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...Professor Lowe,* meteorologist and inventor, built the balloon City of New York, then the largest ever constructed (diameter, 130 ft.), for a flight across the Atlantic. The outbreak of the Civil War upset that plan. Professor Lowe went to Washington to propose to General Winfield Scott the formation of a balloon corps. The General was not impressed, finally lent his ear and his aid only at the personal prompting of President Lincoln...
...Master's residence, Apthorp House, was built in 1760 by the Reverend East Apthorp, the first rector of Christ Church. Confiscated from its loyalist owner at the outbreak of the Revolution it served as General Putnam's headquarters and the residence of General Burgoyne and some of his officers after their surrender at Saratoga...
Chapin suffered from two afflictions: tuberculous throat and a thirst for gambling. Driven from work by the first ailment in 1914, he took leave of absence, won a fortune in the sugar market, lost everything-including some money entrusted to him-when the outbreak of the war closed the Stock Exchange. Back in Manhattan he became more and more deeply involved. Extravagant living made hopeless any effort to pay his debts. At the end of four years a court demand for an accounting of his trust caused the final break. Walking with his wife one day Chapin was accosted...
...able adman, Sir Charles describes himself in the latest British Who's Who thus: "Freeman of the City of London; organized the first battalion of Volunteers at outbreak of war; keenly interested in all questions affecting Labour: lectures on practical lines of the problem between Capital and Labour; advocate for better living conditions for the workers, better paying and training for teachers, and happier child-life among the masses...
...Revolutionaries," declared a government communique, "have not made a single important gain since the outbreak began. The situation will soon be completely in hand...