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Died. Major John Hill Prentice, 52, African hunting companion of the late Henry P. Davison, wounded veteran of the Argonne Forest, in his hunting lodge near Montauk, L. I., of acute indigestion...
Last week, MacMillan's planes, under Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, flew from Philadelphia via the Delaware River, foggy Montauk Point, L. I., and the Cape Cod Canal, to Boston, where Mayor Curley gave a luncheon for the fliers. MacMillan also attended this ceremonial meal, then returned to Southport, Me., where he had just taken his schooner Bozvdoin to have her sails bent on. His own ship, the Peary, waited at Wiscasset, Me., where the dismantled planes were to be loaded aboard and the start made on Bunker Hill Day (June 17). Governor Brewster of Maine planned the event...
...World. For the 34th successive time, Chauncey M. Depew celebrated his birthday at the Montauk Club, Brooklyn. Said he: "I have come to the conclusion, after a long experience and many large observations with mature judgment, properly based, and properly buttressed, that the only sure guides to success are character, health and happiness...
Dreaming forest, flowery bush, red cliff, turquoise sea; that is Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. In Montauk, Childe Hassam, famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads...
...interesting is that of the Navy, which plans to send the Los Angeles, the new dirigible that recently crossed the Atlantic, with an equipment of photographic telescopes, spectoscopes, and probably a moving picture camera, out to sea to observe the eclipse. The exact spot, about 100 miles east of Montauk Point, L. I., where the Los Angeles will be when the two minutes of totality begin has already been decided on by astronomers from the Naval Observatory. The airship will probably not be over 6000 feet up, but this will probably be enough to get above...