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...fired with the idea of establishing a club primarily but not entirely for actors. In the summer of 1887, with fellow-members of a yachting party, he got down to serious planning. During the next year Booth purchased a Manhattan house at 16 Gramercy Park, engaged Stanford White to remodel it, collected 46 charter members, and on the last night of the year, as first president of The Players, handed over the deed of No. 16 to Augustin Daly, the first vice-president. Next day Booth moved in, and for the five remaining years of his life The Players...
...biggest wholesalers is Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago. Its president, Charles John Whipple, has always been distressed by the confused conservatism of hardware retailing. In the last few years he has persuaded 300 of his customers to let him remodel their stores, put their goods out where the customers could see them, make shelves and counters a little more presentable. Last week Mr. Whipple's ideas about retailing culminated in a full-sized, completely outfitted hardware store, set up to the astonishment of the Illinois Retail Hardware Association convention in a display room of Chicago's Hotel...
...powerful dynamo generating nothing," her crotchets finally became almost surrealistic. She bought a hideous house at Brighton, spent $250,000 to remodel it into something worse. Her gardens were planted with tin and china flowers. She built a staircase of imitation books with joke titles, was delighted to see visitors try to pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half...
...hoped to have non-strikers ousted from those plants by appeals for enforcement of sanitary regulations forbidding the use of mills as living quarters. In Chicago, however, Republic got around a similar maneuver, after bringing Pullman cars into its yards for temporary housing, by securing a permit to remodel a warehouse into dwelling quarters...
...departments are on the verge of over-crowding. Between Converse and Coolidge, however, Gibbs is, a three-story building which has been unoccupied since the death of Professor Richards, nine years ago. In it still stand the remants of his apparatus, untouched. The building is well equipped and to remodel it to suit it for biochemical work would be comparatively simple...