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Last fortnight attendants at the Thompson Park Zoo, Watertown, N. Y., heard the screams of a man, the roars of an angry bear. Rushing to the bear cage, they at first saw no man, no beast. Then they perceived protruding from a cave in the rear of the cage, a man's feet...
...Watertown, N. Y.'s Thompson Park Zoo, attendants took her cubs from a 500-lb. bear. When next a human entered her cage-it happened to be Emerson E. Joyce, 60, keeper-the bereft bear hugged him to death...
Cornell University graduated Floyd Leslie Carlisle in 1903, expected him to make his mark in the legal profession. For some years Mr. Carlisle did practice law in Watertown, N. Y., but soon the merger instinct arose within him and he organized Northern New York Trust Co. from a consolidation of two upstate banks. In 1916 he headed the group which bought control of St. Regis Paper Co., became St. Regis president?an office which he still retains?and made the company one of the largest paper producers in the East. In 1920 Mr. Carlisle & syndicate bought Northern New York Utilities...
...Luther Gustavus Barrett, of Melrose. Born at Watertown, December...
After graduating from Cornell in 1903, Mr. Carlisle began practicing law in 1905 in Watertown, N. Y., his home. He entered business by organizing a bank, and in 1916 headed the group of men who bought St. Regis Paper Co., and was made its president. Four years later he again was head of a syndicate, this time to buy Northern New York Utilities, Inc., of which he was made chairman. For the past ten years he has gained fame as a dynamo in the electrical field, has also remained the head of St. Regis Paper which now is Niagara Hudson...