THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ONE OLD GRAD GIVES HISTORY OF ANOTHER
S. M. Simmons of Spring Hill Tells Life Secrets of J. M. Robinson
Robinson
ROBINSON'S A TRAVELER
He Has Worked in Many Lands
—Has a Dancing
Daughter
A letter, containing personal glimpses of the life of a "certain J. M. Robinson" has been received by Alfred G. Hill at the Alumni Office of the University from S. M. Simmons of Spring Hill, Kan., who is owner of the Wret Lawn arm. Mr. Simmons will return from the University in 92. The letter follows.
"in yur March number (of the Graduate Magazine) you ask for information of a certain J. M. Robinson e^92 that Modest Little Cissu is building R. R bridges. He finished a nice little concrete structure bout a mile long across the Arkansas River at Fort Smith and has his name in company with a lot of other fellows on a brass plate on the end of the row at the lake by the time it at Lake Rock on a big bridge just like it to get his name on another brass plate. He is engineer in charge of construction.
"J. M. Robinson was in the Philippines in charge of the building of 200 miles of sugar railroad from Iloilo into the interior in the island of Panay, fifteen years ago. He worked Chinamen there mostly and built the fills and dug out the cuts by the slow but efficient wheelbarrow and that they built. The team also took an old scout and some junk iron and made one. He thinks steam scoops are nice, but they don't make any better roads than Chinamen.
"Before the trip to the Philippines, J. M. R. acquired some fame in engineering circles for a beat on the Quay-nquil and Quita R. R., twenty to twenty-five years ago. It was necessary to lift the road to about 3000 feet elevation and then walk up it so up the wall. J. M. R. sent the men toward the blank wall and he ran a vertical switch back and then back the way they came, but still ascending and to the top and on the plateau. It was a sort of hairpin doge in the way they came, but still ascending and to the top, so he made a direct back up. Easy, wasn't it?
"Later, about ten years ago, he received a call to Brazil (about an $8,000 salary call an dhe went down into the interior to build the Madura Marmore railway. It built 150 miles of railroad to get copper and rubber around some 200 or more rapids and falls in the Madura River. Manos was the closest civilized town and it was about as far as Chicago is from Endora. He used a lot by not going a few hundred miles farther down the river
"J. M. Robinson has a daughter who is gaining fame as an art dancer. She is with the Greenwich Village Follies 22 that she attended in the Ziegfeld Follies the next year. Mrs. Robinson and daughter, "Ula Sharon," will spend the summer in London and Paris and mcbej me B. M. R. will come home and be at a festival. Prof. E. F. Engel can give you more information as to our failings.
"Another interesting thing about J. M. Robinson. When in the Tropics,
or acquired the habit, of absorbing large quantities of quinine. He could swallow fifteen to twenty grains and never bat an eye or ask for water. Later he took it with a squirt gun and when in the hospital regularly took fifty to sixty grains and then when the spots on his person gave out he wobbled in home to the U. S. He has since reformed and trained him as quinine工程师. Adelia Marnore faintly falted to the French engineers who first tried to build it and it was dangerous to the Americans who did succeed in building it.
"I. M. Robinson's address is, as given in the Engineering Magazine, care of S. M. Simmons, Spring Hill, Kan."
"DADDY" HAWORTH IS VISITING K. U. TODAY
In regard to the Department of Geology, "Daddy" Haworth said, in 1920, my last year at the University, he is a subject of geology reached the height of its popularity. The enrollment was near seven hundred students, and excellent work was being done in all classes. This year, 1922," Haworth said. The enrollment has increased over our 1920 record, and I am told that all the students take a reasonable interest in the work."
Says He Sees But Little Change Since His Resignation in 1920
Regarding the present incessance of the Survey, Professor Haworth said that it was only temporary, and that the Survey would again function normally when an appropriation was made by the state.
Prof. Haworth was graduated in geology at the University of Kansas in 1881, and immediately entered the teaching profession here. However, he departed for John Hopkins University two years later, where he received his doctor's degree, returning to the University of Kansas in 1886. He then became head of the Geology department at the University until his reservation in 1920.
That the campus of the University of Kansas has been altered very little in the last two years except for the erection of the little eating house just west of Snow Hall, and the new power plant on the south side of the Hill, was the opinion of Erasmus大学 head of the Department of Geology, when asked what changes he observed since his resignation on June 20, 1920.
It was Professor Haworth and Chancellor Strong who founded the State Geological Survey. Professor Haworth was appointed by Chancellor Strong, governing the survey and these laws are in force at the present time.
Professor Haworth now does independent commercial geological work for firms throughout the country and has done private work for railroad companies, cities, private corporations, and private companies; particularly in searching for oil or coal, ground water, and sine ores. His work covers an area from Wyoming to West Virginia and from Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico.
The meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which was to be held tonight is been postponed on account of the illness of the engineer, H. W. Wagner, chief officer, the Peoria Rail Station, in Peoria.
Civil Meeting Postponed
Easter—2 Weeks from Sunday
MARGARET ROMAINE IN CONCERT NEXT WEEK
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Will Substitute for Theo Karle In Last Number of Concert
Margaret Romaine, prima dona soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will give the sixth and last number of the University Concert Course in Robinson Gymnasium Monday evening, April 3. The Karle, who was to take this role of the course cannelled his engagement and Romaine, who is undoubtedly the most successful young American singer who has joined the Metropolitan Opera Company in recent years, was 'immediately engaged to substitute for him.' She is to receive a much larger fee than Mr. Karle would have had he sang.
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Miss Romaine's engagement at the Metropolitan was due to her lovely lyric voice, her great intelligence and surpassing beauty and one of the reasons she has succeeded where so many others have failed is because of her thorough musicianship. She made her debut as Musetta in Pucinca "La Boheme," and Mr. DeKoven of the New York Herald says of her success in the difficult role, "To Margaret Romaine certainly belongs the success of
Easter Sunday, April 16
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However, it has been outside of the opera house that Miss Romanine has won her greatest triumphs for she has appeared in a long list of public rehearsals but extortion has now hailed by critics and public alike with warm praise.
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the evening. She has an attractive stage presence, lots of temperament and a clear resonant voice of most agreeable quality, which she uses with both artistic knowledge and effect. She possesses the rare gift of that personal magnetism which produces for her fireworks, lights, and there is no doubt that her presence in the cast saved the performance from being absolutely mediocre or worse." All the New York papers were generous in their criticism of her role and the New York Times said, "Margaret Romaine is the best Musetta the house has heard since the days of Edith Mason, and if her performance is good city, she will make a useful and appealing singer for the company."
Orders Should be Placed at Once
"Excavation for the smokestack for the new heating plant will begin Monday," said John M. Shea, superintendent of buildings and grounds today, "if the weather permits and the ground dries up a little." In the meantime the installation of boilers and conduits is taking place.
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