Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 141

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essays, which have been numerous. Mr.


Roosevelt has in course of preparation for the press his political Reminiscences. Mr. Roosevelt was treasurer of the Demo- cratic National Committee at the time of


Cleveland's second election; president


Sons of the American Revolution; chair- man of Committee for Protection of the Soldiers during the war with Spain; del-


egate to many Democratic conventions; on all the committees to aid the Boers in their war with England; was a former


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president of Holland Society, and of the | When a Republican, William L. Strong, Founders and Patriots; member and offi- cer of many clubs, societies, etc. Uncle of President Roosevelt. Address, Say- ville, N. Y.


ROOSEVELT, Robert B., Jr .:


Son of Robert B. Roosevelt and Lizzie Ellis Roosevelt; born Flushing, L. I., Aug. 20, 1866; was educated by private tutors and at Military School at Garden City, L. I. He has been engaged in the real estate business for the past fifteen years, devoting his time principally to the care of several estates of which he is trustee. Director in several corpora- tions and a member of the Metropolitan, Players, Strollers, New York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, Down Town, and other Clubs. Address, The Lilacs, Sayville, L. J.


ROOSEVELT, Theodore:


President of the U. S .; born N. Y. City, Oct. 27, 1858; the son of Theodore Roose- velt, merchant and philanthropist. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1880, and after a visit to Europe, he began the study of law in the office of his uncle, Robert B. Roosevelt; he soon entered politics, and was elected to the Assembly at Albany, in which he served three terms. In the second legislature to which he was chosen, in which the Demo- crats had a majority, he was candidate for the speakership. In the Republican Con- vention of 1884, Mr. Roosevelt favored the nomination of Senator Edmunds for the Presidency, but when Blaine obtained the nomination he entered actively into the campaign for the nominee of his party. In the same year he purchased a ranch in the Northwest, and for several years he studied the remote West thor- oughly. In 1886, the Republicans nom- inated Mr. Roosevelt for mayor of New York, being opposed by Henry George, the single tax champion, and Abram S. Hewitt, the regular Demo- cratic nominee. Mr. Roosevelt made a vigorous fight, but Abram S. Hewitt, the Democratic candidate, was successful. Mr. Roosevelt continued to take an active interest in public affairs, and especially in reform of the civil service. He ad- vocated the deliverance of the Federal service, and also that of State and city, from the spoils system. President Harri- son appointed him in 1889 United States Civil Service Commissioner, in which po- sition he did his duty earnestly, irre- spective of whom he pleased or displeased. 25


was elected mayor of New York, the latter requested Mr. Roosevelt to be- come the head of the Police Board. He accepted the charge, and proceeded vig- orously to compel his subordinates to de their duty and enforce the laws. He took the position that laws, while on the statute books, ought to be made effective, and that the executive authority had no right to repudiate a law simply because it was unpopular. April. 6, 1897, Mr. Roosevelt gave up his place in the Police Department to become Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy. Here he worked with energy in putting the navy in condition for the war with Spain which followed the bowing up of the Maine. When war was declared he tendered his resignation as assistant secretary; with President Mckinley's intimate friend, Dr. Leonard Wood, an army surgeon, he organized the body of men known as the Rough Riders, gathering recruits for the regiment from among his friends of the ranches and the Western cowboys, Surgeon Wood, on ac- count of his superior tactical knowledge, took command of the regiment, with Mr. Roosevelt second in command. He par- ticipated with his regiment in the fight- ing in front of Santiago, and was pro- moted to the colonelcy of the regiment. At the close of the war he returned with his regiment to Montauk Point, where he was mustered out of service. Shortly afterwards he was nominated for and elected to the office of governor of New York. He aspired to a second Term as governor, but was induced to permit the use of his name for the Vice-presidency in the Republican National Convention of 1900, and was elected. He succeeded to the Presidency on the death of Presi- dent Mckinley, Sept. 14, 1901, and was elected to the Presidency in November, 1904, for the term beginning March 4, 1905, by a popular plurality of 2,542,062. He is the author of History of the Naval War of 1812 (1882) ; Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, (1885) ; Life of Thomas Hart Benton, (1886); Life of Gouverneur Morris, (1887); Ranch Life and Hunting Trail, (1888); The Winning of the West, (1889-96); History of New York (1890); The Wilderness Hunter, (1893); Ameri- can Ideals and Other Essays, (1897) ; The Rough Riders (1899); Life of Oliver Cromwell, (1900); The Strenuous Life, (1900); Works, (8 volumes, 1902), and in collaboration; The Deer Family,


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Washington, D. C .; summer residence, Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y.


