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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1883
Page
3
A long excerpt profiles Gen Grant Oscar Wilde and Robert Ingersoll as travelers in a railroad car. It contrasts Grant's detached, smoke filled silence with Wilde's swagger and Ingersoll's sociable, talkative style, ending with a recollection of a night voyage where Ingersoll entertains passengers. The piece weaves anecdotes about these notable figures with a Bret Harte career sketch and Peck's Sun founder.
Spencer B Driggs an inventor died at his residence 3 East Party first street on Friday last He was born near Auburn NY on Jan 5 183 We migrated to Michigan as a land agent In 1855 he organized the Drigge Patent Piano company He claimed to invent the overstrung bass in piano manufacture The Steinways claimed the patent He published his knowledge of overstrung pianos and others mass produced them He is remembered for draining the Hackensack meadows laying nine miles of iron dyke around the area The land was bought by the law 8 N Pike of Cincinnati He sold drained land to the Pennsylvania railroad which built round houses and workshops on the meadows The railroad paid 1200 an acre while Driggs paid 24 an acre for the swamp The area once a salt marsh grew tobacco corn potatoes and lay eggs He offered 1 000 000 for the lands but was refused by Pike heirs He resided at New Brunswick NJ where he married Emma Adrian Driggs wrote on finance and commercial subjects and contributed to periodicals
A Baltimore American New York correspondent recounts a daughter of a wealthy Fifth Avenue family who vanishes after a shopping outing. Years later a police captain encounters the now-mistreated woman in custody, she recounts her past actions, and she dies from a self-inflicted wound after a brief reunion with her father. The piece also cites Dr. Ward on throat health and a Musical Critic note on catarrhal troubles for singers.
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