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The herald., 1897-01-05
EDUCATIONAL

WOODBURY. BUSINESS COLLEGE QN-
corporated)' 226 S. Spring ST., Is the oldest
and largest commercial school in South
ern California; the most beautiful col
lege rooms and equipment to be found
in the state; elevator for pupils use: a
large faculty of experienced and able in
structors; open the entire year; both day
and evening sessions: practical Eng
llsh course, thorough business course
and a course in shorthand and type
writing under an experienced stenog-
rapher. Write or call for illustrated cata-
logue and full information. G.. A
HOUGH. president; n. G.. FELKER
vice. pres ident.
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GIRLS COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. 1882 "a
S. Grand ave-: home and day shool.
MISS PARSONS and MISS DENNEN,
PRINCIPALS 2-6-9I
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RuslNEss oPPoRTuNlTHs

-FOUR SPARE MONEY INVESTED. IN
guaranteed dividend-paying mining stock
will earn you from u to 100 per cent per
annum. 12 per cent of which a banker here
will guarantee. For our proposition and
prospectus call at rooms 10 and 20 No. 356
South Broadway. THE VOLCANIC
COPPER MINING AND SMELLING
COMPANY. 1-22
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THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL FOR BOYS
and young men has moved to 1888 w. Sew
enth ST., the fifth house. above Pearl.
Rates of tuition reasonable. For par
ticuars call upon or address the princi-
pal, ANSELM B. BROWN, A. NJ,
Yale) 12-1mO
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WANTED-A FIRST-CLASS BICYCLE:
will do cement work to pay for same. 400
San PEDRO ST. 6
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MATCHMAKING

PLAIN GOLD WEDDING RINGS. ALL
r'zes nnd weights, hest quality only w.
j. GETZ, jeweler, 1886 s. Broadway. If
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FOR RENT FRONT ROOMS, So PER
week; sunny rooms, S1.2o; also 70 cents
per night. 5l9 S. Spring st. 1-12
New-York tribune., 1897-05-30

