Conkling
ROSCOE, an American legislator; born in Albany, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1829; was admitted to the bar in 1850; sat in Congress as a Republican in 1858- 1862 and 1864-1866, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1867, 1873, and 1879. He became an influential mem ber of his party; in 1876 he received 93 votes for the Presidential nomination, and in 1880, by his support of Grant and his personal opposition to Blaine, divided the Republicans into two sections. In 1881 he and his colleague, Thomas C. Platt, suddenly resigned from the Senate, owing to a dispute with President Garfield on a question of patronage, and sought re-election; but after a warm canvass both were rejected, though vigorously supported by Vice - president Arthur. Conkling afterward practiced d law in New York City. He died April 18, 1888.
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Connaught
the smallest of the four provinces of Ireland; between Leinster and the Atlantic; area, 4,392,- 086 acres. Its W. coast is much broken up by numerous bays and inlets, and is thickly studded with islands. A large proportion of the province is bog, and, generally, it is the least fertile of all the provinces. It is divided into five counties: Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim, and Sligo. Pop. about 595,000.
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Conneaut
a city of Ohio in Ashtabula co. It is on Conneaut creek and on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, and the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroads. It is an important port for the shipping of iron ore and coal. It has a good harbor and excellent shipping facilities. There are railroad shops and manufactures of canned goods, bricks, shovels, lumber, etc. There are hospitals, a public library, and a park. Pop. (1910) 8,319; (1920) 9,343.
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Connellsville
borough in a Fayette co., Pa.; on the Youghiogheny river, and the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, and the Western Maryland railroads, 57 miles E. of Pittsburgh. It is the center of the most extensive coke burning region in the United States. Other important industries are machine shops, pump works, brick works, and coal mining. It is the seat of Cottage State Hospital; and has electric lights, electric railways connecting with South Connellsville and adjacent towns, several newspapers and National banks. Pop. (1910) 12,845; (1920) 13,804. CONNEMARA ("the Bays of the Ocean"), a boggy and mountainous district occupying the W. portion of County Galway, Ireland; about 30 miles in length and 15 to 20 miles in breadth. Its coasts are very broken, and there are numerous small lakes. It is subdivided into Connemara Proper in the W., Jar- Connaught in the S., S., an and Joyce's Country in the N.
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Connersville
a city of Indiana, the county-seat of Fayette co. It is on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville railroads, and on the White Water river. It has manufactures of motor cars, pianos, carriages, furniture, flour, etc. There is a public library, an excellent high-school building, a park, and a sanitarium. Pop. (1910) 7,738; (1920) 9,901.
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Conning Tower
the place in modern battleships where the commander stands during a naval engagement, and from which he directs the movements of the ship and men. The conning tower is built over the foreward turret and is a circular chamber, scarcely 6 feet across and protected by walls of steel 12 inches thick. The roof is also of solid steel. Between the arched roof and the walls is a narrow slit from which the eye can sweep the whole horizon. The sharppointed bow of the boat is just below, and directly in front are the two big guns that protrude from the turret. Throughout the engagement the commander is invisible to his men, his voice alone being heard through the speaking tubes and telephone with which the turret is fitted. In its center are the steamsteering wheel, binnacle and compass, and by the directing hand of the commander, standing beside the compass, the battle is fought.
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Connolly
JAMES BRENDAN, an American writer, born in Boston, Mass. He was educated in the public schools and for a time served with the United States Engineer Corps. In 1896 he won the first Olympic championship of modern times. During the Spanish-American War he served with the 9th Massachusetts Infantry. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His novels include "Out of Gloucester" (1902); "The Deep Sea's Toll" (1905); "The Trawler" (1914); "Running Free" (1917), and "The U-Boat Hunters" (1918).
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Conoid
in geometry, a surface generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that it constantly touches a curve and another straight line; similar to the cone, but having a straight line instead of a point for its appex.
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Conoidal
Having the form of a cone.
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Conoidal Chuck
A wire chuck which has a conoidal shape in lieu of the shoulder usually left on wire chucks for the bend in the lathe head. Fig. 72 illus-Fig. 71. trates the usual form of conoidal chucks.
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Conrad
JOSEPH an English novelist, of Polish birth and ancestry, born in 1856. His full name was Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski. When his father died, JOSEPH CONRAD young Conrad, then a boy of 13, wandered from Poland to Marseilles, France, where he joined a French vessel and rose to be a captain in the merchant service. Later he held an office on an English ship and late in life learned the English language. With this handicap he yet learned to write novels in clear idiomatic English and became one of the foremost modern English novelists. He is at his his portrayal of the life of the his best in sailors in the southeastern seas, his studies of the contact of the western European with the Oriental mind being extremely subtle and interesting. His most successful novels are "Gales of Unrest" (1898) and "Lord Jim" (1900), both stories of sailor life in the East. Among his other works are "Typhoon" (1902); "The Mirror of the Sea" (1906); "Point of Honor" (1908); "Twixt Land and Sea" (New York, 1913); "Victory" (1917).
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