Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Edward W. McKenna, who was elected Second Vice President of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul

Railroad at the OBnu a 1 meeting Of the directors la Milwaukee, is one of the most widely known railway officials in the railway service. Ho was born in Pittsburg and entered tho service of the ■Pennsylvania system in 1863 and

rose steadily in the service of that company until 1887, when he became division superintendent of the St Paul Road, becoming general superintendent in 1890. In 1891 he transferred his services to the Great Northern Railroad in the same capacity, where be remained till the autumn of 1895, at which time he had developed an invention for rerolling, steel rails and at once launched a company, which has since made a fortune out of the process. Mr. McKenna resumed his services with the St. Paul Road as assistant to the President Feb. 1, 1904. Jacob Henry Schiff, who testified before the Insurance investigating committee in New York that the directors

knew nothing of the secrets of the Equitable, that he never heard' anything of the numerous “trustee” accounts,and that he doubted the correctness of entries in the Equitable book recording the purchase o f $500,000 o f Union Pa c Iflc

stock for “holding account,” is one of the noted financiers of the country. He is a member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., is a director in several banks, trust companies and railways and also Is a director of Equitable Life and of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Mr. Schiff was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1847 and came to the United States in 1865. He has served as vice president of the New York Chamber of Commerce and is the founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary of the Semitic Museum at Harvard University. Last winter he was decorated by the Japanese emperor for services In connection with floating the Japanese loan.

Frederick L. Cutting, Commissioner of Insurance for Massachusetts, has come into wide notice on account of a

severe arraignment pf the methods of big Insurance comoanles Incorporated In Ills annual report. He especially condemned the Equitable, the Mutual and the New Yo r k LI fe. He characterized some of the officials as 'Judases and alluded to one as the

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Company.” He referred to “dubious schemes" and “schemes for getting enormously rich.” He also touched on fraternal societies and mentioned the Royal Arcanum in particular. John M. Hamilton, former Governor ’ of Illinois, who died recently, was for many years a prominent figure In the

politics of the State. He was a schoolmate of Vice President Fal r - banks and of Senator Foraker. Mr. Hamilton was a member of Hesperia Lodge, A. F. and A. M., in Chi cago, and was also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. K

J. B. Fowler, of Portland, Ore., Is the Inventor of a device which, If successful, will make him the peer of

Edison, Marconi, Tesla and all the other wizards of electrical discovery. It is claimed for this newest of wonders that by means of it one may see the image of the person with whom be Is talking through the telephone. Its dlscov-

erer calls it the “televue.” Mr. Fowler, until recently was a laborer in a railroad shop. F. J. W. Boettcher, the weU-known scientist of Washington, D. C., has a collection of 10 000 planta from all over the world, classified and catalogued. The Rev. S. P. Cadman of Brooklyn baa framed and hanging in his study the celebrated letter of Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby. Thomas Nichol, the last one of the Perry expedition to Japan in 180(X died recently in New York.

E. W. M'KENNA.

FRED L. CUTTING.

JACOB H. SCHIFF.

JOHN M. HAMILTON.

J. B. FOWLER.