SMITH, FRANCIS HOPE IN SON

(1888-1915), author, artist, and mechanical engineer; 6. in Baltimore, Md.; was for some years an engineer and contractor, and built the Race Rock lighthouse, off New London, Conn., and the foundations for the Statue of Liberty, on Bedloe’s Island, New York harbor. He was also an artist in black-and-white, and water-colors. His best known novel, Colonel Carter uf Carte sville, 1891, was dramatized and produced. Other works include A Day at Lc.werne’s, 1892; Gondola Days, 1897; Venice of To-Day, 1897; Caleb West, 1898; Fortunes of Oliver Horne, 1903; Kennedy Square, 1911; Arm Chair at the Inn, 1912; In Arian’ London, 1914; Felix O'Day,