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PORTER 316 PORTLAND of War General Porter became the assist- ant secretary, and during his chief's service as President acted as private secretary. General Porter then went into business and was exceedingly suc- cessful. He was president of the Gen- eral National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Grant Monument Association. The completion of the Grant monument is largely the result of his efforts. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley ambas- sador to France. PORTER, ROBERT P., an American statistician; born in Norfolk, England, Jan. 30, 1852; settled in the United States in 1867, and soon afterward, en- gaged in journalism. He was appointed United States commissioner to Cuba and Porto Rico in 1898-1899. Died 1917. PORTER, SIDNEY WILLIAM (pseu- donym 0. Henry), an American author; born in Greensborough, N. €., in 1862. At 18 he moved to Texas, and worked suc- cessively as a bank clerk, editor of "The Rolling Stone," on staff of "The Houston Daily," etc. Among his v;ork3 are "The Four Million," "Rolling Stone," "Cab- bages and Kings," etc. He died in 1910. PORT HURON, a city and county-seat of St. Clair co., Mich.; on the St. Clair and Black rivers, at the foot of Lake Huron and on the Pere Marquette, and the Grand Trunk railroads; 60 miles N. E. of Detroit. Here are a United States Government Building, electric light and street railroad plants, waterworks, pub- lic library. Government buildings, parks, public hospital. National and State banks, and daily and weekly periodicals. The city has a large trade with Canada. Its industrial plants include the shops of the Grank Trunk railroad, fiber, corset, and smelting works, saw mills, flour mills, automobile engines, dry docks and boiler works. Pop. (1910) 18,863; (1920) 25,944. PORTICI, a town of Italy; on the slope of Vesuvius, 5 miles S. E. of Na- ples. Its environs are delightful, and are dotted over with country houses. The royal palace built (1738) by Charles III. is now an agricultural college. There are a small fort, fishing, and sea bathing. Silkworms are reared and rib- bons made. PORTICO, a covered walk, supported by columns, and usually vaulted; a pi- azza or arched walk; a porch before the entrance of a building fronted with col- limns. Porticoes are known as tetra- style, hexastyle, octostyle, or decastyle, according as they have four, six, eight, or 10 columns in front. A prostyle por- tico is one projecting in front of the building; a pm-tico in antis is one re- ceding within the building. PORT JERVIS, a town in Orange, co., N. Y.; at the confluence of the Never- sink and Delaware rivers, at the inter- section of the boundary lines of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and on the Erie, and the New York, On- tario and Western railroads, 88 miles N. W. of New York. Here are St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Elks' Home, Federal building, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks, a Sol- diers' Monument at the intersection o"^ the State boundary lines. National banks, and several daily and weekly newspa- pers. The town has iron foundries, rail- road repair shops, silk mills, boot and shoe factories, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,564; (1920) 10,171. PORTLAND, a city, port of entry, and county-seat of Cumberland co.. Me.; on Casco Bay, and on the Boston and Maine, the Grand Trunk, the Portland and Rochester, the Maine Central, and other railroads; 105 miles N. E. of Boston. It has direct steamboat connections with Boston and New York, and two weekly steamship lines to Europe. The city is delightfully laid out along a peninsula, in the harbor, protected by a massive breakwater. Here are a custom house, City Hall, which contains a Municipal Organ, postoffice. United States Marine Hospital, the Maine General Hospital, headquarters of the Maine Historical So- ciety, Portland Society of Natural His- tory, the Wadsworth mansion, the Long- fellow homestead, etc. The city has waterworks, several libraries, electric light and street railroad plants. Nation- al, State, and savings banks, Portland School for the Deaf, Old Men's Home, Old Ladies' Home, St. Elizabeth's Acad- emy, etc. Portland has over 700 manu- facturing establishments, with an annual output valued at over $15,000,000. The industries include boot and shoe facto- ries, sugar refineries, rolling-mills, foun- dries, machine shops, locomotive works, engine and boiler works, petroleum refin- eries, match factories, chemical works, tanneries, paint and oil works, carriage and sleigh factories, manufactures of stoneware, jewelry, edge tools, varnishes, soap and lamps, meat packing establish- ments, coopering establishments, lumber mills, etc. Shipbuilding is still carried on, though of less importance, relatively, than in former years. Fishing and the shell-fish industry are extensively pur- sued. Portland was settled by the Eng- lish in 1632; was burned by the Indians in 1676; and by the French and Indians in 1690; was rebuilt in 1715; burned by