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However, this railroad isn't taking much of Mr. Yarnelle's attention. You will observe that he is engaged in the very commendable occupation of singing. When he isn't busy at this he is occupied at his desk in the large wholesale heavy hardware house of Mossman. Yarnelle & Company. in which he is a partner. He is a native of Springheld, Ohio. When he was fifteen his folks removed to Illinois and settled on a farm. After three years he went to Pana, Illinois, to learn to sell dry goods. In 1877 he came to Fort Wayne to take a post- tion with the heavy hardware firm of Coombs & Company. He just seemed to fit the place and grew to like the bust- ness so well that he decided to go into it for himself. In 1882, in company with Frank Alderman, he purchased the heavy hardware business of A. D. Brandriff. W. E. Mossman afterward secured Mr. Alderman's interests, and the firm of Mossman. Yarnelle & Company was formed. In 1893 they bought out Coombs & Company and consolidated the two concerns.
Mr. Yarnelle is president of the Fort Wayne Iron & Steel Company, a director in the First National Bank and, as we have noted, president of the Lake Ene & Fort Wayne Railroad.
As a member of the Haydn Quartet. Mr. Yarnelle has contributed melody to listening thousands for the past twenty-six years.
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CHARLES D. TILLO
F you are ill here is a man who can cure you. Charles Tillo can sell you the best patent insides you ever saw. He can make you look fresh and attractive with new outsides Dowie is left at the post when it comes to making you new. Charley can take a country news- paper and give it an air of metropolitanism that almost turns the paper yellow. He knows just exactly how, as he has grown up in the business and has progressed with the times. Busy as he is, he finds time to play golf. A little over a halt a century ago he was not playing golf. He was then even too small to be a caddie. He was picked up when he bawied.
The town of Clyde. in Wayne county, New York, was the first place that ever knew Charley. If he had been a day sooner he would have been a New Years' gitt. He has never been a day late since.
After leaving school he went to New York City and learned the printing trade. Then he came west and secured a position on the Citizen, at Jackson, Michigan. After a while he assisted in founding the Jackson News, the second penny paper in the state of Michigan. The late Governor Blair, of Michigan, was interested in the paper. Mr. Tillo retired and went back to the Citizen until he located in Battle Creek, where he was interested in the Sunday Tribune. Just a quarter of a century ago he became connected with the Chicago Newspaper Union. He was so successful in Michigan that he was given the management of the Fort Wayne branch nineteen years ago. He has been the head of the concern ever since. He has done much to advertise Fort Wayne and to boom its enterprises. He was one of the founders of the Wayne Club and is active in the affairs of the Kektonga Golf Club.
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CHARLES R. LANE
- F the noisy telegraph instrument in the editorial room of the Fort Wayne Daily News should suddenly punt business, you would yet hnd the stillness of things interfered with by a buzzing, clicking noise emanating from the southwest corner of that same room. This peculiar sound is sent out from Charley Lane's think- box, and the louder it grows the heavier is the editorial that's being ground out by the mechanism of his cere- bellum. In the picture we find him handing to the copy- boy a complete treatise on "How to Exterminate the Democrati: Donkey. "
Mr. Lane has had charge of the editorial page of the Daily News since its purchase by the present owners two years ago. He is an experienced newspaper man and one whose political work has counted heavily in the battles of the Republican party in Indiana.
Charley Lane began at about the same time the civil war did, but he has lasted a good deal the longer. However, like all other mortals, he must sometime go the way of all mankind because, you know, it's a long Lane that knows no turning, and there can never be a mortal quite so long as eternity. He was born at Oxford, Olmo. His father owned and operated steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Although Charley was orphaned when a boy, he managed to obtain a good education. He was graduated from Eartham in 1884. and immediately began his newspaper experience on the Richmond, Indiana. Palladium. In 1800 he went to Indianapolis, and for seven years was connected with the Journal. He left that paper to become private secre- tary to Congressman Charles L. Henry, On returning from Washington in 1897, he was elected secretary of the state senate. He then purchased an interest in the Fort Wayne Gazette, of which he was the editor. In 1800 he was appointed Deputy State Supervisor of Oils for the Twelfth district. Mr. Lane takes much interest in the Fortnightly Club and was its president in 19o? and 1904.
