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Mr. Carnegie believes in the advantages of a education, and especially the advantage to a con inunity of a well selected library. He has give a library and art gallery to Alleghany, Pa .. the cos of which was $300,000; to the libraries at Home stead and Braddocks, where two of his steel plant are located. he gave $500,000, each, and to Pitt burgh he gave a library and art gallery, costin $2.500,000; to Edinburgh, Scotland. he gave for l brary purposes a quarter million dollars. Thes
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re some of his larger gifts. He has helped many gal practice with men of National prominence, truggling libraries and educational concerns with among them the venerable United States Senator George G. Vest. lle was elected Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit of Missouri in No- vember, 1880; after serving six years, he declined a re-election, and returned to the practice of his profession at Clinton. He was elected to his present position as Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri, to succeed Judge Robert D. Ray, at the November election, 1890. He was united in marriage to Miss Alice Warth, April 23, 1872, who died August &, 1889. fle has four children. On July 23, 1891, he maller sums, which sums, however, were large and mply sufficient. He has recently given from $25,- 00 to $100.000 for a number of libraries in the maller cities throughout the United States, the nly condition required of the beneficiaries is that hey provide for the proper maintenance of the ame. Jefferson, ont own city. has recently been iven $25,000 for the orection of a building. on con- ition the citizens will provide for its maintenance. D 1879 Mr. Carnegie made a trip around the workl. of this trip he wrote his impressions, and had them ablished in book form for private circulation; the itle is: "Notes of a Tour 'Round the World." This pamphlet was so popular that it was gotten ont as publication for the general library. In 1882 he ad printed "Our Coaching Trip" under similar cit- minstances with like results. This was republished n 1883 under the title "An American Four-in-Hand n Britain." In all the undertakings of this noble nd generous character there has not been one fail- tre. His palatial home is No. 5 West Fifty-fifth treet, New York. He is President of the Oratoria Society of New York, and also director of the Car- egie Music Hall, which he built in the interest of hat elevating and ennobling science to which he is assionately devoted. Of Mr. Carnegie, the people f Jefferson City and Cole county will know more when they enjoy the blessings of his benefaction in he elegant structure which will be built by his gen rous contribution.
JUDGE J. B. GANTT.
Judge James Britton Gantt, Chief Justice and Presiding Indge of the Missouri Supreme Court, was orn in Potnam county, Ga., October 26. 1845. His ducation was in the private schools and academies f .Jones and Bibb counties, Georgia. In the Spring f 1862, at the age of sixteen years, he enlisted in he Twelfth Georgia Regiment Infantry. C. S. A., nd served in Jackson's Second Army Corps. Army f Northern Virginia, until permanently disabled by wonnd at Cedar Creek Valley, Va., October 19. 1864. 'revions to this he was twice wounded at the fa- jons Battle of Gettysburg, and met with a similar isfortune at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 5, $64. After the war he read law under Col. L. N. Whittle of Macon Ga., later attending the Law Department of the University of Virginia, rom which place he graduated in July, 1868. le removed to Missouri in October of that ear, and engaged in the practice of his profession. He has been associated in his le-
was united in marriage to Mrs. Matilda mnee Weide- meveri Lee, a lady of rare culture, who, in addition to her many charms of mind and person, is an excep- tionally fine performer on the piano forte. Of the many men who occupy a position as JJudge in the State of Missouri, not in one are the elements which should constitute a man worthy of this exalted po- sition more completely represented than in the per- son of Judge Gantt. He has enjoyed unusual ad- vantages, having been associated with the greatest legat minds of the country, his observing mind en- abling him to profit by the association. In addi- tion to being a close student and reader of the many legal publications and law commentaries, he has
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wade himself familiar with the great fountain source from which all ideas of justice and right are drawn-that book of books-the Bible, of which he has been a close reader and student since his early youth when he was lead in this direction by the counsel and influence of a pious, Christian mother. He is a member of the Cumberland Pres byterian church, and in the multitude of his duties, including the reading necessary to equip him for lecisions on the important questions constantly be fore him. he finds time to study the lessons pre- pared for the Sabbath school scholars, and his talks to the class of young men in the Presbyterian church every Sunday morning are rare treats to the favored members of the class, most of whom will doubtless be largely benefited by his wise counsel and example, and through whom the good seed will multiply when they assume the responsi- bilities of social and business life. As to his ability as a Judge the number of his important decisions and opinions confirmed by the United States Su- freme Court attest, while the fact that he will be renominated this Fall by acclamation should be a gratifying assurance to him that his worth and sterling qualities, as both a Judge and citizen are recognized and appreciated by the citizens of the proud commonwealth of Missouri. He resides, with his family, at his comfortable home, 111 East Me- C'arty street, Jefferson City.
