St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-11-14
Prominent Personals.

Mrs. Mariana W. De Coronel. of Los
Angeles, has presented to the Chamber
of Commerce of that city collection of
chronological relics of the Pacific Coast
made by her husband, the late Don An
tonic F. Coronel There are some SOU
venirs Of Helen Hunt Jackson, and many
old pieces of Indian and Spanish handi-
work.
Miss Dorothea Klumpke, of California,
the well known astronomer, now in
Paris, is the recipient of a doctors de-
gree from the University of Paris.
The engagement is announced of
Forbes Robertson, the actor, to the lead
ing lady of his company, Miss Gertrude
Elliott, a sister of Maxine Elliott MRS.
Nat Goodwin
"Twenty-seven years ago." says "The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch," Charles NJ.
Hays, aged nineteen years, was clerk in
the Frisco Railroad offices in st. Louis,
with salary OF $40 month. Last
week Mr.. Hays, now forty two years of
age and still retaining his home in St.
Louis, became the president of the
Southern Pacific Railway, the second
largest railway system in the world.
His salary will be $4,000 year, max
ing him the highest salaried railroad
man in the world and a better salaried
executive than the president of the United
States"
w c. Todd, of Atkinson, N. H., has
offered $4,000 to the New Hampshire
Historical Society on condition it raised
$1,000 more by the end of this month.
The whole sum is to go toward the en-
largement of the society's present build
ing at Concord
Col. John M. Brooke, who designed
the ram Merrimac and thus revolution
lied marine warfare, is still living at Lex
ington, Va, and is professor emeritus Of
physics in the Virginia Military Institute.
He is now 70 years old, but is still vigor-
Gus, and walks from his residence on the
outskirts of the city to the post-office
every morning.
The freshman class of Radcliffe college
has elected among other officers Miss
Helen Keller, the only blind student who
ever attempted to go through this insti-
tuition, vice president of the class.
Federico Degetau of San Juan, chosen
as the first dele gate from Porto Rico to
the United States. is lawyer, having
studied in the University of Madrid. He
is member OF sever al scientific and
philanthropic societies, and was one OF
the founders of the Societe 'Frsncaise
pour L'Arbitrage entire Nations. Mr.
Degetau has written several books. He
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to Spain in 1896 to ask for autonomy
He was elected Deputy to the Cortes in
1898, and is president of the local Board
OF Education at San Juan.
The will of the late Edward N. Gibbs
ex-Treasurer OF the New York Life Insur.
ance Company, has been probated at
Norwich, Conn. 1t disposes of an estate
estimated at 100000, and makes one
public bequest, $4,000 being left tC
Amherst college in memory of the tesla
tors friend, William Austin Dickinson.
The Emperor of Japan devotes most O
his leisure to literature. He is one of the
most widely read men in the east, anC
has, moreover, to depend very little upor
translations.
The death of the late W. L. Wilson was
almost the exact parallel of that of R. E
Lee The two men died holding thu
same office, and even in the same house
room and bed, and were buried from tn,
same church.
Professor Frederick Starr, the wei
known anthropologist at the Univer
sity of Chicago, has received a silve
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land. This award of honor has beef
given as an acknowledgment of fin
collection of busts and pictures secured
by Professor Starr as the result of hi
studies among the Mexican Indian
and sent by him to the National Scien
ti6c and Artistic Collection of Holland.
William Dean HowelIs expects to spen
the coming winter in New. Orleans, wher
it is said, he will lay the scene of his mex
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