head of the government in December 1916 resulted in the accession to power of Mr. Lloyd George as Prime Minister. On land the war was not going well with the Allied nations; Rumania was being overrun and Bucharest had fallen; and there was a strong feeling in England - fanned into flame by the Northcliffe press-that Mr. Asquith was too inert, and that the method of conduct of the war on the civilian side would require to be drastically overhauled if satisfactory results were to be obtained. On 1 December Mr. Lloyd George, under threat of resignation, urged on his chief the necessity of placing the direction of the war in the absolute control of a war committee of four members, of which he (the Prime Minister) should not be one. After some negotiation and a modification of the original proposal, Mr. Asquith declined to accede, and the Chancellor resigned. As the Unionist members of the Cabinet supported Lloyd George, and his administration was therefore doomed, the Prime Minister placed his resignation in the hands of the king; and after the Unionist leader, Mr. Bonar Law, had declined to form a government, Mr. Lloyd George was on 6 December entrusted with the task of forming an administration. He began by a revolution. Instead of following the traditional British custom of forming his government exclusively from men holding seats in Parliament, he gave some of the most important portfolios to recognized experts who had had no political or parliamentary experience and had seats in Parliament provided for them. He found places in his inner war cabinet for Mr. Arthur Henderson, one of the labor leaders, and for two of his strongest opponents of other days Lord Curzon and Lord Milner. Indeed it may with truth be said that since his accession to power his foes have been chiefly those of his own household. His government has been called to face an extraordinary series of crises, in the surmounting of which he has shown great resourcefulness and audacity; and he had the misfortune to assume control just before the defection of Russia. He is regarded in Great Britain and the Dominions as the incarnation of the democratic spirit; and despite certain readily understandable limitations, such as lack of broad culture and occasional inaccuracy of statement, his flaming oratory, quickness in seizing the salient points of any situation, driving force, enthusiasm and dauntless courage, which mounts the higher when the tide of disappointment or misfortune rises, have braced the British people to dare all and to surrender all that victory may be won, and have proved an asset of incalculable value to all the Allied nations. And not the least of his services has been in securing unified command of the Entente armies, the fruits of

which began to be gathered in the series of military successes that crowned the autumn of 1918.

Consult Dilnot, 'Lloyd George: the Man and his Story (1917); 'Life' by Du Parcq (4 vols., 1912); Evans and Hughes, 'From Village Green to Downing Street' B. G. Evans, The Life Romance of Lloyd George' (1916); and Lloyd George and the War, by an Independent Liberal (1917). His earlier war speeches have been published under the title 'From Terror to Triumph' (1915). D. S. DOUGLAS,

Editorial Staff of The Americana. GEORGE, Grace, American actress: b. New York 1880. In 1894 she made her first public appearance in The New Boy.' In 1899 she starred in The Princess Chiffon' and in 'Her Majesty' (1900). Subsequent triumphs came in Under Southern Skies? (1902); 'Frou-Frou (1903); 'Pretty Peggie' (1904) and 'The Two Orphans' (1904). As Cyprienne in 'Divorcons' she achieved a splendid success in both London and New York in 1907 and in the subsequent revival of this piece in 1913. Other plays in which she appeared were 'Sylvia of the Letters' (1909); A Woman's Way' (1909); Just to Get Married' (1912); (The Earth (1912); Half an Hour (1912); The Truth' (1914). Consult Winter, William, The Wallet of Time) (2 vols., New York 1913).

GEORGE, Henry, American political economist: b. Philadelphia, 2 Sept. 1839; d. New York, 29 Oct. 1897. In boyhood he made a voyage before the mast to India; made his way to California as a sailor in 1858 and from thence to Vancouver Island; returning to California, worked at his own trade of printer and other employments, until he became a reporter for the San Francisco Times, and in 1867 the editor of the same paper. While in California he became deeply impressed with the evils of land monopoly as evidenced by the fortunes accruing to the holders up of the soil, and this set a stamp on his after career. In 1871 he published 'Our Land and Land Policy> in which he advocated the single tax theory, later developed more fully in Progress and Poverty (1879). In this latter work, he not only explained his policy of land taxation (see SINGLE TAX), but also attacked the doctrine of Malthus (q.v.), and the "wages fund" theory, advancing the theory that the wages of labor are paid out of the value that the laborer creates, not from a "fund" of capital. The book did not at once attract much attention, and was first widely noticed in England; later attaining great popularity in this country. George visited England in 1880-81, and on his return settled in New York, where he devoted his time to writing, and agitation and organization for the single tax movement. In 1886 he was nominated for mayor of New York by the United Labor party, but was defeated, though receiving over 67,000 votes. In 1897 he was again nominated for mayor and took an active part in the campaign, but died before election day. His works, besides those already mentioned, include The Irish Land Question' (1881); 'Social Problems' (1883); Property in Land'; "The Condition of Labor'; 'Protection or Free Trade (1886). His complete works were published in 10 volumes in New York in 1904. Con

