New York, Jan, 25.
Sir Alfred Yarrow was the first] Englishman to use a type: and he is also distinguished as the erector of the first private overhead telegraph in England, At the age of eighty he broadcast] over the radio, and just a year age he adopted flying ay a hobby, at} the age of eight-nine, Sir Alfred Yarrow's _entire career may be considered a mile-in the progress of modern in-from its inception.
Specialised in the building of torpedo boat destroyers, and. river steamers, of shallow draft, His} "Yarrow" boiler, patented by him, fg used by most of the naval powers, and the great shipbuilding firm of which he was. the head sends. out] vessels which sail the seven seas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.