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Fifty haphazard years of jerrybuilding followed. The Civil War focused national attention upon the capital and its miserable estate. Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself. Washington grew out of its youthful squalor, but recklessly, without unity or good taste. Architecture went on a gingerbread spree?viz. the State, War & Navy Building, the Post Office Department Building. The L'Enfant plan was forgotten...
...short-bearded speaker was Harry Fischel, until last week acting president of Manhattan's Yeshiva College, builder of the first U. S. Yiddish theatre (the Grand, on Grand Street, Manhattan), builder of apartments and office buildings on Manhattan's Park Avenue, native of Russia, loyal orthodox...
Died. Viscount Shimpei Goto, 73, of Tokyo, "Roosevelt of Japan," sometime Foreign Minister, Civil Governor of Formosa, railway president, sanitation expert, subway builder. Boy Scout organizer, potent non-partisan politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; en route to Kyoto...
Apropos of the celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...
Died. Mrs. Viola Austman Fokker, 29, of Manhattan, Danish wife of the famed Dutch aircraft builder Anthony H. G. Fokker; by a 15-floor fall from her apartment window; in Manhattan. Mrs. Fokker had spent weeks in a hospital with a nervous breakdown. Her death occurred on the evening of her return, while her husband dozed. Grief-stricken, he had to be restrained from leaping after...