THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO. ILL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 192L
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Hon. John J. Mitchell
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HON. JOHN J. MITCHELL
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Trust & Savings
Bank, one of the directors of the Corn Exchange National Bank;
also one of the directors of the Merchants Loan & Trust Com
pany, member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago; also one of the directors of the Chase National
Bank of New York. His remarkable rise, from a bank messenger
to one of the most prominent and successful bankers or finan
ciers in the world, reads like a fairy story.
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Hon. George Franklin Harding, Jr.
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Hon. George Franklin Harding Jr.,
president of the Chicago Real Estate
Loan and Trust Company since 1905,
was born in this city August 16, 1868,
at the old beautiful homestead of his
foreparents, George Franklin and his
mother, Mrs. A. M. Harding, 2623
Indiana avenue. He received his early
education in the same citv where he
first beheld the light of day. Later oa
l-f ---;f-MeTHiimDrircSnd alter gradu
ating from it with all the high honors
in 1887 he entered Harvard, ctherg
ing..froinJt in 1891 with hisA.B
andwithipolished manners which hae
never forsaken him unto this day.
December 29, 1896, Senator Harding
was united in marriage to Miss Ellen
Orborn Davis of Neenah, Wis. (now
deceased). After recovering from the
effect of the loss of his first wife
and after paying the proper amount
of respect to her memory, he was
married to Miss Kathcrine Fay of
Peoria, Illinois. Not long after re
turning home from college he started
in to assist his father in conducting
or managing his very extensive real
estate business or holdings, and today
Senator Harding is one of the largest
real estate owners in Chicago. He is
president of the Chicago Real Estate
Loan and Trust Company; he is one
of the directors of the Frederick H.
Bartlett syndicate, the largest real
estate dealers in the world.
Senator Harding is a prominent
is also an 1-onored member of the
Chicago Athletic, Hamilton, Illinois
Athletic, South Shore Country and the
Chicago Yacht clubs.
In 1905 Senator Harding was after
a hard battle elected to the city coun
cil from the Second ward and for
ten years thereafter he was one of its
mestj.yaluable members; in that length
of time he faithfully served on all of
; -he aegdrd Phfllips Excjlcr Academy iiQCwt. jrapfrttant committees. In. .k,
member of the Unitarian Church. He parts of Chicago,
1914 tie M-as elected to the state sen
ate from the First Senatorial District
of Illinois, and he succeeded in mak
ing his presence felt in the upper
house of the "Legislature of Illinois.
His army of warm friends feel that
there are greater political honors in
store for him, and the' are urging
him to enter the race for Mayor of
Chicago in 1923.
It must be said to the great credit
of Senator Harding that he never con
ducts himself in a swaggering manner,
for at all times he will bestow the
proper amount of consideration upon
all those who approach him, and it
makes not the slightest difference to
him whether they are of high or low
degree, rich or poor, white or black.
and that is one reason why he is so
extremely popular with all classes of
his fellow citizens.
As stated before Senator Harding
is one of the largest real estate hold
ers in this city for he owns more
than four thousand houses, flats and
stores on the south side and in other
Hon John J. Mitchell, who has
gradually worked his way on up until
he has become one of the greatest
bankers in the world, was not born
with a silver or with a golden spoon
in his month, hut on the contrary his
parents were not of the very wealth
iest class of true American citizens
but they were highly respected by all
the citizens of Alton, Illinois where
Mr. Mitchell was born on November
3, 1853.
Being the dutiful son of Mr. Wil
liam H. and Mrs. Mary A. Mitchell,
Mr. Mitchell received hi early educa
tion in the publx schools of his home
town, finishing it up at Union Wes
leyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, Maine,
and finally winding it up at the Wat
ervillc Classical Institute. In 1873
Mr. Mitchell arrived in Chicago to re
side, highly resolved to work out his
future destiny here on the beautiful
shores of Lake Michigan: and the
first seven years of his career in this
city, which was nothing then to what
it is at the present time, he faithfully
served as one of the honest bank
messengers for the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank.
Seven years from that time or the
first part of 1880, by hard work and
faithful service on his part, Mr. Mit
chell was elevated to the presidency
of the Illinois Trust and Savings
Bank and he ably served in that ca
pacity up until a few years ago at
which time he was selected as chair
man of its Board of Directors under
his wise and conservative manage
ment the Illinois Trust and Savings
Bank, has become one of the largest
and one of the strongest banks in the
United States.
February 11, 1890, Mr. Mitchell was
delightfully united in marriage to
Miss Mary Louise Jewctt, who was
at the time the reigning belle of Bris
tol, Rhode Island, and Mr. and Mrs.
