Baltimore

a coextensive city and county of Maryland; sixth city in the Jnited States in pop. in 1900; (1910) 958,485; on an expansion of the Patapsco river and seven railroads; 38 miles N. C., and i4 miles from Chesapeake Bay. ‘The sity covers an area of 28 square miles, and the expansion of the river gives it a spacious and secure harbor (consisting of an outer bay acce ible to the largest ships, and an interior basin for small ve els), which has become the seat of a ea large foreign and coastwise trade. he entrance to the harbor is defended by Fort McHenry, an important military post, which succe fully resisted an attack by the British fleet in the War of 1812. The city is laid out in general at right angles, with streets averaging GO feet in width, and is built up with red brick, made from clay beds near the city, white marble and granite, both from quarries near by, and with iron. The city is the largest oyster canning place in the world, the industry employing over 5,000 ve els and boats of all kinds and several you sand persons. It also ranks very high in the various manufactures of tobacco, and in the exportation of corn and grains in general. On Sept. 11, 1814, the British forces under General Ro landed near Baltimore and attempted to carry the city by a ault. The American forces were placed at a great disadvantage, and were unable to resist the invasion; but in the a ault the British commander was killed, and his troops abandoned their purpose. On the following the British fleet bombarded Fort McHenry without practical succe . During the Civil War the city was a scene of almost continual excitement. On April 19, 1861, a fatal a ault was made-on portions of the Sixth Ma achusetts and the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiments as they were pa ing through the city on their way to Washington; in the following month General Butler occupied Federal Hill; in 1863-1864 the city was fortified to resist a threatened attack by the Confederates; and in the latter year the National Republican Conven tion, which renominated_ President Lincoln, met in the city. On Sunday, Feb. 7, -1904, a fire broke out in the centre of the city, and raged for two days, destroying | ead of the value of $50,000,000. It nece itated the reconstruction of that portion of the city, and enabled other important improvements, wider streets, new buildings, electric lighting and _ transit, improved harbor accommodation, ete.. to be effectively accomplished in the * Monumental City.’ Baltimore te Baltimore Oriole, Baltimore Hange-nest, or Baltimore, a bird of the family sturnide (starlings), and the subfamily orioline (orioles). The name Baltimore was applied or attached to this bird not merely because it occurs at the place so called, but, according to Catesby, because its colors, which are black and orange, were the same as those on the coat of arms or livery of the Lord Baltimore who was formerly proprietor of Maryland. It extends from Canada to Mexico, or even to Brazil, migrating to the N. part of this area about May. | Baltimore, George Calvert, Lord, an English colonist, born in Yorkshire about 1580; was for some time Secretary of State to James I., but this post he resigned in 1624 in consequence of having become a Roman Catholic: Notwithstandixg this he retained the confidence of the King. who, in 1625, raised him to the _Irist peerage, his title being from Balti more, a fishing village of Cork. He had previously obtained a grant of land in Newfoundland, but, as_ this colony was much exposed to the at tacks of the French, he left it, and obtained another patent for Maryland He died (1632) before the charter was completed, and it was granted to his son, Cecil, who deputed the governor ship to his brother, Leonard, Balu chi stan, a country in Asia, the coast of which is continuous with the N. W. seaboard of India, bounded on the N, by Afghanistan, on the W. by Persia, on the S. by the Arabian Sea, and on the E. by Sind. It has an area of about 131,855 square miles and a population (1901) of 915,000 —— ee In 1910 it was divided into (1) British and administered territory; @ native States of Kalat and Las Bela; (8) and the Marri and Bugti tribal areas. Quetta is the seat of the British administration, Balucki, Michael, a Polist dramatist and novelist, born in Cracow, Sept. 29, 1837.