AMES, WINTHROP American theatrical pro ducer, was born in North Easton, Mass., on Nov. 25, 1871. He graduated at Harvard in 1895, and spent the following year in spe cial study at the university. For eight years he edited and pub lished art and architectural works in Boston. Then followed a year abroad where he studied the continental drama, and in 1905 he be came manager, in association with Loren F. Deland, of the Castle theatre, Boston, where for three years they conducted a very notable stock company. In 1909, he became director of the New theatre (now the Century) in New York city, where he made the first attempt in recent years to establish a repertory theatre. With the passing of the New theatre, he began, in 1912, inde pendent production and management, erecting two theatres, the Little and the Booth. He contributed a wide variety of produc tions, among them Snow White, the first play given in New York city especially for children. He also revived the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 3, 1937.
. AMES, a city of Story county, Iowa, U.S.A., in the centre of the state, 35 m. N. of Des Moines; on two lines of the Chicago and North Western, and on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and South ern (electric) railway. The population, nearly all native white, increased from 2,422 in 'goo to 6,57o in 192o and 10,261 in 193o (Federal census). The town was laid out in 1864 and incorporated in 1869. It was named after Oakes Ames, one of the owners of the railway. It is the headquarters of the State Highway Com mission, which employs about I,000 men over the state. A com mission-manager form of government was adopted in 192o.
Ames is the seat of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, established in 1858, as a "state agricultural col lege and model farm," and broadened in scope in 1862 to meet the conditions of the Congressional "land-grant" act of that year. In 1927 the college property was valued at $8,750,869. The central campus of 125 ac. is a beautiful park. An inner plaza of 20 ac., con taining a campanile with a chime of ten bells cast in Loughbor ough, England, is surrounded by stately buildings of white Bed ford stone. Around these is an outer ring of shops and labora tories. Abutting on the central campus are farms for teaching and experiment in agronomy, animal husbandry, bee culture, dairy husbandry, horticulture, poultry raising, veterinary science, and other branches, comprising in all nearly 2,000 acres. There are 7o buildings for college purposes. The meats laboratory includes an amphitheatre with 50o seats; greenhouses contain 33,00o sq.ft. under glass; the automobile laboratory is 8o by 207 ft.; the new library (19 2 5) has a capacity for 2 50,00o volumes; the main Home Economics building (1927; 40o ft. long) is supplemented by the Nursery School near by, where the work in child care and training is conducted, and by three well planned houses for the courses in home management. The engineering division of the col lege is as large as the division of agriculture. The administrative and teaching staff numbers more than 500, and the annual enrol ment of students is more than 5,000, adding more than so% to the resident population of the city.