Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-05
Promoted From Consul at Reich
enberg to Consul General
at st. Gall
NOW IN HIGHEST CT
CLASS
With Promotion as Consul General, Mr..
Mcfarland Will Be Eligible to APP
continent to Any Position in Con-
sular understanding Of His
New station-Gets Highest Pay.

The announcement sent out from
Washington Thursday night makes
public the appointment of S. C. Nc
Fariand, OF this city, former editor OF
the Times Republican. as consul
general at st. Gall, Switzer-
land. The appointment is .
direct promotion from the position
OF consul to that of consul general
places Mr.. Mcfarland in the highest
branch OF the consular service, and
makes him eligible 10 appointment to
any OF the larger consul generalships
OF the service Mr.. Mcfarland succeeds
ct st. Gail Thomas w. Peters. OF the
District OF Columbia. The post is the
highest salaried IN Switzerland
Mr.. Mcfarland left this city to enter
the consular service in 1898. when he
was appointed to nottingham. England
where he remained until about four
years ago, when he exchanged consul
ates with Frank w. Mahin. OF Musca-
tine, then stationed at Reichenberg
Austria. Mr.. Mcfarland has been at
Reichenberg ever since. The pay OF
the Reichenberg consulate Is $4,000
and that at st. Gall $4,000. with per-
quisites that are said to exceed even
Singapore, for which Mr.. Mcfarland
was recently slated at the same salary
paid at ST. Gall. The st Gall consul
generalship is considered much more
desirable post. The climate is IDEAL
and there is not much of a change In
the language OF the people over that
spoken in the Austrian province. there
by requiring but little, il any prepare
and transacting the government busi-
ness.
something Of st. Gall.
st. Gall is canton Of Switzerland,
It's capital, where Mr. Mcfarland will
be static ed, being a city of the same
name. lie canton is bounded by
Thurgau and the Lake Of Constance on
I the north; the Rhine separating it
from Vorarlberg, Liechenstein, and in
part from Grisons, on the east; Girls
s0nS and Glarus on the south; and
Glarus. ,Schwyz, Zurich, and Thurgau
on the west. 1t encloses the canton
of Appenzell. The surface is noun
famous and hilly, the south and CEN
ter being traversed by the Glarneral-
pen and Thuralpen. The industry of
the canton is largely manufacturing,
and the prevailing language is Ger
man. About two fifths of the popula-
ton are Protestants, and three fifths
Roman Catholics, large part of the
territory was formerly subject to the
{ abbey of ST Gall, but different por-
tions came under the sovereignty of
the confederation in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. The canton was
formed in 1903, has an area OF 779
square miles, and I'M 1883 had a popula-
ton of 228,174.
St. Gall Great White Goods Center.
st. Gall, the capital, lies at height
Of 2,165 feet above sea level, and is one
of the chief manufacturing and COM
mercial centers of Switzerland being the
center OF a. large district engaged In
the manufacture of embroideries and
white goods The abbey is a famous
Benedictine establishment, founded by
the Irish missionary, st. GALL in the
seventh century, and suppressed in
1906. The existing buildings, now
used for cantonal offices, schools, epis-
copal palace, and the valuable library,
are not old, the grand medieval struc-
lures having unfortunately disappeared.
The church dates from 1885, and the
city grew up around the abbey, and
became an important literary center.
The abbots obtained extensive power
In the middle ages, but in 1451 st. Gall
Joined the Swiss Confederation The
population OF the city. (1sss), was
27.3so.