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...Still another man who ought to have been a Republican, but was not, "was the driver of the horse vehicle that took us out to the vast and over-ornate Church-Monastery of San Jerorymos at Belem. Passing a large, grim building, he said: 'The palace of the President of the Republic, once the Royal Palace.' 'Are you glad of the change?' we asked. 'I am not, he said quite positively...
...San Sebastian, Spain, a group of prominent Americans heard for the first time the celebrated Basque chorus. Among them was Otto H. Kahn, musical Maecenas of New York. The singing mountaineers made a great impression upon the Americans. Mr. Kahn donated $5,000 to their fund, offered to take them across the ocean for American appearances...
...Santa Catalina and San Clemente islands, off the coast near Los Angeles, and at San Diego, Ensenada, Mexico and other Lower California posts, the sky was obscured by heavy clouds practically throughout the eclipse. At Los Angeles the clouds parted just long enough for the watching thousands to see a thin crescent of shadow on the disk in the early phase. At Mexico City the clouds were more polite, and a good view was obtained, though as the Mexican capital was just outside the belt of totality, with an obscuration of 99.4%, none of the major expeditions had stationed themselves...
...important types of observation were possible. Army and Navy aviators, from their headquarters at Rockwell Field, San Diego, mounted from 16,000 to 20,000 feet, above the clouds and fog, flew out over the ocean, snapped the eclipse at 80-mile intervals previously mapped out between Santa Barbara and San Lower California. Each plane was manned by a pilot and a photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured...
Died. John B. ("Dots") Miller, 37, until recently manager of the San Francisco Club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., of tuberculosis. He played second base for the Pittsburgh Pirates (National League) in 1909, when they won the pennant and defeated the Detroit Tigers in the World's Series. He contracted tuberculosis after being gassed...