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He was married, on September 19, 1883. to Miss Mildred Wendell, daughter of Cornelius Wendell of Washington. D. C., and niece of the Hon. John Wendell of New York. They have three children.
Mr. Wickersham is a nephew of J. J. Woodward, surgeon of the United States Army, author and editor of the "Medical History of the War," which has been published by order of the government.
MORNAY WILLIAMS
F OR more than fifty-two years the Rev. William R. Wil- liams, S. T. D., LL. D., was pastor of the Amity - formerly Amity Street - Baptist Church of New York city. He was also the author of a number of books, chiefly relating to church his- tory and theological topies. His wife was formerly Miss Mary S. Bowen, daughter of John Bowen, an old-time merchant of New York. Both Dr. and Mrs. Williams were natives of New York city, but the parents of both, with the exception of Mrs. Williams's mother, were natives of Wales. The farm in Wales which, prior to the removal of Dr. Williams's father to this country in 1795, had been occupied by the Williams family for at least two hun- dred years is known as Plas Llecheiddior, and lies on the slopes of Mount Snowdon, about ten miles from Carnarvon.
Mornay Williams, son of Dr. and Mrs. Williams, was born in New York on June 21, 1856. In infancy and boyhood he was in frail health, and was thus unable to attend school. He did enter Dr. Chapin's School, but was compelled to leave it within a year. His studies were, accordingly, pursued at home, and he thus re- ceived an excellent preparation for college. He also gained health and strength, and was thus enabled to enter Columbia College, to pursue its regular course, and to be graduated there- from in 1878. Two years later he was graduated from the Co- lumbia College Law School, and finally, in 1881, he received from the college the degree of A. M., after examination.
Mr. Williams was admitted to the bar of New York in 1880, and at once entered the firm of Dixon, Goodwin & Williams, of which his brother, Leighton Williams, now pastor of the Amity Baptist Church, was a member. This firm lasted until 1887, when Leighton Williams withdrew from it to enter the ministry
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and to become pastor of the church with which his father had so long been identified. Professor J. T. Goodwin also retired from it. The firm was accordingly reorganized under the style of Dixon, Williams & Ashley. In 1891 the senior member, Ed- ward H. Dixon, died, and Messrs. Williams and Ashley contin ued the business together. Finally, in April, 1898, Clarence D. Ashley withdrew from the partnership, he having become dean of the Law School of New York University, and since that date Mr. Williams has pursued the practice of his profession alone.
Throughout his career as a lawyer Mr. Williams has been chietly engaged in real-estate practice and counsel work. He has been legal adviser to a number of large estates, among them those of William B. Ogden, Samuel J. Tilden, William Borden, James Bowen, and Courtlandt Palmer. He has long enjoyed an en- viable reputation for success, and for the possession of qualities which deserve and command suecess. He has held no political offiee.
Mr. Williams is a member of the State and City Bar asso- ciations and the Quill Club. He is president of the New York Juvenile Asylum, and a director of the Evangelical Alliance, American Traet Society, Federation of Churches, League for Social Service, Legal Aid Society, and other organizations. He has been conspicuously and effectively identified with much philanthropie work, and has drafted many social reform laws. He has also done not a little work along literary lines. With his brother, the Rev. Leighton Williams, he edited " Serampore Letters," the correspondence of his grandfather, the Rev. John Williams, with William Carey and other early English Baptist missionaries in India. This work was published by G. P. Put- nam's Sons in 1893. He has also put forth in printed form, at various times, a number of his own addresses, essays, etc., chiefly on charitable and religious topies.
Mr. Williams was married, on June 21, 1886, to Miss Helen Hope, daughter of the late George T. Hope, who was formerly president of the Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have no children.
FLOYD BAKER WILSON
THE great-grandfather of Floyd B. Wilson was a member of the Scotch community of the north of Ireland before he came to this country. His grandson, William H. Wilson, the father of our subject, was a farmer in Albany County, New York, and is still living, in retirement, at Fonda. Mr. Wilson's mother was of English parentage, though herself born in this country.
