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hall, the U.S. government building, St Matthew's cathedral (Prot . Episc.), the cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Rom . Cath.), the city hospital, St Paul's sanitarium (Rom . Cath.), and the Baptist Memorial sanitarium . Educational institutions include Dallas medical college( 1901) ,the colleges of medicine and pharmacy of Baylor University, the medical college of South-western University (at Georgetown, Texas), Oak Cliff female academy, Patton seminary, St Mary's female college (Prot . Episc.), and Holy Trinity college (Rom . Cath.) . The city had in 1908 three parks—Bachman's Reservoir (Soo acres); Fair (525 acres)—the Texas state fair grounds, in which an annual exhibition is held—and City park (17 acres) . Lake Cliff, Cycle and Oak Lawn parks are amusement grounds . A Confederate soldiers' monument, a granite shaft 50 ft. high, was erected in 1897, with statues of R . E .

Lee, Jefferson Davis, " Stonewall " Jackson and A . S . Johnston . Dallas was in 1900 the third city in population and the most important railway centre in Texas . It is a shipping centre for a large wheat, fruit and cotton-raising region, and the principal jobbing market for northern Texas, Oklahoma and part of Louisiana, and the biggest distributing point for agricultural machinery in the South-west . It is a livestock market, and one of the chief centres in the United States for the manufacture of saddlery and leather goods, and of cotton-gin machinery . It has flour and grist mills (the products of which ranked first in value among the city's manufactures in 1905), wholesale slaughtering and meat-packing establishments, cooper-age works, railway repair shops, cotton compresses, lumber yards, salt works, and manufactories of cotton-seed oil and cake, boots and shoes and cotton and agricultural machinery . In 1900 and 1905 it was the principal manufacturing centre in the state, the value of its factory product in 1905 being $15,627,668, an increase of 64.7 % over that in 'god . The water-works are owned and operated by the city, and the water is taken from the Elm fork of Trinity river . There are several artesian wells . Dallas, named in honour of G . M .

Dallas, was settled in 1841, and first chartered as a city in 1856 . The city is governed, under a

charter of 1907, by a mayor and four commissioners, who together pass ordinances, appoint nearly all city officers, and generally are responsible for administering the government . In addition a school board is elected by the people . The charter contains initiative and referendum provisions, provides for the recall of any elective city official, and prohibits the granting of any franchise for a longer term than twenty years .