Mitchell are the highly honored par
ents of five childcn namely, Gwendo
lyn (Mrs. Robert E. Hunter), Mr.
William H., Mr. John J. Jr., Mr.
Clarence B. and Miss Louise B. Mit
chell. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell are very
proud of all of their children, for they
all are making their marks in this
busy and short life, and hustling old
world, and they arc doubly proud
of Mr. John J. Mitchell Jr.. who will
follow in the footsteps of his father
and in time become one of the lead
ing bankers in this country.
Mr. Mitchell has for some years
served as one of the directors of the
following vast business enterprises,
being a heavy stockholder in all of
them, namely, chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank, one of the directors of
the Corn Exchange National Bank,
one of the directors of the Merr
chants Loan and Trust Company,
member of the Advisory Beard of the
Federal Rcserre Bank of Chicago,
one of the directors of the Pullman
Palace Car Cumpany, one of the di
rectors of the International Harvester
Co. He is also one of the directors of
the Chicago Telephone Co., The
American Telephone and Telegraph
Co., Commonwealth Edison Co., the
Trust and Safe Deposit Co., Kansas
City, Kansas City Southern Railway
Co., Chicago and Alton Railroad Co.,
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad Co., trustee and member of
the advisory committee, American
Surety Co., New York; the Chase Na
tional Bank, Mew York; New York
Trust Co., the Audit Co. of New
York; trustee tf the Mutual Life In
surance Co. oLNew York; one of the
directors of the Art Institute, Chi
cago; member of the Chicago Histor
ical Society; he is also one of the
directors of the Illinois Trust and
Safe Deposit Company; Manhattan
Trust Company of New York, West
ern Union Telegraph Company, and
last but not the least, he is one of the
directors of the Firt National Bank
of New York and the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific Railway. It can be
truly said that the rise of Mr. Mit
chell in the business world from a
bank messenger reads like a fairy
story.
Mr. Mitchell is a prominent mem
ber, of the following clubs: Chicago
Union League, Chicago Automobile
University, Mid-Day, Lake Geneva
County, Lake Shore Country, Metro
polian and Bankers (New York),
Mid-Wick, (Los Angeles, Cal.)
Mr. Mitchell, who always conducts
himself like a highly cultivated gen
tleman is a high grade farmer for he
owns a two hundred and ten acre
farm near Geneva, Wis., which is a
dream to behold.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, and the
other members of their household, re
side in one of the finest homes in
Chicago at 1550 Parkway; they also
have a lovely winter home at Santa
Barbara, Cal.
More than two years ago, when the
writer first had the extreme pleas
ure of meeting Mr. Mitchell, he left
a standing order with his efficient sec
retary. Miss Holling; that any time
we wished to obtain any information
pertaining to the doings of the big
banks in this city, just permit us to
walk in and sec him.
It is estimated that the Colored
people of Chicago, have more than
two million dollars stored away in
the strong steel vaults of the Illinois
Trust and Savings Bank.
In conclusion we feel proud to be
able to number Mr. Mitchell among
our many good friends residing in
the marvelous city of Chicago.
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COMMODORE FERDINAND W. PECK
The first citiren of Chicago, father of grand opera in this city, wto
constructed the Auditorium and was chairman of the Finance
Committee of the Columbian Exposition in 1893.
HARDING HAPPY AS U. S.
CHEERS "4-PLY" TREATY
Jap Calls It a "Chaser" to Anglo
Tokio Hootch
Washington, D. C President Har
ding and Secretary Hughes have been
kntrrg-rVi.iTMiti .n.a.iiii1.i
cabinet meeting on the success of
their leadership in the international
conference, which already has pro
duced the four party treaty to stabil
ize peace in the the Pacific and the
agreement on the reduction and limi
tation of naval armaments.
The President beamed his satisfac
tion with the fruition of his plans,
but modestly accorded the credit
therefor to Mr. Hughes and the heads
of the foreign delegations, who have
co-operated so wholeheartedly in the
momentous negotiations. I
Mr. Harding is particularly pleased
with the favorable reception of the
four power treaty by evidently an
overwhelming majority of the Ameri
can people. He is amused by the ef
forts of a factional minority to show
that the four power pact binds the
United States to go to war in the
same way as Article X of the league
of nations covenant.
There is nothing in the four party
treaty requiring the United States to
enter into any armed activity in re
sponse to a decision of the other
three powers, the President points
out. That is not the spirit or the
purpose of the agreement.