otic nature has sung "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner" From 1881 to 1884 he was president or
the German Young Mems Association dur
ing which time Bunao's first music hall vas
erected For nine years he has been chairman or
.he associations Board of Real Estate 'o'nfnIs-
soners and was prominent in the erection 'r 'hf
new music hall which now graces the site of me
former structure burned in lSs'. He Is IIfe
member of the Association and OF IN" BuHaI'
Orpheus OF the latter he was on" of the Or
eanizers Mr. Lau.z il pre-eminently the patron
f the Buffalo symphony SOCIETY," wtich ne start
ID in 1SSS and which has since been maintaihed
tbrouph his liberality. In fact, he has made
M deficits year after year in the accounts pl the
orqanization and has been 10 Bunalo What COLO
mol Higgnson has been 10 Boston.
In 1874 Mr.. I.autz was married To Miss Amelia
X daughter Of John and Augus'a Trag"ser, ~
New-York Trey have three daughters
JAMES j ELL.
I'm all that broad ro"i0n beyond tn" treat
Lakes which we indefinitely speak Of a. IN"
Northwest" there is no man "ho ms wrought
cucb wonders in the railroad world as James j.
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considerable philanthropy. and scarcely any one
in Pttsburg or Allegheny can claim a larger
lacquaintance. one that includes all classes of
men In a word. he cXemplifics in himself the
perfect type of the self-made man of this era.
}, THE LATE CHARLES PFE'FEE
How man can rise from obscurity and pow
erty to wealth 10y mnsternG to rrosaic human
needs in a superior manner is strikingly Illus
trated 10y the Of the late Charles Pfeifer. Of
Allegheny. Penn. dyer and aundryman. He
was born in Dresden. Germany. just forty-siX
Y years prior to his accidental death while out
hunting last December and was brought to TINS
country at the age of three years Although
the boy enjoyed slight educationa! advantages.
>, in other respects he exhibited that thirst Tor
>, knowledge which keeps one up late nights, read
. ing and studying. When he was youth of
, eighteen he was taken into the employ of his
), brother Henry. who conducted dyesh"p in
Alleeheny Within a year thereafter Charles
, became a business partner. and inside OF an
, other twelve months he had bought out ms
, brothers interest. although it took some time
to pay the debt thus incurred. At this stage
in his career Charles Pfcifer often worked untll
IS or / a. m. and himself delivered with push
cart the goods intrustcd I" him for dyelng or
securing. Ills Wlfr inlndri jnt SHpP
time and to her counsel and devotion he was
accustomed to ascrih- much Of his prosperity
then and thereafter.
Something like twenty years az" Mr. Pfelier
took advantage of the fact that the only Ialn-
dries in Allegheny managed by Chinamen
against whom there was more or less popular
prejudice He opened a modest establishment
Of this class in connection with hi> dIeh"use,
and soon enjoyed sort Of monopoly in that
line Of business Tn, excellence IF the work
done there was such that old customers, hav-
ing removed To- distant points like New-fork
and Chicago would often send fine curtains and
similar articles To- him rather than intrust them
to strangers. When this new branch Of in
dustrv was undertaken TN" old puShcart was
replaced by modern delivery wagon ana at
the present time. even in dun season, ~ less
than Twenty-Five Of IN, latter class Of vehicles
are required by the laundry alone, which j. NOW
conducted in "A separate building from the dye
house Meantime the number Of employ has
increased from : t. -, and there are branch
offices scattered all over PttShUr= and Nile
gheny.
In partnership with David Weber Mr.. Pi"lier
started a big laundry and dyeshoP in 'hicag"
about nine years ago. That concern Is 'n" Of
tho largest and finest in the world II is
oouirrod with the b"s, II modern machinery.
A., more modest branch establishment wa all"
onered in Washington u. G.. about five years
ago but this was burned out Two years Later
a,d rueiress has not been resumed there since.
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lowing decade enlarged and improved the WORKS
until they outgrew the limits Of The family prop
erty and made their removal 10 a Idreei "''"
necessary.
Mr. Chambers made an cNteHded toui ~ ''o
glass-making centres oi Europe esPec'a'I! h"'
land and Belgium, in j. - ;'r the purpose "i III
vestigatng and studynr the most adVah'en
methods If manufacture abroad kraIZihs the
importance of the changes made IN furnace con
struction on the Continent. and being convinced
of the superior quality of the glass melted III
tanks as well as the great economy possible
from the perfection Of large continuous melting
furnaces he returned with plans and drawings
New-York tribune., 1897-05-30

