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...Girl of the Streets, was printed at his own expense, under a pseudonym; it fell flat. His second, The Red Badge of Courage, brought him jobs as war correspondent although until then he had never seen a battle. He served in a Cuban filibustering expedition, the Greco-Turkish War; Spanish-American War. The last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late great Joseph Korzeniowski (Conrad). No less a pundit than Herbert George Wells has said that Crane's The Open Boat is "the finest short story in the English...
Died. James F. Case, 61, engineer, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1908) Director of Philippine Public Works, head of the Paris office of Stone & Webster; in Manhattan; of pneumonia and heart disease...
Died. Rear Admiral Henry Ware Lyon. 84, U. S. N. retired; at Washington; of heart disease. Commanding the U. S. S. Dolphin, he took part in more engage- ments, captured more prizes than any other officer in the Spanish-American war. In 1889 as executive officer of the U. S. S. Trenton he was at Apia, Samoa, when possession of the island was contested by Great Britain, Germany, the U. S. When a tidal wave drove ashore the warships of the three countries, he ordered his doomed ship's band to play the "Star-spangled Banner" while lashed...
Ohio-born 50 years ago, General Everson was ordained a Baptist minister in 1901 after service as a private in the Spanish-American War. He held pastor-ates in Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky. In the World War he was a colonel of infantry on the Italian front; in 1923-24 he was the American Legion's chaplain. In 1921 he went to the First Church of Muncie, raised $350,000 for a new building, highly organized his flock, even down to an emergency blood transfusion corps. When he left Muncie, his church refused his resignation, made him pastor emeritus...
Prime, lusty veterans of the Spanish-American war also encamped last week. They convened in Denver, Col., went on record as favoring greater pensions, elected for Commander-in-Chief Fred Warren Green, the Governor of Michigan who does not cash his pay checks (TIME, Sept...