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WE MARINE REVIEW. [September 28, ee TREASURY OFFICIALS WHO DEAL WITH SHIPS. BY THE REVIEW'S SPECIAL WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT. Lyman Judson Gage, secretary of the treasury, was born in De Ruy- ter, Madison county, New York, June 28, 1836. He received a common school education in his native county, and later, wpon removal of his parents to Oneida county, he had for a short time the advantages of Rome academy. When his father, who was Eli A. Gage, moved to Chicago in 1855 the son entered, in a subordinate position, a banking institution in that city. He rose rapidly through the various grades until in 1868 he be- came cashier of the First National Bank of Chicago, and in 1882 its presi- dent as in fact he had been its manager for many years. The growth of this remarkable financial concern is a part of the life of Mr. Gage. Under EUGENE T. CHAMBERLAIN, ommissioner of Navigation. JAMES A. DUMONT, Supervising Inspector-Genl. Steam Vessels. SUMNER I. KIMBALL, Supt. Life Saving Service. CAPT. O. KF. SHORMAKER, Chief, Revenue Outter Service. ness affairs, he took a prominent and useful part. He was the first presj- dent of the Civic Federation of Chicago, a large organization composed of citizens representing all classes and creeds. This association has now had an honorable and useful history, having taken for years past an influen- tial part in securing needed municipal reforms. With the incipiency of the World's Fair project in 1893 he was appointed by the mayor of Chi- cago chairman of the finance committee, and through his aids and sub- ordinates succeeded in raising, by voluntary subscriptions toward that enterprise, between five and six millions of dollars. Upon the organiza- tion of the board of forty-five directors, he was unanimously chosen presi- dent, and by his energy, patience, skill and tact, carried the undertaking over the most trying period of its history. He organized the Chicago Clearing House Association, was its presi- oO. P. AUSTIN, Chief, Bureau of Statistics. LYMAN J. GAGE, Secretary of the Treasury. Official of the United States Treasury Dept. who deal with Shipping Matters. 'his guidance it not only survived several trying periods in the history of the rapidly growing city, but it came to be a leading, and at times the most-powerful bank in the United States. Distinguished as have been Mr. Gage's achievements in building up a powerful banking house, they are, while better known, perhaps not to be compared with successes involved in the municipal growth of Chicago. The growth of that city from sixty thousand to nearly two millions of people gave full employment to his energies, both in relation to the many social and economic problems incidental to such a development and to the enormous expansion of business affairs of the bank to which he was re- lated. There is scarcely any stage of development in the city's growth where his influence has not been felt. In civic matters, as well as in/busi- dent for a number of years, and always a member of the executive com- . . . . b} mittee. He has three times been president of the American Bankers Asso- ciation, and president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a strong Of- ' ganization limited in number to sixty and composed only of representative business men. He was one of the first to recognize that, in the cosm0- politan and heterogeneous population of Chicago, the elements of dissatis- faction and disorganization found good breeding ground. He therefore organized what became known as the Economic Conferences. "His idea was to bring together all classes of citizens, rich and poor, the ignorant and the cultivated, that they might, in friendly discussion, learn each other's wrongs and together consider the remedy. He wrote the platform _of the organization, one upon which citizens of all kinds could stand, an for three years during the winter he himself led discussions in conjunction with the representatives of socialism and other forms of revolutionary ten- dencies. The certain result was a better feeling among the classes, 4 bet-