Floyd Baker Wilson was born at Watervliet, New York, on June 23, 1845, on his father's farm, and at the age of seven years was taken, with the family, to Tribes Hill, Montgomery County, New York. He was prepared for college at Jonesville Academy, Saratoga County, New York, and then went West to the Uni- versity of Michigan, where he pursued the regular classical course, and was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1871. Three years later the same institution gave him the degree of A. M. He also attended the Ohio State Law School, and was there graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1873. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school, and thus earned enough money to carry him through two years at the university. Then, at the end of his sophomore year, he had to leave the university for a couple of years while he taught school again and earned enough money to finish the course. This second term of teach- ing was spent in the high school at Cleveland, Ohio.
After graduation from the Law School, Mr. Wilson practised law in Chicago, Illinois, from 1874 to 1880, and then came to New York. Here he devoted his attention chiefly to corporation law and to the promotion of mining and other industrial enterprises. His work frequently carried him to foreign lands, and he has thus traveled extensively in most of the countries of Europe, in Mexico, Central America, and some of the South American
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republies. He has always, since his coming hither, maintained a law office in this city, but his other business interests have for years surpassed his practice of that profession in importance. He is now president and counsel of the Santa Barbara Gold Placer Company, the Ruby Gold & Copper Company, and the Arizona Gold & Copper Company, counsel of the Salvador Mining & Milling Company, director of the Santa Fe & Grand Canon Railroad Company, and he is interested in various other enterprises. Richmond College conferred the honorary degree of LL. D. on Mr. Wilson in June, 1901.
Mr. Wilson is a Republican in polities, but has held no political office. He has frequently spoken in political campaigns. and for ten years was an active member of the Republican Club of New York. He is a member of the Masonic Order, belonging to Kane Lodge, No. 454, Free and Accepted Masons, and also to the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite bodies, and to Mecca Temple of the Mystic Shrine. At the University of Michigan he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, and is now a member of its club in this city, and also of the Lotus Club.
Apart from his professional and business activities, Mr. Wilson has always manifested pronounced literary tastes. At the uni- versity he excelled in literary composition, and as an alumnus he was chosen to be the university poet in 1880 and its orator in 1888. He has been also a frequent contributor to magazines and other periodicals, such as "Harper's," "Lippincott's," "Godey's," the "Engineering Magazine," the "Metaphysical Magazine," "Mind," etc., his articles treating of travel and research. He is a master of the Spanish language, and has published a trans- lation of "La Coja y el Encogido." In October, 1901, R. F. Fenno & Co. published a series of papers on advanced thought by him, under the title of "Paths to Power."
Mr. Wilson married Miss Esther M. Cleveland, daughter of Horace G. Cleveland, senior member of the iron firm of Cleve- land, Brown & Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. They have two daugh- ters, Pearl Cleveland Wilson, now a student in Vassar College, and Beryl Madeline Wilson.
HENRY RANDALL WILSON
H ENRY RANDALL WILSON, the head of the firm of Wilson & Stephens, who has become prominent as a banker and broker and as a director in many important eor- porations, comes of mixed Dutch and English ancestry. His father, George Conover Wilson, a dry-goods merchant, came from the Dutch family of Kouenhoven (Anglicized into Conover) and the English family of Wilson, while his mother, Eliza Wil- son, was of pure English aneestry.
Mr. Wilson was born in the city of Brooklyn, New York, on January 22, 1867, and was educated in the public schools of that city. His business eareer was begun as an office-boy in a whole- sale stationery house, whenee he went into a house engaged in the metal trade, and later still into a carpet house. At the age of twenty-one, however, he turned away from these occupations and entered the busy whirl of Wall Street, with which he has since been successfully identified.
Soon after his entry into Wall Street Mr. Wilson became cashier in a prominent banking house, and there remained for about three years or until he was twenty-four years old. Then he began business on his own account. His first venture was in partnership with James N. Brown, in the firm of James N. Brown & Co., bankers. Five years later this firm was dissolved, and he then formed a partnership with Thomas W. Stephens under the style of Wilson & Stephens. This is the present banking firm of which Mr. Wilson is the head. It has become widely known for its handling of bonds and for its manage- ment of large corporations, in which Mr. Wilson takes an active interest.
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the Consolidated Gas Company of Baltimore, Maryland, the New York Realty Corporation, the Erie Telegraph & Telephone Company, the Telephone, Telegraph, & Cable Company of America, the Knickerbocker Telephone Company of New York, the Boston & New York Telephone Company, the New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Company, the Quincy (Illinois) Gas & Electric Company, the Newtown & Flushing Gas Company, the Williamsport (Pennsylvania) Gas Company, the New Amsterdam Casualty Company, the Universal Tobacco Company, the National Match Company, the Security & In- vestment Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and the Amer- ican Automatic Weighing Machine Company, Limited. Mr. Wilson has also been identified with large estates in the West, and has carried through successfully the liquidation of one involving about $3,000,000 in mortgages. In his varions busi- ness enterprises he has been and is associated with such men as James Speyer, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Charles Steele, Charles H. Tweed, Harrison E. Gawtry, Frank Tilford, Randal Morgan, Charles W. Morse, Henry C. McCormick, James A. Gary, and Ferdinand C. Latrobe.
Mr. Wilson has held and has sought no political office. He is a member of a number of prominent social organizations, including the Colonial and Reform clubs of New York, the Maryland Club of Baltimore, the Monmouth Beach Country Club, the Monmouth Beach Golf Club, the Seabright Golf Club, and of the New York Chamber of Commerce.
He was married in 1887 to Miss Emma Louise Harding of Brooklyn, New York, and has five children : Ethel Harding Wilson, Helen Conover Wilson, Ruth Baldwin Wilson, Louise Tribbe Wilson, and Henry Conover Wilson.
RICHARD T. WILSON, JR.
AN MONG the many Southern families which since the Civil War have settled in New York and other Northern cities and have in their new homes commanded social distinction and achieved business success, none is better known than that of Wilson. Its head, Richard T. Wilson, is a native of Georgia, in which State he and his ancestors before him for several genera- tions occupied a conspicuous place. In early life he was a suc- cessful business man and amassed a handsome fortune. The outbreak of the Civil War, however, disturbed his industrial and commercial pursuits. Ardently devoted to his native State, he decided to cast in his lot with hers in the conflict with the federal government. Accordingly he entered the Confederate army and served throughout the war. His services were highly efficient, and he rose to the rank of commissary-general.
Few States of the South were more ravaged by the war than Georgia, across which Sherman " plowed his red furrow." Its industries were prostrated, and innumerable private fortunes were swept away. Mr. Wilson was happily enabled to safeguard a large part of his fortune, so that the end of the war found him still in affluence. He decided, however, to remove from Georgia to the North, and so came straight to New York, accompanied by his wife, who had been a Miss Johnston, a member of the well-known Johnston family of Macon, Georgia.
In the Northern metropolis the Wilsons quickly gained and established an enviable position. Mr. Wilson founded a banking house in Wall Street, which has long ranked among the foremost in the city, and which has been concerned in some of the most important financial operations. The home of the family is on Fifth Avenue near Forty-third Street, and it is one of the chief
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social centers of the city. The country home of the Wilsons is one of the best-known houses at Newport.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have two sons and three daughters. Of the latter, one married Ogden Goelet, another the Hon. Michael H. Herbert, member of a British family of noble rank, and the third, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. The eldest son, Marshall Orme Wilson, married Miss Caroline Astor, daughter of the late William Astor.
The younger of the two sons, Richard T. Wilson, Jr., is one of the best-known young men in New York society. He was born in New York and edneated in its private schools and at Columbia College, from which latter he was graduated in 1887. He is now engaged in the banking business, with his father and elder brother. In January, 1898, he was appointed a Commissioner of Municipal Statistics, in the New York city government.
Mr. Wilson was an usher at the wedding of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough, and has been promi- nent in many of the most important social functions of reeent years. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Knicker- bocker, St. Anthony, Racquet, and New York Yacht clubs, and the Down-Town Association of New York city, the Country Club of Westchester County, and the Columbia College Alumni Association.
Mr. Wilson was married, on March 12, 1902, to Miss Marion Steadman Mason of Boston.
