St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-17
SOME WHO ARE PROMINENT.

DR.. Richard Gundry, Maryland hospital for
the insane, Gainesville, is one of the distin-
guished men of the convention. He has been
superintendent of insane asylums at Dayton,
Athens and Columbus, o., and has been in
Maryland eight years. He has made the
study of insanity the medical speciality of his
life, and has obtained a great reputation as
an expert in treatment of the insane. He is
under medium height thick set, sandy chin
beard, Slightly bald in front, and dresses well.
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j. H. Mills of Thomasville, N. c., is one of
the noticeable men in attendance. He is
very tall and very large and very well built
with pleasant, sun-burned, square face,
bearing slight chin beard. His voice is as
heavy as lannon's roar, apparently issuing
from the depths of his boots, though not un-
pleasing. He is full of humor, with as much
horse sense to the cubic inch as the space
will permit and is one of those men who are
naturally humorous, and the first expression
before the audience caused laugh, though
he makes no attempt to be funny. He was
the one man in the conference last year
who came near defeating the prop
ositon to come to Minnesota this year,
DR.. Dana had set forth all the real and imag-
mary advantages of Minnesota for holding a
conference, charging on the progress already
made here in charatles and corrections and
the help it would give the state to bring the
conference here. Mr.. Mills, in his deep voice,
stated that the object of the conference was
to help those who needed help, not those who
were able to help themselves. Minnesota was
getting along all right ''But down in North
Carolina said he, "men were born in sin and
conceived in iniquity and would like to have
you come down and help us out.
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Ex-President and Mrs HAYES occupied
front seats. The former mistress of the
white house is a very matronly woman She
wears a brown silk dress with ruffie about
the neck, straw bonnet trimmed only with
brown and old gold ribbon. Her hair is
combed smoothly down over the temples, very
low, even reaching the eye brows Her face
is one to gain ones confidence instantly, and
iustities her history as good president Mr..
Hayes appears with his customary pleasant
face and affable demeanor. There is q slight
tinge of red about his nose, which his traduc-
ers state is not consistent with the temper
ance rules of the white house, and when he
speaks earnestly this tinge spreads over the
whole face They are the scynosures of the
conference.
A quartette of Wisconsin literary ladies
will be in attendance upon the conference
They are Hattie Tying Griswold, Sarah E.
Hobart, Mrs. Louisa Phillips and Miss Ella
Giles, all of these ladies are well-know n
writer's. Mrs. Griswold being perhaps the
most celebrated of the four.
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One can hardly look over the audience
without noticing the large, ia therly, gray
haired man in light linen coat, the right
sleeve of which is empty. 1t is Gen. NJ. M.
Bane of Washington Territory his home be-
ing Spokane Falls. He was formerly of
Ohio, and when he speaks there is no diff
Guilty in hearing him.
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President Neff, of Cincinnati, is a very
aristocratic looking gentleman, with a square
head bald over the top front to back, gray
hair and erayishwhite side whiskers of the
English cut. When presiding over the con-
ference Thursday evening he appeared in full
evening dress. He is one of those gentlemen
of the old school whose accurate courtesy is
not more marked than his kindness of heart.
One of his habits is to write all his business
letters in the third person, as "Mr. Neff's
compliments to Mr.. -, etc. He makes an
excellent presiding officer. Exactly at the
time appointed the conference is called to
order, and precisely on the minute it is adj
journed. clock is not more regular than
the development of the program under Mr..
Neffs gavel. He is quick to decide and bust
ness goes off rapidly.