AN AMERICAN PRODIGY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 51, 14 October 1911, Page 7

AN AMERICAN PRODIGY.

San Francisco has’ / elected a now Mayor. Ordinarily : this would not be a very exciting event, for Mayors are fairly common in the Great Republic, as well as generals, colonels, and other distinguished officials (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). It is added, however, that this particular Mayor will have tlio handling of the two and a half million pounds that are to he spent in' connection with the forthcoming exposition in celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal. Apparently America feels a special interest in a municipal official for whom luck has reserved such an experience as this. How ho is expected to handle the two and a half millions is not stated, the bare fact that the money is to go through his fingers is apparently considered sufficient to direct the attention of a possibly envious world to him. This muchtrusted American Mayor appears to bo looked upon as one of the most curiously important exhibits for the big show. Here, says the Great Democracy to the nations of the world is a man in whose hands we are not afraid to. put two and a half millions sterling; produce another like him if you can. That is what would seem to bo the effect of tlio announcement now made concerning San Francisco’s new Mayor.