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...color effects. In his art they perceive that however repetitious his works, they are all like the man himself, boldly individualistic. Since he has no patience with the life or art that shelters itself from wind and storm, he finds queer things happen to him. He was born at Tarrytown Heights, N. Y., his one conventional experience. From Horace Mann School, he testifies, he was dismissed as a hopeless moron. At Columbia University they found him a "capital" student, but finding the University after three and a half years a little irksome he blithely whistled good-bye to his diploma...
...alternated this work with several ventures in the stone-breaking business, in which he handled some big government contracts. He died in Ossining, N. Y., in 1897 in a great stone mansion which excelled in splendor even that of John D. Rockerfeller in the neighboring town of Tarrytown. It was a magnificent place they say. I hope to go there some...
...years ago Samuel Gompers died on the Mexican Border. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise performed the ceremony for the dead at the Elks Club in Manhattan. Then they buried him in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, at Tarrytown, N. Y., where the Very Rev. Oscar F. R. Treder, dean of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City, L. I., draped his coffin with the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned...
...these, after all, were petty devil-trios, and for a first-hard account of the celebration, one is referred to the Satyrical Description, found in "The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries," reprinted at Tarrytown, New York...
Roars of approbation greeted "tapping" of Lawrence M. Noble of Syracuse, N. Y., first man chosen by Skull and Bones; of Guy Richards of Woodmere, N. Y., first man for Scroll and Key; of John C. Lord of Tarrytown, N. Y., first man for Wolf's Head; and of Van Buren Taliaferro of Manhattan, first for Elihu Club. The even greater honors of being 15th and last man "tapped" for the four societies (in the order named) fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George...