sult George, 'Life of Henry George) (New York 1905).

GEORGE, Henry, American_legislator and economist: b. Sacramento, Cal., 3 Nov. 1862; d. Washington, D. C., 14 Nov. 1916. He was a son of Henry George, the political economist. He was educated in the public schools, and entered a printing house at 16. He entered on a journalistic career in 1881; accompanied his father as secretary on a lecture tour of Great Britain in 1883; and on his father's sudden death during the New York mayoralty campaign of 1897, he was nominated to succeed his father as candidate of the Jeffersonian party, but was defeated at the polls. In 1906 he was correspondent in Japan for a syndicate of newspapers and magazines, and in 1909 for Collier's Weekly. He campaigned for LloydGeorge in the British general election of 1909. He was elected to the 62d Congress (1911-13) from the 17th New York District, and to the 63d Congress 1913-15 from the 21st New York District. He published 'Life of Henry George' (1900); The Menace of Privilege' (1905); The Romance of John Bainbridge) (1906). His last years were spent in lecturing and writing on economic subjects.

GEORGE, James Zachariah, American politician: b. Monroe County, Ga., 20 Oct. 1826; d. Mississippi City, Miss., 14 Aug. 1897. He fought in the ranks in the Mexican War, afterward studied law, became brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and in 1879-81 was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. In 1880 he was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, and in 1886 and 1892 was re-elected. As a jurist he aided in drafting the present State constitution of Mississippi, and in the Senate he was well known as an orator.

GEORGE, Stefan (STEPHAN ΑΝΤΟΝ GEORGE), German poet: b. near Bingen on the Rhine, 12 July 1868, is the accepted head of a group of young poets who attempted to establish a school of new lyricism which should consciously, almost polemically, break with the old traditions, especially of artificial popular poetry, of naturalism and of the reigning symbolism. George could not create new meters, nor new rhymes, but his independent use of these and his originality are always in evidence. He is seldom reminiscent and never an imitator.

A selection of his earliest poems, treating in fairly original, carefully polished form the common subjects of love and loss, fate, spring, home, faith, the transience of things, is now accessible in 'Die Fibel' ('The Primer,' 1901). Of greater power and intensity of feeling are the 'Hymns, Pilgrimages, Algabal' (Hymnen Pilgerfahrten Algabal') with their "pilgrimage" toward artistic perfection, revealing hopes, fears, disappointments and discouragement. The lyric story of the SyroRoman Imperial degenerate Elgabolus, with its mixture of Oriental splendor and Roman tyranny, crazy jumble of mad religious superstitions, of sloth, crimes, suicidal impulse, love of life, lusts, pleasures, and the Imperial realization of the vanity of life, has even been taken to symbolize the history of that lyric poetry with which the new school are done. This "nightmare," which George seems to call it in

the last poem of the book, has probably more admirers than any of his other works.

This æsthetic pilgrimage is continued in the 'Books of the Shepherds and of the Eulogies, of Sagas and Songs of the Hanging Gardens' (Die Bücher der Hirten und Preisgedichte, Der Sagen und Sänge und der hängenden Gärten) (1895) which pass in review primitive, Hellenic, mediæval and modern man. (The Year of the Soul (Das Jahr der Seele,' 1898) treats the relations of man and woman with the seasons as a background, excepting spring, as if Heine and other poets had exhausted that field. In 'The Carpet of Life and the Songs of Dream and Death' ('Der Teppich des Lebens und Die Lieder von Traum und Tod mit einem Vorspiel') the poet's "Angel" plays a rôle like that of Virgil and Beatrice to Dante.