HILL now the president Of the Great Northern.
Born on farm near Guelph ont. in ISIS he re-
ceived a pretty fair education before his fathers
death compelled him. at the age Of fifteen H. IL,
something for his own support Three year.
later in 1>j6 he started out on A tour Of ex-
ploration in the United States first visiting the
Atlantic seaboard and then pushing out 10 81
Paul. at that time a town Of only 1000 inhabi-
tants. This has been his home eyer since
Mr.. Hills earlier business ENGAGEMENTS here
were as employe in the offices Of various steam
boat companies, which in that era had a monopo-
ly Of transportation. Railroads had not VT
reached st. Paul. From 1861 to l>a, he con-
Quoted "a fuel and transportation business on hi,
own account At the end Of that period durns
which he built huge warehouse on tn. river
bank he organized a partnership for the nor.
extensive development of his interests Chaun-
cey w Griggs, John Armstrong T.. y Saunders
and George 5. Acker We're associated with him.
The firm known as Hill, Griggs & CO. the
senior partner giving his attention more eNclu-
sivey to transportation and Mr. GriggS looking
after the fuel business. This concern brought t.
ST. Paul the first coal ever used there. Before
the partnership dissolved in 1>15. Mr.. Hill
was recognized of the leading business
men Of the city.
What proved to be highly important step in
his career was the organization # the Red River
Transportation Company in 1870. Thus
opened up direct communication for the first time
between ST Paul and what is now Winnipeg, in
Manitoba. This line of boats was operated in
connection with the -. Paul and Pacific Rail
road. year later consolidation was
effected with another steamboat line which came
down from Winnipeg only far Moorhead.
Intimate relations were in this manner estab.
lished with Sir Donald y. Smith chief commits
sioner of the Hudson's Bay Company and Nor
man W. Kittson, agent of the rival line.
Now came still bolder ana more sasaciouS
move. In 1873 the 81. Paul and Pacific had de-
faultcd payment Of interest, and had gone into.
the hands Of receiver Most of the securities.
amounting to 81 O0oOoo We're in the hands OF
Dutch bankers. With the corporation OF Sir
Donald and Mr. Kittson ard George stephen.
then president of the Bank of Montreal control
of the road was obtained, although the negota-
tions extended through five years. by 1879 tho
new mana cement had completed the road 10 -
Vincent and the company was now reOrganZ,d
as the 81. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba. with
Mr.. stephen as president and Mr.. Hill as gen
eral manager. The latter gentleman became
vice-president in lNS2 and president the follow
ing year He still holds that Office
An alliance was formed by Mr.. Hill with the
Canadian Pacific magnates in 1850. but three
years later he cut loose from them and devoted
himself exclusively to his own road This has
ern, of which Mr. Hill became president in 1870
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from which he outlined IT, modern tank iur-
mace plant at Jeannettc, Penn.
This was constructed on scale s." "Nt"nSlN"
as 10 dwarf every other windoW-glasS works ana
siartle even the most advanced glass engineers
and experts With sca-..'y single exception
manufacturers prophc,.ei failure. The work
men with the antipI,hy IF century -"d pfeJu-
IicDs against Improvement Of process ';lS ac-
.ustnrnod TO- were AYERS, to working on tanks.
and refused to accept places until Mr. Cham-
b.rs agioed ~ guarantee them a. hlsh wages
as vcr. averaged 10y the old pot system Hut the
tanks. 20 the surprise of all except their sanguihe
profocl. r ami owner, proved q remarkable sue
o.ys fro.. H.. start the glass being clearer 1eer
from i,ruurites ana Of higher polish and more
uniform: .olor than it WAS possible t" make IN
pots or orucbes
Mr. Chambers was president Of the chambers
4 McKe. Glass Company from the date ol us
organization in 1>>> till 1891, having during that
time organized. planned and put int" successful
.,r.ratinu three enormous tanks, comprising the
largest vindow-glass producing establishment IN
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Nlst Regiment Of New-York Volunteers. He has
refused 10 hold political office, but his public
spirit Is evidenced 10y the number Of representa-
tive institutions Of which he is active support
er. He is a life member Of the Buffalo Lii
brary Buffalo Historical Society Buffalo Fine
Arts Academy Buffalo Catholic Institute, and
trustee of the Buffalo homeopathic Hospital.
Nothing, however is more characteristic Of Mr.
LautZ than his earnest and generous devotion
to music. He is gifted with fine voice has been
the solo barytone in st. Paul's Chuch for many
years, and on many public occasions Of a patri-
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extension. The three colossal continuous melt
ing tank furnaces of this company now in opera
tion are capable Of producing GlNWW boxes, or
Il OoO,0O0 square feet per year, and are the larg
est tanks in existence.
Mr.. Chambers was the first American manu-
facturer of window glass to establish agencies in
NeW-YOrk and Boston for the exclusive sale Of
American glass. Before the establishment OF
these agencies not more than l. per cent of the
glass used i'm Eastern cities was of domestic
manufacture while to-day over two-thrds Of
the glass used H. an American product.
Besides having built the first successful tank
furnace plant i'm the United States at Jeanette
and in addition to having duplicated, improved
and enlarged upon il at NeW-kensingtOn, Mr.
Chambers first introduced extensively and thor
oughly, mechanical appliances for the most eco
romical handling Of raw materials and product.
He also wonderfully improved the process of
iatt,ning, anncaling and conveying glass by the
Introduction Of an automatic cylinder and sheet
convey ance and improved oven and lear CON
Structi,n
As a result Of these departures from the beaten
paths and antquatcd processes of manufacture
"Chambcrs's Eagle Brand" is preferred by all
progressive builders, Is being specified by the
leading architects Of this country and is regu-
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, MAY 3o 1897

