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On February 9 a New York newspaper published a letter written by Senor Enrique Dupuy de Lome, Spanish minister to the United States, to a personal friend in Havana. It referred to President McKinley as a "would-be politician who tries to leave a door open behind himself while keeping on good terms with the jingoes of his party."
Within the invested area several attempts were actually made to control balloons by methods of steering. The names of Vert and Dupuy de Lome must here be specially mentioned. The former had elaborated an invention which received much assistance, and was subsequently exhibited at the Crystal Palace.
Major Dupuy stated that the city had been divided into six sanitary districts, each district in charge of an officer of the sanitary corps of the National Guard. Strict orders regarding the disposition of garbage were issued and the people were advised, by means of bulletins posted in conspicuous places in the streets, how best to preserve the public health.
Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. pp. 94, 95. Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 8-11. MSS. Dupuy, vol. 407.
"Why, simply take your own line, and the whole navy will applaud you. You have full right to do it, so pray sign an order to put a steamship after M. Dupuy de Lome's designs on the stocks." He did it, forthwith, and that step gained, our first war steamer was at once begun. Though Dupuy had a right to all the honours of paternity, I might have claimed those of the ship's godfather.
Henry Seligmen, Madame Henri van Heukelom, is closely associated, is run on similar lines. I have alluded frequently in the course of these reminiscences to Madame Dupuy, who was of the greatest assistance to me, and more than kind and willing.
Hearing this, Charles requested him to keep her change of faith a secret, which was accordingly done, none being aware of the act but Father Hunt, a Franciscan friar, Lady Cranmer, one of her women of the bedchamber, and Mr. Dupuy, servant to the duke.
The following are the Ministries of the Republic in 1870-1900: 1870, Favre; 1871, Dufaure ; 1873, De Broglie ; 1874, Cissey; 1875, Buffet; 1876, Dufaure ; 1876, Simon; 1877, De Broglie ; 1877, De Rochebouet; 1877, Dufaure ; 1879, Waddington; 1879, Freycinet ; 1880, Ferry ; 1881, Gambetta; 1882, Freycinet ; 1882, Duclerc; 1883, Fallières; 1883, Ferry ; 1885, Brisson; 1886, Freycinet ; 1886, Goblet; 1887, Rouvier; 1887, Tirard ; 1888, Floquet; 1889, Tirard ; 1890, Freycinet ; 1892, Loubet; 1892, Ribot ; 1892, Dupuy ; 1893, Casimir Périer; 1894, Dupuy ; 1895, Ribot ; 1895, Bourgeois; 1896, Méline; 1898, Brisson; 1898 Dupuy ; 1899, Waldeck-Rousseau.
Then the bodies of Dupuy and Pierre Gollard were thrown overboard. The Tahitian sailors fled to the forecastle. For two days, with nothing to eat and the Valetta hove to, they remained below. Then Raoul Van Asveld put poison in the meal he made Hare-Lip cook and carry for'ard. Half the sailors died. "He had a rifle pointed at me, master; what could I do?" Hare-Lip whimpered.
But M. Dupuy conceived and carried out the bolder scheme of designing a full-powered screw liner, and in 1847 the Napoleon was ordered. Her success made the steam reconstruction of the fleets of the world a necessity. She was launched in 1850, tried in 1852, and attained a speed of nearly 14 knots an hour.
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