Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-04-21
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

PAUL DANA. son OF his father and OF the
Sun stan. has been appointed park commits
sioner of New York.
MIR. WILLIAM WATSON, the English poet,
who recently became insane, Is reported 10
be completely recovered.
ArEv.ToN cutter constructed aluminium,
said r., be the first sea-going vessel made OF
this metal is being built at Loire Tor the
Comte de Chabannes La Police. 1t will be
half tne weight of a vessel Of similar class
constructed with steel frame. Her hull
will weigh only $500 kilos, whereas II built
of the ordinary material it would wiegh $500
kilOS
PLANS for the dormitory which Cornelius
Vanderbilt is to give Yale in memory of his
son who died there in his senior year are
about complete. Its cost will be about $780,
600. It will lodge about 130 students, and will
be ready for the opening of the college year
in 1894. The removal of the famous old
South colledge begins at the end OF the pres
ent college year.
The Liberty Bell is to be placed in the en-
trance rotunda of the Pennsylvania State
building, and will be guarded by six reserve
policemen. 1t will be transported on a
specially constructed car attached to speclal
train of Pullman cars which will convey the
Worlds Fair committee Of the City Council,
Msvor Stuart. and other city officials to Chi
caGo. procession and military escort Will
accompany the bell from Independence Hall
TO the railroad station in Philadelphia.
In the late George l. Seney, of New York
and BROOKLYN, there died philanthroplst
whom perhaps Western art collectors knew
better than Western business men. years
ago he was thought to be worth S7,OOO,OOO.
He is believed to have given away as much
as $4,000 ,000 Wesleyan University with
$3.50 900. was the largest beneficiary. he
was a student there, though not graduate.
In 1855 he sold 285 paintings at auction real
inc S4O6. $40. He made his wealth in bank
ing. He was also interested In railroads.
G. W1LFRED PEARcE, Of New Brunswick,
N has issued an address to the electric
ians 1f the country, asking them TO raise
money To put the tombs of Benjamin Frank
lin and his wife in good ORDER erect new
fence and bronze memorial tablet. AT pres
ent the graves are sadly neglected, the tomb
stones going to decay because OF the lack OI
cement. and the fence about them an ugly
and tawdry iron one. He says: "Ihe es-
timated cost OF repairing tomb and making
fence and tablet is 81 900, and in order that
all may contribute l would suggest that iO
cents be the sum from each subscriber. Ii
there are others who care to give larger sums
an endowment luuu VIII pc SiS'''-N '
income devoted to keeping the tomb in re-
pair for many years to come.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE has returned TO
his home in Indiana after season spent In
the South. He appears TO be in excellent
health, and a Cincinnati reporter who inter-
viewed him when he passed through that
citv was impressed by his 'unmlst9kaple
military air forid complication, and splendid
physique" Advancing years have sprinkl.ead
the soidier-author's beard plentifully WITH
gray. era General Wallace has with him, for
final revision, the proof-sheets Of his new
book. "The Prince OF India; or, Why , oon
stantinopIe Fell" on which he has spent
nearly FIVE years of careful work. He ha.
taken far greater pains with it than he took
with ''Ben Hur," and has devoted especIia
attention to the historical accuracy Oh th'
Greek and Latin churches. The volume vii
be issued by the Harpers within two month";
and will be 100 pages longer than ben Hur.