larry bought and sold at higher prices than Is
paid for ordinary imported domestic window
glass \ special grade, closely selected ana care
fully packed in twenty-six-ounce crystal sheets
marked "Chambers Eagle Brand" Is manufact-
ured for fine residences. public buildings. busi-
ness and Office fronts and occupies place De
tween the best doubIe-strength sheet and poll
isbed plate glass and is conceded to be the fin
est blown sheet glass obtainabe.
DANIEL. HUGH MMILLAN.
one Of the best known members Of the bar Of
Buffalo is Daniel r. Mcmillan He is Of Scotch
origin whose monumental cross. erected in 1898.
still stands with its inscriptions at the family
burial place in Kilmory, Scotland. Mr.. McM
Ian completed his education at Cornell T'niver-
sity, and in 1869 he began the study Of law at
Buffalo in the office of Ianing. Cleveland e Fol
som and admitted To the bar in 1871. He
is at present at the head Of the law firm OF Nc
MILAN. CIuck. Pooey & Depew.
In 1SSJ Mr. Mcmillan was elected by the Re
publicans TO represent the Buffalo district in the
state Senate in lsj7 he was renominated; this
nomination he declined While in the Senate ne
was chairman of the Committee on Canals and
Cities. He prepared the bill authorizing the
lengthening of the locks on the Erie Canal
ducng the cost of transportation between tE'
Great Lakes and tide-water upward of 40
per cent: also the bills providing for the !
application of electricity in carrying into I
effect the death penalty for "A uniform
policy Of fire insurance to be issued by
all companies and for the utilization Of
the power of Niagara Falls. which
suited i'm establishing the largest cleo
trical power plant in the world. In
lNr; Mr. Mcmillan elected one of
the fifteen delegates at large to the con
VentiOn 10 revise and amend the Stat
Constitution. and in this body h. took
an active and leading position. In lSNS,
1892 and 1896 he chosen at the Re | -
publican State Convention one Of the
four alternates large to the Repub-
Icau National Convention.
Mr. Mcmillan has been president, and ~
for many years "A manager, of the Buff IN
falo Library. ana it was largely
through his efforts that i'm 1891 it became a free
circulating public library under maintenance 10y
the municipality; he is manager of the Buffalo
State Hospital, a trustee Of the state Normal
School, a member Of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, the Buffalo His
torcal Society and Of the Society Of Natural
Sciences, the American and the State Bar asso-
Citations, and for twelve years was one of tn"
examiners Of applicants for admission to the
bar
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JAMES \. CHAMBERS.

When the history Of the industrial revolution
which began t. transform American window
glass manufacture from tn" crude ana primitive
processes pursued for nearly three hundred
years shall bc truthfully recorded the name of
James \. Chambers Will appear first among that
galaxy Of American manufacturers whose life
work devoted successfully 10 the achieve
ment of the industrial independence IF our coun-
try.
Alexander Chambers, father Of the subject Of
the present sketch, with his brother, formed the
window glass and bottl, manufacturing firm Of
x u. IL Chambers. of PittSburp. in 1913.
which for more than forty years continued 10 be-
one of the leading glass-making firms i'm the
United States. James \. Chambers became an
active partner and assumed the active manage
mcnt Of the business in 1869. ana during the fol-
New-York tribune., 1897-05-30
FREDERICK G. NJ. LAUTI.

