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PERKINS, Edward R .:
Treasurer and director of the Aeoliar Weber Piano and Pianola Co .; The Choir lion Co., The Orchard Land Co., The Or- chestrelle Co., The Vocalion Organ Co., The Votey Organ Co., and Weber Piano Co. Residence, Westfield, N. J .; office, 362 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
PERKINS, George Hamilton:
Ex-postmaster of Rochester, N. Y .; was graduated from University of Rochester; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Roches- ter, N. Y., 1872-98; postmaster, 1894-98. Address, Rochester, N. Y.
PERKINS, George W .:
Financier; born Chicago, Ill., 1862; be- came connected with the New York Life Insurance Co., Chicago branch, 1877; held in turn various offices in that com- pany, becoming superintendent of the Western department, 1899; second vice- president, in charge of the New York of- fice, 1892; since 1901 has been member of the firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., and is also connected with various other financial corporations. Residence, River- dale, N. Y .; office, 23 Wall St., N. Y. City.
PERKINS, James Breck:
Republican Congressman of Rochester; born St. Croix Falls, Wis., Nov. 4, 1847; was educated at the Rochester common schools and was graduated from the Uni- versity of Rochester in 1867; was ad- mitted to the practice of the law in Dec., 1868, and has since practiced his profes- sion in Rochester; in 1874 he was elected city attorney of Rochester for a term of two years, and in 1878 was re-elected for a second term. From 1890 to 1895, Mr. Perkins lived in Paris, engaged in work on French history; in 1887 his France Under Mazarin was published; in 1892, France Under the Regency; in 1897, France Under Louis XV, and in 1900 a Life of Richelieu, as one of the Heroes of the National Series; in 1897 received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Rochester, and is a member of the Na- tional Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1895 Mr. Perkins returned to Rochester, and in 1898 served in the New York State Assembly from the First District of Mon- roe County; was elected to the Fifty-sev- enth Congress, and re-elected to the Fif- ty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. Address, Rochester, N. Y.
PERLEY, Frank E .:
Journalist; secretary to Governor Hig- gins of N. Y .; born Columbus, O., Nov., 1871. After graduating from country newspaper work, Mr. Perley began his larger career on the Buffalo Express, which he represented at Albany during several terms of the State Legis- lature. After that he was connected with the New York Herald for a considerable period, during which he so distinguished himself as a reporter, particularly of political affairs, that he received and accepted the offer of a valuable place on the New York World, in whose service he has won a place among the keenest and most successful newsgatherers in metropolitan journalism. He enjoys to a remarkable degree the confidence and esteem of political leaders of all parties and all factions as well as . e sincere regard of his professional brethren. As
an instance of his high standing it is worth noting that when Mayor Mcclellan was introduced into office he invited Mr. Perley to become his private secretary- an invitation which was declined solely for business reasons. Address, Albany, N. Y.
PERLEY, Frank Lee:
Lawyer, journalist and theatrical man- ager; descended from a distinguished
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New England and Irish ancestry; born Erie, Pa., April 21, 1859; admitted to Su- preme Court, Washington, D. C., and Erie County, Pa., courts; was graduated from Columbian University, law depart- ment. Journalist on New York, Phila- delphia and Pittsburg newspapers; an ex- pert in advertising; one of the leading amusement managers of America and as- sociated managerially
with Madame Modjeska, Fanny Davenport, Mrs. John Drew, Agnes Booth, Rose Coghlan, Cora Tanner, Effie Ellsler, Marie Cahill, J. H. Stoddard, William Collier, Robert Hill- iard, Jerome Sykes, the Alice Nielson Opera Company, the Conried Opera Com- pany, Bostonians Opera Company, the Chaperons Opera Company, Frank Dan- iels' Opera Company, Klaw and Erlan- ger Opera Company in the Billionaire; When Knighthood Was in Flower; the Bonnie Brier Bush; the Sporting Dut- chess, and Barnum & Bailey, and Ring- ling Bros. circuses, etc. Is a thirty-sec- und degree Mason and affiliated with the New York Consistory and Mecca Temple. Member Lambs, Green Room, and other clubs. Address, 1402 Broadway, N. Y. City.