ALBERT J. WISE
THE migrations of American families from one part of the United States to another often form a most interesting and romantic study. In general, the tide is supposed to set from the East to the West, following the traditional "course of empire." There are, however, exceptions to the rule. The West gives to the East, and the South gives to the North, and there are those whose itineraries involve nearly all sections of the country. In the present case, for example, we have to do with one whose family pilgrimage begins in the far South, makes its way to the middle West, and thence comes to the oldest States of the East.
Albert J. Wise, son of Jacob and Helen Wise, was born at Lima, Ohio, on September 24, 1872. His father, who was an extensive real-estate proprietor, and who served in the Civil War with the Ohio Volunteers, came of an old Louisiana family, whose members in a former generation were among the earliest pioneer settlers of Ohio, then known as the Northwest Territory.
After receiving a thorough education in the elementary branches in his native place, Mr. Wise went to South Williams- town, Massachusetts, and was a student in the well-known Greylock Institute. There he was prepared to begin a college course. Finally he entered Yale University, and there completed his academic training.
Mr. Wise's studies included a course in law, upon the comple- tion of which he was enabled to begin the practice of that pro- fession. With that end in view he came to New York city, and in 1891 was admitted to the bar. The next year he began work in the office of Lambert S. Quackenbush, and there reinforced his scholastic knowledge with that gained only through practical experience. His work in that office was so eminently satisfac-
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tory, both to himself and to Mr. Quackenbush, that the next year, 1893, he became a partner in the firm of Quackenbush & Wise.
All the learned professions are now much specialized, that of the law among them. Mr. Wise is, of course, familiar with the whole general range of law practice. But he has paid especial attention to the two specialties which in New York are perhaps most promising of all, namely, corporation law and real-estate law. In these he has made himself an expert, and in them he has secured for himself and his firm one of the best practices in New York.
Such law practice has naturally led Mr. Wise into intimate relations with various other business enterprises, and he is now officially connected with a number of corporations. He is presi- dent of the Standard Carbonating Company, president of the Fowler Trust Association, president of the Bimnell Telegraphic and Electrical Company, and a director of the A. D. Ashmead Company.
Mr. Wise has taken an active interest in politics as a citizen. but has never sought politieal distinction and has held no public offices of importance.
He is a member of a number of clubs and other social organi- zations, among which may be mentioned the New York Yacht Club, the Atlantic Yacht Club, the Knickerbocker Yacht Club. the Manhasset Yacht Club, the New York Club, the Nassau Country Club, the Magnetic Club, the Ohio Society, and the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity.
Mr. Wise was married, in April, 1896, to Miss Gertrude V. Bunnell, daughter of the late Jesse H. Bunnell of Brooklyn, New York.
JOHN DAVID WOLFE
A MONG the eminent business men and public-spirited citizens of New York in the first part of the last century, a leading place was occupied by John David Wolfe, who was born in New York city on July 2, 1792. His father before him was also a prominent citizen of New York, having served with distinction in the Revolutionary War, and at its close having engaged in the hardware trade, in which he attained marked success.
John David Wolfe was carefully educated, but did not seek a professional career. On the contrary, he entered the hardware business with his father. In time he succeeded his father in the proprietorship and management of the fine trade which the latter had built up, and conducted it successfully for a number of years. He also engaged in extensive real-estate operations, and in the latter was notably fortunate. His foresight in pur- chasing real estate was generally unerring, and in consequence he realized large profits from many of his investments. Thus at the age of only fifty years he was enabled to retire from busi- ness with an ample fortune, and to devote his attention for the remainder of his long and useful life to philanthropie works.
Mr. Wolfe was for many years identified with Trinity (Protes- tant Episcopal) Church in New York, and was a vestryman of it. Later he became a member of Grace Church, and was its senior warden. He was associated with the manifold activities of both those great parishes, and substantially contributed to their efficiency. In the general affairs of the Protestant Epis- copal Church in the United States he was deeply interested. He prepared and at his own expense published and distributed a " Mission Service " consisting of appropriate selections from the Book of Common Prayer. This work was highly commended,
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and was and is widely used in the church throughout the land. It was translated into German, French, Spanish, and Italian, and more than one hundred and thirty thousand copies of it were put into circulation. Mr. Wolfe took much interest in church work on the frontier of civilization, and was munificent to a prineely degree in his gifts and aid to such dioceses as those of Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, Utah, Nevada. and Oregon.
