Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1896, Page 10

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To prevent accidents it has recently been covered with & coating of sand, \\ € — L 3 |TWO NOTABLE MEN oe The Careers of the President and Vice President-Elect. ee THEIR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIVES How They Won Success and Public Recognition. — TYPICAL AMERICANS Fifty-three ye January Willie rs ago on the 29th of last m McKinley was born at Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio. He was the seventh child of William McKinley, a pioneer in the iron puddling business in that region, and his wife Nancy, an Allison of Scotch Covenanter stock. His great-great grandfather was James McKinley, who crossed the Atlantic with his parenis when he was twelve years old. When grown up ard married, he made his home tn Penn- sylvania, and became the father of David MeKinley, who fought through the revolu- tionary War in the cause of freedom, and after being honorably discharged settled in Columbiana county, Ohio. Among his chil- dren was one James, who became the grandfather of the present republican leader. With a family of eight children, all of them above the average in brightness and intelligence, Willlam McKinley, sr., felt it incumbent on him to move to a p! where better schooling could be had for his fam- ily. After hls son William had spent a few years at the village school at Niles he se- lected Poland, in Mahoning county, Ohio, where there was an academy, as it was called in those days, and settled there. The school was a good one, and the chi dren did well. It is not reported that young McKinley was exceptionally bright, but he painstaking and studious. In the local ting club, however, he early distin- guished himself; his tastes Inclined toward argument and oratory; he soon became an acknowledged leader, and was elected pres- ident Taught School. At sixteen he left the Poland Academy for Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., where he had scarcely more than matricu- lated when he fell ill and was obliged to return home. During his illness his father suffered losses In business, which precluded him from sending his son back to Alle- gheny. To assist in his support, and to Save up enough money to complete his col- lege course, McKinley took to school teach- ing in a district school near his home, and earned $25 a month. His anticipations were, however, cut short by the breaking out of the war between north and south. He was now a sturdy lad of eighteen, and no sooner had the cannon commerced to belch forth deflance than, stirred by the military spirit that pervaded the old western reserve, he rushed to arms, and was enrolled’ as a private in Company E of the 28d Ohio Regiment, of which William S. Rosecrans was colonel; Stanley Matthews, leutenant colonel, and Rutherford B. Hayes, major. For fourteen months McKinley carried his musket in the ranks, and, looking back, he thinks that time did him more good in the lessons of discipline it taught him than any other fourteen months in his life. Then, step by step, he won his way through all the grades by hard fighting and conscientiously doing his duty, till he became captain. Finally, just three months before he was mustered out of the service, at the close of the war, he obtained the brevet rank of major. H ccmmirsion reads: “For gallant and mer torious service at the battles of Opequan, Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill.” It is sign: ed A. Lincoln. At the close of the war McKinley, like many others, found himself without means and without an occupation. After a con- ference with his sister, Anna, who was living in Canton, the seat of Stark county, Ohio, he determined to enter the legal pro’ fession. Began the Study of Law. He commenced to study law in the office of Judge Charles E Shortly after he ente: Glidden at Canton. | been an fidence i Albany, N. Y., and graduated from that in- | [0enee stitution, being admitted to the bar in IS67. | sirtune, It was slow and uphill work at first when | rend he opened his little office and hung out his shingle in Canton, but he made the most of LIAM McKINLEY. hammer some ney. 1 rae ara Pil ideal one. Prue. 5 te tax, He is remem- . whe implicit co! author of an act author- nthe a lif n of labor disputes. nd caus of his en more aml more exact- and } ney to sur- upon him. Moher ¢ worth under the | « the and guidin to make good i s happily peo- ieney ew y to ISM1 he every opportunity, and soon gained a repu-| averted by a_ pc ubscription, which uirman of the republican state com- tation as a ready spe ar enabled the trustees to hand back Mrs. and as such planned ‘al of the For a republican, Stark county was not} McKinley's property intac st brilliant » history of a happy hunting ground, but whether it)” The lation which led to republican parts s lack of clients or an inborn tendency | was none of Maj. Mckinley'a. From the s ty that way, Mc y soon drifted into poli- | came throu, his indorsing th rally io the national ¢ ties. He obtain what was then, President TeMeiWalker ofsthe In IsS4 he became a member of th ecnsidered the empty honor of the repub " Nationel Bank and the Gi | lican national eemmi mil ever aline He lican nomination f x attorney, | Bank, whom he supposed to I | has been a member of its executive com- but with the seriou cler-j solvent, but who failed on Febri mitiee. In those twelve