Burnt District Commission of Baltimore City. His offices
in the Glenn Building having been destroyed by the great
fire in February, 1904, Mr. Straus practiced for the year fol-
lowing the fire in the office of the Honorable William Fink-
ney Whyte. In 1906 he was appointed by the General
Assembly as Special Counsel for the State of Maryland in
the controversy of the State with the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad growing out of the suspension by the railroad com-
pany of the payments of dividends on the State's stock in
the Washington Branch of the railroad, and took a leading
part in effecting the settlement and preparing the legislative
measures whereby the State disposed of its 5,500 shares of
the "Washington Branch stock to the railroad company for
the sum of $2,500,000. In 1906 the Maryland Agricultural
College conferred the degree of Master of Arts upon Mr.
Straus.

Adjutant-General: HENRY WARFIELD (Democrat), Balti-
more.

General Warfield was born in Baltimore, July 1, 1867. He
is a son of the late Henry M. Warfield, who was the candi-
date for Mayor of Baltimore on the reform ticket in 1875.
His brothers are B. Emory Warfield, president of the Han-
over Fire Insurance Company of New York, and S. Davies
Warfield, president of the Continental Trust Company of
Baltimore. The latter was a candidate for Mayor of Balti-
more in 1891 and Postmaster of Baltimore for eleven years,
having been appointed by President Cleveland and re-ap-
pointe by President McKinley.

General Warfield enlisted as a private in Company K,
Fifth Regiment Infantry, Maryland rational Guard, Novem-
ber 1, 1885, and served continuously until January 22, 1908,
on which date he was appointed Adjutant-General of Mary-
land by Governor Crothers.

He was elected Second Lieutenant of Company K, Novem-
ber 1, 1888, afterwards becoming First Lieutenant of Com-
pany F, Captain on Regimental Staff, Captain of Company
B, Major and Colonel, being elected to the latter position on
June 30, 1903.

General Warfield has always taken much interest in the
affair's of his native city, both business and social. He is the
resident manager of the Royal Insurance Company, Ltd., of
Liverpool, with offices in the Chamber of Commerce Build-
ing, Baltimore, and one of the directors of the Board of
Trade.

His membership In the clubs of Baltimore includes the
Maryland. Elkridge, Merchants' and Bachelors' Cotillon.