The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-25
Publishers, Capitalists, Reformers

and active are Joseph J. Little and George
II Putnam. The former came here from
England in 1S46, when q lad, and was a
compositor several years before the Civil
war in which he saw service until 1864. The
latter got here from London In time to go
to school while before entering the Union
army in 1862. He experienced the horrors of
Libby and Danville prisons in the winter OF
1s64-5.
Tn the industries and public activities of
the southwest W. A. Fleming Jones' CAPT
being especially active in conservation move
ments. And in the northwest John A. Finch
Of Spokane, Wash, has long been i'm
portant factor in the mining and other in
dustries.
And believe that of nll men who have
facilitated the development of business those
that stand at the top are the perfecters OF
the typewriters and the late Benn Pitman
whose works on photography and pioneering
in the teaching of shorthand made possible
the rapid transaction Of bus mess on a. mul-
tiple scale through the work OF our armies
of stenograPhers. Benn Pitman. came here in
1858, when he was 81 years old, and was So
when he died, Tt was way back in 1856
that be invented the electro process Of relief
engraving, another achievement that has
had great deal to do with the growth of
American industry.
Of the men OF recent direct English de
scent T will take space only for mentioning
the parcel post'' | doubt that any man
has made greater sacrifice of fortune
and time in the interest of any reform At
ter years of constant agitation, during which
parcel post bills inspired by him have con-
stantly been before congress, he regards the
present zone system that we are all revelng
in as only a makeshift step, and in his
SEVENTEEN year he now is fighting harder
fat rate to all parts of the country and its
possessions, and also for a universal fiat rate
parcel post reaching to the ends OF the earth;
to all countries Of ''the United States or the
IL hoy IN r,,f
Just for variety let us pass from the realm
Of business TO the professions There we find
bers and always it has been so. The two men
OF English birth to whom education In this
est university. John Harvard and James Smith
son. who. without ever having oeen in the
which sprang the Smithsonian institution, and
also the large fortune that was the basis OF
find distinguished professors of English
birth in the faculties OF our, colleges and uni
other, and that means the ends from east to
west and from north to south ,lo In the ,,tL En'
born in England in 1889 and has been. Agassiz
=, BerHeley since 1895. lie spent the greater
part OF his long life IN China and is the au- Az
iis'' the Order Of the Double, Dragon and keeps
M a marked interest In Chinese affairs, found
lug as late as 1911 the Institution for Chinese
Blind at sshanghai l~,,,.,oo &C. ma - o,,r
most distinguished men OF letters, Professor
Richard G. Mouton who was born IN Englano
n 1Sis and after notable career IN tne UNI UNI
cago IN 1892 professor OF literature in ENG,
iish and has been head ,S6, of the department o'
One Of the most learned OF our priests th Is the
Rev. Thomas Gasson Presiaent P,,iG or tb eoS,Tr I,
maculate Conception IN Boston since lso, Like IKE
professor Moulton. he did not come 10 the
United States until after distinguished career
in England. He has been professor OF poetry
ethics, mental philosophy rhetoric and or Geo
Monies. and is noted lecturer on metaphysical
Another EnglIshman who has been the presi.
dent of American university rs James +, y
University OF Utah In 1897 and now is the al
rector of the Deseret museum in ,i salt Lax. Ak.
CITY. He has a WORLDWIDE reputation as oh'
OF our foremost geologlsts c,, :.
In the University OF Washington, Seattle, ];
Edward O Sisson, professor OF pedagogy anc
director of the department OF education ne
Is one Of the real autho rifles on educationa
subjects. Another Sisson. Septimus. has beer
professor of compare tive anatomy in the ohic
State university, since 1901 - CO... To-,
zuage and literature in the University OF Mime
sofa. has been professor IN that lhsutuuoi
Among our other noted educators OF Englist
birth are Charles II. Nils professor OF music
and GTeg9 Of nois III ae TH9 E b. cocKere
fessor OF systematic geology In the University
of Coorndo Harold D. SenioE pFoiess9T ndd G an
Chauiberlaln. professor of nnthropolosy NJ
Clark university. Worcester. Mass; MAS Ernest T, W
brown. professor of mathematics In Yaie UNI M
versity; William G., Brown professor OF IN
dusra ehemstry W ~ lae Droisssor Of oi metal
Iurey In Lehigh university and also professor OF
electro chemistry in the Franklin ins'ltute, e.
dean of the department OF eraturs, science and
the arts In the Unversity Of Mleh'san; -
after dtfs,nsp.Ts Albert a. King IS now
osstetrician in George Washington Lnysrsi1y T.
- rosy" 1 "s,micbrast OF tse Harvard department