Chattanooga
city and county-seat of Hamilton co., Tenn.; on the Tennessee river, with railroad and steamship communications with all southern ports. It is situated on high grounds, at the foot of Lookout Mountain, and in the midst of picturesque scenery. It is the site of a National Soldiers' Cemetery, with over 13,000 graves, and the Chattanooga and Chickamauga National Military Park.
The manufacturing interests of the city are favored by the nearby deposits of coal, iron, clay, and other minerals, and also by the hydro-electric power derived from the Tennessee and Ocoee rivers, to utilize which plants costing $15,- 000,000 have been built. The Federal census of 1914 showed a capital invest- 000,000 have been built. The Federal census of 1914 showed a capital investment of $20,615,000; value of products, $19,652,000; 7,085 wage earners, and salaries and wages of $5,461,000. There are over 300 factories producing over 1,200 different articles. The principal manufactures are foundry and machine shop products, lumber, furniture, steel, in beautiful buildings, among which are the Court house, of Tennessee marble, foods.
Public Buildings. - The city abounds in beautiful buildings, among which are the Court house, of Tennessee marble, costing $500,000; the Hotel Patten, a million-dollar structure; the Y. W. C. A., Carnegie library, terminal station, besides many handsome churches. Charitable institutions include the Old Ladies' Home, Pine Breeze Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Baroness Erlanger Hos- pital, Vine Street Orphans' Home, Fran- ces Willard Working Girls' Home, and pital, Vine Street Orphans' Home, Fran- There are excellent schools, with an Kosmos Cottage.
There are excellent schools, with an average attendance of about 10,000.
The city's churches number over 120.
There are two private secondary schools, besides the City High School and the Central High School. For higher education there are the University of Chat tanooga and the Chattanooga School of Law.
Banking. Chattanooga has 11 banks, with a capital and surplus of over $6,- 000,000. The bank clearings in 1919 were $189,002,000.
History. Chattanooga was settled in 1836, and was originally called Ross's and in 1863 was occupied and nearly destroyed by the Union forces. It was the scene of three of the greatest battles of the Civil War: Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Lookout Mountain. Pop. (1910) 44,604; (1920) 57,895.
Ridge, and Lookout Mountain. Pop. (1910) 44,604; (1920) 57,895. term used to designate any kind of property which, with reference either to the nature of the subject or the character of the interest possessed in it, is not freehold. Ownership in personal or movable property is generally absolute.
Any estate or interest in lands and tenemovable property is generally absolute. tel. But as between property thus "savoring of realty" and mere personal movables-money, plate, cattle, and the like-there was a manifest distinction.
Chattels were consequently distinguished into chattels-real and chattels-personal.
These classes of property differ considerably as to the method of holding and transferring them and their devolution on death.
CHAUCER ly devoted to reading, and was especially youth whose genius and melancholy fate have gained him much celebrity; born at Bristol in 1752, of poor parents, and educated at a charity school. He ex- "A Description of the Friars' First Passing Over the Old Bridge," which he ly devoted to reading, and was especially at Bristol was completed, he inserted a fond of old writings and documents. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to an "A Description of the Friars' First attorney. In 1768, when the new bridge paper in the "Bristol Journal" entitled Passing Over the Old Bridge," which he showed his friends several poems of simpretended he had found along with other old manuscripts in an old chest in St.
Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol. He also ilar spurious antiquity which he attribber of old Bristol painters which was clever enough to deceive Walpole for a time. Dismissed from the attorney's ber of old Bristol painters which was tured to write to Horace Walpole, then clever enough to deceive Walpole for a engaged upon his "Anecdotes of Paint.
Dismissed from the attorney's office, he left with his manuscripts for London, where a favorable reception from the booksellers gave him high time.
London, where a favorable reception office, he left with his manuscripts for Lo from the booksellers gave him high became daily more desperate. At last, hopes. For them he wrote numerous pamphlets, satires, letters, etc., but got no substantial return, and his situation those published under the name of Rowafter having been several days without food, he poisoned himself, Aug. 25, 1770.
The most remarkable of his poems are