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Show London financier titt V-t-Charles Illvcrs Wilson, piesldent of the (Jrand Trunk llallroad, has Just como to, tho United Btntos for a short visit. fllf Charles' last trniissllantlo voyage waa made n few yeara ago for the purpose of luvontlgatlng tho affairs n ( tho rotyl of which he la tho head, that waa the second time ho visited America. The occasion nt his fl,st trip n year previously was ns representative repre-sentative of thn Kumpean stockholders stockhold-ers of the Central Psclnc Hold The total foreign Interest. ir.2.000,OW. had CIIAIUXS It WHJ30N been Intrusted to his care Until recently re-cently Sir Charles Illvcrs Wilson wss comptroller genornl of tho national debt of Great Ilrltnln, In thlct capacity capac-ity ho had chargo of 210000.000. Tho Incomo of this sum was entirely In Ms control fur Investment, and his management of the Important office of comptroller was In nil ways excellent This Londou financier Is not unknown to American men of affairs. Although somewhat unlike tho financial leaders of New ork and Chicago In personal methods, ho Is yet a very shrewd and nccuto manipulator of capital It was he who straightened out the famous Kgyptlan financial tp.nglo of 187(j. Ills prosont visit la for tho purposo bf trying try-ing to prevent Iho floating of the Hub-slan-Chlnese loan. In this country. |