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...Representatives accepted the invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would have gone through with a unanimous cheer, but for the fact that Congressman Burtness, anxious to make a gesture pleasing to his many constituents of Scandinavian extraction, began...
...Whereas the first white man to set foot on American soil was a native son of Iceland, Lief Ericson, an able and fearless sailor who, ... in the year 1000 discovered the American mainland which feat constitutes the beginning of authentic American history...
Apropos of the celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...
...contract for the Caloric engine, a type of which was used in the Monitor states among other things that at first a Philadelphia man and his associates desired to "ascertain whether Ericson's Caloric Engine might be employed for the purpose of propelling city rail-road cars." This part of the contract however did not materialize for only Ericson's signature is appended...
...document was found by Thomas several years ago in the storage room of a New York law firm among the papers of a Mr. Gallahan who was Ericson's lawyer. The papers at the time were unclaimed and were deemed to be worthless. Thomas however rescued this and several other valuable records out of the mass of papers...