Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-24
7znwpITTyG OF PRESIDENTS,
,..rosting Collection Of Autographs
An interest," Files of the Senate.

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,,orov. March l5.-In the execu'
VS. @oa Of the Senate there are pre-
,, 1s o all the executive messages 5o Oh the the
Presla5n.~ ~ tbe Government. Though
ioana ..on referred to, some OF these docu-
not ol''n becoming worn, and recently
nen'S ,i a.T the Secretary of the Senate
caused tt s1io' view to preserving some Of
fleS' @ autographs in eaoln me
the Interests It appears from this col
BY hemIse!INoeoo,n o Of the Presidents, with
lection tll41 n, Of Washington and Je1er-
the e ,oII Id be marked above Oh Tor pen
son, %G nv a Civil Service Oomn ms ION
mansa3lP ot ~ first contribution to the col
WashlrgI ,boJies nominations for Judges,
lection elio and Attorneys for the districts
Marsha!TS' "a, al and New Jersey; and at the
Of OH 9e of the same documents are 'R Fd NOM
END o. ."I Il Thomas Jefferson Edmund GaN
n39oI1b and Samuel 0sgood Tor ora S e
Randolph ot @A Attorney-General and Post
tary Oh cc .n,o, respectively. The sigma
master-Uen .;tton in a fair legible hand,
I bicb would pass to-day ior 6nar o1 man Ent
w VII antireIy careless Of aPPeaIahGS?s' See
NOV . Sm, confidence enough I'D nus OWL
haNlhs lot tbe details OF penmanshlp take
.aro of themselves. ,.:,,+,,,o ,,.;th
Nj, gor but his economy of space was
easy s Mat his documents as a whole fall
Sn CIV r tSo present standard of clerical eX-
% 1,n,s He wrote most OF his messages
NTH his own hand. -,
VIM In al Of John Adams signatures the
all letters are more than half an inch
f Sn,,' In his message of July 2, 1898,
dominating Washington to be Lieutenant
General. an unsuccessful attempt appears
- have been made to write the whole
Soonmpnt on the same ample scale.
Mr. Madison wrote an irregular hand,
devoid of marked peculiarltles.
Mr. Monroe used a coarse pen and wrote
hestatingly. .,
Andrew Jackson's first message, dated
March 6. 1929. is an autograph document
throughout. and more than any other
one of the series its style seems charac-
tpristic of its author. Its letters are an
cular and unsymmetrical, but they are
pGble. and there is an air OF self-assertion
about the document which eliminates in
the emphatic understanding Of the sigma
ture.
Martin Van Bwen's hand was unsteady
when he penned his first message, but he
wrote better the next day.
James X. Folks contribution to the
collection is an autograph message penned
in what would be taken for feminine
hand, yet with few OF the graces of pen
manship. His autograph is rather pre-
tentious, with row OF dots and several
Gamped fourishes beneath it.
Harrison's and Tyler's signatures have
no distinguishing characteristics.
Taylor and Lincoln each wrote firmly
and legibly, but with extreme simplicity
and without any superfous marks. Mil
lard Fillmore's signature is very similar
tOtheirsin character, but rather smoother
James Buchanan's hand trembled when
he signed his first message, and he made
aiailure OF the elaborate scroll-work at
nchment to his first initial. Franklin
Fierce wrote a sprawling, schoolboy sig
ature. Andrew Johnson started fairly
On the line, then fell little below it, but
recovered himself at the end.-NelU York
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