PERRY, Enoch Wood:
Artist; born Boston, July 31, 1831; went to New Orleans, 1848; studied at Düs- seldorf and Paris, 1852-53, then in Rome and Venice; U. S. Consul Venice, 1856-58; returned to U. S .; visited Sandwich Isl- ands; settled in New York, 1865; asso- ciate, 1868; academician since 1869, Na- tional Academy of Design; recording sec- retary same, 1871-73. He has painted portraits of many distinguished men and numerous genre pictures. Address, 51 W. 10th St., N. Y. City.
PERRY, Thomas:
Captain, U. S. Navy; born New York; appointed an acting midshipman at Naval Academy, Sept. 21, 1861; was graduated, 1865; school-ship Sabine, 1866. Promoted to ensign, Dec. 1, 1866; Pensacola, North Pacific Fleet, 1867; Suwanee (third rate), Pacific Fleet, 1868; Dictator (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1869; Miantonomah (sec- ond rate), special service, 1870. Com- missioned as lieutenant, March 26, 1869; Shenandoah, European Fleet, 1871-72; Manhattan, North Atlantic Fleet, 1873- 74; Omaha, South Pacific, 1875-77; Naval Observatory, 1878-79; Swatara, Asiatic Station, 1879-81; Alert, Asiatic Station, 1881-82. Promoted to lieutenant-com- mander, Nov., 1881; lighthouse inspector, 1883-86; Brooklyn, Asiatic Station, 1887-
89; lighthouse duty, 1890 to Dec., 1892. Promoted to commander, Jan. 10, 1892; general inspector of the Castine, Feb., 1893; commanding Castine, 1894-96 lighthouse inspector, 1897 to 1898; com- manding Lancaster, flagship, base operations, Key West, during Spanish War, and until March, 1899; naval secre- tary, Lighthouse Board, from that date until March, 1901. Promoted to captain, June 11, 1899; command battleship Iowa, April 1, 1901, to May 11, 1903; captain, Navy Yard, New York, May 11, 1903 to 1904. Commandant of Navy Yard, Pen- sacola, Fla., and commandant of 8th Naval District. Address, Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida.
PETERS, Rev. John Punnett, Ph. D.,
Sc. D., D. D .:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman (now rector of St. Michael's Church), arch- æologist and author; born New York, Dec. 16, 1852; second son of the late Rev. Dr. Thomas McClure Peters and Alice Clarissa Richmond. Married, Aug. 13, 1881, Gabriella Brooke, daughter of Thom- as Forman, of Savannah, Ga. Was grad- uated from Yale in 1873; tutor at Yale University from 1876-79. Studied in Ger- many. In 1884 appointed professor Old Testament in the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, West Philadelphia, and in 1886 professor of Hebrew in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. In 1888 organ- ized the University of Pennsylvania Ex- pedition to Babylonia and directed the same in the field from 1888 to 1891, acting as home director from 1891-95. This ex- pedition was unusually successful, making many important archæological discover- ies, especially of inscriptions and objects of a greater antiquity than any hereto- fore found, and carrying back the history of civilization 2000 years. The story of this expedition was related by Peters in Nippur : or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates, (Putnams, 1897). In 1891 moved from Philadelphia to New York to become Assistant Rector of St. Michael's Church, retaining professorship in the University of Pennsylvania until 1893. In 1893, on the death of his father and predecessor, elected rector of St. Michael's Church. In that capacity has been particularly interested in problems of municipal reform and in the social- economic problems of the day. Led the Amsterdam Ave. fight of 1898-99, a strug- gle between the people and the street railroad corporations for the control of an important avenue on the west side of
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the City of N. Y., in which the people [ ciety, 1893-1900; one of the founders and finally won. Conducted a newspaper president of the board of managers of the Craig Colony for Epileptics, 1892- 1901; instructor in nervous diseases at Columbia University, 1898-1903; consult- ing physician to the Manhattan State Hospitals for the Insane; consulting neur- ologist to the Randall's Island institu- tions; ex-visiting neurologist to the City Hospital, Blackwell's Island. From 1901 to 1904 president of the New York State of psychiatry Columbia University, 1903. Author of numerous articles on ner- vous and mental diseases in medi- cal periodicals and books; joint au- thor with Dr. Church of a work on Nervous and Mental Diseases, (published by Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, now in its fourth edition) ; joint author with Pro- fessor Haines of Peterson and Haines' American Text-book of Legal Medicine also and Toxicology, in two volumes; editor of Von Hoffmann's Hand Atlas of Legal Medicine; author: Poems and Swedish Translations, (Peter Paul & Bro., Buffalo, 1883,) and of In the Shade of Ygdrasil, (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893). Member Century, Authors, Lotos, National Arts, Barnard and New York Athletic Clubs. Address, 4 West 50th St., N. Y. City. Commission of Lunacy; professor symposium of leading laboring men, cap- italists and social economists, on the labor and capital problems of the present day, afterwards published in book form as Labor and Capital, (Putnams, 1902). A voluminous writer, especially on ar- chæological and Biblical topics. Besides books mentioned above, author: The Old Testament and the New Scholarship, (Methuen, London, 1901) ; Early Hebrew Story, (Putnams, 1904) ; and jointly with Dr. Thiersch of Munich of Some Tombs from the Necropolis of Marissa, a memoir of the Palestine Exploration Fund, re- counting interesting discoveries made in a visit to Palestine in 1902. Translator : Political History of Recent Times, (Har- pers) ; Scriptures Hebrew and Christian, (Putnams) ; or The Bible for Home and School. Editor: The Diary of David Mc- Clure. Has written numerous pamphlets, articles and reviews in books, encyclopedias and journals. Member Am- erican Oriental Society, Archaeological In- stitute of America, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis and other learned societies, the Century Association and Barnard Club; president or director of numerous charitable, benevolent and PETTIT, George A .: public institutions and organizations. Address, 225 W. 99th St., N. Y. City. PETERS, Thomas Pollock:
Editor-in-chief Brooklyn Times since 1894; born Hartford, Conn., May 17, 1868; was graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic, 1889; Columbia, 1893; married, April 24, 1895, Lou Augusta Darlington, Brooklyn. Director Brooklyn Public Library since 1897. Director Home Trust Co., of New York, director Eastern District Savings Bank, director Publishers Press Associa- tion. Residence, 155 Keap St .; office, The Times, Brooklyn, N. Y.
PETERSON, Frederick, M. D .:
Physician; born Faribault, Minn., March 1, 1859, and was educated by private tutors and in the Universities of Buffalo, Vienna, Göttingen and Strassburg; re- ceived degrees of Ph. D., Niagara Uni- versity; M. D., medical department of University of Buffalo, 1879. Professor of pathology University of Buffalo, 1882-84; first assistant physician Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane, 1884-88; chief of clinic, department for nervous diseases, Columbia University, 1888-1903; professor of nervous and mental diseases, University of Vermont, 1892-93; presi- dent of the New York Neurological So-
President of Fordham College since 1900; born Dunmore, Ireland, Sept. 15, 1858; educated by private tutors in N. Y. City, and completed philosophical and divinity studies at Woodstock College, Woodstock, Md. Entered the Society of Jesus, July 30, 1880; after the seven years of pre- paratory training customary with the Jesuits, he taught English and classics at Gonzaga College, Washington, D. C., from 1887 to 1890, and in Fordham Col- lege from 1890 to 1892. Returning to
Woodstock Theological Seminary, he was there ordained to the priesthood in 1895 by Archbishop Satolli; one year later again transferred to Fordham College, for two years he performed the duties of the prefect of discipline and vice-presi- dent. During 1898 his third year of no- viceship was spent in Frederick, Md .; reappointed in 1899 to the office of vice- president and prefect of studies at Ford- ham; on Aug. 20, 1900, he succeeded the Rev. Thomas J. Campbell as president of the college. Address, St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y. City.
PHELAN, James J .:
Treasurer; born old Ninth Ward, New York; educated in the public schools and
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St. Francis Xavier's College. At the age ( San Francisco. In 1890 resigned from the of eighteen was engaged in wholesale and retail grocery business at Fordham, N. Y .; subsequently formed the firm of Phelan & Duval, importers, at 22 South William St., N. Y. City; 1884, became secretary and treasurer of the American Contract- ing & Dredging Co., which company built fifteen miles of the Panama Canal; 1891 was appointed treasurer of Department of Docks, which position he held for four years; treasurer of Kings County Re- frigerating Co., Astoria Cordage Co., Pon- tiac Building Co .; director Stuyvesant Insurance Co .; Catholic, Democratic, Til- den and Manhattan Clubs; Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Catholic Benevolent Le- gion; American, Irish and Catholic His- torical Societies. Address, 16 Exchange Place, N. Y. City.
PHELPS, Charles, M. D .:
Born Vermont, Dec. 12, 1834. A. B., Brown, 1855; M. D., Physicians and Sur- geons, 1858. Demonstrator of Anatomy, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1861- 63; visiting surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospi- tal since 1870; Bellevue Hospital since 1878; consulting surgeon Gouverneur Hos- pital. Late president Society of the Al- umni of Bellevue Hospital, and of State Medical Association. Address, 114 West 55th St., N. Y. City.
PHELPS, Edward Bunnell:
Editor, author; born New Haven, Conn., July 26, 1863; son of Alfred W. and Mary A. (Bunnell) Phelps; prepared for Yale at Hillhouse High School, and was grad- uated in the class of 1885, receiving the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1902. While in college he wrote for var- ious newspapers; was employed on the New Haven Palladium for about one year after graduation, and acted as corres- pondent for many newspapers in all sec- tions of the country, and in 1886 removed to N. Y. City, and there served in var- ious capacities for several years on staffs of the New York World, Times, Herald, and Mail and Express, incidentally acting as night editor of the local bureau of the Associated Press for about one year, ex- tensively contributing to various syndi- cates, and for several months being as- sociated with the well known artist, the late C. De Grimm, as editor of the De Grimm Syndicate. Was financial secre- tary and a trustee of the New York Press Club in 1889-91, and in 1892 was a dele- gate to the annual convention of the International League of Press Clubs at
Mail and Express staff in order to inaug- urate a syndicate service of Club News and Gossip in all the New York Sunday newspapers; for two years devoted his entire time to that specialty, and con- tributed articles on club subjects to vari- ous newspapers and magazines. In 1894 founded the monthly insurance journal, originally known as Thrift, but latterly published under the name of The Ameri- can Underwriter, and has since edited and published that paper, becoming president of the Thrift Publishing Co. in 1899. In 1898 compiled and published the first study of War Risks ever published in this country, and in 1901 supplemented that work with one issued under title of Tropical Hazards. In 1899 began com- pilation of an international cyclopædia on the subject of the best clubs of the civil- ized world, and has since labored on those lines. The work in question is in press and will be published in the early months of 1905 in
two imperial quarto volumes under the title of Phelps' Universal Club-Book, and in addition to complete sketches of the history and dis- tinctive character of each of the seven hundred leading clubs of the world and views of about one hundred of these clubs specially taken for the purpose, will con- tain the first exhaustive sociological study of The Origin and Eovlution of the Mod- ern Club ever attempted on either side of the Atlantic. In 1897 Mr. Phelps married Miss Blanche Louis Lewis Dey; was master of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 610, F. & A. M., in 1903; is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; a mem- ber of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion-both his grandfather and great- grandfather having been Revolutionary soldiers-and is a member of the Lotos, Yale and Underwriters' Clubs, of N. Y. City, and an associate member of the Life Underwriters Association of New York. Residence, 17 West 84th St .; office, 141 Broadway, N. Y. City.
