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Show HIS BEOHET DIED WITH HIM. Tho I'mlil lolmlrr ot llrlo4 tanlie. I-iit week Jame McMenamln of Hampton, Va, the only aueceuful picker of crab meat In the country, died at John Ilnpklna Hoapltal at tlaltlmore, and It I understood that the aeeret of preferring the delicate flavor of crab died with him Mr MoMenamln waa n Yankee bom an I ralaed In Maeaaehueett and and"rd down to Norfolk In eirch of employment employ-ment He ipit a Job with a Mr. Whitehead, White-head, a man of wealth and enterprlto, who finally loaned him hi money to eaUMI.h a email rrab cannery at Hampton During: the crabbing aon he employed a fotr of colore 1 women to pick the meal from the ahella and deliver It to him In the cooking room, where he did all the re.t or the work hlmielf behind locked door Not eren hi aon., who aurvlro hire, were admitted to the aecreL After an hour or two the door, of the kitchen would be opened and the content of the kettle would be dellyered to the colored women, who filled tho ran and p.iM them on to the tinner, by whom they war hermetically aealed Krom a mll atari the bu.lnea grew until McMenamln Mc-Menamln employed eereral hundred l.hermen and packer, and although hla plant wa of Imlnn.flcint appearance appear-ance It corered a large area, and wa never big enough to enable him to upply the demand Nor haa anyone ever been able lo compete with him. Plenty of people have tried It, but erery one haa failed There la eome-thing eome-thing peculiar about crab meat whlth make It dlRlcult to preeerre, and thnu.anda of dollar, hare been wanted by Imitator of thl. enterprising Van-kee. Van-kee. It la poMlble that hit ton. may know the procewi lie need lie left thorn a largo fortune, made In th bii.lnc, but hi eerret wa of greater value than hi money |