MISS MATHILDA DALLMEYER.
Miss Mathilda Dallmeyer, writer of the Sketch Book Prize Essay on the "Reasons Why Jefferson
City Should Provide for the Maintenance of the Library, With Which Mr. Carnegie Proposes to En- dow the City," is a daughter of Mr. Rudolph Dall-
meyer, the dry goods merchant of Jefferson City and a pupil of the High School. She is a youn lady. of a good mind and a charming personal, wh has overy promise of a bright future.
MISS PEARL CRUMP.
Miss Pearl Crump, the popular and talento soprano of Jefferson City, whose portrait accon panies this sketch. is a native of Fayette, Howar county, Mo., from which place she removed with he parents to this city several years since. Her mus ral education was under the direction of Mis Frances Ehrman, who was at the time in charg
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of the Musical Department of the celebrated Ilo ard-Payne College. She is a vocalist of rare abilit not only possessing a voice of exceptional swe ness, volume and strength. but one of remarkal range which enables her to reach with ease the mc difficult pitches in the whole diapason of mus In addition she has a charming personality, an ea presence and a magnetic nature which draws h hearers into close sympathy while enjoying the treme pleasure afforded by her exquisite interpret tions of the best productions of the great compose She has been spoken of. and justly so, as the "Nigl ingale of Missouri." Few vocalists of the St: have been so highly complimented by the pre In addition to her rare talent and accomplishmer as a vocalist she is an excellent artist. All t tasteful and finely executed paintings which ado the walls of the comfortable and charming hoi of her parents, on East Main street, are from b brush.
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TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY.
Printed herewith are several views of the interior of the Tribune Printing office of Jefferson City. Mo., all taken since the improvements and changes in
that plant following change of management in No- vember, 1898. The equipment at that time has been almost entirely replaced by new and up-to-date fix-
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tives, including linotype machines instead of the old method of hand composition. This has entirely revolutionized the typographical branch of the office, making it possible to print always from an entirely new face of type. also creating an almost inexhaustible capacity for holding matter in type, and, above all, enabling the compositors to work with four times the speed heretofore obtainable. The book bindery has also been completely changed
and the house throughout rearranged, supplied wi modern conveniences and thoroughly renovated. . exterior view of the Tribune building will be se on page 195.
During the past year the company has handl nearly double the amount of work heretofore turn ont. and has brought to the establishment, for t first time in its history, large outside contracts. T edition of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, pu
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ished the past season, has been one-half larger than my previously issned by the State. This is the argest single contract for printing recorded as be- ng executed in this State. In addition to this large amount of work, the office has issued all the other work for the State, managing to complete it many nonths earlier than in former years.
The facilities of the Tribune plant are amply re- enforced in emergencies by that of the Columbia
Herald office, which also furnishes much of the out- side work on which the Tribune force is kept busy when the work for the State is not pressing. At times, however, it requires the operation of both plants to their full capacity, night and day, to con- duet the printing for the State. So large does the amount of this work become at times that it would overwhelm most any office in the West to handle it, while by the use of the two plants, the Tribune
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and Herald, it is done with comparative ease. Of the high class of book work turned out by this office this elegantly printed and bound volume can speak. The Tribune employs eighty people, and publishes
the Daily and Weekly State Tribune, which ar rapidly gaining in circulation, influence and patron age, the number of copies of each being larger no' than at any time in the past.
PRESS OF E. W. STEPHENS.
The accompanying views are from the publish- ing house of E. W. Stephens at Columbia. Missouri, which plant is under the same management as the Tribune Printing Company of this city. The press
of E. W. Stephens, or the Columbia Herald Bnil ing. as it is called in that city, an exterior view which can be seen on page 194, is a two-story bnile ing. occupying a site 120x50 feet at the east end
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Broadway, the main business street of Columbia, one of the widest and most imposing business streets in any city in the West.
The Herald building is occupied solely by this publishing plant, and in arrangement throughout has been planned and built especially for the print- ng and publishing business, and is pronounced by observers the model publishing house of the United States. The fixtures throughout are new, having been bonght direct from the factories a few years igo. In the list of equipment are four typesetting machines, four cylinder presses and all the most improved patterns of printing and book binding
machinery. Ilere have been published Supreme Court Reports for Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, New Mexico and Illinois, also Stock Records of American Trotting Register Association, American Hereford Herd Record, American Shropshire Sheep Record, American Poland China Record and other books of National importance. All these, in addi- tion to the Colombia Missouri Herald, which is con- ceded to be the model country newspaper of the United States, are regular publications of the office.