ROOSEVELT, William Emlen:


Capitalist; born New York, April 30, 1857; son of James Alfred and Elizabeth Norris Roosevelt; married Christian Kean. He is president and a director of the Broadway Improvement Co., and is in the directorate of the Astor, Chemical, and Gallatin National Banks, and in the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Ry. Co., the Mexican Telegraph Co., and in the Indemnity Fire Insurance Co .; is a trustee in the New York Life Insurance and Trust Co. and in several other financial institutions. 3 Member Metropolitan, the City, the Suburban Riding and Driving, and the Down Town Clubs, and a member of the American Museum of Natural His- tory. Residence, 804 Fifth Ave .; office, 33 Wall St., N. Y. City.


ROOT, Edwin B .:


Lawyer; born Sept. 21, 1863, Waterford, N. Y .; educated at Hamilton College and Columbia Law School. Member of firm of Ingram Root & Massey. Member Sigma Phi and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities, Re- publican Club and City Bar Association. Residence, 73 West 94th St .; office, 68 William St., N. Y. City.


ROOT, Elihu:


Ex-Secretary of War; born Clinton, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1845; in 1864 was graduated from Hamilton College, where his father was professor of mathematics. After graduation from the University Law School in the City of N. Y. in 1867 he was admitted to the Bar and engaged in active practice of his profession in N. Y. City ; in a few years he became prominent both as a lawyer and as a leader of the reform element of the Republican party ; he has held the office of president of the New England Association, president of the Union League Club and president of the Republican Club of the City of N. Y; de- voting himself closely to his chosen work, he rapidly acquired an extensive practice, particularly in corporation cases, being the counsel in many of the most famous in the annals of N. Y. City; few lawyers of to-day have so remarkable a record of success in cases entrusted to their care; he was leading counsel in the celebrated contest growing out of the will of the late A. T. Stewart, through the schemes of al- leged Irish heirs; he was counsel in the Broadway surface railroad litigation, the Sugar Trust contest, the Aqueduct litiga- tion, and, in one of the most sensational cases of modern times, he successfully de- l


fended Robert Ray Hamilton in the suit brought about through the machinations of the notorious Emma Mann; while serv- ing as a United States District attorney he convicted Joseph D. Fish, president of the Marine Bank, of criminal complicity in connection with the celebrated Grant- Ward frauds; participated with much dis- tinction as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and leader on the floor of the Republican majority during the Constitu- tional Convention of New York in 1894; his practice as a lawyer was characterized by constant work in the preparation of cases, and the wonderful power of concen- tration which enabled him to penetrate quickly to the marrow of the subject under investigation ; his arguments seldom failed to carry a comprehensive understanding and clear conviction to those whom he has from time to time been called upon to ad- dress ; so forceful was his analysis and ex- posure of municipal corruption in the famous address delivered at Cooper Union during the Presidential campaign in 1892 that, at the time, the boldness of his as- sault astonished his hearers, but in the light of the Lexow exposures, following the Parkhurst agitation, his arraignment of evil-doers was completely justified ; subsequent to the close of the Spanish-Am- erican War, the condition of affairs de- manded that the office of Secretary of War should be filled by a lawyer of great administrative ability and one in the full possession of his mental and physical powers; the duties of the office were most intricate and complicated and called for physical self-sacrifice that few men are able to give to the work; no Secretary of War since the day of Edwin M. Stanton has had anything like the difficulties to adjust, the opposition to overcome and the new systems to inaugurate ; called sudden- ly from his legal professoion in the City of N. Y., Mr. Root found himself confronted with the task of placing an army of 70,000 men in the Philippine Islands to put down an insurrection attended with almost uni- versal sympathy, if not the active support of the inhabitants of those islands; com- munication was difficult and treachery, suspicion and assassination confronted the troops at every step; while called upon to conduct affairs with great firmness, the Secretary of War constantly held in view the necessity for carrying conviction to the minds of the inhabitants of all those islands that the American Army was not there for the purpose of exploitation, and that having received the territory from the


