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Show JEWS OF PROMINENCE IN FINANCIAL WORLD. ixirr genius for money-makinwell-know- n U one of the g char-- . acteristics of the Hebrew race, and It ought to surprise n0 one to find that there are among this people 115 millionaires The Jewish . tte united States. to verify the World has taken pains of its investigations along this of the men of ne and prints a list elitic descent who have amassed of fl. 000.000. The fortunes in excess of the Hebrews comprise population of the United States; their of are millionaires of Americans who foe entire number enote their riches in seven figures. A striking thing is the comparatively of occupations in which large number the Jewish millionares have managed Banking, porkpto earn their millions. distilling acking, realty, dry goods, and cotton growing are among the tarious industries and trades in which they have been fortunate. The millionaires of the race are found chiefly in large cities, like New York, where there are 38; PhiladelpFranchia, where they number 5; San has where which 10; Baltimore, isco, 8 of the race; may be found Cincinnati, which has 6, and Chicago, where the number reaches 13. Other cities represented in the list are Mo, bile, Denver, Atlanta. Peoria, III., Wav-erlyKy., Paducah, Louisville, la, Boston (with a solitary one), Detroit, Marquette, Mich., St. Paul, Meridian, Miss., St. Louis, Morristown, N. J, Paterson, N. J., Brooklyn, Portland, Salt Lake City, Ore., Pittsburg, Seattle aud Wheeling. , The gentlemen whose pictures accompany this article are typical of millionaire. the The Straus brothers Oscar, Nathan and Isidor have achieved distinction All are mer-in a variety of ways. CT "it t gress, is a lawyer by profession and owna the home of Thomas Jefferson Montlcello. Julius Fleischman is the Republican mayor of Cincinnati the youngest man who ever filled the office, being only 30 years old now and 28 when he was elected. His father was a banker and the manufacturer of a little article bearing the yellow label which has made the name of Fleischman famous. The son succeeded his father in the various enterprises. He also owns one the finest stock farms in the coun-Whethe late President McKin- - - TTT HIS THOUGHTS FAR AWAY Honors Former' Enemie.s He had executed the hustle of his life in order to reach her home in time to take her on the ride down the river, as he had promised, and in doing so he had been compelled to side-ste- p his regular dally lunch. Consequently, when the boat moved out on the bosom of the historic, stream, he had about as much of the Keats-Shellpoetic inflatus suffusing his hungry frame as is contained in the make-uof a carpenters horse. How beautiful the deep emerald tint of the foliage is this year! she murmured rapturously having herself had a whole lot of lunch at home before she had started waving her parasol toward the shore. Um, he replied, his mind on the things that he would about do to two strawberry shortcakes if they should happen to drop in his lap. There is something sadly remlnls-centlabout the Potomac, dont you think? she asked him as the boat wung by Giesboro point Sure, said he, dismally, wolflshly eyeing the little girl, who was eating pickle and cake out of the family lunch basket. ' Dont you always fancy that something of the old, old atmosphere of the dreamy southland stilL seems to cling about Alexandria? she asked him as the boat glided by the quiet town. said he, half of a mind to go up against a ball of popcorn to sort o keep him going until the boat made its landing. See how the sunlight strikes the little ripples on the surface of the stream over yonder! said she, ecsta- Squire Redwine, who has been in Phoenix for several days, yesterday described a smoking lake not far from the country where he lives, says the Arizona Republican. The lake is about forty mileB from the town of miles south Imperial and twenty-onof Mexico. It lies within the Cocopah country at the base of the mountains, even below the foothills, but it has not been there very long. It is on the Mexican Bide of the line. It used to be in California and was supplied with water by the Chino river, hut the Mexicans dammed that stream and the water was turned into the Cocopah river, which feeds the new lake and does little else. Within the boundaries of the new In the lnclosure are buried 2,260 lake there has been for several years Confederate soldiers. From Virginia, what the Indians believed to be a vol337; from Kentucky, 158; Tennessee, cano. Smoke was almost constantly 239; Alabama, 431; Texas, 22; Georrising from the ground, but there had gia, 265; South Carolina, 85; Arkanbeen no other sign of an eruption. sas, 65; Mississippi, 202; Florida, 62; The water of the lake now covers the Maryland, 9; Missouri, 8; Louisiana, volcano to a depth of from five to ten 52, and unknown about 280. Of these feet. Ever since the water has been 135 were buried at City cemetery, there there has been trouble, and it southeast of Columbus, and afteris getting worse every day. The Inwards removed to this inclosure. dians have moved from that neighborhood and the whites in the