The employes number one hundred, and include skilled workmen in all the different branches of the office. E. W. Stephens, the owner and proprietor,
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is also the President of the Tribune Printing Com- pany, and all the patrons of either office have the advantage of the double facilities thus afforded, which in the aggregate exceed the capacity of any Western printing and publishing house. By thus seenring the combined resources of two large print- ing plants, the handling of the State's printing and binding has been revolutionized.
The book bindery occupies three thousand square feet, nearly all the second floor. It is divided he- tween two rooms, views of which appear on this page. The first is the folding room, containing two improved folding machines recently installed. The work of this room is done by lady employes only.
and comprises the folding, gathering, sewing an pressing of the books before they are bound. Th other part of the book bindery is the finishing roon in which the work of covering, stamping, and fint pressing is done. The last-named department als Takes care of the special binding of magazines, new papers, fancy books, etc. But most of the work regular edition binding of law books, stock record and catalogues, the regular publications of th office. All this work is done by hand with the excej tion of entting. embossing and pressing. It is ab from this room that all shipping is done, and fu supplies of all the reports published are kept for il states of Missouri, lowa, Arkansas and New Mexie
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COMPANY "L," 2D REG'T OF INF., MO. VOLS. (SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.)
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Mustered into service at Jeffer- son Barracks, May 12. 1898. Mus- tered ont at Albany, Ga., March 3, 1899. COMPANY OFFICERS. (land L. Clark. Captain. Otto G. W. Fleming. 1st Lieut. Addison D. Elston, 2nd Lieut. SERGEANTS. Mame Ried, Ist Sergeant Frank W. Bradbury Don R. Chapman Joseph F. Schleer
ARTIFICER.
August Anderson.
WAGONER.
William IL. Burger. PRIVATES.
Arnhold, Walter 1.
Blank, James 31.
Barton. Cland
Bonewitz, Francis M.
Bowlin, Robert E.
Boyce, W. Albert
Jones. Thomas D.
Bredeman, Albert A.
Kelsey, Ernest S.
Bradyhouse, Albert W.
Kielman, Nicholas, jr.
Arthur H. Adams
Charles J. Graber CORPORALS.
Carey, Byron E. Crocket, Edgar L.
Lesher, Guy J. Lobdan, Stonewall .I.
Davidson, Grant
MeAnany, Phil. F.
Dampf. Henry W.
Mccarthy, Joim P.
Dever, John M.
MePherson, Flare
Diek. John W.
Dickson, John
Drier, George Henry
Mehr, William
Charles B. Donnell
MUSICIAN.
John H. Alles
Ebbrecht, Richard R. Gaggard, Logan L. Goff, Oscar H.
Goldman, Sam. Goldman. Beno Granp, Wiley S. Green, lohn Il. Green, Walter D., Greenway, James H.
Hart. Charles W. Hicks, Alvarado Hoyt, Charles James, Elmer
Burch, Charles E.
Kiessling, Peter E.
Joseph Goldman Lonis L. Tobe John F. Burger James P. Johnson William H. Irvine
Thomas C. Goodall
Marshall, Walter B. Martin, John P. Marton. Westly C.
Meyers, Henry C. Miller, Alvin C.
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Newkirk, Frank E., Noel, William D., jr .. Noble, Jos. H ..
Opel, Frederick W .. Owsley, James R ..
Peterson, John W. ...
Peasner, Lawrence E.,
Poston, William I ..
Pouless, William MI.,
Prine, Warren S.,
Trader, Royal F.,
Reeves, Fred. JI ..
Reinke, Gustav F.,
Roark, Hade,
Welch, Thomas,
Williams, Thomas J.,
Willis, Arthur E ..
Woehrman, August 11.,
Wulfert, Fred.,
Young, George,
Zetysche, Harry. Engmaier, John,
COMPANY CHANGES.
Otto G. W. Fleming. First Lieu- tenant, resigned Angust 4, 1898. and was succeeded by Leof. N. Harding.
Addison D. Elston. Second Lientenant. resigned August 10, 1898, and was succeeded by Frank W. Bradbury, who was promoted from First Sergeant, which office was tilled by Don R. Chapman.
