Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 74

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910; Leonard, John William, 1849-; Mohr, William Frederick, 1870-; Knox, Herman Warren, 1881-; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York : L.R. Hamersly Co.
Number of Pages: 751


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JENNINGS, Edwin B .:


Civil engineer, author, public speaker; born New York, 1855; graduate College City of New York; practiced engineering in New York City, Buffalo, N. Y., Spring -. field, Mass., etc. New York delegate Na- tional Anti-Trust Conference, Chicago. Author "People and Property and Trusts," "Democracy and Trusts." "The Lord of Life." Address, Park Row Building, New York.


JEROME, William Travers:


Lawyer; born in New York City, April 18, 1859; son of Lawrence R. and Kather- ine (Hall) Jerome; was educated at Wil- liston Seminary and Amherst College (honorary A.M.); graduate of Columbia Law School, 1884. Married to Lavinia Howe, Elizabeth, N. J., May 9, 1888; ad- mitted to bar, 1884; justice of the Court of Special Sessions from 1895 to 1902; dis- trict attorney of the County of New York . at present, elected Nov., 1901, for four years from Jan. 1, 1902; politics, Demo- crat. Member of Bar Association of New York, City, Civic, Union, and Manhattan Chess Clubs. Residence, 8 Rutgers St .; office, Criminal Court Building, New York.


JESUP, Morris Ketchum:


Banker and philanthropist; born in Connecticut, in 1830. He is descended from an old English family; obtained employment in 1843 with Rogers, Ketch- um and Grosvenor at Paterson, N. J .; he was advanced until he had full charge of the New York office and remained with the firm until 1852, when he started in business for himself under the firm name of Clark & Jesup. After four years he organized the firm of M. K. Jesup and Co .; he retired from active business in 1884, but continued to be a special part- ner in the firm. He is one of the original founders of the Young Men's Christian Association; has been president of the Five Points House of Industry since 1860, and of the New York City Mission Society since 1881; also of the American Museum of Natural History in Central Park Since 1881, to which he donated a collection of the woods of the trees of the United States; he is a trustee of the Union Theological Seminary of New York City, and donated a building known as Jesup Hall to it. Is a member of the Metropolitan. City, and Century Clubs, and Sons of the American Revolution. Address, 197 Madison Ave., New York.


JOHNSON, Burges:


Journalist; born Rutland. Vt., Nov. 9, 1877; son of Rev. James Gibson Johnson, D.D., and Mary Rankin Johnson; B.A., Amherst, 1899. Reportorial work New York evening papers, 1899; literary ad- viser to G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900-02; Mexican tour. winter of 1902-03: literary department Harper & Bros .. 1903 to date. Writer of verse and special articles for leading magazines; member of City Club. Address. 111 East 23d St .; office, Frank- lin Sq., New York.


JOHNSON, Evan Malbone, Jr .:


Major. United States Army; was born in Brooklyn. N. Y .. Sept. 26, 1861; son of the Rev. Evan M. Johnston; enlisted in the army, June 11, 1882; commis- sioned second lieutenant Tenth Infantry, Aug. 18, 1885; promoted first lieutenant, June 28, 1892; promoted captain, March


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2, 1899; major Twenty-ninth United States Volunteer Infantry, July 5, 1899; May 10, 1901, graduated from Infantry School, Leavenworth, Kan., class of 1889. Cam- paign against the Apache Indians, July, 1885, and from Nov., 1885, to Aug. 1886, battle of Montalbon, P. I., Dec. 27, 1899; expeditions against insurgents under General Tinio in Provinces of Union and Benguet, P. I., Jan. to April, 1900, against General Cailles in Laguna Province, P. I., April, 1900. In command of expedition against insurgents in the island of Tab-


Romblon, resulting in las. district of the capture of the same, June, 1900; commanding the District of Romblon, P. I., as major, Twenty-ninth Infantry, United States Army. Professor military science and tactics, Mount Union College, Ohio, 1891-94. Assistant inspector Ohio National Guard, 1892; R. Q. M. Nineteenth U. S. Infantry, 1895-98, 1902-1903; com- manding Province of Adjuntas, P. R., 1899; District of Romblon, P. I., 1900; civil governor of Province of Romblon, P. I., 1901; adjutant of the Nineteenth Infantry, 1903; inspector Oregon National Guard, 1903; master of science pro merito Mount Union College, Ohio. Porto Rican expedition under General Miles, July, 1898. Member of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the Revolution, and Society of De- scendants of Colonial Governors. Ad- dress, Vancouver Barracks, Wash.


