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Show MG5 WKH Gen. Taylor Now U. S. Chief Engineer Brig. Gen. Harry Tsylor Is,, the new chief of engineers U. 8. A, succeeding suc-ceeding Maj. Gen. Lansing U. H. Beach, who has been the incumbent shice 1920 and now retires. General Taylor .has been an assistant to the chief of engineers, In charge of the civil division, since 1918. He was chief engineer A. E. F. from May, 1917, to September, 1918, and has the D. S. M. and Is a member of the Legion of Honor. General Taylor was born In 1802 In New Hampshire and Is a graduate of the United States Military academy (1884) and the Engineering School of Application (1887). His engineering duties have taken him all over the country. Until 1896" he was busy on the Columbia river and on river and harbor works in Oregon and Washington. Washing-ton. Then he put in four years in charge of the Puget sound defense works. Next he went to the Philip. pines ror four years. Next he was for several years engaged on defense snd other works on Long Island sound. He was assistant to the chief of engineers, engi-neers, 1911-16. From then until be went to France he was In charge of ths New Tork harbor works. The Corps of Engineers, It should be understood, Is not merely a part of the War department. It Is charged with many duties In connection with the navigable waters of the country. Anne Nichols and "Abie's Irish Rose" ( .r 71 A year ago In Chicago began a litigation suit to put a show called "Abie's Irish Rose" Into the Sturte-bsker Sturte-bsker theater. After battle In the courts lasting nearly a month the play was opened. Three years ago this same comedy was fighting for breath In New Tork. Producers had spurned it snd the Fulton theater In which It wss exhibiting plsyed to empty houses. It Is now playing at five theaters to crowded houses. 8o a woman, single handed, has won out. Anne Nichols began her stage career as an actress. For msny years she barnstormed. Then she wrote seven plays .for Flske O'Hara. These were profitable In a small way. Then she wrote "Abie's Irish Rose." It had Its first showing In Los Angeles. An-geles. After 42 weeks on the coast It was moved to New Tork. The eastern east-ern critics gave It a cold shoulder and for ve weeks It hovered between life and death. With much difficulty Miss Nichols managed to borrow enough to keep the comedy In the theater despite the fact that all her friends ssld It "didn't have a chance." She was $30,000 in debt before "Abie" made a nickel profit. It was later transferred Into the Republic theater where It still Is, now In the third year. Scott Says U. S. Universities Are Best Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern university, has returned to the Evanston campus after a ten-weeks' ten-weeks' trip In Europe firmly convinced that the United States has by fsr the best universities snd the best educational educa-tional equipment In the world. "Regardless of what may have been true In the past, there Is no doubt that the best educational opportunities opportuni-ties today He In the United States," President Scott said. "There was a time when students had to go to Europe If they wanted the best education edu-cation ptslbie, but that Is no longer true. "Our colleges are much better equipped In every line from llbernl arts to medicine. In France and England Eng-land the universities are still tied down by tradition. Most of them do not even try to keep up with the latest lat-est Ideas In education. Cambridge was the only university I found where they were beginning to modernize equipment." Pretildent Scott plunged at once Into the task of registration. This year freshmen, besides taking the usual mental alertness tests, must also be examined ex-amined In mathematics and English. Before arriving on the campus they must have forwarded six recoromendutlons as to their general character and give reasons why they want to enter college. All are being photographed. Dr. Smith May Be Seeing 'Em in Alaska Philip S. Smith, administrative geologist ge-ologist of the United States Geological Survey, will be back In Waxhlngton some of these days from Alaska with some Interesting stories. At this writing writ-ing he Is exploring for petroleum In the region between the Porcupine and Colvllle rivers, which is practically unknown. A letter that came through to civilisation by Enklmo hands has told of the discovery of a large river which flows west and then north. London Tit-Hits thinks Doctor Smith may see things more Interesting than rivers. It says It Is rumored that there are weird animals of Immense Im-mense sire up there. Strange tales, It says, have been spread amongst ths fur traders and gold hunters by ths native Kxklmo and Indians regarding the territory which appears on the maps largely as a blank spare. They say the land Is haunted by weird beasts, some of such great sir. that they leave tracks us large as dinner plates. It is stated that no Indian can be persuaded to penetrate this region even though tempted by the promise of abundant fur. Some of the more credulous of the white men, linking these tales with their scientific reading, contend tbst there may still lurk In ths Kar North remnants of the mastodon herds that have left their bones snd vcy In a'most every stream bordering the lower Yukon river. |
