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Friday, June 13, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Dominionist “Dave” Brat Beats Eric Cantor in GOP Primary - Eric BTW Who Was Not White Enough or “Christian” Enough for the Ruling Elites of States’ Rights Virginia
With a
half-assed Masters in Theology from Princeton – a real Theology degree is a
Ph.D. btw imho – and preaching the obscure political agenda Orwellian like “economics”of
Libertarian politics, the Tea Party is far from dead and its candidates are
far less “Kook” like in a push for “States’ Rights” and the coming theocracy,
the media is scrambling for dumbed down explanations of why Eric Cantor lost to "Dave" Brat.
Myths of
David brings down Goliath with a minimal budget to beat mainstream GOP soldier
Eric Cantor are being pumped out by the lamestream media with ignoring all the free network of
Christian foot soldiers stuffing and mailing political propaganda, like with Dave Brat’s
local chapter of the Knights of Columbus located and sponsored in his rich burb
Richmond Virginia Roman Catholic church of St. Mary’s.
A convert to
Catholicism (?) and after a Ph.D. at American University, a traditionally linked
Methodist institution. Go where the power and money is. And the RCs always have
the big global bucks?
Apparently
mixing religion with economics is the new politics of the new Right and or
Orwellian Big Brother visionaries that put Ronald Reagan in power via the
vision of the Liberty Fund.
A quote in
Liberty Fund Publishing Economics, of obscure voodoo economist Paul Heyne’s
manifesto like quotes in a letter to “David Brat”, the same as in the Cantor
Brat Primary Race? [1. ] Paul Heyne, letter to David Brat, 31 July 1998. http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/the-economic-and-ethical-thought-of-paul-heyne
Thursday, June 5, 2014
George Henry Story – Bohemian Resident of Greenwich Village 1860s – Artist Regular at Pfaff’s
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| Walt Whitman at Pfaff's Beer Cellar - 1856 (Public Domain) |
Per my
earlier piece of Mrs. G. H. Story (Eunice Emerson Kimball Story) being a
childhood friend of the American Humorist “Artemis Ward”, I have since found a
connection of George H. Story to a documented regular at the famous artist
hangout of the 1860’s Beer Cellar – Pfaff’s.
It is little
wonder Story’s connection to that Bohemian art scene of writers, actors, artists
and poets, the most famous of them being Walt Whitman is lost. Not a lot of historical references to check out. Just a lot of collateral evidence of who used to frequent this once popular scene in antebellum and postbellum NYC.
And having an art studio a few doors away is not proof but I can say with certainty Story was no teetotaler.
A who’s who of young and artsy New Yorkers or “Bohemians”
as some of them were called happened around that happening place of Broadway
and Bleecker Street in Manhattan.
From that
period of “Bohemia” around Pfaff’s beer cellar, artist G.H. Story has his studio
located at "643 Broadway" near two addresses identified with Pfaff’s as 647 and
653 Broadway.
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| 1865 NYC Directory |
George H
Story’s home address is listed as “18 Cottage Place” which is no longer there.
It was located between W. Houston and Bleecker and west of MacDougal and
absorbed into the Sixth Avenue extension linking uptown with downtown in the
1920s. Part of it exists as part of a small triangle of a park in front of the “Little
Red School House” complex – the original older building on the corner still
exists and part of the east side of Cottage Place now part of Sixth and or “Avenue
of the Americas”. The west side of Cottage Place where the Storys resided in now in the middle of busy Sixth Avenue. I don’t know if those apartment
buildings in the picture below go back to the 1860s btw.
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| Google Maps |
One poet who
has some documented connections to the Storys is the poet William Winter,
quite famous in his day and a key player in his youth at the Pfaff’s art scene.
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| William Winter - 1876 (Public Domain) |
The first
connection is some name cards of George and Eunice Story being mailed to the
Winter family in acknowledgement of the death of Winter's son William, aged 14 in
early 1886.
1886 - Jan -
William Winter age 14
A visiting
card of George H. Story with a manuscript note: "With heartfelt sympathy
my dear Mr. Winter." With accompanying envelope addressed to Winter at No.
17 Third Avenue, Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Also with a visiting card of
Mrs. George H. Story and a small clipping on Arthur Winter's death. Date from
postmark on envelope.
The other is
a later in life testimonial to William Winter with a regret posted on not being
able to attend the ceremony by an aged, reclusive and infirmed G.H. Story of
1909, the year after the death of his wife following a long and lingering illness.
