The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-29

4 OF the pneumatic shield FOR under.Wa-
ter tunneling. the builder of the
over the Forth. was the greatest OF
England's present-day engineers
Joseph Joachim-"He was Paganini's
4 legitimate successor, and no name,
among all the greatest of modern vio-
| linists. comes readily to the lips MS
| being able to take the place he has
left vacant"
Joris Karl Huysmans-"No French
writer, not even Gautier, had rarer.
richer vocabulary, or manipulated
words with more consummate skill. His
work is as superior to that of lola as
| a Greek bronze is to q lay-fgure."
Angelo Heilprin-"He was d scien-
tfic explorer OF first rank. Modest
in personal needs and wants, seeking
no personal recognition. worrying no
institution or individual for support
| or aid, he made expedition after eXpe-
ditton. always with results"
| Nations Now the Poorer.
All the world is the poorer for the
want of such as these, but even in
| lights whose rays spread not so
! broadly, the nations OF the seven seas
have suffered. Here at home we have
| lost Kemeys as we'll as ST. Gaudens
Moncurc D. Conway as we'll as AID
rich; and Senator's Alger Pe.tus, and
Ross. as We'll as Morgan--Ross.
who once was ostracized for refusing
to vote for the. impeachment Of Presi-
dent johnson. Former Comptroller of
the Currency Eckles, Rear-Admiral j.
G. Walker, Homestead Act" Galusha
Grow, and w. p. Garrison, for forty
one years editor Of The Nation
these are but a smattering of indica-
/ tive names, now erased from the rolls
! of living Americans
/ England Will read no more fresh
tales from Ian Maclarcn" or Christie
Murray; no new poem from Lewis
Norris or Gerald Massey. Thomas
| Blackwell and William Whitley viii
no more further her commercial ends;
! Viscount. Goschen and Sir Spencer
Walpole no longer join in her debates,
Sir William Perkin no longer delves in
| his laboratories to advance her
sciences
France has been called to mourn
i for Casimir- Perier, her eN-President;
| for Sully- Prudhomme. the most dis
tinguished figure in her contemporary
verse; for Daniel Osiris, the philan-
thropist, and for Father Monsabre, the
pulpit orator OF Paris. Germany has
| lost Karl Blind and Prince Arenberg-
at the opposite ends of her political
and social ladder. Austria has seen
her Emperor himself walking behind
the hearse of Steinbach, once president
Iof the Viennese Supreme Court.
4 So runs the long list from land to
land. continenr to continent. In Italy
has died the Duke OF Parma. leaving
4 si0,000.000 TO twenty-one children. In
Russia Mendeleff, who discovered the
periodic system of elements, and Count
| Heyden, who played SO large, a part
1 in the first Dounla.
In Canada, .'Habitant" Drunnmond
in Sweden, EX-Premier Bostrom; In
4 New Zealand, yet another former pre-
mier, Sir John Hall; in Denmark, Gron-
dal. scholar and poet; in Brazil. Cardi-
nal Mucchi. Secretary of Apostolic
4 Briefs; in Mexico. General Sandoval
picturesque soldier Of fortune, and in
Cuba. the patriot Acosta.
Loss to All Walks In Life.
/ OF all life's pursuits politics and d.
Iplomacy have seemingly suffered the
, most. George II. Fink, the Father OF
| the Commoners," has closed his forty
, years service in England's popular
body. Baron de Stael and Count Lams'
: dorff. the Russian diplomats, will nc
sIlonger scheme and intrigue; Sir Fran
els Plunkitt, so long Great Brltaln,s
3 ambassador TO Austria, and Count Nj
y Il,
: corps have died, as have too the
Americans Stanford Newell. formerN
orr representative to the Hague. ~
\ Il. H. Conger, our China minister dur,
: ing the dark days of the Boxer" up
rising.
Art has lost Chartran and Toudouze
!, the church. Bishops Sagen and Gran
!. berg and Wnberforce; literature. Gun
! ter and Theuriet and Malot. novels
Of the third empire" Such correspond
: ents as Samoa Dunning and Manila
4 Stlnckney have laid by their pens
q Josef Lewinsky, the Austrian, ant
i Edwin Vary, tho American, have mad'
" their final exits from the stage. Glanc'
= at random up and down the lists which
follow, and "household names" every
!, where catch the eye. Cardinal Swamp;
!, and Bishop Kingdom, of Fredericton
n Rear Admiral kautz and Genera
v Bnlott, Duke Frederick of Baden an
!. the Earl of Dunmore. Francis Murphe,
a and Ernest Crosby, Joseph EIatton an
J. Sir George Armstrong,
Is Royalty and Noblity-king Osca
= IL of Sweden, Muzaifar- ed din, Sha
"a of Persia; Frederick, Grand Duke O
Fl Baden; Prince August of SaXe-Coburs
Prince Moritz of Sake Atenburs
or Prince Robert de Bourbon Parma
= Prince Charles Won Thurn- Taxis, D
Ros. Englands premier baron; Baro
r Arundel, thirteenth of title; the Ea,
of Dunmore, the Earl of Liverpool
Count Karolyi, Viscount Middleton
Lord Allendale. Lord Penrhyn.
Men of Affairs-Baron Alderman
banker; Charles T. Barney. banker; :
f. Blackwell, manufacturer; Lor
st Nunburnhom. shipping, Grin Potte
steelmaker; Louis Sells. Snowman;
I" Y. Brokaw, merchant; c. II. Derr
plow manufacturers; Samuel b. bod
of tnancer j II, Eckles, financier; H.
so Havemeyer, sugar king" Samu
al Hecht, merchant; G. b. Henderso
60 banker; y. Wills James, metal pr,
*, Queer; W. II. Lambert. banker; +.
McNally, publisher; Nelson Morri
lpt meat packer; Samuel Sloan, fnancie
re- James Henry Smith, fnancier; The,
ma dore 3, Starr, jeweler; +. b. rhurbe
~, merchant; alfred Walter, rairoadin
nm M H. Tyler fnancier Henry Whele
of Jr,, banker; William Whiteley, me
its chant; j. a, Whitridge, merchant, Dav
us W!llcoX, railroading; Isidore Wormse
The banker.
am Army and Mayfair Clanwillia,
ace Admiral Of the Fleet; General Arch
lre bald Alison, General Sir Horace Ande
"A son. GEnnra1 c,t..