The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-12-08

DAN LAMONT.
The intimacy and the friendship, al
most as close as that of Damon and
Pythias, which existed for years between
Mr., Tracy and ex-senator Platt is not
generally known. They were children to-
gether in Owego, played pranks on pass
ers by, played baseball in the same nine
and collaborated in writing campaign
songs when Mr.. Platt kept drug store in
Owego. Secretary Tracy has good many
political enemies in Brooklyn, his home,
but also many warm friends. His enc
mics accuse him of putting the patronage
of the Navy Department under the civil
service rules.
General Horace Porter's erect and sol
dterlv figIIre is famiiar in the great
building He is thirty years older than
at the battle of Chickamauga, and the
imperial is gray and time has touched
the fearless face here and there, but he Isl
the same popular gentleman, as quiet
and modest as though he had not beeIh
frequently mentioned in official reports
of battles for gallant and meritoriouB
services" as though he had never been
friendly, not to say the most affectionat9
relations with General Grant, who
trusted him as another self General
Porter is vice-president of the Pullmah
Palace Car company, and is well known
as one q the best orators in the country.
He can be as prolix in his speeches al
William M. Evarts or as short as pib
crust. He tells a story of a popular
chaplain in the Civil War "He always
preached" said the General, "with the
Bible in one hand and his watch in the
other, that while he preached of eternity
he might not be wholly oblivious to time. I"
wealthy But Ana BILE.
Darius o. Mills, worth perhaps twenty
five millions, the owner of the building,
and the fsther-in-la'~ o. Whitelaw Reid,
used to keep a small .otel in Hudson
River town and drove hack to the sta
tion for patronage He made a fortune
in mining stocks in San Francisco and an.
other in Lake Shore and other abroad
stocks in Now York The Mills building
cost him about $4,000 900, and he is sup
posed to make per cent. per annum net
from its rentals Some purse proud per-
sons worth not hundredth part of this
mans colossal fortune might learn les
son from his quiet, unpretending manners
and genuine affability. He is a bull on
Erie stock and is power at the Stock
Exchange when he wishes to be. He is
very popular in Wall street.
The Earl ef Beaconsfield said that the
relations between a public man and his
private secretary were the finest that could
exist between man and man. This un-
doubted fact is illustrated in the case of
Colonel Daniel s. Lamont in his relations
with Grover Cleveland No one man has
rendered that statesman higher service
than the former newspaper reporter. Mr..
Cleveland has said: II told Dan Lamont
that ] wouldn't 60 to Washington unless
he went with me. "
The salary OF the private secretary to
the president is S., 900 a year Colonel
Lamont could not afford to give his time
for that amount and Mr.. Cleveland ac-
cordingly paid him 5000 year in addi-
tion from his own salary Colonel La
mont is now at Aix-les- Bains France,
recovering from the effects of hard work
and insomnia To get rid of his sleep
lessness he got into the habit of taking
bromide of potassium and he is now suf-
fering from the effects of bromide poison
Ing He is thirtY-six years of age, five
feet eight inches in height, of rather
slight build, and has a thick, reddish
brown and bushy mustache and a retreat
ing forehead. His temperament is emf
nently diplomatic. Self control is his
one great law. Tennysons injunction is
"Self knowledge, self reverence, self CON
troll, and this hard headed young politi-
clan lives up to it vigorously. He is the
incarnation of shrewdness and discre-
tion.
There is not better informed man in |
the United States on State and National
politics than Colonel Lamont He is a |
practical student of politics not only in |
this State, but in many other States.
While in Washington William O. Whit |
ney singled him out as a man of unusual |
ability, and after Mr., Cleveland's defeat
he induced Colonel Lamont to become |
identified with the Metropolitan Traction |
which owns or controls numer- |
Gus street railroads in New York and |
other cities Of this country and ne is now |
president of the Houston, West Street
and Pavonia Ferry Railroad Company, |
and director in two other street railroad |
His ino6me is probably not
far from $50, 900 a year lie neither |
smokes nor drinks, and his only amuse-
ment is fishing He has fshed in every
trout stream in the Adirondacks. No
man lives who could have his services as
priXata seorntArv arain not even at tha