[ Volume XXV
THE CHICAGO BANKER
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Marshall & Ilsley Bank
Milwaukee, Wis.
ESTABLISHED 1847
Capital $500,000 Surplus $250,000
Oldest Bank in the Northwest Conservative Progressive
We take pleasure in placing our facilities at your disposal and should be pleased to have you write us if you are contemplating opening either an active or a reserve account in Milwaukee.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
JAMES K. ILSLEY, President
JOHN CAMPBELL, Vice-President	HARRY J. PAINE, Asst. Cashier
JOHN H. PUELICHER, Cashier	G. A. REUSS, Mgr. South Side Branch
SAMUEL H. MARSHALL	J. H. TWEEDY, Jr.
ROBERT N. McMYNN	C. C. YAWKEY
GUSTAV REUSS
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letters notifying all those who intended to participate in the trip. It had been expected that at least 100 persons would join the special train at Dallas, but the reservations came in so slowly, mingled with excuses that many representative bankers could not go, that it was decided to abandon the jaunt for this year. Six trips have already been taken, these including Mexico, the Jamestown exposition, Canada, the Pacific, coast, the Eastern states,
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and other parts of the country. The trip this year was to have been taken from Dallas via the Katy to Kansas City, the Burlington to Omaha, the Chicago and Northwestern to Duluth, making stops at Kansas City, St. Joe. Mo., Omaha. Sioux City, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Superior and Duluth. At the last named city the party would embark aboard a special steamer of the Northern Steamship Company, making the run through the lakes to Chicago by way of Sault Ste. Marie, Mackinac and Lake Michigan. Arrived at Chicago, the special would again be boarded and the run made over the Chicago and Alton to St. Louis, where the tracks of the Katy would be used for the return trip to Dallas.
W. B. Ridgely
Kansas City, July 20.—Suppose an artist strongly under the influence of the old masters, particularly Velasquez and Gainsborough, should paint the portrait of a modern business man. Would a telephone in the picture, drawn in those old masters’ lines, appear out of place ? In a portrait of W. B. Ridgely, former Comptroller of the Currency, which was finished yesterday by August Franzen of New York, such an experiment was tried, and the telephone helped to express the sitter’s personality. The suggestion came from Mrs. Ridgely. Mr. Franzen has a theory that no one knows better how a man looks than his wife. Further than that, the artist had confidence in Mrs. Ridgely’s artistic judgment.
The former comptroller is shown in the picture at his desk, in a thoughtful mood, one hand resting on a book, and the other, palm upturned, holding his glasses.
The portrait is to be hung in the treasury department at Washington.
The artist left for his home last night. He was a pupil of Dagoman-Bovert at the French academy, and has won medals at both the world’s fair in Chicago and at the Paris exposition of 1900. He specializes in portrait painting.
The portrait is to be on exhibition at the Fine Arts institute to-day and continuing until next Wednesday. It will be taken then to the Bank of Commerce for a few days before being sent to Washington.
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Texas Bankers to Abandon Trip
J. W. Hoopes, secretary of the Texas Bankers Association, gave out Wednesday while in Houston on business that the annual jaunt of the Texas Bankers Association had been abandoned for this year, the reason being assigned that the bankers were too busy to think of leaving their business affairs just at this juncture. The bankers were to have left Dallas via the Katy Thursday afternoon, July 9th, and to have gone for a swing around a huge circle, which included a trip on the Great Lakes. The rate will be in effect, although not having been taken advantage of by the bankers, for the reason that it has been filed with the interstate commerce commission and can not be rescinded, by the Katy and participating roads.
Mr. Hoopes stated that he had mailed out