New-York tribune., 1901-12-21
PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Jerry Simpson, the former Congressman from
Kansas has quit politics for good and all. The
other dav he burned the last ties that connected
him with public fe-the letters he had received
from people during the period of his fame as d
soclless statesman There eight tons of them
In all Speaking of Populism," said Mr. Simpson
who is now a cattle buyer at the Wichita STOCK
Yards lit is singular that no one has ever written
its history correctly. The fitting, eVanescent cpl
sodes which were a few years ago to be found IN
every township in Kansas were never properly ana
unprejudcedly recorded L am sorry TINS wave oi
fanaticism was never set down in books the con-
tagious fever the automatic power of organization
the ferocity Of its attacks, evidenced prolouho
public passion. That was Populism-not an uprising
scribed by well known gifted writers IN hans5s, @
Fo9Pdcertain Pllc l no harm At one time when Mr.
ssimpson was in the heyday of his glory he
no socks He says this Populist teachlnS, a
brand upon himself as one OF the comm9hers I T AZ
when he was first the floor of the House he now
admits that he was 60reg 5Fo49ee Reed While s
cere were made PRINCIPALLY to further his reputa.
ton as t an IN 6s 6ee Oh the the Wichita Stock Yards
toying with a diamond shirt STUD ana a S1elso9 s3
to leak from his storehouse of political knowledge
As head of the i'Billion Dollar Steel Trust
Charles NJ. schwab has had much printed about
him in various publications. Some of IT is true;
most of it is false. More has been written about
the salary alleged to have been paid Mr.. Schwab
anything
salary of 81 100000 year. This is erroneous II
was recently announced that his salary was ap-
proximatey 5000, and that a part of 1T was
contingent upon the business done. Mr. Schwab
is personally of a retiring disposition OF German
ancestry, he is a product of the Carnegie school
of business Starting in practically at the bot
tom, he forced his way to the top by sheer merit
He said be the greatest authority on the prac-
conntrv When the United States Steel Corporation
was formed Andrew Carnegie made 1t one OF the
Of &c 1ff1p
Schwab be made the executive to the new company
pany in the new combination Mr Carnegie has
absolute confidence in Mr.. schwab. and recently
has left almost all his interests. in that company
to his lieutenant TO manage as his discretion dc
and saq has 6ry hnmoT IN taking In business he is
concise and energetic, and IS left practcally un-
trua His work LES in the the operating end takes
little or no interest in the financial or NaH Street
phases of the business.
In order that he might hear all who came to his
support regardless of race or language, Mr.. Low
early In the campaign provided himself with an in
terpreter who is still to be found at his headquar-
ters the greater part of each weekday When the
rush of applicants at its height and before Mr.
Low had announced that he could see candidates
only by appointment, the interpreter found that his
fob was by no a sinecure Delegation after
delegation from East Side districts waited in line
to see the Mayor-eect, and their spokesmen used
anything in the range of East Side language from
Yiddish to Slavic Simon Z. Balm is the inter-
prefers name. He is q little man, and his height
is an inch under five feet. There are few moments
that smile cannot be found on some part of his
face, and at such moments Simon Is pulling at MS
mustache in a struggle to twist some Bohemian or
Polish phrase into comprehensive English. The
charge that Simon is partial to his East Side breth-
rem when the latter endeavor to get an audience
with the Mayor-elect has been made several oc-
casions. Thus it afternoon, In the course
of which as many three hundred persons had
crowded the headquarters to see Mr.. Low, tiat
Mam nn how b. s # that yonr su9ksf friends al
ways manage to get in ahead ana keep the rest
cept perhaps it is from their training in the push
of the Low campaigns, and besides his work at
the tenement house classes in the work of the Uni
versity Settlement
Matthew c. D. Borden left Fall River thirty-two
years ago, Immediately after he had completed his
course at Yale His visits the city of his birth
have not been numerous and all of them have been
brief Few of the thousands of operatives who
have been benefited by him at various times have
seen him. and fewer would know him If they
him. until they remembered his features they
nave been pictured. What they know o. him
they have read heard and all OF it has been
perfectly satisfactory TO them The present gen.
Grafton of business in Fall River know little
more OF him. They have seldom seen him, and they
know him only as a business man. Socially they
are strangers, and all that they say of him is
that his has been marked by series of
stiff business propositions in which he has invaria
Print works is illustration of his decisive meth
ods His brother, who in the converting
business with him, suddenly asked by Matthew
what figure would purchase his interests. Sur
prised but ready he named his price 100000
Matthew Borden accepted it Immediately went into
the annual meeting a few minutes later. and
sole owner discharged the old board of directors
and carried his long cherished plan to buy the
Fau River Works charter and property, the
possession Of which. giving him both ma man9lactur-
trolling factor in the print cloth production of the
United States.
CALL no A COLLEGE PRESTRENT
Binghamton n. Y. Dec. 2o.-The Rev. John IL