The Washington times., 1901-07-07
PERSONAL.

Hugh Douglass Wise who has been
made captain in the Ninth Regiment.
United States Infantry, is the young Of
ficer who carried his camera up the hill
at San Juan and rendered important SER
vice by photographiHg the position OF the
enemy Captain Wise was graduated
from West Point in 1894.
The Archbishop of York completed his
seventy-fifth year on June Is. Entering
the British army as young man, he
served in India for five years, and before
retiring as lieutenant he had become in
terpreter to the regiment so cleverly did
he master the intricacies of Hindustani.
When he ceased soldering he went 10
Cambridge, where he graduated with high
honors in mathematics, and then took or
ders in 1896. In 1873 he was made vicar of
kensington, and three years later Bishop
of Lichfield. where he remained until
1891. when Lord Salisbury offered him the
primacy of the north. in the administra-
tion of which he has so remarkably dis
tinguished himself
William H. Moore, who has beer elect
ed director of the Chicago, Rock ISL
and and Pacific Railroad, has been res
ident of New York for some time Mr..
Moore was born in Utica, n. Y, on Oc-
seminary in Oneida and In Cortland
Academy at Homer, ". Y. and In 1867
entered Amherst College.
Fleetwood Wilson, c. B., who has been
made head of the tribunal at Pretoria
which viii consider all claims for dam
age done by British troops. went to South
Africa some months ago as financial ad-
wiser to Lord Kitchener. In 1898 he had
been appointed Assistant Under Secretary
of State.
Booker T. Washington, President of the
National Negro Business League, an
nounces that the league will hold a ma
tional convention in Chicago on August
q, %, and %.
Archbishop Ireland has received an
autcgraphic communication from Pope
Leo XIII. congratulating the Catholics
on the recent celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the establishment OF the
diocese of St Paul.
The late Baron Fitzgerald, an Irish
judge, who was on the bench for twenty
years. never once pronounced a capital
sentence. and Lord Norris, who sat for
twenty-five years, never hanged crimi-
nal.
James Hamilton Lewis is the leading
incorporation at Tacoma of a new match
company, capitalized at $3.50, 900 1t is
proposed to erect factory 200 feet square
and four stories high. The company is
10 use the match making apparatus of
an inventor who claims his machine can
cut strips Of wood into matches at the
rate of $4,000 per minute.
The new Italian Ambassador to Lon
don, signor Alberto Panza, is possessed
Of a very intimate knowledge of Euro
pean statecraft. Born in Turin fifty
seven years ago. Signor Panza, having
graduated as a doctor Of laws, passed at
once into the diplomatic service and
filed successfully junior appointments at
the embassies of Athens, Bucharest. Ber-
lin, Belgrade, and Constantinople.
NJ Iaberdesque, who fought a duel with
Max Regis ia Paris recently, is only
tweEty-seven, but has seen many adven-
lures He was born in Cuba has fought
I'm several Central American revolutions
and served with the Spahis in Algeria un-
der the French flag. He has been a prin-
cipal in forty-three duels with sword,
yataghan, and pistol.
The restoration of Missouri Pacific to
the dividend-paying column is a great
personal triumph for Mr.. George J. Gould.
the eldest son and the natural successor
of the late Jay Gould, who was, perhaps,
the ablest and most resourceful railroad
man of his time Jay Gould lived to see
the Missouri Pacific a dividend payer and
he lived TO see il shrink almost to nothing.
The son, whose patience is as tireless as
his energy is indomitable, has had the
pleasure oil putting the MlSSouIl racine
system on a higher plane than 1t ever held
during the lifetime of his father.
Grand Duke Karl Alexander of Sake
Weimar. as young man, saw a great
deal of Goethe. Shortly before his death
he dictated his recollections, and they will
be published by the Goethe Society.
Queen Margherita of Italy has the repu-
tation of Feine the best educated woman
in the ranks of European royalty. She
reads and writes English, French, Ger
man. and Spanish. and has wide ac-
quaintance with the Greek and Latin
classics.
N Annandale and H. c. Robinson, of
England, are about TO undertake a zoo
logical expedition to the Siamese Malay
States, where they intend TO spend a year
in the native State of Jalor. near the east
coast Of Lower Siam. They will be equip
ped for collecting in all branches of natu-
raj history. but intend devoting particular
attention 10 the pre-Malayan tribes of
Negrito stock who inhabit the centre of
the peninsula. Since Jaior is on the bor-
derland in which the Siamese ana Malay
races meet. their chronological work should
be of great interest.
l. E Bleckley, eX-Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, aged seventy
three not content with matriculating as
a student last year at the State Univer-
sity has engaged the services of a tutor
for the summer months. Prof Mareno
who has Just been elected professor of
mathematics at Stanford University. will
spend several weeks with the distin-
guished jurist at his summer home and
coach him industriously. Judge BIeckIey
is writing what he expects TO he an
epoch-making book. called Values" and
he desires the assistance of the learned
mathematician The book deals with cur
rency and commercial values.