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* LOS ANGELES. 464 LOSSING. (Presbyterian), opened in 18S7. Among the prominent biiililinj;s arc the city hall, enuiity courthouse. Federal l)iiilding, opera honse, Ko- man Catholic cathedral, and the Blanchanl Art Building. Also of interest are the Old I'laza northern district of the American province. He resigned that position in 1811, and was appointed a member of the chief executive board of the Moravian Chureh at Bertelsdorf, Saxony; but his health had failed, and he was not able to leave Chureh. the headquarters of General Fren.ont, the the United States. He was author of a book o viaduct of the electric streetcar road over the meditations for every day in the year entitled raihoad tracks in the eastern part of the city, El,ras fiirs llerz {ISOfi), xyhichis still in high the district known as Chinatown, and Sonora Town. There are a public library of (JO.OOO vol- umes,' several hospitals and asylums, beautiful cemeteries, a crematory, and magnificent botani- cal gardens and parks— notably Elysian. West- lake, Eastlake, Echo, HoUenbeek, GrilTith, Cen- tral,' and Plaza parks. More than 3700 acres m parks are accessible to the public; of these fully 3000 acres are outside the city limits. Los Angeles has important fruit-growing and shipping interests, and is an extensive wine-mak- ing place. Oranges and leimnis are by far the leading exports, but there is a large trade al;^ in cereals and garden stulV. The city is the mining centre for southern California and Arizona, the surrounding region having valuable deposits of gold, silver, lead, and coal, and producing as- phalt and petroleum. The refining of petroleum is an important industry in Los Angeles. The government is vested in a mayor, biennial- ly elecred ; a unicameral council; and adminis- trative departments. The public library is in charge of five trustees appointed by the execu- tive" the police, fire, park, and health depart- ments are each in the hands of four commissioners elected bv the council, the mayor being ex- ofticio member of these bodies and chairman; the department of education is under the control of a board of nine members, one from each ward, chosen by popular election. The city spends an- nually in maintenance and operation over .$1 ,- 3.i0,000, the main items of expense being about $44.5.000 for schools. .$130,000 for the police de- partment. $125,000 for the fire department. $00.- 000 for street-cleaning. $.").'>.000 for parks, and ,$40,000 for municipal ligliting. Los Angeles was settled by the Spaniards as Puebla de Nuestra Senora" la Keina de los Angeles (City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) in itsi, and until 1847 alternated with Monterev as the seat of government fin- the Jlexican' Province of California. In 1846 it was taken by Commodore Stockton, U.S.N., after slight opposition. In 18.51 it was chartered as a citv. Po])ulation, in 1850, IGIO; in 1860, 4385; in 1870. 5728; in 1880, 11,183; in 1890, 50,305: in 1000, 102.470, with a foreign-born population of 20,nn0. and a total colored population of 4400, incbiding 2100 persons of negro descent. LOSANTIVILLE. A name originally se- lected for the present city of Cincinnati, intended to mean the 'town opposite the mouth of the Licking.' The word is made up of the initial letter of Licking, the Latin 0.5, mouth, anti-, op- posite, and rillr. In 1700 the name was changed to Cincinnati. LOS HERBEROS, 16s a-ra'r6s. See Breton DE LOS HeRRERO.S. LOSKIEL, Ifts-k^l'. George Henrt (1740- 1S14). .^ Jloravian bishop. He was born at An- germuende. Courland, Russia : was educated at ?he Moravian College and Theological School in CJermany; was consecrated to the episcopal office in I8O2'. and appointed presiding bishop of the repute; and of a Gvsrliii-htc dcr Minsinn der rninqrUschcn liriidcr mitrr ilrn Inilianern von yoriUinirrikd. the materials for which were de- rived from the accounts of Gottlieb S])angenburg and David Zeisburger (1789; Eng. trans., 1794). Consult his Life and Letters, edited by Sehwein- itz (Philadelphia, 1871). LOSS (AS. los, from for-Uosan, Goth, fra- linsmi, OHG. for-Uosan, Ger. vcr-lieren, tolose; connected with Lat. hicre, Gk. Xiieif, lyehi, to loose). In its legal sense, the deprivation of some right or thing, which the law recognizes as having value, against the will of the person entitled to its possession. It may apply to prop- erty, as the loss of goods, or to a more intangible right, as loss of good repute or professional repu- tation. The term implies, in law, that the person thus unwillingly deprived of the right or thing, is still entitled to" its possession or enjoyment. For example, where a watch is said to be lost, the implication is that it has gone out of the pos- session of the owner without his consent and knowledge, and that he still owns it. It is, there- fore, the direct opposite of convej'ance or transfer, which import a conscious act of the will. The word is employed in a somewhat technical sense in insurance law. to denote the damage suf- fered by the party insured upon the happening of the casualty insured against. See the article Insur. ce. LOS SEISES, 16s sa-l'ses. A media>val ritual dance introduced into Toledo and Seville by Cardinal Ximenes. It is still given in Spain on the feasts of Corpus Cliristi and the Immaculate Conception, and on the three days of the carni- val. The dance is perfurmed by twelve young choir-boys, in two sets of six each (hence the name 'The Sixes'). The boys emphasize the rhythm of the dance, whose music is slow and statelv, with castanets. Their costumes are blue for Corpus Christi and red for the Immaculate Conception, while their shoes and stockings are white. The dance is given at vesper-time before the Holy Sacrament, and is witnessed by the Cardinal Archbishop and clergy. LOS'SING, Benson John (1813-01). An American popular historian, born in Beekman. N. Y., February 12, 1813. He died .lune 3. 1891. Lossing began active life as a literary jnurnalist. publisher, and engraver. He got up the Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution (1850- 52), and Tlic Hnilson from the Wilderness to the Sea (1866). A natural sequel to the former book was Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War (1866-69). followed by Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 (1868). Investigations con- nected with the preparation of these works led to many historical studies, of which the chief are: The Life and Times of Philip Sehufiler (18G0; rev. 1880) ; a series of school histories; a large history of the United States: Our Country (1873); The American Centenary (1876); fftory of the United States Navy for Boys (1880); Cyclopedia of United States History I