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Tornos, Manuel Alberto

public official, author, was born June 2, 1862, in New York city. Since 1881 he has been secretary of the Spanish consulate-general in New York city. He has published Spanish Tariffs, with Extracts from the Custom-House Regulations.

TORRENCE, JOSEPH THATCHER, soldier, lawyer, mechanical engineer, was born March 15, 1843, in Mercer county, Pa. He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general. In 1869 he moved to Chicago as manager of the Chicago Iron works, now the Union Works of the Illinois Steel company. He organized the Standard Steel and Iron company, and also the Calumet Canal Improvement company. He was prominent in the development of terminal railroad facilities in Chicago and the west; and was known as the father of track elevation. He died Oct. 31, 1896.