Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

John B. McDonald, who is mentioned as the leading spirit in the syndicate Mild to be forming to build the Panama canal,

is probably the biggest contractor in the world. It is he who has thus far constructed the great subway, in New York, paying $35,000,000 for the privilege of building the tunnel and disposing of the franchise afterward. He built the Jerome Park reservoir, put down 400 miles of

the Canadian Pacific road, did. $18,000,000 worth of work on the harbor of San Francisco, helped to build the Northwestern “L” road in Chicago, and has undertaken immense work elsewhere with great success. Mr. McDonald began his career as an excavator of cellars. He is a friend of Richard Croker and was formerly prominent in New York politics. Admiral James G. Walker, said to be slated for the presidency of the commission which the President will appoint to

construct the Panama canal, is the authority par excellence on the canal question, and since 1807, when President McKinley made hint chairman of the canal commission, has devoted his whole time to the study of the subject. Admiral Walker, during his long career in the navy,

which lie entered from lowa in 1850, lias diitiuguished himself as an officer of remarkable ability. He commanded tho squadron of evolution from 188!) to 1893 and was later in command of the Pacific station. Since his retirement ho has been occupied exclusively with tho affairs of the great anteroeeanic canal. Lady Sibyl Primrose, Lord Rosebery’s daughter, is now twenty-three and still

pite the rumors that went the rounds a few years ago that she was engaged to this, that and the other sprig of the English nobility. The Earl of Beauchamp was the lat* est favorite reported, but so far as the gladsome daughter of Lord Rosebery goes the nobsf earl is still without his primrose, and, in

the language of the poet, she “was nothing more” to him. Lady Sibyl is a sweet looking, nut brown beauty inheriting the looks of her mother, who was n Rothschild, as is well known. She is reckoned one of the fairest belles of England’s aristocracy. Charles William Fulton, recently elected United States Senator from Oregon,

has been prominent in the public life of that State ever since he went there ns a young lawyer from Nebraska in 1875. In 1878 he was elected State Senator, and he served four terms in that capacity. The now Senator is u most eloquent speaker, a debater of note and a really brilliant

man. He is married nnd has one sr-n. The recent offense to the Kaiser when Herr Bebel, the German socialist, declared that every speecli of his Emperor

“made n hundred thoumnd Social Democrats,” is not calculated to make his political pathway any smoother than it was. In fact, llerr Ferdinand Bebel has had a thorny road to travel, in n in 1 y through his outspoken independence ns a socialist nnd opponent of the throne.

He made acquaintance with prison life early in his career, having been several times imprisoned for leze majesty, yet be still continues to agitate fearlessly. Probably the oldest carpenter in tho West holding a continuous membership in his organization, the Amalgamated

Society of Carpenters, is William Hudson of Chicago. Mr. Hudson is really the father of the branch in which ho holds a member ship, ne joined the Worcester (Eng.) branch In 1805, and has never nllowed his membership to lapse. lie located in Chicago in 1870, nnd a few months

later he secured the co-operation of a few other carpenters and organized the Chicago first branch, which is the oldest carpeuters' organization In the city. Mr. Hudson is n believer in the old school of unionism, nnd always has been a devout Christian. Former Speaker Henderson says that his home will he in Davenport, lowa, nlthough he may practice law In other cities. When he dies ho wants to be buried In tho Dubuquo cemetery. International Union of Commercial Telegraphers and tho Order of Commercial Telegraphers have consolidated under tho name of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America. John McCarthy, 17, Baltimore, Md., killed himself because he didn’t like t» week.

J. B. M'DONALD.

ADMIRAL WALKER

LADY PRIMROSE.

C. W. FULTON.

HERR BEBEL.

WILLIAM HUDSON.