JOHNSON, Henry Clark:


Educator, author and lawyer; born at Homer. Cortland County, N. Y., June 11, 1851; son of Eardley N. Johnson and Elizabeth Matilda Hay. He received his early training at private schools; was graduated from Cortland Academy in 1867, from the Cornell University, with the degree of A.B., in 1873, and from the law department of Hamilton College in 1875, with the degree of LL.B .; was im- mediately afterward admitted to practice. He was a student of the Roman Law under the direction of the late Professor James Hadley, of Yale College, for two years, and received the degree of A.M., honoris causa, from Hobart College in 1877. He was principal of the Ury School, Philadelphia, Pa., 1875-77; of St. Paul's (Cathedral) School, Garden City, N. Y .. 1877-79; of the City High and Normal Schools of Paterson, N. J., from 1879 to March, 1881; professor of the Latin lan- guage and literature in the Lehigh Uni- versity. Bethlehem, Pa., from March, 1881, to Nov., 1888, and while there was the secretary of the faculty; president of the Central High School (or City College) of Philadelphia, Pa., and professor of constitutional and international law there, and principal of the School of Pedagogy, from Nov., 1888, to Jan., 1894. Since 1894 he has been in active practice of the law in New York City, making a specialty of counsel and appeal work, corporation and commercial law, tax litigation, and legislation, and has been admitted to


practice in the district, circuit and su- preme courts of the United States and the United States Court of Claims. Au- thor and editor of numerous educational works, including text-books for college and university work, and several legal monographs; among his educational works are: "The First Three Books of Homer's Iliad," and "Agricola and Germania of Tacitus"; the "Satires of Persius," the "Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil," the "Æneid of Virgil," and "Satires of Ju- venal," and "Cicero de Amicitia." He is president of the National Corporation Agency; the International Steel Car Com- pany; the Atlas Ball Company, and the Metropolitan Correspondence College; has been the counsel and director of the Flushing Gaslight Company; the Hud- son River and Berkshire Railroad Com- pany, and several other companies, and has been assistant counsel to the Cor- poration of the City of New York, since 1899. Member of Bar Association, Reform and Psi Upsilon Clubs, the Art, Pennsyl- vania and Athletic Clubs of Philadelphia, American Philological Association, Ameri- can Academy of Political and Social Sci- ence, American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. In July, 1874, he was married to Kate Loder Webb, daughter of the Hon. Morgan Lewis Webb, at Cortland, N. Y., and has issue, Helen Elizabeth, and Lewis Webb. Ad- dress, 35 Nassau St., New York.


JOHNSON, J. Augustus:


Lawyer; born in Boston, Mass., in 1836; member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court, the State and Federal courts of New York, and of several other States of the District of Columbia; for twelve years in the consular and diplo- matic service as consul, consular judge, consul general and as special commis- sioner to investigate and adjust troubles between the United States consuls at Cyprus and Jerusalem and the Turkish authorities and American residents; re- ceived thanks of President Lincoln through the Department of State in 1862 for procuring arrest, condemnation and execution in Cilicia of the Turkish assas- sin of the American missionary, Rev. Mr. Coffing. While residing abroad was elect- ed an honorary member of New York Historical and Geographical Societies; preferring an American career to a fur- ther continuance under a precarious civil service tenure, he resigned office in 1870 and entered on the practice of law in New York, where he became counsel for and director in many railroad, financial and other corporations. Is a director in the Legal Aid Society and chairman of its Seamen's Branch; manager in Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society for Seamen and is chairman of its committee on legislation. During the movement for good government in New York was mem- ber of Committee of Seventy, president of Good Government Club E, and also presi-


