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Howard Earle Coffin, retired motors tycoon, bought Sapeloe 17 years ago and developed it the way other tycoons (Goulds, McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe...
...York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic of 1907 vividly demonstrated the justice of his criticisms, won him recognition as a financial authority. In 1908 he went with the late great Henry P. Davison and Frank A. Vander-lip and Senator Nelson Aldrich to recently-famed Jekyl Island (see National Affairs) where the U. S. currency system was thoroughly studied, scientifically revised. In 1911, Mr. Warburg became a U. S. citizen...
...rooms thus provisionally assigned in the south entry are: Room 22, "Dr. Jekyl's": T. S. Kenyon, H. D. Barton. Room 36, "Simple Septimus": M. S. Lewis. Room 40, "W. R. Blake's": H. C. Merriam, Jr., L. E. Stover, Jr. Room 41, "John Smith": D. Greene. Room 43, "Dick Spensers": N. B. Dee, C. W. Findlay. Room 44. "John Halifax": H. E. Ohler, R. Holt...
Robert Louis Stevenson was first heard of, Mr. Copeland said, through "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde," though a few had known him before as the author of "An Inland Voyage." He was a neoromantic writer and cared nothing for the affairs of the day. Mr. Stevenson was not a great novelist. This is attributable partly to the fact that he did not write of women or for women. Although women appear in his stories, it was not until "David Balfour" that he introduces a woman who interests us. To be a really great novelist, a writer must deal with more...
Stevenson had a hard struggle for fame and enjoyed it only for a short time. He was not known to the world before "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde." Possessing a talent without a dominant impulse, what he accomplished was done with hard work. He never ceased to be a Scotchman; for though he went to Samoa to keep alive, he always longed for the "hills and home." This is seen not only in his verses but all through "David Balfour." Stevenson died on the third day of this month. He was carried to the top of a high mountain...