years he has been istic of him, he made an energetic personal few wecks efter the notes had | intrusted with duties of the most important canvass, and in the heart of a democratic ; been indorsed. McKinley is a man given | Charac stronghold was triumphantly elected. Two ; to listening rather than talking. He is at-| His first and only failure came in the years later he was minated, and, | t i in appearance and dignified in | S#me year with his sa member though not elected, he kept his opponent's | pPmeanor. Generous and loyal in his| Of the national committee. He was nomi- majority down to 45, when it had usually he makes friends quickly and rarely | Pated for United States Senator, but the Is. rs he continued his run into the hundré the next five them. ature was democrat! and he was 1 by John R. McPh n practice at the though in Is7 he! Mr. Hobart’s Career. Mr. Hobart, with his wife and only child, stumped the election as| Garret A. Hobart was born at Long| Garret Augustus Hobart, jr. twelve years governor, an able reputa-| Branch in ISH. After being graduated | Of ge, in Carrall Hall, at the cor- tion a public In ae he deter- | from Rutgers College he became a school | €" &f ae a conn Paterson. mined to try for Congre t was not a] teache: ae ar a an unpretentious three-story frame Footie Gantortne: blicaniantesibutine oe serynne me tial mowsatlety his ambi- | house which has been enlarged from time ae the primaries in every. township | Wen. So after three months as a teacher he | to time. “The piazzas. are wi SBE aE but one in Stark county, and, having ob: e it up and he study law in the | lawn enough to give the drab house a tatfned the nomination against two other | cflice of Sc . who was at that| Uns. Tig elms shade both house and lawn. candida was elected by a substantial | time an « r of the Passaic | , Mr. Hobart is quiet, self-contained ani county bar. a man of great force, and he is n Congress. Notwithstanding three separate attempts of the democrats, who had control of the | in that y He was admitted to the bar in 18¢ | the old lawyer's daughter. rs oll. His wife, who is sev- en or eight years younger, 2 Woman of remarkable character. at once win- ar he married Miss Jennie in his career. In 1871 he } jj eee St beautiful as state to gerrymander his district he was | sel of Pate a enay ae fa es a anatron | successfully returned to h succeeding | Was made c ae eo Gaus hier beautiful Congress for fourteen years. In 1800), after | frecholders of cir] (of twenty two. She died last year in the famous MeKinley tariff bill had been | of 18 nt the third | {}!¥ While Mr. and Mrs. Hobart were placed on the statute books, a determined | Cistr county in the state as re effort was made to defeat his re-election to | sembly. His canvass was a remarkable a Congre: he foremost and ablest demo- | One, and the district gave him the largest Cause of the Commotion, crats of the day invaded his district, and, | ™@Jority in its history. From that time | From the Cleveland r. ht battle, he was defeated | forward by votes. ‘is was but a temporary | CaM leader in Pa check that served as an Incentive to fur- ther effort. In 1891 he was nominated by | State. the republicans of Ohio as their candidate | It was for governor by acclamation. The fight on | ing for t protection and the high tariff question was renewed, and, after a three months’ cam- paign and a hard-fought fight, he was tri- umphantly elected. At the close of his term he was again nominated by acclama- tion and re-elected by a majority of over 80,000. Much of McKinley's success in life has been attributed to his following the advice said to heve been given to him by Presi dent Hayes when he first entered Congre: “To achieve success and fame you must pursue a special line. You must not make a speech on every motion offered or every bill introduced. You must confine yourself to one thing in particular. Become a spe- cialist. Take up some branch of legisla- tion and make that your study. Why not choose the tariff?” McKinley did choose the tariff. His name has become identified with it and with the doctrine of protection ever since. Mrs, McKinley. When Maj. McKinley first went to Can- ton to consult his sister on the choice of a cation cf passage interest profession he met Miss Ida Saxt. the pretty daughter of James Saxton, a well- to-do banker of Canton. He was young and good Icoking; she was sw sixteen, The acquaintanceship was of short dura- tion, for he had to go to Albany to study law, and she had to return to school; but the first thing that he did on his return to Canton as a full-fledged lawyer was to seek her out and woo her for his wife. They were married on the 25th day of January, 1871, and he says now it was the best suit he ever won. The young couple began their housekeep- ing in the old Saxton home, at Canton, which they still occupy. Two children were born to them, but both died in infancy. Since the birth of the second child Mrs. McKinley has been an invalid, but yet a happy and contented one, for the devotion of her husband has been untiring. She fol- lows his political career closely, and often he has been indebted to her for valuable advice. Mr. McKinley’s mother, now in “her eighty-eighth year, is a widow, her husband having died three years ago. Her famil consists of her daughter, Miss Helen Me. inley, a grandson of sixteen and Grace McKinley. The two last named are orphans, who have been taken into the protecting