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...Camp Funston, Kan. where he was naturalized. Honorably discharged in 1919, he drifted to Chicago, worked as a butcher, seemed unable to hold a steady job. His wife divorced him, kept their small daughter. Long jobless, in June he joined a band of veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital he was billeted in a Government-owned building on Pennsylvania Avenue. One of thousands, he took part in the demonstration at the Capitol the day Congress adjourned without voting immediate cashing...
When Engineer Sprague tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines, a fuse blew out. scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars...
...Societies Building, Manhattan, with hundreds of celebrities present. An Annapolis graduate, Scientist Sprague specialized in electricity, was for a year affiliated with Thomas Alva Edison. He organized Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co., tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines. During a demonstration, a fuse blew out, scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars. Later in Richmond, Va., Mr. Sprague successfully constructed an electric surface line. Within two years 200 other U. S. cities had trolley lines, 110 of them Sprague-built. He perfected fast electric elevators and the multiple-unit control...
...ordinarily brightly lighted Freshman dining hall in the Harvard Union took on a mediaeval aspect last night at dinner time, when the main fuse blew out, and the five or six hundred men who were eating there at the time were left in total darkness...
...coin of his realm on a gold basis. Before Croesus the Greeks used coins of a gold and silver alloy called electrum. Why not, urged the rememberers of this fact, create an "Electrum Standard?" Instead of pegging silver legally to gold at 16 to 1 why not fuse the two metals, create new world coinage? Responsible banking opinion everywhere last week treated electrum talk as September madness...