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When Mortimer Loeb Schiff was 13 years old he went fishing in the Adirondacks, caught a 23-lb. salmon trout. His father, rich Jacob Henry Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., joyfully cabled the news to friends abroad. Young Mr. Schiff's salmon trout did not help him win a Boy Scout merit badge, for the scouting movement did not reach the U. S. until 20 years later. But in 1910, when Mr. Schiff was 33 years old and an able financier (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), he helped found scouting in the U. S., became a member of the Boy Scout...
Died. Rev. Dr. James Cameron Mackenzie, 78, organizer and headmaster (1882-99) of Lawrenceville School at Lawrenceville, N. J., which he modeled on the house plan of Phillips Exeter Academy and the British public schools, reorganizer of the Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Md. and its headmaster for two years; of heart disease; in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. Founder and headmaster of his own Mackenzie School at Dobbs Ferry (later at Monroe. N. Y.) from 1901 until he retired in 1926, he declined invitations to be headmaster of Phillips Exeter, president of Lafayette College, superintendent of Philadelphia...
...MacKay, and Lieutenant Commander W. E. MacKay, and Lieutenant R. B. McRight U.S.N., who have completed their required two years land duty, will begin sea-duty next fall and are replaced by Commander R. C. Williams of the U.S.S. Barry, Lieutenant Commander C. S. Alden, skipper of the U.S.S. Jacob Jones, and Lieutenant E. A. Seay, executive officer on board the submarine...
...Depicting the entry into Jerusalem, it was entitled by the artist and most morning papers "Christ Riding on the Ass." In the evening papers, in the official catalog it appeared as "Palm Sunday A. D. 33." It received the sort of press notice generally reserved for the opera of Jacob Epstein: "childish and primitive," "a monstrosity suitable for Moscow." The cautious News Chronicle considered it "astounding." At Private View Day, Ermine, Viscountess Elibank (a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem) approached the painting and announced in the presence of several reporters, "I just...
...department stores in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh); of bronchial pneumonia, after several years paralysis; at "Chieftains," his Port Chester, N. Y. home. Born in Vincennes, Ind., son of a Bavarian immigrant storekeeper, he grew up in the business, ran many a store with his father and his brother Jacob. Opening the Manhattan store in 1910, he succeeded President Jacob ("The Judge") Gimbel at his death in 1922, merged the business with Saks & Co. in 1923. He retired in 1927 in ill health caused by a fall when riding horseback...