The Seventh Ring' ('Der siebente Ring') contains many poems passed over in other volumes, and good odes. 'Der Stern des Bundes (1913) was the last important work before the European War of which it was curiously prophetic. Finally, George's translations (Übertragungen) of his spiritual kin Rossetti, Swinburne, Verhaeren, Verlaine, Mallarmé, D'Annunzio and others are excellent. Consult Goldschmidt, K. W., in Literarische Echo (1905-06); Meyer, R. M., in Deutsche Literatur des XIX Jahrh.; Zwymann, Kuno, 'Das Georgesche Gedicht' (2d ed., Berlin 1904). CARL E. EGGER,

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GEORGE, W. L., English author: Paris, 20 March 1882. He was educated in Paris and served in the French army. He was educated successively as an analytical chemist, an engineer, a barrister, a soldier and a business man, and having proved a failure at all these took to journalism about 1907. He has contributed to most London publications on topics ranging between the art of the troubadours and the finance of railways. He is especially interested in feminism and its subsidiaries: marriage and divorce problems, fashions, votes for women, and sex questions generally. In politics he is an aggressive pacifist, an opponent of the idea of nationality and a republican (this latter subject to the view that the people should not be trusted but led). He has been special correspondent of various papers in France, Belgium and Spain. He wrote Engines of Social Progress' (1907); 'France in the Twentieth Century) (1908); 'Labor and Housing at Port Sunlight' (1909). He became convinced in 1909 that social and philosophic ideas are best spread through fiction and wrote A Bed of Roses' (1911); then followed The City of Light' (1912); Until the Daybreak (1913); The Making of an Englishman' (1914); and The Second Blooming' (1916); the latter was one of the most successful novels of 1915, 10 editions of it being sold. He also wrote 'Woman and To-Morrow' (1913); 'Dramatic Actualities' (1914); Anatole France) (1915); Olga Nazimov (1915) and The Stranger's Wedding' (1916).

GEORGE, William Reuben, American sociologist: b. West Dryden, N. Y., 4 June 1866. He received his education in the public schools and in 1880 settled in New York. From 1890 to 1894 he made a practice of taking numbers

of boys and girls on a vacation during the summer months. From this he conceived the idea of a junior republican community in which the members would work for what they received, but would all have a voice in the management of the community. In 1895 the plan blossomed forth in "George Junior Republic," at Freeville, N. Y. He originated also the social service prison reform method, which is being adopted by many State penal institutions. Although the invitations to public office have been numerous he has refused holding any such, wishing to devote his whole time to the development of the self-support and self-government idea among the youth of the country. See GEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC.

GEORGE, Lake. See LAKE GEORGE.

GEORGE, Order of Saint. See GARTER, ORDER OF THE; ORDERS (ROYAL); Russia, Bavaria, Hanover, Sicily, Great Britain.

GEORGE-A-GREENE, THE PINNER OF WAKEFIELD. A comedy written in 1595-96 and on slender evidence attributed to Robert Greene. It is founded on an old prose romance entitled 'The History of George-a-Greene) and a ballad, The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield with Robin Hood, Scarlet and John.'

GEORGE BARNWELL, or THE LONDON MERCHANT, a prose tragedy, dealing with bourgeois society, and written by George Lillo. It was produced at Drury Lane Theatre, 22 June 1731. Consult Cibber, Colley, 'Life of George Lillo.'

GEORGE OF CAPPADOCIA, sometimes called GEORGE THE ARIAN, also GEORGE THE FULLER OF CAPPADOCIA. His father was a fuller by occupation. The date of his birth is not known; d. Alexandria, Egypt, A.D. 361. He belonged to the Arian party in the Church, and is credited by the opposite party with having been a despicable parasite and vagabond, exceedingly corrupt, vile and ignorant. He was for a time a subaltern in the Commissariat Department of the army and embezzled funds and had to flee. He then became a low vagabond. Of his ignorance it was said by his enemies that he had "no knowledge of letters and still less of the Holy Scriptures." The Emperor Constans favored the Arian party, and when an assembly of 30 Arian bishops met at Antioch in the year 356, George was sent to Alexandria to govern the Church and to see Athanasius. George was given a bodyguard of soldiers commanded by Sebastian, Duke of Egypt, who was a Manichæan. All sorts of sacred places were entered in search for Athanasius and a reign of terror ensued. Sixteen bishops are said to have been banished and others fled or submitted. The Alexandrians rose against George and he was obliged to fly from the city. Later he returned backed up by the authority of Constans. The pagans were his enemies because he had pillaged their temples. They arose against him and maltreated him. The next day they paraded him about the city on the back of a camel, and finally threw him and the animal upon a blazing pile of combustibles. His ashes were thrown to the winds and his house plundered. The Emperor Julian wrote to the rioters, condemning them seriously, but let them go without punishment. George had an extensive

