Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Charles Sanger Mellen, who before a committee of the Connecticut Legislature declared that great abuses exist

as to railway rates, and that it Is tints they were stopped. Is president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rood, and one of tile best known railway men In the country. He was born in 1851 at Lowell, Mass., and began his railway career In 1809 as

clerk in the cashier's office of the New Hampshire Northern Line. His rise Was rapid, for within five years he was assistant to the manager of the Boston & Lowell & Concord, and in a short time was general traffic manager. He held the same position on the Union Pacific and on the New York & New England, and was also president of the Northern Pacific. Theodore P. Shonts, who has accepted the chairmanship of the new Isthmian canal commission, is a Chicago

man, and is believed by his friends to be the best kind of $50,000 man the President could have selected. Mr. Shonts is president of the Clover Leaf Railroad. It is understood that he made it a condition of acceptance that he should have a free

band in his work, and this was Immediately consented to by the President. Mr. Slionts was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1855, and has been in the railroad business since 1881. He has been successively general superintendent, general manager and president of the Toledo, St. Louis • & Western Railroad. He is a graduate of Monmouth College, Illinois, and a brother-in-law of John Drake. *

Tlhe Princess of Wales, -who Is alleged to be stirring up strife in the British royal family, because of her

opposition to taking an official trip to India with her husband. Is a daughter of the Duke of Teck. Her full name is Victoria Mary, but generally she is known as Princess May. The couple, who were marVled July 0. 1893, havo

five children—four sons and a daughter. Princess May was engaged to wed Prince Albert Victor, elder brother of her present husband, hut he died in 1892 before the marriage was solemnized. After a period of mourning, at the special wish of the late yueen Victoria, she then wedded Prince George, now the Prince of Wales. The Whittier Home Association of Massachusetts proposes to erect a statue the poet in some public park. The successor to Senator Bard, of California, is Frank I*. Flint, a man whose record is such as to give prom-

ise of prominence In the United States Senate. Il - ls a lawyer, of middle age, who has displayed great brilliancy in tlie handling of Important cases and who is regarded as an orator of more than usual ability. He had strong op-

position In the senatorial struggle. Senator Flint was born in Massachusetts and went West to get relief from' asthma. He is a large fruit grower. Police Inspector Gustafson of Boston is making a tour of inspection of the police departments of the larger cities of the United States. Andrew J. Hoffman, foreman of the United States grand jury at Chicago that has been Investigating the meth-

ods of the packers, lives on a farm near Mendota. 111., and is highly esteemed. In politics he is a Democrat, serving regularly on the Democratic Town Central Committee. Mr. Hoffman is assistant supervisor of the township.

and takes a conspicuous part in farmers’ Institute and Chautauqua work. He is married and has a family. Colorado will celebrate the 100th anniversary discovery of Pike’s Peak on Nov. 15, 190*5. A statue may be erected in honor of uen. Zebulon Pike, V. H. A. Michael Mnybrick. who. as "Stephen Adams." has written many poppjar songs, has retired from the eontfeft* platform. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Boyd have given s park of twenty acres to San Itafaei, CaL

CHAS. S. MELLEN.

THEO. P. SHONTZ.

PRINCESS OF WALKS

FRANK P. FLINT.

A. J. HOFFMAN.