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Separated. Paul D. Cravath, 65, distinguished Manhattan corporation lawyer of the firm of Cravath, Henderson, & de Gersdorff whose clients include Thomas F. Ryan, Kuhn Loeb & Co., Speyer & Co.; and Agnes (Huntington) Cravath, onetime opera singer; after 32 years of married life.* In the actual language of the press of the '90s, he, "a devoted lover, a strapping fellow with sweeping mustachios of dark brown" impatiently climbed a 20-ft. ladder of the steamer Teutonic to meet his lady...
...follows: Entrance, of the Gladlators Fucik Overture to "The Beautiful Galatea" Suppe Fantasia, "Rigoletto" Verdi Suite "L'Arlesienne No. 2" Bizet a. Pastorale b. Minuet c. Farandole Canzone van Westerhout Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov (Solo English Horn: Louis Speyer) American Fantasy Herbert Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
After which quaint reference by Banker James Speyer to a national custom which it is the Treasury Department's function to enforce, Secretary Andrew Mellon heard his signal services to the country acclaimed, and beheld his likeness, brushed in oils by fashionable Painter Philip de Laszlo (who lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
...Banker Speyer in continuing his tribute mentioned two items of "indispensable assistance": Mr. Mellon's reduction and reform of income taxes, and the foreign debt settlements. In these matters, the aid Mr. Mellon had had from others and his backing by two presidents, were recognized. Had Banker Speyer thought of it, had the occasion been more appropriate, he might have mentioned another service, of considerable dimensions though of a less tangible nature, that Secretary Mellon has performed in the five years that have elapsed since he left his Pittsburgh home to occupy a spacious and luxurious apartment in Washington...
...Manhattan banking firms of Speyer & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. now control the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (the Frisco). In the past two months, they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which the directors of the Frisco announced last week had been acquired by them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than...