In Frederick Christopher Martin Iautz one has
a good Illustration Of the successful business man
who is also patron IF art Mr.. LauZ was born
at Rimhorn, lIesse- -Darmstadt, March - 1Nl6
His parents cmigrated 10 America when he was
seven years old, settling in Buffalo, y. y where
the son grew up, attended the public schools, and
then entered his fathers soap manufacturing
business. out Of that enterprise grew the house
IF Lautz Bros. * CO. soap makers of which firm
he is member. He is one Of the founders of the
Niagara Starch Works. and has proprietary in
tercsts in the onyx works of the IautZ Company
and in the Niagara Stamping and Tool Works.
He is also president of the Elcott square Bank
in Buffalo and is Identified with many other sue
cessful business enterprises.
During the Rebellion Mr.. Lautz served in the
New-York tribune., 1897-05-30

When he died Mr.. Pfeifers estate was valued
at nearly quite Sl.0n0W, which included
S44O.OOD of life insurance.
Mr.. Pfeifer was lenient To- his tenants, showed
benevolence in many ways. and was Mason
and a Methodist i'm good standing
New-York tribune., 1897-05-30

existence up 10 lndI tlIll'. W '''' '''''
retaining the family interest and con-
tinuing to hold his place on the Board
of Directors in the Jeannette works he
retired from its active management III
the fall of 1891, and Immediately Sc
cureC an excellent site on the Allegheny
River. eighteen miles from PittSburg, on
the Allegheny Valley Railroad, branch
of the Pennsylvania Railroad system.
where the town of fNew-Kensington was
laid out. and organized the Chambers
Glass Company. now known throughout
the. world as manufacturers of the cele-
brated "Chambers Eagle Brand of win
dow glass. and built what all glass
makers agree is the largest, the most
substantially constructed and most eih-
cient mechanically equipped window
glass works in the world The works
are thoroughly supplied with every
labor-saving device possible for the efil-
cient and economical handling Of the
raw materials and finished product, and
are conceded To bc the most perfect
model of a modern manufacturing plant
yet evolved. The plant now covers
thirty acres Of ground. and the company
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-06-18
County Commissioners.

Road checks issued.-W. b. Davis, $17S.57
Walter P. Reckord S114.30; L. j. Gatchell,
$12 so; William Hudson, $25; Charles Clark,
$41, 90; d. B. Love, $7.S5; Isaac B. Dick $3.50
Owen Murphy, $50. 80; j. l.. Skillman, So. 10
Marion STREET., $40; Walter Z. Harvard, $50
John Michigan, 1899 ~: NJ. F. Doyle, S37. 25
W. F. Blaney, 81; Andrew Lagan, $24.S7
James Amos, $50; Samuel Nj. Orr, $3.50; B,
Gilpin Smith, SIS; Wilmer Durham, 81; Isaac
E. Morris, S.; w. NJ. Whiteford, SIG; Henry
Murphy, S2l: John Deaver, $2S; Alfred King,
S54.24; John W. Barton, $19.2S; John T. Dial
ton, $40; W. T. Hughes, 1859. Il. G. Richard
son, So. %; Lilburn Martin, $685.; Steward
Hornberger, S11.S7; James n. Richardson,
S40.75; James w. Davis, s57.3S; Charles K.
Preston, $20.S7; j. Howard Scarf, $33; Geo.
o. Richardson, $990S. Total, 81 ,52669.
Certificates issued.-R. Harris Archer, As
SCISSOR, S359.92; j. Wesley Henderson, Assessor,
$3Sl.16; DIR. Thomas b. Hayward, vaccine
account, $3.50; Ambrose Cooley, sherifT's ac-
count, $4l3 20; John w. Barton, Judge Or
phan's Court, S176; James NJ. Cain, do, SIP;
Hugh T. Bay, do, SIG. Total $l,6S4.7S.
Cash paid-Wm. +. Hays, Assessor, 81;
Road Machine repairs. Sc; W. Writ Clarke &
Son, Culvert Pipe, $40; a. 7. Clabaugh,
quoting stocks for assessors, IS. Total S22. 10
The bond Of John c. Temple, as constable
for the second district, was received and
approved.
Henry Anderson, colored, of Havre de
Grace, presented petition for pension.
The following bids were received for
county coal: Henry P. Reckord Manufactur-
ing company, $436 so: Hanway & Keen, 1929;
Wilson Il Cronin, 1854; Walter P. Reckord,
$454. The contract was awarded to Hanway
& Keen.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-06-18
3uqh River Neck.

