necticut, and had worked out a careful plan for improvements of great value when the illness that ended his life so prematurely frustrated his superb energy and activity in this direction. In Sharon, Connecticut, where he was the leader in all public-spirited and civic affairs, he founded the Chamber of Commerce and stood ever ready with practical help and consummate advice at the side of his co-citizens and friends. He believed in the true Bible teachings and followed them all his life with large heartedness. From his first earnings he started to give the tenth part to the needy, and when his untiring work and faithfulness brought to him worldly success, he never ceased in his pledge, and he brought comfort to many a stricken home and heart.

When he entered the United States war service in the Ordnance Department he was indefatigable in his work, organizing and developing the various offices in New York, Detroit and other cities. The enormous amount of work broke his strength, and from September, 1918, to the day of his death, November 10th, 1920, he failed rapidly in health. His mental courage and the sunshine of his genial nature never abated to the last. Untinged by prejudice, his whole happiness was in serving others. He possessed that rare combination of simple virtues and signal achievements which marks the great citizen.

Mr. Waitt married, first, October 20th, 1886, Maud Gleason, and had one son, Weymer Hinckley Waitt; second, April 6th, 1906, Anna Schoeps Milbury, of Breslau, Germany.

He was a member of the Engineer's Club, Technology Club of New York, Automobile Club of America, Touring Club of France, Honorary Member of the Western, the Central and the St. Louis R. R. Clubs, member

New York Railroad Club, Litchfield County Automobile Club and American Automobile Association, Sharon Golf Club, a member of American Society Mechanical Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Institute Consulting Engineers, honorary member American Railway Master Mechanics' Association, Thirtysecond Degree Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. For many years Mr. Waitt had been superintendent of the Sunday school of the First Baptist of Cleveland, Ohio, and a liberal contributor to the Barnstable Baptist Church, where his father had been a member.

Mr. Waitt had obtained several patents covering railway mechanical devices, and was the author of numerous papers on technical matters pertaining to railroad mechanical subjects and was the author of the automobile laws now in force in the State of Connecticut.

Arthur M. Waitt will always live in the memories of those who knew him as a man with the imposing grace of noble self-restraint; a patient, loving, never complaining individual, whose rare graciousness of nature, whose courtly manners, inherited from a long line of God-fearing, splended ancestors, were made still more beautiful through the matchless kindness of his character.

His whole personality, his life are expressed in the three words which his devoted wife had cut in the stone over his last resting place in the quaint old burial ground at Barnstable, Massachusetts, where he sleeps among the Waitts and Hinckleys, a few steps from his ancestor's grave-Governor Thomas F. Hinckley. "HE WAS BELOVED."

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Joseph Bailey

OSEPH BAILEY was born at Patchogue, New York, November 4th, 1856; son of Edwin and Mary Kiernan Bailey. His father, a prominent builder, was born in Manchester, England, February 18th, 1836, and came to this country with his parents, Joseph and Ann Townley Bailey, in 1848.

Joseph Bailey was educated in his native town, and at the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. After leaving college he entered the building business with his father, where he worked in every department, becoming familiar with all details and mastering all operations of the building business. He superintended the building of the breakwater at the mouth of the Patchogue River, and in 1903 the business was incorporated under the name of E. Bailey & Sons. Thereafter branches were established in Islip, Sayville, and Babylon; and the corporation became one of the largest producers of architectural woodwork in the country.

In 1904 Mr. Bailey became interested in properties in Havana, Cuba, and notwithstanding his close application to the management of his business, he was deeply interested in civic affairs and had long taken an active part in the development of the community in which he lived. He organized and was president of the Patchogue Board of Trade, chairman of the War Savings drive, and an active member of the Liberty Loan Committee. He became president of the Union Savings Bank and he devoted himself with his characteristic thoroughness and energy to the welfare of the bank. Thoroughly conversant with