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Show "CORSEJfflG" VISITS OGDEN "Nowhere iu the wide world will you find mountain scenery which compares so favorably with tho wonderland won-derland of Switzerland as right hero in Ogden canyon." exclaimed George Clinton Batcheller, the "corset kin," as he stood on the veranda of the Founders and Patriots of America and Is an active, member of the Aruer-lean Aruer-lean Instltuto of Civics, the New York chamber of commerce and treasurer of St. Mary's church. With his secretary, Ralph E. Mil-lor, Mil-lor, Mr. Wellington of San Francisco and Mr. Bacon of Chicago, Col. Batch-cllor Batch-cllor stopped off in Ogden Monday and spout the afternoon and evening In Ogden canyon as the guests of W. U Burt. The party. left Monday evening for Yellowstone park. Regarding the proposed corset trust. Col. Batcheller Btated that theH was no truth in the articles which had recently appeared in American papers an he ws-k opposed to the proposition pro-position in every way. Hermitage hotel yesterday and viewed view-ed tho scene before him. "I have traveled over a large part of the world and am certain that I do not overestimate the beauty and grandeur grand-eur of this scenic gorge when I make this statement." Col. Batcheller olso claims that American women are more beautiful In form than the far-famed Greeks of antiquity, and more than that, they arc more beautiful in features and general appearance. Mr. Batcheller claims to know as ho Is the man who invented 'the glove-fitting corset and through his agencies molds the forms of millions of women In this country and abroad. "In London and Vienna, the centers of fashion and art, the American woman wo-man is regarded as queen," said Col. Batcheller. In this he Lcsrs out the. ! opinions of a number of famous t American artists who recently declared de-clared that American women are superior su-perior to the Greeks In physical perfection. per-fection. Col. Batcheller was the first to Introduce In-troduce cornets into America, Importing Im-porting them in the '60s and esfab-illsblng esfab-illsblng his first factory in 1862. In 1867 he advertised for the first time vest of the Mississippi river. This docs not mean that corsets ; were first invented about that time. ?Ool. Batcheller declares that Queen "Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici rwxre corsets with bands of steel as stays. Corsets were originated by Grecian womcu who wore the girdle. 'In Germany corsets used to be mode In, one piece of metal and then split. Tho women of 1 R 12 wore corsets that were whole In the front and laced hi the. back. According to the 'Vorset king." the industry has grown since 1SG7. from $1,000,000 a year to $40,000,000 a. year in America. The plant In 'Bridgeport, Conn., uses a ton of steel a day and 1,000,000 eyelets a week. Col. Batcheller bars the degree of LL. D from William and Mary's college, col-lege, Is president of the Order of |