The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-08

diplomacy and firmness with v,ork n1eli,88
.aub-contractors, railroads which we're
dilatorysin delivering supplies, and so On. \
Stewart had often to put his own shoulder
to the wheel. There Is q story that 5ho 4
once personally showed some lazy 8pritk "
layers how Americans laid bricks to get q
Sthem to lay more than 100 bricks q d4y,
thereby raising their day work 4 to N
average Of /, 6Jj. There i ! another II hi q
he had to knock down m o bstrep erdls! III
workman who called him a liar at the ia
same time, Anyway Stewart did what
he agreed to, hi,nonths to- spare, Eatid E8
was In such demand BY British rai lroad ~
and other core ora lions nftorward TIA a
/ he has been building things over there
ever since 8 s3if ssssSF
n There was hotel that had been i've gfs
years In course Of construction ut Man
chester, and 1t looked a s TX lit would tAke5
\ five more years to complete II. ae5ss
was asked to take hold OF the WORTH sS
h He said he would do It In a year-sds q
superintendent, for the contracts hadSS
been let and could not be brok en- t a Il;
salary of 500, COO. The owners @hesitated,Ys
but finally set him at work. Heidi III
the Job and earned q big bonus by finisli-sSS
ing ahead OF time. Then he was asked d.
houses, docks and canals various and Y
Ssundry, Il In all parts Of Great Britain.
He did some Of them Including the FL
Royal N avail College at Osborne. on the Il;
Isle Of light and received special CO M fS8
smendation from the King for his, raj I'D s3s5S
and thorough work. But he didn,t i 81
UP his American business, and to-day he
crosses the ocean from contract to- con-
tract as freely MS Sir Weetnan Dickson Nj;
Pearson himself. n ~ " .sSSSg
& Stewart is still under 20, smooth shaw Il.
en-, not at all a Htarnaton smart Yan-418Bss
ee,a1588gg as the first Britshers who took NJ
Him up socially # feared, but - highly 3
his father a st, Louis architect. who 55
taught him to use his hands as well as 5
This head, and, before ginning as 4Ea
con tractor, the young man arned car rs
spentry. # bricklayin stonecut ting NJ ana
other trades. n Es i;3 Ssi s$3
Lord Cromer and the AssuanfDa
which makes the irrigation OF old Egypt
possible. thus bringing untold U benefit h
to Its people. was built by Sir J ohm Aird,
q white -bearded otchman, SWho, Ike sS1rSss9
.Weetrnan Pea rson, II has celved 4 tie NJ
as a Captain of Industry. sS3ss
5 But Lord Cromer. British represen 49,
tive in Egypt, the dam s. real creator, Sis y;
men. Lord Cromer s caree since y ne 3 b
began as sir Evelyn Barring III is ia tter5ss
was one OF the famous banking Barings--.%5isS
has been one OF i the most picturesque "
and important ever lived by mortal ma t1:
LIT Is altogether toe ful Ct incident ms it
Egypt was bankrupt thirty yea rs i q go, AZ
when, Il after some service as Il secreta,rsy5SS
to Lord Northrop his cousin and then tfV =
Viceroy Of Ind a. he went to 8Egyp Nas Ss
a commissioner OF the bile de bt.s34; he
country was "a then tho roug hly a sorga IAN
lied lin every md u the " power q
Eng and there was light. # lis due to
him that the count n Is now pro EFT;
Gus y: that England controls bot II and $
the Suez Canal &Sof vital N rtanceHt to-
English commerce. and that the Suda a,l
Is at peace x tch and g theirs rs ,95s
OF course. bu for almost forty ga rs III
Lord 4 Cronler has been the one strong.
the good, thong bit terly8 opposed In his ~
plans at times by Englis bnlen. as well
as the Turks, the Egypt ians$ he french
and others. # ss33|f
And while he will Il be- pc rmaneelnI tly re-
bered for all these things alis
DRY would remain as long as ERE g, $ls sAn
Egypt had he done nothing but carry ar rs
out the plan to build the Assuan q am y II
is a mile long, cost SIS. 900 ooo In the build
Ing, and has hundred sluice ga es. 81 = ss
is 100 feet high. does mo impede naYtgas-3
ton, and In the first year after Its open
ing. in 1909, elded returns of ,oOV IVY wy "a
more Than Its first cost, s.1.S,s
ord Cromer is tall and would loo ~ liko
Pickwick = + he were a little outer anu S
his face were no t 50 stern, He ls 81 man 81
OF finite nerve. fIrnTess and d ulcks de-Fj
cdson. He Is now nearly six u N yS55S
be hard for England to find n proper "a
man to manage Egypt a fter he Sha!l rs
have passed away SgS
Copyright, 1906 by Dexter Marshall.) I'm