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Died. Clarence Day, 61, writer and cartoonist; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. A few years out of Yale, Clarence Day, a grandson of the founder of the New York Sun, quit the Stock Exchange to join the Navy during the Spanish-American War. In the service he developed arthritis which made him a life-long cripple. Despite his paralyzed hands he began to write short sketches and verses, illustrated them with simple, sinister drawings of shapeless men and beasts. He published a number of books, (God and My Father, Scenes From the Mesozoic), became a best seller last summer with...
...insincerity and arrogance. Moving to the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, Henry van Dyke became a leader in a church reform movement, a vital issue which at that time attracted much newspaper attention. Hostile to ministers who took part in politics, he nevertheless advocated sound money, supported the Spanish-American War, urged the application of Christian ideals in political and economic life as an alternative to Socialism, sternly opposed income taxes...
...Moore Brothers in 1896, in a situation ripe for panic, he was able to prevent the news from being handled in a sensational manner, won the favorable attention of financiers. As an assistant secretary of the U. S. Treasury in McKinley's administration, his work in connection with Spanish-American War bond issues gained the notice of James Stillman, who made him a vice president of National City Bank of New York, selected him for its president in 1909 at a salary of $50,000 a year. He married happily, raised a family of six. became wealthy and serene...
Bandmaster Metz's rousing tune, in ragtime which was then becoming the rage, became the theme song of the Spanish-American War a dozen years later. Theodore Roosevelt, says Theodore Metz. took a baton and led Metz's band through A Hot Time. Also, with typical Roosevelt enthusiasm, the President of the U. S. exclaimed: "I'm proud to shake the hand of the man who wrote the song that stirred the nation...
Died, Rear Admiral Washington Lee Capps, 71, retired, onetime Chief Constructor of the U. S. Navy, chief of its Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1903 to 1910; of heart disease; in Washington. On Admiral Dewey's staff during the Spanish-American War, he supervised raising and repairing Spanish vessels captured in the battle of Manila Bay. As Chief Constructor he evolved the all-big-gun ship, the skeleton mast which became a distinctive feature of U. S. warcraft...