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Spanish government, the great duty de- [ reference volved upon the United States of provid- ing a proper government which would con- vey to the Philippine people some idea of the benefits to be derived from living under our flag; in the midst of this great work the secretary was, early in his of- ficial career, compelled to take up th great burden of sending the Chinese Ex- pedition to rescue our minister and his household; this expedition was conducted under instructions prepared by the Secre- tary of War; many of the most important


questions arising during that trying period were left to his decision; that American interests were well protected and that our country emerged from the very compli- cated situation with every cause for self- satisfaction is a matter of history; to the untiring and painstaking efforts of Mr. Root is greatly due the establishment of civil government in Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and the success 0. stable government far beyond just expec- tation in the island of Cuba; the solution by Mr. Root of thousands of intricate legal questions, involving to a great extent our National honor, in the adjustment of civil and military affairs in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands stands without parallel ; in the midst of this vast work he was called upon to reorganize the army, to change our staff system and to build up a system of education and training for the army which will long stand as a mon- ument to his masterly ability; resigned from the Cabinet of President Roosevelt in 1904, and resumed the practice of his profession; LL.D., Hamilton, 1894; Yale, 1900; was member of Alaska Boundary Tribunal which sat in London in Sept. and Oct., 1903, and settled the dispute boun- dary between Alaska and Canada. Resi- dence, 25 East 69th St .; office, 32 Liberty St., N. Y. City.


ROOT, Francis S .:


Lawyer; born Nov. 4, 1869, at Port Byron, N. Y .; prepared at Academy in native place and was graduated from Cornell Law School, 1893 ;admitted to the Bar, 1895. Residence, Buffalo, N. Y.


ROOT, Frank Douglas :


Journalist ; born Coventry, Conn., Aug. 4, 1851; son of Nathaniel and Julia A. Douglas Root ; graduate of Monson, Mass., Academy, 1868; Yale, 1872 ; married, Bal- timore, 1879, Catherine M. Butler; in edi- torial work since 1876; Washington cor- respondent N. Y. Times, 1879-83 ; editorial writer, same, 1883-97; associate editor, The Independent, since 1898, with special


to politics, economics and finance; since 1885, correspondent for Aus- tralian and other foreign journals; writ- ings mostly anonymous ; occasional signed articles on economic questions. Club : Cen- tury. Residence, 55 Pineapple St. ; ad- dress, Century Club. N. Y. City.


ROOT, Oren, Jr .:


President Second Avenue R. R. Co., Jerome Park Ry. ; president, general man- ager and director, Central Crosstown R. R. Co .; general inanager and director, Dry Dock, East Broadway & Battery R. R. Co .; director, Bleecker Street & Fulton Ferry R. R. Co., Broadway & Seventh Av- enue R. R. Co., Central Park, North & East River R. R. Co., Forty-second Street & Grand Street Ferry R. R. Co., Forty- second Street, Manhattanville & St. Nich- olas Avenue R. R., Jerome Park Ry., Kingsbridge Ry., Third Avenue R. R. Co., Twenty-eighth & Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown R. R., Twenty-third Street Ry. Co., Union Ry. Co. of N. Y., West Eighty- sixth Street Ry. Co .; graduate of Hamil- ton College; member of the University Club. Residence, 51 West 37th St. ; office 621 Broadway, N. Y. City.


ROSE, Hudson P .:


Real estate; born March 23, 1863, Mer- cer, Pa .; was graduated from Cornell Uni- versity, 1884; member of Cornell Univer- sity and Thousand Island Yacht Clubs. Residence, Hotel San Remo; office, 31 West 42d St., N. Y. City.


