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...Debevoise vs. Upjohn; at 2, Salter vs. Sears; at 3, Rounds vs. Scully; at 3.30, Stralem vs. Dwight; Gallary vs. winner of Salter Sears match; Whitbeck vs. Pinkham; Bandler vs. Barber; Boone vs. Morton; Solomon vs. Hopkins; Webster vs. Davis...
...Constance Hoyt von Stumm, wife of Baron Ferdinand von Stumm, in Bavaria, suddenly. She was a daughter of the later Henry Martyn Hoyt, Solicitor General during President Taft's Administration, and a sister of Mrs. Elinor Wylie, poet. Henry Martyn Hoyt, sometime Governor of Pennsylvania, was her grandfather; Morton McMichael, former Mayor of Philadelphia, her great-grandfather...
...often set down his observations, especially about men. He might well be called a Boswell without a pen. In his youth, according to the well known story in the Mirrors of Washington, he went to Hopkins School in New Haven, intending to enter Yale. But when his friend Morton (son of the Democratic Governor of Indiana) failed to pass the entrance examinations for Yale, young House followed his friend to Cornell...
...Morton Howell, U. S. Minister, gave his support to the dry drive by addressing the " largest meeting ever held on prohibition in Egypt." He commenced his oration by stating that the occasion was memorable. No one, not even antiprohibitionists, disagreed with him. He quoted a long line of United States diplomats, physicians and business men as favoring prohibition...
...Fish came from the stock of pioneers and joined the generation of great railroaders. Born in New York in 1851, and graduated from Columbia 20 years later he became successively a clerk in the Illinois Central Railroad, secretary to its President, and a clerk in the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co. Subsequently he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and became a Director in the Illinois Central. After several years of railroad experience with that and other roads, he was elected its President in 1887. The subsequent clash between Mr. Fish and the late...