LOGANSPORT, Ind., city, county-seat of Cass County, locally known as the 'City of Bridges," 77 miles north by west of Indian apolis, where the Eel River flows into the Wabash. The city is an important railroad centre, being entered by the Chicago, Rich mond, Bradford and Effner divisions of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis Railroad; the Michigan division of the Van dalia, and its 94-mile branch northeast of But ler, and by the Wabash. It is also the west ern terminal of the interurban line operated by the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Trac tion Company and the northern terminal of the line operated by the Indiana Union Trac tion Company. The business of the city is de rived largely from its railroad shops, from its manufactories and from the surrounding agri cultural region, and the chief products being wheat, corn, oats and small fruits. There are manufactories of automobiles, radiators, lum ber, carriages, plows, flour, baskets, lime, brooms, window shades,. soaps and foundry products. Kenneth quarries, two miles west of the city limits on the north bank of the Wabash, furnish large quantities of crushed limestone. The city has several churches. Its educational facilities are embraced in the Logansport Business College, Holy Angels' Academy (R. C.), a high school, the building being of Lake Superior red sandstone, and ward schools, in addition to the Catholic and Lutheran parish schools. The most important public institution is the Northern Indiana Hos pital for the Insane, popularly known as comprising over 34 buildings, and several hundred acres of land. Saint Joseph's Hos pital (R. C.), the Home for the Friendless, the Orphans' Home, the Carnegie library, the Fed eral building, completed in 1905 and costing $75,000, and the Masonic Temple among the more prominent institutions. The city also has about 15 acres of parks. The soldiers' monument in Mount Hope Cemetery, costing $10,000, was dedicated 14 July 1887. Logans port was named after Captain Logan, a Shaw nee chief, killed by the Indians in November 1812, near the Maumee River, and was first written Logan's Port. The first permanent
settlement was made in August 1826 by Alex ander Chamberlain, who erected a log cabin on the south bank of the Wabash, directly op posite the mouth of the Eel River. It was in corporated as a town 5 Sept. 1831; as a city, 3 April 1838. Its elective officers consist of a mayor, judge, clerk and treasurer, each for four years, ineligible for two consecutive terms; and seven councilmen, one from each of the five wards, and two at large. The business of the city is largely delegated to its board of public works, which consists of three members, appointed by the mayor, and not more than two of which can belong to the same political party. The police commissioners are appointed by the governor. The city also owns and operates its own electric light and water plant. Pop. 20,262.
LOGAcEDIC, VERSE. The derivation of the adjective, logacedic, from Gr. A6yoc (pr. logos = speech, discourse, prose) and tiouCji (pr. a-oi-de = song), the combination giving the sense of prose-song, prose-poetry, shows sufficiently the basic mean ing of the phrase. In other words, logacedic verse is so called because, to some extent at least, its rhythmic effect is supposed to re semble that of prose. Logacedic verse, as used in Greek and Latin prosody, may be defined as a rhythm, in three-eighths time, based on the trochee but admitt'ng with considerable freedom the use of other feet instead of the trochee. The substitute feet thus generally used are the cyclic dactyl %../), that is, a dactyl in three-eighths instead of four-eighths time; the irrational trochee (—>), which gets its name from the fact that its parts are not, or at least seem not to be, related to each other in the regular ratio of two to one; the triseme (t.._); the tribrach v); and occasion ally, but only in the first foot, or base, of the line, the iambus (%-i —), the pyrrhic v), or the anapaest (-, Anacrusis, that is, a short or unaccented initial syllable, occasion ally occurs; double anacrusis not so frequently. Throughout this article the sign A indicates a pause or rest.