ALEXANDER, JAMES STRANGE

(1865), banker; 6. Tarry town, N. Y. His career has been almost wholly identified with the National Bank of Commerce, New York City, in which he was chief clerk and a istant cashier from 1885 to 1907, and vice president in 1908. He was appointed president of the institution in 1911. As a prominent figure in the financial world he also became a ociated with a number of large organizations, holding directorships of the American Expre Company, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Prudential Insurance Company and the U.S. Rubber Company among others. France made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, King Victor Emmanuel Chevalier of the Crown of Italy, and Belgium a Knight Commander of the Order of Leopold II. (ATER AND RR CAROLINE MARIE CHARLOTTE LOUISE JULIE) daughter of Christian LX. of Denmark, ’ wife of Edward VII. (1863), and mother of George V.; has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of her people. After the S. African War she reorganized the army nursing service, and during the Great War emerged from the retirement in which she had lived since her husband’s death, and worked devotedly on behalf of hospitals and other organiza~ tions for the relief and comfort of Brit. soldiers. Alexandra Day, instituted in 1912 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Alexandra's residence in this country, has for its object the raising of funds for hospitals, children’s holiday funds, ete. Up to 1919, £700,000 had been raised by the sale of roses on that day.