Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Frederick A. Delano, who succeeds Joseph Ramsey, Jr., as president of the Wabash railroad, has been regard-

ed as head of the system ever since he was selected as headoftheWaba s h -Pittsburg Terminal Company last April. His selection for that position by George J. Gould was at the time regarded as an informal a n-

nouncement that Mr. Delano was to become his principal lieutenant. It led to the epistolatory battle between President Ramsey and Mr. Delano which precipitated the fight for the control, of the Wabash system. Mr. Delano was for years one of the foremost railroad men of Chicago. He was born forty-two years ago in Hong-Kong, China, was educated at Harvard and began railroading as an apprentice in the machine shops of the Burlington at Aurora.

Mrs. Ella Rawls Reader, who addressed a letter to Secretary Root demanding that the United States gov?

ernment call off the influences it is exerting in the affairs of Santo Domingo, and declaring she will pay the millions Santo Domingo ewes to foreigners, is reputed to to have conducted a number of deals by which South American

governments were supplied with ready money in return for railway and other concessions. She claims to have made a “treaty” with the President of Santo Domingo by which a syndicate she represented was to have liquidated the Dominican debt in return for commercial concessions. These plans, she says, can still be carried out if the United States will withdraw its gunboats from Dominican waters.

' Thomas Dillon, who recently was appointed on the police foreq in Akron, Ohio, claims to be 102 years old. . Ha

says he was born in County Clare, Ireland, Aug. 16, 1803, came to this country fifty years ago, and aided in the construction of the Atlantic and Great Western, now the Erie railroad. He has vivid recollections of the “big wind” in Ire-

land in 1836, and of the terrible results of the famine of 1847. Two years ago Dillon lost an arm by being struck by a railway car. His police duties are to guard the town “swimming hole,” and already he has had trouble with the boys that frequent the place. Dillon’s wife is nearly as old as he.

The Rev. M. W. Stryker, president of Hamilton College, in a sermon at Binghamton, N. ¥., made the sensa-

tional statement that there are too many churches in this country and that it would be better if many of them were burned. Five thousand churches, he said, might be disposed of in that way. He declared the

cause of religion would be better conserved If the people of a community were gathered Into one large church and the money expended in erecting unnecessary churches used in carrying on religious work. Nanny Gibson, 14 years old, one of three daughters of a workingman living near Asheville, N. C., Is to have a

college education at he expense of the Southern Railway for saving a passenger train. The girl, accustomed to listening for the train at a certain hour each day, heard a terrific landslide Just before train time. Rushing out, ■she saw the land-

nanny gibbon. slide had filled a cut and at the same time she heard the train whistle In the distance. Hurriedly removing a red petticoat she was wearing, the girl ran down the track and with the garment succeeded In signaling the train.

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. H. P. Malian, a Boer colonel, who served in the South African war, is a conductor on a street Car line In Kansas City. Antonio Maceo, son of the Cuban general, is running an elevator in Syracuse, N. Y.

F. A. DELANO.

THOMAS DILLON.

MBS. READER.

M. W. STRYKER.