CHARLES T. PIDGEON
E VEN those who are bitterly opposed to the use ot birds in the adornment of ladies' bonnets are en- thusiastic over Pidgeon trimmings-in fact, they consider Mr. Pidgeon a bird when it comes to the production of beautiful and dainty things in all the various lines of millinery.
Some hateful man. probably the helpmeet of a super- extravagant wite, describes a bonnet as "a female head trouble which is contracted the latter part of Lent and breaks out on Easter." Many of these outbreaks may be rightly considered as * rash," but not so with the thousands of Pidgeon bonnets which present their beautiful plumage and fohage at the happy Eastertide and at all other times between the annual recurrence of this spring bonnet festival day.
The C. T. Pidgeon Company-for as such the present Pidgeon-Turner Company will be known after the begin- ning of next year-is one of Fort Wayne's big wholesale and manufacturing concerns. Its object is to spread beauty everywhere, carried by the fair representatives of our race.
Mr. Pidgeon began hfe in Ohio, at the town ot Wilmington. He attended school there and later took a course at Earlham College. After leaving school, he entered the railway mail service and continued for four years as one of Uncle Sam's hired men. In 1888 he turned his attention from mail matter to female matters, having taken a position as traveling salesman for the Adams & Armstrong Co., wholesale milliners. His terri- tory was in Michigan. He was a dandy at the business, and continued it until three years ago. Upon the reorgan- ization of the house as the James A. Armstrong Company, he became its vice-president. and held that position until he purchased Mr. Armstrong's holdings in the establish- ment. He then became president of the house which changed its name to the Pidgeon-Turner Company.
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WILLIAM C. GEAKE
ROBBY BURNS once said of Captain Grose: ** A chiel's amang ye takin' notes, and, faith, he'll prent it." In the picture of Will Geake he is not taking that kind of notes. You can't bank on the notes he has under his arm. either. "Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance made more sweet." and it is a cred- ible assumption that the further the average person can keep away from the notes Will is carrying the more enchanted he will be. Will now holds the honorable position of assistant to the attorney-general of Indiana. and he is busy delivering the goods. Fort Wayne and William C. Geake were both born on the Maumee river. but not in the same place nor at the same time. Will came later, at Toledo. This was about thirty years ago. He came to this city when seven years old. After going to the public schools he attended Taylor University. Then he went to Ann Arbor, and in iooo was graduated trom the law department. He formed a partnership with William N. Ballou, one of his classmates, and began the practice of law in this city. The young hrm built up a lucrative practice and continued until Mr. Geake's removal to the capital.
Will is an orator and a thorough student. He takes an active part in politics, and when Attorney-General Miller was inducted into office, about two years ago. Will was made his assistant. He has been Inghly com- plimented for the excellency of his work. Although pos- sibly the youngest attorney in this position, he has been one of the best. Like his father, he is active in Masonic circles and is a member of Summit City lodge and also of the Scottish Rite bodies. His eloquence has been enjoyed at some of the Scottish Rite banquets held in this city. He still retains his residence in Fort Wayne, although at present occupied with his professional duties in Indianapolis.
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EUGENE WYNEGAR
THE typewriter is the vehicle by which many a person has been carried to a splendid success. Every little while we read of some plam, demure stenographer suc- ceeding in capturing her wealthy emplover for a husband. Evidently these young ladies get tired of being dictated to by a horrid man and know that this is the only way to get a chance to turn the tables. There are several reasons for all this. Take, for instance, an old bachelor, too much wrapped up in his business to go out into society or in other ways to mingle with the fair sex. Shut in his private room, a frown upon his brow he dictates: "John Jones & Co., New York. Gentlemen: We have yours of --- what was the date of their letter, Miss Brown ?" sternly addressing the girl with the machine and notebook.
" The sixteenth, sir." she replies sweetly.
Heis looking directly into her deep. browneves, whose long, dark lashes droop as they meet his changed expres- sion. He had never seemed to look at her before. To him she was suddenly transformed into a radiant. beauti- ful being. too heavenly, too precious to hear another word about John Jones & Co , or any other commonplace mortals. It is the beginning of the end. Soon a new girl is at the typewriter. Perhaps she will capture the chief clerk or the janitor.
Mr. Winegar is the man who is back of all this sort of thing in Northeastern Indiana, as he is the representa- tive of the Remington Typewriter Company for twelve counties. Born and reared in North Judson, Indiana, he later resided at several points in the state, finally landing in Indianapolis, where he learned all about typewriters. The Remington Company sent him to Fort Wayne about eighteen months ago and he has done wonders here. The click of tive hundred Remingtons may be heard here any day except Sundays and holidays.
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EDWARD A. K. HACKETT
N the newspaper field the Sentinel, of which E. A. K. Hackett is editor and proprietor, is the oldest publi- cation in Fort Wayne. It dates its existence from 1833. its first issue being on July oth of that year, when the town had less than four hundred inhabitants. It became a daily on January 1, 1801. Mr. Hackett became its proprietor on August 1, 1880, and has continued as sole owner since.
Under his energetic management its circulation and business grew to proportions which made it the leading Democratic paper in northern Indiana. Its editorial and local columns are ably edited. It is a clean family newspaper. championing principles which its editor and proprietor believes to be right. Mr. Hackett has shaped its policy and course.
He is a practical and successful newspaper man. He was born and reared and educated in Perry county. Pennsylvania. As a hoy he was ** a printer's devil" in the office of the Perry County Democrat and worked at the case as a compositor and afterwards as advertising manager for a state paper. He drifted to Indiana and in Wells county at Bluffton, from his own earnings, pur- chased the Banner. This he conducted successfully for several years betore coming to Fort Wayne to assume the ownership of the Sentinel. With the late Hon. S. E. Morss, he was at one time part owner of the Indianapolis Sentinel. He also conducted here for awhile the American Farmer, a state agricultural paper.
Mr. Hackett never sought political office. He never held any except that of trustee for the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth. His appointment to the responsible position was made by the governor of the state. He held the office under several state adminis- trations and its duties he performed faithfully and well.
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CHARLES R. WEATHERHOGG
M R. WEATHERHOGG figured it this way: "Here in England," said he. "there are one hundred and thirty of us to the square mile, and the number is increasing all the while. Now, over in America there are only twenty or so to a like area. If I stay here and engage in designing big structures, the time will come when there will be an insufficieat amount of room tor my buildings. I'll go to America, where the out-of-doors is a good deal bigger and there's no danger of crowding."
And so he came over, bringing with him all his archi- tectoral apparatus and a headfol of ideas. He came from Lincoln, Lincolnshire, where he had attended the Art Institute and mastered his life work. Donington. the town of his birth. was not far distant. Mr. Weatherhugg has never regretted that he cast his lot among Uncle Sam's folks. And, of course, he's glad he finally landed in the Summit City, for his has been the experience of the scores of other toreign-born residents of Fort Wayne: you couldn't chase him out with a gat- ling gun, His tirst residence in the United States was at Chicago. After spending a year there, he came to Fort Wayne in 1892 and has been one of the busiest men in town ever since. Magnificent monuments to his genius and ability are scattered all over this part of the country. Our latest and finest is the new $250,000 high school building. Another, just completed, is the plant of the Perfection Biscuit Company. He designed the splendid Jasper county court house, and they liked it so well they wouldn't let him go until he had prepared plans for their Carnegie library. The high school building at Peru is his design. The prisoners in jail at Kankakee are safely housed in a building erected after his ideas. So, you see, he knows his business and does it well.
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BENJAMIN F. HEATON
A LITTLE turn of fortune changed Ben Heaton from breeder of fancy stock into a lawyer. When he was a hoy living on the farm in Marion township, he assisted in raising some beasts and fowls which brought fancy prices wherever they were presented for sale. Everything looked rosy, and the lad's trousers pockets began to take on a silver lining. He had settled in his mind the question of a life occupation. He would be a prosperous farmer: what was to hinder?
