EAU CLAIRE, 6 klar, Wis., city and county-seat of Eau Claire County, at the mouth of the Eau Claire River, and the head of navi gation of the Chippewa River, and on the Chi cago and Northwestern; Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul, and several other railroads; 85 miles east of Saint Paul and 150 miles north west of Madison. It is the commercial centre for northwestern Wisconsin, and the outlet of the Chippewa lumber district, with extensive water power. It has a great trade in lumber and manufactures over 300,000,000 feet annu ally. There are extensive manufactures of iron and linen goods, furniture, refrigerators, boxes, harness, sashes and doors, machinery and shoes. The city is noted as a summer resort, and has electric railroads and street lights, waterworks, public library and high school, Sacred Heart Hospital, Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, na tional and savings banks, daily and weekly newspapers. Eau Claire adopted the commis
sion form of government in April 1910, being the first city in the State to do so. Pop. 18,647.
o-lxon, France, a cele brated watering-place, department of Basses Pyrenees, at the bottom of a narrow gorge, about 25 miles south of Pau. There are seven hot springs, which have a temperature of about 90°, are strongly impregnated with sulphur and considered of special efficacy for throat diseases and tuberculosis. About 6,W0 to 10,000 visitors resort hither in the course of the season, which lasts from June to October. A short distance away is Eaux-Chaudes, with sulphur springs.
6-shOd, France, a watering-place in France, three miles southeast of Eaux-Bonnes. Some of its springs have the same properties as those of the Eaux-Bonnes, and others are more strongly impregnated with sulphur.