The relief of orphans and the aged and the reformation of prisoners were matters which lay close to Mr. Wolfe's heart. as did also the matter of general and special education. He founded the High School for Girls and Wolfe's Hall at Denver. Colorado. He established a diocesan school for girls at To- peka, Kansas. He erected at his own cost a fine building for the Theological School of Kenyon College. He gave a fund for the College of the Sisters of Bethany at Topeka, Kansas. He built a home for crippled and destitute children and for impor- erished Christian men in Suffolk County on Long Island. In conjunction with Peter Cooper, he founded the " Sheltering Arms" charity in New York city. He was interested in the establishment of St. Johnland, was its first president, and for the remainder of his life thereafter was one of its most liberal supporters. He was president of the Working-women's Pro- tective Union, vice-president of the Society of the New York Hospital, and an officer or member, and always an active one, of numerous other religions, benevolent. and educational or- ganizations.
Mr. Wolfe was elected president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York on April 6, 1869, and filled that place with great acceptability and profit to the public until his death. Although not actively concerned in finance, he as- sisted materially in the organization of at least two national banks in New York. He was not a club-man, but he was widely known in society, and was universally esteemed as one of the most publie-spirited citizens of the metropolis. His dispo- sition was gentle and lovable. He was always amiable and approachable, and was particularly unostentatious.
He married Miss Dorothea Ann Lorillard, second daughter of Peter Lorillard, who bore him two daughters. One of these
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died at an early age. The other, Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, lived long to carry on his noble works, and to administer his for- tune in a worthy and beneficent manner. It will be recalled that Miss Wolfe devoted her life largely to benevolent works. She gave large sums of money to Grace Church, to St. Luke's Hospital, to St. Johnland, to Griswold College, to Union College, and to the diocesan house in Lafayette Place, New York. By her will she gave an endowment of $550,000 to Grace Church and $200,000 and a priceless collection of works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
John David Wolfe died, full of years and honors, on May 17, 1872, and after his death many of his good deeds became known which he had kept from the world's knowledge during his lifetime.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT
THE quiet but attractive old village of Amawalk, in the town of Somers, Westchester County, New York, contains many historie relies, regarded with eurious interest by the sum- mer visitor, as well as by the more careful student of olden times. Among them is the ancestral homestead of the Wright family. established fully two centuries ago. The Wright family in the course of many generations has intermarried with many promi- nent Westchester County families, and has become thoroughly identified with the history and welfare of that interesting re- gion. In the last generation David B. Wright, a farmer, married Rachel A. Scott, a member of the well-known Archer family of Yonkers and Albany, which has been settled in Westchester County for more than two centuries. In the last century the Archers owned much real estate at Yonkers, but it was, unhap- pily, largely converted into continental currency, with disastrous results.
George Washington Wright, a son of this couple, was born in New York city, on December 31, 1844. He attended the old Thir- teenth Street Public School, and there, and through his home studies and practical experience, he acquired an excellent edu- cation. Among the studies to which he devoted himself with most zeal was that of stenography, and, becoming expert in it. he presently decided to make the practice thereof his business in life.
: Nor was this an unworthy choice. At that time there were comparatively few competent shorthand reporters in the com- munity -indeed, the number of them in the whole United States could be readily counted. For one who was really proficient and accurate there was always plenty of employment, at good pay.
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Mr. Wright was highly proficient. He made a specialty of law reporting, and soon became noted as one of the most expert re- porters in the courts of the city, possessing alike great speed and unfailing accuracy. Nor was his work altogether confined to the law-courts. He also engaged in miscellaneous work, including some for newspapers, and a good deal for the Repub- lican party organization. Indeed, one of his earliest engage- ments was that of official stenographer to the National Republican Committee during the Presidential campaign of 1868. This was a highly important piece of work, and it was performed with ad- mirable success. Through it Mr. Wright became acquainted with many leading politicians from all parts of the country, and thus gained for himself a firm standing in political life. Four years later he was again engaged in the same work, in the campaign of 1872. For a time, also, Mr. Wright was employed on the staff of the "Tribune."