(typo –
George Henry Story lived at 230 W. 59th Street and or Central Park
South at The Hubert Co-op Apartments. Even the NYT obit on Story misspelled his
residence as the “Huber”, the French pronunciation, without the correct English
spelling.)
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| Google Maps |
The address
of 17 Third Ave in Tomkinsville in Staten Island NY of William Winter in 1886 has changed to Alden Place
and number 17 is acknowledged by Google Maps but I cannot attach that number to
any property at the moment with any certainty. The address is the end of a
street entering a park on the top of a hill overlooking New York
Harbor. Winter in later life also had a
Staten Island home on the top of a hill further east on the north shore overlooking
the Verrazano Narrows toward Brooklyn, half a century before they built the
Verrazano Narrows Bridge there.
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Monday, June 2, 2014
Delmonico’s Restaurant Chambers Street (1856-1876)
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Irving House
– Broadway and Chambers Street
Engraved by Henry Bricher (b.circa 1817) - From
the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York
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Men famous
in their time frequented the upstairs rooms at Chambers Street; their names
would constitute a “Who's Who” of New York in the Sixties and Seventies. Some
who are still remembered were Horace Greeley; Henry J Raymond of the Times; A.T. Stewart; James T Brady the courtroom spellbinder; William M Evarts, witty and learned
leader of the bar and future Secretary of State John Van Buren; Fernando Wood
the city's copperhead mayor who recommended that New York secede from the Union;
Astors and Vanderbilts in assorted lots; crusading clergymen like Henry Ward
Beecher and T. De Witt Talmadge, from conscience bound Brooklyn; Daniel Sickles,
a rake of marital and martial notoriety; Samuel J. Tilden near-President of the
United States; Chester A. Arthur, an actual though accidental President; Roscoe
Conkling the posturing “Adonis” senator and mastermind of New York republican
politics; and of course the potentates of the Tweed Ring, their aides and
abettors without number.
…Henry J.
Raymond, a politically active editor gave many dinners at Delmonico's Chambers
Street restaurant and mapped journalistic campaigns there. Room number 1
upstairs was the preserve of lawyers of whom the jovial Brady was a bellwether.
Whenever he chalked up another courtroom victory, it was his pleasure to
celebrate in room 1 with congenial spirits. human and liquid both fully
uncorked.
Rooms number 9 and 11 were consecrated to the politicians, Republican and Democratic, for there was no factionalism at Delmonico's. The unwritten rule was that the first party arriving could establish itself in number 11. and those coming later would convene in number 9. In this way next door to each other, the leaders of the opposite parties mapped their election strategies.
Rooms number 9 and 11 were consecrated to the politicians, Republican and Democratic, for there was no factionalism at Delmonico's. The unwritten rule was that the first party arriving could establish itself in number 11. and those coming later would convene in number 9. In this way next door to each other, the leaders of the opposite parties mapped their election strategies.
“…in 1855
when Lorenzo rented and fitted up the corner at Chambers Street and Broadway
which had formed part of the old Irving House; …Lorenzo Delmonico signed a
twenty one year lease of the property mentioned at an annual rental of $25,000
later raised to $30,000… Not everybody believed that Lorenzo was taking a rash
step. Hardly had he signed the lease when he was offered $75,000 for it; but the
renovations were under way, and he clung to the bargain.
The Irving House, on the
northwest corner of the intersection, had indeed earned a fortune for its
original proprietor. Built in 1848, it was the first in New York to boast of “bridal
suites,” and its furniture was reputed to have cost $150,000.
Lounging around
its entrance any day might be seen a cross section of the floating population
of the city - merchants in town on buying expeditions, Southerners smoking Havanas,
slouching Western men straight from the gold fields. Across Broadway rose the
six story marble “dry goods emporium” of A.T. Stewart, where the richness of
the stock startled visitors… ”
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James T. Brady – New York Lawyer – 1815/1869 - Bio Sketch
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( Photo above: Library of
Congress Call Number: LC-BH82- 5225 C
James Topham
Brady was the son of Irish immigrants who first settled in Newark, NJ and then
in New York City. Brady received a privileged education and, in 1831 while
still a student, he aided his father, a lawyer, in various trials. Brady gained
admittance to the New York bar in 1836. His first case dealt with the
controversial topic of slavery, and "though he was unsuccessful his
handling of the matter was masterly . . . He was endowed by nature with a
facility of speech, which, assiduously cultivated and molded by long study, and
embellished with felicitous classical quotations, became well-nigh irresistible
with a jury, whilst his arguments, clear, logical, never verbose, were put with
a force and sincerity which always impressed the court" (Knott).