That the four power treaty is re
garded by Japan as an alliance or as
a substitute for the Anglo-Japanese
"I do not know where such an im
pression could have been obtained,"
he said, "for ii is obvious that if any
Japanese diplomatist should make a
statement of that character the text of
the two documents would be sufficient
to display the absurdity yof the con
tention. one is w3eri"tHe Other Rum.
"In accepting the four power treaty
Japan is affected in more ways than
one by American prohibition. We
have accepted water in place of whis
ky, but we hae done so because our
primary object was accord."
Asked what he meant by comparing
the Anglo-Japanese alliance to whisky
and the four power pact to water, Mr.
Hanihara replied:
"Well, whisky is stronger than
water."
The treaty, in the opinion of the
American delegation, does not include
the Asiatic mainland, does not concern
China, but is distinctly insular in its
provisions.
Arthur Balfour, head of the British
delegation, declared in an interview
today that the great scheme for the
limitation of naial armament initiated
by the United States is going to bene
fit all the countries concerned and, of
course, he said, will benefit most those
countries which have the largest
fleets.
The arrangement, he continued, has
the great merit of leaving all three
countries, Great Britain. Japan and
the United States safe from attack of
preventing cut throat competition in
the cost of armaments, and absolutely
does everything that any patriot
need request if he considers only the
AID POOR MOTHERS BY AID
ING CHARITIES, IS PLEA
OF ARNOLD
By Victor P. Arnold, Judge of Juve
nile Court
It may interest the peojgle of Chi-J
cago wno nave contributed or expect
to contribute to the United Charities
$1,000,000 fund for the city's needy
families to know that the records of
the Juvenile court show that fourteen
and nine-tenths per cent of the de
linquent children come from homes
where the father has died.
In these homes the mother has
tried to be both wage earner and
caretaker, and. through no fault of
her own, has failed. The United
Charities of Chicago is doing great
things to keep such children out of
the Juvenile Court by givine the
mothers adequate relief so that they
can stay at home and do their work
as mothers; and, in addition, by rais
ing the standard of family life so that
tne children do not become delin
quent or neglected.
Commodore Ferdinand W. Peck,
who has the high honor and the great
distinction of being the first native
born citizen of Chicago living today.
Being born in this city more than
seventy-three years ago.
At the time of his birth this city
was only a small wooden town and
he has watched it expand into a great
city with more than three million
population. His father who passed
away shortly after the great Chicago
fire in 1871, who with 39 others in
1830 repulsed 400 Indians near where
the new double deck Michigan avenue
bridge now stands could also relate
a wonderful story of Chicago in its
infancy if he was on this earth at
the present time.
Rode With Abraham Lincoln.
Commodore Peck opened his career
in the public eye at the age of seven
teen when he rode in the carriage
with President Abraham Lincoln on
his second inaugural.
Most important of all his accom
plishments Mr. Peck counts his work
in organizing, financing ard complete, ,
ihfthe Auditorium, whicn holnreV "tntr T
Chicago opera. This was done large
ly unaided. He had Prcident Cleve
land to lay the cornerstone and Presi
dent Harrison to dedicate the finished
building, all the officials of Canada
and governors of fourteen States at
tending. Mr. Peck's latest pride is the Chi
cago Woman's Band, of 160, of which
he is honorary president and to which
he devotes half his time.
counted as the determining factor m
gaining St. Louis a $5,000,000 appro
priation. A decoration was conferred on him
by Emperor Wilhclm of Gtrmany,
and he has the distinction as the only
civilian American to rank as grand
officer of the Legion d' Honncur of
France, the rank which was lately
conferred on General Pershing
His work as vice president and
chairman of the finance committee,
World's Columbian Exposition, the
result of the genius there displaed
not being surpassed by any exposi
tion in any part of the world his
service as United States commissioner
general to the Paris Exposition of
1900, wherein the American partici
pation took such an important part
and United States exhibitors received
more awards and decorations than
those of any other nation and tie
commissioner general brought back
to his country the "'grand ,.
resenting the supremacy oi the
States over forty-five natir i r"
i was appointed by " f
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alliance was denied by Masanao Han- safety, the security and the honor of
niara, one oi uic Japanese delegates, i his country.
Mr. William F. Harrah, Sergeant-
at-Arms of the City Council is one of
the most genial gentlemen around the
City Hall and all the Aldermen think
that he is just the card.
Mr. F. D. Conner, manager of the
Publicity Department for the Illinois
Trust & Savings Bank, stands well
with all the newspaper men and he
wishes them all a happy time during
the holiday season.
Pioneer of Six Clubs.
