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their youngest son. an instructor in the Ameri-
can College there since 1900 ill with ty-
phoid fever. He left Beirut about the mid
die of July. his son could be car
ried from the hospital to the steamship and to
Switzerland, where he rapidly recovered The
chancellor had met Vice-Consul William G..
Magelssen several times, both on business and
socially
Mr. Magelssen." said the chancellor. was q
brother of Mrs. Ravndal. the wife of the con-
sui Both were Norwegian by name and by
parentage and were fine specimens of the
Scandinavian American. The murdered vice
consul was prompt, intelligent and able in the
transaction of business The American Consul
late under his chief and himself easily held the
first place in reputation among the foreign con-
sulates in Beirut. I lived within block of the
consulate during my months stay 1 observed
that as a young patriotic American, the muir
dered man Jealous in helping every Aueri-
can interest. A celebration of the Fourth of
July was organized by the consulate. and held
IN a suburb Of Beirut. The Syrian Protestant
College, which exists under a board of trustees
chartered by the State of New-York found the
vice-consul helpful friend. He promoted zeal
ously field day held this year, and helped to
secure the attendance of the Governor Of Leba-
non, who came with full staff and a military
band playing American national airs. 7 met
Mr. Magelssen, also at the commencement of
the college in July I had been told that the
vice. consul had more than once taken part in
securing the punishment OF crimes by natives in
Beirut which committed under his notice"
The chancellor was inclined to think that
Magelssen's courage in pursuing criminals had
probably caused the assassination. Old resi-
dents Of Beirut had assured him that for Chris
tians to appear in court against Moslems to tes-
tify to their crimes was to invite assassination.
A recent murder Of a man in American employ
had been left almost without inquiry because
witnesses We're completely terrorize1.
THE Turkish Government" continued DR..
MacCra cken, breaks down because it has a
weak autocrat at it's head. This leaves Beirut
and every similar district under a petty vice
autocrat, who is energetic in little except tn
wise and cruel extortion Of taxes and taking or
brides. I have been for ten years chairman of
a New-York board of five trustees who carry on
st. PauIS Institute in TarsuS, Asia Minor, en-
dowed by Mr.. and Mrs Elliott T. Shepard.
Nothing saved this school, made UP largely OF
Armenian teachers and students. from the hor-
rible massacre of a few years ago except the
presence throughout entire summer OF the
United States warshp Marblehead in the har-
Dor near by. The whole Beirut American
colony of about one hundred persons. and the
British colony of fifty persons would be at the
mercy of a Moslem mob if such should be ex-
cited by the growing misrule We have noble
citizens there. One medical faculty of some half
a dozen American physicians two of them, DR..
George E. Post and Walter F. Adams, from our
Network University Medical School, is the
most noted American faculty Of medicine outside
of America. DR.. Harris Graham, of this fac
ulty. a graduate of Michigan University, TO
whom I owe my sons life, is coming to this
country the present autumn. The United States
Government has recently extorted from the
Sultan the same rules for licensing gradua ties
under the American faculty at Beirut that were
granted the French schools"