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Show London's Lord Mayor. Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield, lord mayor of London, is a man of large business affairs and directs the operations opera-tions o' one of the great English oil companies. Since 1895 he has lived in London. He started on the long road to high office in 1904, when he was electea nember of the court of common com-mon council. He has been decorated by the president of France, the king of Belgium, and, in other and different days, the kaiser. He has traveled greatly, and has written a book called "Future Trade in the Far East." The lord mayor has always been deeply interested in charitable works and prizes highly decorations of the Order of Mercy and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of which he is a knight of grace. He is also a keen art collector, |