But one day something happened. One by one the creatures of which he was so proud and upon which he had set his hopes, drooped and died. A fatal and resist- less epidemic attacked the flocks and herds, and there was gloom on the Heaton farm. This not only occasioned a large financial loss, but seemed to show that a worse calamity might result with the investment of a greater sum in the enlargement of the business. Ben changed his mind. He had been attending the country schools. He entered the Tri-State Normal at Angola, and on leav- ing that institution took a course in a Fort Wayne busi- ness college. He had by this time made up his mind to become a lawyer and began his studies in the office of Vesey & Heaton, where he was employed as a clerk. In 1900, at the age of twenty-two, he was admitted to the practice of law. He was then made a mehmer of the firm of Vesey & Heaton and continued in the partnership until the fall of 1902, when the present alliance with Carl Yaple was made. Ot these two young and progressive mem- hers of the profession it is said that the sunshine reflected from their countenances has had such a happy influence over many litigants who have called for advice that they voluntarily dismissed their cases, thus cheating the attorneys out of several prospective fat fees.
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ALBERT E. BULSON, JR.
T HE commercial importance of a city is revealed in its factories, its railroads and its business houses : its culture is told in its schools, its churches, its libraries and its galleries of art. Few cities of the dimensions of Fort Wayne are so fully developed in all the elements which make an ideal commonwealth, and the thing usu- ally missing is the presence of a suitable place for the display and study of art. Dr. Bulson and a few others equally interested, made up their minds that Fort Wayne should not be lacking in this important respect, since all other departments of municipal development have been so carefully attended to. So the Fort Wayne Art School association was organized with Dr. Bulson as its presi- dent. The Kiser homestead was purchased as a home for the association and the school, and Fort Wayne is now recognized as one of the important art centers of middle west. In addition to the maintenance of a well equipped art school, the people of Fort Wayne are fre- quently treated to loan exhibits of the products of the country's foremost artists.
But this is only a side issue-though a very import- ant one-of the doctor's. As professor of ophthalmology in the Fort Wayne School of Medicine : as oculist and aurist to St. Vincent's and the Allen County Orphan asylums, St. Joseph hospital and the United States Pension Bureau for Northern Indiana and Ohio; as editor and manager of the Fort Wayne Medical Journal- Magazine : as secretary and treasurer of the council of the Indiana State Medical Association; as a member of several of the large national medical associations-we say that as he has all these and many other important interests, one would hardly think he'd have time to get much pleasure out of life, but it is a fact that that big automobile of his holds a man who finds plenty of time to get out into the atmosphere and see all there is in nature to enjoy.
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FRED H. ASH
FRED ASH is an old-fashioned sort of a boy who isn't carried away by the automobile, except occasionally when a friend invites him to go along. He doesn't own one. The fad hasn't struck him yet and he has less trouble dodging it than he does the automobiles them- selves. He seems to be contented with the old reliable gasolineless carriage with a sleek horse hitched thereto. and in this class of turnouts he keeps up to date His horse doesn't like automobiles any better than its owner and whenever it sees one it outstrips it in speed just to show its contempt for the new tangled and so-called competitor.
But there isn't very much exercise in carriage driving. and Fred is obliged to get the other kind of recreation elsewhere. Usually. in his leisure hours, he can be found *driving " on the golf links. It didn't take him long to get onto the golf terms. though at first he thought it was merely an old maids' game when someone used the word ** tee " and another referred almost simultane- ously to the ". caddie." Fred coupled the two into "tea- caddy," the spinster's friend. But he soon learned differently, and now such expressions as .. mashie " and " brassey " are as familiar as stove-pipe and mica, which he hears every day while laboring in the stove depart- ment of his father's store. Fred is an expert on stoves and is most willing to exchange information about checks and drafts for checks and drafts or any other kind of currency. His busy season is just beginning.
Fred has always lived in Fort Wayne. He goes out occasionally to see what there is beyond the city linuts. but none of it looks good to him so he comes back. He attended the public schools, St. Paul's Lutheran School and Concordia College, and went from the latter into the H. J. Ash establishment, where he has developed into one of our likeliest young business men. He is an enthusiastic Elk and is a star performer at their annual minstrels.