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dent of the Confederated Council of (21) good government clubs, and member of the City Club, and of the Civil Service Reform Organization. Is now a member of the Advisory Council of the Public Ed- ucation Association; the Union League Club; the Lawyers' Club; the New Eng- land Society, Colonial Wars, and Sons of the American Revolution; discovered, in company with Rev. Samuel Jessup, the now famous Hittite inscriptions at Ha- mat in Northern Syria and wrote first account of same in 1870; is an occasional contributor to magazine and newspaper press. Residence, New York City, and Summit, New Jersey; office, 43 Cedar St., New York.


JOHNSON, Joseph French:


Educator; born Hardwick, Mass., Aug. 24, 1853; graduated from Harvard in 1878; spent one year in Germany in study of political economy and history; first con- nected with Springfield Republican and subsequently was financial editor on the Chicago Tribune; 1890 began the Spokes- man (Spokane, Wash.), which was sold 1893. Was professor of practical finance at University of Pennsylvania, 1893-1901, also conducted a course in journalism on lines which have since been followed by other institutions in this country and in Europe. Lecturer on finance at Co- lumbian University, 1900-03; professor of political economy at New York Univer- sity, 1901 to date. Jan., 1903, dean of New York University School of Com- merce; in 1901 made a tour of Europe in company with Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip, former assistant secretary of the treas- ury, meeting the leading bankers and fi- nanciers in all the European financial centers. Author of "Silver Craze in the United States," London Economic Jour- nal, Dec., 1895; syllabus of lectures on money and banking, 1896; proposed re- forms of monetary system, Annals of American Academy, March, 1898. "IS Civil Service Reform in Peril?" North American Review, Nov., 1899; "Foreign Trade and Prosperity," North American Review, Nov., 1899; "Commercial Suprem- acy the United States," Bankers' Monthly, March, 1903; The Currency Act of March 14, 1900; Political Science Quar- terly, Sept., 1900; "A New Theory of Prices," Political Science Quarterly, Sept., 1903. Residence, 60 Washington Sq., New York.


JOHNSON, Owen:


Born New York, Aug. 27, 1878; father, Robert Underwood Johnson; mother, Katharine McMahon J. Educated at Lawrenceville, and at Yale, class, 1900; married, May 25. 1901, Mary Galt Stock- ly. Lakewood, N. J. Founder and first editor Lawrenceville Literary Magazine, and chairman of Yale Literary Magazine for class of 1900. Author of "Arrows of


the Almighty," published by Macmillan, 1901. Address, 327 Lexington Ave., New York City.


JOHNSON, Robert Underwood:


Associate editor of Century Magazine; was born on Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C., Jan. 12, 1853; his father, the late Hon. Nimrod H. Johnson, was an able lawyer and jurist. After an ordinary high school education at Centerville, Ind., where his boyhood was passed, he matriculated at Earlham College, an institution of the Society of Friends at Richmond, Ind., in 1867; in 1871, at the age of eighteen, he was graduated from that institution as Bachelor of Science, to which the college, in 1886, added the honorary degree of Ph. D .; he went immediately into business as clerk in the western agency of the Scrib- ner Educational Books, at Chicago. After nearly two years of this work he became connected in 1873 with the editorial staff of The Century Magazine (then Scribner's Monthly), a connection which still exists. On the death of the editor-in-chief, Dr. J. G. Holland, in 1881, R. W. Gilder be- came the editor and Robert Johnson suc- ceeded him as the associate editor; this position he now occupies, with a large measure of responsibility. During Mr. Gilder's absences in Europe he has thrice acted as managing editor. His literary work, in addition to his daily and exacting editorial duties has been confined to ed- itorial and critical articles and to verse. In Dec., 1892, published a volume entitled "The Winter Hour and Other Poems," including contributions to The Atlantic Monthly, The Century, Harper's Monthly, St. Nicholas, The Christian Union, The Independent, The Tribune, and other per- iodicals. and also the hymn "Praise to Thee, O God of Freedom," sung to Hay- dn's music at the dedication of the Wash- ington Arch, New York in 1890; in 1897 appeared his second volume, "Songs of Liberty and Other Poems"; this included an "Apostrophe to Greece," a long poem, published in The Independent, New York, in 1896, and a translation of part of it in- cluded in the Greek record of the Olym- pian Games of that year; also two blank verse odes. "The Voice of Webster" and "Hands Across Sea," and a series of metrical paraphrases from the Servian after literal translations by Nikola Tesla, the electrical inventor. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and of the Authors Club, the Century Club and the Players, of New York; member of the executive committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Association and the American Forestry Association; member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, of which he is also secre- tary. Since 1883 has been actively con- nected with the International Copyright movement, having been for several years treasurer of the American Copyright League, and a member of its executive


