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Some photographs from the Mount Auburn Cemetery over the weekend. There have been at least two Henry Hastings Currans. The first was a Lt. Col. who died in 1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness, Virgina; his namesake unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York in 1921. More interestingly, this latter Curran was an ardent foe of prohibition.

Mr. Curran, cocky and combative, refused to let his Dry inquisitors dismay him by their wilful interpretations of these facts. With redoubled pertness, he shot back at them: “The 18th Amendment will be repealed in about five years, I think. There are five sovereign States [New York, Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada] now in revolt against this measure. . . . Three out of four Americans are in revolt. . . . This is the driest Congress we have ever had or ever will have. We have reached the bottom of the hill. The halcyon days of Prohibition are over. The tide is turning. …”

Also, here’s a panorama.