The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1903, Page 12

By J. 1 & Clarke 1 States has shown & woB~ 1 ty for absorbing and as- he most diverse factors of erican citles. in numbers— ing to Mat- power of and the long= Hither they enter the great ng purses to come 1\ Fair—of ones or given of thelir gray ks to the feeding pose. 3 the lit- i s eir exit ¢ c nerves nen and great digests a mil- per king Paul's they half million of o CARLISIE tripls consclousness. He wasneatand well, even fashionably groomed, too, as a man who sees no need of taking on the “formal at is supposed to come with years, iraie one rusts to a certain point of fash- and n er changes his coat, collar or necktie after. =0 high above ordinary Gotham, well-lighted room, furnished in t a flat top desk, “‘the seemed quite at ease. tter of choice with me.,” g a A Reed, with a touch of natural e e. “I left Congress and my place wag casons of my own. 1 was not “Lawyer” Reed and His Contentment agree with the course that others t on. He was too loyal a Repub- ake trouble; he was too self-re g to submit, and so—he went to ractice law in New York. ’ o Secretaryship of the Never did there seem a more compla- cent, rosy looking exile from Washington 8 The p and political refugee, as he wheeled h . al w the eyes chalr and looked out over a sunlit section of road street and Ex How the ey flowed this way end nod; how offictal- a rs and brokerdom d for a wiggle of his his long publie nifold opportunities t meant to say y. No doubt, de- e of McKinley in e in Kentucky was the greater at then? 4 fresh on ne back from Washing- Supreme Court busi- t emotion. P salary that is not n is s bad in one nother. I like New e £ One does miss the " £ e you meet, the buoy- nd one. No, there of the Nortl River, seen as in a frame between two gicyscrapers to the west. He looked as if he owned tho picture and was glad of it. It would indeed be & delightful thing if officials of a certain & £ who succeeded a man, at the end of a long public ser- " a few blocks vice, could be insured at the public ex- s R We were always great friends. pense against poverty for the rest of his Ye practicing law in New life, but we don't do that, he Yor once sald. Our public salary scheme ery = e and straightforward and s not meant for accumulating old with & slight pa touch about it that age pensions. Some salaries suffice e tall ar rteous Kentuckian, dig- for the time; others do not—Cabi- commanding net and diplomatic positions, for instance. wit se, W d be the last to desire There a man needs an Income outside his € ry; he must not only want the place, ( off one’s hat to- b be able to afford it and it pinches ¥ be is met in the some of them. The rent of a suitable dor e 6 house will eat up $5000 out of his $3000 a Speaker “Tom” Reed in the Whirl. year. And if the salaries were as Kentucky Senator taken up fn hIgh as they ought to be theres might be c? That was worth &/l §0rts of a scramble for them. »mes forth into Broad "I described once how & man going Into lo! another face and office could come out fairly well off, but e before one not so long 2go volved & legal process, and should st figure and portly, and there not be quoted, for it is patented. Ne, I ere end there from men hur- never practiced it.” the wh rying 1o and fro. You followed the figure Mr. Cleveland practiced law in the in- a glant bullding on the opposite s terim of Presidencies, and why not Mr. e sireet. Down the marble hall he Reed between Speakerskips or—something elevator, and up, uUp, up to higher. No; that is all over. trafl of enother former No matter how buoyant a man may be, se of Representatives, When he pronou that phrase the cor- perhaps since Blaine— mers of his lips are apt to drop a trifle. ced—or more familiar- i. In an instant, however, Mr. * Reed. d was 100King Speaker of t the most © Thomas Bracke ly. loving s 1f he hardly believed There was & is “grand climact- he had sald with such apparent €ol. eric”—that i5. in bis sixty-third year—but Viction. Such are the freaks lof desires as fresh and round-faced as 8 baby, the Cancing before hard facts sume twinkie 2s ever in his dark, heavily It is only a good stone’s throw from the 18ded « merry, mocking and serious fcot of the big building to Willlam street, all at ence who has looked at where the oiber Kentucky Senator was der the stress of a o be found, but up where Nassau street ccmes into Wall street one secs a coupe turn up and a well-knowrr face appear at the window. 