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committee of five; in 1889 he exchanged the treasurership for more responsible work of secretary of the league, becom- ing by this office also secretary of the joint executive committee of authors, publishers and printers in charge of the campaign for the Copyright Bill. By de- cree of March 11. 1891 the French govern- ment conferred upon him the Cross of the Legion of Honor (Chevalier), and on June 17, 1895, King Humbert conferred upon him the Cross of the Crown of Italy (Cavaliere), that country having accepted the International Copyright Law by re- ciprocity in 1894. In 1891 he was the recipient of the honorary degree of master of arts from Yale University, and of pieces ·of silver plate from American publishers and from the Incorporated Society of Au- thors of London. Has been much inter- ester in the subject of forestry reform and in public parks. He originated and in conjunction with John Muir took the leading part in securing the creation of the Yosemite National Park (1891), and devoted much attention to the movement in favor of securing a better supervision of the Yosemite Valley, which he visited in June, 1889, during a trip of two months to California in the interest of The Cen- tury. In 1892 he was made an honorary member of the Sierra Club of San Fran- cisco; was a member of the executive committee of the Mohonk Conference for Arbitration, 1896. Married, in 1876, Miss Katharine McMahon, of Washington, D. C. Author of the novel "Arrows of the Almighty." In 1902, under the title of "Poems," appeared a volume of his col- lected verse, including the two previous volumes besides the "Italian Rhapsody" and many other pieces. Address, Cen- tury Magazine, Union Square, New York.


JOHNSON, Rossiter:


Author and editor; born in Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1840; son of Reuben and Almira (Alexander) Johnson. Was gradu- ated at the University of Rochester in 1863; associate editor Rochester Democrat 1864-68; editor of Concord, N. H., States- man, 1869-72; associate editor of "Amer- ican Cyclopædia," 1873-77; managing edi- tor of "Cyclopedia of American Biog- raphy," 1886-88; associate editor of "Standard Dictionary," 1892-94; editor of "Authorized History of the World's Co- lumbian Exposition," 1896; editor of "Ap- pleton's Annual Cyclopædia," since 1883; editor of "The Literary Querist" in "The Lamp" (formerly "Book-Buyer"), since 1888; editor of "Universal Cyclopedia and Atlas," since 1901; supervising editor of revised editions of "Velázquez' Spanish Dictionary." and "Adler's German Dic- tionary," 1901-03. He devised and edited the series of "Little Classics," and also "Liber Scriptorum," the book of the Au- thors' Club; edited "Works of the Brit- ish Poets," with biographical sketches; "Play-day Poems," "Famous Single and


Fugitive Poems," and (with Charles A. Dana) "Fifty Perfect Poems." His orig- inal books are: "Phaeton Rogers," "The End of a Rainbow," "History of the War of 1812," "History of the French War," "History of the War of Secession," "Id- ler and Poet" (poems); "The Hero of Manila," "Morning Lights and Evening Shadows," (poems); and "The Alphabet of Rhetoric"; also wrote the "Whispering- Gallery" series in the Overland Monthly. He has been president of the Quill Club, the New York Association of Phi Beta Kappa, the Society of the Genesee, the University Extension Society, and the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, and secretary of the Authors' Club; member of the Cen- tury Association. He lectures frequently on historical subjects. Address, 436 Fifth Ave .; and Amagansett, Long Island.


