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Show i How Few Are Like Baker. i Bernard N. Baker of Baltimore, vhr on Wednesday announced a "gift of I $500,000 in International Mercantile Marine company stock to his former f employes in the Atlantic Transport company, is the same man who gave i the use of the ship .Missouri to the- I United States for hospital purposes in the Spanish-American war, at an ex- f pense to himself of $45,000 for main- tenance, and who donated the Maine to ! American women in England for use a3 I a hospital ship in the Boer-British war. f Mr. Baker built up the Atlantic" Trans port company and was one of the prime j movers in the organization oc the com- bine, in which he is a director. : Tho I employes of the Atlantic company wha will receive the stock number about 300 t and are in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis.- They will receive from $1,000 to $2,000 each, those who lose theitf f positions as a result of the combine re- f ceiving the larger amount: I |