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Brush, Charles Francis

electrician, inventor, was born March 17, 1849, in Euclid, Ohio. The Brush system was a success from the start. Mr. Brush is a large owner in the General Electric and in several other large corporations.

Among his inventions are the series arc lamp, having a shunt circuit of high resistance, which made lighting from central stations practicable; copper-plated carbons, the automatic cut-out for arc lights, the compound series shunt winding for dynamos, the multiple carbon arc lamp, and the fundamental storage battery. Fierce litigation has taken place over some of these inventions, but Dr.

Brush's patents have been, as a rule, fully sustained. He is president of the Euclid Avenue National bank of Cleveland, Ohio.

BRUSH, MRS. CONSTANCE (CHAP- LIN), artist, author, was born in 1842 in Maine. She was an artist in water-colors whose home was in Brooklyn. Her most important book, The Colonel's Opera Cloak, a novel, was first published anonymously. Her only other works are two stories, Inside Our Gate; and One Summer's Lessons in Perspective. She died in 1892.