Inventors . DICTATOR n. DUILID SCALflFtET Development of the Monitor Idea. abrupt and somewhat peculiar, apparently re-garding all other talk than that relating to me-chanics and germane subjects as a waste ofwords. His shrewd face, with its blue eyes and .JOHN ERICSSON 205 fringe of white hair, was not an unkindly one,however, and the few workmen he employed inthe Beach Street house were devoted to great man was ever more intensely averse topersonal notoriety. Although often advised tomake his Destroyer better known by means ofnewspaper articles, he persistently refused to seenewspaper
Inventors . DICTATOR n. DUILID SCALflFtET Development of the Monitor Idea. abrupt and somewhat peculiar, apparently re-garding all other talk than that relating to me-chanics and germane subjects as a waste ofwords. His shrewd face, with its blue eyes and .JOHN ERICSSON 205 fringe of white hair, was not an unkindly one,however, and the few workmen he employed inthe Beach Street house were devoted to great man was ever more intensely averse topersonal notoriety. Although often advised tomake his Destroyer better known by means ofnewspaper articles, he persistently refused to seenewspaper men ; and the professional interviewerand lion-hunter were his pet aversions. It wasperhaps to avoid them that he left his house onlyafter nightfall, and then but for a walk in the o neighborhood. His time was divided according to rule. Forthirty years he was called by his servant at sevenoclock in the morning, and took a bath of vervcold water, ice being added to it in some gymnastic exercises came breakf
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