Author : D. Appleton And Company
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265962053
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)
Book Synopsis Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1894, Vol. 34 by : D. Appleton And Company
Download or read book Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1894, Vol. 34 written by D. Appleton And Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1894, Vol. 34: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry The articles on the several States and Territories of the Union will be found very full. That on New York includes an account of the Constitutional Convention, with the gist of the amendments (all of which were adopted at the November election) given in untechnical language. The article is illustrated with a portrait of Hon. Joseph H. Choate, president of the convention. Following the World's Columbian Exposition, the description of which was completed in our last volume, came the California Midwinter Fair and the Antwerp Exposition, both of which are described and illustrated in these pages. The article entitled Cities, American, Recent Growth of, begun in the Annual Cyclopaedia for 1886, is continued in this volume, where 21 are described, making the whole number thus treated 445. In the greatest of our cities - New York - the year witnessed the culmination of an important move ment toward reform and the story is told in the article on the city, with por traits of the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst and Mayor Strong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
