davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-24
Preferred Death to pIshonor.

Minneapolis. MINI. Sept, 23.-Pedes-
TRANS crossing Central avenue bridge
were astonished to see a young wo-
man walk from the east side bank
into the Mississippi river and wade
into the water until II was hoout up
to her chin. then lean forward and dis
appear. Although efforts were made
to prevent her from drowning, the cur.
rent washed her body away. The girl
was Miss Ella Kent. She had been
arrested on a charge OF stealing from
q department store, and though the
evidence against her was meager, the
disgrace attached to an appearance In
police court was more than she could
stand. The case had been continued
until today. Instead OF going to court.
she committed suicide. She had al.
ways borne a good reputation.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-24
Company Aan,i,r insolvency.

Richmond Sept. 23.-Admitting In
solvency and practically without az
sets, the Jefferson Fire and Marine In
surGnce company, Of this city Was plac.
ed In the hands Of q receiver by Judge
Ingram. OF the law and equity court.
The end OF the company was prScipi-
lated, II is said. by q judgment sb-
tanned In Judge IngrAms court by the
Arkansas Democrat company. Of Lit.
tie Rock. Ark. u publishing concern.
watch holds q $500 policy in the com.
pany and which IL to collect q ore loss
claim OF 1880 The receiver named
BY Judge Ingram Is Roscoe c. Nelson,
who viii give bond In the sum OF
5000,
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-24

Toxic, Sept. 22.--1s:s0 .. ma sol
itRry instance OF public rejoicing at the
conclusion OF peace with Russia vii!
take place at a meeting TO be held
today at Kotaka, a town in the remote
northeast corner OF the main island OF
Nippon Several industrial associations
will he represented on the occasion.
among which will be prominent Habu-
tai producers. Messages OF eonGrAtu.
lations will he forwarded by those
present AT the meeting TO the emperor
az Japan. 10 Field Marshal oyama'
Vice Admiral Togo and to President
Roosevelt
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-24

New YOrk. sePI s2-The steamer
wAlch arrived here to-day frHm ROSler-
Ian reported thai the German tAnk
steamer Plnshuk wtich ahs passsd
YeelstAhg. plgnalle9 siaa 49, hha hsel
! VA n eslasxn sssass.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-24
Hsmllton's statement.

New York. Sept, a2,-The Evening
World today received a cable dispatch
from Andrew Hamilton, Of AbaPv,
who Is In France. to the effect that the
$1,000 received by him nom the New
York L4fe Insurance company In March
1894. Was not used for influencing state
legislation. Mr.. Hamilton reached
Bar Ritz yesterday after completing
an automobile tour thropgA the south
OF France We was met ~ Riar Rltr
BY a ,eleyrapAie Inquiry from The
World relative TO the 100000 check
made ont 20 him by the New York Life
Insurance company In Manch. 1894. IA
which ne replied by wire a. follows
You can deny for me that the check
FOR siO0. o00 20 me from the NV~ York
Life in March. 1904. vas a. asserted
IN New York. Tor The Purt'oses oi N,
aaeneiRE state legislation or that j,
was 50 used
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-24
Atlanta firm sIans Agreement.


Atlanta. Sept. 98.-1After q confer.
enoe between the oRicsrs OF the AtlAn.
IA typographical union and the officers
Of the Franklin Publishing company.
an agreement was entered into Turs-
day concerning the eight-hour day dis
sension which was the cause OF the
printers IN a number Of the job Offices
going out on a strike wednesday. The
a. printers who left their work in tAa
Franklin Publishing company establish
ment "Wednesday will return 10 WORK
today. a. the Franklin company has
agreed TO grant the eight hour day re-
ques, OF their employees commencing
Jan. I. 1896
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-04
Probable New Head of the Treasu

most perplexing problems that ever
came to the office for a solution. It
was the projected reorganization of the
Chestnut Street National bank of
Philadelphia which had gone to the
wall under the most scandaIous cir
cUmstances and which some of the
leading financial operators of the
Quaker City had determined to set on
its feet. Mr.. Dawes was firm in his
opinion that such a course would not
be expedient, and he decided to that
effect. His decision gave great dissat-
isfactiOn at the time, but it was after
ward made apparent that he had been
entirely correct in his judgment and
his course brought about a saving OF at
least S1,0OO,0O0 to the creditors of the
defunct institution which would have
been lost otherwise.
One of his first acts after taking Of
fee was to put a stop to the practice
which had prevailed of employing ma
tional bank examiners in the private
examination of banks. He soon made
ruling levying a second assessment
on stockholders of insOlvent banks
when the first assessment had been
smaller than the law authorized, and he
also established the practice of re-
batting to stockholders such portions of
the prior assessment as were found by
Eurther liquidation to nave been eX-
cessive under the law. These rulings
have been upheld by the courts almost
without exception. He also organized
a system OF consolidation of insolvent
banks in the last stages of liquidation,
so that thirty-seven receivers were at
once displaced by two.
When Mr.. Dawes went into the comp
/ trolier's Office many of the national
bank failures of 1898 were still hang
/ ing FIRE. In four years he collected
( over $4,000, 600 from assets which had
+ seemed of little practical value. His
! reports to congress were the most lucid
! and comprehensive that had been made
up TO his time, and they excited much
discussion both in American and in
f European journals. One of his most
noteworthy achievements was to pre-
pare a complete list of statistics relat-
ing to banking in the United States
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WHERE GOODNESS REIGNs.

The largest mass of ice in the world
is probably the one which flls up
nearly the whole of the interior Of
Greenland, where it has accumulated
since before the dawnyof history It is
believed to now form a block anouL
100000 square miles in area and aver
aging mile and half in th'cknass.
According to these statistics. the lu3ap
of ice is larger in volume than the
whole body Of water in the Med tcrron-
can, and there is enough OF it to cover
the whole of the United Kingdom Of
Great Britain and Ireland with 4 laTsr
about seven miles thick If it were
cut into two convenient slabs ana bJilt
up equally upon the entire surface Of
gallant little Wales" it would form a
pile more than 12O miles high. Til re
is ice enough in Greenland to bury the
entire area of the United states a quar-
ter of mile deep.
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the lead in various reforms. He was
especially interested in the passage of
the interstate commerce law and was
outspoken in his Interpretation of the
manner in which the freight schedules
should be regulated. At that time he
was not in exact sympathy with the
policy of his party in this matter, but
inclined toward the Populistic theory.
This temporary divergence, however,
did not affect his political standing.
He was a director of the American Elk
change National bank at Lincoln, vice
president of the Lincoln Packing com
pany and was also interested in many
other local enterprises. Besides this, he
was remarkably successful at law and
was engaged in most of the profitable
litigation in the state. In 1895 he re-
moved from Nebraska to Evanston, Ill.,
to assume the presidency of the North
western Gaslight and Coke company.
Much of Mr.. Dawes political good
fortune was due to the intimacy which
existed between his family and the Nc
Kinleys, an intimacy which dated from
the time General r. R. Dawes and
Major Mckinley served together in the
civil war. Subsequently they were both
members of the Ohio lower house at
the same time and the intimacy was
renewed. AS was natural, the son grew
up 10 De du dFOeul aUiflE6E OF MS "a
theirs old friend and comrade. and
when he reached mans estate he
espoused the Canton statesman's rap
idly advancing cause with an enthu-
siasm that soon led him to the front
When the responsibility of the McKin-
ley campaign in Illinois was intrusted
to him it occasioned much surprise
and not a little criticism among the
party leaders, for their candidate had
many stanch and capable friends in
the state who were prepared to spend
was only thirty-one years of age and
practically unknown, and the party or
ganization was prepared to play the
'favorite som expedient to its limit IN
spite of this powerful opposition Mr.
Dawes succeeded in unffying the SEN
tinlent in favor of his candidate. and
the local candidate was buried under
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ton and fuel trade under the title OF
Hin, Griggs & co. Shortly afterward
he established the Red River Trans
portation company. which ran a line Of
carts in connection with a line of small
steamers on the Red River of the
North, with Winnipeg as the objective
point. About this time, also, Mr.. Hill
and some of his friends bought the de-
preciated bonds of the practically bank
rupt st Paul and Pacific railroad.
In 1850. with ten other capitalists.
Hill began the construction of the Ca
madam Pacific railroad. He did not re-
main long in this concern but retired
TO devote himself 10 the development
of 4 scheme which lad been the bur
den of his waking thoughts for several
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OF North Oaks. twelve miles north of
st. Paul, is famous as the place upon
which he began breeding fine FLOODED
stock to present to the farmers along
the line of his road that they might
improve the quality Of their herds and
thus help to build up the northwest
and the Great Northern. His buffalo
and elk herds have become known all
over the world.
Mr.. Hill has never abandoned his
habit of reading. and his range is both
wide and deep. He is thoroughly con-
versant with the English classics and
is reputed to have memorized many
pages of Chaucer and Spenser- He has
mastered the history of art and is also
an expert authority on pictures and
gems. He has no especial taste for
establishing public institutions, al
though he has endowed large Ro-
man Catholic school in recognition Of
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Rqrss rlARY FIARRIrAI (DFeIvC) hlEe. FiAFeFIdAN

mind the future that was opening be-
fore him. His prophetic vision antici-
pated the great wealth. power and po-
sition that were certain to be his, and
he knew that Mary Michigan, attractive,
self poised and capable though she was,
was not fitted to become the wife of
such a man as he purposed to be. In this
she agreed perfectly, and when he pro-
posed as a logical way out of the diff
Guilty that she should become educated
at his expense she fnterposed no seri-
GUS objection, only stipulating that she
should be permitted to go to an insti-
tuition conducted by members of her
own religious communicable was and
has always remained a devout Roman
Catholic. Although he was and is still
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hand man, attending to much of the
executive business. 1t is understood
in the family that Louis will be chosen
to continue his fathers great work as
he inherits in a marked degree the pc
culiar ability which has landed the
elder Hill at the top Walter, the
youngest son, is still a clerk.
Owing to the rugged outdoor life of
his boyhood and early manhood Mr..
Hill is as strong physically as many a
man of half his years. He has little
inclination to indulge in modern out
door diversions of any description and
is not especially fond of horses. He is
moderately devoted to yachting. and
his steam yacht Wacouta is one of the
best on the Atlantic coast. His farm
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rage were cases in point He had al
ready begun to reap soma of the sub
stantial reward of his energy when he
became acquainted with the woman
who became his wife She was a wait
ress at the hotel in which he lived. and
she had nothing TO plead her cause be
yond comely face and a dignifed and
womanly manner. Hill might have had
his choice among the marriageable
maidens of st. Paul. but he made up
his mind that Mary Michigan was the
one woman in the world who had been
created for the express purpose Of be-
coming his helpmeet. He SO expressed
himself TO Miss Michigan and since she
did not dissent they became engaged.
But Hill had already fixed in his
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LAW AND The QUEEN

The legal position of Queen Alexandra
is very curious. So far as her private
business is concerned she is not re-
garded by the laws and customs Of
England as q married woman at all.
She is the only woman in Great Britain
who does not come within the scope Of
the married wOman's property act. The
idea of the law is that affairs Of state
consume all the time Of the king and
therefore no responsibility for the
queens private business rests upon
him. II the queen contracted debts
in her husbands name, he would net
be responsible for them as any other
husband would. The king cannot be
sued for debt, but the queen can be.
Should the king die. some authorities
hold that the queen could not marry
again in case she wished to do SO with
out the special license and commission
of the kings successor.
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receive the identical shares which they
had surrendered when the new COM
pany was formed. It was taken into
the courts, decided in favor of the Har-
rinan contention, reversed and finally
decided by the United States supreme
court in Hits favor.
James J. Hill. who is the builder of
the only transcontinental line ever con-
structed without government aid. has
been a great figure in the railway world
for about a dozen years. The last
spike was driven in his Great Northern
railroad in January, 1893 the same year
in which Edward II. Hartman was
drawn to the verge of financial ship
wreck by the currency panic. The COM
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pletiOn of the line caused Hill to blaze
forth as a great light in the business
armament. The transportation which
he furnished to a vast region peopled
only by wild animals, red Indians ana
a few adventurous trappers and hunt
ers soon began to transform it into the
dwelling place of settlers by the thou
sand. Through his great Pacific steam
ship line the traffic of his long land
route now extends to the faraway
orient.
Mr.. Hill was born in Canada, on a
farm near lockwood, Ontario, in 1888.
When still in his teens he emigrated
across the line and halted at SYRIA
cuse N. Y, where he worked awhile on
farm. The following Fourth Of July
he started westward with the inten-
ton of settling on the Pacific coast,
but was so pleased with Minnesota that
he decided to remain at st. Paul, which
at that time had a population of less
than 10000. Here he settled down and
began to carve his fortune with almost
ferocIous seriousness. His first situa-
ton was as porter for a commission
house, and his work was so laborious
and so uncleanly that ne became known
as the mud clerk of the establish
ment. He had perfect health and d
strong body, and there was never any
complaint of his unwilungness. He
more than held his own at the heavy
toll, and when night came he still had
strength to read and study.
For about ten years Hill served at this
hard manual apprenticeship, and he
never once relaxed in his reading,
solid literature being his regular diet
At the end of this strenuously spent
decade he was better prepared to cope
with the problem of life than are most
college bred men. He resolved to go
into business for himself and with
some friends who had little else than
ambition he started in the transporta-
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years-the building of a northern line
TO the Pacific coast. American capt.
talists regarded the project as vision
airy and wholly impractical. They de-
clined emphatically to interest them
selves in anything so chimerical. Hill
went to Montreal and succeeded in in
spring the Canadian ffnanciers with a
little of the enthusiasm which animated
him and among them and some Dutch
capitalists who had got wind of the
undertaking he found ample backing,
and the road was built.
Although Mr.. Hill is by nature one of
the most practical of men, with a sharp
outlook always on the main chance, he
has been subject to occasional ro-
mantle lapses. His courtship and mar
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NO Railroad Kings Who Have Been Bitter Rivals

Hill's Great Northern system. 1t is
fact, however, that Mr. Hartman does
not own a controlling interest in most
of these lines, but rules them by sheer
executive force and ability This has
been demonstrated so many times and
under such diverse circumstances that
Hartman can control unlimited capital
All of the financial magnates recognize
him as q reorganizer of the J. Pierpont
Morgan class. He has the advantage
of being a much younger man than the
latter. since with the exception OF
George Gould he is the youngest among
the railroad kings. He is about fifty
years of age.
Mr.. Hartman is by no means man
of impressive presence. In a company
of his fellows he would be very likely
to pass unnoticed. He is rather UNI
dersized, elderly looking for his years
and decidedly careless in his personal
appearance. He is reputed to care so
little for clothes that his friends scarce
" recognize him when he happens to
don a new suit. In that respect he is
quite unlike Mr.. Hill. who is excessive
ly particular in his attire and evidently
makes great point of it. Mr.. Harri-
man is a hard worker. but he man
ages to find time enough to cultivate
his domestic tastes and to see a great
deal of his family. There are three
daughters and a son, and 1t is Harri-
mans most pleasurable recreation to
have them all about him at his Orange
county home.
This great landed estate is one of the
most noteworthy in America. It is
much more extensive than that of John
D. Rockefeller on the Pocantico hills.
It covers an area of $4,000 acres and
is diversified by lakes. forests. fertile
level stretches and hills that are al
most mountains. Mr.. Hartman s
nominal home and taxable" residence
is at Arden Farms, near the ultra ex-
elusive Tuxedo colony, in the social life
of which the Harrimans take a promi-
nent part. Besides these country homes,
| the family has a brownstone structure
on Fifth avenue but both Mrs. Harr.-
man and the children are fond of the
country and only come to New York
during the opera season. Mrs. Harri-
man is noted cross country horseback
rider, and her children are also fond If
the exercise They actually spend the
greater part of the year at the Orange
county estate, where Mr.. Hartman IS
erecting a mansion which. when COM
pleted, will be one of the noblest private
residences IN America
JAMES l. TREVATHAN
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a Protestant, Mr.. Hin agreed. and his
fancee was sent to a convent school.
After her graduation they were mar
ried. Their subsequent life has proved
to be an ideal one. and Mr.. Hill main
tains CALAMITY that the most profitable
deal he ever made was the one that Sc
cured Mary Michigan. Nine children
have been born to the couple-six
daughters and three sons. OF the
daughters three are married and three
are still living with their parents at
St. Paul The three boys are all in the
railroad business with their father.
Each of them has been compelled to
serve a long and severe apprenticeship
and has thus become familiar with the
business in all of its phases. James n.
Hill. the eldest, is identified with one
of the Great Northern branches. Louis.
the second son, is vice president OF the
Great Northern and his fathers right
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the instructions for the Ohio man
given by the majority at the Spring
field convention.
Mr. Dawes is handsome man. with
a fine figure, about medium height. and
most attractive personality. He is a
good talker and a logical and forcible
public speaker. He is an excellent
classical scholar and also has an in
innate knowledge of several modern
languages AS performer on the
pianofOrte Mr.. Dawes has a reputa ton
that puts him on a level with the vet
eran Carl Schurz and the almost equal
~ proficient George B. Cortelyou. Mr.
Dawes and his interesting family have
many friends in Washington, and they
viii be regarded as a welcome addition
to society at the capital.
EBERT O. WoODsON.
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AN ANCIENT vEHIclE

Buffalo Bilrs Deadwood coach is a
mere infant by the side of an ancient
diligence which, has been unearthed in
France Tor the Adam fetes at Loniu-
meau. This venerable machine actual
ly dates from 1866 and is painted light
yellow, but the lettering which used to
show the places to which it Travelled is
no longer 1egible. In the coupe it can
carry four passengers and six INSIDE,
while the imperial and rotunda can.
between them accommodate sixteen
people. The old diligence belongs to
an antiquary named RroGuin. In the
fetes it was able to run from the Place
du Theatre Francois to the village Of
Lonjumeau.
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Mrs. HIS faith and has given with
equal hberality to several Protestant
schools. He once gave 5000, 900 to
Yale at a time when President Hadley
was pressed sorely for the means neces-
sary to carry out a contemplated work
of university extension.
Although he has been known to the
general public for a shorter time than
any other among the railroad kings,
ed with the most conspicuous of them.
He is as honestly entitled to the term
''self made" as is his rival in trans
continental traffic, but the manner of
his development was strikingiy dis
similar. He is the son of a minister
and was born in New Jersey and lived
in the state during all of his early life.
Instead Of going to college for his edu-
cation he sought it in Wall street. He
obliged to support himself on the pit
lance which he earned, for his father
was a poor man.
He had rich friends, however, and as
soon as they discovered that he had
ability they came to the rescue. With
their assistance and influence he es-
tablished a little brokerage Office, the
firm name being Loew, Hartman &
CO., his brother William furnishing the
Co. He continued at this business
for ten years and then went into rail-
reading, having attracted the attention
of Stuyvesant Fish, who controlled the
Illinois Central. From that time Mr..
Harriman's bark has sailed serenely.
Today the railroad systems known as
the Hartman group aggregate more
than 10000 miles. They comprise the
Illinois Central. the Union Pacific, the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation COM
pany the Oregon Short line. the Chi
cago and Alton, the Southern Pacific,
the Kansas City Southern and the Chi
cago Terminal. They cover 5000 miles
more than do the Gould roads, 5000
more than the Vanderbilt lines proper
J and have almost double the mileage of