ROSE, Malcolm C., M. D .:


Born Ottawa, Canada, Dec. 20, 1869 : educated Toronto Collegiate Institute, To- ronto University, and College of Physi cians and surgeons, New York; member Graduates Club, N. Y., and Crescent Ath- letic Club, Brooklyn. Residence, 1153 Boston Road; office, 198 Broadway, N. Y. ROSE, Webb Van Horn:


Paymaster, U. S. Navy ; born in and ap- pointed from N. Y .; assistant paymaster, May 20, 1898; passed assistant paymaster, Sept. 15, 1899 ; paymaster, March 3, 1903 ; on the U. S. S. Cleveland since March 28, 1903. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.


ROSE, William R .:


Lawyer; born Feb. 24, 1854, N. Y. City ; educated at Columbia Law School; mem- ber of firm of Rose & Putzel; member of Harmonie Club. Residence, 309 West 81st St. ; office, 128 Broadway, N. Y. City.


ROSEBROCK, Fred E.


President and director, Frederick E. Rosebrock & Co., J. P. Baden Products Co., J. D. Bichel Products Co., vice-pres-


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ident and director Comfort Produce Co., [ M. Hirsch as a saleman, where he re- Sioux Falls Products Co., director Mer- chants Refrigerating Co of New Jersey, Merchants Refrigerating Co. of New York. Residence, 239 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y .; office, 325 Greenwich St., N. Y. City.


ROSEN, Walter J. T .:


Banker; president and director Broad Exchange Co., vice-president and director Alliance Realty Co., secretary and director U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Works, director De La Vergne Machine Co., Empire Trust Co. Inwood Land and Improvement Co., Lawyers Incorporation Co., N. Y. Mort- gage & Security Co., Remington Con- struction Co., Title Insurance Co. of N. Y., member City, Lotos, Harvard, Lambs, Bar Association, Midday, Strollers Clubs. Residence, 64 West 52d St .; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.


ROSENFELD, Sydney:


Dramatist; born Richmond, Va., Oct. 26, 1855; educated in public schools, Richmond and New York, and by private tutors; married, 1883, Genie Holsymeyer Johnson, of London, England; first editor of Puck; author of (plays) A Possible Case; Imagination; Tlie Club Friend ; The Politician ; A Man of Ideas; A House of Cards; The Senator (co-author) ; (oper- ettas and musical plays) The Lady or the Tiger ; The Mocking Bird; The Passing Show; The Giddy Throng; The King's Carnival ; The Hall of Fame, adapter The White Horse Tavern; The Two Escutch- cons; The Black Hussar; Prince Methu- salem; Nanon, etc .; one of the main movers in the effort to secure a National theatre for this country; secretary of the National Art Theatre Society; his wife, a prominent member of Sorosis and many other clubs, working with him and bring- ing the women into line for a National theatre by organizing and presiding over the Woman's Auxiliary, one of the most important factors of the National Art Theatre Society ; he is president and man- aging director of the Century Theatre Co .. Address, The Albany, 215 West 51st St., N. Y. City.


ROSENSTEIN, Edward:


Democratic Assemblyman, representing the Twelfth Assembly district of New York County in the Assembly; born N. Y. City, Aug. 5, 1864; was educated in the public schools, leaving school to enter the shoe manufacturing business with his father, where he received a practical knowledge of the business. He then branched out in the retail line with L.


mained eight years, leaving to take charge of the Surprise Shoe Bazaar. He left there at the expiration of eight years and entered the employ of the Siegel-Cooper Co., N. Y. City. In June, 1898, was ap- pointed as county detective in the Dis- trict Attorney's office under Asa Bird Gardiner. He was also employed in this capacity by Eugene A. Philbin and Will- iam Travers Jerome. The office of de- tective he resigned March 10, 1902, and returned to his old positon with the Siegel-Cooper Co. Has been a loyal Democrat since his majority. He has been captain of his election district for twelve years, and has always carried it for the Democratic party. At the elec- tion of 1902 he received 3,371 votes out of 5,500 votes registered, or the largest vote ever cast for a candidate for As- sembly in his district. Is a member of a number of clubs, among them being: Columbian Club, Samuel Tischner Bene- volent Association, Broome Coterie, Jer- ome Coterie, and Nathan Davis Associa- tion. Speaker Nixon appointed Mr. Ros- enstein, in 1903, a member of the follow- ing Assembly Committees: Revision, Federal Relations, and Trades and Man- ufactures. Renominated in 1903 and 1904. Address, 125 Clinton St., N. Y. City.


ROSENTHAL, Herman:


Author, editor, librarian; born Fried- richstadt, Russia, Oct. 6, 1843; educated at Bauske and Jacobstadt (graduated 1859) ; translated from the Russian Ne- krassos's poems; published collection of poems, Gedichte, 1870; served in Red Cross Society in Russo-Turkish War, 1877, receiving society's medal for distin- guished service, 1877-78 ; pursued his craft as master-printer in Sinela, govern- or of Kiev, and in the city of Kiev until 1881; produced a humorous story, Die Wunderliche Kur (1872) ; assisted founding Zarya (Dawn), a daily paper in appearing at Kiev, 1878; corresponding member of St. Petersburg Society for the promotion of culture among the Russian Jews; sailed for the United States, 1881; established agricultural colonies for Rus- sian Jewish immigrants in Louisiana and South Dakota, 1881-82 ; took part in Wood- bine, N. J., colony, 1891 ; engaged in book trade, 1887-88, but abandoned it on being appointed chief statistician of the Edison General Electric Co., a post he held for three years; was sent by the Great North- ern R. R. Co. to investigate the economic conditions and trade of China, Korea and


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Japan, 1892, on which he published a re- ROSSITER, Clinton L .:


port, 1893; elected secretary of the Ger- man-American Reform Union, N. Y. City and a member of the Press Bureau of the Committee of Seventy ; appointed chief of Discharging Department of the Immigra- tion Bureau, Ellis Island, N. Y., 1894, an office he occupied for two years; ap- pointed chief of the Slavonic Department, New York Public Library (Astor Branch), a position he still retains; joined the Editorial Board of the Jewish Encyclo- pedia as chief of the Russian Department, Dec., 1900; prominently connected with the development of the Haskalah in Rus- sia ; contributed, 1859-67, to the Hamelitz and other Hebrew periodicals ; correspond- ed with Reifmann, Leon Gordon, Zweifel, Zederbaum, Fuenn; in the United States edited and published together with A. Rosenberg, the Hebrew monthly, Ha- Modia la-Hadasim, 1901; founded society Ohole Shem, of which he is president ; translated into German verse, Ecclesiastes (Worte des Sammlers) New York, 1895, and the Song of Songs (Lied der Lieder), 1893; translated from the German Hugo Ganz's Land of Riddles, N. Y., 1904. Address, New York Public Library, N. Y. City.


ROSS, Clinton:


Author; born Binghamton, N. Y., July 31, 1861, of Scotch and English parents long identified with Southern New York- the families of Ross and Corbett; he was educated at public schools, with tutors, and at Phillips Andover, Yale College, and in Europe ; his tales, which have been very numerous, have been printed in Scribner's, McClure's, Harper's Weekly, Illustrated London News, and by the Sun and other newspapers; among those collected may be mentioned The Meddling Hussy; The Scarlet Coat; A Trooper of the Empress; The Countess Bettina ; Chalmette ; The Si- lent Workman-which have appeared un- der the various imprints of Appleton, Lip- pincott, Stone, Putnam, etc .- as well as new collections of stories, novels, essays and verse. Address, Binghamton, N. Y.


ROSS, Robert :.


President and director, Frank J. Mat- thews Co .; vice-president and director, Perth Amboy Trust Co, Third National Bank of Jersey City, Commercial Trust Co .; member of board of managers, The Jersey City Fifth Ward Savings Bank, Jersey City Trust Co., Registrar and Transfer Co., Varley Duplex Magnet Co., Waterfront Improvement Co. Address, 15 Exchange Place, N. Y. City.