settlethings often crept into the questions ment twenty miles north are thinking asked applicants. One young man ' of moving. The lake is about fourwho wanted a clerkship in the treas- teen miles' long, but not of great ury department was asked, among width. other things: At first the disturbance was conWhat is the distance of saturn fined to that part of the water in the from the earth?" vicinity of the volcano, but now the In reply, he said that, as the position he sought pertained to the earth and not to the entire solar system, he had neglected to post himself on astronomy, and that, while he was unable to tell the exact number of billions of miles, he felt sure the said planet was sufficiently far away not to interfere with his duties as 'a clerk, Col. John F. Mosby sent word to or to involve him in any of its rings, should he get the position. And, the remnant of his old guerrilla band, who recently held their annual reGen. Bingham says, he got it. union at Leesburg, Va., that the pressure of public duty would prevent him Joining them. If Mosbys memory remains active, the recent death of Col. Tichener of the board of gen eral appraisers at New York must have reminded him of an occasion when the pressure of private extremely private and personal duty caused his absence from a place where he was very much wanted. He has sometimes mentioned it, in these later years, as the closest call he ever had in his lift). Tichener, who was a union officer in the civil war, had been sent out one night with a company in advance of the army to skirmish and establish picket lines. Before he had gone very far, he stumbled upon three men Halt! Who on horseback and cried: Two of the men goes there? wheeled instantly, galloped away aud water is boiling over a considerable part of its area and explosions are : To the memory of the Confederate oldiera buried in Camp Chase Confederate cemetery, near Columbus, Ohio, a monument has Just been unveiled which was created through the horts of a man who fought against them on the Union side. This man is of a Confederate soldier in full uni- held by the United States government form. The memorial stands in the during the war under a lease. - April center of the cemetery. Immediately 23, 1879, ii was bought blithe United in the rear is the tall fiagpost upon States government and described as which Old Glory floats. "The Confederate Cemetery, formerCoL Knauss, through his efforts of ly occupied by the Camp Chase Rebel other years, has become well known Prison." J. Fleischmann. M. H. De Young. (The former is mayor of Cincinnati; the latter is the noted San Francisco publisher. ley was Governor of Ohio he had the young man then scarcely a voter-- on his staff. Wilhelms y p n Opinion of Morgan. The Kaiser is quoted as giving his impressions of J. P. Morgan as follows: Try as I could, his conversation failed to reveal to me that he had any clear comprehension of the vast harmonies and conflicts of the commercial universe. I was amazed to find him not well informed regarding the historical and philosophical development of nations. His political economy leaves him unconcerned regarding socialism, which undoubtedly will soon constitute the most stupendous everyquestion where. Mr. Morgan confessed that he had never been sufficiently interested to study into what socialism means exactly. His ambition is to remodel the world, but I cant see where he has had a single great idea. His chief merit lay in seizing . the right time in which to effect combines on a scale which nobody has heretofore dared to attempt. But in so doing Mr. Morgan was rather the instrument of irrepressible economic The Straua Brothers. forces than an inventive genius. The is at to Isidor the the top, (Nathan left and Oscar to the right They Kaiser considers Mr. Morgan a man are prominent In business, politics of few ideas but tremendous audacity, who has been wonderfully served and philanthropy. which might Just chants and they are now building in by circumstances, as well have gone against him. New York the largest store in the world. They are Bavarians by naThe Army Nurse Corps. tivity and their early life was spent Of all the great armies of the In Georgia. war After the civil they the army of the United States located in New York. Oscar became world, is the only one which has a regulara lawyer. He has since been minister ly organized female contingent. This to Turkey and has been as successconsists of the army nurse corps, reful In his diplomatic career as In other uniformed and lines. Isidor and Nathan are his cently organized, under the provisions of the equipped brothers. Like him they have long army reorganization act. The uniform been identified with the great mercanof the corps consists of a waist and tile house in New York known as skirt of suitable white material, adNathan3 Macys, which they control. white cuffs, bishop collar and justable charities are famous. He established white apron and cap of regulation fuel yards in New York some years pattern. The badge of the corps is ago, where coal was dispensed to the Geneva cross of the medical dethe poor at cost, and set up sterilized milk partment in