The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-06
Some Men
of the Hour

For more than a year past, the .I"r-
| nNn has had as one of its guests &
uuiet-looking. pleasant-f faced. middle
| aged man. who seemed never to be in
IL hurry and a complete stranger TO
care. TO observe him casually. as he
lolled about the corridors. one would
put him down as Il well-to-do business
man, possessed of "A happy capability
of forgetting Ill about his desk when
| he pulled down the cover. He made
acquaintances readily and was in the
city Il very few months before he num-
bered among his friends n host of
Scranton's most representative men.
He sought no favors. refrained from
discussing his business affairs and
seemed to make no effort to impress
any one with an idea that he was of
any importance. Yet all the time he
was administering the preliminares of
one of the most gigantic enterprises
| this region has ever known.
| The man is c. V. Boughton. adminis-
trative head of the new Lackuwanna
| and Wyoming Valley Rapid Transit
| company, and president of the Transit
| Contract company, the allied concern
; in charge of all the constructive work
connected with this immense railway
| project.
Mr.. Boushton was Interested in the
scheme by its incoptor. George \. Lee,
| of Philadelphia, and at the request of
| the company. gave up all his vast
| business interests in his home city to
| become chief field marshal of the big
| undertaking. How effective was lis
quiet but energetic work. The Tribune
| told in its article ON the company'S
| plans and achievements, printed TWO
weeks ago. Up to that time even his
intimate personal friends had no idea
OF the NastneSs Of the project he was
directing. They knew from occasional
newspaper stories that the company
WAS up to something. but Mr. Roueh-
tons dcmeanor never made them any
the wiser as to its immonsity. With
all the attention now directed towards
him. by reason of the publicity given
his activities, ne is still the unosten-
tatious, easygoing genial gentleman
he always has been.
=
One of the most modest men who ,las
an office in the municipal building and
yet one of the city's most industrious
ana conscientious officials is Arthur C.
Monies, who has been acting as plumb
ing inspector for the last year and a
half. 1t has been the city'S good for
tune to have always had good capable
men as plumbing inspectors, Mr.
Monies predecessor. NJ. +. OMallcy,
was an able, pnnstaknG official and
Nh Monies is demonstrating more and
more every day OF his worth and use
fulncsS,
He has both Il theoretical and Il prlu-
tcnl knowledge of the plumbing trade,
having graduated from Il New Eng
land technical school and having had
practical experience in the business be-
fore his appointment by Former Di-
rector James Moir. The busnesslikc
manner in which he has taken hold of
the conduct of the examinations which
plumbers are required by the second
class city laws to pass has been cN-
tromely cr"dituble. He served as pres
idcni of the board of examiners and
the preparation of the questions ana
of the formulas for the practical tests
was almost entirely his work,
The man who succeeds in doing solne-
lining for his fellow man is rightly re-
surdrd as u popular fellow, and that
is the position that Druggist John J.
Davies now occupies among the drug
men of West Scranton. In common
with many other druggists Mr. Davies
VAS convinced that drug stores ought
To close at 10 o'clock and he began IA
movement 10 bring about that desired
end.
lie was so successful that beginning
With Monday, Nov II, drug stores viii
close each night at 10 O'Clock, except
saturday night,
MIR, Davies is one of Nest Scranton's
most popular citizens as well as one of
its most successful business men. He
il Il leading spirit in all movements for
The betterment of conditions in that
part Of The city and his advice Is al
ways listened to With great attention.