Over the
next two decades Brady came to be known as a leader of the New York bar. He was
connected to almost every important case of the time, either as the defense
attorney or the prosecutor (Knott). He became New York District Attorney in
1843, and he was later asked to be the United States Attorney-General, an honor
that he chose not to accept. Brady was fascinated by issues of insanity, but he
was beyond proficient in all areas of the law. In one memorable civil case, he
won an unbelievable $300,000 in damages for his client. He also represented
Mrs. Edwin Forrest in her divorce from her husband (Wilson & Fiske 355).
As a
criminal defense attorney he won fifty-one out of fifty-two murder trials; four
of those acquittals were won during the same week. Brady's prowess in the
courtroom was unmatched: "It has been said that he never lost a case in
which he was before a jury for more than a week; in that time they saw
everything through his eyes" (355)…
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Breaking News - Bilderberg Coffee Klatch Did Not Meet in Copenhagen This Past Weekend
It is with
predictable disappointment to announce all four networks failed to inform the
public of a secretive and extremely exclusive meeting of central bankers, CEOs,
public officials and world dignitaries taking place this weekend.
From May 29
through today, June 1, esteemed academicians, hand picked journalists,
intelligence officials, world banking oligarchs and the CEOs and bosses of
Royal Dutch Shell, Google and Microsoft, to name just a few, slinked behind
closed doors at the Marriott hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, to do God knows
what.
But watching
the major news networks and monitoring the domestic news wires, you’d never
guess this meeting happened.
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Six years on – this cultural” Christian” is still wandering around in the dark (but with a better sense of direction perhaps than six years ago)
Just because
man invented the concept of god, (it) does mean that god does not exist.
After six
years of this blog I have many times, in describing my perceptions of things,
that in terms of people trying to find some spiritual satisfaction in the old
religions, I am content to report that they, along with myself included, have many
times come away empty from this search.
That many
times these old religions are obsolete because the god and or gods on which
these old religions are based – the god-base is obsolete as well. Obscure gods
giving obscure directions to even obscurer and or dim-witted souls (“humans”).
Obsolete
because they, she, he, it, do not presently fully integrate with the new definitions
needed to co-exist with the new virtual global reality. Clear vision for the
faithful - reading the myth once more to remain in perfect harmony with the “sacred”
message born out of the ancient oral sounds and or written text? Yeah right.
I have
stated many times that the old definition of god ( in the context of my
cultural corner of the universe) in this modern global culture needs a new
definition to be relevant in the repeating of the myth - for the ten trillionth
and one time.
Today – I
believe that not only the definition of god is obsolete but for sake of a
better thing to say – god too is obsolete as well in our growing robot dependent
culture. Obsolete - and irrelevant as
well? (God, or its new definition, is a thing evolving that we now at present
do not recognize and I fear - is right in front of us as well.)
Man as a
monkey evolved with hands to make tools and make daily bread / food and or
shelter. God at some points of the timeline got defined by the monkeys. GOD of the future is presently being designed (redesigned?) and is I think, by true definition, literally a logarithm?
Today,
technology and toys are the tools not to create anything real, but dependency,
so much a virtual stop gap measure, but something shiny to occupy the monkey
masses while the robots, ATMs, credit cards, I-pods, I-phones, goog-L-glasses,
games etc. take hold invading the ancient body politic, home, culture. The old
hand of power slipping silently, gently into a newer glove of power?
Does that
make me an atheist – at least for one day? No. Not really. It all depends on
what your definition of atheist is – is.
And quite
frankly what I see of all these I.V. league dis-educated trust fund elite types on both sides of the English speaking pond - all shouting at each other in alpha male posturing to be the head of the heap
of this new atheist religion thing masquerading as an anti-religion/anti-god
thing – I don’t see much. A corner street fight, not a major world religion contender.
Nothing in a
major way from that side of the court except for a few small voices drowned out
in that local street fight thing for power on a small turf thing but one with
the ability to grow and franchise, cashing in on the new “None” of the above
religious beliefs – Nones – and their growing footprint of - by default “religious”
and or “non-religious” POVs.
