Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-03

! 1875; first baseman 1S79-1897, manager
Chicago White Stockings 1887 1880.
| William A. Sunday. outfielder Chica-
'go White Stockings and Pittsburg ana
Philadelphia Nationals, 1SSS-sO.
| James C. Dunn, president Cleveland
club, American league, 1916----.
The above are Marshailtown's con-
tributions of former residents to major
league baseball. In order to celebrate
in a fitting manner the en- trance of the
4 last named into the big game, Mar
shalltown fans will leave tonight for
| Chicago to witness Thursday the first
OF the initial present season series be-
tween Jim Dunn's Cleveland Indians
| and Clarence Rowlands Chicago White
Sox, and to root for the Indians.
Twenty or more of Mr.. Dunn's friends
are planning to go to Chicago tonight
to be present at the Thursday game.
! The local men have engaged a special
! sleeper which will be attached to the
! Chicago Great Westerns train leaving
here at 10: 35. rs ~ 80. rE
Has Always Been a Fan. y
! If Jim" Dunn does as much in the
baseball world as did his two predeces-.
| sors it is only question of time that
he will make who's Who" Mar.
shalltowns first contribution was her
first white child; her second is now a
world-renowned evangelist: her third Is
just plain, ordinary contractor who
figures jobs up In the millions.
d. is not strange that Dunn has got
into the baseball game and has become
president of the Cleveland club. He has
always been a. fan. When he spent
some time in Cleveland experimenting
construction work he attended a great
many of the American league games.
He became impressed with the enthusi-
asm and loyalty of the Cleveland fans,
and when the opportunity came to buy
the Cleveland franchise and team he
did not hesitate to invest his own
money and to solicit the aid of his bus
mess partners and friends to enter with
him in the big Investment. Men who
know big league baseball predict that
Dunn and his friends will make good.
That they are not afraid of spending
their money was indicated by the re-
cent purchase Of Iris" Speaker, star
outtielder Of the Boston Americans.
for $4,000 cold cash, and pay him a
salary of SIS, 900 per year. Mr. Dunn
is confident he will be able to make Of
his team good paying property.
is Native Of County.
Altho not the first white child born
in Marshalltown, Mr.. Dunn claims the
distinction of. being a native of this
county. He was, born Sept IL. 1866, in
Liberty township, a son of William and
Elizabeth Damn. His mother is still
living. but his father died several years
ago.
At the age Of Il young Dunn came
from his fathers farm to Marshall
town, as messenger in the First Ma
tional Bank. ne went from the bank
to the Hawkeye @Ldnseed Oil Works.
then operated by Abbott, Knisely &
Click. When this then leading indus
try of the city was absorbed by the Ma
tional Linseed Oil Company Mr.. Dunn
entered the employ Of Cunningham 4
Jones. then In the lumber business, and
remained with them until A. A. Moore
bought the business. Dunn continued
to work for Moore for several years,
and then went to work for A. f. Short
HILL who was then in the coal bust.
ness. w.. ge, go. .a.. ,... ~
Goes Into Business For Self. b..
In 1888 Mr.. Dunn launched his first
business enterprise, which was a coal
and building material business. He con-
tinued In this retail line until 1904,
when he began contracting. His first
work was the building OF the Third
street sewer, for this city, extending
from State street to the Iowa river His
next work was the building OF the Mar
shalltown reservoir. Later he did much
work in paving at GAINESVILLE, Water
town, Monroe, and other Wisconsin
towns. $50
In 1868 Mr.. Dunn built the Cleve-
land Belt Line at Cleveland, o.: in 1909
he did the masonry work on the c., c.
& Q. railway in North and South Caro-
lima. In 1910 he had contract on the
Ashokan dam reservoir at West Hur-
ley, N. Y; in 1911-12, in partnership
with P. f. Mccarthy, of Davenport, he
did the track elevation work for the
Boston & Albany at Worcester. Mass,
and the concrete and bridge work for
| the Rock Island railroad between Al
lerton and Carlisle. Iowa. In 1914
Dunn & Mccarthy constructed the
bridges over the Miami river near
| Middletown and Dayton, O., and in
1914 took the contract for tine Fogue's
| run drain at indianapolis, amounting to
over s1.250,000, and finished the work
! six months ahead of schedule time.
Only recently the Dunn Mccarthy
Company was awarded the contract for
| building forty-two miles Of new rail-
| road for the Vandalia line of the Penn
sylvania system. extending from Ben
| Davis to Frankfort, Ind. This work is
to be in its entirety, including ballast
ing and track laying. d, $50 80
Here For Opening Game. ~
In order to show the Marshalltown
fans that he has not forgotten them.
and that he appreciates the interest
thsy have shown in his new venture.
Mr.. Dunn is making his plans to be
here for the opening game, with clin-
ton on May 3. =. pas.~s. NJ 5.ss,g t@
! has decided to provide two interior