home and guardianship cf their grandmothe: McKinley's home life has not been with- cut its effect in the political arena; it has Miss ranked with the foremost politicians of the of the affairs of any telling blow at corruption. fund of the state with the payment of all state debt yearly, penditures by $100,000 a year and causing he was recognized as the republi- ic ceunty, and he soon What was the trouble over at last night? They made the great- est racket I ever heard, and you could hear Brown's voice above the uproar like a fog horn in a thunder storm.” Smith—“I haven't heard the particulars, but I understand that they had somebody visiting them who didn’t agree with Brown in the opinion that free silver ts the only thing that will make it possible for every an to become Ithy without work- he who framed a measure provid he summary judicial investigation county upon the appli- e freeholders. Tt was a He caused the charging the sinking twenty. of an act and part of the principal of the thus reducing the ex- GARRET A. HOBART. Klower Show. Everyone is Invited. 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Deme A swimming tank on the reof for sammer has » also used as a skat - idea of a New of large nove chitect. The 1 t houses will thea b water ph without for the s idea bringing of salt water from the s It will be hotter, if I read the cor next stmmer than it was _mmer. But if I can get my sche work it will make no dit with p ple who live in ment houses. Y krew how ercwded the average apartmes } of New York And you know th t who can take b out of ; the season. I pro- | to bring the sea to the tops of these ment h ever mind Moham: 1 the moun that. are several - sea water into the city, a a cided which T shall ad I think a compary of capit nt the old reserve | can pump it full of sea water | my const T fey able to rent a line vf | ee pipes. ees anwhile I go on constructing huge | i lensin on the top of tall buildings, | om ere iment houses. The tanks would feelin most of the same dime in widtn | Mighty and length as the roofs, but not arily ast of ed very deep. I would have a ae Fam f around the tank. And this could Uways s proved according to the whim pock« heok of the man who owned the building Some of these promenad nt be pretty. Little islands mi constru mountain cits even rid here and there in. the wrding to |is danzerous, for the single the caprice and finance’ of the | twisis and winds for mile owner, Imagine s' “trically | roughest in the world, t lighted about the promenade, and the litle | level stretches o1 more islands twinkling and the ‘several occu- in all its length. A port pants of the ater. a deep chasm, th of wank, in this | roars one of the mountain torrents wh t I would do with the | help to make the great Rio de # You have not asked it, but | Another remarkable I have in my mind, T know | town is that fully f of ing to ask it. That is where I | have lived of late years in patent. I pump it full of fresh | galleries which the miners h ee, Tam figuring on N: rk, [of the rock along th ct Nag not on Brookiyn—and when the water | their search for gold. The freezes there is your skating rink, real 4 Det watstor on top of your own home. Say! Think of ins of the sxe tpern it. sometim most cross tne w city which the people of Our havirg built for them will t t antithesis of the old o- e dire Mathematic alculations show that an iron ship ¥ per cent less than a Quaint Court Castoms. wooden one, and will carry 115 tons of eis cae cargo for every 1) tons carried a _ " wooden ship of the same dimensions, and] Though not imperious, her majesty is ® both loaded to the same draughi of wa rous upholder of old customs, ¢ ally SS in connection with court matters, One A 482-Pound Wheelman. int custom, dating from the time of the Fr hia Record, cond € ee, which is still observed, is A man weighing 482 pounds and mount-| that of solemniy announcing for t en's ed on a safety bicycle created quite a sen- | benefit at the dinner table the name of the sation in West Norris street last Tues- | cook who prepared ishes. Before cach day afternoon. When he dismounted at| course is partaken « jerk in waiting of 23d street to rest himself, a great crowd| the kitchen makes the formal anno} gathered around him and scarcely gave him | ment. Another ancient custom w room to breathe. He stood holding his | “\« 1 Keeps up Bs the sing of th : bicycle for a while, and when he Fa Pete sete Parse Mey fe the crowd wis increasing in size and that | gre supposed to know it, and these, besides, he was liable to be crushed, he ated | of course, the sover lord may to a near-by saloon and refreshed himself | or of Le nd the cons f the tow- with a cool glass of When he | er. The password is chosen quar emerged from the saloon 1 young men | after being signed by the queen is forw approached him and asked him his weight. | ed to the lord mayor and the uble of He told them that hi 5 tower. It is a quaint old custom r and claimed to } of the surring times of former earth. He fs a native and intends to stay in this city for some ae Sr Sees s time. Unkind Pa epee eearee ~— Sand as an Extinguisher. idence ‘ From Pops cience, ~ n Water will not inguish 1 : in osene oil, but dry sand will, 8 precaution to keep a box of it in some con- > : venient place to be ain an emergency. o t If’ th! is not at hand, the fi $s should © *Y be smothered by rowing some heavy rug, oolen substance or a damp towel over ‘The be in us