Cland Barton died at General Hospital at Sternberg, near Lytle, Ga., of typhoid fever.
Guy J. Lesher died at Division Hospital. in Lexington. Ky .. Sep- tember 15, 1898.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, COMPANY "L."
FIRST SERGEANT. Frank W. Bradbury. CORPORALS.
Đơn R. Chapman, Joseph F. Schleer, Arthur H. Adams, Charles JJ. Gruber, John F. Tihen. . SERGEANTS. John F. Burger, Joseph Goldman,
Routszong. John 11.
Rush, Bert.
Schmidli. William.
Scott. Engene (.,
Stickney, Frank D.,
Stephens, Joseph.
Stressner. Charles L.,
Swearingin, John 11.,
Todd, Clarence E.,
Reagan, Edgar,
Treiber, Joseph,
Waters, Samuel,
Weiss, John M ..
Robinett, Doctor JJ. E.,
Robinett, Lee R ..
Rogers, Hugh W.,
Rolfes, John H., Roper, Irvin D.,
Louis L. Jobe, Charles E. Bureh, Arthur E. Willis, Thomas C. Goodall, John P. Martin, Walter B. Marshall, Ernest S. Kelsey. Bert. Rush. John M. Weiss, Alvarado Ilicks.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
MAJ . T. O. TOWLES.
Maj. Thomas Oliver Towles, Deputy Superin- tendent State Insurance Department, was born in Columbia, Va .. April 4, 1840. His grandfather, Maj. Oliver Towles, came to Missouri in 1819, and died four years later (1823) at Cape Girardeau. Two of the sons and one daughter subsequently moved to Saline county, Mo., and lived there many years, and their descendants are now living in several see- tions of Missouri. The subject of this sketeh was educated in the best private schools and academies,
and received a thorough classical and collegiate education. He studied law under the tutelage and supervision of Hon. Stephen O. Southall, for man; years Professor of Law at the University of Vil ginia. Ile showed a fondness for journalism carl; in life, and while a college student became edito of a newspaper. He joined the Confederate Arm; in April, 1861, and served throughout the Civil War was present at the bombardment and surrender o Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in 1861, and was also an eye witness of the fearful work of th
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Confederate iron clad Merrimac, in James River and Hampton Roads, Va., on March 8, 1862, and the great naval tight on the next day, between the Merrimac and the Monitor in the same roadstead. As soon as the war cloud dissappeared, Maj. Towles resumed his study of law. He came to Missouri in 1466 to make it his permanent home, living a while in St. Louis and then in Lewis county for several years, but since 1874 has continued to make Jeffer- son City his home. He entered political life in Mis- souri as the first editor of the LaGrange (Mo.) Dem- cerat, a newspaper founded in 1867, continuing its editor (with the exception of a short interval until 1875. He was a member of the Democratie Stato Convention which assembled at St. Louis in 1868, and nominated Hon. John S. Phelps as the candi- date for Governor against MeClurg, and served as Assistant Chief Clerk of the House of Representa tives of the Twenty-Seventh General Assembly of Missouri (1873-5). At the first session of the Forty- Fourth Congress (1875-7) he was appointed Assist- ant Clerk of the United States House of Repre- sentatives, subsequently becoming Chief Clerk, and remaining such with an interval of service during a part of the Fifty-First Congress, until after the organization of the Fifty-Fourth Congress (Decem- ber, 1895). When he resigned the Chief Clerkship of the House in the Fifty-First Congress, Maj. Towles was elected Secretary of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (1890-1) when Gov. R. P. Flower of New York (then a member of the United States House of Representatives) and Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland were respectively the Chairman of the House and Senate Democratie Campaign Committees. This Commit- tee organized the fight for the Democratic control of the next Congress, and the contest resulted in the great Democratic majority in the House of Rep- resentatives of the Fifty-Second Congress. Upon resigning the Chief Clerkship of the House again in 1895 (the beginning of the Fifty-Fourth Con- gress) Maj. Towles was made Secretary of the Na- tional Democratie Bi-metallic Committee; Senator Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, was Chairman of this Committee; Senator James K. Jones, of Arkan- sas, was its Treasurer; ex-Gov. William JJ. Stone, of Missouri, was one of the most active and zealous members of its Executive Committee. This Com- mittee organized the Free Silver Democrats of the United States in the great struggle for control and managment of the National Democratie Conven- tion at Chicago.
