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FOREY, ELIE F. 



FORREST, EDWIN. 



room than the exhaust-roan or conduit, and it will 

 be safer if the exhaust-box and stive-room are con- 

 structed outside of one end of the mill-building, 

 where there are no windows. The same remarks 

 apply to the smut-rooms. None of these dust re- 

 ceptacles should be entered or cleaned out during 

 the working of the mill. 



We also deem it advisable to recommend, as sub- 

 sidiary precautions : 1. That the use of naked lights, or 

 even of ordinary lamps, be prohibited in or near any 

 place where there is a dusty atmosphere, and safety- 

 lamps only be permitted in such places. The gas- 

 jets should also be enclosed in glass and wire gauze 

 safety-cages. It would be a wise proceeding to insist 

 that no naked flame of any kind be permitted within 

 the mill, as an accidental explosion may occur at any 

 time which will lead to the production of a dusty at- 

 mosphere in any of the floors. 2. That the use of 

 magnets, to collect nails or other pieces of iron which 

 might fall into the hoppers, be made universal. This 

 precaution was taken in the Tradeston Flour-Mills, 

 but we have not seen it adopted in any mill we have 

 visited. The evidence we have taken shows the ex- 

 treme difficulty of insuring the total separation of 

 nails and other material from the grain, even by the 

 employment of the most elaborate cleansing appa- 

 ratus and the greatest care. The intervention of a 

 number of magnets, however, in the hopper feed- 

 spouts will practically insure that this source of dan- 

 ger in the production of luminous sparks be reduced 

 to a minimum for the future. 



FOREY, ELIE FRDKIC, Marshal of France, 

 and Senator from 1859 to 1870, born in Paris, 

 January 10, 1804 ; died at Besancon, France, 

 June 20, 1872. He received his early educa- 

 tion at Dijon, was admitted at the age of 

 eighteen to the Military School of St. Cyr, and 

 after his graduation became instructor to the 

 Second Regiment of Light Infantry. He took 

 part in the first expedition to Algiers, was 

 engaged in garrison duty in the Pyrenees until 

 1835, when he was promoted to a captaincy, 

 and returned to Africa, where he distinguished 

 himself at the battle of Medeah, in the opera- 

 tions of the retreat which followed the first 

 siege of Constantine, and at the Iron Gates. 

 In 1840 he was placed in command of a bat- 

 talion of chasseurs d pied, and, passing through 

 four more campaigns in Africa, he returned to 

 France with the rank of colonel in 1844, be- 

 came a general in 1848, took an active part in 

 the coup d'etat of December, 1851, and was 

 made a general of division and commander 

 of the Legion of Honor in 1852. At the break- 

 ing out of the war with Russia, he was placed 

 on the reserve division of the Army of the East, 

 and for a time held the command of the siege 

 force before Sevastopol. In 1857 he was nomi- 

 nated to the first division of the Army of Paris. 

 He commanded this division during the Italian 

 War in 1860 ; gained, at Montebello, the first 

 battle of the campaign; and distinguished 

 himself at Magenta and Solferino, being 

 wounded at the latter. When the expedition 

 to Mexico was decided upon in 1861, General 

 Forey received the command of the French 

 troops. After overcoming many obstacles and 

 fighting several sanguinary engagements, he 

 attacked and stormed the strong post of Pue- 

 bla, thereby throwing open the road to the city 

 of Mexico. For this service he was made Mar- 



shal of France, when he resigned his command 

 to General Bazaine, and returned home, re- 

 ceiving the command of the Second Corps 

 d'armee, December 24, 1863. He had received 

 the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 

 1859, and was called to the Senate August 

 16th, in that year. But though he had 

 relinquished the command of the Mexican 

 army, he still felt a deep interest in its move- 

 ments and welfare, and on the 10th of Feb- 

 ruary, 1866, in his place in the Senate, after 

 showing the fallacy of the hopes entertained 

 by others of its regaining the ascendency in 

 Mexico, he expressed his firm conviction that 

 success was only possible by means of still 

 greater sacrifices, and the sending out of very 

 heavy reinforcements, and, if this course was 

 not to be taken, he advised the immediate 

 recall of the remnant of the troops. This latter 

 course was taken by the Government. In 1867, 

 Marshal Forey was put in command of the 

 camp at Chalons. Either from impaired health 

 or from some other cause, Marshal Forey held 

 no command and took no part in the Franco- 

 German W r ar, nor in the civil war with the 

 Commune in Paris, which followed it. Since 

 the war, he had been living in retirement and 

 obscurity at Besancon, and his death had been 

 preceded by a long and painful illness. 



FORREST, EDWIN, an eminent American 

 tragedian, born in Philadelphia, March 9, 1806 ; 

 died in that city, December 12, 1872. His 

 father was a native of Scotland, and by occu- 

 pation a commercial traveller ; his mother was 

 of German birth. In childhood his health was 

 delicate, and he seemed to be consumptive, but 

 after the age of fourteen, at which time he trav- 

 elled extensively in the Western States, he 

 became robust, and eventually was one of the 

 most athletic men of his time. As a child, he 

 exhibited a strong aptitude and taste for dec- 

 lamation. At the early age of eleven he parti- 

 cipated in the theatrical representations of a 

 private amateur dramatic club in Philadelphia, 

 of which he was even then a member. His 

 first appearance on the regular stage was made 

 at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, on 

 the 27th of November, 1820, when he acted 

 not Young Norval, as is sometimes alleged 

 but Douglas, in Home's play of that name. It 

 attracted little attention, but it seems to have 

 been in so far successful that it showed the 

 actor's precocity, both physical and mental. 

 His next part, played in the same engagement, 

 was Frederick, in " Lovers' Vows " the play 

 that Mrs. Inchbald made out of Kotzebue's 

 drama of "The Natural Son." About a year 

 after his first appearance on the stage, he made 

 an engagement with Messrs. Collins and Jones, 

 theatrical managers in the West and South- 

 West, to play boy parts for them. In the early 

 part of 1822 he made his first appearance at 

 the Cincinnati theatre, then under their man- 

 agement, as Young Meifort, in Cherry's comedy 

 of " The Soldier's Daughter." Not long after 

 he made his first attempt at " Richard III." 



