Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-12

the whole place greatly improved. MT. Griscom also owned other valuable property at the Hill, including large tract now the golf grounds where a local f1rm has a contract to erect three large cottages to be ready for occu- pancy next summer.
 The Griscoms, since taking over the Larkin house property, have been gradually adding to their holdings at the Hill, building and making i'm provements, either for their own use, or an investment, as rental, but not Tor sale. MT. Griscom has spent the summer at Watch Hill for many years and was known to many residents of Westerly.
 There were few men more familiar !, by name to the people of this country and England than Clement Acton Gris- com. His tremendous successes, his Wlde financial power, his many club affiliations, his proclivities as sports
 man, all tended to carry his name Tar and wide: into all the newspapers | and so into the homes. He was born Tn lS4l, and in 1857 he went to work as clerk in the shipping office of Peter Wright & Sons, Philadelphia. In 1863 he became a partner in the firm. In 1871 and 1888 he was vice president of the International Naviga- 1 ton company which bought out the lnman line and changed it's name to | the American line Since 1888 he was l president of the company. In 1902, the company owned practically all the stock of the Red Star line and of the Empire Transportation company of Seattle. The name of the company was then changed to the International Mercantile Marine company and ab- sorbed the White Star line, the Allan tic Transport, the Leyland, the De- minion and other transcontinental | lines.
 Mr. Griscom was at times a director | Tn the United States Steel corpora tion, the William Cramp Ship & En- zine Co., the Electric Boat Co.,, the Electric Co., of America, and many other corporations, banks, railroad and insurance companies. In technical l ability Mir. Griscom was best known for his standing in the science of ma ! r1ne architecture in it's special appli- cation to the merchant marine. He | was the first president of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engi- neers and was reelected annually to ! that position.
 Not only as a designer and yachts
 man was MT Griscom known. He was generally recognized asa futurist, one who was always looking far ahead to ! see and win the best for his country. He brought much shipbuilding to the l OnlJed states; he saw that great ocean grcyhOunds were made to fly
 the stars and stripes. His patriotism was recognized by many public bod ] les and in 1893 the Union League of ; Philadelphia banqueted him and pre- ] sented to him eulogistic resolutions. i He is survived by Mrs. Griscom, two l daughters, Mrs. Samuel Bettle, Miss ] Frances (. Griscom, and three sons, 1 Clement A. Griscom, Jr., Rodman E.,
 and Lloyd c. Griscom.
 J. Irving Maxson and family will
 move from Westerly the latter part of l November to the Isle of Pines where l Mir. MaXson will engage in business ir
 the production and shipment of pine- | apples. The household effects and
 many other articles for use in the
 isle in the West Indies are being crat-
 ed for shipment. In addition, MT
 Maxson is to ship wagons, farming
 utensils that are to be shipped frs
 from different sections in New York
 The whole will aggregate over five
 hundred tons.
 Mir. MaXson has been negotiating
 for the charter of a three -masteC
 schooner to take the goods and him
 self and family to the Isle of Pines ' but has now decided to charter frui
 steamship This vessel will take ol
 such part of the cargo that will b.
 at New York and }then proceed t,
 Stonington, landing at the steamboa
 wharf. There all the Maxson prop
 erty that is now in Westerly will b
 loaded aboard the steamship. Mir : MaXscn and family will take passag
 on the same steamship direct for tn
 Isle of Pines.
 Charles G. McCIoy, who moved fror 1 Mas4arl,. 4a 1