Replacing
god and or religion with your new non-definitions or more accurately, these
non-definitions of god and religion are many times mixed with secular politics.
In a way, and for some time, the ruling elites like the atheist Koch Brothers /
George Soros types have been maneuvering within their greedy anti-human
capitalism religion to downgrade the old Christ religion in favor of the new
Capitalist religion – where the magic hands of high priests of capitalism make
the magic bread of a “perfect” (man-made) economic model. “Perfect” is god. Therefore capitalism must
be “god”. Etc.
Whatever.
That
dependence on electricity, clean water, calories, fossil fuel based heat and energy, communication
electronics, games, entertainment, time killing drugs, drone office cubicle “work”
etc. The old religions are dead. The old gods are dead. The new religion, the
new god, is injected into the dependent veins of the present race addicted to
convenience and the ignorance tagged along with it.
The old
economics are dead as well but let’s not go there. The forensics of dissecting
that dead old economic dinosaur of ages past is beyond my mere blogging spot.
LMAO
I can well
imagine myself being a Roman in the last days of Rome and not believing in the
old gods and here comes along the mean desert god male army penis religion of
Constantine to tell me what to believe and when to march and when to worship
the emperor etc. = Constantine’s “Christ”-inanity.
The story of
Constantine’s Roman “Christ” myth as the basis of his new Roman Empire State
Religion have been told a couple of trillion of times by now on the timeline of
human history and a couple hundred thousand times in my personal timeline at
least as well.
A lie told once is still a lie. A lie and or myth told a trillion times is still a lie and or a myth - and or the basic cultural myth (shit mixed with dirt at our feet) of all - like it or not...
That there
are those minor conflicts of the myth of original Jewish rabbi “Jesus” (“Jesus
Christ minus the Constantine Christ) – conflicts many times within the dumbed
down media exercise to kill intelligence (old time) and more importantly kill
time as the clock runs out toward the designed future of the minority elites
living in space (bubble) pods here and on other planets and the voids of space
off-planet.
More and
more the extremes in politics and its many masks (in and of religion and or economics)
- reminds me of religious and or satanic cults of the past = brainwashing by any
other name = not reality by my personal definition of it.
And so it
goes.
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Friday, May 30, 2014
1946 Times Square – Life Magazine – Horn and Hardart’s Automat 1557 Broadway – Photographer Andreas Feininger (1906-1999)
http://gotham.fromthesquare.org/1st-horn-hardarts-automat-in-nyc-1557-broadway/
Updated below - August 2019 - Grand Slam Gift Shop Times Square - (Photo: Yelp)
Original Horn & Hardart structure behind billboards (building behind blue "Grand Slam" label- above) and little left of original internal, exterior if any decoration as a gift and tourist trinket shop on Broadway. Shell of its former glory.
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Updated below - August 2019 - Grand Slam Gift Shop Times Square - (Photo: Yelp)
Original Horn & Hardart structure behind billboards (building behind blue "Grand Slam" label- above) and little left of original internal, exterior if any decoration as a gift and tourist trinket shop on Broadway. Shell of its former glory.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Child Labor 1900s USA – Photos of Lewis Wickes Hine 1874-1940
Photos: Lewis Wickes Hine 1874-1940 (Public Domain)
"January 1909. Tifton, Georgia. Workers in the Tifton
Cotton Mills. All these children were working or helping, 125 in all."
"Force working in West Point Cotton Mills. West Point,
Miss, May 1911"
"All these pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. I had
to take photo while bosses were at dinner as they refused to permit the
children to be in photos. Out of 60 workers, 15 were apparently under 12 years
old. Bay St. Louis, Miss, March 1911"
"Eight year old Jennie Camillo lives in West Maniyunk,
Pa. (near Philadelphia). For this summer she has picked cranberries. This
summer she is at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, N.J. This is the fourth
week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two weeks more,
September 1910"
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Memorial Day – a Day to Remember all American Veterans - North and South
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The Marshall Family
gravesite in Colebrook, New Hampshire.
(34 Star U.S. Stars and Stripes and
Confederate Official “Star and Bars” Flag)
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These two
brothers, William Henry and Cummings Marshall, were born in Lumpkin County,
Georgia, in the 1840’s. Their father, Abel Cummings Marshall, the brother of my
great-great grandfather, had come from the forests and rock-strewn farms of
northern New Hampshire to the gold fields near Dahlonega in search of his
fortune.