library which the Emperor Julian tried to recover. He may have been as bad a man as represented, but the fact that he owned a large library was certainly not in keeping with the claim that he was ignorant. All the writings that survive that time are from the pens of members of the other party, and were written in the white heat of partisanship. We shall probably never learn the exact truth concerning him.

GEORGE ELIOT. See ELIOT, GEORGE.

GEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC, the community established (1895) near Freeville, N. Y., by William R. George (q.v.) as a method of reform in the treatment of dependent and delinquent boys and girls. The organization is that of a miniature village, in fact the whole principle of the Junior Republic is embodied in the following statement: The Junior Republic is a village, just exactly the same as any other village in the country. This means that it embodies the same social, civic and economic conditions. The one essential difference is the fact that its citizens reach their voting age when they are 16 instead of 21 years. Its operation has been successful. Students from all parts of the world have made pilgrimages to Freeville to see the little colony in operation. Originally it was designed to be used for delinquents only, but its scope has enlarged so that its citizenship is made up of boys and girls of all classes and conditions of society, in addition to those who have been delinquent. It is possible for the young people to learn a trade in this community, likewise prepare for college. The idea has extended to other States, and at the present time there are seven other republics in different parts of the United States. There is also a little commonwealth in England which is carried on in much the same manner. Many of the institutions in the country have adopted some of the Junior Republic ideas. Particularly is this true in some of the prisons.

GEORGE PEABODY COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS. See PEABODY COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS.

GEORGE SAND, zhôrzh'ę sänd. See SAND, GEORGE.

GEORGE OF TREBIZOND, noted Greek scholar: b. Crete, about 1396; d. 1484. His family belonged to Trebizond. He was invited to Venice by Francesco Barbaro and in that city became a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy. Subsequently he served as secretary to Pope Eugenius IV and later to Pope Nicholas V. At Rome his fame spread as a Greek scholar and translator. His work as translator was severely criticised by contemporary scholars. He was a follower of Aristotle in philosophy and was in frequent conflict with the Platonist, Gemistus Plethon. George's works include 'Rhetorica' (1470); Comparationes Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis (1523). Consult Fabricius, 'Bibliotheca Græca (Vol. XII, Hamburg 1790-1809), and Voigt, 'Die Wiederbelebung des Classischen Altertums) (2d ed., 2 vols., Berlin 1893).

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. Founded in 1821 as Columbian College; by amendatory acts of Congress its name was changed in 1873 to Columbian University and in 1904 to The

George Washington University. It has colleges and schools as follows: Columbian College (academic), Teachers College, the College of Engineering and the Graduate School - all comprehended in the Department of Arts and Sciences the Medical School, the Dental School and the Law School. Also it has affiliated with it the National College of Pharmacy and the College of Veterinary Medicine. It repeats morning instruction in the late afternoons, thereby meeting the needs of government employees and others holding salaried positions.

GEORGE'S CHANNEL.

GEORGE'S CHANNEL.