green enamel with gilt dispensaries, where the article could This badge is displayed on the he obtained at a low price. The edge.' left side of the collar of the uniform wealth of the three mounts well up or on a corresponding part of the into the millions. nurses dress when she is not in uniBanking has been the forte of form. These nurses are governed by 'William J. Seligman. James Speyer the regulations of the army and are and Henry Seligman, all New to the orders of their immeYorkers in the list of miilion- - subject diate superiors in office in the performance of duty, with the usual penalties for disobedience of orders or neglect of duty or violation of regulations. Hebrew-America- l..i- Uh-hu- tically. "Yep, he replied, really thinking however, of how he would like to play with about two large Southdown mutton chops And some lyonnaise potatoes. The sky is of such a deep turquoise is it not? she inquired of hue him. i It sure is, said he, but the oiue of the sky made him think of a pudgy huckleberry pudding and caused hla teetn to leak. She perceived that he wasnt garrulous a little bit as to the sky tints, perspectives, middle distances, and things like that, and so she paused for a liitle while. So did he. His mind was on the carnal things of the world, What are you thinking of? she asked him playfully, breaking the Of the music made sizeable pause. by the zephyrs as they flit through the lovely trees over there at old fort Washington? Nope, said he, in a matter-of-fac- t I was wondering whether Id tone. have mustard or not on the four swiss cheese sandwiches that Im going to lean up against when we reach our to-da- getting-of- f place. Then she gazed at him reproachfully and passed up the tropical-moonligconversation until the brute was fed. Washington Post. An unhappy wife is one whose husband always lets her have her own way. n Asphalt Were More Serviceable. Notification was recently served on street that the residents of an n they would be assessed a certain amount each by the city for repaving made necessary in laying new water pipes. Several house owners rebelled, and determined to petition councils James Speyer. J. M. Levy. to tha cost on the city. The (The former is prominent in banking' mostplace of the "kickers was belligerent circles. The latter is a lawyer and a committee of one to ask appointed ex congressman. all the Interested property owners to aires. Salomons forefathers were sign the petition. Here was the first revolutionary soldiers. Salomon Is 50 paragraph of the circular letter he years old and is the son of a cotton sent around: merchant. He himself is a writer as Certain gentlemen, house-owner- s well as a financier. James Speyer is wish to file a remonstrance to the proalso a New Yorker, w ho was educated street with posed repaving of in finance in his fathers banks in the members of both branches of Frankfort, Paris, London and New councils. Philadelphia Times. York and who now holds a responsible position in the house in the latter city. Minister Wu Is Sarcaatie. Henry Seligman is one of a family In a recent lecture on his countrywho have furnished more than their men Wu Ting-fanmade some pungshare of men distinguished in the ent comment on Bret Hartes famous and literary line, The heathen Chinee Is peculiar." financial, commercial world. Since boyhood he has been asFrom your point of Mr. Wu said: sociated with banking houses in New view this is true, but from ours you York and San Francisco. These three are peculiar. In China we accept a men are conspicuous in society and mans word ifi business transactions, have done much philanthropic work. uere you exact a writing from him. Of the Hebrews who have been sucSince foreigners have been doing so cessful and prominent in politics, as much business in China native merwell as in business, M. H. De Young, chants have learned td demand some Jefferson M. Levy and Julius Fleisch- - kind of writing from them. We respect age, while you seem to give most respect to money, muscle and brawn. The Chinese do not think so. Peculiar, isnt It? e MEMORIAL ARCH AND STATUE. Col. William H. Knauss of Columbus, among the Confederate camps in the and he was assisted financially in the south, and this year, for the unveiling work by William P. Harrison of the of the monument, he invited them to same city. send flowers. Boxes of blossoms and The monument consists of a solid plants were received from nearly evgranite arch, standing twelve feet ery state in the south, and there were high, built over the huge boulder many contributors from both northernwhich marks the resting place of the ers and southerners who live in the dead Confederates. On it is chiseled north. In bold letters the word Americans." The cemetery plot contains about acres. The land was At the top of the arch is the statue two and one-half JOKE BY PIERPONT MORGAN. What Great Financier Thought of the Coal Outlook. One morning several weeks after the coal strike began, Russell Sage and J. Pierpont Morgan were riding down to business on an elevated train, says the New York Times. The conversation naturally turned to the coal strike, chances of the output, prices coal would bring, etc. Mr. Sage was telling of their good luck in procuring a lot at a moderate cost per ton. Mr. Morgan bantered tim about the quality, claiming he did not get the real article at the price he mentioned. Oh, yes, said Mr. Sage, "that coal is all right; the real article. I know it, for each piece is stamped Le- high:" Thats a good one, answered the arbiter of finance; but Im a thinking, Uncle Russell," as he slapped the sage of Lawrence Beach good natured-l- y on the shoulder, Im a thinking that the next lot you or any one else will get. Instead of being stamped Lehigh, the chances are that each high. piece will be stamped ,D It Wouldnt Interfere. chatting Congressman Bingham, with some friends regarding the effectiveness of the civil service examination, confessed that some absurd NEW UNITED STATES WARSHIP g Peculiar Reservation of Pews. Some of the leading men in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, have raised a fund to set apart for five years the best pew in the church for the English visitors who, Sunday by Sunday, find their way to the scene of Henry Vi. J, Salomon. Henry Seligman. Ward Beechers historic ministry. An (Hebrew millionaires who are promEnglish flag has been placed under a inent in banking circles. glass cover, and a plate bearing the d man are notable examples. The words, "Reserved for English VisitSan Francisors," has been attached to the pew. is the co publisher who, at 17, began to A pew in St Margarets, Westminster, print a dramatic paper, which subse- la thus reserved for American visitors. famous quently became the now Paradise Lost. Chronicle. , San Francisco has no more prominent citizen than Mr. De One of Miltons biographers says that nearly twenty years elapsed beYoung, who, outside of Journalism, takes an interest in finance and com- tween the sketching out of the plan merce. He has often represented his of Paradise Lost and the completion State In national conventions of the of that work. The actual labor of Republican party and is always concomposition was condensed into two sulted by the leaders with reference or three years. to party politics. His name has often been mentioned for the vice presidenWoman to Swim English Channel. ' tial nomination. Mme. Isacescu, the Viennese lady at.Tpffnrwin M. Levy of New York swimmer, is training for another stands high in Democratic circles. He tempt to swim the English channel has represented his district In con this summer. first-name- well-know- n ONE OF HIS TRIBULATIONS. HARBOR LION CUB AT A BANQUET Entertainment Given Newspaper Men DEFENSE MONITOR ARKANSAS. but a Press man in a way dispelled the fearful anxiety by taking the beast into his lap. Roast lion on the plates ceased to be an attraction, at Cleveland in the lap suddenly beCaged In with the lions amid the and live lion came the center of interest The lion roaring of lions, tigers and leopards, zewas but a cub, and was passed from the whinneying of to. lap down the table, snarling of lap elephants bras, and the trumpeting a quarter of a hundred newspaper men and snapping at whoever attempted to pet him. ' were entertained at dinner at The menu card read as follows: , last evening. show animal Roast grizzly, a la Weedon; boiled Inside the big animal arena a long table was set, and repre- leg de leo, Bonavita salad; jagnar Morelli style; python sentatives of every Cleveland news- tongue,fried and spring paper seated themselves about it cheese and crackers; necsalad; good Animal the Kings of partook smoke up. At the botde dintar not a Java; and lunch a was cheer. It was the following: card tom of the the Was bear ner, and roast grizzly are we met happy have we dressed Happy the daintily which dish first been. Happy may we part, and happy waiter girls served. This, in turn, meet again. lion of boiled leg was followed by The dinner was punctuated with with Bonivtta salad. roars and altogether the Junleonine editors of the one Just at this point was most realistic in charlunch here gle heard calling of the World was acter. the banqueter Then pussy. pussy, The guestB included, besides the noticed that the editor had failed in a of representatives, all of the aniinstead press his diagnosis, and that, in the show. The feast harmless cat. a lion was wandering mal trainers tin. for the evenuntil on was nearly them. about among Leader. Cleveland crowd. the over performance. fell ing A sudden hush queer-stripe- d Boa-toc- goul-os- cock-ortw- - ping-pon- g WAS NOT A CANNIBAL. Woman With Unbuttoned Dress, the Man and the Conductor. , Dont try to tell the tribulations of a street car conductor in the paper, said one of the oldest employes of the company to a reporter a few days ago, write a book. Here is a small sample. Last Sunday night a lady got on my car with the back of her dress unbuttoned. It did not worry her, because she did not know about it, but it worried a man three or four seats back had enough for two. "He called me to him and said, Go and tell that lady that her It was none of dress is unbuttoned. my business, anyway, and besides I had experienced in my younger days telling women that something was wrong with their clothes, so I