Brisbane
Brisbane names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Brisbane the capital, a seaport and chief seat of trade of Queensland
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the capital, a seaport and chief seat of trade of Queensland, Australia, situated about 500 miles N. of Sydney, in Moreton District. It stands about 25 miles from the mouth of a river of its own name, which falls into Moreton Bay, and it is divided into the four divisions of North Brisbane, South Brisbane, Kangaroo Point, and Fortitude Valley. Pop. about 145,000. Brisbane possesses broad and handsome streets, res, and some fine buildings, among the chief of which are the Houses of Legislature, which cost $100,000, the postoffice, telegraph office, the viceregal lodge, and the Queensland National Bank. It is the seat of an Anglican and of a Roman Catholic bishop. There are some 50 churches, the chief being the two cathedrals; and several daily and weekly newspapers are published. The export trade, which is large, includes gold, wool, cotton, sugar, tallow, and hides; and the imports, most of the articles in use among a thriving community. Regular steam communication is kept up with the other Australian ports, as well as with London (11,295 miles), and there is an extensive system of wharfs on both sides of the river. Brisbane was settled as a penal station, in 1825, by Sir T. Brisbane, Governor of New South Wales. In 1836 the town comprised the houses of the commandant and other officers, barracks, a tread mill, stores, etc. Three years later the convict settlement was broken up. In 1842, the colony was opened to free settlers. The Brisbane river rises in the Burnett Range, and receives the Bremer and other rivers before its entrance into Moreton Bay, below the town of Brisbane. The Victoria lattice girder bridge (1,080 feet long), connecting North and South Brisbane, was destroyed by a flood, in 1 1893, which laid half of South Brisbane in ruins.
Brisbane ARTHUR, an American editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTHUR, an American editor; born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1864. His education was a public school one, supplemented by a residence of five years in France and Germany. He entered upon a newspaper career as a reporter for the New York "Sun." Later he became editor of the "Evening Sun," from which he went to a similar position on the "World." In 1897 he became editor of the New York "Evening Journal" and the brilliancy of his editorial writing soon made him a national figure.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 Brisbane held "about 145,000" people in four separate divisions; in 1925 those and some twenty other local bodies were merged into a single City of Brisbane, and the metropolitan area now holds well over two million, making it Australia's third-largest city and the host of the 2032 Summer Olympics. The flood that destroyed the Victoria bridge in 1893 was not the last: the river drowned the city again in 1974 and in 2011, and North and South Brisbane are now joined by several crossings, including the Story Bridge of 1940. The export list has changed almost beyond recognition, with coal and other minerals shipped through the Port of Brisbane, relocated to the river mouth at Fisherman Islands, rather than tallow and hides from wharves in town. Arthur Brisbane, "a national figure" in 1921, went on to become William Randolph Hearst's most highly paid and most widely syndicated columnist before his death in 1936.
Written for this edition, 2026.