Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-14

them using Ii in connection with the hank
notes. My fathers face was on the bills
and did not care to have mine there as
well. 1t seemed to me very bold In that
they took the picture and had the ensrav-
Ing made without my knowledge"
She Talks of Her Father.
Your fathers face was printed on the
one-dollar bills, was 1t not?"
Yes, they wanted him to allow Il to 90
on the thousand-dollar bonds, but he said
he preferred the dollar notes. and said that
it was his sole ambition to give the United
States such currency that the dollar of
the laboring man and the dollar of the cap
italist would be an honest dollar from Maine
TO Georgia. He succeeded in doing this
and his success as Secretary Of the Treas
ury will be one of the wonders Of history.
When he had borrowed his first $4,000 900
of the New York banks the London Times
said he would not fare SO well across the
water. Nevertheless he raised millions in
London. and he was bound that there
should be money enough to carry on the
war. He succeeded in getting ii in all sorts
OF ways. At one time when the New York
bankers refused to give him money on his
own terms he threatened to return to
Washington and issue notes. He said at
this time. that the war must go on until
the rebellion was put down II we had to
put out paper to such an extent that 1t
would take thousand dollars to buy q
breakfast"
salmon p. Chase's Diary and Papers.
L asked Mrs. Chase as to her fathers bio
graphy. which she is writing. She replied:
Il can't tell how soon 1t will be done nor
just in what shape 1t will be published.
My father left a mass of valuable material
he was one of the most methodical men 1
nave ever known and he kept everything
His letters are full of unwritten history
and they cover more than a generation OF
important events and of famous men He
kept full memoranda of everything con-
of..I -fr1 n a Ill
how to make his secretaries keep things
for him. Every night just before he went
to bed he jotted down the occurrences of
the day and he thus left a record Of the
important conferences that he had while
he was in public life All the cabinet
meetings that he attended while he was
Secretary of the Treasury are thus record
ed. and his diary gives in a nutshell the
history of his time. 1t will have to be
edited carefully, as will indeed all of the
papers l had a call not long ago from an
ola friend of my fathers who lives In Ohio
and he told me that he had a manuscript
dutobiography which my father had given
MIN IN trust to be published after his
Qeath. This he said he would send to me-
i don't know what it is. but should think
IL might be of great value"
In what condition are these papers of
Chief Justice Chaser asked
Ihey are all carefully stored away" re-
pneu IrS. onase- The most important Of
large amount of them have been sent to
1, There Is a man connected with
harvard College. Prof Hart, who is writ
Ing biography Of my father for the States
man Series. This will necessarily be short,
and II cannot go into detail like the work
which l have in view"
Shief Justice Chase in History,
What do you think OF your fathers Mace
In history? Does the world of today know
him as he was?"
1T does not" replied Mrs Chase. ct be-
'lieve the time Will come when his ,ro-l-
Will be appreciated. He was one of the
noblest and the greatest of men and he
sacrificed himself to a large extent TO his