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SMALLEST ELEPHANT
TRAINER IN THE WORLD
Evan Healey, Less Than Five Years Old, and
His immense Playmates More Than
Nine Feet High.
■‘That'll do now, Babe,” said the ani
mal trainer, extricating himself from
t he serpentine embrace of a great
black trunk.
"She's very playful, Babe is,” he
aided, somewhat’ breathlessly, which
Tvas natural, for Babe and her mate
bad been playing ball with him,
throwing him from one to the other
and catching him beautifully In a
manner calculated to inspire a base
ball rooter. "She’s a good deal friskier
than Basil, who is sixty this year.”
Babe was stamping her foot, just
jike an infant, and demanding more
play. Frank Healey, the trainer,
patted her on the trunk and said, “X
guess she won't be contented now till
Evan comes around. He's my son,
you know, and he can do more with
these two fellows than I can."
So he sallied forth to find Evan, and
bis visitors went with him, expecting
to see a big, husky animal trainer like
his father. But all they saw was a
yellow head full of curls peering shyly
•from behind a tree and vanishing as
soon as the strangers approached.
Dragged forth finally by the arm,
with his face turned bashfully away,
behold Evan, aged four years and
eleven months, Master of the Ele
phants.
Master Evan's unwilling way lay
through an unrestful avenue of wild
animal cages, from which the big cats
spat and roared their disapproval of
intrusion. A black panther and a
young lion particularly were so vehe
ment in their frank expressions of dis
like that the strangers took painful
care to remain well in the center of
the thoroughfare. But Evan tried to
hide his blushes behind the black
panther, whence he was extricated on
the verge of tears.
in the doorway of the elephant
house the parental grasip relaxed and
with a dive Evan got between the
mighty wrinkled pillars 'that sup
ported Babe.
That playful young creature had
her vast ears thrust forward like im
mense banners. Her piggy eyes were
all a-twinkle. She gurgled deep down
in her caverns, like a mountain full of
sizzling hot water.
A Unique Swing.
Gently, ever so gently, her big trunk
with its pink orifice reached out and
seized the little chap. Slowly she rock
ed him to and fro while he sat, hold
ing to the trunk as calmly as other
children would hold to the ropes of a
swing. But Basil wanted a bit of It,
too. He reached and pranced and
trumpeted until Babe swung Evan
over to him. A toss, and a catch, and
Basil had the boy. Back and forth they
swung him like a ball, but with a care
and gentleness that seemed impossible
in creatures so huge.
A muttered word from Healey, and
Basil lifted the little golden-haired
trainer up, up, until she held him ten
feet above the ground. Then the trunk
curved backwards and set him ,as
softly as if he were bisque on her big
back. He sat there a few moments,
slapping the leathery skin, and then,
with >i sudden motion slid down the
sloping t ick to the tail, swung from it
as if it were a rope, anti let himself
drop to the ground while Basil and
Babe trumpeted and wagged their
ears, watching for him to appear be
tween their legs again.
“Safe?" said Mr. Healey. “Why, of
course. Ld rather have Evan play
With thdßUephants than with other
childryriNfliey take as good care of
him asqKy nurse could. Every morn
ing they are restless till he comes. And
as for him, he is always in here. He
plays among their feet and lets them
swing him up on their backs all day
long. They wouldn’t step on him, no
indeed. They take more care not to
hurt him than a human being would.
See here."
He lifted the boy up to Babe’s left
ear, and commanded: “Listen, Babe.
Something to say to you.”
Babe stuck her ear out and inclined
her head toward the boy, while he
talked into her ear. Then she nodded
her head wisely and grunted.
“Rousing" the Elephants.
Healey dropped the boy. Evan
stepped alongside of Babe and slapped
her on the leg as high up as he could
reach, which w'asn’t higher than a
short man’s knee. “Down, Babe,
down,” he said.
Babe looked at him with a funny
look of appeal in her eye. She wig
gled her tail and flirted her trunk and
turned her head away, saying plainly,
"Bet’s talk of something else.” But
the babv trainer was insistent. And
Babe sighed—a rambling, roaring
f lgh. as if a steam engine were to
whisper “Oil. my!’’
Then, with a weary grunt, she held
her trunk out to him coaxingly. But
f'van only patted it and cried shrilly,
' hown, Babe, I say." So Babe, look
ing as If she had no friend on earth,
grunted once more and dropped labo
riously to her fore knees. With an
other plunge that shook the elephant
house she let herself fail cumbrously
or her side, and stuck her four feet
mto the air. Then she held out her
Bunk and wiggled her upturned ear.
Bven scrambled with hands and
knees up her massive, throbing side
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spot, on top of the great tonnage of
black flesh.
Then Basil had to go through the
performance, and she, too, begged
Evan to let her off, but finaly did
what she was bidden like a lamb. Each
elephant at once searched his clothes
for sugar when he let her get up.
“Basil,” said Mr. Healey, "is one
of the biggest elephants in America
now. She is a little more than nine
feet high, and Babe is almost as big.
but thirty years younger. , Basil and
Evan have been friends almost since
Evan was born. He was born in
Willis avenue. New York, and when
he was only a few months old we
came to Glen Island, and ever since
then - * Evan and the elephants have
played together. When we first came
here Basil learned to wheel Evan
around in the baby carriage, and It
soon got so that we could turn her
loose with the little one and feel that
he was safer in the protection of his
great nurse than he would have been
under the care of any human attend
ant.
An Elephant Nurse Girl.
“We used to say that Evan had the
very biggest nurse girl in the world.
She was as gentle and careful with
him as she could be. She never let
go the handle of the carriage, and she
would push It up and down all day
long if we let her. The baby was so
accustomed to it that he soon begin to
play with her trunk, and she, In turn,
didn’t like anything so much as io be
allowed to reach into the carriage and
fondle him and let him pull her trunk.
"As soon as he could crawl he went
into the elephant house by preference.
And now, no nfatter what time of the
day he goes there, the elephants are
ready to play with him. If he doesn’t
appear at his usual time they make a
great fuss and won’t keep quiet until
he arrives.”
AVhile the trainer was speaking the
big brutes were jostling each other
to reach Evans and tap him with their
trunks. He stood between their legs,
leaning against them, and the ele
phants never moved a limb without
looking and feeling to make sure that
they would not step on him.
It ■wasn’t possible to see a bit of him
when he got well behind one of the
huge legs, but he was the Master of
the Elephants for all that—Kipling’s
Toomaii in real life.
Mr. Healey brought out a grind
stone, and Evan stood before the ele
phants and commanded Basil to take
hold. Again Basil groaned with un
willingness. Evidently her idea of
play was not to do tricks. But Master
Evan permited no maligning. “Take
hold, Basil, right away,” he staid, and
Basil, with one last plaintive groan
and an extraordinarily mournful ex
pression, reached over and began to
turn the handle. “That won’t do,”
said Evan, firmly. "Take hold like
this.” He stooped under the trunk,
pulled it to the grindstone and pressed
the end of it firmly against the handle.
“Now, turn it,’ he said, and Basil sadly
turned it without taking an eye from
the lad.
“Now, Basil,” he ordered, and Babe
unwillingly did the same. But Basil
had not obtained his usual reward and
she trumpeted and thrashed her
mighty feet around, retaking a noise
that scared the strangers into jumping.
Close beside Evan the huge feet went
up and down, but Evan never turned.
He finished with Babe, and not until
then did he give the indignant Basil
her piece of sugar.
‘The grindstone," said Mr. Healey,
“is being used now by Evan to teach
the elephants to turn a barrel organ.
It would beta little too expensive to
begin with the real thing. They’ve
smashed this arrangement several
times. They don’t like to learn any
too well, but they always come around
to It. Evan doesn’t let them off from
a single lesson, and, no matter how
much they may object, they always do
it In the end.”
Kipling’s Hero in Real Life.
He has taught them to lie down and
play dead, to throw up their trunks
and trumpet the “royal salute," just
as Toomaii did, and to pick out the
American flag and wave it. Their mu
sical education has been finished so
far that they are ready to play the
real thing.
Evan walks around Glen Island ev
ery day with the big elephants follow
ing him placidly and watching his ev
ery motion. He takes them out to pas
ture and to water and drives them
home again as other boys of his age
and size would drive goats. In the
four and one-half years that he lias
spent on Glen Island he has not miss
ed visiting his two playmates a single
day except when he was ill, and then
the two elephants nearly became ill,
too.
He Is allowed to go wherever he
pleases on the Island, with no one to
watch him. He wanders in and out of
the menagerie all day long, but his
father says that he knows too much
to get within reach of the cat animals
and the bears, although he is in and
out of the tiger, lion and panther
houses all day long and his way lies
right alongside of the cages that con
tain the grizzly, cinnamon and Polar
bears. He has never been hurt by an
animal. . ...
He gets his love for animals legiti
mately, for his father has made many
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS' SUNDAY. JULY 5. 1903.
Go Prepared.
In preparing for your summer out
ing a little forethought may save you
no end of trouble. Mr. John H. Man
a dry goods merchant of Bellville,
It- I. while packing an outfit for camp
ing a few weeks on Naragansett Bay,
put in a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for
emergency use. The second day in
camp his little boy was taken with
cramp colic. The first dose of this rem
edy gave relief and ihe second dose ef
fected a cure. Think of the pain and
sufiering this boy would have had to
endure without this remedy at hand
tj remove him. Such cases often result
.atally. For sa e by all druggists.
trips to Asia and Africa to get wild
animals for American shows, besides
having been a collector of snakes and
big reptiles in Cuba and South Amer
ica. He has been an unusually suc
cessful animal trainer almost all his
life, and Evan has made up his mind
that he will become one, too.
SOME "WASHiNGTON GOSSIP.
TIIE NATIONAL. CAPITOL AT ITS
BEST IN THE SUMMER.
Movement* of Cabinet and Diplo
matic Folks Fashion Decrees
They Most Spend the Hot Months
Ont o* the City.
Washington. July 3.—ln these first
July days the national capital is In
deed "like some banquet hall desert
ed.” The departure of the President
and his family for the remainder of
the summer is the signal for all the
smaller official fry to follow suit; and
close upon their envied heels go the
rest of society and the vast mob of
their Imitators and hangers-on. The
truest lovers of Washington arfe those
who know it best; and they, one and
all, declare that it is never so beauti
ful and attractive for a place of resi
dence as in summer time, when com
paratively deserted. Dame Fashion has
decreed that everybody “in the swim”
must go elsewhere during the heated
term, however much he and she may
prefer to remain in the cozy comfort
of home. Therefore not only the fash
ionable West End has become a desert
of blank walls and boarded up win
dows, but whole streets of houses are
closed—many people whos bank ac
count being too limited to allow the
expense of a family flitting, simply
closing their front shutters, sending to
the local press a notice of their de
parture for the vague region, “the
North,” and living in their back rooms.
The cabinet ladies, who, with the
exception of Mrs. Root, have spent
most of the spring and early summer
in Washington, are now scattered in
many directions. Mrs. Hay, Mrs. Hitch
cock and Mrs. Knox have gone to
summer homes in New England: the
two first named to Lake Sunapee and
Dublin, N. H., and Mrs. Knox to
Prides Crossing, Mass. Mrs. Shaw,
as already announced, sails for Eu
rope this week, accompanied by her
two daughters. The eldest, who was
recently graduated from a school in
lowa, will make her debut here next
winter, when the younger will return
to a nearby boarding school. Owing to
official duties the Secretary of the
Treasury has abandoned his intentions
of accompanying his family across the
ocean, but may join them on the oth
er side for a short outing later in the
seasop. _ i ,.~
Mrs. Payne, wife of the Postmaster
General, is yet in her Milwaukee
home, but expects to return to Wash
ington and remain here with her hus
band through the greater part of the
summer. Although one of the latest ar
rivals in the administration circle, Mrs.
Payne is one of the most popular mem
bers thereof. She has been an invalid
for many years and still suffers a
great deal from rheumatism, but she
has never lost interest in the affairs
of the world, and in addition to her
many lovely qualities of mind and
heart, has a world-wide culture and
charm of manner .which makes her
equally interesting as hostess or guest
and has won her a wide circle of
warm friends.
Miss Hitchcock and her younger sis
ter, Miss Margaret, daughters of the
Secretary of the Interior, left yester
day for their New Hampshire summer
home.
Mrs. Cortelyou, who is the happy
mother of four small children, will re
main some time longer in her cool and
airy home on Capitol Hill. Miss Wil
son, daughter of the Secretary of Ag
riculture, is also in town and enjoying
the Simmer weather in her Washing
ton home, where she has been enter
taining several lowa friends. She goes
to Bar Harbor soon to spend the
month of July, and through part of
August will be the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh in their cottage
at Manchester-by-the-sea.