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WILLIAM F. MOELLERING
IT must have been awfully discouraging to Moellering Brothers & Millard, the wholesale grocers, to receive a visit from the fire fiend on the very first year of the establishment of their wholesale grocery business. If they shed tears over the event they quickly dried them and began anew by opening a large store room on Columbia street and remodeling the damaged buildings at the corner of Lafayette and Montgomery streets into capacious warerooms. They now have one of the most important houses in Indiana.
Mr. W. F. Moellering. who sits nearest the door of their Columbia street office and whose glad hand you are likely first to encounter, is shown here as a sort of pin- nacle to a collection of the company's numerous varities ot cheese. Mr. Moellering has no particular connection with the cheese end of the business-he knows just as much about teas and coffee and spices and canned goods and everything else-but these make a good pedestal, so he posed thereon while we took a snapshot with our little paint brush.
Like many of our successtul men of affairs. Mr. Moellering has risen to a prominent place in the city of his birth. He has found no good reason to go elsewhere to meet the sort of success he has wished. This is no criticism of people who do move away from their native towns in search of something better-provided their native town is somewhere else and they come here to find something better.
Mr. Moellering's hrst business venture was in 187b as a retail grocer. This grew. as time went on, and finally resulted in the formation of the house of Moellering Brothers & Millard. It has prospered well.
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ED. PERREY
F it is true that humanity should be under great obli- gations to the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one has hitherto sprouted, what sort of praise and adoration is due to the individual who causes a smile to accumulate upon the features of a per- son who has never before been known to stretch his face into jolly dimensions? Ed. Perrey's .. Now look pleasant," has accomplished this thousands of times. He has done as much as any living being to bring permanent brightness to the faces of the people of northeastern Indiana. To him. on this account. we owe much more than we can ever pay. We dety him to col- lect it.
Mr. Perrey first opened his eyes upon a Fort Wayne landscape. Like all other lively youngsters, he went to school, played hookey . patromized the old swimmin' hole on Saturday, went to Sabbath school on Sunday morn- ing and played two-old-cat in the afternoon. Then he went at work. His first employer was F. R. Barrows. the photographer. He was with Mr. Barrows one year and then with John A. Shoaf for eight years, and, long before the end of that period, he knew pretty nearly all there was to learn up to that time. Since then, photo- graphy has taken many forward strides : Ed has con- tinued to tag along and keep pace with its progress. After leaving Mr. Shoaf, he went on the road for the Ilotype Company, of Binghamton, New York, to show the photographers of the county how to use that con- cern's new products. He located here permanently at the corner of Calhoun and Berry streets, eight years ago. As showing his ability, he has a bunch of medals for superior work, one received at Indianapolis in 1897. one at Winona Lake in 1902, and two at the recent ex- hibition at Winona-in fact he's becoming very, very medalsome.
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GOTTLIEB H. HEINE
W HILE the prescriptionist behind the case at the Meyer Brothers drug store is handling chloride of gold, Mr. Heine is manipulating the real article of gold and storing it away in the company's strong-box. He is the treasurer of the Meyer Brothers Drug Company and it keeps him pretty busy taking care of the stream of coin flowing into the coffers of that large house, as well as of the smaller stream flowing out. His duties are to increase the former and lessen the latter. Mr. Heine looks after all the financial ends of the Meyer Brothers concern, manages the advertising department and puts in good long hours earning his salary.
He is of the younger element of business men who are to keep the Fort Wayne of the future prominent among the live cities of America.
Mr. Heine takes a bigger view of his surroundings than most man. This is because he is built on the tall. slim plan and can see farther. He was born in Fort Wayne and attended the Emanuel Boys' School. After graduating from the course there provided, he entered Concordia College for the purpose of adding to his store of knowledge and to better ht himself for a business career. He hrst learned to sell cheese and prunes and herring and eggs at a local grocery, but resigned his position as a provider for the inner man in order to become a decorator of the outer man. This he did by becoming a salesman in a gents' furnishing house.
His final change came with the reorganization of the Meyer Brothers Drug Company when he was chosen treasurer of that concern. This important house is now over half a century old, having been established in 1852 by C. F. G Meyer, now president of the Meyer Brothers Drug Company of Saint Louis, and J. F. W. Meyer, president of the local house of the same name.
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