DABO, LEON

(1868), American artist, b. at Detroit, Michigan. He studied at the Paris art schools and under Daniel Vierge of that city, and Galliard i of. Rome. His pictures are in the galleries of the Luxembourg, Paris, the Metropolitan, New York, the Imperial Museum Tokyo, and at Brooklyn, Ottawa, Washington, Detroit, Chicago, etc. He is the Art Director of the Arbuckle Institute, Brooklyn. Mural paintings by him were made for St. John the Baptist Church, Brooklyn, and for Blower Memorial Library, Water town, New York, etc. He was commi ioned a ist Heutenant of the A.E.F. during the war. Captain in 1918. In 1919 he was one of the corps of interpreters attached to the 27th Division and aide to General Hersey. town, Bengal, India, on Burigunga River; Government headquarters for art of year (July-Sept.); capital of astern Bengal and A am, 1905-12; formerly celebrated for magnificence; seat of Y plekecdagn teaching univ.; has a coll, and ruins of many Mohammedan public bufldings; manufactures cotton cloth, gold and silver work, shell-work, and pottery; a jute-trade center. Pop. 1921, 119,450, Dacca Division has area of 15,937 sq. miles. Pop. c. 13,000,000. Dacca District, area, 2,782 sq. miles,