. Review of reviews and world's work. rs of our successful rail-way managers. A FRIEND AND CLASSMATE OF CHIEF-ENGINEERWALLACE. It is both an interesting and an importantfact that the two men who are to ■vvork together,—in double harness, as it were,—as constructorsof the canal, the chief of staff and the fieldmarshal, are like Damon and Pythias. Theyhave been lifelong chums. Born in CrawfordCounty, Pennsylvania, fifty years ago, went West with his family. He gradu-ated from Monmouth (Illinois) College in his classmates was John F. father was the president
. Review of reviews and world's work. rs of our successful rail-way managers. A FRIEND AND CLASSMATE OF CHIEF-ENGINEERWALLACE. It is both an interesting and an importantfact that the two men who are to ■vvork together,—in double harness, as it were,—as constructorsof the canal, the chief of staff and the fieldmarshal, are like Damon and Pythias. Theyhave been lifelong chums. Born in CrawfordCounty, Pennsylvania, fifty years ago, went West with his family. He gradu-ated from Monmouth (Illinois) College in his classmates was John F. father was the president of the friendship that started between the twoyouths at school has continued throughout theirmanhood. They speak of each other as John and Teddy. Now the chums find themselveshitched to the same big wagon, and each realizesthat he must pull for all he is worth. It is safeto say that they will work harmoniously andeffectively together. Mr. Shonts has two fully developed hob- THE NEW EXECUTIVE OF THE PANAMA CANAL. 551. Copyright, 1905, by C. M. Bell, Washington. MR. thp:odore p. shonts. (Chairman of the Panama Canal Commission.) bies,—music and wtjrk. Tlie former he took upas a means of winning his wife, a musical en-thusiast, and daugliter of former GovernorDrake, of Iowa. His love for work he inheritedfrom his ancestry, whi(di was Dutch on thepaternal and French Huguenot on the maternalside. Like most great W(ji-kers, Ik; is cheerful. optimistic, light-hearted, fond of his manyfriends, a good comrade,—knows how to play alittle and to rest once in a while, but is dynamicand iresistible when it comes to practicalachievement. His salary as chairman of thecommission has been fixed at thirty thousanddollars a ycjir. A NOTABLE AUTOBIOGRAPHY/^^ THE public services of the Hon. Andrew I).White, whose portrait appears on tlie opposite page, have been noted from time to timein earlier numbers of tliis Ueviicw. Just beforethe assembling of the Hague Conference of
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