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# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, Theodorus

​BAILEY, Theodorus, naval officer, was born at Chateaugay, N. Y., April 12, 1805, nephew of Theodorus Bailey, senator, and a grandson of John Bailey, the first man to hoist the revolutionary flag in New York. At the age of thirteen he joined the navy as midshipman and served on the coast of Africa, in the Pacific and the West Indies. He was promoted lieutenant March 3, 1837, and in 1833-'36 he made a cruise around the world in the Vincennes, later making a similar cruise in the Constellation. He was given command of the Lexington in 1846, serving on the Mexican and Californian coasts, where he blockaded and captured San Blas and did other excellent service. He was promoted commander in 1849, and in 1855 with the St. Mary's joined the Pacific squadron, being promoted captain on December 15 of the same year. He reached Panama during the troubles there and quelled them successfully. In 1861 he was ordered to join Farragut at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and was given command of the Colorado. The frigate was found to be too heavy to cross the bar, and many of the guns and officers were transferred to lighter vessels. Captain Bailey obtained command of the leading division in the passage of the forts below New Orleans sailing to that city in the Cayuga with Lieut. George H. Perkins; and was sent to the city of New Orleans by Admiral Farragut to demand from the mayor an unconditional surrender. He was received by an armed and angry mob, and his mission was quoted as "one of the most gallant acts performed during the whole war." He was chosen by Farragut as the bearer of the despatches and reports to the government at Washington announcing the victory, and was promoted commodore July 16, 1862. In June, 1862, he was placed in command of the East Gulf squadron, as acting rear-admiral, and as such rendered important service in the blockade of Florida, stopping the illicit trade that was being carried on with the West Indian ports, and capturing about 150 blockade runners. In 1866 he was promoted rear-admiral, commanding the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard from 1865 to 1867. He was retired Oct. 10, 1866, and died in Washington, D. C, Feb. 10, 1877.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, Wesley

​BAILEY, Wesley, reformer, was born at Fayetteville, Onondaga county, N. Y., in 1808. son of Elijah Bailey, who for some years preached and edited a religious paper in that town. When a young man he assisted in editing his father's paper, and prepared himself for the ministry, to which he was subsequently ordained. In 1845 he was induced by a number of the prominent abolitionists of Utica to remove to that city and establish a newspaper devoted to the cause in which they were enlisted. This resulted in the Liberty Press, which soon won recognition throughout the country as a leading organ of the liberty party of that day. After the political campaign of 1848 in which the journal vigorously supported the Van Buren Free-Soil ticket, Mr. Bailey changed the name of his paper to that of Teetotaler, and entered earnestly into the support of the total abstinence movement. He served for several terms as the chief executive officer of the order of the sons of temperance, then a powerful organization, and was one of the founders of the Republican party. In 1856 he was a candidate on the Fremont state ticket for state prison inspector. In 1860 he removed to Decorah, Iowa, and in company with one of his sons, A. K. Bailey, established the Republican, a successful paper. Another son, E. Prentiss Bailey, afterwards became editor of the Utica, N. Y., Observer. Wesley Bailey died Feb. 26, 1889.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, James Anthony

​BAILEY, James Anthony, showman, was born at Detroit, Mich., in 1847. His parents died when he was ten years old, and at the age of thirteen he left his home, owing to a disagreement with his guardian. He obtained employment with Robinson & Lake's circus, and on the death of Mr. Robinson in 1862, he was engaged by James Cooper, the showman, as advance agent for his traveling circus. In 1863 he was given an interest in the establishment, and at his suggestion the circus made a very successful tour to Australia. From Australia they went to Van Dieman's Land, but there met with heavy losses. Returning to the United States he purchased a bankrupt circus and added it to his own, thus making it "the largest show on earth." In 1881 he entered into partnership with P. T. Barnum, and the firm became "Barnum & Bailey—Equal Owners." Mr. Bailey next bought a controlling interest in the Forepaugh circus, and, on the death of Mr. Barnum in 1891, became sole director of the show.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, James Montgomery

​BAILEY, James Montgomery, humorist, was born in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1841. His boyhood was passed in Albany and New York city, and he received a limited education in public schools. He learned the trade of a carpenter, and followed it until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted in the 17th Connecticut volunteers, and served as private until the close of the war. His letters from the army printed in the Danbury (Conn.) Times gained him a local reputation, and in company with a printer, whose acquaintance he had made in a military prison at Richmond, he went to Danbury, and in 1855 purchased the Times, which was consolidated with the Jeffersonian in 1870, under the name of the Danbury News. Mr. Bailey's bright local paragraphs began to be widely copied, the Danbury News gained a reputation as a humorous paper in a few months, and its editor suddenly sprang into popularity. In 1874 he visited Europe, and on his return to America, he went upon the lecture platform, but soon retired, and subsequently devoted himself entirely to his newspaper. His books comprise: "The Danbury Newsman," being a brief but comprehensive record of the doings of a remarkable people (1872); "Life in Danbury" (1873); "The Danbury News Man's Almanac and other Tales" (1884); "They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors" (1876); "England from a Back Window: with Views of Scotland and Ireland" (1878); "Mr. Phillips' Goneness" (1879); "The Danbury Boom: with a Full Account of Mrs. Cobleigh's Action Therein" (1880), and in 1896 a "History of Danbury, Conn., 1684—1896" was published from notes and MS, left by him and compiled with additions by Susan Benedict Hill. He died March 4, 1894.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, Joseph

