New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ore leaving for Europe the Stants/.eitini;^ was converted into a joint stock company, the con-trolling interest remaining in him and his family. Mr. Ottendorfer is a close i)ersonal friend of Ex PresidentGrover Cleveland. Mr. has said in ])ublic thathe looked upon as a father. Mr. Ottendorferis nothing if not a reformer, audit is Mr. Clevelands reformviews that have attracted him. He hates knavery of everykind and fights against political chicanery and Tammanymethods in local government to-day as bi
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ore leaving for Europe the Stants/.eitini;^ was converted into a joint stock company, the con-trolling interest remaining in him and his family. Mr. Ottendorfer is a close i)ersonal friend of Ex PresidentGrover Cleveland. Mr. has said in ])ublic thathe looked upon as a father. Mr. Ottendorferis nothing if not a reformer, audit is Mr. Clevelands reformviews that have attracted him. He hates knavery of everykind and fights against political chicanery and Tammanymethods in local government to-day as bitterly as, when amember of the famous Committee of Seventy, he foughtagainst Tweed and his methods in 1872. On the whole,Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer is a great man and eminently agreat journalist and public-spirited citi/en. FREDERICK A. RINGLER. Frederick .\. Ringler, President of the George RinglerHrewing Company, but far better known as the foremostelectrotyper and i)hoto-engraver in .\merica. is a man of greatversatility, of consuming energy, and though born in Ger-. NEW YORK, THE 63 many, possesses the aggressive character that seems peculiar tions. In 1884 Mr. Ringler perfected the process of zincto the typical American. He was born in 1852, in I^riedwald, etc hing, to enable the daily papers to pul^lish illustrations,a small village in the Grand Duchy of Hesse Cassel, where Through this channel the public is treated to pictures of cur-he attended the high school until he was fourteen years of rent life three hours after the events calling for them haveage, when he came to this country to see his brother George. transpired. By the process of electrotyping, Mr. RinglerAfter a short time young Frederick was sent West, where he has furnished the plates to print such popular works as thecompleted his education and graduated from a Chicago col- American Dictionary of Printing and Book Making,lege with honors. While in Chicago he learned the electro- Naval History of th
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