Show PERSONAL MNTION Uolmnn F Day of the LeI ton Journal has l been appointed military sotrotary to CJovclcol John F Hill a S of Maine 1 mlifht almost be said that at present tho Cecil family Is running the British empire Lord Salisbury head of the Cecil family will continue to be Prime Minister Lord Cranbourno his Ion Under Secretary Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs Lord Solborno his soninlaw at the head of the AdJ mlralty Arthur Balfour his nephew First Lord of the Treasury and leader of the House of Commons and Gerald Balfour Bal-four another nephew Secretary of Ire land l I I S Twentyseven years aco nays the St I Louis PostDispatch Charles 11 Have aged JO years was a clerk In the Frisco railroad offices In St Louis with n salary sal-ary of 510 1 a month Last wctlc Mr Hays I now 42 years of ago and still retaining his hOI In St Louis became the president I presi-dent oC time Southern Pacific railway the second largest railway system In the I world His salary will bo t 555000 a year making him the highest snlirlcd man In the world and a bettersalaried executive than tho President o of the United execltc I Nadine Parmer better known In western west-ern Texas as Miss Million owns and manages man-ages a fine cattle ranch not far from Waco A few years ago whoa teaching school in Ohio sho was adopted by a I I wealthy Texan who wits killed by being thrown from his horse Ibis ranch was put up for milo and Miss Partner bought It with the 700 oitllo her benefactor had ownca Now her herds arc increased enormously I enor-mously In numbers I Twentytwo years ago Llndon Bates of Chicago was compelled through lack of funds lo discontinue his course at the Sheffield Scientific school and enter a railroad rail-road office us a clerk Then ho went Into the building of railroad and In ISM having hav-ing secured the contract to build two miles of tho Chicago drainage canal ho constructed a hydraulic drodpo which attracted at-tracted the attention of enclneera Next he built 1 n dredge for the United States I Government to be used In the Mississippi river which cut more than fourlimes tho amount of earth called for Now tho Volga rlvor Is being dredged by his machines ma-chines and under his supervision an outlet out-let Is being made thereby for the commerce com-merce of the Caspian seaj By request of the Russian Director of Commerce ho has Inspected the principal rivers and harbors suggesting In his extended reports Improvement Im-provement that will double Russian shipping ship-ping facilities Tie also hUH dredges to the value of 15COOOO operating In the harbors and rivers of Queensland t Australia The perplexing problem of tho unnavlgnblo IIoopll mouth uf time Ganges river was solved upon first Investigation and the harbor of Calcutta Is being made one of the finest In the world by one of the Bales dredging fleets Another dredge Is preparing to fall for the harbor of Mac quark Tasmania where another largo contract has been closed and he has Just closed n contract to dredge tho Scheldt river for thC City of Antwerp Time International In-ternational Congress of Navigation at Paris this year awarded him a gold medal for his paper on The Navigation Interests Inter-ests of Nations In Ports and Waterways and Modern Means of Their Improvement Improve-ment und upon hydraulic engIneerIng as applied lo navigation ho Is ranked as tho highest I authority of his day |