Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-17


make change in the arrangements for
the annual alumni dinner and hereafter
each guest will settle his own bill. 1t
has been the custom in the past, ana a
peculiar one it was, to charge each un-
dergraduate IL dollar 4 year 10 ASSIST
in defraying the expense of the alumni
dinner. After graduation his expense
was nothing. The Mail thinks that
such an arrangement was advantage
Gus only for the graduates residing III
the city who have been enjoying din
ners annually for many years at the
expense of others. Hereafter each
guest will settle for his dinner, a fair
plan, save for the young grads, who
have not yet had opportunity to eat up
| the coin advanced during their course.
| Again it is the man from Maine. As
we have said on so many previous oc-
oasions it is the man from Maine who
is the great quantity in the business.
| literary, scientific ana professional
ranks of the great wide world We
may not know much about him or hear
much about him till his death causes
his biography to be written. or some
great event takes place which brings
his ability and character prominently
before the world. Today it is Prcsi
dent Melville +. Ingalls, of the Big
Four" railway system, who is the man
from Maine" being much talked about.
Mr.. Ingalls, was born in Harrison Cum
berland county, Sept. 6, 1912, ana was
educated at BOwdoin college and the
Harvard law school. After beginning
the profession of law in this State he
removed to Boston, ana was soon in
politics and Il member of the Massa-
| ChuSettS senate before he had reached
the age OF %. 1t was while in the
! Massachusetts senate that he was APP
pointed receiver for the old IndianapO-
/ lis, Cincinnati and Lafayette railroad
a line that had been sunk deep in the
| mire Of adversely. The Nanderbilts
! early had their eyes fixed on Mr.. In
gals, and it was largely through his
mastery management Of the down
trodden indianapolis, Cincinnati and
Lafayette road that they We're at
tracted to him. 1t safely may be said
that today Mr. Ingalls, is one Of the
most trusted allies of the Vanderbilt
| interests. After President Ingalls, had
given new life and greater possibilities
to the Big Four ana the Chesapeake
| and Ohio systems he expressed Il de-
| sire to retire from active railroad bust
ness, but his love for the life and the
urgent requests Of the owners of those
| lines that he keep in the harness over
came his desire, and it is said that he is
more active today than he ever was be
fore. Mr.. Ingalls, has been prominently
/ in, connection 80 .lc
| of several railroads. 1t was generally
| believed that he would succeed the late
| Coils p. Huntington as president Of
the Southern Pacific system, and it is
| believed that he could have had that
place. The influence of the Vanderbilt
interests, however, has kept him with
the big Four" and the Chesapeake and
Ohio properties. President Ingalls,
makes his home at East Walnut Hills,
/ Cincinnati He has won renown out
side the railway world. He is an ora
tor of high rank, and his sound judg-
ment and forcible style has appealed to
many of the strongest commercial and
| professional organizations in the land
! Not long ago Mr.. ingalls, spoke before
the bankers, club of Chicago, and in his
address he made a powerful appeal for
the spreading out of the nations COM
mercial possibilities. In the campaign
of 1896 he won special distinction in
his advocacy of sound money. His
speeches We're given national publicity,
and no small measure of the success of
sound money that year has been at
| tributed to the convincing powers and
clear logic of Melville L. Ingalls,, the
man from Maine.