1s soon ended, and a former United States alights, goes up a few mar- ble steps quite leisurely and is greeted on deference of the well trained officials of the big finan- clal establishments. Its journey This deference, combining a consclousness of the presence with strict attention the business in hand. with marble flooring and partitions and partitions are scen an army of clerks operating on big is the Morton Trust as a bee in clover time with huge transactions—transfers, merg- ers, holding companles,” what not—where- It is a great room account books. ers passing to and fro with, profit to all concerned. cannot waik room as you wouid drop the Archery road. gray garbed private policemen who send to some one else; voung man with dark eyes who loaks at you and disappears; a tall man who uncs- looks you over. into the president's tentatiously being well) you enter a bank parlor where very suave gentleman y a desk, as becomes the digni- TEVL B NORTON ty of the nead of such a formidable fluan- cial Institution, but you look in vain for the piles of papers, the account books, the crammed pigeonholes which youassociate (In novels) with the great business man. You observe pen and ink, and possibly he has notepaper: that is all. Life as a trust company president might be one long summer afternoon under the greenwood tree. for all you sce around him of the paraphernalia or the cares of business. That is all kept on the other side of the door: but the active mind behind the face of Mr. Morton. which smiles pleasantly as if 1t had nothing to do but smile, is the managing factor of all the bustle that the others are making. It does not strike one that the former presiding officer of the Senate of the Urited States, the former Governor of New York, the former Em- bassador to Paris, the ‘man who ‘sat In Congress twenty-three ycars ago, is any- where as oid as the biographers make him were true he would be 8 Iis clean shaven face is fresh of skin. if finely lined: his eye Is bright, with apparently pleasant thoughts. Ilis dress beilrays the exactness of the man with a treasure of a valet. Perhaps you remember him when he was a figure in Congress. and he wore long, waving whis- kers of the Dundreary type, which joyous crnaments he left in Paris, and then you note a difference. “To m he says, “the offices 1 fllled were alwars pleasant experiences, enjov- ed at the time and looked back to with enjoyment now. middie age when T went to Congress, and it was a varlety and, in a sense, a rest. My stay In Paris, too, I enjoyed exceed- ingly. As Governor? time, but also a great and enjoyable va- And so of the Vice Pr ' Reviews Public Life. Tt gives one—does it not?—a sense of the normal mental activity big banking houses to hear ene talk of public ®ervice as would of an excursion to Dingley Dell t One is sure that alse a New York banker, looked on his public life in mucn But he took pleasure, as with something of the rush of a locomotive whirring through a Morton’s mo- tion gives one the idea of a landeau on an asphalted boulevard with lines of leaty elms at either side. “From the time when 1 was a bo country store till T was fifty-five, | never thought of entering politics, and then it came my way without seeking it nol very competent standpoint of the political man who finds himself suddenly ‘cut of it' and beginning the world again.” None of the chagrin of that moment of [ was well in That was a busier of the heads of the hawthorn the same way. well as business, for Great jtatesmen JOEN a W GRIGGS parting had come to Mr. Morton. Pol- ftics was the Interlude between one hand- ling of millions and another—always re- turning from it refreshed to the neig borhood of Wall and Nassau streets As you depart you carry with ou the sense of shrewd content and the kindly outlooksof 8 man who for value received finds, with Candide, that “everything Is for the best In this best of worlds.” Another Kentuckian of Note. Now up more flights In an elevator and with shelves of buff-bound law books and a high outlook over the East River you hegin to combine a great form of a man a couple of inches over six feet and proportion—Wil erously broad Lingsay. former Judge and Senator from Kentucky. He, too, is clean sha he has the easy carelessness of attire of the thinking, easeful man, whose crown of white hair bears out the almanac when it says he is sixty-seven. A cheerful, mel- low soul allows him to be kindly to the stranger, whom he makes comfortable on a great lounge. “I don't know what others may think, out T have had all I want of {36 United Btates Senate. Eight years in the Ken- tucky Court of Appeals and as long in the Senate about filled the requirements. I dop’t know anything pleasanter than the Benate. There is the right atmos- phere, the gense of universal considera- tlon. It is high air, but one must live pritty high and the salary must be back- ed with something else easily realizable. Then, when it is all over, unless one 1s a banker, like Mr. Morton, there is the problem of a new and private committee on ways and means. With me it meant law practice in New York “Of course, a man would be less than human, or more than human, if he did not feel the loss of the perpetual personal recognition that comes to a man of any prominence tn his homeland, but he must face his question without qualms and solve It like a man. After the broad life of Washington the choice of where he will practice law is easily decided in fa- vor of New York. Here is where the great battles and the great prizes are. If you look over a nelghbor’s fence in this reglcn he is.as like as not counting mil- lions, and naturally”— The Senator smiled out the rest of it in a way that was worth a world of speech. Big. powerful. brainy man. he had the philcsophy of the great magnet in a nut- shell. recalling Tennyson's “Northern Farmer Dean't marry fer money, But zca wheer money Is One leaves him with regret king out over the East River and chuckling. As you depart you read of* Linds Kremer, Kalisch & Palmer on the door as at the seat of custom for all kinds of law. How they run in cacophonous fours! You may dig them out of almost every office bullding. these Senators. Gevernors. Cabinet members, Congre: <m@.