​BAILEY, Joseph, soldier, was born at Salem, O., April 28, 1827. He joined the army during the first months of the civil war, serving as captain of a Wisconsin regiment in Maryland. His regiment served under Gen. B. F. Butler, in the capture of New Orleans, where he was made acting engineer of the defences of the city. He was promoted major, and a month after lieutenant-colonel, on the succession of Gen. N. P. Banks to the command of the army of the gulf. Colonel Bailey went with General Banks on his Red River expedition. The army with twelve gun-boats and thirty transports were ascending the river under the command of Admiral Porter, and when General Grant issued the order on April 25, 1864, to close the campaign and take the army to augment the forces of General Sherman, who was east of the Mississippi, the commanders were in a quandary. The forces were at Alexandria, whither they had retreated after the defeat at Sabine Cross Roads, and below the rapids the water was not in any place higher than six feet. Engineers were consulted, but their answers were all the same: the fleet could not be moved until the water rose, of which there was no immediate prospect. Admiral Porter could see ​no alternative but to remove the stores and destroy the fleet. When this course was about to be carried out, Colonel Bailey, who was an officer in a cavalry regiment, suggested to General Banks, that the river might be dammed; and though the plan seemed impracticable, still it was decided to make the attempt. "It was commenced." wrote Admiral Porter, in an official despatch to Washington, " by running out from the left bank of the river a tree-dam, made of the bodies of very large trees, brush, brick and stone, cross-tied with other heavy timber, and strengthened in every way that ingenuity could devise. This was run about three hundred feet into the river. Four large coal-barges were then filled with brick, and sunk at the end of it. From the right bank of the river, cribs built with stone were built out to meet the barges." Beginning the apparently fruitless and endless task on May 1st, in twelve days the water was sufficiently deep to allow the fleet to move down the river. He was brevetted brigadier-general and received a purse of $3000 for this service. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in November, 1864, removed to Newton county, Mo., in 1865, where he was made sheriff. He was murdered March. 21, 1867.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, Rufus William

​BAILEY, Rufus William, educator, was born at North Yarmouth, Me., April 13, 1793. He pursued his collegiate course at Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 1813. He then took a divinity course at Andover, and was licensed as a preacher, serving at Norwich Plain, and also teaching moral philosophy in the military academy. He held the pastorate of a church in Pittsfield. Mass., from 1824 to 1828, when he went south and was occupied as a teacher in the Carolinas and Virginia until 1854, in which year he was given the chair of languages in Austin college, Texas, holding it from 1854 to 1856, and was president of that institution from 1858 to 1863. He received the degree of D. D. from Hampden-Sidney college in 1859. While living in Texas he published a series of newspaper articles in opposition to slavery, and he was also the author of a number of volumes on religious and educational subjects, consisting of a book of newspaper letters called "The Issue"; "The Mother's Request"; "The Family Preacher"; "A Primary Grammar"; a collection of sermons; a "Manual of English Grammar"; and "The Scholar's Companion" (1841), which last passed through more than eighty editions. He died in Huntsville, Texas, April 25, 1863.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, James E.

​BAILEY, James E., senator, was born in Montgomery county, Tenn., Aug. 15, 1822. He was fitted for college and was graduated from the University of Nashville. After his admission to the bar in 1843, he practised his profession in Clarkesville, and in 1853 was elected to the state legislature as a member of the house of representatives. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army and served bravely throughout the civil war. In 1872 he was appointed by the governor of Tennessee a member of the court of arbitration, and in January, 1877, was elected by the legislature of Tennessee to the United States senate as a Democrat to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Andrew Johnson, serving, 1875-81. He died in Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 29, 1885.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, Joseph W.

