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...look and said: "They don't fool me. I know what they are. They're ox shoes. I've nailed many of them myself." ¶ To represent the U. S. as "observers" at the International Telegraph Conference next month in Brussels, the President appointed Charles Henry Shedd of Chicago (Swift & Company), Vice President John Goldhammer of the Commercial Cable Co., Manhattan) and U. S. Minister to Sweden Leland Harrison. ¶The President went to Cannon Falls, Minn., and delivered a dedicatory speech at a monument to the late Col. William Colvill, leader of the charge at Gettysburg...
...Wilson, built powder plants in West Virginia and ran them up to production of three and a half million pounds per day. At present he is occupied only with a $100,000,000 railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super-power plant for Samuel Insull in Chicago. A book about such a son of Progress by the dean of Gothic America would be, in itself, an architectural portent...
...your interesting obituary of the late John G. Shedd (TIME, Nov. 1, p. 36) you speak of the immigrants in their "Ticonderoga" wagons...
...Northwest prairie states of Indians, and immigrants trundled in on their Ticonderoga wagons. New country, new customers brought Field, Leiter & Co. new business. The Eastern states were changing into manufactories. Foresight and acumen were needed in all business and, as far as the dry goods business was concerned, John Shedd, who had risen high in the esteem of Field, had these qualities more highly developed than any of his competitors...
...upon the death of Marshall Field, John Graves Shedd be came president of the concern. Three years ago he gave the presidency over to James Simpson and turned more to the things he had theretofore been too preoccupied to accomplish. He had long abandoned bicycling for motor-promenading. Golf he always liked. And then his philanthropies. He donated $100,000 towards the Chicago Y. M. C. A. hotel, $50,000 for the Smith College development fund, and $50,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago. He: gave considerable time to improving the physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate...