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General Manuel Maria Ponce, a Leguia friend, was placed in command of the revolutionary Junta (military government). Ex-President Leguia and his son Juan fled to the cruiser Almirante Grau, begged to be taken to a neutral port. Other members of the numerous Leguia family scurried to the safety of Lima's foreign embassies...
When the Almirante Grau was a few miles at sea a wireless message was received that the revolution had failed, Leguia was once more President. Promptly the cruiser broke out the President's flag, fired a 21-gun salute. Officers came to salute again their Commander in Chief. Little Leguia was in no condition to receive them. The bitterness of defeat had affected his kidneys, driven him to bed with an acute attack of uremic poisoning...
There followed the Golden Age at the Metropolitan, with such singers as Nordica, Pol Plancon, Fremstad, the de Reszkes and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany...
Parliament building at Lima. The cruiser Almirante Grau flagship of the Peruvian navy (13 vessels) steamed out to meet the Maryland. U.S. Ambassador-to-Peru, Alexander Pollock Moore had his shoes shined extra-specially and congratulated himself again and again on being where he was in the middle of things as usual...
...alleys of Chicago as "the grand old man." Another was James Smith, world's all-round champion bowler, just back from a tour of the U. S. Harry Orf, another, rode in an automobile, bowled into a tree, was taken to a hospital, died. Mallott and Grau rolled naturals over and over. But on the last afternoon it was young Henry Summers who was photographed with a shiny ball in his hands. His final score was a remarkable...