Tribute

Bluff, white-haired John Markle, coal man, chewing a fat cigar, sat at a luncheon table in the Waldorf-Astoria last week, heard Charles Michael Schwab say: "John Markle, you stand for my ideal of American manhood. . . . You have always tried to appear as a roughneck sort of fellow but beneath your rugged exterior I know there is a heart of the finest gold."

Mr. Markle then heard himself eulogized in an address given by the Rev. Malcolm J. MacLeod, of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.

Then John Markle rose from his seat, kept in his mouth his fat cigar, bowed slightly to the 400 luncheon guests, uttered no word, sat down.

The luncheon was arranged in Mr. Markle's honor by the Pennsylvania Society of New York, of which Charles M. Schwab is President.

Mr. Markle, oldtime anthracite coal operator, was for 47 years general superintendent and president of the Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. of Jeddo, Pa. Retired, he has established the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation to promote the general good of mankind. The foundation will aid and maintain medical research centres, hospitals, charitable institutions, libraries; help destitute persons; will eventually, said Mr. Markle, rival the scope of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations.