The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-22
PERSONALITIES.


Sleeping Bear a full-blooded Gros
Ventre Indian, successfully conducts a
general store at Great Falls, Mont. lie
Will not give his own people credit but
extends 1t to limited number of whites.
S. Coleridge Taylor who composed the
cantata played at the last festival in
Norwich England, is a full-blooded
negro. Mr. Bispham declared the com
poser of "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast the
coming musical genius.
John y. Rockefeller believes that the
chief fault of Americans is overeating.
Accordingly his one heavy meal Is dinner
served at in the evening. His usual
luncheon consists merely of n glass of
milk, with two salted crackers and an
| occasional piece of fruit
Miss Celia Miles, the only daughter Of
| Major General Nelson A. Miles, is a great
| favorite in Washington society. She is
| n blonde tall, remarkably graceful, and
| with tho frank, unaffected ways of army
girls generally. She is an accomplished
musician and linguist, and a splendid
| horsewoman.
Mrs. Langtry's racing establishment at
| Regal Lodge, Kentford, is only a small
place, although most beautifully furnished
! and decorated. Indeed, says gossip, of
| all the racing boxes of the English great
| world in and around Newmarket, there
| is not one that can comppre In comfort
and luxury with Mrs Langtrys place.
| She has about twenty-eight horses in
| training.
| John w Gates, of Chicago, has come
| into prominence within half a dozen
years. He was for a long time connected
| with the Illinois Steel company and at
tracted national attention first by his
| organization of the old steel trust. He
was the most active agent in forming
| the wire trust and the Federal Steel COM
| pany. His work as a promoter has given
| him a great fortune and he is now am
| bilious to figure in political affairs. He
| has Just been appointed by Governor
| Tanner commissioner for Illinois to the
| Paris exposition of 1900 and is talked
| about as a candidate for United States
| senator to succeed Shelby NJ. Culom.
Edward Markham, author of 1.-THE Man
| With the Hoe" although gray of beard
and hair, is but AZ years of age; eyes
| dark brown, forehead high, nose aCqui-
| line, his manner frank and free, his bear
| ing that of manly man, in his CONVEX
sation no suggestion of vanity. AS a
| fatherlesS boy he worked on cattle
ranch, his closest companion a deaf and
dumb brother, his guide and counselor q
| loving Christian mother of strong char
! acter. At 10 this boy had earned enough
| to pay for the expense of his education
in a normal schoo! and a higher course
of studies at Santa Rosa college. Now
he is an educator in the University of
| California.
Sir Thomas Upton, the millionaire
| tea merchant and cup challenger, was
| born in Glasgow of Scotch-Irish parents.
| The parents were roor and at II young
| Upton came as a stowaway to America.
| For three years he knocked about in the
| United States, working principally as a
| farm hand. Then he went back to Glas-
| gov. By dint of economy and borrow
| ing he got together siO0 and resolved to
| try American business methods in Scot
| land. zone day." says a biographer,
1.-The staid Scottish city was astonished
| to see two monster hogs, groomed until
| their bristles gllstcned, decked with rib
Dons and led through the streets behind
a banner labelled 'Iipton's Orphans" A
| crowd gathered and followed the huge
| swine to a little shop with the name of
| Upton above the door The young fel-
low was proprietor, clerk, salesman,
bookkeeper and porter, all in one. He
lunched in the shop and dined not at all
| at first. The venture succeeded. He
got a clerk, and presently in another
quarter of the city there was another
| Upton shop, an exact duplicate of the
| other Today there are 420 Upton shops
| scattered through Great Britain, so of
| them being in London. They are all
alike, all gayly colored and illuminated,
| so that they stand out like lighthouses
on a dark night. Lipton's tea comes from
his own plantations in Ceylon, but a
| score of other food products also bear
| his label and swell his fortune. In the
| United States he owns butchering plant
that kills 5000 hogs daily, and he has 400
refrigerator cars to carry the meat to the
markets. His fortune is estimated at
$4,000 600, and he is not 50 years old
| When his London interests were formed
into a joint stock company, with a capt.
talization Of $l2,5OO,OOO. 100000 of which
was offered for sale, the stock was sub
scribed twenty-five times over For his
charities he was knighted a year ago
and it IS Sir Thomas Upton who sails
over here in his yacht, the Shamrock, to
race for the Americas cup-Sir Thomas
Lipton, who shoYeled coal to pay for his
stolen passage on the Charleston steam
er."
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