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When a personage dies, as did Harvey Washington Wiley last week (age, 85; of heart failure), people tell anecdotes about him showing the kind of man he was. Some Wiley stories...
Killed. Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., 54, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J., recently acquitted on four of 14 indictments that charged him with shady insurance deals involving municipal properties, connivance with keepers of bordellos (TIME, Feb. 24) ; with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wiley, and a cousin, Mrs. Margaret Siracusa; when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a railroad train at Absecon, N. J. He was shortly to have been tried on the remaining ten counts...
...American Association of Obstetricians, gynecologists & abdominal surgeons; Dr. Carl Haller Ill of Newark, N. J.; Professor Heber Wilkinson Youngken of Boston; Dr. Walter Barclay Mount of Montclr, N. J.; Professor Fanchon Hart of Columbia University; Dr. F. Garrison of the National Association of Drug Clerks. Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, 85, of Washington, who was largely instrumental in setting up the pure food and drug laws 24 years ago, also appeared for his friend Dr. Rusby to state that he believed "the accusations were true in many respects...
...Manhattan for his soap torso done in a Greek manner. That the contest had left the realm of advertising and ventured into the realm of pure art seemed indicated by the jury of award which listed among others Sculptors Gutzon Borglum, Lorado Taft, Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary was that it would float in case of flood whereas the marbles...
Nurtured on ""Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Calvinistic faith, the long panorama of Dr. Wiley's life unrolls its most colorful chapter at the beginning, where early American life grows into school and college from the backwoods struggle for existence. Graduated from Harvard in 1873 he received his diploma from Dr. Charles William Eliot, then known as the "Boy President", was stimulated by the parting lectures of Louis Agassiz, and witnessed the first Harvard-Yale baseball game...