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...Detroit, talked to influential citizens whose enthusiasm grew strong when the Juilliard Foundation offered to lend $5,000, when Mrs. Frederick M. Alger agreed to head the festival committee. The Alger name is big in Detroit. Old Michiganders remember the "General," rich from lumber and iron, who served President McKinley as Secretary of War. The General's Son Frederick was not too social to be an ardent American Legionary up to the time of his death two winters ago. Young Fred Alger Jr. took to horses and polo, owns Azucar, the gelding that won the $100,000 Santa Anita...
Cleveland was defeated by Harrison. The McKinley tariff was passed and Father Lash's lace importing business was ruined. That finished young Lash's art career...
...TIME'S 77 subscribers in Anchorage (pop. 2,227) the advertiser makes the following explanation for the regrettable omission: "In the Anchorage neighborhood the map space is particularly small and there was not room for city names along with Mt. McKinley and Columbia Glacier. To keep the map clear, and also on the theory that tourists traveling to Columbia Glacier, Seward, Mt. McKinley and Fairbanks would be bound to visit Anchorage, the name of Anchorage had to be sacrificed...
Died. Henry Augustus Lukeman, 64, sculptor of outdoor memorial statuary (President McKinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio; Columbus for Manhattan; Daniel Boone for Paris, Ky.; Jefferson Davis for Washington and Lexington, Ky.); of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1925, after the ousting of Gutzon Borglum, Virginia-born Sculptor Lukeman was called in to complete the Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain, Ga., produced an equestrian group which was unveiled in 1928. Work has since been suspended for lack of funds...
...Washington, D. C., Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., 19, opened an envelope from the War Department and read those words of Adjutant General James F. McKinley. Great was the pride of handsome, serious-minded Cadet-select Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., son of a West Pointer (1911) now attached to the War College, and only living great-grandson of one of the Military Academy's most famed graduates, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, Lieut.-General, Confederate States Army...