JOHNSON, William Everett:


Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born in Little Falls, N. Y., April 6, 1857; gradu- ated from Union College, 1878, and from Berkeley Divinity School, 1882; ordained deacon, 1882, and priest, 1883; rector Trin- ity Church, Bristol, Conn., 1883; rector Church of Our Saviour, Plainville, Conn., 1887. Assistant minister Trinity Parish, New York, 1889; rector of the Church of the Redeemer, New York, since Dec. 8, 1892. Residence, at the rectory, 142 West 137th St., New York.


JOHNSON, Willis Fletcher, A.M., L.H.D .:


Journalist; is the son of William John- son, of Kingston-on-Hull, England, and Alathea Augusta Coles Johnson, the lat- ter a member of the Coles and Fletcher families of Long Island and New England. He was born in New York City on Oct. 7, 1857, and was educated at Pennington Seminary, Pennington, N. J., and New York University, class of 1879; after leav- ing the university he was for a time prin- cipal of a public school in New Jersey, and he has ever since been a frequent lecturer at schools,, colleges and educa- tional conventions. Since 1880 he has been a member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune. He was the bio- graphical editor of the two volumes on New York University in the "Universities and their Sons" series, (The Herndon Co., Boston, 1903), and is the author of "A Century of Expansion," (Macmillans, 1903). He has received the degree of Litt.M. from New York University and those of A.M. and L.H.D. from Dickinson College. He is a member of the Council of New York University, the American Scen- ic and Historic Preservation Society, the National Civil Service Reform Associa- tion, the American Institute of Civics, the National Arts Club, and the Psi Upsilon Fraternity; he is married, his wife having been Miss Sue Rockhill, of Tuckerton, N. J. His residence is at 394 Fourth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


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JOHNSTON, Russell M .:


Lawyer; born in Albany, N. Y., in 1864; graduated from Hobart College, B. S., 1884; from Albany Law School, LL.B., 1887; admitted to bar same year. Mem- ber Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society; Chamber of Commerce, Al- bany; also member of Fort Orange, Uni- versity. Country, Burns (Albany), Re- form (New York) Clubs. Residence, 20 Elk St .; office, Tweddle Building, Albany, New York.


JOHNSTON, William Andrew:


Journalist; born in Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 26, 1871; son of William Andrew and Ag- nes Johnson; received the degree of A. B. from the Western University of Pennsyl- vania in 1871; traveled in Europe. Was married, Feb. 22, 1894, to Hazel Minnette Williams, of Hampshire, England. He published at Wilkinsburg, Pa., The Inde- pendent, 1892-93; reporter on New York Journal and New York Press; on editorial staff of New York Herald, and since 1901 on editorial staff New York World. Au- thor of "History Up To Date" (A. S. Barnes & Co.), "Solomon Sloan's Advice," etc. Residence, 40 West 20th St .; business address, Pulitzer Building, Park Row, New York.


JOLINE, Adrian Hoffman:


Lawyer; was born June 30, 1850, at Sing Sing, N. Y .; son of Colonel Charles O. Joline and Mary Hoffman Joline; attend- ed Mt. Pleasant Academy; was graduated from Princeton in 1870, and from Colum- bia Law School in 1872. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1872; married, 1876, Mary E., daughter of Francis Larkin. Member of the law firm of Butler, Still- man & Hubbard, 1881-96, and of Butler, Notman, Joline & Myndese since 1896; member of the University, Grolier, Prince- ton, Delta Phi, Barnard and Morristown Clubs, and Caxton Club of Chicago; Down Town Association, New York Bar Associ- ation, New York State Bar Association, American Bar Association, and New York, New Jersey, Virginia and American His- torical Societies. Published "Meditations of an Autograph Collector," 1902, and "Di- versions of a Book Lover," 1903. Address, 54 Wall St., New York.


