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...Governor in 1909; for the past three years, as Vice President, he has been connected with a great number of its special and standing committees. Forty-seven years of age, he is a member of the firm of Rutter & Gross. Mr. Simmons is known in Wall street for his judicial poise, executive ability, unlimited courage. His first three initials are those of the great railroad master Edward H. Harriman, for whom he was named and to whom he is related. The new Stock Exchange head is said to resemble his remarkable namesake; "he never starts fights, never avoids them...
...explaining how these specimens may best be caught, the bulletin declares, "The audit winged biting mosquitoes, may be collected most, conveniently when they have some to rest upon the surface of a window pane or wall. Take a widemouthed bottle and place in it a tuft of cotton saturated with a small amount of "Carbona" cleaning fluid. Place the bottle quickly over the mosquito which will be soon overcome by the fumes. Then transfer it to a small pill box-between two layers of cotton." A pill box with several specimens may then be sent by mail without fear...
Growled "the Tiger": "You see, I had to build a wall to keep the sea from washing my garden away. A storm robbed me of 20 feet of ground last Winter, and while I must keep the salt water out with the wall, I have had to build an irrigation system for fresh water...
...treaty-making nations?" On the other side President Roosevelt's patience was severely taxed and he had seen a half a century's dillydallying over the Panama question bring forth no fruit. He himself once said that one might as well "try to nail jelly to a wall" as to try and negotiate with Colombia. The President did not foster the revolt, but he sympathized with it and helped it after it had broken out. From a utilitarian viewpoint, if from no other, his actions were entirely justified. Even so great a critic as Lord Bryce endorsed...
Trinity Church (Broadway and Wall St., Manhattan) stands on one of the most valuable plots of land in the U. S. Yet a clever group of swindlers is reported to have made a fortune out of questioning the validity of Trinity's title to the land it occupies...