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...light. Onetime grocery clerk Pratt eventually joined up in Standard Oil with onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate at Glen Cove, on Long Island's North Shore, where they built themselves manor houses...
...Glen Cove the Russians will have even less contact with the natives. Last fall they leased the late J. P. Morgan's $2,500,000 East Island estate, which adjoins Killenworth. Local folk said they saw as little of the exclusive comrades as of the haughty Morgans and Pratts...
Died. Frederic Bayley Pratt, 80, longtime head of Brooklyn's coeducational, 57-year-old Pratt Institute, which was founded by his multimillionaire father, Charles Pratt, associate of John D. Rockefeller in organizing and originally running the Standard Oil Co.; of a heart ailment ; in Glen Cove...
...hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very likely to end up finally in [a cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often succeeded. The town of Mosquito became Troutdale, Zigzag switched to Rhododendron, Screamerville to Chancellor...
Within a few hours fishermen and country folk, from the 40-mile stretch between Tancook Island and Herring Cove, flocked on foot or in dories, motor boats and schooners to the scene of one of the biggest salvage "takes" in Nova Scotia's wreck-strewn history...