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were closed or running on half time as at any other time for many years, and owing to the present inactivity in the industries which consume iron ores and to the accumulation of considerable ore stocks in the hands of the consumers, the iron-mining companies are not expecting great activity in the early part of 1915.

the occasion of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Hospital last October a crayon portrait of Sir William Osier by Mr. Sargent, here reproduced, was presented to the hospital through Professor William S. Thayer, who spoke as follows: