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: Voi. III. CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1891. No. 23. Prominent Men of the Lakes. A lawyer who sits as a court in deciding disputed questions among his clients is one of the wonders of the Chicago bar. In his office more disputes are ended than find their way into the United States courts. The detisions and opinions of this law- yer are never doubted for their fairness and good judgment, and are accepted as the law and the facts. The proctor in ad- miralty who takes so important a part in Chicago’s marine in- terests is Mr. Charles E. Kremer. Mr. Kremer did not drift into an admiralty practice. Hecameupinit. His tastes were for the marine from a boy, and if his guiding star had not turned him towards the practice of law, doubtless he would have been standing on the bridge of some big lake steamer these days. Mr. Kremer was born in Oshkosh, Wis., forty-one years His first active service in life was teaching school. In 1870 he removed with his people to Milwaukee. He attended a business college awhile and then tried mercantile pursuits, but they were not to his fancy. He saw he was not-well built for business. He then entered the law office of H. H.& G. C. ago. Mees See rs Pista CHARLES E. Markham, and began the study of law. ‘Taking naturallyto ad- miralty, he gave to it his most enthusiastic attention. In 1874 he was admitted to the bar, and the year following he hung up his shingle as an attorney of law on the Chicago lumber market. Being energetic and quite able, he developed a remarkable facul- ty for seeing both sides of a question and of pointing out how a fair settlement could be reaehed and litigation averted. He became, in fact, the peacemaker of the market. In the five years his office was on South Water street, his practice had grown to very respectable proportions. He was recognized as one of the rising young attorneys of the Chicago bar. In 1880, when George Gardner, one of the prominent admiralty lawyers of Chicago, was elected judge of the superior court, Mr. Kremer succeeded him in the firm of Gardner & Schuyler, the firm name becoming Schuyler & Kremer. There Mr. Kremer is yet, and there he is likely to remain. He has become the attorney of all® the tug companies, of all the propeller lines except one, of the general insurance agents, and of two-thirds of the vessel owners of Chicago. ‘Thus it has happened that he so frequently sits as a judge or referee in disputes between his clients. In all the great admiralty cases of the lakes in recent years Mr. Kremer has been found fighting for all there was init on one side or the other. In the galaxy of marine lawyers he holds ~ an important place. Heis a growing man, too, and in the many years yet allotted to him by the prophet, he is destined to fill an honorable position as one of the great authorities of marine law in this country. Personally Mr. Kremer is a most agreeable companion. He has in a high degree that rare faculty of remem- bering a good story just at the right time, and as a teller of stories he has no second in the Chicago marine. He is especial- ly interesting in a character sketch, his remarkable facility of personating coming into good play. Nothing stirs up Mr. Kremer more than a tale of the oppression of the poor by the — powerful. He has taken hundreds of cases where all the fee he could expect was the reward he felt in his heart at having stopped or righted a wrong done to those who were considered too weak to resist. He has been most truly the ‘‘sailors’ friend.’ Mr. Kremer resides in a pleasent home on Ashland avenue the West Side’s finest street. His home with all comforts to b desired, is one of the most attractive houses on that thorot KREMER. fare. He has accumulated considerable real estate and is secre- tary of the Libby Prison Association, an enterprise he has been identified with from its beginning. He has studiously avoided politics and hopes that he may never fall from grace in that regard, Millionaires’ Yachts. It will cost at least $15,000 a year to run either of the steel steam yachts now building in Cleveland for Mr. J. H. Wade, Jr., and Mr. H. M. Hanna. Pleasure craft of this kind are an expensive luxury even at a first cost of about $100,000, but indi- vidual wealth in the west compares favorably with that of New York and other eastern cities and it is certain that the demand for elegant steam yachts on the lakes will increase in the future. Detroit, with its grand stretch of river, already has more steam yachts than any city in the country. The Herreshoffs build 3h most of the steam yachts in use on the Atlantic coast, and they have recently turned to designing sailing craft. They have on the stocks now two steel steam yachts, one for W. R. Hearst, son of the California millionaire, and the other for EK. D. Morgan, of New York. Mr. Hearst’s yacht is 112 feet over all and is to make 25 miles an hour. A speed of 23 miles an hour is guaran- teed for the Morgan yacht. :