The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
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BY LEMOEL r. PARTON !
NEW YORK. - Vincent Bendix
1 y got on fafnously as long as he
stuck to tinkering, inventing and
fussing with machinery. He did
Without Wheels things, but any
fee No Go For thing which
Vincent Rendix didn't have to
= do with wheels,
camss end pinions was Justine dice.
It. was his Chicago real estate
deals which brought against him the
petition in voluntary bankruptcy
filed in Chicago, say his lawyers.
His holdings were more than S., 900,
600, including the famous Potter
Palmer Lake Shore drive residence
ali, down the chute in the, federal
district, court. His machinery COM
panies., not involved in the petition.
are rolling along. nicely. They seem
to be- one up ON theHs'good EARTH as
an arcanum of security. Modern
times are like that.
al In the basement Of a New
o York hospital where he ran the
elevator, he had a grand time
taking an old hot-tube gas en-
CINE to pieces and putting il to-
sgether. again. He was IL, not
long from Chicago, where he
had been telegraph messenger
boy. An old one-eyed swamper
around the place, who under
stood machinery, had instruct
ed him in the working of the
power plant and had encouraged
his laboratory work. There was
"a close working alliance be-
tween faculty and student body.
Two years later, the lad got job
as a typist in law office, baffled
at first because he couldn't use a
monkey wrench on the typewriter,
but exploring it satisfactorily with a
screw7driver and pliers. ~
But q law office hadn't any
wheels, and he did better with
the Lackawanna railroad, which
had plenty, although he was in
the traffic department. In his
spare time, he worked out i'm
prOvements on a bicycle chain
and sprOcket. That brought him
in touch with bicycle manufac-
turers and at last he was ON the
main line--and it wasn't the
Lackawanna. It was a. wide,
paved highway to millions i'm the
invention, Of automobile and avi-
alton devices whose only dead
end was real estate.
or Swedish ancestry, son Of a Mo
line, ILL.,, Methodist minister, he
packed copy of Schopenhauer in
his pocket when he was messenger
boy. In those days, he wolfed Hulk
ley, Darwin, Marx, Tyndall, Wallace
and Spencer, calling himself a So
cialist in his earlier years: Never
still, a minute, he, is bueyant and
resilient. at 81, and his friends shrug
off this bankruptcy business as just
a short, urefropa the main high
way.$aa They say they wouldn't be
surprised if he should bob up with
something sass exciting as perpetual
motion. one, Of these days. aisat .
80 v.a-LLxa - 70 giss. ssfi
SALTY, laconic,.. William y Allan
y Nelson, rounding three score
years and ten, retires with this
years graduating class as president
The Grooes Of lege. V Rarely
Acadenae Laud does any pass
Retiring Prexy ing prexy get
- = =. - ~ - such a hand
from students and faculty. Some
what III the picetiire 81 Stringfe low
Barr Of st. John's, and Maynard
Hutchifis of chicago, he has but over
education III us merits. He has been
FIRST scholar and secondly an asd-
minfstf At6f,A but Mas fred So much
enthusiasm that administration has
pretty much taken care Of itself.
The University of Edinburgh
and Harvard passed ON to. him
the fame of the great Elizabeth
ans. Merry eyes-little white
beard-res0nant Iaugh-with
sureically incisive mind-he has
been t0stlfe Smith undergradu-
ates blend Of Chaucer, Shakes
peareSaan Efasmus-aithough
said iinmortals didn't smoke big
cigars. He takes bow from
all the groves Of academe. ''@
TOSCANINI was so, pleased with
= tesdesigned by Mrs. Malcolm
D. Whitman, former Countess Lu
ella Mafa1de Nescovi, that he haC
-, SERVICES al l.. one es like il
WoniaR Pesigfss made for each
Styles for Men, Of the 90 mem
They 4ikf EN- bsrs ct his ), or
started her idesigning ties for Doug
las Fairbanks 81. Noel Coward
Count Andy Robilant. III al. One
thing led to another, and now Mrs
Whitman afetifrns from E.ilr0ha q,