Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-03
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E. w. Nash, president. and s. w. Eccles,
vice president Of the American Smelling
and Refining Company. are from Omaha.
vice presidents of two Of the big insurance
companies. are from Chicago.
Harry Black and ]. 8. Mcconnell OF the
building trust and Starrett & Thompson,
who are putting up some Of the biggest
buildings In New York. are Chicago con-
tractors, while %. III. Burnham q Co. are
the architects Of some of the finest office
and mercantile buildings In this city. and
have even been called to Boston for pro-
fessional work.
Merchants and Editors.
Among the great merchants of New York
are Henry Greenhut of Peoria, who now
owns the biz establishment of Sigel &
Cooper. and Henry sigel. who has store
of his own on Macy's old stand.
c. K. G. Billings, the gas man, and Chas.
I. Yerkes, the street car magnate, formerly
of Chicago. now consider themselves cit
liens of New York. Thomas F. Cakes,
formerly president Of the Northern Pacific,
and Colgate Hoyr. Stewart Chisholm and
James Parmelee, formerly of Cleveland, are
of the same class
If you will look through the list of MEM
bers Of the Illinois. Ohio, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Missouri and other state societies
which have permanent organizations here
and hold occasional reunions you will think
that nearly all of the lawyers in New York
are from the west, and among the ac-
knowledged leaders of the bar here are
John e. Carlisle of Covington, Ky; Judge
Dillon, formerly of Dubuque; H. d. Esta-
brook, general solicitor of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, from Omaha,
and John ]. McCook. from Steubenville,
Ohio
The clergyrnen are just as prominent.
Seventeen of the most influential pulDits in
New York and Brooklyn are now filled by
Chicago men. including Robert Collyer, DR..
Kittredge, DR.. Stires, DR.. Hills and DIR.
Burrell.
The list of editors is almost as long.
Adolph Ochs, who has made an extraordinary
success of the New York Times and Phila-
delphia Ledger, was born In Cincinnati, and
was an office boy for Parson Brownlow of
the Knoxville Wing; William Lewis, ed
itor of the Daily Telegraph. used to be on
the Chicago Times, and Henry M. Cary, the
business manager of that paper, comes from
Milwaukee Joseph Pulitzer of the World
and Carl Schurz. formerly of the
Post. are from St Louis, and VIII
liam Randolph Hearst blew over from
San Francisco. Horace White is from Chi
cago and Whitelaw Reid from Miami. Ohio.
while the best editors and reporters on the
New York dailies came from western
papers The same is true of novelists and
magazine writers. The most successful and
influential are from the western states.
Robert Underwood Johnston, assistant ed
itor of the Century, Is an Indiana man;
George Harvey, editor OF the North amer
lean Review who also controls Harper's
Monthly used to be a reporter on the Chi
cago Daily News. The money which John
Brisbin Walker invested in the Cosmopoll-
tan Magazine was made In Denver. s. 5.
Mcclure the publisher, and Mr.. Phillips,
the editor of McClure's Magazine, came
from Galesburg H.. which was also the
home of President Finley of the College of
the City of New York. Albert Shaw, ed
itor of the Review of Reviews, came from
Butter county, Ohio; Edward j. Wheeler.
editor of the Literary Digest, from Cleve-
land.
But time fails me to tell of all the great
men that have come out of the west. l
have not alluded to the Montana or Cal1for-
MIA crowds" as they call them, who have
exercised such a powerful influence upon
finance. 1 have not gone into the mercan-
tile community in the wholesale district,
which is crowded with western men. and
have mentioned only a few who come to
my mind this morning.