Bates (II)
KATHARINE LEE, an American story writer, poet, and educator, born in Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 12, 1859; was called to the chair of English Literature in Wellesley College in 1891; edited collections of ballads, etc.; and wrote juvenile stories, including "Rose and Thorn" (1889); "The English Religious Drama" (1893); "The College Beautiful and Other Poems" (1887); "History of American Literature" (1898); "Spanish Highways and Byways" (1900); "Gretna Green to Land's End" (1907); "America the Beautiful" (1911); etc.
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Bates (III)
LINDON WALLACE, an American civil engineer, born in Marshfield, Vt., in 1858. He was educated at Yale University and became assistant engineer of the Northern Pacific and Oregon Pacific railways. This was followed by service as director of engineering and manager of various railway, dock and terminal contracts in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and other States. He was retained from 1896 to 1902 by the Belgian Government to prepare reports and projects for the improvement of the port of Antwerp. He was also consulting engineer on the enlargement of the Suez Canal and on rivers and harbors in Russia. He designed eight harbors for the Government of Queensland, Australia, and did important engineering work for the Government of South Australia. He built several large hydraulic dredges for the Russian, Australian and Indian Governments, and collaborated with other engineers in improving the port of Shanghai. He was contracting engineer on important work in Galveston, Tex., and designed the Three Lake" Panama Canal. During the World War he served as vice-chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium and was chairman also of the engineering commission of the Submarine Defense Association. He was a member of several engineering societies and received many medals for his services in engineering.
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Bates College
a coeducational institution in Lewiston, Me.; organized in 1864, under the auspices of the Free Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 40; students, 494; volumes of library, 47,000; endowment, over $1,000,000; number of BATHSHEBA graduates, 2,285; president, Rev. Clifton D. Gray.
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Bath (City of England)
a city of England, in Somersetshire, on the Avon, which is navigable for barges from Bristol; is beautifully placed among the hills, and the houses are built of freestone, obtained from the neighborhood. The Abbey Church ranks as one of the finest specimens of perpendicular Gothic architecture. Bath is remarkable for its medicinal waters, the four principal springs yielding no less than 184,000 gallons of water a day. Bath was founded by the Romans, and called by them Aquæ Solis (waters of the sun). Among the Roman remains discovered here have been some fine baths. The height of its prosperity was reached, however, in the 18th century, when Beau Nash was leader of the fashion and master of its ceremonies. Jointly with Wells it is the head of a diocese, and returns two members to the House of Commons. Pop. of municipal borough (1917) 58,799.
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Bath (City port of entry)
city, port of entry, and countyseat of Sagadahoc co., Me., on the Kennebec river, and the Maine Central railroad; 12 miles from the ocean and 35 miles S. of Augusta. It is admirably situated as a commercial port; has regular steamboat connections with Boston and Augusta; is principally engaged in shipbuilding, both wood and iron; and has manufactories of brass and iron goods, oil cloth, shoes, and lumber. Bath has a large coastwise and foreign trade in ice, coal, lumber, hay, iron, and steel; and contains several National banks, public library, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,396; (1920) 14,731.
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Bath Houses
MUNICIPAL. Baths for use of the public. under city control.
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Baths of Agrippa
the earliest of the Roman thermæ; erected by Marcus Agrippa in the reign of Augustus. It stood in the Campus Martius, about 20 feet behind the Pantheon.
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Baths of Caracalla
one of the most magnificent of the Roman thermæ in the S. E. part of the city; 2,300 men could bathe in it at the same time. It was begun in 206 A. D. by Caracalla, and completed by Severus . The ruins which still remain are among the most remarkable in Rome.
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Baths of Diocletian
the most extensive of the Roman thermæ; in the N. E. part of the city, and covering most of the ground between the Porto Collina and the Porta Viminalis . Over 3,000 persons could bathe in it at the same time. It contained a library, picture gallery, odeum, etc. Michael Angelo transformed the great hall of the Tepidarium into a nave for the Church of S. Marie degli Angeli. One of the laconica (hot rooms) forms the vestibule of the church. med
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Baths of Titus
a structure on the Esquiline hill in Rome ; built by the Emperor Titus. Considerable ruins are found N. E. of the Coliseum.
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Bathsheba
the wife of Uriah. David first committed adultery with her, then caused her husband to be slain, and afterward took her to wife. These sins displeased Jehovah, who sent the prophet Nathan to David, with the parable of the ewe lamb. David bitterly repented, but yet was punished. Bathsheba was the mother of Solomon, whose succession to the throne she took pains to secure. She is afterward mentioned in the history of Adonijah, in the title of Psalm li, and among the ancestors of and sugar growing regions. It was here, Christ (Matt. i: 6).
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Bathurst Island
on the north Australian coast, belonging to South Australia, separated from Melville Island by a narrow strait; triangular in shape, with a wooded area of about 1,000 square miles. Also an island in the Arctic Ocean , discovered by Parry, W. of Cornwallis and E. of Melville Island, W. 76° N., 100° W.
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Baton Rouge
city, capital of the State of Louisiana and of East Baton Rouge parish; on the Mississippi river, and several railroads; 89 miles N. W. of New Orleans. It is built on a bluff on the E. bank of the river, and commands a fine view of the surrounding territory. Architecturally, it possesses much interest, because of the mixture of French and Spanish styles. The Capitol is a structure in the Elizabethan style, showing also Gothic windows and battlemented towers . Baton Rouge contains the State University, occupying the old United States Arsenal , the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, the State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, the State Penitentiary, an insane asylum, two orphans' homes, a collegiate institute, and other institutions. The city has National and State banks; several daily and weekly newspapers; and a large trade with the surrounding cotton on Jan. 26, 1861, that the State Convention adopted the ordinance of secession; the United States forces; on August 5, on May 7, 1862 , the city was taken by following, a determined Confederate attack was repulsed; and the city was held war. by the Union troops till the close of the the State from 1847 to 1864, when the Baton Rouge was the capital of seat of government was removed to New Orleans, but on March 1, 1882, it was again located in this city, where it has since remained. Pop. (1910) 14,897; (1920) 21,782. port on the E. coast of the Black Sea,
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