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Elected. Robert Livingston Clarkson, 36, vice chairman of the board of directors, to be president of the Chase National Bank of Manhattan...
...younger brothers of Cinderella are so frequently found and fitted with a slipper of gold instead of glass, that the tale has lost its edge. Yet, last week, Wall Street men perused with interest the news that 36 year-old Robert Livingston Clarkson had been elected president of the second largest U. S. national bank, the Chase National,* in Manhattan. He had, they learned with no surprise, begun his financial career by functioning as a runner for $4 weekly. Furnished by newssheets only with this familiar detail, some wondered what filled in the enormous gap; a gap that for many...
...Robert Livingston Clarkson looks rather like the young men who play football in college, sell bonds, put on weight as soon as they leave, and who appear at the halfway post, vigorous, talkative, ingratiating, and purring (some hours after the market has closed), with pleasure over ice & soda. It is an outward resemblance only, because Robert Clarkson possesses the importance which these popinjays pretend. He did not go to college at all but left a good school for his first inconspicuous position. When the U. S. entered the late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage...
Died. James Clarkson Gillmore, 72, last Commodore in the U. S. Navy (rank became extinct in 1899); in Washington, D. C. When Filipinos took him prisoner during the Spanish-American War he was lined up to be shot, refused to have his hands tied, said: "It is not a fit way for an officer and gentleman to die." His captors debated, were interrupted by a rescue party, finally released...
Last year, R. P. I. won four of its eight games, defeating Springfield, St. Lawrence, Worcester and Stevens. Tie games were played against Clarkson and Union, while Rochester gained a 7-3 verdict, and Williams by means of a versatile overhead attack overcame the engineers...