Batangas
a province on the S. coast of Luzon Island, Philippines; also the name of the capital of the province. The city has an excellent harbor, and prior to the war between the United States and Spain was the seat of a large commerce. The province is one of the richest sugar growing districts in the Philippines. It is also notable for its large production of cocoanut oil, the larger part of which is used for domestic purposes, chiefly lamp oil and lubricating machinery. Pop. of city about 40,000. Province: area, 1,108 square miles; pop. about 275,000.
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Batavia (City and seaport of Java)
a city and seaport of Java, on the N. coast of the island, the capital of all the Dutch East Indies. It is situated on a wide, deep bay, the principal warehouses and the offices of the Europeans being in the old town, which is built on a low, marshy plain near the sea and very unhealthful; while the Europeans reside in a much healthier quarter. Batavia has a large trade, sugar being the chief export. It was founded by the Dutch in 1619, and attained its greatest prosperity in the beginning of the 18th century. Its inhabitants are chiefly Malay. Pop. (1917) about 180,000 natives, about 30,000 Chinese, Arabs and other Orientals, and about 24,000 Europeans.
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Batavia (Properly the name)
properly the name of the island occupied by the ancient Batavi, became at a later date the Latin name for Holland and the whole kingdom of the Netherlands. The name Batavian Republic was given to the Netherlands on their new organization, May 16, 1795, and they continued to bear it until they were converted into the kingdom of Holland, under Louis Bonaparte, June 8, 1806.
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Batavia (Village and county-seat)
a village and county-seat of Genesee co., N. Y., on the Tonawanda creek and several railroads; 37 miles E. of Buffalo. It is in an agricultural region; contains manufactories of ploughs and harvesters, carriage wheels, shoes, guns and forgings, and other industries; and has the State Institution for the Blind, the Dean Richmond Memorial Library, a National bank, daily and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 11,613; (1920) 13,541.
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Batcheller
GEORGE SHERMAN, an American jurist, born in Batchellerville, N. Y., July 25, 1837. He was graduated at Harvard University; was admitted to the bar in 1858; entered the Union Army at the beginning of the Civil War; was taken prisoner prisoner at Harper's Ferry, hen appointand exchanged in 186 1863; was then ed Deputy Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of the South; and, in 1865-1870, was Inspector-General on the staff of Governor Fenton of New York. In 1858, 1872, and 1873 he was elected to the State Assembly; and, in 1875, was appointed one of the judges of the newly organized Supreme Court of Egypt for a term of five years. In 1883 he became President of the International Tribunal of Egypt; in 1889, Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury; in 1890, United States Minister-Resident, and Consul-General to Portugal; and in 1897, again a member of the International Tribunal of Egypt. In the last year he decoreceived from King Humbert the ration of the great cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy, in recognition of his services as President of the Universal Postal Congress which met in Washington in May, 1897. He died July 2, 1908.
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Batchian
or BATJAN, one of the Moluccas, W. of the southern peninsula of the island of Gilolo. Area, 914 square miles; pop. about 13,000. It belongs to the Dutch residency of Ternate, consists of two peninsulas joined by a narrow isthmus, and has many mountains. Batchian produces gold, copper, much coal, sago, cocoanut trees, rice, cloves, and fine timber.
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Bates
JOHN COALTER, an American military officer, born in St. Charles co., Mo., Aug. 26, 1842; educated at Washington University, St. Louis; entered the regular army as a Lieutenant in the 11th United States Infantry, May 14, 1861; served on the staff of General Meade from the battle of Gettysburg to promoted Captain the close of the war; p , May 1, 1863; Major, May 6, 1882; and United States Infantry, Colonel of the 2d April 25, 1892. On May 4, 1898, he was appointed a Brigadier-General of Volunteers; on July 8 was promoted to Major General for his services in the Santiago campaign; on April 13, 1899, was honorably discharged under this commission, and on the same day was recommissioned General of Volunteers. In a Brigadier- February, 1899, he was appointed Military Governor of the province of Santa Clara, Cuba, and in April following was ordered to duty in the Philippines, where he several times greatly distinguished himself in the latter part of that year and the early part of 1900. In March, 1900, he was assigned to the command of the department of southern Luzon; promoted Major-General (1902). In 1906 became chief of staff U. S. A. and retired same year with the rank of Lieutenant-General.
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Bates (ARLO an American author born)
ARLO, an American author, born in East Machias, Me., Dec. 16, 1850. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1876, when he engaged in literary work in Boston, and afterward became Professor of English Literature in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of poems and novels, including "The Pagans" (New York, 1884); "A Lad's Love"; "The Philistines" (1888); "Berries of the Brier" (1886), poems; "Talks on Writing English"; "Talks on the Study of Literature" (1897); "The Puri- "; "Under the Beech Tree"; "Diary tans tans of a Saint" (1902); "The Intoxicated Ghost" (1908); etc. He died in 1918.
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Bates (BLANCHE an American actress)
BLANCHE, an American actress, born in Portland, Ore., in 1873. She removed in 1876 with her parents to San Francisco and was educated at the public schools at that city. Her first appearance on the stage was made in San Francisco in 1894 and in the following year she starred in "The Senator." After playing leading parts in various comedies, she appeared in Shakespearean rôles in Augustin Daly's Company in New York. She achieved great success in the title rôle of Cigarette in "Under Two Flags," and played the leading parts in "The Darling of the Gods" and "The 1920 she Girl of the Golden West." In appeared in "The Famous Mrs. Fair." In 1912 she married George Creel.
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