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King Country Chronicle, 8 November 1913, Page 6

Mr Dillon Wallace, the Ameriacn Polar explorer, has returned from an Arctic expedition, though it was believed he was dead. He went north through Labrador in order to place a tablet on the spot where a companion on a former trip died of starvation. Mr Wallace lost the tablet en route the cause beiny the upsetting of his sledge, but he carved on the rockß with a chisel the words, "Leonidas Hubbard, an intrepid explorer, and a practical Christian, died October, 1903." Miss Alice Durkin, New York's oniy woman master builder, now employs 700 hands. She competes with male master builders in obtaining contract?, and has recently complied a £400,000 skyscraper. She 13 the first woman to be elected a member of the Building Trades Association of New York. Miss Durkin has had n career of veritable romance. She was the daughie.; of a wealthy n;as who lose all his money, and when quite a young girl she took a post in the ofnea of a leading New York builder. That v;as fourteen years success to snece: gone, on from