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Divorced. Ralph Modjeski, famed bridge builder, son of late tragedienne Helena Modjeska; from Felicie Benda Modjeska, whom he married in Poland in 1885; for "extreme cruelty"; in Reno...
...President Harold Sherburne Boardman of University of Maine, the late George Washington Goethals (builder of Panama Canal),* the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz,* John Hays Hammond,† Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's engineering college,* the late Elmer Ambrose Sperry.† Architect Irving Kane Pond, Bridge Builder Ralph Modjeski,* President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories,*President Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh University, Irving Langmuir of General Electric...
...great builder of bridges is Ralph Modjeski and honored last week with his sixth scientific medal. But, except for his own stubborn leaning to engineering and his fond mother's indulgence, he might have been a musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski...
Some of the engineering feats of the near future, according to Modjeski...
...Modjeski was born in Poland in 1861. He has just been awarded one of the annual John Scott medals by the American Philosophical Society. He designed and built the Columbia and Willamette River bridges, Ore.; the McKinley bridge, St. Louis; was one of the associated engineers of the Quebec bridge; and is now chief engineer of the Delaware River bridge, Philadelphia, which will have the longest single span...