JONES, Charles Henry:


Editor, author; born at Talbotton, Ga., March 7, 1848; married, first, Eliza Cow- perthwaite, of Philadelphia; second, Lily E. Parsons, of Washington, D. C. He came to New York in 1865, where he en- gaged in general literary and magazine work. Edited Eclectic Magazine from 1870 to 1875, and was associate editor of Appleton's Journal from 1879 to 1881; re. moved to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1881, and founded Florida Times-Union; removed to St. Louis, Mo., in 1888, and was edi- tor of St. Louis Republic from 1888 to


1893; removed to New York in 1893 and was editor of New York World from 1893 to 1895; returned to St. Louis and was edi- tor of St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1895 to 1897; lived in Florence, Italy, from 1900 to 1903. His "History of African Explora- tion and Adventure" was published in 1879; "Recent Art and Society," 1880; "Macaulay, a Critical and Biographical Study," 1880; "Popular Life of Charles Dickens," 1880; "Popular Life of Glad- stone," 1881. He was chairman of com- mittee on platform resolutions in Demo- cratic National Convention of 1892, and wrote the platform. He wrote the "Chi- cago Platform" (Democratic) of 1896, and the "Kansas City Platform" (Democratic) of 1900. Address, 150 Nassau St., New York.


JONES, Dwight Arven:


Lawyer; born at Utica, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1854; son of


J. Wyman Jones and Harriet Dwight Dana; was graduated at Yale University, 1875, and at the Co- lumbia Law School in 1877. Married, 1879, Emily Lefferts, daughter of late Colonel Marshall Lefferts. Practiced law in New York City, devoting himself mainly to corporation work and legal authorship. For a number of years edited a work on New York business corporations, and also published treatises on "The Construction of Contracts," and "Negligence of Munici- pal Corporations." Is chairman of the ex- ecutive committee and general counsel of the St. Joseph. Lead Company; vice-presi- dent of the Doe Run Lead Company, and vice-president of the Mississippi River & Bonne Terre Railway. Address, 34 West 51st St., New York.


JONES, Edward Franc:


Scale manufacturer; born Utica, N. Y., June 3, 1828; received his education in Leicester, Mass. He served in the Civil War first as colonel of Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, the first regiment to enter the field, 1861; Oct., 1861, colonel of Twenty-sixth Massachu- setts Volunteers; brevetted brigadier-gen- eral of U. S. Volunteers. At the close of the war he established the Jones Scale Works of Binghamton, N. Y., and has conducted same to present day; has also held several public offices in Massachu- setts and New York, filling that of lieu- tenant governor of New York State, 1886- 91. Member of G. A. R., Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, and Founders and Patriots; also of United Ser- vice Club, of New York, and of Army and Navy Club, of Washington. Author of "Richard Baxter," "Uncle Jerry," "The Origin of the Flag"; also of the expres- sion "Jones he Pays the Freight." Ad- dress, Binghamton, N. Y.


JONES, George William:


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Me., Oct. 14, 1837; son of George William and Cordelia Allen Jones. Attended pub- lic schools until eighteen years old; grad- uated at Yale College, 1859 (A. M., 1862) ; member of Phi Beta Kappa Society; teacher in General Russell's School, New Haven, Conn., 1859-62. He married, at New Haven, Conn., Aug. 11, 1862, Caro- line Tuttle Barber. Teacher and later principal, Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y., 1862-68; professor of mathematics and civil engineering, Iowa State College, Ames, Ia., 1868-73; pub- lisher, Des Moines, Ia., 1874-77; professor of Mathematics at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., since 1877. Joint author of "Treatise on Algebra by Professors Oliver, Wait and Jones," 1882; "Treatise on Trig- onometry by Professors Oliver, Wait and Jones," 1881. Author of "A Drill-Book in Trigonometry," "A Drill-Book in Alge- bra," "Logarithmic Tables," "Four-Place Logarithms," "Five-Place Logarithms." Address, Ithaca, N. Y.




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