HOLLIDAYSBURG. 149 HOLLY. vania, C 3 ) . It is the scat of the Hollidaysburg Female Seminary. Coal, iron ore, and limestone are found in the vicinity; and the borough has uail-factories, foundries, and machine-shops, roll- ing-mills, boiler-works, etc. Poijulation, in 1S90, 2975; in 1900, 2998. HOL'LINS; Alfred (18G5— ). An English musician, born at Hull. He was blind from his birth, and at nine years of age entered the Wilber- force Institution for the Blind at York, where he remained three years, studying music under William Barnby. In 1878 he entered the Royal Xormal College for. the Blind, at Upper Nor- wood, making the piano his chief study, his teacher being Fritz Hartvigson. Through the kindness of the principal of the institution he secured organ lessons from E. J. Hopkins, who took a special interest in him, and who helped him considerabl}- in the mastery of orchestration, vhich was later a conspicuous feature of his com- positions. At the age of sixteen he had given recitals before the Courts of England and Ger- many, and was a special favorite with Queen Victoria and the Empress Frederick of Germany. In furtherance of his equipment as a pianist he studied piano with Von Biilow in Berlin, and in 1SS7 became a pupil at the Raff Conservatory, studying in addition under Jlax Schwartz. He visited America twice, in 1886 as a member of Dr. Campbell's party, and in 1888 as a concert organist. His most important engagement was as organist of United Free Saint George's Church, Edinburgh. His organ compositions are univer- sally known, and arc very popular in the United States. The following are among his better- known works: Two concert overtures (in C major and C minor) ; andante in D; grand chwur in G minor; two preludes; intermezzo in D flat; and a nocturne in B flat. HOLLIWS. Geohge NiCHOL-s (1799-1878). An Amcri<aii naval officer. A native of Baltimore, Wd., he was midshipman at the age of fifteen, and being aboard a frigate taken by the English, he was held a prisoner by them till the end of the War of 1812. Ten" years later he had ex- changed the naval for the merchant service, and by 1844 was captain of an armed vessel which he subsequently employed to enforce the rights of Americans living in Nicaragua, thereby caus- ing international complications with Great Britain. This was in 1855. At the out- break of the Civil War he sided with the Confederates and became a commo<lore in their navy. I'cndering important service, but at the peace be turned landsman and was court crier in Baltiniiiic. HOL'LISTER. A toM-n and the county-seat of San Benito County, Cal.. 94 miles southeast o£ San Francisco; on a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad CNfap: California. C 3). It is the centre of farming, fruit-growing, dairying, and stock-raising interests. The town has a public librarv. Population, in 1890. 1234: in 1900, 1315. HOLLISTER, Gideon Hiram (1817-81). An American author, born in Washington, Conn. After graduating at Yale (1840). he studied and .practiced law in Litchfield, with digressions to other (owns in Connecticut, and a vear in Haiti as United States consul ( 1808-09) ." In 1880 he was sent to Con,grcss. His literary work consists of an historical novel. Mount Hope (1851) ; Bis- lory of Connecticut (2 vols., 1834) ; Thomas i Uc'cIkCI : A Tiagedy, and Other Poems ( 18GG) , and Kinlifi IliAhjir (1882), puldished posthumously. HOLLMANN, hol'man, Frieuricii (1842—,). A German admiral, born in Berlin. He entered the Russian Navy in 1857, served in the Asiatic expedition of 1859-62. connnanded a gunboat in 1804, and, after service on schoolship and at the Kiel Naval Academy, fought at the battle of Grille in the Franco-Prussian War. His advance was rapid; in 1889 he arranged the trip of the German Emperor and Empress to Greece and Turkey; and in the following year he was made Secretary of State for the Navy, a post which he held until June. 1897, when he resigned be- cause of his inability to pass the naval budget. He had been promoted to admiral in 1896. HOLO-OWAY, Lauba Carter (afterwards
- Mrs. Langfobd) (1848 — ). An American au-
thor, twice married, whose maiden name was Carter. She was born in Nashville, Tcnn., and was educated at the Female Academy there. She was president of the Seidl JIusical Society in Brooklyn and a collaborator with Anton Seidl himself in the musical work for the Standard Dictionary. She published Ladies of the White House (1870) ; An Hour with Charlotte Bronte (1883) ; The Mothers of Great Men and Women (1884) ; Chinese Gordon (1885) ; and The Bud- dhist Diet Book (1887). HOLLOWAY COLLEGE. An institution founded in 1883. in ilount Lee, Egham, Surrey, England, by Thomas HoUoway, for the purpose of supplying higher education to women, par- ticularly of the middle class. The building is very handsome in the French Renaissance style, and was opened by Queen Victoria in 1880. Twelve trustees look after the management. HOLLOW-WARE. There are two classes of iron .aoods so called, viz. cast-iron hollow-ware and wrought-iron hollow-ware. Both kinds in- clude cooking and other vessels for domestic use, and comprise also some other articles, such as coffee mills, which are molded and finished in a similar way. Wrought-iron hollow-ware is largely made by the process of stamping. ( See DiE.s and Die-Sinking.) Hollow-ware is finished in three ways ; some of it is enameled, some tinned, and some of it is left black, or untinned. See Enamel. HOLLS, George Frederick William (1857- 19113). An American lawyer. He was born at Zelienople. Pa., graduated at Columbia (1878) and at Columbia Law School (1880). and gained a large German-American practice in New Y'ork City. lie was a Reimldioan delcgateat-large to the State Constitutional Co'ivcntion in 1894. and was conunissioner on .government of cities of the third class (1895). In 1898 he did much in Ger- many to better feeling toward the I'nited States, and in the followin.2 year was appointed secre- tary and counsel of the .merican delegation to (he Peace Conference at The Hague. In the treaty there concluded. Holls wrote the article Imperial Mediation. lie wrote: Fran:: Lieber (1884. in German) : Sancta Sophia and Troitza, a sketch of travel in Russia and the East (1888) ; Compulsory }'otin(i (1891) : and The Pence Con- ference at The Haque and Its Bearings on Inter- national Law and Polity (1900). HOLLY (older hnllen. from AS. holcn : con- nected with Ir. cuilenn, Gael, cuilioun, Welsh
