The evening times., 1895-12-12
CLARK'S
1916 Seventh st. N. w.

holding several minor State offices he wa
nominated by the Republican caucus r.,
United States Senator, but owing to
locked legislature failed If election. 1h
governor Immediately appointed him tC
the postum after the Legislature adjourned
but the Senate here held that it was th,
duty of tine legislature ~ EJECT and refused
him seat. Denied admission, he retIrne,
to Montana and was finally elected by
the legislature last January.
The new Senator frm Nebraska is evi
dently son II the American Revolut ion
and is proud uf il. Mr.. Thurston carefully
sets forth his Puritan ancestry. stating
that two "f his grandfathers served in the
Revolutionary war.
HARRY MINERS STORY
| Senator Thurston also recites that he did
much manual labor in the way Of driving
teams and farming. He recalls his posi-
tion as general solicitor for the Onion
Pacific Railway Company, and also the
| fact that on the occasion OF his election
| he was rendered the unanimous vote of
the Republican membership in the legisIa
ture in writing.
One or the most remarkable stories
or past experience, or The Road TO Great
ness" is gwen by Hon. Henry Clay Miner
or New York. Ii seems worth giving lust
as he writes it,
Henry Clay Miner OF New York city
was born in that city March %, IsI2
was educated at the New York grammar
schools and at the American lns titute
school. he studied the drug bus mess and
mas been more or less engaged in that
business. In lS64 he went out in advance
OF Signor Bliiz, the magician, and bird
trainer. His next enga cement was with
Thaycr and Noyes' circus, and eventually
he became the head OF metropolitan
theater. and then arose to the proprictorship
OF i've ThespiaD rcsorts-the Fifth Avenue,
the Peoples, Miners Eowery Eighth Ave
nue. and Miners Newark theaters. BESIDES
his theatrical interests he takes "A La nd in
directing The dcstinies OF several great
enterprises in which n portion Of h s ca pital
is invested; is president OF the Springer
LiihographiDg Company, owns large phos-
phate interests In the South, holds large
blocks or railway and mining stocks in
Western corporations: directs a New York
newspaper syndicate and is The owner Of
a large drug store and photograph ma
leriai house in New York city: is also
the compiler and publisher OF an Ameri-
can dramatic directory, q standard work
for managers, agents ami companies in the
amusement world; II was he who organized
ami equipped and sent To Florida tie corps
OF trained nurses made up from the leading
hospitals OF New York during the yellow
III lDe SDulfl. he WIS nlitsie
president or that famous institution inown
as the Actors Fund Association when it
WAS deeply in debt, and when he withdrew
from his Office, at the end OF his several
terms. 1t was no longer in debt, and there
was surplus OF $4,000 in the treasury
and he instigated and pushed to a sue
cessful termination the late great fair
In aid of the Actors Fund, which netteG
the organization between 100000 and
$500 900 for the support of old and de-
crepit actors and their families
RUNS A CLOSE RACE
Another New York man, by showing an
array of school prizes, runs pretty close
race with Mr.. Miners theatrical enter
ny. one of the young Congressman, tells |
that lie was educated in the public schools |
of Buffalo and graduated with the highest |
honors from tue high school in 1881. In |
the summer of 1881 he worked on a farm |
i'll Chautauqua. n. Y, and in 1882 became |
instructor in Latin and Greek in the Buff |
falo Classical School; entered Hobart Col |
lege In 1883, and remained two years. dur
ing which he stood at the head OF his class;
went TO Hayward University in 1884, and |
was one OF tue detur prize men Of that year; |
elected secretary and treasurer and three
times vice president of the Harvard Union,
vice president and president of the st.
Paul Society, the Protestant Episcopal So
ciety of Harvard College: chosen a member
of the Phi Beta kappa in the same year;
Boylston prize man in 1887 and 1888: was
3 graduated in 1888 summa cum laude He
wrote poetry and read II poem at Gettys
burg the summer after his graduation, ed
tied a paper, taught in the high school, was
appointed secretary of the legation to Chill
in 1890; seDtas minister to Ecua dor in 1s92;
returned home TO run an unsuccessful race
'and concluded in nineteen days the Santos
5reaty, negotiations for which had remained
Unsettled for nearly ten years" And this
nan is still young.
TILLMAN's BOAST.
Senator Tillnian of South Carolina makes
lis proudest boast the establishment of
Industrial schools for the boys and girls of
lis State, and gives scant notice Of Ills dis
)ensary law and his other remarkable
at home.
Representative Edward Sauerhering of
Wisconsin is chiefly notable for his name
Ind for the fact that he is an apcth rcary's
krk. which is carefully set forth in his ac-
,Ount of himself.
Another Wisconsin man with name and
ecord is ThcObold Often, who is an ex-
orcnian of a rolling mill.
The former delegate from Arizona, Hon. |
darcus Aurelius Smith. did much to adyer.
ise his country. but he hardly equaled the
fort of the new delegate, Nathan o. MUIR
'hy, in the new directory. Here is how he !
Oes it, He received n liberal high school
and early in life fitted hiuself |
or the part lie was destined to play in a
ich, though at the time he arrived in Ari- 1
Dna. an undeveloped country; shortly after
ttaining his majority, he followed the
curse of the Empire in the West; settled !:
l Phoenix. AriZ.; being farsecing enough to I
paliZe that la nd so rich in minerals and
D fertile when properly irrigated. must
come TO the front; was unani- y
iously chosen delegate to the national Re- !
ublican convention held in Minneapolis,
nd succeeded, among other things. in get y
ng the ard land interest of the West I
,cog nized In the platform of his party