​BAILEY, Joseph W., representative, was born in Copiath county. Miss., Oct. 6, 1863. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1883 and in 1881 served as district elector from Mississippi. In 1885 he removed to Texas and settled at Gainesville in the practice of law. In 1888 he was an elector from Texas on the Cleveland and Thurman ticket. He was a representative from the 5th Texas district in the 52d, 53d, 54th, 55th and 56th congresses, 1891-1900; took a seat in the U. S. senate Feb. 7, 1900, and was elected for the full term, 1901-'07.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, Liberty Hyde

​BAILEY, Liberty Hyde, educator, was born at South Haven, Van Buren county, Mich., March 15, 1858, son of Liberty Hyde Bailey. He was graduated in 1882 from Michigan agricultural college, and for two years was assistant to Prof. Asa Gray of Harvard university. In 1885 he took the chair of horticulture and landscape gardening at Michigan agricultural college, and became horticulturist of the Michigan experiment station upon its organization a year or two later. In 1886 he assisted in preparing a report on botanical work in Minnesota. In 1889 he was appointed professor of general and experimental horticulture in Cornell university, and horticulturist of Cornell university experiment station. He was also employed by the U. S. government department of agriculture. Among his published writings are a series of papers on the "Relationship between American and Eastern Asian Fruits." published in the annual reports of the U. S. department of agriculture; also, "Talks Afleld about Plants and the Science of Plants" (18S5); "Field Notes on Apple Culture" (1886); "The Horticulturist's Rule-Book" (1889); "The Nursery Book" (1891); "Cross-breeding and Hybridizing" (1891); "American Grape Training" (1893); "Plant Breeding" (1895), and edited "Cyclopædia of American Horticulture" (1902).
# The Basic Law

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# The Bartered Bride (1908)/Programme

Metropolitan Opera House. METROPOLITAN OPERA CO., Lessee. TELEPHONE BRYANT 1146.
GRAND OPERA SEASON 1908–1909
GIULIO GATTI-CASAZZA General Manager.
ANDREAS DIPPEL Administrative Manager.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1909. at 8 o'clock The Bartered Bride (PRODANÁ NEVĚSTA) BOHEMIAN OPERA IN THREE ACTS By K. Sabina, German text by Max Kalbeck. MUSIC by BEDŘICH SMETANA (IN GERMAN)
| SPRINGER, director of a travelling circus, | JULIUS BAYER |
Act I—Polka by M. Ottokar Bartik, Mlle. Gina Torriani and Corps of Bohemian Dancers. Act II.—Furiant by M. Ottokar Bartik, Mlles, Gast and Pechfelder. Act III.—Comedy: Mlles. Gina Torriani, Gast, Pechfelder, Bourgeau and Weidlich.
SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY.
Acts I. and III.—Main Street of a large Bohemian Village at kermesse time.
Act II.—Interior of a Tavern.
Costumes designed by Professor Heinrich Lefler, of the Imperial Academy, Vienna, and made by Alexander Blaschke & Co., Vienna.
Scenery by Brüder Kautsky & Rottomara, Vienna.
CHIEFS OF DEPARTMENTS.
# The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Draft) Consultation Report/Volume 1

THE BASIC LAW OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (DRAFT)
CONSULTATION REPORT
Volume 1
REPORT ON THE CONSULTATION ON THE BASIC LAW (DRAFT)
COLLECTIONS OF THE VIEWS OF THE SPECIAL GROUPS OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE BASIC LAW REGARDING THE BASIC LAW (DRAFT)
THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE BASIC LAW OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
November 1989
Prepared by the Secretariat of the Consultative Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Passed by the Thirty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Consultative Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
The Consultation Report on the Basic Law (Draft) is published in three volumes
​The Consultation Report on the Basic Law (Draft) is based on the opinions collected from various sources by the Consultative Committee for the Basic Law during the consultation period. The opinions stated in the report do not represent the view of the Consultative Committee for the Basic Law, its Executive Committee or its Secretariat.
REPORT ON THE CONSULTATION ON THE BASIC LAW (DRAFT)
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Acknowledgements
I. Principles and Methods of Consultation
II. Publicity
III. Discussions and Consultations
IV. Processing and Collation of Opinions
Annex 1 Issues Relating to Public Opinion Polls
Appendices
This work is in the public domain because it is exempted by Article 5 of Chinese copyright law. This exempts all Chinese government and judicial documents, and their official translations, from copyright. It also exempts simple factual information, and calendars, numerical tables, and other forms of general use and formulas.
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# The Bartered Bride (1908)/Cover

