Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Postal Telegraph’s Chief. Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph company, which has been In trouble with Its employees. Is a son of the latexjohn W. Mackay of Bonanza fame. \ Clarence Hungerford Mackay never knew the .sting of poverty. Born in San Francisco in 1874, his fortune was already assured. When his father died he Inherited great w-ealth. Among th&

properties coming under his supervision were the Mackay-Bennett Cable company, the Postal Telegraph company and the Pacific Commercial Telegraph company. These made him a formidable rival to the Western Union Telegraph company, and recently it was asserted that all these companies had combined. Mr. Mackay publicly stated, however, that the report was erroneous. Be that as it may, he is a great power in the telegraphing industry of this country. In 1808 Mr. Mackay married Miss Katharine Duer of New York and since that time has been identified with the social life of New York’s “upper set.” “They have a fine country residence on Long Island, and Mr. Mackay devotes much of his leisure time to horse racing, polo, tennis and kindred sports. The Imitative Parrot. Hope, the head of Philadelphia's famous phonograph school for parrots, said the other day to the Philadelphia Record: “There are worse things than a swearing parrot, and one was brought over on a German boat last month, tils owner, a sailor, swore that this traveled bird knew no profanity, and a lady bought him. “But she had to luring him to me. The parrot, though he didn’t swear, had evidently spent, most of his time on shipboard in the ladies’ saloon, for what he would do was this: “For hours, at a time he would choke and gasp aud hiccough as if he’d never stop, and then he'd sing out feebly, ‘Steward, bucket!”’

The First Downward Step. Charles Frohman, the theatrical manager, tells this story: “Sad case in court today,” said a lawyer to his wife. “What was it?”’ the lady asked. “Case of shoplifting. Beautiful, refined woman, educated and Wealthy, was caught stealing things in shops like a common thief.” “The Judge was greatly moved. He said: “ ‘Madam, how did you begin this sort of thing?’ “ ‘Alas, sir,’ she answered, weeping, ‘I began by picking my husband’s pockets at night after he was in bed asleep. That was the first step, and after it my fall was easy.’ ’’ The Nation's Head Educator. Professor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, United States commissioner of education, appointed by President Roosevelt, has been identified with educational methods from his boyhood. He was l>orn in Chautauqua county, N. Y.. in 1861, Just three months after the killing of his namesake. Colonel Elmer

E. Ellsworth, who was the first officer. to fall in the civil war. Professor Brown is a graduate of the Illinois State Normal school and. the University of Michigan. He studied a year in Germany. For some years he has been professor of the theory and practice of education at the University of California. He held a similar position earlier at the University of Michigan. *

CLARENCE H. MACKAY.

ELMER E. BROWN.