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Nevertheless, Chauncey Mitchell Depew's was a full life, based on an alert brain, a well-guarded stomach and a useful diaphragm. The diaphragm's usefulness was revealed to him by a schoolmaster at Peekskill, N. Y., his birthplace. The other schoolboys recited their orations. Chauncey would offer original compositions. His master began an oratorical training which was completed at Yale and on the political stump. He declaimed his way into the New York Assembly. On the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt, whose railroads he was to help run for the rest of his life, he renounced politics...
There is no variation of critical opinion concerning the St. Matthew Passion. "The deepest expression of devotional feeling that the art of music affords," is the description which critics attempt to elaborate. Lawrence Gilman, able critic of the N. Y. Herald-Tribune, mentioned "pages of sorrowful, solacing tenderness, with their transported beauty, their touching devoutness, their measureless humanity...
...Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester. N. Y. Those will be trivial gifts to the community which he has already endowed with a theatre, a school of music, a philharmonic orchestra (it has just finished its fifth season), and, source of all, an industry...
When George Eastman first worked with cameras, they were cumbersome boxes "almost the size of a soap box." That was in 1878 when he was 24, a bank clerk at Rochester, N. Y. Without leaving his bank job, he applied his mechanical ingenuity to making cameras handy. He succeeded...
...fifth system, and so astute a railroad financier is he that the heads of the other four temporized with him. Mr. Atterbury became his ally. Last week Mr. Atterbury, who presided at the executive meeting in the Pennsylvania Station, announced that certain compromises agreed to by the N. Y. C., B. & O. and C. & O. sufficiently protected the Pennsylvania's interests, that Mr. Loree's interests would not be jeopardized by the four systems, and that he was withdrawing Pennsylvania support from Mr. Loree's fifth system project...