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Died. John Francis Anderson, 78, Swedish engineer, inventor of aerial bridge patents, who directed tunneling under the Hudson River; at San Diego, Calif...
Died. Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France. His life was embittered in 1889 when he was falsely accused of treason, a Captain Tripone having stolen his secret and sold his invention to a foreign power. He was pardoned in 1893 and exonerated in 1901. Last week Cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had not worn since he had been accused, was placed on his coffin...
...Chief-of-Police Richard Zober last week had a pleasant diversion. With the commissioner of public safety and a police judge he listened to a short speech by one Michael Rusch, 23, who moved to Passaic five years ago from Alsace-Lorraine. Michael Rusch explained that he was an inventor in a small way. The officials watched his demonstration. The small box, 6 in. x 4 in. x 1 in. which he drew from his pocket was, he explained, a radio receiving set. He snowed how the aerial, a tiny wire, could be fastened to the lapel, buttons or cuffs...
...Jersey, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison approached his 80th birthday (Feb. 11) ; in Bermuda, Dr. Francis Landey Pattton, 84, onetime (1888-1902) president of Princeton, celebrated his birthday; lectured to the local Rota,ry club. Dr. William Williams Keen, 90, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday. John Davison Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...
...Story of romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz Liszt,* artist, lover, Franciscan monk...