Firty-four years ago Mr. Peck
aided in founding the Chicago Press
dub, and since then helped found
five others of the city's most promi
nent clubs. For seven terms he was
president of the Chicago Board of
Education. He caused the erection of
the first Confederate monument north
of the Mason and Dixon Line, and
in 1896 took the first Illinois regiment
of 1,000 men South and marched them
through the streets of all the promi
nent Southern cities.
He was United States commissioner-general
of the World's fair in Paris,
headed the finance committee of the
World's Fair in this city, and when
the fair went to St. Louis his inter
cession with Speaker Cannon in Con
gress, his friends say, is generally ac-
ti i
t Europe in 1S91, to explo-
feian Exposition abroal.
Commodore Peck has gr . w
the ute of Chicago frori h- t '-.
July 15, 1848, on the site where the
Grand Pacific Hotel building stood,
when he ran barefooted m his early
childhood on the narrow pathway
that has grown into one of the city's
main arteries, Jackson boulevard He
was born on that street, spent his
early boyhood on that street, was
married more than fifty years ago in
a church on that street, founded the
great Union League Club now on that
street, and has his offices at the pres
ent time and for many years on that
street in the Monadnock building
Those who are acquainted with the
Commodore know him to be a most
loyal Chicagoan and friend and one
who puts sentiment, poetry and flow
ers far beyond possession of dollars
This he has exemplified during his
whole lifetime by his active interest
in those things that meant for a
greater Chicago, civic harmony and
the advancement of art and humanity
As long as this great city stands on
the enchanting shores of Lake Michi
gan the name of Commodore Ferdin
and W. Peck will never grow dun m
the memories of men.
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Hon. Joseph F. Haas
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HON. GEORGE FRANKLIN HARDING, JR.
Prasdt of tfee Chicago Loan and Trust Company, maHonaire red
erfate cwy Cky Comptroller of Chicago, who h IScely to be
coaBetfeTOttapsoa candidate for Mayor of Chicago m 1923.
Hon. Joseph F. Haas, whose fair
and honorable name is a household
word throughout this city, Cook
County, and throughout the State of
Illinois, was born in Chicago, No
vember 13, 1857, and was educated
in the public schools of this city. He
was employed by Jameson & Morse
Printing Co. in 1873-1874, he entered
the employ of J. S. Barnes & Co.,
hatters and furriers, as errand boy
and became a partner in 1890. He
continued in business until elected
clerk of the Sanitary District of Chi
cago in 1898. He resigned on June
;11, 1900, on account of the illness of
his partner.
Mr. Haas was elected State Senator
from the twenty-fifth senatorial dis
trict in 1902-1906. As state senator
he introduced and was instrumental
in passing many important measures.
He was chairman of the Chicago char
ter committee of the forty-fourth gen
eral assembly.
Among the important bills which he
introduced which are now laws were
the bills creating the Municipal Courts
of Chicago which abolished the old
police justice system; the bill creating
forest preserve which is making possi
ble the conservation of the woodlands
in the county for public park systems,
and several other bills giving to the
park boards the power to maintain
and govern the parks and boulevards
under their control; a bill fixing the
date limit on time which nersons
could sue a municipality for personal
injuries, a law which has saved Chi
cago and other vcities hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Mr. Haas also, voted for amend
ments to the ToiVcns system, which
has broadened its scope.
He was elected county clerk in
1906 and conducted the business of
that office in an efficient manner.
The recorder is the official custo
dian of all the records affectinir the
title of every piece of property in this
county. He conducts big- business,
requiring the attention of a nun of
considerable business experience.
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Mr. Haas is a member of many fra
ternal societies and other organiza
tions. Chief among them are Maple
wood Council No. 1024. Royal Arca
num; Enterprise Council No. 50. Royal
League, Kilwinning Lodge No. 411 A
F. & A. M.
Mr. Haas has the great distinction
of employing more colored men and
women in his office than any other
public official in Illinois. He has well
onto twenty-five or thirty men and
women constantly employed as clerks
and stenographers and he does not
keep them hid away in the dark or out
of sight but it is no trouble for any
one to see them working during busi
ness hours.
For more than thirty years the peo
ple residing in this city have known
Mr. Haas as a high class business
man.
With extreme pleasure Mr. Haas
states that he wishes his legions of
friends all the pleasure that the hol
iday season can bestow upon them.
HON. JOSEPH F. HAAS
The honorable and ever smiling Recorder of Deeds of Cook County
who a being boomed by the Joseph F. Haas Booster Club of the
twenty-eighth ward for mayor of Chicago in 1923.