The lone fisherman,1907,Thomas Ryan fishing in Panama Canal,Wallace,Shorts

Title: [The lone fisherman]
Creator(s): Sullivant, T. S. (Thomas Starling), 1854-1926, artist
Date Created/Published: 1907 Jan. 26 [publication date]
Summary: A determined Thomas Ryan fishes in the Panama Canal using dollars as bait. Beside him lays a basket labeled 'Inter-met,' holding a big fish marked 'Wallace.' He reels another large fish, labeled 'Shonts'.
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Signed, lower right: T.S. Sullivant.
Title from New York American.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1469)
On January 24, 1907, the New York American reported that Theodore P. Shonts resigned as Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the committee responsible for the construction of the Panama Canal, to become President of Interboro Metropolitan Transit, known as Intermet. Intermet was formed and until November 1906, presided over by financier and promoter Thomas Fortune Ryan, a controversial figure known for his questionable business tactics. He was said to have lured Shonts away from the Canal project by making him a lucrative offer. Shonts' resignation caused a major uproar and compared to the earlier desertion of the same project by Chief Engineer, John F. Wallace, whom had also been offered more money to work for the George Westinghouse interstate traction projects. In the published version, Sullivant's satire is accompanied by a poem entitled, 'Our Intimate Employes,' which lampoons the desire of the Ryan-Belmont interests to secure certain government officials as part of their staff in order to further their own ventures.
Published in: New York American, January 26, 1907.
Subjects:
Ryan, Thomas Fortune,--1851-1928.
Shonts, Theodore P.--(Theodore Perry),--1856-1919.
Wallace, John Findley,--1852-1921.
Fishing--1900-1910.
Panama Canal (Panama)--1900-1910.
Drawings--American--1900-1910.
Editorial cartoons--American--1900-1910.
Periodical illustrations--American--1900-1910.
Bookmark /2009617430/
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