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Show IN THE PUBLIC EYE 1 SON OF ADMIRAL EVANS I Although Roar Admiral Robtoy D. Evans ro- tSipS llnqulahed tho command of tho battleship fleet V-5Sk n snrt tlmo aB yet there Is anothor mombor ot Y Bm "l0 fam"J" m tho navnl sorvlco and at present at-I at-I IbbbW tachod to tho battleship Louisiana, with tho fleet Ljj fSjJE, ?Bf at Snn Francisco. MB Thls officer Is Llout. Franck Taylor Evans, K5 Mi tho only .son of tho former commander-in-chief of KMC" tho Atlantic flcot. Resembling his father In KJwRi'S J7 looks, tho younger Evans had mado a vory credit Sfflri. ab, recori 'nco his entranco In the navy, 14 JP55W-j& Ho was born In Switzerland, whllo his fathoi iMklrfttE&Z 'was attached to tho European fleet In tho 70's Hu0E9Mf Soptombcr C, 1804, ho was appointed to tho naval XKKKEmKLzMciuZlm academy at largo. Completing his four-yean course of Instruction at tho academy In 1898, h( wob graduated from that Institution. In April of that year, and Just boforo tho outbreak of tho Spanish war ho was assigned to tho battleship Massachusetts, commanded by Capt. Fran els J. Hlgglnson. Ho served on tho Massachusetts through tho war, taking part In tho bombardmont at Santiago, San Juan and In a number ot engago monts In Cuban waters. Ho romalned on tho Massachusetts until 1899, whor ho was transferred to tho gunboat Nashville. In 1900 ho was assigned to tht Drutus on tho Asiatic station. In 1904 ho was assigned to President Roosevelt's yacht Sylph as hoi commanding officer and remained on her until tho latter part of 1905, when ho was ordorcd to Nowport Nows for duty In connection with tho fitting out ol tho now 10,000-ton battleship Louisiana. When sho was commissioned In 1906 ho was assigned to duty on her. Ho mado tho trip on tho Louisiana, when sho took President Roosovelt to Panama, and also on tho crulso from Hampton Roads to San Francisco. Ho was promoted to tho grado of lieutenant on July 1, 1904. "FIDDLER BOB" TAYLOR i I Robert Lovo Taylor, hotter known throughout . n. Tennessee as "Fiddler Rob," dovotcd his maiden dtjK speech In tho United States senate recently to an JSJf attack upon tho Republican party and tho execu- .Wmfet "vo" 8omo 01 ''Is similes wore very effcctlvo, as jjPjSH ',t when ho compared tho fedoral powor and tho Wfiwfy' "S ffejl Btates to the centripetal and centrifugal forces MlHl ' that r"' 1,10 unIvcrs0' nnd wlen ho said this of ffallltf ie'JSS&l "Thoy aro only ono string of tho harp of a jtkGi''E3r thousand strings upon which our modorn Orphous wKSmWW '8 Playing tho triumphal march of federalism." rCWBwtfy Senator Taylor got his nlcknamo of Fiddler flSgKK!prc& Dob from tho campaign ho waged In 1889, for CTL election to tho United -States congress. Ho had l2533iBasaalBI8l nothing to aid him but his wits and his flddlo, but being a mountaineer himself ho know, how to reach tho hearts ot tho people of tho hills. Ho sot out for tho mountain regions re-gions carrying his flddlo and whorovcr ho stopped ho brought It out and a danco was organized right away. Tho young folks danced to his muBlc whllo tho oldor ones wero won by his merry chattor. Ho waB elected. His noxt ambition am-bition was to become United States senator and ho mado tho run. Ho received re-ceived a telegram that ho had been elected by a majority ot one, but later he received anothor that ono of his supporters had changed his voto and elected his opponent. Taylor said nothing, but ho mado tho run for governor ot tho state, this tlmo having his own brother for an opponent, which gavo to tho contest tho sobriquet of "War of tho Roses." Tho ancient flddlo was offectlvo and Dob was elected. He was twlco ro-clected. His opportunity to ochlovo his final ambition offered itself at last election and ho ran for tho Bonato onco moro, being triumphantly elected tilts' tlme Sonator Taylor was born In Happy Vnlloy, Tcnn., In July, 1850. Ho graduated gradu-ated from Pennington collcgo and in 1878 was admitted to tho bar. Ho was an olcctor-at-largo on tho Cleveland tlckot in 1884 and again in 1892. After retiring from