Shortly thereafter, he married Lucinda Hawkins of South Carolina. Over
the next few years Lucinda gave birth to four children – William Henry,
Cummings, Melinda, and Martha. Abel disappeared
from records sometime in the 1850’s – my suspicion is that he followed other
miners to California seeking gold, though I have yet to substantiate that. In
any event, Lucinda was left to raise her children by herself (the 1860 census
lists her as head of household). Cummings also left the family – he journeyed
to New Hampshire to live with relatives there. (More on Cummings later)
In early
1861, twenty-one year-old William Henry Marshall enlisted in the Dahlonega
Volunteers, and soon was parading on the old Mustering Grounds in Dahlonega, from
which North Georgia volunteers had assembled for earlier conflicts such as the
Texas War for Independence and the Mexican War. Called by Governor Joseph E.
Brown in late March to proceed to Macon, the Volunteers were designated Company
“H” of the First Georgia Volunteer Infantry. …
Even though
he was Southern born, Cummings Marshall must have felt great pressure to enlist
in the service, with so many adult males gone to the army. On September 3,
1864, Cummings enlisted in the Ninth Company, New Hampshire Heavy Artillery,
which became Company I of the First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, commanded by
Captain Charles O. Bradley. Sent to Washington for garrison duty, the companies
of the First were dispersed between the several forts surrounding the city,
with Company I being posted to Fort Reno. Fort Reno (or Battery Reno as it was
also known) was located on the northwest side of the District of Columbia,
roughly two miles west of Fort Stevens.
Cummings' tour of duty was largely
uneventful, though he was injured in a bizarre accident in March of 1865.
During a drill, the company was marching at the double-quick across the parade
ground, when several soldiers in the rear ranks, including Cummings, stumbled
and fell while crossing a ditch. For several days afterwards he lay in his tent
complaining of great pain in his abdomen. The injury, described as a “rupture”,
would plague Cummings for the rest of his life.
Near the end
of the war, my great-great grandfather, Moody Marshall, made the journey south
to retrieve Lucinda and daughter Melinda. Moody wrote of great devastation as
he travelled southward. Retrieving Lucinda and Melinda, he brought them back to
northern New Hampshire. With the war’s close, William Henry made his way north
to join his mother.
The First New Hampshire was mustered out of service in
Washington on June 15, 1865. Cummings returned to Colebrook, where he lived
with his wife Julia and growing family until 1875, when they moved to Lowell,
Massachusetts.
At some point, Cummings and Julia were divorced, and Cummings
returned to Colebrook, where he opened a small candy store and joined the local
post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
William Henry returned to his miner’s
roots, prospecting for silver in the nearby mountains. The unrepentant Rebel
had a reputation as a bit of a trouble-maker, especially when the G.A.R.
paraded on Memorial Day – Henry would gallop his horse through the “Yankee”
ranks. As the years passed, the members of the Marshall family passed away, and
were interred in the Colebrook Village Cemetery. There the Yankee and the Rebel
brothers, once enemies in war, rest together in eternal sleep.
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
London Time Lapse
Have not been to London in over 30 years. I think it has changed a bit since then.
One building of note that I had followed progress on when they were building it was the Shard - the tallest building in the EU.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
"Imagination" in Play - Artist George Henry Story - (no date)
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| "Imagination" Oil on Fibreboard Artist - George Henry Story 1835-1922 (Public Domain - United States) . |
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. – Tribute to His Memory by John Cadwalader – Philadelphia Evening Bulletin – 1916
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| Eckley B. Coxe Jr., 1872-1916 University of Pennsylvania Painting Collection Artist - Adolphe E. Borie 1877-1934 (Public Domain - United States) |
Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, Volume 28 (page 31)
“Eckley
Brinton Coxe, Jr.
“Member 1914.
“Born May 31, 1872 September 20, 1916
“ Eckley
Brinton Coxe, Jr. of 1604 Locust Street, died September 20 1916, at his summer
home at Drifton, near Hazleton, Penna., after an illness of more than a year.
He was a son of the late Charles Brinton Coxe and Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe.
“He entered
the University of Pennsylvania in 1891 in Biology and received a certificate of
proficiency in June, 1893. He was, therefore, a member of the Class of 1893 and
of the Delta Phi Fraternity as his father and four uncles had been before him.
He was President of the University Museum, a member of The Numismatic and
Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and of the International Historical
Society, also of the University, Rittenhouse, Racquet, Philadelphia,
Philadelphia Country, and Huntingdon Valley Clubs.
