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Samuel Insull came of a poor family. His father ran a temperance hotel near Reading, Eng. Temperance was not popular. Samuel Insull had worked hard all his life, but he had never in his life worked so hard as he now began to work for Thomas Edison. When he landed in Manhattan, he hurried to the home of his new employer. It was five o'clock in the afternoon. "Report for duty after dinner," Mr. .Edison said. Samuel Insull worked until five next morning...
...totally different method of using tidal energy is to "harness" the powerful ebb-and-flow movement of the tides. Three important projects are already under way to accomplish this-at Passamoquody Bay (see p. 31) inlet of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; at Sudbury on the Severn, Eng. .and at Aber-Vrach on the Brittany coast. At all three places there are long, narrow estuaries, into which tides rush with enormous energy. Water turbines, set in dams built across these arms of the sea, will whirl as the tides rush through them; and electricity will be produced. Thus progresses...
Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and the present Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, is alleged to have appeared before the Catholic Diocesan Court at Southwark, Eng., with her mother last July, and deposed that she was forced by parental duress to consent to marry in 1895 Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough...
...William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins goes he finds friends to greet him with that affectionate regard which able men yield to an able, modest confrere. It may be at New Haven, Manhattan, Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, Berlin, where he has studied; or at Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cambridge, (Mass.) , Cambridge (Eng.), Princeton, Chicago, Washington or elsewhere, where he has received honorary degrees; in the U. S., England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, where he belongs to learned societies; or Japan...
Died. Roscoe Brunner, until recently Chairman of the great chemical firm of Brunner Mond & Co.; at Green Cottage, Roehampton, Eng., country house of his son-in-law Prince Ferdinand of Liechtentein; after murdering his own wife and then shooting himself. Allegedly the cause of this murder-suicide was ill health aggravated by business worries...