Group Picture—F. F. Murray, 366 Frank W. Truesdell, R. W. Criswell, James M. Place and George E. Mapes Group Picture—Col. J. K. 371 Haffey, D. A. Dennison, Thomas A. Kern and Charles F. Persons Well Flowing Oil After 382 Torpedoing Standard Building, 26 408 Broadway, N.Y. I. THE STAR IN THE EAST. PETROLEUM IN ANCIENT TIMES—KNOWN FROM AN EARLY PERIOD IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY—MENTIONED IN THE SCRIPTURES AND BY PRIMITIVE WRITERS—SOLOMON SUSTAINED—STUMBLING UPON THE GREASY STAPLE IN VARIOUS LANDS—INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF DIFFERENT SORTS AND SIZES—OVER ASIA, AFRICA AND EUROPE FOR THE STUFF. ---------- “The morning star in all its splendor was rising in the East.”—_Felix Dahn._ “Alone in the increasing darkness * * * it is a beacon light.”—_Disraeli._ “It were all one that I should love a bright particular star.”—_Shakespeare._ “The years that are gone roll before me with their deeds.”—_Ossian._ “Oil out of the flinty rock.”—_Deuteronomy xxxii: 13._ “And the rock poured me out rivers of oil.”—_Job xxix: 6._ “Will the Lord be pleased with * * * ten-thousands of rivers of oil?”—_Micah vi: 7._ “I have myself seen pitch drawn out of the lake and from water in Zacynthus.”—_Herodotus._ “The people of Agrigentum save oil in pits and burn it in lamps.”—_Dioscorides._ “Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”—_St. Matthew xvi: 3._ ----------