—‘.—-? i in the Manhattan maelstrom. ants in great ant hills, scarcely recognlz latoms their fellow a who have b their lives. 2 Attorney General John W Grigs was lawyer, AssemblyT 3 and Governor in New dent McKl1 called avin has been practicing 5 f eet rince his n z street since g | & nclusions t, twe years you than Mr. Grigss, the light of postypoll s up ever so many No street and find you ach - Railroad fces marked N There, in the presi lttle man, quletly ge shrewd, looking at ¥ eyes, who was a journal Union College, then pri Mr. Cleveland when he wa so when President f When the second ter into the chair of f War and held It down 8o su that his return to p ate life meant open gates to fortune, which he forthwith entered and made himself at home. James E. Campb was Governor of Ohlo ten years ago, after six years fn Con- gress, and he has found his way into the Jaw In New York. He is 50 years old, with the activity of 29, and hangs out his sign with the rest, Frank S. Black, who stepped out of the Governor's chair at Albany to yleld it/to has also given up life > n for business purposes and has hung up his shingle as & lawyer at No. 149 Broadway. Two ¥ s in Con- gress and two years in the Governorship have probably concluded his public servics for some time to come Other Great Men Now Hidden. Got only in the heart of financial New 1e former foremost public serv- N ants to be f Thomas L. James, our greatest New York Postmaster and Garfleld’s great Postmaster General, gives his kindly pres- ence and his fund of information to those dent of the Lincoln Forty-second street, es of the Van secur 1 quarter to quarter He smiles con at the rem r mal a the right & ) v K na a w a s so, W his beautiful w he inhabits a ro mansion at Princeton, N. J., and lectures law at the an occupation more ity of the altered situation during the years that follow one's stepping out of the glow of tha Whits House, whether from the Presi dent's room or the Cabinet parlor But the former President loves to to New York, for no matter what ma of repose one finds In a university here In New York Is the 1if the stir, the power and the human hum De not, therefors, be s turn about the sub-treasury if, after r ning across any or all of the others men tloned heretofore, you should r Mr. Cleveland p & a moment to look up at the statue of Washington —_—— THE CZAR'S AUTOCRACY. No one can grasp the fundamental state of things in Russta without realizing that there the will of the Czar 1s as the will of God. His land and h!s subjects are his, to dispose as he may. In a Russian batile not so long ago, the artillery ) tively needed In front, was stopped by a deep ditch. The soldiers flung themselves fn until the ditch was fu Sery galloped over thelr bod I the world of bu s it is quite the same. A Russian administrator was dis eussing with Henry Norman the militar capabilitfes of the Trans- road and Norman sald *“Thers wouldn't be rolling stock enough to convey masses of troops In a rised as you ogniza verlan Ra rt time.” “Every engine and carriage In Russia wonld be put there If necessary,” was the answer. “But that would disorganize the whole commerce of the country and bring tens of tho nds to ruin.” “You don't v erstand,” said clal. “If the Czar gave the word to take every rallway carriage fn Russia and it across the Siberian Railroad and it into the China should prev e om run throw a at the end who 1t him ———— GREAT MEN AT PLAY When Dickens was in America. rea from his novels, he was in health and several times his ma George Doilby, feared that down. Perhaps the reason that he not break down was that his high s were 8o inexh le. He was able throw off care and Indulge In boyish like this prank in which he took a ing part At Baitimore Dickens and his manag d the Bost > publishers, James Flelds and J. R. Osgood, arranged a wa ing match betw Dolby and Osgood take place on r n to Boston the end of the t Dickens drew up and gave his gervic The articles 1 gned my (James T. Fiel asper (Dick ens) and the ompetitors, the May of Ross (Dolby) and the Boston Bantam tJ. R7 Osgood) The “Great International Walking Mateh™ over the tweive-mile course was won by the Boston Bantam. Dicken wrote a_“sporting narrative” of the event After the race they all dined together. with Dickens in the chalr.