Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1905 — MEN OF AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

MEN OF AFFAIRS.

Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation army, has just returned to London after a 30,000 mile trip. Admiral Evans has been asked by the crew of the battleship Missouri to assign a mule to the ship as mascot. Mayor Rose of Kansas City, Kan., has requested owners of vacant lots in that city to allow children to use them aa playgrounds. Thomas A. Edison is son to acquire the little house at Milan, 0., where first he saw the light of day more than a half century ago. The late Col. Daniel S. Lamont left residuary bequests to his daughters, to be paid when they marry or become 30 without marrying. Ex-Presoident Cleveland has survived bis entire first cabinet, with the exception of Mr. Vilas, who presided over the convention which nominated him. Chief Jusice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court was mistaken for an itinerant German musician at the Savoy Hotel, London, recently, and given a poor room on that account. The mistake was rectified. The electric wizard, Edison, lays: “Although I work a good many hours a day, my life Is a quiet and resful one. I do not worry; I an fond of fun, and I like good fellows. Ido not want to deal with mean men or men whose lives are devoted to getting money.” The Palais des Souverains, Paris, which belonged to the late Dr. T. W. Evans, American dentist and millionaire, is shortly to be sold by his Philadelphia heirs. Mr. Edison has but one speech to his credit. He was to lecture on electricity before a girl’s seminary and was to be assisted by a friend named Adams te work the apparatus. He was so dazed when he arose that be simply said: “Ladles, Mr. Adams will now addseas you on electricity, and I will demonstrate what he has to »ajr with the a*> paratua.”