Those members of the diplomatic
corps who decided to spend the sum
mer In this country have generally
selected places within easy access of
the capital, and are therefore this side
of New York.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller are
still in Chicago, but are expected In
Washington this week. Mrs. Fuller
and her youngest daughter, Miss Fan
nie, will sail shortly for Europe, to be
absent several months.
Mrs. ’William F. Cowles, the Presi
dent’s sister, will occupy the Adiron
dacks camp of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
IT. Coates on the tipper St. Regis dur
ing July and August. Mrs. Cowles will
have with her during most of the sea
son Miss Alice Roosevelt and her cous
in, Miss Helen Roosevelt.
Gen. S. B. M. Young, who will be
at the head of the army upon the re
tirement of Gen. Miles, has a pretty
young daughter, Miss Mary Young,
who made her debut here last winter.
His other daughters are Mrs. C. Char
ters of New York, Mrs. J. H. Gibbon
of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Reed, wife
of Capt. S. W. Reed, now stationed at
Monterey, Cal.
Senator and Mrs. Depew and Mr.
Chauneey Depew, Jr., are now at the
Elysee Palace Hotel, Paris, tor a stay
of several weeks. On their return to
America, probably late in August, they
will go at once to Newport. t
Mr. and Mrs. George Cabot Dodge,
the latter formerly Miss Bessie Davis,
a bride of a few months, have joined
Senator and Mrs. Lodge at Nahant,
where thev will stay all summer.
Within the next week or so Senator
and Mrs. Lodge will sail for Europe, to
remain away only about two months.
Hon, A. A. Adee, Assistant Secretary
of State, who has been making a tour
of France, sailed for home last Wed
nesday and the Kromprinz Wilhelm.
Mr. Frank A. Munsey, the well known
editor of a magazine, and also of a
Washington newspaper, was a passen
ger on the same steamer.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, of Indian
apolis, widow of the late President, is
spending several weeks at Tuxedo
Park. Rumor has it that she is soon to
make a third matrimonial venture.
Ex-Senator Farwell of Chicago, Is still
critically ill, at his summer home,
"Falrlawn” at Lake Forest, 111. Mrs.
Reginald de Koven has given up her
proposed trip abroad and joined her
parents at Falrlawn.
Another daughter, Mrs. Chatfleld
Taylor, with her husband, also the
only son, Mr. Walter Farwell, and his
wife, have gone to Lake Forest.
A WEST INDIAN RICHELIEU
Dr. Nuttall, the Archbishop of the West Indies, a Power
Behind the Throne in English Statesmanship—A Man
of Great Ability, Chamberlain and Balfour Seeh Him for
Their Counsellor.
BY BASSETT STAINES.
Copyright, 1903, by Bassett Staines.
Dinner was over In a country man
sion in the Island of Jamaica. Among
the guests were His Grace the Most
Reverend Enos Nuttall, D. D.. Arch
bishop of the West Indies and Bishop
of Jamaica, and a well known United
States senator.
"What do you think of our Arch
bishop?” the host asked the Senator
over the coffee cup on the veranda.
“He is an exceedingly well informed
and interesting talker; his knowledge
of American politics surprises one," re
plied the Senator.
"I thought it would,” said the host.
“His knowledge of everything surprises
everybody who meets him. Every
body who talks with him is impressed;
but few people are aware that he is
one of the best statesmen and most
influential men in the British Empire.
He Is unknown to fame except in these
West Indian Islands, but he moulds
British policy to an extraordinary ex
tent. I believe he has as much, if not
more, real power than some of the
British cabinet ministers.”
TUe Counsellor of Statesmnn.
The host was correct in his suppo-
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I have always maintained that sexual
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trary, the entire constitution would
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Are You Only Half a ManT
My practice has been along these
lines and I have done much by my
writings to call the attention of brother
physicians to this fact and to warn
the unthinking not to throw them
selves In the clutches of the vultures
who, knowing nothing of the science
of medicine, proclaim so loudly that a
little cocoa butter or a liquid rubbed
on the parts, or a simple little pill
taken Internally, will cure such deep
seated diseases. The foremost scien
tists of to-day have adopted my meth
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Anyone who has risen in the morning
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there had been losses during the night,
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wondered what the end would be.
How Dr. Hathaway Cures.
