now far advanced on the road to fame and fortune in the first of professions, and his latter career is a living lesson of what grip and grit can do when piloted by intellect. Captain Ashton is unmarried. He is a favorite in social circles, and his friends are myriad. Thus far he has kept studiously aloof from public life, yet, although it is not ours to presage what the future may develop, his career is open to the highest possibilities of the Evergreen State. WILL L. VISSCHER. PAUL SCHULZE, THE advantages and possibilities of this country are not, under its system of free government by the people, open to American-born exclusively, but to all nationalities who seek its citizenship. No nation in the world has broader, more prolific and definite fields for every class of human activity than the United States; and all it requires to realize these advantages is the cultivation of the gifts of nature in the direction that taste or opportunity suggest. There is no apprenticeship or government exaction required before anyone, wherever born and schooled, can enter any pursuit upon his own account or that of others in this country with success awaiting him, provided he has the gifts and capacity therefor equal to the undertaking. These, with the concentration of perseverance, faithful methods and high aims therewith, are the requisites essential to secure success in the pursuits of life. This is shown in the career of Paul Schulze, a native of Schulzendorf, kingdom of Prussia, German empire, who was born in 1848. He received a collegiate and university education. in different institutions of his native country, and at the age of twenty years, imbued with a desire for a new field in which to exercise his business energies, emigrated to the United States, and landed at San Francisco in November, 1868, where he engaged in various pursuits until November, 1871, when he came to Portland, Oregon, and entered the service of the Oregon & California Railroad Company in its Land Department, and thus remained until 1873, when he went to Germany in the interest of this railroad company, where he met Henry Villard, a member of the committee of German bondholders thereof. Having accomplished the purpose of his visit, he soon returned to Oregon, with Mr. Villard, and was by him appointed land agent of the company which he had for over three years served in a subordinate capacity, which office he filled until April, 1884. Meantime, Mr. Schulze became identified with Mr. Villard in other enterprises, and by him was appointed general land agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in August, 1882, - which position he continues to hold. On the 1st of July, 1887, his office was moved from Portland, where it had been from its organization, to Tacoma. Since 1887 Mr. Schulze has become largely identified with the development and growth of Tacoma in particular, and of the development of Washington and the Pacific North west in general. Among the enterprises with which he is connected are the Tacoma Railway & Motor Company, of which he is a large stockholder and president, and which corporation controls the street railroad system of that city; the Northern Pacific & Yakima Irrigation Company, of which he is president, and which is constructing a large irrigation canal in the Yakima valley; is vice-presi dent of the Tacoma Smelting & Refining Company, and director or trustee of a number of other financial or railroad corporations. Thus it will be observed that Mr. Schulze has been energetic and successful in his efforts in business. He is quick and positive in his convictions and methods, and grasps whatever he undertakes with nervous energy. Though but forty-two years old, he has achieved greater success through his persevering industry and cultivated business methods than many who had greater advantages in the outset than he. DR. EDWIN M. HALE Comes of old England, New England, and Puritan stock. His American ancestor emigrated to this country "with all his estates" about the year 1837, from Hertfordshire, England, bearing letters to Governor Winthrop, by whose subsequent advice he settled at Newburyport, Mass. Two houses are claimed for him in England, both are still standing, and both until recently in the hands of proprietors bearing the name of Hale. The house on the banks of the Parker river, at Newburyport, Mass., built by Thomas Hale, in 1661, is also in existence. The descendants of this Thomas lived for several generations in or near Newbury, and indeed, that region knows them still and not few in number; but one branch of the parent tree reached over into New Hampshire where they were found at the time of the revolution-" a house divided against itself" on the question of loyalty to the crown. While one brother saillied forth to comfort the royalists, a younger one named David enlisted in the forces of the Americans, serving eight months in the vicinity of Boston, and standing as sentinel on Bunker Hill. The doctor treasures an old leather wallet bought at Haverill, by his grandfather, David, on the way to the scene of action, and probably worn upon his person during that memorable battle. The purchaser of the wallet became, in due time, the father of fourteen children, the sixth of whom was Syene, father of Dr. Edwin M. Hale. Another was the Hon. Salma Hale, of Keene, N. H., at one time United States Senator from that State, and a trustee of Dartmouth College. Still another named David, was the husband of the lady so well known to earlier American literature, as Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book. Syene Hale was graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth College, and began the practice of medicine in the village of Newport, N. H., where he married a daughter of Hon. Moses Dow. Here in 1829, the son Edwin was born. After experiencing for about ten years the 66 usual hard work and poor pay of the average country practitioner, Dr. S. Hale at last determined to better his condition and "go west." He had a sister living in Newark, O., to whom he decided to follow to the country that was considered at that time the Ultima Thule, and was pictured to the people of the barren New England mountains as a veritable El Dorado. "I well remember," says Dr. E. M. Hale, "the serious family consultations on the dangers of the long journey by land and water to Ohio. I remember the packing of the household goods, the stage journey to the Connecticut river and across the State of Vermont, until we reached the Hudson river, at Troy, where we took passage on an ordinary passenger and freight boat through the Erie canal. I was much interested in the journey across the great State of New York, in the various cities and villages we passed, and remember how we envied the passengers on the 'fast packets' which rushed by us every now and then." Arriving in Buffalo they took one of the best steamers, a side-wheelerbut a steamer which nowadays would be called a "tub." After a stormy voyage which lasted several days, they reached Cleveland, then a small city. Dr. S. Hale was fond of telling that on a previous visit to Cleveland, several years before this, he was offered the corner lot where the Weddell House was built, for $100, if he would remain and open an office there. Years after when Cleveland had become a handsome city, Dr. E. M. Hale boarded at the Weddell House, while attending medical lectures. Dr. S. Hale took passage with his family on another boat on the Ohio and Erie canal, then the great artery of travel between Lake Erie and the Ohio river. In due time they reached the pretty little city of Newark, but instead of settling here, Dr. S. Hale decided, contrary to the advice of his friends, to make his home in the village of Fredonia, twelve miles distant. Here he lived and practiced medicine until 1853, when he removed to Hudson, Mich., then again to Adrian, and finally a few years before his death, to Oak Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. In Fredonia, Dr. Edwin and his brother Parker had no more advantages than most country boys. They attended the common schools and "Select Grammar School," as it was called. The college town of Granville was only five miles away, but they were debarred the advantages of a classical education for want of sufficient pecuniary means, which in after life they both deeply regretted. The education of Edwin M., was to a great extent self-acquired. His mother was a woman of literary tastes and a poet of no mean ability. To her encouragement and assistance much was due, as well as to an extensive reading of all the books he could find in the village and country round |