In 1896 Senator Jones and Maj. Towles opened the headquarters of the Committee in the Sherman
House at Chicago two weeks before the assembling of the convention, removing the offices there from Washington, D. C., where previously located. Maj. Towles was one of the Secretaries of the National Convention and was Secretary of the Executive Committee of the National Democratie Committee in the campaign of 1896. He was a life-long friend and advisor of the late Hon. Richard P. Bland Since Cole county was first placed in the Congres-
sional District, represented by Mr. Bland. Maj. Towles accompanied him in all his congressional campaigns, and aided him in the canvass of the district, over a large part of the territory, except in one campaign when Maj. Towles was detained necessarily in Washington City by his duties as Secretary of the Campaign Committee. During the administration of Hon. William J. Stone, as Governor of Missouri, he was a member on the Gov- ernor's Military Statt, and served thereon with the rank and commission of Brigadier General. Ile was appointed to his present position in April. 1897.
Maj. Towles has always taken great interest in the navigation and improvement of the Missouri River and Western water-ways, and while connected with the National Congress, there was not a river or harbor bill before Congress that he did not go before the committee in the interest of the same. It was partly due to his good work that the bill
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providing for the construction of the bridge at this city passed Congress. He was married in this city in ISNT to Miss Florence M., daughter of the late Judge Ephraim B. Ewing of the Missouri Supreme Court. Maj. Towles has been an active and zealons Mason for many years, is a member of Jefferson Lodge, No. 43. A. F. & A. M .: Jefferson City Chap- ter. No. 34, R. A. M. and Prince of Peace Comman- dery, No. 29, Knights Tempdar; he is an A. A. S. R. Mason Southern Jurisdiction of United States, hold- ing membership in the Scottish Rite in Washing- ion. D. C., in Mithras Lodge of Perfection; Evan- gelist Chapter Rose Croix, Robert De Bruce Council of Radosh, and Albert Pike Consistory, having taken thirty-two degrees of the Masonic order. llis comfortable home, with his cultured wife, is 612 East Main street, which is brightened by the presence of his two interesting sons, William Bev- erly and Eph Ewing.
DR. F. B. ANTROBUS.
Dr. Frank Benjamin Antrobus, of Jefferson City, was born December 15, 1868, in Kossuth, Iowa. At the age of 12 years his parents removed to Beloit,
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Kansas, where he attended the public schools, his college edneation being at the Kansas State Uni- versity, at. Lawrence, where he graduated, class 1887. He is a son of Dr. B. Antrobus, of this city,
and following his inherited taste for the humane profession of the physician, he attended the Medical College of Kansas City. (which included practical experience at the City Hospital) graduating in the spring of 1897. immediately after which he located at Jefferson City, where his success from the begin- ning was phenominal; in fact it grew so large within a few months that he sent for his father, who was a practicing physician, to assist him, and since his arrival they both have had all they could possibly do. May 20. 1898, he was united in marriage to Frances M., daughter of lohn A. Bull, a prominent and wealthy furniture merchant of Beloit, Kansas He is a member of the Board of Managers of the State Hospital No. 1 for. Insane, located at Fulton Mo .: to this position he was appointed by Gov Stephens, March, 1899. He is a member of the K. of P. and the Brotherhood of Elks.
Dr. Antrobus belongs to the Homeopathic Schoo of practitioners and has been an intelligent student of that science, which was founded by Dr. lahne mann, a German, a little more than a century ago and who practiced on the line of the theories he advocated with remarkable success and whose wait ing rooms at Paris, where he was later located, and became the leading physician and most successful practitioner, were constantly crowded with patients
F. N. CHANDLER.
Fremont Nathaniel Chandler, Vice-President of The L. S. Parker Shoe Company and Superintend ent of the factory, was born in Wisconsin, July 1 1858. His father. Nathaniel Chandler, was a shoe manufacturer. From Wisconsin he removed to Bos ton, Mass., when the subject of this sketch was al infant. Two years later he removed to Thomasville N. C., where he engaged in the manufacture of shoes. continuing eight years with marked success when the unfortunate incidents resulting from the War of the Rebellion deprived him of his large accumulations. He returned to Massachusetts where the subject of this sketch attended school, and early learned the business of manufacturing shoes. When of age he re- moved to Chicago, where he engaged in the man facture of shoes on contract for C. M. Henderson & Co., in which business he continued until the firm opened a shoe factory at the prison in Jefferson City. when he moved here and engaged in work it the factory which was in charge of Mr. Lester S Parker, one of the stockholders. He was for some time previous to the organization of The L. S Parker Shos Company, Assistant Superintenden of the C. M. Henderson plant, and when Mr. Parke
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