The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-13
BY sEwELL HAGGARD.

| | writing about. In most cases. his ol- l ography would be accessible. but 1t | took the reporters of the big papers or
 the East a week or more of hard work to dig up the history of James McCrea- | who was recently elected president or the Pennsylvania Railroad to succeed | the late Alexander Johnson Cassatt.
 The task of the reporters was not due | to the fact of an absence of anything in the life of Mr. McCrea worth record ing. but to the fact that he has always i been too busy to tell even his friends | what he has done.
 "Tell you something about McCrea?' | said one of his intinlates to a searcher after information, certainly; he's the | finest fellow in the world, with heart 1 as big as a bucket, who loves his fel- ] low man as he loves himself; who is | everybody's friend and who hasn't an enemy in the world"
 | But the reporters kept searching and | they uncovered more details-they found that MT. McCrea's life had been one of action--that he is man of en- orgy. He Is more democratic per- haps, than his predecessor. Cassatt had been reserved and sparinE or nis words, McCrea, according to his admir-. CTS. was almost wasteful of his good nature and his cordiality. It was al- ways apparent even when he began to | ascend the railroad ladder that he did not look upon himself as superior be- | ing.
 fellow worker and to take their advice when he found 1t worth taking Above all. he gave the men unaer nm souare deal. In the administration or tha railroads affairs, he was always strong advocate of an open -and-aoove- hoard -policy. To friend he said re- gently: fin running the business of railroad. I decided never to buy newspaper or a politician--and never have These words form good index or MT Mccrea.s character and go far to ~unnort the reports of the last few days. that the new president of the Pennsyivania is going to set to work to find out whether any grafters are as large in the company.
 Wr McCrea has worked on every branch of the Pennsylvania system pe- tween New York and the Mississippi Valley, and he knows all the company lines thoroughly. He was born in philade1phia on May 1, ts4s, the son ot a nhvsician. At the age of IT he quit .chool and became a rodman and as- siatant engineer of the Connellsvills ami Southern Pennsylvania Railroau. His rise was rapid. and soon he was assistant engineer in the construetion department of the Pennsylvania Ral- road It was while holding this Jop Inat he received the nickname or sS, Tie Jimmie' which sticks to him untD this day. a,,.t.to, and he got there rather late. Rushing m to the foreman. he said:
 "Nhat can I do? What can l dof "Nothing." the foreman replied
 'Tsn't there anything? Anything persisted young McCrea.
 "Frverything has been done except to r,oI,a some of thoss cross ties out or that ditch over there" said the fore- man. .,o.
 Mce,rea tackled the pile of cross ueS ord carried them up the emhankment' The wrecking crew at once began 70 call him "Cross-Tie Jimmie CassasI and McCrea. though rivals, were ~ ways fast friends; There was M nlucn banter between them ana Sss that has been handed down IS true' mc- Srea saId to Cassatt one day when they were both rodmen on the same roaa;
 "Andy. when get to be president ot this road, I'll not put up with toa> man like you" .h. rod men were like you there wouloh DO any road 10 pc pres't @o.
 Many years afterwards. when Cas- ,.t+ wss a high officer in the East, Me- Csrea hecame manager of the lines vest os PittsburG. On hearing( that ms rival was doing things Cassatt sent him this telegram! hoia the
 "Jimmie McCrea: If you had heio the rod. there wouldn't be any once io' vou to hold out there.
 McCrea sent this answer;
 
 AZ, you vour post in self detense'
 Mining swindler.
 Vxyitb ths arrest of Dr. Ricnard V rr,oyer inc mining swindler, in Phh- adeIphia, the other day. the career oh a most remarkable criminal was prop ahIv ended According to the recoros oS tbe District Attorneys office, Dr. T.,,.,ar,. wi s, vtctima numbered more than 10 900. Their losses are seheduied aS follows: onn nanzezunna Mining Company.$ 3bo,0o0 ArI-ona Lone Pine Company. obO,OuO Rlue Ridge Mining Company. 45O'oOO Pan American Mining Com
 pany ...r''..' ..'.''.'7.' aSeSoo aSS'Soo Irjoue Mining Company Soo'oVo Mrs Theodore Hagaman. Del
 aware Mining investments. 1,1SO'OoO
 rotai ........... S3.130. 900
 An attempt was made to connect pr. Flower with the death of Theodore FIaeaman, the aged millionaire. who died at the waldorf-Astoria several years ago under singular circumstances. Dr. Flower had treated Mir. Hagaman with his own medicine and only called in A real physician when 1t became ap- narent that a death certificate would be necessary. The aged millionaires body was exhumed hut no evidence of poison was found. The doctor seemed to have hypnotized Mrs. Hagaman for. after her husbands death he took charge of her millions and she sat by and saw her fortune swallowed up without entering a protest
 Dr. Flowers custom when selling stock for his mining enterprises was to pay 9 per cent a month dividend to his customers until the subscriptions fell off. and then he would disappear. Before he adopted the fake mining com pany method of swindling he was known as the inventor of one-year treatments. for which he got thousands of subscribers.
 At last he was arrested and convict cd of practicinR medicine without a license Then he raised some money for the build ug of proposed $1 ,0oo, 900 sanitarium | Boston. and disappeared Next he turned up In London and was run out of the country
 Dr. Flowers influence over women was always most remarkable He swindled hundreds of them and even after he was arrested and indicted in this city scores of them flocked to him offering assistance, which 1t Is not like ly he refused. Though he was a fu- gitive from justice for three years he