Perhaps you who are reading this
suffer Just this way. What have you
done, what are you doing to be cured?
Are you going to let yourself linger
on until you are impotent before your
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is? Are you going to let yourself be
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you by sending it to you without your
permission and then threaten to ex
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sltion. Great men who know Enos
Nuttall well seek his advice about the
biggest questions which they have to
solve. They know that he possesses
one of the strongest intellects in the
British Empire, and they like to take
advantage of it. Joseph Chamber
lain has the reputation of being about
the last person to take advice from
anybody, but he esteems Archbishop
Nuttall’s counsel highly, and is guided
by it a great deal in his Colonial
policy. Even lord Salisbury, when
he was Premier and Foreign Minis
ter, Was not above getting the Arch
bishop's ideas and suggestions, and
occasionally acting upon them.
These great men keep in touch with
him by correspondence, but some
times, when there is a great crisis in
BVitlsh affairs, they cable to Jamacia,
asking him to come over to England
and confer with them. Recently It be
came necessary to reorganize Eng
land’s educational system, and do
something to allay the bitter quafrel
over ritualism in the Church of Eng
land. Mr. Balfour and the Archbish
ops of Canterbury and York united to
send a cablegram to Dr. Nuttall beg
ging him to take the next steamer to
England and give them the benefit of
his views. He did so, and the Edu-
ty knows and who will hold your se
cret as sacredly as he does his own
honor. I have been a specialist In the
private diseases of men for over two
generations, and there is no form of
sexual weakness that I have not met
with and cured. I have practiced my
specialty in this city for many years
with unequaled success, and hundreds
among your' own friends have been
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the very method that I ask vou to
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His Method Cares Permanently.
Therein lies the secret of my success
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When you suffer from neurasthenia,
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rational BUI, over, which there has
been so much controversy, was draft
ed on the lines he recommended. His
suggestions for allaying the ritualistic
strife were also followed, with good
results. The same kind of thing has
happened several times before.
Anomalous as it may seem, this man
is not ambitious. He will not leave
his West Indian work for any prefer
ment. The Church of England in Ja
maica is disestablished and poverty
stricken, and his stipend is, therefore,
considerably less than £I,OOO a year.
Some time ago, when Bishop
Creighton died, Dr. Nuttall was of
fered the Bishopric of London by
Lord Salisbury. The stipend of that
see is £IO,OOO a year, and the position
is second in importance only to that
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to
which it Is often the stepplng-tone,
as It was in the case of Archbishop
Temple. There was great difficulty In
Ailing the see satisfactorily. Lord
Salisbury wanted one man, King Ed
ward another, the Primate a third.
Then somebody suggested the Arch
bishop of the West Indies, and all
three agreed that he would be the
best possible man for the position.
But when it was offered to him he re
fused it. Money and preferment of
fered no temptation to him. He liked
his old work and poor pay in Ja
maica better than £IO,OOO a year in
London.
The Archbishop's Gsrlr Romance.
Dr. Nuttall is a remarkable man in
many other ways.
He was born in Yorkshire of com
paratively humble parentage, and rose
to his high position in the English
Church without any of the usual ad
vantages of wealth, influential connec
tions and special education.
He was a Wesleyan minister In his
younger days, and was sent out to Ja
maica as a missionary. There is a
rule among Wesieyans in the West In
dies that their ministers must not mar
ry unless they have reached a certain
position and income, and obtained the
approval of the ruling body in the
church. Enos Nuttall fell in love, but
could not get the requisite permission,
as he held an humble position at that
time. He insisted on marrying with
out it, at the cost of leaving the Wes
leyan community. It was a good thing
for him and a good thing for the An
glican Church in the West Indies. He
got a beautiful and charming wife,
who has helped him greatly in his life
work, and to whom he is devotedly at
tached, while the church got Its great
leader and most forceful personality.
Naturally, there was some prejudice
agninst him in the church after he be
came ordained as an Episcopal clergy
man, but he soon conquered that, and
by rapid degrees became recognized as
the ablest man, the best preacher, and
the cleverest organizer the church pos
sessed. When the Bishop of Jamaica
retired in 1880, his election by the Syn
od to fill the vacant see was a fore
gone conclusion, and he was conse
crated Bishop in St. Paul's Cathedral,
London, on Oct. 28, 1880, by the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, assisted by nu
merous other prelates.
