Show I PERSONAGES IN INTHE l THE PUBLIC EYE Gen Lukas Luk-as Meyer Icer the B Boer r leader is a big man with bJ big Ideas Some years cars ago ngo he formed a sort port of ot republic of oC hIson his own o-n with headquarters at but was persuaded to tack tacit It on to the Transvaal aal He lIe was always alwa's very ely popular popular lar and used to be known as the lion of or At At Nos Craig Mme Im Patti possesses posses posses- ses the largest lanest piano as well s-ehl as the most expensive c In the world The latter wonderful Instrument instrument ment Is Js equal to the combined forts efforts of ot sixty performers It cost nn and 1 I has hns a repertoire of at over o eighty ht operatic selections elections and nils alis Cornelius the millionaire million million- c air Inventor keeps half a a. dozen doen mechanical me me- draughtsmen busy on drawIngs draw draw- In logs Ings s of his inventions invention When hen In New NewYork NewYork York City Mr Vanderbilt spends most of oC h his time with these draughtsmen In his office on the seventeenth floor of ot f a bm business lne A block on Broadway Blanche K Z Bruce the colored man who ho at one ono time was register of ot the treasury Is publishing a paper In Bond lUIss s Its avowed object being the elevation ele ele- dc- dc of or the colored race on the tho Booker Book Book- er T T. Ya Washington plan Ho lIo advises all negroes to buy homes educate their theil children In Industrially serve God and practice morality and temperance and let gambling and politics alone aIon Ir Mr Platt of ot Oldham England who died the thc other da day on board his yacht In iii the Menal enal Straits was head of the great dt making machine firm of ot Platt tt Bros Dros Co limited which regularly employs about men After Arter being educated at Cheltenham and In German Germany Germany Ger Ger- man many Mr r Platt was taken Into his fathers father's works In as an ordinary apprentice and acquired a practical knowledge knowledg of or e cr every branch of at thi th the art artof artof of ot machinery construction He Ito succeeded suc sue his father lather as chairman and head hC of the firm In 1872 |