Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — AS THE WORLD REVOLVES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AS THE WORLD REVOLVES

London Financier With VsCharles Rivers Wilson, piesldent of the Grand Trunk Railroad, has just some to the United States for a short visit. Sir Charles’ last transatlantic voyage was made a few years ago for the purpose of Investigating the affairs of the road of which he is the head. That was the second time he visited America. The occasion of his first trip a year previously was as representative of the European stockholders of the Central Pacific Road. The total foreign interest, >52,000,000, had

been intrusted to his care. Until recently Sir Charles Rivera Wilson was comptroller general of the national debt of Great Britain. In this capacity he had charge of £240.000,000. The income of this sum was entirely in his control for investment, and his management of the important office of comptroller was in all-ways excellent. This London financier is not unknown to American men of affairs. Although somewhat unlike the financial leaders of New York and Chicago in personal methods, he is yet a very shrewd and accute manipulator of capital. It was he who straightened out the famous Egyptian financial t'/igle of 1876. His present visit is for the purpose of trying to prevent the floating of the Rus-sian-Chinese loan in tilts country.

CHARLES R. WILSON.