MICHAELSvIIGE June 16.-We have been
treated quite frequently lately with fine rains,
making the best season for ausplauting
which we have enjoyed for 4 number of years
past. Last Sundays rain was glorious one
for us, but was Lot AS highly appreciated by
the farmers in the lower part of the Neck.
Messrs. y. Il. Walker, Lemuel L. Matthews
and Grant StOckham suffered severely. The
storm WAS accompanied in that vicinity by
hail which cut the tomato plants Off close to
the ground. These three farms are perhaps
three-fourths of mile in width, and strange
to relate, no hail fell Oh either side of them.
II "Osceola" had bcenin this ueighbOrhOOd
last Saturday and Sunday, or even Monday,
Notwithstanding the high northwest gale, he
would have stuffed not only his ilannels, but
like Charles Lamb would have wanted to
take off his flesh and sit down in his bones.''
We must, however, admit that this has been
the coolest spring and summer, SO far, that we
have had since 1851 or 1852, when burly ne
groes Graded wheat all day with heavy winter
coats on. Your correspondent was bit of a
lad then, picking up sheavos and was nearly
frozen, and the event was indeibly fixed upon
his memory. Mr.. James l.. Richardson, the
present proprietor of "Uld Baltimore was a
GRADER in those days, and was the overseer
for the late Jacob j. Michael, on the old
Homestead farm. He often speaks of the
time, and how he led the oxen across those
large fields with heavy coat on and unable
to keep warm. The venerable gentleman is
now seventy-four years old and yet he would
hardly hesitate to take his cradle and give the
youngsters hard shove today.
Messrs Malcolm and FIaharty are now at
work in the Neck, and are leaving their traces,
in good roads. They know just how to do it.
Mr.. John 5. Young is doing much to i'm
prove his Spring Garden Farm" near Mich
aelsvil!e. He has it all well fenced. He has
adopted new idea. Instead of building it
five rails high, lie has abolished the fifth rail
and instead thereof he has plowed two fur
rows on each side and shoveled the dirt into
Il bank under the fence and around the posts,
thus forming a watershed which will preserve
the posts a decade Ion ger. jim SANK.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-06-18
ChiIdren.s Day Services.

Last Sunday evening children's day services
were held at the II. +. Church South, Aber.
deem. The edifice was beautifully and pro
fusely decorated with roses, growing plants,
wild flowers and ferns. The church was filled
to Overlooking with parents and friends ofthe
children, who evidently enjoyed the service
quite as much as the little ones. The pro
gramme consisted of recitatiOns and dia-
logues, interspersed with music, and was pleas
antly rendered. All the participants acquitted
themselves admirably, ana Mrs. 0. c. Michael
deserves credit for training the children. The
church choir assisted with the singing, and
was composed of Mr.. Q. c. Michael, leader
Miss Emma Cronin, organist; Mrs. Ava L
Irwin, Mrs. Il. A. Gilbert, Mrs. o. c. Michael
Misses Belle Nichols, Gussie Nelson, Eiiza
beth Neale, Messrs. ". B. Richardson. w. H.
Cronin, W. A. Martin, d. B. Arthur and Dr.
Charles Il. Kriete.