PERT AND PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3542, 4 July 1905, Page 4

PERT AND PERSONAL.

Andrew Carnegie was introduced at a public dinner in New York the - other night as the “chief librarhm of * ru ‘ universe." Gov. Hill, of Maine, is having built at Augusta a house which when completed will cost him $200,000 and he the most expensive houee in the stale. William Scanlon, president of li; 4Ajsnacoilda Copper Mining company. -> presented in behalf of his comfuiny 16 lota in the city of Anaconda Mont., lor the purpooe of a public pork. Samuel Snell, of Holyoke, Mass., 7D years old and wealthy, devotes all his ■pore time to the making of stone coffins. During the past 35 years he ties made and disposed of over 190 of these, claiming that i hey keep the .body iu an excellent state of Vibtion long alter burial. J. M. Longyear, of Marque! te, Idich., Who built himself a palatial home »t a cost of $500,000 :!.’i f.hal uity, ho* become so embittered ■gainst the city for allowing a railroad to run so near his property that be will move the house, stone uy lltone, to Boston, which project will uiinost reach the original cost of the iitruetur*. 9. V. Adam, who ha* presented to the city of Buffalo the splendid or* (pan built fer the t«mple oi muMc at the Pan-American exposition at a oosA of |1»,000, is a well-lcnown merchant and a municipal reformer. He wap for some year* a mwuher of the board of *ouncilmeu of Buffalo and in the recant aempalgn was alaeted i» member ot the board of aldermen. John Riley, an engineer on the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania railway, h*a been proaonted a aheek for S6OO and a gold watch valued at SI,OOO by the officers of the company for signal bravery in stopping a runaway train last spring. At the came time Engineer William Block and Conductor James Lundy were given cheeks lor S2OO each for “courage, judgment and a high sense of duly.”