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axe Mr.. ossood hi. chief sanitary ensi-

make Mr.. osgood his chief sanitary engt-
neer.
"Unsortunssely, however, for you and Mr.
osgood, We do not know his present where
abouts, but we shall endeavor to locate him
and, II we do. we shall so inform you."
The search that was instituted for Mr..
osgood, In order to tell him that king
insisted on having his services. lasted sew
eral weeks. He was found to have done
governmental work at Key West during the
5panish-American war and at Wslletts
several eastern cities Finally, the search
came to an end in q little town on the Sus-
quenanna river near Columbia, Pa. There
Mr. Osgood was found experimenting the
was broken to him:
The King of Siam is after you"
Accorded Royal Favors.
Mr. Osgood, ever since he had left college,
had been looking out for an opportunity to
engage in sanitary engineering. but, barring
the offer from Colonel Warning that death
had nullifed, he had watched In vain. Now
the realization Of his ambition seemed at
hand, and he wasted no time in responding
to the Siamese minister's request to go to
washington for an interview. incidentally,
ne took along a hand bag crammed with
gllt-edged recommendations received from
wen-known men, such as Colonel Waring
which whom he had come In contact in a
professional way
Mr.. Osgood handed to Mr. Phya Sarasiddhi
VINO, after carefully reading them through
enthusiastically exclaimed
Mr. Osgood, l question you no further.
we VIII now draw up the contract"
During the days that this important docu-
ment was being framed to the satisfaction
or the parties concerned, Mr.. Osgood was
the guest Of Mr.. Sarasiddhi, and the two
became such fast friends that when Mr..
Osgood and his bride sailed for Siam in
November of 1901, they were the bearers
OF numerous costly gifts from Mr. Sarasid-
am to his wife, who had remained in Bang
kok.
From the time of their arrival in Siam Mr.
and Mrs. Osgood have been accorded the
FAVOR of the royal family. Although, ac-
cording to their last letter, they have not
yet been presented to the king, many of the
princes and princesses of the royal family
have given them audiences and invited them
to entertainments in the palaces. Indeed,
Mr.. Osgood and his wife only recently re-
turned from the royal hunt for sacred white
elephants. This hunt takes place every
three or four years, and has for It's object
the securing of white elephants for his
majesty the king. The Osgoods were the
latest hunt, and they had retinue of serv-
ants to do their bidding.
Is His Own Boss.
Mr.. Osgood reports in person to the min
lister of state, and, besides the king, there
is no other person to direct him in his work.
In reality Mr. Osgood is his own boss, for
he is left almost alone, and his ideas on
what should or should not be done are in
variably adopted. Bangkok, a city of
million inhabitants is rapidly being made
healthy place to live in by Mr.. Osgood,
and his manner of lighting the kings pal
aces with electricity has much pleased their
chief occupant, says Mr.. Sarasiddhi.
After his capital has been cleaned and
lighted to the kings taste Mr. Osgood will
burnish up some of the other Siamese cities.
In the meantime, he is working in Bangkok
what the minister of state describes to his
king as wonders, and thereby has largely
influenced his royal highness Chulalong-
korn l to decide upon his prospective visit
to the United States.
Mr.. Osgood is a member of the famous
fighting Osgood family. Col. H. B. Osgood,
his father, is a veteran of the civil war,
was chief of commissary at Santiago and
was recently invaded home from the Phil
ippines. A brother, Winchester D. Osgood,
fell fighting with the Cubans for Cuban in
dependence. Another brother, Henry, now
connected with the health department of
Manila, served as a regular cavalryman In
the Spanish-American war. Maj Surg.
Clendennfn, the husband of a sister, died
of yellow fever at Santiago.
In college Mr.. Osgood was noted for his
acumen, and this trait, combined with hard
study, secured him many honors. His grad
uating thesis Is still referred to by the pro-
feSsors as a model, and it's contents are
often the subject of class room study.
A. V. GILLESPIE.