The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18
pENMANsHIp OF STATESMEN.
How some of the senators Write Their
Names.

ttow Some of the senators Write Their
Names.
The mania for autographs prevails at the
capital, and each day you may see the page
boys of Congress running from Representa-.
tive to Representative, and from Senator to
Senator with long moroeco-covered books
in their hands asking each man for his auto
graph. Most of the great men give a scratch
of the pen willingly, and some write little
pieces of poetry or Yours truly" in adj
dition to their names. Some put the date
and the town, county and State where they
reside, while others merely write their
names in the shortest possible way. These
albums do not belong to the pages The
boys arc paid by strangers and others 50
apiece, for carrying them around. Some
times they belong 10 Congressman, and
when Senator Tabor, of Colorado, was here
he created II sensation, by taking about his
own album 10 his brother Senators. This
looked rather foolish to the other statesmen,
but still there is q great deal in autographs,
and some men can tell more of the character
| Of Il person from his Handwriting than from
his photograph. / am now looking over
one Of these books, which was left in the
press gallery for the signatures of the cor
respondents. 1t belongs to the eorrespon-
/ dent OF n Baltimore paper, and is to go TO
la.ly friend OF his in California He tells
Inc ii has already cost him $15 to get the
| signatures, and that he has been two Years
IN doing it.
| The characters of some of the Senators
may be seen in their autographs. Lucius
Qnintius Lamar writes as though lie were 6
monl in some old monastery of the fifteenth
century. The letters are small and neat,
| and na,ie in the mp and down strokes in
vogue before Spencer invented his curves
Wa loops. 1t i4a scholarly hand, and is
warmer, think. than that of George Frisbie
lioar's, which stnuds upon the paper as
cold rs Massachusetts, aud rs reserved rs
Boston, without period or y redundant
| flourish, aal abbreviated Mt every point.
| The haad of David Davis ia as heavy as
himself. r. uses blue ink and punctuates
profuselN, Howell jackson. Of Tennessee.
writes an oidlime hand. Senator Puph. of
Alabama scfihles ia acute angles, and Isham
q. Harris throws his about boldly as though
he knew the government was paying for the
ink. John A. Logans signature takes up
| half n page, and il is ike nothing outside
Of tho hiaroglyphics in the subterranean
tomb OF III. II is as bold and aggressive as
Logana own character aud he closes it with
n doshing curve half as big as the sword
which he carried during the wnr.
! Senator Edmunds has also an illegible
/ signature, but it looks more like the sign on
9 Chinese tea box than the Egyptian scrawl
OF Logan Senator Fry writes his name,
State and date without taking his pen from
tho paper, an emblem Of quickness on the
part of the Senator. Camden, of West
Virginia, and Jones, of Florida, have the
same style of handwriting, and ingalls,, of
Kansas, Ransom, Of North Carolina,
Bnyard, of Delaware, and little General
Hale, of Mime, oil use up-and-down strokes
md write as if they were not ashamed Of
their names. Senators Sherman, Vest and
Angns Cameron all have small, finely writ
ten signatures, but Voorhees, writes with
bold goose quill flourish o clustering hand,
md Ben Harrison evidently uses steel pen.
Philetus Sawyer, tho millionaire, of Wis
consiu, prints his signature Warner Mil
Ter uses n goose quill Plum of Kansas,
writes u hand which would delight the old
printers who SGT type for him when he was
edith a country newspaper, and Senator
Seweli, of New Jersey, uses more ink than
my other man in the Senate.
McSlillon,, Of Minnesota, puts long
flourish under his signature, and pens his
letters in bold, straight strokes. Van Wyck,
Of Nebraska, has signature like II green
school boys, and his letters nre half like
capitals and hale sm,Il letters He puts his
residence in all his autographs and gives
the day and ,lllle OF his writing. Eli S,us-
| bury writes on ~ straight line across the
page and he evidently has a Mathematical
/ eye. Senator Tabors signature is the best
thing about him. Senator Garland Of
Arkansis, writes like copperplate, and sena-
tor Call, OF Florida, has n whiplike flourish
| under his name which looks rs though Il
maiden's hand had penned it. German, of
/ Maryland, writes big, bold hand. It is
/ the fist of q baseball player and o man in
sound physical condition. Hill, of Colora-
do, writes we'll; but tho autographs of
Beck aud jos Brown look rs IL they were
scrawled of with the wrong end OF a goose
quill
Take the Senators ali in all and they are
as good q set Of penmen as you will find in
any body of the kind. They write, as a
rule, palmer than the members Of the House,
somo of whom can hardly read their own
writing - lereaBd HereM.