An Ecrloiutiral Statesman.
At that time the Church of England
In Jamaica was in a bad way. Ten
years before a law had been passed
providing for its disestablishment and
disendowment. It had grown very
poor, and the stipends of many of the
clergymen were barely sufficient to
keep body and soul together. It was
a question whether the church would
not have to give up its work wholy or
In part. But, under Bishop Nuttall's
energetic rule, it rapidly Increaaed In
wealth, Influence and usefulness. It
Is still poor, but he has placed it on a
sound basis. Some of the clergymen
were not all that could be desired In
holiness of life. The Bishop dealt with
them sternly and strongly, turning
therti out of the church despite pro
tests from influential connections and
Important congregations.
Then, having got his own church in
to decent order, he looked out for new
fields to conquer. He saw that the
Anglican churches In the various West
Indian islands were Isolated commu
nities, having no connection or corre,
spondence with one another, which is
contrary to Anglican ideas. By master
ly diplomacy, he welded them into’one
strong, united church. The new title
of Archbishop of the West Indies was
created, and Dr. Nuttall was the only
possible man to whom it could be giv
en.
The Bishops of Barbados, Trinidad,
Antigua, British Guiana. Nassau and
British Honduras are subject to him.
That is to say, he is the highest ec
clesiastical authority over all Great
Britlan’s colonies in the new world
south of Canada. By remarkable
statesmanship, he has succeeded in
keeping tlhs immense diocese abso
lutely free from the many quarrels
which have agitated the Church of
England within recent years. In the
West Indies, under D. Nuttall’s rule,
there is no ritualistic controversy; no
strife over the Higher Criticism.
A Universal Adviser,
His success in ecclesiastical adminis
tration gave him a great reputation in
certain circles In England, and won the
admiration of Mr. Gladstone, Lord
Rosebury, Lord Salisbury, Mr. Balfour,
Mr. Chamberlain and many other lead
ing English statesmen. This Is how; he
has become a kind of mentor to the men
who run the British empire.
But these are not the only men
whom he has advised or advises. He
Is recognized in Jamaica as the clever
est man In practically every line of
business. The officials, from the Gov
ernor downward, solicit his counsel in
all their Important undertakings. Few
laws are passed, few policies decided
upon, until they have received his in
dorsement.
When it was thought that Jamaica
depended too much upon the American
market for her exports, and had too
few commercial links with her mother
country, it was the Archbishop who in
duced Mr. Chamberlain to persuade the
British Parliament to give a subsidy of
$2,000,000 for the establishment of a
steamship line to carry Jamaican ban
anas to England and create anew
market for them there.
The negro peasants go to Dr. Nuttall
for advice about the planting of their
crops, and the best way to get a good
sale for them. Mulatto schoolmasters
Implore him t<j straighten out their
difficulties with the parents of the
children whom they teach. Keen busi
ness men invite him to criticise and
amend their schemes for the commer
cial development of Jamaica. Every
body looks up to him as the sovereign
authority in all matters, big or little,
and the one infallible critic and Judge.
A Friend of American Presidents.
Archbishop Nuttall’s ability is appre
ciated by many influential men in the
United States. He was a friend of the
late President McKinley and of James
G. Blaine. He visited Mr. McKinley
once or twice at Washington during
the latter's administration, and main
tained a close correspondence with
him. It is understood that he advised
Mr. McKinley a good deal on the han
dling of the color question, on which
he is an authority, owing to his long
residence In the West Indies. He has
played a leading part in all the nego
tiations for tariff reciprocity between
the British West Indies and the United
States. He is a friend of Mr. Booker
Washington, and has largely Influenced
the development of the work at Tuske
gee and Hampton. He knows President
Roosevelt well, and he Is credited. In
some quarters, with having brought the
President and Mr. Washington togeth
er at the famous dinner at the White
House.
Personally, Dr. Nuttall Is a kindly,
good-natured man, always ready to do
a good turn for anybody, from the
highest to the lowest. Many a young
Englishman in Jamaica has been kept
In straight courses by him. and put on
the high road to success. Many an
honest, industrious negro peasant has
been encouraged by his advice an in
dependent. position in life. Many a
black pickaninny in the Jamaican vil
lages is petted by him on his pastoral
visitations. He is easily the most pop
ular, as well as the ablest, man in the
West Indies,
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