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Show Msmory Went, Baek far. Charles Hayes Has well, the-noted writer on engineering topics, who died recently at the age of 98, has since 1844 been a contributor to. the Harper publications. Harper Brothers having been his publishers all along. A few years ago he finished a work and brought it Into the office, saying as he was about to leave: "You must be careful about this manuscript and not allow It to bo destroyed in another fire." "What Are do you, mean, Mr. Haa well r asked the editor. "Oh, that one you had some years ago." The fire to which the venerable author referred re-ferred happened ia 1IS3, when Mr. Haswell was 44 years old. |