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He Represents the President H. G. Dalton Chosen as Coolidge's Personal Representative —To Report on the Functioning of the Shipping Board With his Recommendations §] MERICAN industry as the training school for fmithe development of personal capacity for big mi things never was indicated more clearly than in ewll| the case of Henry G. Dalton, member of Pick- ands, Mather & Co., Cleveland, just appointed by Presi- dent Coolidge as his personal representative in the solu- tion of problems confronting the merchant marine of the United States. Rising rapidly'from humble beginning to a position of prominence and authority bespeaks Mr. Dal- ton’s industry, force and keen business insight. Mr. Dalton has impressed greatly his business contemporaries by his extraordinary powers of analysis and his judicial tem- perment. His familiarity with the problems of Great Lakes ship- ping, on which subject he is an authority, has made him well qualified to assume the greater responsibilities of un- raveling the tangled knarl in which the United States shipping board and Emergency Fleet Corp. have involved the American merchant marine. Practical knowledge of maritime administrative difficulties has been gained from his connection with lake marine affairs for over 40 years and his affiliation wth Pickands, Mather & Co., operators of the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. His en- trance into the present shipping difficulty offers him an opportunity to contribute materially to the commercial prosperity of the United States. Mr. Dalton is undertak- RULY American has been his rapid rise from humble beginning to na- tional recognition and prominence. N AUTHORITY on Great Lakes shipping, he has been called by President Coolidge to national service. IS forceful character and keen facility for solving industrial problems will be devoted to America’s Merchant Marine tangle. ing his first public service of any magnitude, other than his membership on the steel committee, working in con- nection with the War Industries board at Washington during the war. Although denied the opportunity to take advantage of higher education himself, Mr. Dalton is interested keenly in educational progress. In June, 1924, he donated to Kenyon college, Gambier, O., $400,000 to construct the Samuel Mather Science hall. The rise of Mr. Dalton in the iron and steel industry from a boy on the ore docks to supervision of all activities of one of the largest iron ore, mining, shipping, pig iron and coal interests in the industry has been remarkably rapid. Mr. Dalton was born in Cleveland, Oct. 2, 1862. At the age of 16 he entered his first business experience at the Erie Ore Docks, Cleveland. The efficiency and energy dis- played as a young man in his work on the ore docks at- tracted attention of his superiors and in 1883 he was taken into the central office of Pickands, Mather & Co., with which he has been connected since. In addition to his direction of Pickands, Mather & Co., Mr. Dalton is president of the Interlake Steamship Co., vice president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and a director of the Steel Co. of Canada. He is a member of the American Iron and Steel institute. 432