President and director Albany & Hud- son R. R. Co., Rossiter, MacGovern & Co., vice-president and trustee Long Island Loan & Trust Co, treasurer and director The Port Jefferson Co., Toluca Electric Light & Power Co., director Pacific Fire Insurance Co., Potosina Electric Co. Resi- dence, 48 Montgomery Place, Brooklyn; office, Temple Bar, Brooklyn, N. Y.


ROSSITER, Edward Van Wyck:


Railroad official ; born St. Louis, Mo., July 13, 1844; educated at Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn ; entered railway service in Sept., 1859, as clerk for the Hudson River R. R .; treas- urer for the same road, June, 1883; vice- president and treasurer N. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R. since Nov., 1900; member New England Society, and Cham- ber of Commerce; also of the Transporta- tion, Union League Clubs. Address, 23 Sanford Ave., Flushing, L. I .; office, Grand Central Station, N. Y. City.


ROSSITER, Walter K .:


Vice-president, director Equity Gas Co., Brooklyn, Flatbush Gas Co., Jamaica Gaslight Co., Newtown Gas Co., Rich- mond Hill & Queens County Gaslight Co., Woodhaven Gaslight Co. Residence, 161 S, Oxford St .; office, 180 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


ROWE, Basil W .:


Treasurer, trustee and member of board of managers of The Adams Express Co .; president and director Hollywood Hotel & Cottage Co .; director Dunlap's Express Co .; directors Morris European & Amer- ican Express Co. (Ltd.); director Stand- ard Trust Co. Residence, 47 East 58th St .; office, 59 Broadway, N. Y. City.


ROWE, Thomas Trelease:


Clergyman, Methodist Episcopal church ; was graduated from University of Ro- chester, 1878, and from Boston University School of Theology, 1882 ; pastor at Fair -. port, N. Y., 1878-79 ; Gowanda, N. Y., 1882-84; Attica, N. Y., 1884-85; Bergen, N. Y., 1885-88; Lyndonville, N. Y., 1888- 90; First Church, Lockport, N. Y., 1890- 95; Cornhill, Rochester, N. Y., 1895-98 ; Little Falls, N. Y., 1898-1902; First Church, Oswego, N. Y., 1902. Address, Oswego, N. Y.


ROWE, William V .:


Lawyer; born Oct. 28, 1861, Stoneham, Mass .; educated at Boston public schools and Boston University; admitted to Bar in 1883; associated with firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman until its liquidation, in Dec., 1901; then became member of his


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present firm of Sullivan and Cromwell; for eight years studied art in Paris. He member New England Society, Museum of Natural History, State and City Bar, Civil Service Reform, Century and Down Town Associations, and Union League Club. Residence, 133 East 38th St .; office, 49 Wall St., N. Y. City.


ROWELL, George P .:


Newspaper advertising agent ; born Concord, Vt., July 4, 1838, but until the age of seventeen resided in Lancaster, N. H., being educated in the schools of that town, and graduating from the Lan- caster Academy with the highest honors of his class; his first business venture was in a Boston retail store, his next in the publication office of a Boston daily newspaper, the Post; and it was the ex- perience gained during his connection with this journal that led him into his future field of business, that of general advertis- ing agent and publisher of the newspaper statistics of the country; early in 1865 he established the firm of George P. Rowell & Co., in Boston, for the purpose of con- ducting an advertising agency ; before the end of the second year, having been suc- cessful in his Boston venture, he decided to remove to New York, and the change was made with good results; in 1869 he issued the first copy of the American Newspaper Directory ; in 1888 he com- menced the publication of Printer's Ink, a journal for advertisers, which at once be- came a great favorite with the advertis- ing public, and is now generally known as The Little Schoolmaster in the Art of Ad- vertising ; its circulation is national, and a branch office has been established in Lon- don ; he is a member of the Union League and Grolier Clubs and the New England Society, and is president of the Percy Summer Club of New Hampshire. Ad- dress, 10 Spruce St., N. Y. City.




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