Mr. Grinnell, when he was Collector of the Port of New York, appointed Mr. Wright stenographer of the law division of the custom-house, and this was the beginning of a long service there. He became subsequently the chief clerk of the law di- vision, then and always after the center of the adjustment of the contentions and snarls incident to the administration of the customs statutes, and served as its Acting Deputy Collector dur- ing the collectorships of Edwin A. Merritt and William H. Rob- ertson.
When the advent of the Cleveland administration changed the political complexion of the custom-house, Mr. Wright changed his occupation, and, being recognized as an authority on customs law and practice, became the representative of many importers in their dealings with the government, both at the custom-house and before the board of general appraisers, and directly with the Treasury Department at Washington. In this pursuit his long experience in the customs service has proved of much value to his patrons and to himself.
Apart from his employment in the customs service Mr. Wright has held no political place, and has taken little part in politics.
Mr. Wright is married, his wife having formerly been Miss Emma Parsons of Keokuk, Iowa.
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EUGENE ZAISS
MONG the German element of American citizenship, with its sterling qualities of mind and heart, the Zaiss family has for two generations occupied an honorable place. John Leonard Zaiss of Philadelphia was for many years a leading importer and manufacturer of silk ribbons, gimps, and similar goods. To him and his wife, Julia Zaiss, was born, in Philadel- phia, on May 9, 1860, a son to whom they gave the name of Eugene. Not long afterward they removed to New York, and in this city Eugene Zaiss spent his boyhood and received his education at a German academy.
Early in life he began what was destined to become a note- worthy mercantile career. His first engagement was as an office boy for Pritchard, Choate & Smith, in which place he served faithfully. The law was not, however, to his liking, and he soon changed his place of employment to the offices of the Standard Suit and Cloak Company. There he was at first an errand boy. But his diligence, integrity, and aptitude for the business won him promotion after promotion, until, after twelve years of service in various grades of employment, he was admitted to the firm as a junior partner.
The company was reorganized in 1890, and from it the new firm of A. Beller & Co. was formed. In that change he was the prime mover, and he remained an influential member of the house. Six years later another change was made. A new firm was organized, under the name of Zaiss, Wersha & Co., of which Mr. Zaiss was the head. That arrangement still prevails, and has been marked throughout with high success. The business of the firm is the same as that of the original house, the manu- facture of cloaks and suits for women's wear, and the firm occu-
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pies a commanding position in that important department of industry.
Mr. Zaiss has been too busy a man to attend to many outside matters, or to take any part in politics, save as an intelligent private citizen. He is, however, a member of various clubs, in which he finds social enjoyment and respite from the cares of business. Among these are the Brooklyn Germania Club, the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, the Merchants' Central Club of New York, and the Boonton Fish and Game Club of New Jersey.
Mr. Zaiss was married, on July 29, 1890, to Mrs. M. J. Martin. They make their home in the borough of Brooklyn, and now have two children-Eugenia Buchanan Zaiss and Leonard Carl Zaiss.
Mr. Zaiss is interested in his business, not merely for the sake of personal profit, abundant as the latter has been to him, but with an earnest desire to promote its general welfare and improve its general methods. He devotes much time to writing articles concerning the trade for the "Dry Goods Economist," "Cloaks and Furs," and the "Cloak Buyer." In these he endeavors to point out and correct the evils which exist in the trade, and to set forth to the retailer the essential facts of the "inside work- ings " of it. There are many points in the manufacture of gar- ments which are unknown to those not actually engaged in the work, and yet which should be known to all who handle those garments in the retail trade. Such knowledge Mr. Zaiss strives to convey to those who need it, and thus tries to raise the stan- dard of the industry to the level of those of older standing. In this way he is of much assistance to others in the business, and has come to be regarded as one of the foremost expert authorities in the cloak-making trade.
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