“The tribute
to his memory published in the Evening
Bulletin and written by Hon. John Cadwalader gives such an interesting
account of his family that it is here quoted:
“ ‘Eckley B
Coxe, Jr. sustained the name and usefulness of one of the most distinguished
families that this country has produced. Dr.Daniel Coxe, of London from whom he
was directly descended, was in 1678 the proprietor of West New Jersey and of
Carolina, which included all the territory between N. Latitude 31st to 36th
parallels, and prepared the first general plan for a union of the colonies.
“ ‘Tench
Coxe, the great grandfather at the age of thirty-three was a member of the
Continental Congress, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to Alexander Hamilton
in 1789, filled many important posts until his death in 1824, and it was said
of him that he “was never forgetful of the duty of exerting his peculiar
talents for the good of his country.” The grandfather, Charles S. Coxe, was a
judge of the district court, noted for its eminent judges, and rendered, among
others, a most important decision relating to the privileges of consular as
distinguished from diplomatic officials recognized generally by writers on
international law.
“ ‘His father
Major Charles Brinton Coxe, was the youngest of the five sons of Judge Coxe,
all of whom were men of unusual force of character and distinction. The eldest Brinton Coxe, was one of the most
learned lawyers of his day, as shown in his work on Bracton and his unfinished
analysis of the Constitution of the United States.
“ ‘Eckley B.
Coxe, after whom his nephew was named, was the most eminent mining engineer
this country has produced, and held a very important position in the State,
politically and as head of the firm of Coxe Brothers & Co., who operated
the great anthracite coal fields owned by the Coxe family.
“ ‘Charles B.
Coxe. the father was a scholar of a high order, having taken the highest rank
in the University of Pennsylvania, in the class of 1862, that included many of
our most successful citizens, among them two Provosts of the University.
“ ‘His
services in the army, having been major of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, the
only lancer regiment, were most conspicuous for bravery and unselfish devotion.
He was equally popular with his fellow
officers and men. Several of those in his company were long in the service of
Coxe Brothers & Co., of which Charles Coxe was a member.
“ ‘Eckley B
Coxe, Jr. though not of vigorous frame, was full of determined energy and
untiring in any work he undertook. Unlike many young men of independent means, he
had but one object in life, which was to be useful, following the example of
his great-grandfather. His father having
died in Egypt, the son had always felt a deep interest in that land of the
earliest civilization. Growing out of
this interest, he became connected with the Museum of the University of
Pennsylvania, and secured for it the result of the exploring expeditions which
he entirely supported under concessions granted by the Egyptian government. Few persons understand to what extent this
great department of the University has been dependent upon the liberality and
generosity of a very few persons.
“ ‘Mr. Coxe became president of the Board of the
Museum and had practically met the large annual outlay necessary to maintaining
its work. This has been in addition to sustaining the expeditions and meeting
the cost of the valuable publications constantly used. Mr. Coxe did not limit his interest to these
educational fields, but every charitable movement appealed to him.
“ ‘The Children's
Hospital, the College of Physicians, the Orthopaedic Hospital, many fields of
work in aid of the miners and their families in the anthracite coal region, and
the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania are only some of those that could
be mentioned to which he has contributed on a very large scale.
“ ’There was
a quiet, dignified reserve, with a gentleness of character, in Eckley Coxe
rarely met with. Firm and decided wherever he had a positive view, it was
always a pleasure to him to meet the wishes of those who appealed to him.
“ ‘His generosity was not measured; but was
indulged for the benefit of others, with little thought of himself. The concentration of wealth in the hands of
such a man is productive of more good to the community than any possible
distribution, among many could produce. His life was spent for the benefit of others
and he maintained a reputation without a blemish. To those who learned to
appreciate his generous thought and to his immediate family his loss is
irreparable.
“ ‘He showed
the value of inherited worth, and did not fail to sustain in every way what
might have been expected of him.’ “
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| University Museum - University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia |
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| 1604 Locust Street - Philadelphia (Google Maps) Former Residence of Eckley B. Coxe Jr. |
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Pope Francis Hints at IT (E.T.)??? --- Contact! --- In the Near Future with E.T.s from Other Planets?
Second time in five years, the Vatican has alluded to extraterrestrial life and of course its mission to convert those "uncivilized" space aliens.
