Ceremony Held in Paris to Commemorate the Bicentenary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin, April 27, 1906 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ceremony Held in Paris to Commemorate the Bicentenary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin, April 27, 1906Born in Bremen, Mr. Harjes went to Philadelphia at the age of nineteen, grew up to friendship with its distinguished citizens, George W. Childs and Anthony Drexel, and nearly forty years ago came to Paris to establish a branch of the latter's banking house, thus earning an interest both in the city that Franklin adopted as his own, and in the great capital to which the Sage grew so attached, and which showered upon him so many courtesies. That Mr. Harjes has not been forgetful of the city that Opened its gates to him as a youth, as well as sheltered the homeless Benjamin Franklin, is testified by many good deeds which few people know, and by a number of public gifts - as in the finestatue of his late partner, Mr. Drexel, which adorns Fairmount Park. With a taste for municipal adornment, among his other benefactions, a few years ago he presented to his native city two superb statues of German Ritter, which had at tracted much attention here at the Exposi tion of 1900, and now stand at the entrance of the Bremen Rathaus, and to these he later added two statues of Landsknechte, which adorn another of its portals.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.