Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — MEN OF AFFAIRS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEN OF AFFAIRS

Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation army, is back in London, none the worse for his recent trip of 30,000 miles. The late sanitary expert, Dr. Gobunrek, left 250,000 marks to be lent without interest to women who study medicine in Germany and Austria. Marshall Field is described by an eastern writer: "He never borrows money, never gives a note or a mortgage, never deals in margins on stocks or grains, sells on short time and narrow margins, always buys goods for cash, and insists to the last letter on the fulfillment of every contract between him and his cus-’ tomer.” Mr. Edison has but one speech to his credit. He was to lecture on electricity before a girls’ seminary and was to be assisted by a friend named Adams to work the apparatus. He was so dazed when he arose that he simply said: “Ladies, Mr. Adams will now address you on electricity, and I will demonstrate what he has to say with the apparatus.” The late C. J. Hamlin of Buffalo, N. Y., the veteran trotting horseman, left an estate of $1,543,000, mostly in gilt edged bonds, to his wife and three sons. Ex-Congressman L. Cass Carpenter of Denver owns the first American flag fired upon iu the. Civil War. It is 6x3 feet and was the storm flag of Fort Sumter. Gov. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania contemplates the sale of his remarkably fine historical library this fall, it is said. It contains some Franklin reprints and is valued at SIO,OOO.