Ronald Reagan publicly alluded to Extraterrestrials twice, once in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
The bottom line is that they are probably there.
They will decide when they want to contact us. (Not the other way around.)
In all likelihood the universe is quite diverse and the technology to transverse the universe rather cheap once you get it. Not unlike the internal combustion engine in a Model “T” Ford automobile of yesteryear?
I would say that that kind of technology is possibly something like one to two hundred years in our future. That contact before that technology develops within the natural envelope of our various local civilizations and our new evolving global culture would be dangerous for all parties concerned.
That our reaching the basic mechanics of interstellar travel will probably mark the point on the timeline where contact with “them” would have the least cultural shock for both sides or the many sides involved in the equation.
That our reaching the basic mechanics of interstellar travel will probably mark the point on the timeline where contact with “them” would have the least cultural shock for both sides or the many sides involved in the equation.
In the mean time, lets add some heat to those cold bath baptismal pools? LOL
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Old Saint Michael’s Church NYC – 1857 / 1907 - NW Corner 9th Avenue, 31st to 32nd Streets – Eminent Domain – Old Pennsylvania Station – and Tunnels
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| Old St. Michael's Church and School - 1868 NW Corner Ninth Ave and 31st-32nd Streets (Public Domain) Image: http://library.gc.cuny.edu/34th_st/items/show/880 |
Location
of Work.—The area covered
by the work of the Terminal Station-West is bounded as follows: By the east
line of Ninth Avenue; by the south side of 31st Street to a point about 200 ft.
west of Ninth Avenue; by a line running parallel to Ninth Avenue and about 200
ft. therefrom, from the south side of 31st Street to the boundary line between
the 31st and 32d Street properties; by this line to the east line of Tenth
Avenue; by the east line of Tenth Avenue to the boundary line between the 32d
and 33d Street properties; by this line to the east line of Ninth Avenue. The
area is approximately 6.3 acres.
House-Wrecking.—The property between Ninth and Tenth
Avenues was covered with buildings, 94 in number, used as dwelling and
apartment houses and church properties, and it was necessary to remove these
before starting the construction. Most of the property was bought outright by
the Railroad Company, but in some cases condemnation proceedings had to be
instituted in order to acquire possession. In the case of the property of the
Church of St. Michael, fronting on Ninth Avenue, 31st and 32d Streets, the
Railroad Company agreed to purchase a plot of land on the south side of 34th
Street, west of Ninth Avenue, and to erect thereon a church, rectory, convent,
and school, to the satisfaction of the Church of St. Michael, to hand over
these buildings in a completed condition, and to pay the cost of moving from
the old to the new buildings, before the old properties would be turned over to
the Railroad Company.
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| (Old St. Michael's School - Top Left) |
The house-wrecking
was done by well-known companies under contract with the Railroad Company.
These companies took down the buildings and removed all the materials as far as
to the level of the adjacent sidewalks. The building materials became the
property of the contractors, who usually paid the Railroad Company for the
privilege of doing the house-wrecking. The work was done between April and
August, 1906, but the buildings of the Church of St. Michael were torn down
between June and August, 1907.
The bricks were
cleaned and sold directly from the site, as were practically all the fixtures
in the buildings. The stone fronts were broken up and left on the premises.
Some of the beams were sold on the premises, but most of them were sent to the
storage yards. Some of the lath and smaller timber was sold for firewood, but
most of it was given away or burned on the premises.
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St.
Michael's Church 424 W. 34th Street NYC
(School Building on 33rd Street) (Photo: Jeanette O'Keefe, |
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Souvenir - World Trade Center – Dish 6 ¼” Diameter – Tall Ships Bar – Vista Hotel – February 1983
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| 6-1/4" Plate - Tall Ships Bar - Vista Hotel - World Trade Center NYC - 1983 |
I see that
the WTC "911" museum is about to open at the New World Trade Center.
Admission charge $25.00 (Freedom ain’t free
folks.)
Burgers,
Fries and Cokes available in the Visitors Gift Shop and Food Court???
I have my
own memories and a piece of the old Tall Ships Bar of the Vista Hotel, part of
Hilton (later a Marriott on 9-11-2001).
Memories of drinks with friends. Not memories of chaos and death.
Watched them build the hotel piece by piece from across the street at
Bankers Trust Plaza 130 Liberty Street when I worked there.
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| Source: New York Magazine 28 Nov 1983 - page 145 |
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