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* FALLOWS. 44G FALMOUTH. from 1871 to 1874 was State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was president of the Illinois Wesleyan University from 1874 to 1875, and in 1875 was made rector of Saint Paul's Re- formed Episcopal Church, Chicago. In 1876 he was consecrated bishop of the Church of the West and Northwest jurisdiction, and he was live times presiding bishop of the General Council. His other offices include that of president for nine years of the board of managers of the Illinois State Reformatory, the second largest in the history of its kind in the world; chairman of the general committee on education of the World's Congresses at the Chicago Columbian Exposition ; and chancellor of the University Association for Educational Extension. For sev- eral years he was editor of the Appeal, the first organ of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the West. His principal publications are the fol- lowing: Complete Handbook of Abbreviations and Contractions (1884); Handbook of Briticisms, Americanisms, Colloquial Words and Phrases (1883); Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms (1883-86) ; The Home Beyond (1884) ; Progres- sive Supplemental Dictionary of the English Lan- guage ( 1886) ; Past Xoon (1892) ; and Students' Biblical Dictionary (1901). FALL RIVER. An important manufactur- ing city and port of entry in Bristol County, Mass., near the boundary of Rhode Island, at the mouth of the Taunton River, on the eastern shore of -Mount Hope Bay. and 50 miles south by west of Boston (Map: Massachusetts, E 4). It is on the Xew York. Xew Haven and Hartford Rail- road, and is connected by electric railways with cities and towns in the vicinity. Fall River has a safe and deep harbor. The well-known Fall River Boat Line runs to Xew York, the Windsor Freight Line to Philadelphia, and steamers daily connect with Providence and Newport. The city is about nine miles long, covers 42 square miles, and has many handsome structures of native granite. The most notable buildings are the commodious B. M. C. Durfee High School of granite, the public library, the State armory, and the custom-house and post-office. Among edu- cational and charitable institutions are Notre Dame College. Mount Hope School, the textile school, and the Fall River Conservatory of .Music; the Boys' Club, Children's Home and Home for Aged People. City, Union, and Emer- gency hospitals, and Saint Vincent's anil Saint Joseph's homes. Public parks have been laid out in various parts of the city, and there are beauti- ful drives to the suburbs. Fall River has abundant water-power derived from Fall River, a stream which rises in Watup- pa Lake on the eastern bonier of the corporate limit-, and falls about 1:1(1 feet in half a mile. The city has become one of the greatest manu- facturing centres of the country, and is noted chiefly for its manufactures of cotton goods, which require over 3,000,000 Bpindles and 75,000 looms, and represent a large proportion of the total local production. Other manufactures include calico prints, ginghams, woolen goods, men'-, hats, knit goods, yam, thread, boots and shoe-, spools and bobbins, iron and brass foundry products, ma- chinery, supplies used in cotton-goods manu- facturing and bleaching, carriages, rope and twine, rubber, -nap. etc. Granite-quarrying also emplo iderable number of men. The government is vested in a mayor, chosen annually; a bicameral municipal council, the up- per and lower houses bearing a numerical ratio of one to three; and subordinate administrative officials. Of these, the school committee is chosen by popular election; overseers of the poor, city physicians, board of health, the reservoir com- mission, and cemetery and park commission arc nominated by the executive, subject to the con- firmation of the council; and the water board, trustees of the public library, assessors, board of engineers of the fire department, and all other city officers are elected by the council. Fall River has an excellent system of sewers; is lighted by gas and electricity, the annual cost of street lighting being about $110,000; and owns its water-works, constructed at a cost of $2,000,- 000, which provide a never-failing supply of pure water from Watuppa Lake. In 1900 the cost of operating the plant was $142,000. The principal items of expense, other than those mentioned, are (approximately) $120,000 for the fire depart- ment, $125,000 for charitable institutions, $140,- 000 for the police department, and $315,000 for schools. The totals of income and expenditure aggregate $3,235,000 and $3,165,000 respectively. Population, in 1850, 11,524; in 1870, 26,766; in 1S90, 74,398; in 1900, 104,863, including 50,- 000 persons of foreign birth and 300 of negro descent. Fall River was included within the limits of Freetown until 1803, when it was in- corporated as a separate town under its present name. It was called Troy from 1804 to 1834, when its old name was restored. In 1854 Fall River was chartered as a city, and in 1862, on the readjustment of the Massachusetts-Rhode Island boundary, a part of the town of Tiverton, R. I., with a population of 3590, was annexed. On July 2, 1843, a disastrous fire destroyed 291 buildings and other property, a total loss of $525,000. Consult Earl, .1 Centennial History of Fall Hirer (New York, 1877). FALLS CITY. The county-seat of Richard- son County. Neb., about 100 miles south of Omaha, on the Missouri Pacific and the Burling- ton and Missouri River railroads (Map: Ne- braska, J 3). It has grain elevators, a large brewery, and manufactures of flour, foundry products, cigars, canned goods, etc. The city maintains a public library which occupies a $10.- 000 building. The water-works and electric-light plant are owned by the municipality. Popula- tion, in 1890, 2102; in 1900, 3022. FAL'MOTJTH. A municipal borough and sea- port of Cornwall. England, on a west branch of U stuary of the Fal, 66 miles west-southwesi of Plymouth (Map: England, A (1 1. It consists chiefly of a narrow street, a mile long, on the southwest of the harbor, and of beautiful subur- ban terraces and villas on the heights behind. The harbor, one of the best in England, whosa advantages were first exploited by Sir Walter Raleigh, U formed by the estuary of the Fal. It U defended on the west by Pendennis Castle and on the east by Saint Vfawes Castle, both built in the reign of Henry VIII. The docks of Fal- Ilth have an area of over a hundred acre-. At one lime an important poll for Hie foreign mail packets, tin' town is now chiefly known as a watering-place, the bathing being excellent and the climate delightfully mild. It is a busy centre