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...brothers organized the American Smelting & Refining Co. and the Chile Copper Co. (cheapest and greatest copper producers). They developed copper mines in Alaska, tin mines in Bolivia and nitrate beds in Chile. Daniel Guggenheim, with the late Thomas Fortune Ryan and Bel gian, French and Portuguese financiers and politicians, worked up diamond mines in the Congo region. The Guggenheims, Daniel and his brothers, attribute much of their fortune to their hiring experts at no matter what cost and to maintaining the welfare of their employes...
...been cases in this country where one of them, upon being arrested and fined for speeding, has objected to the State Department and received an apology and a refund of the fine. But Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland is a stern man. In Baltimore the car of Count Gian Franco Della Porta, attaché of the Italian Embassy, ran into the automobile of a citizen, one Marks. A policeman came up. The Count paid Mr. Marks $30 and departed. Then he entered a protest to the State Department-asked an apology and his money back, asserting that...
...Professor a Academic royale des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles and Attache des Musees royaux du Cinquantenaite, has been sent by the Bel- gian government to arrange for the loan of Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century for the exposition which is to be held in Brussels, beginning in April, 1910. He will give a second lecture this week, on Friday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson J, on "Modern Belgian Literature,--Maeterlinck and Verhaeren." This lecture is given on invitation of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and, like the first, will be delivered in French and open...