PHELPS, Enos Frisbie:
Organizer and special representative of Covenant Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Galesburg, Ill .; born Burlington, Conn .; attended Yale College and was graduated from Yale Law School, 1866. Member Union League Club of Brooklyn, Knight Templar, Thirty-second Degree Mason and Past Grand Master of Odd Fellows. Residence, 1281 Bergen St., Brooklyn; office, 66 Broadway, N. Y. City.
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PHELPS, John J .:
Capitalist; born Sept. 27, 1861, Paris, France; son of Hon. William Walter Phelps and Ellen Sheffield. President Strong & Trowbridge Co., Swan Electric Manufacturing Co .; vice-president Gas & Electric Co., Bergen County. Served through Spanish-American War as en- sign, U. S. Navy; was first American to circumnavigate world in his own yacht, (1885-1887); holds record for four-in-hand long coaching drive, 1,515 miles (1900). Was graduated from Yale, 1883. Mem- ber Union League, University, Yale, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka Yacht, of New York; Sachems Head Yacht, of Guilford, Conn .; Oritana Field, Hackensack Golf, Hackensack Wheelmen, of Hackensack, N. J .; Englewood Field, Hamilton Club, Paterson; Graduates Club, New Haven; Wantage Outing, Sussex, N. J .; New England, Founders and Patriots, Sons of Revolution, Spanish War Veterans, Am- erican Geographical Society. Director of F. S. DeRonde Co, U. S. Trust Co., Cayu- ga & Susquehanna R. R., American Graphophone Co., New York & Texas Land Co., Hackensack National Bank, Englewood Sewerage Co .; Hackensack Trust Co. Interested in local politics, yachting, and coaching. Holds master's certificate and pilot's license from U. S. government. Residence, Red Towers, teaneck, Hackensack, N. J .; summer, Yoncomis Island, Stony Creek, Conn .; office, 22 State St., N. Y. City. PHELPS, Stowe:
Architect; born N. Y. City; was grad- uated from Yale College, 1890. Member University and Yale Clubs. Residence, 22 East 32d St .; office, 20 W. 43d St., N. Y. City.
PHILIP, Harry Van Ness:
Lawyer; was graduated from Union Col- lege, 1884. Member Lawyers, University Athletic, Staten Island Cricket and Base Ball and Richmond County Country Clubs and Union College Alumni Association. Residence, Livingston; office, 120 Broad- way, N. Y. City.
PHILLIPS, David Graham:
Author; born Madison, Indiana, October 31, 1867; was graduated from Princeton University, 1887. Removed to New York and became a reporter, first on the N. Y. Sun and then on N. Y. World. The lat- ter paper sent him abroad as a London correspondent. While acting in this capac- ity news reached London of the sinking of the Victoria with five hundred men on board, and the first authentic news of
the details of the affair was given to the World through the enterprise of Mr. Phil- lips. Soon afterwards Mr. Phillips re- turned to New York as political editor of the World. This position he resigned that he might devote his time to litera- ture in which he has met with such suc- cess, that although still a young man he is regarded as one of the most successful of American novelists. Author: The Great God Success, Her Serene Highness, Golden Fleece, A Woman Ventures, The Cost, The Plum Tree, The Master Rogue, etc. Address, 48 East 26th St., N. Y. City. PHILLIPS, Ervin L .:
Captain, U. S. Army; born Franklin- ville, N. Y .; graduate of the Infantry and Cavalry School, 1895; graduate of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 1891. Promoted to second lieutenant, Sixth Cavalry, Aug. 1, 1891; first lieutenant, Third Cavalry, July 9, 1898; captain, Thirteenth Cavalry, Feb. 2 1901. Address, Presidio, San Francisco, Cal.