did not growing more and more frequent. People living in the neighborhood of Texico are often awakened by them in the night time. Eruptions are going on all the time, but they are generally of sufficient force only to throw up the water to the height of a few feet That makes no noise that can be heard at any great distance. But the eruption breaks occasionally through the water and shoots mud into the air at a height of forty feet. Whenever this happens the noise can be heard and a flame can be seen for miles.' It was such demonstrations as these that frightened the Indians away. There are boats on the lake and parties have started out to the volcano, but they have always turned back without completing the investigation. One party which came hack reported seeing an area of mud forty feet square thrown fifty feet into the air. The level of this lake is several feet below sea level. The whole Cocopah country has been a volcanic region. The ai&e of the mountains and the country for a considerable distance around are covered with sulphur. Within the memory of some of the older residents of Arizona one of the volcanoes in the mountain range was active. All the troubles of this world arei born with winds. Mary E. Wilkins. escaped; the third hurried forward, throwing up his hands and screamI surrender! I surrender! ing: Tichener was much annoyed. He could not shoot a man who had voluntarily made himself a prisoner of war, and the direction taken by the others was such that he should have risked hitting his prisoner if he fired upon the two fugitives; so he had to let them go and bring his one prize Into camp. The captive proved to be a local preacher who knew the country so well that the confederates had pressed him into service as a guide, and he revealed the fact that one of his companions was a confederate officer and the other the guerilla Mosby, who, in the then state o' feeling within the union lines, would undoubtedly have been given short shrift and hanged. Mosby afterward met Tichener and told him that he did the liveliest running that might of any time in his adventurous career. gives statistics relating to collisions and derailment of trains and casualties to persons for the three months ending March 31, 1902. The Dumber of persons killed in train accidents was 212, and of injured 2,111. Accidents those susof other kind, including tained by employes while at work, and by passengers in getting on or off cars, bring the total number up to 183 killed and 9,958 injured. During this period there were 1, 220 collisions and 838 derailments, of which 221 collisions and 84 derailments affected passenger trains, in 41 fatal accidents to passengers and 826 injured. From other accidents there were 12 passengers killed and 433 injured, making a total of 63 passengers killed and 1,259 injured. The damage t cars, engines and roadway by these accidents amounted to fl, 914,258. Practitioner Would Not Take a Fee From a Student One of the kindliest souls in the medical profession la Dr. Robert F. Weir, the eminent New York n and specialist. He is professor of surgery at the College of Physicians and urgeons and often has his g- The more the man looked at that students under his care during illness, Birds Eggs and 8cience. and he charges them nothing. One dress the more nervous ue got Three It is not often that science ackno or four times he told me to break the young man had an operation and considerable care from the doctor, and news to the woman passenger, and edges herself at fault in an apparen after his recovery he went to the sur- when I refused for the fourth time he simple matter, but she frankly d geons office to pay the bill, not know- threatened to report me. Then he be- so in regard to the color and markl him of a large proportion' of bird's eg ing the doctors custom. gan telling everybody around Bill! cried the doctor, putting on about it One of these people hap- A reason there must be for their his sternest look. ' Bill! I havent pened to be a woman. I told that finite diversity it cannot be any bill. Dog doesnt eat dog." man in uniform, he said, insultingly, esthetic one; and all we can say w "But I dont think I have & tell her her dress was unbuttoned any confidence - is that the ever-- j ;to to take your time for nothing, right he would not do it He did not vading Instinct of distrust is proba and said the student, "and beside Im not a get much sympathy from her. She exhibited in egg shells as in more doctor yet, but only a medical stusaid, Why dont you tell her yourself portant things, and the main idea dent. If you are so anxious about it? This their scheme of coloration has. b( ; "Run along, boy," said the doctor, quieted tne man and he let me alone. the securing of safety from' mi enemies by harmonizing them "w dog doesnt eat puppy, then," and the Kansas City Journal. student did as he was told, not much their surroundings. But it is a sche Fatalities on Railroads. full of perplexing exceptions, wh chagrined at being cheated ont ot payA report recently issued by the Ining the bill. any one can study for himself at t ternational Commerce Commission charming season. Medical sur-geo- |