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# The Bird Book/Tanagers

TANAGERS. Family TANAGRID^E
WESTERN TANAGER. Piranga ludoviciana.
Range. United States, west of the Plains and north to British Columbia.
This handsome species is black and yellow, with an orange or reddish head.
They are common and breed in suitable localities through their range, nesting as do the eastern Tanagers in trees usually at a low elevation, the nests being saddled on the forks of horizontal branches; they are made of rootlets, strips of bark, and weed stalks, and are usually frail like those of the Grosbeaks.
Their eggs, which are laid in May or June, are bluish green, specked with brown of varying shades. Size .95 x .65.
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8. SCARLET TANAGER. romelas.
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These beautiful scarlet and black birds frequent, chiefly, woodlands, although they are very often found breeding in orchards and small pine groves. They are quiet birds, in actions, but their loud warbling song is
heard at a great distance, and is readily recognized by its peculiarity. They nest upon hori
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zontal limbs or forks at elevations of four to twenty feet, making frail nests of twigs, rootlets and weeds; they are often found in pine trees, but apparently just as frequently in other kinds. Their eggs are greenish blue, specked and spotted with various shades of brown. Size .95 x .65. Data. Holden, Mass., May 31, 1898. Nest on low limb of an oak, 4 feet above ground; of weeds and rootlets and very frail.
6'09. HEPATIC TANAGER. Piranga hepatica.
Range. Western Mexico, north to New Mexico and Arizona in summer.
This species is similar to the next but is darker red on the upper parts and bright vermilion below. They nest on the lower horizontal Bluish green branches of trees, usually live oaks, making the nests of rootlets and weeds; the eggs are bluish green, like those of the next, but the markings appear to average more blotchy and brighter. Size .92 x .64.
Scarlet Tanager
6'10. SUMMER TANAGER. Piranga rubra rubra. Range. Eastern United States, breeding from the Gulf to New York and Kansas, and casually farther; west to Texas; winters south of our borders.
This bird is of the size of the Scarlet Tanager, but is of a uniform rosy red color, darker on the back. They are very common in the South Atlantic and Gulf States. Their nests are located at low elevations on horizontal branches of trees in open woods, edges of clearings, or along the roadside; the nests are made of strips of bark, weed stems, leaves, etc., and are frail like those of the other Tanagers. Their eggs are light bluish green, speckled and spotted with reddish brown, and not distinguishable with certainty from those of the ^^^ Scarlet Tanager. Size .92
Light bluish green X .64.
6lOa. COOPER'S TANAGER.
Piranga rubra cooperi.
Range. Western United States, breeding from the Mexican border and Texas north to central California and Nevada.
Similar to but slightly larger than the last. There are no differences between the nesting of this form and the last and the eggs are not in any way different.
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# The Bird Book/Trogons

TROGONS. Family TROGONID^
389. COPPERY-TAILED TROGON. Trogon ambiguus.
Range. Southern Mexico, north to Grande in Texas and in southern Arizona, localities they probably breed.
This is the only member of this family of beautiful birds which reaches our borders. This species is 12 inches in length, and is a metallic green color on the upper parts and breast, and with coppery reflections of the middle tail feathers, the outer ones being white, very finely vermiculated with black, as are the wing coverts. The underparts, except for a white band across the breast, are rosy red. This cavities in large trees, generally in large pecker holes. They are also said to have ing in holes in banks. Their eggs are number and are a dull white in color.
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# The Bird Book/Turkeys

TURKEYS. Family MELEAGRID^E
310. WILD TURKEY.
Meleagris gallopavo silvestris.
Range. Eastern United States from southern Middle States south to central Florida and west to the Missippi Valley and eastern Texas. These magnificent birds, which once ranged over the whole of eastern United States, are being yearly confined to a smaller range, chiefly because of the destruction of their natural covers, and from per
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secution by hunters. They are generally very wary birds and either escape by running through the underbrush or by flying as soon as a human being appears in sight. Their nests are made under tangled growths of underbrush or briers. Their eggs, which are laid during April and May, range from eight to sixteen in number. They are Sag-e Hen o f a buff color sprinkled and spotted with brown Wild Turkey . gh gize 2 55 x 1 9Q Data . Hammond, La., April 17, 1897. Fifteen eggs. Nest hollow scraped in the ground under a bush on the edge of a pine woods; lined with grasses and leaves. Collector, E. A. McIlhenny.
310a. MERRIAM'S TURKEY. Meleagris gallopavo merriami.
Range. Southwestern United . Slates, .from. Colorado ^outh. .timrngh. western Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to Mexico.
This variety is abundant throughout its range, its nesting habits and eggs being practically indistiguishable from those of the eastern form.
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31 Ob. FLORIDA TURKEY. Meleagris gallopavo osceola.
Range. Southern Florida.
A small variety of the Wild Turkey, about 42 inches long. They breed in the tangled thickets in the higher portions of the southern half of Florida, laying from ten to sixteen eggs of a brighter and deeper buff color than the northern variety, and smaller; size 2.30 x 1.75. Their nests are generally lined with grasses and occasionally with feathers. The female sits very close when incubating and will not fly until almost trod upon, trusting to her variegated markings to conceal her from observation. Greenish buff
310c. Rio GRANDE TURKEY. Meleagris gallopavo intermedia.
Range. Lowlands of the southern parts of Texas and northern Mexico. A sub-species which differs slightly in plumage and not at all in nesting habits or eggs from the common Wild Turkey.