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GEORGETOWN, capital of British Guiana, situated on the eastern side of the Demarara River, at its mouth, with the Caribbean Sea for a second frontage. The city covers an area of 1,200 acres. Nearly every building in the quarters devoted to private dwellings is isolated from its neighbor and surrounded by palms, shrubs, or forest trees. The streets cross each other at right angles; those which run north and south in some cases have long canals in the centre, beyond which are the roadways the width of such streets being more than 100 feet. On Main (or High) street are situated the town-hall, Victoria law courts, police magistrate's office, Colonial Bank, Presbyterian church, Portuguese Roman Catholic church and the Methodist church. The public buildings, where the Court of Policy sits, and the Anglican cathedral are also in this section. Another fine street is the Brick Dam, the two rows of houses in which constituted the entire town of Stabroek before the colony was captured by the British. The finest building in the colony, the Roman Catholic cathedral, stands a short distance east of this street. The Royal Mail Company, with its fortnightly mail service, makes the port of Georgetown a terminus; boats of the French Compagnie Generale Transatlantique monthly on the way to Cayenne; the Dutch Mail does the same when going to Surinam; and steamers of a Canadian line also call every fourth week. Vessels drawing more than 20 feet cannot cross the bar at the mouth of the river, and those of even lighter draught are obliged to wait for high water. A line of steamers subsidized by the government makes daily trips from Georgetown to Essequibo; three times a week a steamer runs to Berbice; twice a week up the Demarara and Berbice rivers; and there is fortnightly communication by boat with Morawhanna, the capital of the northwestern district. A railway also connects Georgetown with Mahaica, on the east coast. The West India and Panama Telegraph Company also puts the city and colony in communication with other countries. There are good street car and telephone services. The city water, brought from creeks 20 miles distant through the Lamah Canal, is chiefly valuable in case of fire; it is not sufficiently pure for household use. The city is lighted by gas and electricity. Municipal affairs are managed by a mayor and town council. The value of real property is nearly $8,000,000; the portion held by Europeans and Creoles (other than Portuguese) being valued at $4,611,575; the portion held by Portuguese at $1,938,370; by

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East Indians, $101,930; and by Chinese, $45,750. The tax-rate is usually 2 per cent per annum on the appraised value of private property. There is a well-equipped and trained fire brigade; nevertheless the precautions which have been taken failed to prevent very destructive fires (22 Dec. 1913; also in 1873 and 1896). Among the important institutions are the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, which has a library of over 17,000 volumes, and maintains reading-rooms, etc.; the Institute of Mines and Forests and the Chamber of Commerce. Of the newspapers, one is issued daily, and a number weekly, bi-weekly or tri-weekly. The port is regarded as healthful. There were two or three severe attacks of yellow fever half a century ago, but since that time the drainage has been improved, and the neighborhood of the wharves kept clean, and during the past 50 years only one serious outbreak has occurred. The number of inhabitants is given as 59,955. See GUIANA, BRITISH.

GEORGETOWN, city in the Straits Settlements. See PENANG.

GEORGETOWN, Colo.,_ town and the county-seat of Clear Creek County, situated, at an altitude of 8,475 feet, in a valley in the Rocky Mountains, 52 miles west of Denver on Clear Creek and the Colorado and Southern Railway. It is the centre of an important silver district, and has also gold, lead, zinc and copper interests. The town is picturesque and healthful and enjoys some reputation as a summer resort. It has a park, public library, hospital and gas and electric-light plants. The water system is owned by the municipality. Pop. 1,950.

GEORGETOWN, Del., town and the county-seat of Sussex County, 40 miles south by east of Dover, on the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is situated in an agricultural district. The chief interest is the canning industry. Pop. 1,609.

GEORGETOWN, D. C., formerly a town in the District of Columbia; now included within the limits of Washington (q.v.), and sometimes called West Washington. It was at the head of Potomac navigation, and the port of entry for the District of Columbia.

GEORGETOWN, Ky., city and the countyseat of Scott County, 12 miles north of Lexing ton and 20 miles east of Frankfort, on the Frankfort and Cincinnati, the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific and the Louisville Southern railroads. It is in the heart of the "blue-grass" region, and the centre of an important stock-raising and agricultural districts, Flouring-mills, brick-works and other industries are also located here. Georgetown College (q.v.) is here situated. The "Royal Spring," which rises in the centre of Georgetown and furnishes about 200,000 gallons of water per hour, supplies the municipal water plant and affords the power for the street railway, an ice plant, a flour mill and other establishments. Georgetown was settled in 1776, incorporated in 1790 and received its charter in 1894. The government is administered by a mayor, chosen for four years, and municipal council, elected on a general ticket. Pop. 4,533.

GEORGETOWN, Ohio, village and the county-seat of Brown County, 42 miles east by