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DAY EVENING, WORLDS — HOME DECEMBER 18, —_—_—_— The Word ‘‘Qbstacle”’ Not in Ztis Lexicon. + A NEW YORK STORY OF SUCCESS, The Seeret of Valentine 7. Snyder's Rise from the Messenger Boy Ranks to Be President of the New Western National Bank—jteary A. Smith Fells of His Youthful Traits. ) Ils connection with the Western Na- tional began in 1890 undef Daniel Man- Henry B, Hyde, president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, came to recognize the young man's ability, MAN who never recognized the meaning of the word “obstacle” has proved the success of such a pol-| ning. fey by becoming of the most Im- portant financial figures in Wall street. Valentine P. Snyder, President of the and ha§ stood by as an esteemed friend Rew Western tional Bank of the|to glve his support when needed. He United States in New York, has since |said Bis start in life as a messenger in a “Valentine Snyder !s a man who struck the word ‘obstacle’ from his vo- e of suc- eountry bank achieved a d solely to pirit 0! ee cratise ne solely to the spirit Of | capulary when he waa a small boy, and Seairecn an untertaiay T attribute nis success largely to tha | Virc-Prestdent H. A. Smith has the deepest admiration for his old school friend, who has developed !nto an im- ant financier at forty-two. | “te is a man whoso habits have not | been changed by h!s good fortune,” said Mr, Smith, ‘He gets down fo the office Born tn Hudson, > ®nyder enjoyed only ine P. the ary ad- ri vantages of the Hudson Academy, but him| the character! @t the head e that has placed a $10,000,000 ban house placed him at the head of Glasses in his native village. No matter what was before him, he never under-|At & o'clock every morning, and al- took it with the feeling that suce! though he {sa very busy man he alway fwas impossible. In his youth he went | vas a pleasant word for every one ‘on the principle that there was a time| “When business 1s over, however, Mr. flor work and gtime for play. No one| Snyder takes a different view of life. @joyed games mo than the young j He is a thoroughly enjoyable compan- tudent: no one was more anxious to|fon and seems to enjoy his hours of turn an honest penny, nor was there |relaxation, He {s a member of the any one more serious in his studies. Metropolitan, Colonial, Lawyers’ and “I never knew a more conscientious | Democratic Clubs. and determined boy in’ my life,” said; "Two favorite pastimes of his boy- fenry A. Smith, Vice-President of the hood are still echoed In his more mature fern National Bank. ‘I lived In the | interests. He 4s a director of the New game town with Mr. vder and | York Baseball Club and {s an enthusl- tended schoo! with im. We were boys|asttc fisherman. together, and Valentine Snyder was one| ‘The boy who started out in Ilfe as a @f the most brilliant students who cyer messenger has not lost his s!mple taste 8: VALENTINE P. SNYDER. ce Attended Hudson Ms Acade One inet | though alary aa President of the dent stands out which es the new Western National Bank will prob- way he went at life, As {s the custom /ably be one that would have seemed ‘in small towns, our sc! f exorbitantly unreal even to the deter- at tered intervals by tho tr mined dreams of his youthful days. A s r " @ay one of these pompous Appeared before us and besar consternation among us by tests in our ¢ he put an algebra even CHILD LABOR, In 185 there were no female and child horers {n the marble industry of To-day they constitute 24 per OUR BATThESHIRS MORE TO BE FEARED THAN THOSE OF € HE following estimates, based on T measurements and tevts recently made by M Pellatau, French Minia- ter of the Marine, are highly interesting an giving ® comparison of the probable formidabillty of the various bittle-ships of the powers concerned tn the Venexue- la complication, England, Germany and the United States have warshins in Venezuelan « pi cording! The as each follow Dunean ( the Vittels Iu being rship in its particular navy: and the Formidable and the |32-inch 0 tons each); for Germany, | twelve 3-Inch guns, ch other the best types of vessels thus ked out, and to classify them ac- lof coal; complete armor, 10 inches thick; vegsela were picked out the finest specimen of (11,800 tons): for the Cesarevitch (Ru speed, 19 knots. ‘The Victor Hmmanuel (Ttallan)—Speed, 2 Knots; carries 2,000 tons of coal; ar- mor, 10 inches thick; armament, two guns, twelve 8-inch guns and Suffren (French)—Armor, 12 inch ed States, the Pennsylvania (15,800); | thick; apeed, 18 knots; capacity for coal, n) carrice 2,000 tons sible,’ “The Grand Duke «ives the first prizo to the U ania, ited ‘a crank on th therefore dec! “M. de Balln NGbAND OR GERMANY. For 1 An Official Naval Board at Paris Gives Uncle Sam Third Place Among the Nations for Effective Fighting Ships; England and Germany Being Fourth and Fifth—Italy’s Men-of- War the Best; Japan’s the Next Most Powerful. | thickest and most extensive armor poa- States battle-ship Penn- ‘ol, Cunibert!, the Italian expert, te 9 subject of speed, and he lares tho Itallan Victor mmaniel the victor, ncourt, the French expert. GERMAN TYPE-VITTLESBACH: ENGLISH TYPE -FORMIDABLE ITALIAN PE@ Vicror LMMANUEL* Diagram Showing Armor and Heavy Armament of Four Highest Types of Cruisers. The shaded lines indicate the armored part of tho vessels. The figures tn the diagram show the sizes of the guns in millimetres—305 being 32-Inch waters, where, It is sald, they may | for Japan, the Mikasa (16,200 tons); for! be Joined by an Itallan fleet. In the event of more serious trouble the estt- mates here given may serve, in as a model on which to base opin- fons as to the outcome, and, on the ther hand, may be proved absurd tn the first possible clash of the fleets. What 1s the criterion by which to determine respestive Importance of the quailties of an armored ship?” asks the Paris L'llustration, and fur- ther inquires: “Is the speed which ena pursue or fly from a foo ta be o ered rather than the artillery which en- ables {t to cripple armor which enables it to defy all at- tack?" ‘The question was put to a committee of naval authorities from the various great powers. The solution accepted by L'Miustration is that, In judging the ability of a warship, the following points must be considered: First, {t must be do termined which is the best armed vessel in each nav: eecond, to compare with armamen Russia, the for Ital. sirevitch (18,500 tons); | the Victor Emmanuel (12,60) ajtons), and the Benodetto-Brin @3,109| which of the foregoing list the prize tons); for France, the Suffern (12,700) | tons), | ‘The following !s the armament, speed, | & knots; armo: ing on two vessel and ubove the wi to| 12-inch guns, Jg-| sixteen 3-Inch guns. Pennsylyania (United States) Tho its opponent or tho/Speed, 19 knote 1,900 tons of armament, four 12-Inch gun |inch gun, ‘The V’ |icnots, with armor, Jot fix tx ittelsbach (German)—Speed 18 1-2 complete armor 9 Inchea thick, | coal capacity 1,000 tons, The Mikasta (Japanese)—Well covered fourteen é-Inch cannon. of the principal contesting vessels | The Formidable (English)—Speed, 17) judges must explain which, in their | r, 9.4 Inches thick, extend- ters for the length of the to a height of 10 1-2 feet ater level; armament, four | twelve 6-inch guns and | capacity for carrying, coal; armor, 17 inches thick; eight 8 twelve 6:Inch gu: but at the light thickness es, speed about 19 knots, 1,800 tons; armament, four 12-Inch guns, ten 6 2-$-Inch guns, eight 4-inch guna. The question ten remained as to of superior excellence should be awarded. “To effectively cli pions,") L'Mlustration continues, opinion, would be the most formidable in a naval battle, tn reference to speed, impregnablility, artillery and radius of action, “The judges’ werdict {5 naturally based on the aforesaid points.” The reply of Grand Duke Alexander of Russla (one of the Russian naval Judges) Is Interesting, He says: “The foremost quality of @ man-ot- | war consists in keeping the enemy at a certain fighting distance, thus permit- ting Its best use of artillery, Thus a uniform rate of speed must be main- tained. The next important !tem con- sista in tho vessel's ability to for the longest the tho fire of the en- ey. Thus the vessel must have the endure | ! According to mal long, sho £ coal, ent, wit |By a mathe jon the above contending sh to his conclus! According, t | ro," say lresult of thena pr [Buchs |nome edly on the su Koric replies. tthe ju concludes 11 mmanuel, wi ered the of them all.” ‘ch four firsts. The United yivanta ts thi {s judgment on mathematica! ei tt solely from the estimates udees na Jail the warehipa of the worl fourteen judges proclaiming ‘tt the frst} he Japanese “Mikasa” follows, with and the eGrman Vittelsb 0 De Balincourt, a nor- armed ahip should be about 40¢ uuld be able to carry 1,000 have complete armor at inches thick and a loss thick h turrets for the artillery. atical calculation based quallties In each of the tps, De Ballncourt comes ions. hen, to the disposition of armament or the extent of the range of Vessel'n | ower Is classified Liilustration, “is. th: classifications. ' We ha Fave oxnet verdicts; for nda uwject, did not make cate- “The estimates award firat place,” to the Victor fore be con. y armed of | five of the stration, hich may the rst powerfull Staten battle rd, with two firsts Suffern fs fourth, while ‘ormidable te fifth in line, ch last. ip Penni that c the teacher Jcent. of the force. Becholar schola. fell hefo | = ~ Mathematical s, 3. At ay trustes eric’ out | ntorian to | “Ig there no pi this school who | 4 an work out this problem?’ We a H looked at Valentine, and he rose to the Bituation, Going to the blackboard, | worked out the diffiedtt problem, much | & to the delight and triumph of the sc (Copvtieht, 190%, by Dally story Pub, Co.) The tri MUP tO at 2 stranger whom they had taken @nd gemanied that 7 3 board Vera Cruz seemed | | Be MueUBL NresoNie | ed to make himself agreeable, | ayeimie nen heh bored and bothered to «Lt T by 9 long voya climate, wei S vi nees dine, /only too glad to bo amused, They Iis- %y peek more from you one of thes dave |tened to his tales of Mexlea and Mexican travel, and pied hin with questions— nd had a rex 4 ave the girl who had been to Mex- fall s gs hiabout “what war \? the problem tised by {200 and who sank deeper behind her Bis ‘schoolmates. “Any o: 1 have{ Paper and smiled to herself when the s@one It if he had only stuck to 1h" well-known volee came to her, strong “Tt was the willingness to stick to @ | end steady above all minor noises. The talk thickened and the woman Mad her paper smiled more broadly. He was reaily telling the truth In spite of the temptation of a creduloas crowd. Yet she had suspected him once of speaking falsely. So strong had ben that suspicion she had gone away from i home to break up a friendship that was utrictly to busi-! growing dangerously dear, To fall in ntine P. Sny- ver thought thing that nus mide V. @er what he Is to-day. of possible failure, “A determination to s fized his early Iife, an that determination.” Mr, Snyder tsar Uttle of his achleveme "L have only attend eod characte} he has realized > will talte but meres, and i think any man might be! joye with a man whose word could not Buosesstui i¢ he would do thal," he sald. | ye absvlulely belleved In would be a After finish! curse at the Hud- | slap in the that her seit-respect fon, Academy Valenti «tered upon the first 5 anking garecr. As a messenger in the Hudson! Rivex Bank in Hudson he started out and ao conscientiousiy did he perform “fils duties that promotion soon came his way. Later he went to the Finst Na- tional Bank of Fishkill, then to P. v of hig Svnder en- | might find it dificult (o sustain, “Hut, man alive, didn't you have a single adventure in that land of ro- mance?" 0," he said slowly. “Mextco is not so much that way as It used to be. I did have what you might call an ad- yenture, too, but as {t was more proft- able than ‘perilous, perhaps I had better th Chatham National and Third Nationa! : not mention it."* © Hig first important recognition egme| “Out with tt, ma “whe Dante! Manning, at that time “Then don't blame me If it falls rather Feliry of the Treasury, made him bis!fat, I suppose you have all heand of private secretary, ls ulvancement|the opals of Irapiato—not only the WV from that time was rapid. From chief}most beautiful in the world, but the puerk inthe United States Treasury he|most costly.as well. This ts an opal from Trapuato," He took off a ring as he spoke und it was passed admir! from hand to ne was| hand. ‘That represents the profitable tonal’ Bank Examiney of] part of my adyenturo, pow fur the peril, Hgubd to become cashler| 1 was ridjjng ono night along & lonely 75 ‘Became Deputy Comptrotior of the Cur- “o¥epcy. When he was only twenty-seven years ‘of age he was acting Comp- wtrotter°or the Currency. Ih 1887 he- @ tot n y when I was startled by |of.a woman. I faced around ant caught the quick beat of horse's hoofs. Of course I understood that a scoundrel had stolen. the girl and was making for the mountains was pon hi |my pon: my: done as sald. s thst ns before he could check his ho: "s nock and catch the girl in| arms as I tore by the shrill scream that before he realized my intention I ring—an opal tfom Ira im, T drop the Ines upon) was as easily It was a moment or two and THE PROPOSAL. Se OPAL FROM TRAPVATO, 2Y F. H. LANCASTER. A Romance in Which Love and Lying Figure Largely. pAUto—was pre- sented to me, It is beyond price.” The girl came from behind her paper and went on deck, her face pale with fe is lying, she whispered, lying, “Didn't know you were on board, remarked a Dig voice at her elbow. If my memory serves moe true. she remarked, trigidty, “the opals of Irapuato are neither costly nor rare. 4 he replied carelessly; ‘plentt- ful As peas at Pentecost, I picked this ene up for a son; “Then,” sho began aterniy, “when you that wonderful tale you wero" e hesitated at the bitter word i what? Lytig? Yes, of course, You did not believe tt for an Instant, did you?" : she said, violously, “I could not," here was no need for you to tr be repiled, still with that alr of be! bothered by somethidg far away. “No need!" she exclaimed. “It seems to me that when the last ventige of re- spect for a friend is slipping from one there is bitter need to try to save at least a little of it.” The man returned to the present with a start of glad surpel “Then you de care, 6 e ead, eagerly, dis large she return- | Amusements, NOVE AND Madison 200 MANU Grand- NEXT WEEK A DESPERATE CHANC! EMPIRE TMA vias, 8.2 CRITERION TH hvenings at 8.15 lant MARY MANNERING | ABW 54a VOY Last 9 BETHEL BARKYMORE “THE: horseflewh could ‘carry him. Just then the moon throw ita firet ray over the mountain and I caught sight of the scoundrel teaning tow over his horse's neck and holding the saddle bow. Ho was p yards from where I gat In the shadow, and the way he urged on his horse and looked behind him showed me that he knew he was pursued. % oman aver iis aps a hundred | f YOU DO CARE?" HE SAID, Jingle eang a good deal, EAGERLY. and when a pony Is fown a mountain side to hold fire, but 1 of the sheath as he ime ‘My dear, that ts ag big a one as my opal from lrapuati ‘ou nearly broke my heart, going off that way without a ord of parting. I have followed you all over Mexico and always missed you, When I-came on board to-day I had about decided that you were avold me Intentionally. ‘The thought trou dear, more than I can tell you.’ uu are not going to keep on I adie, 't mean—T meant about telling t doing it? “Indeed. am, sweetheart, unless fool comen Llundering inte er close and looked earnestly 1 et the haclen the pur my res reat haclonds| The distance betwoen us was ao slight Spanish, pollicness,-and at woved to be the daugh' at every plunge ected to fool that my shoulders, onpation, I can aesure not to be tediows, we i In the lok, of, time, and | 9 I had an overdose of pardng this > met | her ey dear, 1 have never tiled to you by ‘1 of deed, and never expect to. If had known that you wore Hetening., tan the fends nnd all the furles could have made mo say a word about that plaguey opal except that I. boustt it of a beggarly. Oki ng o| chap in ‘bi di id aix bite,"* Irapuato for ollars Dy Mary Job AU att, N.C. 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