TEAGLE, WALTER CLARK

(1878), president of the Standard Oil Company; b. in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1899 he graduated from Cornell University. Was vice president of an oil company from 19001903 and with the export department of the Standard Oil Company from 190310. He became head of the department and was elected a director of the New Jersey Standard Oil Company in 1910. He was president since 1917. President. of other oil companies and director of a trust company.; the Verbenacez; indigenous to the In doMal asian region, and now extensively cultivated for its valuable timber. © The tree is high, and bears paniculate ~ inflorescences composed of small white — flowers; wood principally used in ship- — building, owing to extreme hardne and durability. Tts close texture makes it — very heavy, and before it is fit for use © thorough drying and seasoning are — e ential. For this purpose a ring of the bark and green wood is removed from the basal part of the trunk (‘girdling’), thus causing its speedy death. — The tree is not felled for two years after — girdling,