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CONN. MEN ON JURY.
JUDGES OF AWARDS At THE ST.
LOUIS EXPOSITION

Expert ON Tobacco, and Two Indus
trial Leaders Have Been Chosen.
st. Louis. Sept. 1S.-Threeprofessors Of
Tale university, the principal Of a IA
nous preparatory school, an expert on
tobacco and two industrial leaders
from Connecticut. have been singled
out for appointment on Worlds Fair
iuries of awards. They ara to assist
together with the most eminent men in
the world. selected from every country,
in judging the magician's realm of per-
feeted exhibits at the fair.
The task Of judging is hard. 1t calls
for the rarest excellence of knowledge
and for impartiality. Correspondence
great is the honor Of an appointment.
The first exponents only In their pur-
/ suits have been selected Men and wo-
men from the long famous European
universities and culture centers have
been sought out on the recommends.
tion of their governments or Of learned
societies and approaching the distinc-
tion they have journeyed across the
ocean to st. Louis to fill their posts.
From America the names which stand
highest in the list of those who have
lachieyed have been taken, and from
those names with careful deliberatiop
have been chosen the most representa-
tive. It is in company like this that
ttbe, following seven men from Con-
JURY ON GOLD AND SILVER
MINING.
John Hays Hammond, of New Haven
Mr.. Hammond is from Connecticut
by virtue of holding professorship in
| the Shefield Scientific school Of Yale
/ University. Soon after his appointment
as professor, he benefited his mother
school by a munificent donation for the
Ebuilding Of metallurgical laboratory.
lin that way celebrating the department
Iof mining engineering to which as A.
teacher he is devoting his unparalleled
knowledge and experience.
Mr. Hammond, known as Cecil.
| Rhodes right hand man, was gradual
/ ted from Yale in 1876 the class Of Pres
Lident Hadley and other famous Yalen-
slams, and entered the field Of mining
engineering. He occupied positions Of
responsibility for the United States
government and for private corpora
i l10llS- LIZ NUMEROUS " lA1ChliOAA ebiAN
| then became interested In the great
mine developments in South Africa. He
became consulting engineer to Barnato
Bros. and Cecil Rhodes in 1893, support
ling the latter in his scheme of empire
building. He was implicated in the re-
/ form movement in the Transvaal in
i 1s95-tS96, and was at one time sentenced
i to death; but the sentence was remit
Il ted on, the payment of penalty of one
i hundred and seventy-five thousand dol
ilars He is now interested in many
large mining companies and maintains
offices, as engineer in New York and
London, attending, In addition to his
professional duties at Yale.
i FORESTRY JURY.
4 Henry s. Graves of New Haven-Pro-
i fessor Graves is the director of the Yale
ISchool Of Forestry, with which school
he has come to the very forefront in his
i profession, He was educated in the
Phillips Andover academy, graduated
from Yale In 1892, and studied forestry
lat Harvard and at Munich. Fills wri-
filings are numerous, and very highly es-
i teemed. They include among others.
1.-THE Black Hills, practical Forestry
i In the. AdirondaclSs,' THE Practice Of
Forestry by Private Onwers," and The
i Woodmanis Handbook" He is a mem-
Der Of the washington Academy Of Cci-
ences, the Connecticut Academy of Sci
ences, the Society of American Fores-
i tiers and the National Geographical So
i cietp
AUTOMOBILE JURY.
i Henry Souther Of Hartford Mr..
dSouther, the well-known engineer, is a
graduate from the famous Technology
school in Boston, and added to his the
oretical learning after graduation seven
Years of experience in the Pennsylva-
MIA Steel company. He was soon recog-
nized as an expert on materials and
was engaged in that capacity with the
lPope interests in Hartford from 1893 to
1899. Then he established an indepen-
dent metallurglcal and engineering lab
loratory, becoming consulting engineer
Ion the quality and, application Of mate
Trials to the large foundries and ma
Ichifie shops in Hartford. He is now
connected with six or eight automobile
companies as expert on materials.
Williams Hooker Atwood, Of New
Haven Mr.. Atwood Is the president Of
1.-The New Haven Carriage company,
building bodies for vehicles Of all kinds,
and Is universally recognized as an au-
thority on that branch of the autqnlo-
Ibile industry. He has distinguished
himself by instituting useful innova-
Itions in vehicle dobies, suggesting
many features Of the present graceful
land yet strictly useful automobile tom
, Ineau,
ARCHAEOLOGY JURY.
George Grant McCurdy, Of New Ha-
ven, MIR. McCurdy, young man taxi
en- up with SO deep subject as arch
geological research, is an exponent
! Iof that Yale which is strong and vet
Icultured as opposed to the merely ma
terialistic, The signal honor Of APP
! poinfrnent on the Worlds Fair jury has
come to him peculiarly for remarkable
: ACCOMPLISHMENTS and achievements.
], n Or. McCurdy is a graduate Of Har-
Ward university in the class of 1893, and
was given. the masters degree by that
/. institution in 1894. He then studied
: flour years in Europe, in Paris Berlin
: and Vienna, specializing in anthropor
Illogical subjects, Since his return to the
United States in 1885, he has been a lee
lfri,-a,s ~, a. voIo oY1td OIL