tho olllco of chief cxccutlvo Mr. Taylor entered tho lecturo field. Ho Is an attorney by profession, and ho Ib also editor of Dob Taylor's Magazine, Maga-zine, a publication that reflects tho character and tho Idiosyncrasies of tho man. OPPOSES REVOLVING DOORS I I Louis Loplne, protect of pollco, by Issuing tho jrif? ordlnanco forbidding , tho uso Ot revolving doors jf m m restaurants, hotels and othor public buildings fit S, capablo of holding moro than 100 persons, on tho fig Broun that they aro dangerous In caso ot flro y ki .rt-fejsffMI or panic, has again demonstrated that ho is tho flSS tSnWWfi" wioldor of tho "big stick" in Paris. Q ffiy'SMK T'10 or(lor has arousod tho Indignation of thoso V ' LiJi w,, ',avo nBtftHod thoso doors at groat oxponso, tVmMSr but tho nrofcct ,s UB0(1 to srumbllngs and mut- ftkMiWW torlngs. To uso an American expression, ho al- xKmlSK lows tholr complaints to go "In ono ear and out Jav'lfP. ot tho otnor" JmLL wfiSllBn, That tho otllct wlu 8tand BoeB without saying, mLvJIimKk for 1,10 mco ot I'rofect 1b moro important than DiiB. iii i'vHHI that of a cabinet minister. Ho is appointed by tho president and is answerablo neither to parliament par-liament nor to Paris. M. Loplno Is supported by a small army In carrying out his odlcts. Ho controls 60,000 troopB, 12,000 pollco and 8,000 guards. Ho Is a gentleman, a scholar and brothor to a great medical luminary, Prof. Raphaol Leplno, of tho faculty of Lyons, and oditor ot tho Rovuo dc Medicine. It is a family of what was called In othor days "noblosso do robo," descondlng from generations ol lawyors, doctors and government functionaries. M. Leplno was born In Paris In 184C, became a lawyor and ontorod tho "ad. ministration" In 1877 as sub-profect, and has risen through all tho grades to prefect, to which ho was appolntod In 1893. So woll has ho met tho requirements require-ments of his strenuous olllco that overy president slnco that tlmo has reappointed re-appointed htm. Ho was In charge of Paris during tho Droyfus troublos, with its rioting and violent possibilities. 1 NEW PRESIDENT OF PERU I Senor Don Augusto D. Legula, who was ro- jljjSjs. contly oloeted to succood Dr. Pardo as president JgBjggp&siS of Poru, Is said to bo ono of tho best frlonds tlio JKiT W Unltod States over has had in South Amorlca. J) Mk The richness ot Peru Is proverbial, and for years (r&, J$m Sonor l-osula has maintained that every effort iMfy P3lf should bo mado to oncourago tho Investment of American capital in enterprises Intondod to do- ft fS volop and exploit tho resources of his country. V ''ftak 11,8 llk,ns 'or American mothods Is probably BSffm Partly duo to tho fact that the largo part of his A SflfWS' early commercial training was acquired in tho V Spanish-American department of the Now York , J NwttA. Lifo InBiiranco Company. "trfimt 110 was w'"1 1,1,8 corI'orntlon for years, and EfgBl whon ho resigned his place, In 1889, ho had worked his way up from a clerkship to tho management man-agement of all tho Interosto of tlio Now York Lifo In Poru. Since retiring from tho insuranco business flenorLcgula has boon tho managing director of tho Drltlsh Sugar Estates, Limited, which haa sovcral million dollars invested in sugar estates in different parts ot Poru, and ho Is also tho largest stockholder stockhold-er in six othor Important industrial and commercial enterprises. Sonor Legula entered political lifo In 1903 as mlnlstor ot flnanco In President Presi-dent Candatno's government, of which tho present prcsldont of Poru, Dr. Joso Pardo, was prime mlnlstor. President Candamo lived only six months after taking olllco, and whon tho vacancy causod by his death was- filled by tho election ot President Pardo, Senor Legula was made prime minister and Intrusted In-trusted with tho forming of a now cablnot. He retired from this olllco only a few months ago, In aceordanco with a custom which requires a candldato for an olectlvo public ofllce to resign boforo opening a campaign, Fenor Legula Is 45 years old, having been born at Ltmbayoquo, In tho uorlh of Poru. on Fobruary 19, 1863, |