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Show PiflSPiiil Baer Taken 111 After DIs Speech and Unafclc to 'Hear Opponent. ' - : t PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13. An act on the part of George. F. Raer, president presi-dent of the Reading Railway company, which was held by -.any to be discourteous discour-teous to the miners counsel in the ftr'ke hearing, was explained by iho news that for the last ciirce dnys he had been ill in Atlantic City. tomed lately after finishing his addrss3 before the commission com-mission on Thursday nt noon, he left the Federal building, in which the hearing hear-ing was held, and, though his chief op-rnent. op-rnent. Clarence S. Darrow, began his address In the afternoon, he did hot appear. ap-pear. ' : , ,i It has developed that Mr. Baer went to Atlantic City in a" state of physical collapse. His address before the strike commission was more or less of .an impassioned im-passioned nature, and) it wore greatly cn his nerves. . : |