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Died. John Aikman Stewart, 104, Chairman of Board, United States Trust Co., Manhattan (which he organized, 1853); in Manhattan, of pneumonia. Acquainted with most U. S. Presidents since Jackson, he worked for Lincoln as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. In 1894, during Cleveland's second term, he was influential in securing resumption of specie payments. Columbia graduate, he was President pro tempore of Princeton (Sept. 1910-Jan. 1912), following Woodrow Wilson's resignation...
...come, is coming, from Princeton's alumni and friends. Last week President John Grier Hibben announced that $1,419,000 had come, including $25,000 from a modest, retiring old gentleman who has served Princeton in this way and that longer than any other living man. He is John Aikman Stewart, Columbia...
...TAMING OF THE FRONTIER- Ten Authors, Edited by Duncan Aikman-Minton, Balch...
Editor Duncan Aikman and the jounalists and novelists who compiled The Taming follow Mr. White's lead in being ingenuously shocking and satirically humorous. Idwal Jones' chapter on the guerilla artists of San Francisco's old Barbary Coast is one of the best. There is Jacques, chef at the Tehama House, ladling out sea-gull-egg omelets. Banker Eugene Duprey washes down a 15-pound turkey with 20 bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill...