The Washington times., 1906-07-08
Six Men Who Have Done Big Things

created soma of L0nd0ns tuppennY
tubes. as they call subWays IN the
worlds metropolis. was an American.
The American who has made most
stir In Great Britain OF late Yeas la
one James G. Stewart The Stewart
Brothers had done a lot OF d. inEs
worth while on this side OF the VIZ ter.
they restored the Galveston docks I'm
foTty-flve DAYS after the disaster
and when George Westingh 1use. IN
1901, got badly stuck by lot OF dlla-
tory English contractors. whom le
was trying 10 have rush Up his great
new works in Lancashire. near Man
chester, IN hurry, hs sent FOR tho
stewarrs. Westinghouse needed the
works-the largest ever built N one
fell swoop-in his business within ff-
teen months. The most satisfactory
bids Re could get called Tor completion
IN from three 20 five years. with the
possibility that u would take eight or
ten.
JaHFs Q. Stewart, who responded 70
Westinghouse CALI got over there IS
quickly as he could. having FIRST
signed a contract 20 finish the Job IN
the required time.
The way he fulhuad tho contract
raised all sorts ~ commoti0ns among
the conservative British w0rkmen and
the no less conservative British en-
uloyers. II Involved enormous energy
almost perfect organization. and no
end OF pleading. diplomacy. and hrm-
ness with wOrkmen. sUbc0ntractors,
railroads which We're duat0ry in de-
livering supplies. and so on Stewart
had often to put his own shoulder .
the wheel There IS a story that no
once personally showed some lazy
bricklayers how Americans laid bricks
70 gFt them to lay more than 100 bricks
a day, thereby raising their days work
10 an average Of 1900. There IS an
other that he hal 10 knock down an
obstreperous workman who called him
lar Il the same time. Anyway,
Stewart did what no agreed to, with
months to spare. and was ia such de-
mand by British railroads and other
corporations aftorward that he has
been building things over there ever
since.
The great Assuan dam on the Nile.
which makes the irrigation Of old
Egypt possible. thus bringing untold
benefits TO It's people was built By Sir
John Arid, a white bearded Scotch
man. who. Ike Sir Wce,man Pearson.
has received a title as a Captain OF
Industry.
But Lord CFomer, British repre-
sentative IN EzYpt, the dams real
creator. is much the more interesting
of the two men. Lord Cromer's career,
since he bcg1n as Sir Evelyn Barring
his father was one of the. famous
banking Barings-has been one OF the
most picturesque and Important ever
lived Icy mortal man.
Il is altogether too fun of incident
and episode even to he sketched here.
Egypt was a baukrupt thirty years
ago. when. after some service rs sec
retary 10 lord Northrop. his cousin,
and then Viceroy of India. he went
to Egypt aS a commission OF tho
public debt The country was thp-
thoroughly disoreanized in every way
and the power Of ENGLAND there was
slight. II is due 20 him that the eoun-
try Is now prosperous, that England
controls both "a and the Suez canal OF
vital Importance 10 English commerce,
and that the. Sudan is al peace.
hitchepsr ana others helped. OF
course. but f0r almost forty years
Lord CrOmer has been the one strong,
paramount influence there. and all for
The good. though bitterly opposed IN
his plans az times by Engllshmen as
Well as the Turks the Egyptians. the
French. and others.
And while he viii be permanently
remembered for all these things. his
memory would remain as long Is
there Is an Egypt had he done nothins
but carry out the plan 20 build the
ASsuan dam IL IS mile long. cost
SIS. .00HoH0 in the building. and has A
hundred slUiCc gates. Tt Is 100 feet
high. does not impede navigation. ana
ia the first year after its Onenlng IN
1902, Welded returus Of 900 more
than its first cost
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