Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-31

lating interstate commerce. but the COM
modify clause of the same was over
ruled. BY still another decision the
same court compelled the Consolidated
Gas Company of New York to sell gas
at eighty cents thousand cubic feet.
according to state statute. thus requiring
the company to repay to its patrons sew
eral million dollars in rebates for gas
charged in excess of the state fixed price
A notable financial deal of the year
was the purchase of control OF the Equl-
able Life Assurance Society by ]. p.
Morgan, he securing the majority stock
control from Thomas F. Ryan, who OBJ
tanned the same at the time Of the famous
life insurance investigation of 1906. The
Equitable's assets are S41OOO0,OOO and
with the stock control goes control of
several large trust companies, with mil
lions of assets. Another important finan-
cial deal of the year was the selling OF
the Frisco system of railroads by the
Rock Island railroad to 3. f. Yoakum
and Edwin Hawley. Over COCO miles of
railroad changed hands.
Another financial matter of great posi-
bilities was brought to the attention OF
the country when President Taft, in his
annual message to Congress. stated that
pan-American bank would speedily be
established in this country. This will be
done early in the coming year. The par
ent bank will be in New York, there will
be branch banks where needed through
out the nations to the south of us, and
the object of this great bank will be to
furnish capital for American enterprise
in these countries.
Deaths Shining Marks.
Of its members, Associate Justice Ru-
F,,~ ltd oPt fcon
years of service and at the age of sew
enty. Two other most notable deaths
were those of H. H. Rogers. May 10, and
E. H. Hartman, September 9, shortly
after his return from Europe, whittier
he had gone in search of health. Mr.
Rogers death caused no palpable change
either in the administration or the plans
of Standard Oil: while Mr.. Hartman
had discounted the effects of his death
by planning out ahead just who would
direct his great railroad system and how
this should be done. Judge Robert S.
Lovett becoming head Of the Union and
Southern Pacific roads. Mr.. Rogers for
tune was estimated at $4O.OO0,OO0, Mr..
Harriman's at $4,000, 900, his widow be-
ing left in sole control of all Of it in one
OF the briefest wills that ever disposed
OF millions.
A death which resulted in great direct
benefactions for the public was that of
John Stewart Kennedy of New York,
known as Cash-on-hand'' Kennedy. Mr..
Kennedy had been. next to Russell Sage.
the man to whom Wall street knew it
could most successfully apply for actual
money in times of stress. In his will Mr..
Kennedy bequeathed half of his fortune
and charitable purposes. this being the
largest testamentary gift of the sort in
the history of the world.
Outside of the fina ncial world, the noted
deaths of the year included George Mere
dith and Algernon Charles Swinburne,
two of Engiand's greate,t litterateurs:
Richard Watson Glider, poe and editor
of the Century Magazine: w. NJ. 'affan,
editor. of the New York Sun al,i art
connoisseur; F. F. Collier the publisi.s,,,,
Stoddard. Sarah Orne Jewett. Rosa
Nouchette Carey and Olive Logan
all distinguished in the world of
letters; cesare Lombroso. the Italian
eighty-seven the Rev. DR.. W. r. Hunting
ton, rector of Grace Church, New York
city: the Rev. DR.. Theodore l.. Cuyler,
at eighty-seven. and for many years a
leader IN the Presbyterian Church; the
Most Rev Arthur Sweatman, Archbishop
OF Toronto and primate of all Canada;
Miss Martha Finley, at eighty-one, au-
thor of the Elsie books; Dr. Alfonso a
Moreira Penna, president of Brazil: Mrs.
J. Addison Hayes, daughter of Jefferson
Davis; Countess de Lesseps, widow of the
builder of the Suez canal; Grand Duke
Vladimir eldest uncle of the Car of
Russia: Gen John s. kountz. past COM
mander-in-chief of the G. A. R., and
known as 1.-The drummer boy of Mission
airy Ridge: f. j. c'Lucky'') Baldwin: J.
c. Carter Of Honolulu, who made fame
for himself as the chief adviser of Queen
Liliuokalani both before and after the
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Ernst and Benoit-Constant Coquelin. the
French actors: Father John the noted
Russian priest. who exercised for a time
potent control over Car Nicholas; Ge-
rOnimo. the famous Indian chief of the
Apache times. who had been in captivity
for many years and who passed away at
Fort Sill. Okla, February IT. at the ad-
vanced age of eighty-five; Catulle Abra-
ham Mendes. the French poet and mysti-
cist. who was killed in railroad acct
dent: Admiral Rojestvensky, the COM
mander of the Russian naval forces in
the last fatal sea battle with Japan;
tician. educator and president of Clark
College: Manuel Amador, the first presi-
dent of the Panama Republic: DIR. Theo-
dore Barth. the leader of the German
radicals; Cervera. the admiral of the
Spanish fleet in the war with the United
States;' Heinrich Conried. the noted the
atrical manager. who had been conspicu-
Gus in his later years for his m inage-
ment or the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York; Israel w. Durham. the po-
litical organization leader of Philadel-
phia: Ethan Allen Hitchcock, former Sed-
rotary of the Interior and one of the
originators of the land fraud prosecu-
tons: DR.. Sheldon Jackson. a pioneer
missionary in Alaska; George l.. Lilley
Governor of Connecticut: Frederick de
Martens, the Russian international law
authority, who had been an important
figure in the deliberations of The Hague;
Alexander h Mcclure. the veteran iour-
nalist of Philadelphia; Helena Modjeska,
the POLISH American actress: Lieut. Gen