The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-20
RISE OF EDWARDS
SIMILAR TO THAT OF OTHERS IN
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Uncle Sam Trains Young Men Who Later Are Drafted by the Big FinammiaI Concerns of the
 Country.
By Alfred J. stofer.

Washington, Feb. 19.-(Special,)- Within few months John H. Edwards of Ohio. who has been for the past two years the private secretary or confi- dential man, to the Secretary of the Treasury. will become an Assistant Sec- retary of the big department. Mir. Ed wards is only thirty years of age. A score or more of men who have held positions in the treasury within the past twenty years have been drafted by financial institutions to accept posi- tions that have large salaries attached to them in comparison with the mod est sums paid by Unole Sam to off, rials. Really the pay is so small that competent and bright men cannot af- ford to remain in sthe service of the government
 One of the most remarkable rises in connection with service in the Treas urv is that Of Milton F Allies. another Ohio man. He Is now the vice-presi- dent of one of the largest banks of this city, having been put there on a fine salary by combination of finan- cial interests controlling some of the higgest banks in the United States. MT Allies, upon entering the government service. had a minor clerkship. He was a very young man--iooked upon as a mere boy. His rise was not rapid either It was gradual and be worked hard and faithfully. The thorough ness with which he performed his du- ties attracted the attention of Lyman J. Gage, who was Secretary of the Treasury under the first Mckinley ad' ministration. Mir. Gage took MT. Ailes into his own office.
 At the time Frank 4. vanderlip ot Chicago was the confidential man to the head of the department Vanderiip was later promoted. having been ap- pointed an assistant secretary. Allies was given his place. Eventually Van- derIfp resigned on account of rather poor health and made an extended trip to Europe. He had been a newspaper man in Chicago before coming to Washington. and while abroad wrote a series of articles that were well placed. MT vanderIin is at present one of the leading officials of the great bank in New York city that is controll' ed by the Rockefeller combination Ailes succeeded Vanderlip as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
 Two men who are in the prime ot life and who formerly held the como troIlership of the currency in the Treasury are now the heads or pros nerous financial institutions in Chica' 20. James H. Eckels Is one of the men and Charles G. Dawes is the other They are both Illinois men and were appointed to their government positions grop that State. Eckels served undel 1 inc Cleveland administration and Is Der,ocrat. and Dawes came into Of
 Ace here under the first Mckinley ad
 n1Inistraticn. He. of course is Re
 n,,blican. and has been prominent Y inc councils of the leaders of that part! in the West. .,..
 rt goes almost without saving tha r,ost men who have held the position 1 ns Secretary of the Treasury are sough | bv inc financial institutions after the! leave the government service; Tor, a
 n rule they have been prominent . l banking circles or else are lawyers Q | note. Mir. Gage was Chicaeo pan nresident before he came to Washins !s s | Ion. He did not return to the w,nu Int | cjtv for he was snapped up. oy NeV M York Institution and has been thei' ever since l.. 4h
 TWO Southern men who were in tn Il Treasu during the Cleveland adIIliu 1 istrations were drafted by New fori concerns and given positions that pa, ps, II handsomeiy. They were both sout II caroliniana Mir. Thompson was Assistant Secretary and had been toy | ernor of his State before eomins Ii Washington. MT. Trenholm who wa wa II ComptroIler of the Currency was LII Il other South Carolinian.
 The Treasury is certainly srea