PHILLIPS, Jesse S .:
Republican Assemblyman, representing Allegany County ; born Independence, May 4, 1871 ; boyhood was spent on a farm and in district schools until his parents removed to Andover, when he was fifteen years of age; after that he was a clerk in a general country store and spent what time he could in study until he was grad- uated from the Andover High School; his father had died in the meantime, but through personal effort the young man was able to enter the University of Michi- gan, where he was graduated from the law department in 1893; was admitted to the Bar in 1894, and has been attorney for his village, and an active, practicing coun- selor and successful court lawyer since that time; in 1898 he was elected super- visor of his town, and re-elected in 1899 for two years; elected to Assembly in 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904; in 1903 appointed a member of the following As- sembly committees; Chairman of the Com- mittee on Codes; member of Labor and Industries, Excise and Unfinished Busi- ness ; married Miss Mary Teresa Cannon, of Allegany County, Sept. 3, 1902. Ad- dress, Andover, Allegany County, N. Y. PHILLIPS, Lee:
Lawyer; born May 7, 1856, at Schodack, N. Y. ; son of Andrew and Julia Ann Phil- lips; educated at Nassau Institute; secre- tary and chief examiner, N. Y. City Civil Service Commission, 1886-96; trustee and director, N. Y. College of Dentistry ; director, Chronicle Publishing Co .; mem-
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ber of Democratic and Colonial Clubs Sons of American Revolution and Civil Service Reform and West End Associa- tions. Residence, 247 W. 71st St .; office 13 Astor Place, N. Y. City.
PHILLIPS, Morris:
Journalist and magazine writer; borr London, England, May 9, 1834; son o. Philip Phillips; his elementary education was begun in Cleveland, O., in the public schools and finished under private tutors in New York; studied law in Buffalo and in New York; married Elizabeth Rode, in New York, July 5, 1865; was associated with the poet, N. P. Willis, as editor of the N. Y. Home Journal from Sept., 1854 until the latter's death, 1867; then became chief editor and sole proprietor ; has cor- responded with and written for many pub- lications during his travels in this country and his many visits to Europe, acting as special correspondent and writer of travel sketches for leading dailies and maga- zines; author of Abroad and At Home (1893) ; has retired from active business, but continues to write sketches of travel, literary criticism, and articles on many topics for monthly magazines and the lead- ing New York dailies; is also special cor- respondent for a London weekly and a Chicago daily. Address, 25 West 11th St .. N. Y. City.
PHILLIPS, Raymond George:
Lawyer; prepared at Lina, N. Y., and was graduated Ph.B. from University o. Rochester ; after study of law was admit ted to Bar and has since practiced in Ro chester. Address, 713 Wilder Building Rochester, N. Y.
PHINNEY, Herman K .:
Assistant librarian of University 0 Rochester; prepared at Rochester, N. Y., and was graduated from University of Rochester, A. B., 1877; A. M., 1880; teacher of natural sciences at Academic Institute, Le Roy, N. Y., 1877-78 ; assis- tant librarian of University of Rochester, 1880 to date; secretary Rochester Baptist Missionary Union, 1886 to date; editor Rochester Baptist Monthly, 1891 to date; Fellow and librarian of Rochester Acade- my of Science. Address, 8 Brighton St., Rochester, N. Y.
PHIPPS, Henry :
Iron manufacturer; born Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 27th, 1840; educated at free schools of Allegheny; married Miss Annie C. Shaffer, February 6th, 1872; January, 1905, Mr. Phipps announced that he pro- posed to give one million dollars for the
- purpose of building model tenement houses in the City of New York; Repub- lican. Address, 6 E. 87th St., N. Y. City. PHOENIX, Lloyd:
Ex-officer of U. S. Navy; born New York; educated at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, from which he was graduated in 1861; became a lieutenant in 1862; served through the entire period of the Civil War, resigning his commission in 1865. Mr. Phoenix has been prominent as a yachtsman since he left the navy and at the time of the loss of the U. S. S. Kearsarge, he rendered most valuable services to the crew of that vessel; his yacht happening to be in the vicinity at the time of the disaster to the Kearsarge. Member University, Union, Knickerbock- er, Metropolitan, Seawanhaka Yacht, N. Y. Yacht, Larchmont Yacht Clubs of New York, and of leading clubs abroad; he is also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Address, 21 East 33d St., N. Y. City.
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