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...patriots of Ecuador are more courageous, more gallant or more troublesome than the three rich and handsome sons of the late President General Don Leonidas Plaza.* Last week the eldest son, Galo Plaza, onetime Minister of Defense, was in exile in California. Once urged to declare himself dictator, he is now willing to be "drafted" as President if Ecuadorian politics will only settle down. The second son, Captain Leonidas Plaza, who earned a captain's commission in a bayonet charge during the war with Peru, was in Garcia Moreno penitentiary under 16 years' sentence for participation...
...Francis Phillip Wuppermann. Josephine Wuppermann, his mother, is, at 82, president and treasurer of Angostura-Wuppermann, sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U. S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault in Trinidad, another in a vault in London...