The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
ONE DEMooRAT-Two REPUBLICANS.
McLane, Heffner and Timanus the Men
Who Won the Principal Prizes In the
Contest in Baltimore on Tuesday.

Who Won the Principal Prizes In the
Contest in Baltimore on Tuesday.
Mr. Robert NJ. McLane will be the youngest |
mayor Baltimore has ever had. In fact he is
no doubt the youngest man ever elected as
highest officer of any city of the United States
of size. At the age of IS he is-or will be
when inaugurated-the most exalted official of
a community of 900 900, and the mayor of one
of the leading municipalities of America, says
the Baltimore Herald.
The mayor.elect comes of one of the best
Maryland families. 1t is house that has
been signally honored by this State and in
turn has conferred nothing but credit upon
this commonwealth.
The new mayor is the son of Mr.. James l..
McLane prominent man of affairs OF baltl-
more, and a nephew of the late ex-Gov Robert
NJ. McLane, who was likewise minister to
France.
Though the average man can do little to at
tract attention in career as short as Mr.. Nc
Lanes, vet his life to date developed certain
phases of character that played no small part
in his nomination and ultimate election. had
Mr.. McLane proved weakling i'll the States
Attorneys Office he would never have been
thought of as mayoralty possibility. AS it
was when his name was suggested, he was re-
garded as 'happy find" and such indeed, he
proved
Mr. McLane was born in Baltimore, Novem-
Der 80, 1867. He was educated at private
schools, the Johns Hopkins University, and he
graduated in law at the Maryland University.
The mayor prospective can be best described
as a young gentleman of the old school. DE
is courteous, considerable, but this regard for
others does not take the form of weakness.
His administration Of the affairs of the States
Attorneys Office shows tirmness and judgment,
ard ~ moe ho ronord he m ada here which con.
tributed much to his selection as thestandard-
bearer of his party.
Mr.. McLane entered the Hopkins University
when 40 years of age, graduating with honors
and continued for year, relinquishing to
enter the Maryland University to take up law.
This was in the fall of 1888. He graduated in
1891.
Mr.. George R. Heffner, who was elected City
Comptroller on the Republican ticket, was
born in Baltimore in 1885, and is consequently
the oldest man on the Republican city ticket,
being Just So years of age. Since boyhood he
has been interested in the shipping business
and served as an apprentice at that trade. He
went to the public schools in this city, but left
at the age of IA to go to work. He is now and
has been for a number of years the practical
owner of the old and well known shipping
brokerage firm of Gray, Irelan q Co., with
offices at 406 Water street. Mr.. Heffner was
the Eastern section of the city for over twenty
nine years. He has been instrumental in
many of the improvements that have been
given to bis district and especially in the re-
paving of Broadway and the Encouragement of
its series of squares.
Mr.. Heffner is of medium height and build,
and his IRON gray mustache and erect carriage
give him a decidedly military appearance.
His style of address is quiet, but has certain
earnest persistency in pressing point on his
hearers that has undoubtedly much to do with
the success of the party ticket. Mr.. Heffner
has lived and voted in the same precinct for
the past eighteen years and has always been
extremely popular in the eastern section of the
city.
Mr. E. Clay Timanus, the successful candi-
date for the presidency of the Second Branch
of the City Council on the Republican ticket,
was born September 2, 1868, at Mount Vernon,
then in Baltimore county, but now in the
Thirteenth ward. He attended the county
schools and afterward the public grammar
schools.
He went to work at IA as an apprentice to
the millers' trade in his fathers mill-Rock
Mill, at Mount Vernon. He served three
years, and at the death of his father came into
the business, of which he is now the head.
He is also director in the National Howard
Bank
He married Miss Grace Hutchins, of My
son and two daughters. He first entered pub
lie life as First Branch Councilman from the
Twenty-second ward and then from the Six
tenth ward, as the Twenty was after
ward called. This same ward is now the Thir-
tenth, which Mr.. Timanus represents in the
present Council.
Mr. Timanus has resided with his family at
731 Roland avenue for the last twelve years,
and has been operating on the floor of the
Chamber of Commerce for the past eighteen
years and was ON the board of directors longer
than any other member of that body. The
firm of Timanus has been in the milling bust
ness for forty-five years. His brother, Mr.. u.
B. Timanus, is the present mayor of Laurel
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COMMENTING EDIToRIALLY on the National
Good Roads Convention held in that city last
week, the st. Louis Globe Democrat said !:
"Most of the speakers at the convention dwelt
on the difficulty in convincing taxpayers that
money spent on improved roads is profitably
invested. Every dollar judiciously put into
good roads brings in liberal and perpetual
dividend. But many taxpayers seem to be
looking for somebody else to pay the COST
They forget that national and state appropria-
tions are raised by taxation, and that any dis
trict getting more than its proportionate share
receives more than it is entitled to. Several
states are handling the subject directly and
vigorously. Pennsylvania has just appro-
priated Sc, $780, 900 to be paid from the state
treasury for good roads during the next six
years, to which will be added SO, 500 900 from
local sources. Pennsylvania taxpayers are
facing the music themselves and not cropping
about for windfalls or proposing to stop river
improvement in order to improve the roads.
1t has been a surprise to find so narrow an
idea put before great convention"
THE OPEN air and tent life treatment for
tuberculosis patients has been practiced here
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