Lake Charles

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a city of y of Louisians. the parish-seat of Calcasieu parish. It Louisiana, is on the Calcasieu river, and on the Kansas and on the City Southern, the Louisiana Western, the Louisiana the Lake Charles and Northern, the Baz and North- Louisiana and Pacific, and the St. Louis Pacific, and the , Iron Mountain and Southern railroads. It and Southern is on Lake Charles. Its public Charles. Its buildings include a Federal building, a Federal buildpublic library, city hall, sanitarium, and hotels. Its industries include the Industries inmanufacture of lumber, ice, flamber, ice, machine shop products, etc. It is the center of etc. It is the an important lumber Kumbar and petroleum and sulphur producing region. and Pop. (1910) oducing region. 11,449; (1920) 13,088. 20) 18,088. LAKE DWELLINGS In anthrapology the Pfahlbauten of German, the habita- , in anthropology tions lacustrines of an, the habita French writers. The earliest account of similar dwellings is to be found in Herodotus, who describes a whs describes Thracian tribe living, $20 . c., in a small mountain lake of what is now in 520 B. c., in a what is now Rumelia. The custom of constructing these constructing habitations has be down to the present day. The fishermen of Lake come down to the men of Laks Prasias, near Salonica, still inhabit wooden cottages built over the water, as the Thracian the water, as tribes did, and in the East Indies and in the East the practice of building lake settlements is very lding lake set common. The lake dwellings proper of por of Switz land came to light during the winter Switzermonths of ne the win 1853-1854, when the water of the lakes fell much below wits ordinar level. Dr. Keller, who first described its ordinary these lake dwellings, says that Brst deacibe platform was made of round timbers, the main rarely of split ronze tambers, boards, covered with a bed of mud; lovered with a the walls and sides were in great measure of Bidon were in interlaced branches, the oranches, the interstices filled with moss and daubed en and danbed with clay. Also artificial islands found found principally in Ireland, where they served the principurpose of by served the strongholds. In this case In this case "the support consisted not of piles of piles only, but of a solid mass of mud, stones, etc., only, with ed, stones, etc., layers of horizontal and dicular stakes, the latter serving less as perpena Serving support than to bind the mass firmly together." LAKE EDWARD or WARD NYANZA, a lake ED- Africa, on the boundary line between of Central Uganda and the Belgian Congo. The Congo lake is nearly 60 miles long and about half that distance in width. Together valley it with the smaller lakes in the . forms one of the sources of the Nile Discovered in 1876 by Stanley, who who the later for named it after Prince Edward, who later became Edward VII.