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Excerpt from Personages: A Book of Living Characters
Long before the hour arrived for Mr. Everett's oration, tickets had been sold at fifty cents apiece to as many persons as could be crammed in the large hall of the Mercantile Library Building. I went an hour before the time, and was met by a friend on the ground floor, who told me the hall was filled. As I ascended stairway after stairway, I met crowds coming down, going home. To Dr. Spaulding, one of the masters Of ceremonies for the evening, I am indebted to a seat in hearing of the speaker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
