Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1902 — IN THE PUBLICEYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLICEYE

Here is a picture of George F. Baer, the self-proclaimed “capitalist by divine right." Mr. Baer is- the president of the

Reading Company, also of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company and of the Reading Coal and Iron Company. He was elected to these important ofliees a little more than < no year ago in succession to Joseph S. Harris, who retired at that time. This great Cfl-ptatß of industry holds vast

interests- in probably a score of great enterprises and is the employer of nearly S,(XX) men. He began life as a eomparatively poor man, but his extraordinary talent for financing properties : oon brought him to the front. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell declares that wireless telegraphy will never xvork well on land, though for the ocean.

where the rays are unobstructed, it is likely to succeed cables. Prof. Bell is one of the few inventors who have profited greatly out of their labors; bis patents in connection with the telephone and grap'aopho ne, both of wbi clt li <• invented _ have made him wealthy. He is now

55 years old. and intends to devote the rest of his life to the education of children having defective hc-aring, sight cr mentality. Ho is at the head of the Volta bureau in Washington, the greatest institution in the world as regards scientific study of the deaf. Caldwell Hardy, choice of the iiomi nating committee for next president of the American Bankers’ Association, is

one of the leading financiers of Norfolk, Vn., where he is president of the Norfolk National Bank. He is a native of North Carolina. a former resident of Brooklyn and a graduate in the science of banking from tho institutions of Will street. Mr. Hardy has been - connecteil

with,the Norfolk National Bank since ISBS. when, upon its organization, he was installed as its cashier. George A. Henty. who died on board his yacht at Weymouth, England, will ne mourned by thousands of vonng rend-

ers to whom Henty’s books for boys were the acme of delight in literature. Over seventy volumes are comprised in the series, and nearly all of them relate in some way to travel, adventure and war. But Mr. Henty vton fame also as a newspaper man and war correspondent, and he

served in such capacity in nearlj every war since the Crimea, to which he .vent in the purveyor’s department. He accompanied King Edward, then Prime of Wales, on his tour of India. He was nearly 70. The n>eeiit fanatical march of the Doukhtdmrs. or Russian Quakers, from their settlement in Manitoba toward Win

nipeg, "in search of Jesus," was led by the aged Ivan Mahortoff, chief of the zealots, whose teachings have brought .the Doukhobors all their troubles. Ma- ' hortoff was prominent among 'he Doukhoboristi during their persecution in Russia, which led to their emigration to Canada. Since their pilgrimage was

interfered with by the Dominion authorities, the Russians have turned their minds toward Turkey, nnd are petitioning the Sultan to grant them land somewhere in his empire. Unlike M. Pclletan, who made indis creet speeches and still retains his post in the French cabinet, J. I. Tarte, Cana-

dian minister of public works, has been forced to resign because of unauthorized remarks ho delivored in Europe recently. In accepting the resignation Sir Wilfrid wrote Mr. Tarte that “his action in discussing n policy of high protection during his absence in Europe without

ever consulting with him was wholly unconstitutional mid contrary to nil notions of responsible government.” He wan a conservative up to 1891. when he changed his politic* nnd joined the liberals. His home is in Quebec.

GEORGE F. BAER.

PROF. BELL.

CALDWELL HARDY.

GEO. A. HENTY.

IVAN MAHORTOFF.

J. ISRAEL TARTF.