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...Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near his birthplace-Brewster Methodist Episcopal Church, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Daniel Drew Methodist Episcopal Church. Last week, still...
...Adams, owner of the Boston Bruins and Treasurer of First National Stores was born in Newport. Vt., Oct. 19. 1876, the son of Frank W. Adams of that town. His grandfather Abail and his great-grandfather Deacon Martin Adams also lived in Xewport. Vt. Deacon Martin Adams was in the Revolutionary...
...unbending, uncommunicative, with a reputation for gruffness, Edgar Lee Masters lives in an obscure hotel in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, seldom appears at New York literary gatherings. Since he dresses carelessly, wears heavy spectacles and a characteristic expression of thin-lipped disapproval, he looks not unlike some Midwestern deacon described in Spoon River Anthology. Baldish, he dislikes being photographed except when wearing a hat. Hilary, his 7-year-old son by his second marriage, summers with him in New York, winters in Kansas City with his mother...
...piece orchestra played rousing sacred music. A reformed jailbird, a one-time drug-addict, a converted cowpuncher, a ''reformed Presbyterian deacon" gave testimonials. A brief, fierce sermon whipped up the pulses of 1,500 people in the arched, open-walled tabernacle. One by one they hurried up to kneel in straw and sawdust by a long bench-like altar. Rawboned, hot-eyed men lifted clasped hands high in prayer. Women wailed, waved their arms, chanted gibberish. Small bewildered children noisily imitated their elders. The din rose, night after night, week after week, while plain people nearby stirred crossly...
Head of the Roman Catholic Church during the 18-day interregnum is the Cardinal Camerlengo. who sits during the conclave under a baldachin with the head Cardinal Bishop, Cardinal Priest and Cardinal Deacon, the four being reverenced with a genuflection as if they were one Pope. Entrusted with what remained of the old office of Minister of the Interior & Finance in the Papal States, the Cardinal Camerlengo came, during his brief rule, to appropriate some of the powers of the Cardinal Secretary of State. Modern pontiffs have united the two offices, and for many years, until his death last November...