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...designing in mining districts between Mexico and Alaska. He improved the process of washing gold. He spent one winter in a hut on an island in the Arctic to study a project for installing a hydro-electric plant. After many years of this practical mining, he founded a firm of engineers specializing in construction of shafts and mining plants. His four big mining ventures were successful; two in Colorado?"Tomboy" and "Smugglers Union"; and two in California?"Plymouth"and "Mountain...
...grass, along the edge of a clay road to the night prayer meeting in the small country schoolhouse. "That seemed to make religion important and added interest to the hymns. When you sang 'Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known,' you were sufficiently interested at least to walk through the mud and rain, if not sufficiently brave to go into the den with the lions...
...Russell William Thaw was born in 1910, five years before Thaw divorced his wife for misconduct allegedly in Germany while Thaw was interned in the Mattewan Asylum for the criminally insane in Manhattan. Thaw denies that he is the father; Evelyn Nesbit is equally firm in supporting the boy's legitimacy...
...member, Mr. Delano, was born in New York in 1874 and graduated from Yale in 1895. The Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, awarded him his diploma in Architecture in 1903. Mr. Delano is df the firm of Delano & Aldrich, designers of such well-known Manhattan club buildings as- the Knickerbocker, Colony and India House. For seven years he was professor of Design at Columbia University...
Died. Eliphalet Remington, 96, lone surviving member of the firm of E. Remington & Sons, founded in 1816 by his father; at Herkimer, N. Y. The gun and typewriter manufacturers were originally one company, but failed in 1886 and are now under separate interests, controlled by others than the Remingtons. He died impoverished by his gift (50 years ago) of $250,000 to Syracuse University...