The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-15
DEPEw,s son AND HEIR.
The Youngest Guest at the Recent
Harmony Dinner.

New York Mail and Express.
The youngest guest at the recent harmony
dinner Of DR.. Depew has thus far escaped
enesse S'' se much Ia" reeardine the sienicance
of that memorable function. And yet he
may be presidential candidate some day.
Depew. jr.. once. but no longer. known as
Buster and this was his first appearance
at a state dinner.
Young Mr. Depew is tall. trimly-built
have deserved this introduction to the as
semblage Of statesmen by his own re-
Of presidential messages and party plat
forms has not escaped his studious atten-
ton, and he has even made comparative
study of the Mckinley and Wilson tarif
acts When his distinguished father needs
a quotation from either of those much-de-
bated bits Of legislation he can get it from
his son much quicker than from consulta-
ton of the documents themselves. More
over, young Mr.. Depew has taste for the
personal element in politics and has studied
inence. For this he has found unlimited
opportunity in the periodicals which burden
the ample study table where his father
work He has also found time to make
himself familiar with the histories OF this
and other countries.
Chauncey NJ. Depew. jr.. is as much
like his prugenitor as seventeen can look
like fifty-seven. He was born July Z. 1873.
Every summer since his fifth. Buster"
made the voyage to Europe with the family.
These trips and the instruction Of foreign
nurses and sovernesses have made MIN
very precocious in his knowledge OF other
tongues He speaks and reads French and
German as huently as English. and ne
has made considerable acquaintance with
the classics of the continental languages.
He has always been studious boy. apt
to learn and swift to assimilate Despite
his political, lingual and historical acquire
ments, which are quite beyond the list of
qualifications required to enter Yale Col
Iege. he is pursuing the usual course ,,, SEA, al
the venerable blue ribbon university two
years hence SO well prepared. If prognostics
are verified, that his course there Will be
as easy as he chooses to make IT,
quaintance among boys Of his own age.
Too much of his time has been devoted 10
his favorite studies and intellectual pur-
athlete on :h4 river, diamond. cinder path
or gymnasium. He. however. likes tennis,
and is especially fond of horses, and he
rides and drives well. He enjoys a joke
been so much the companion of his elders
that he is rather a receiver than a pur-
veyor of the quips and WITNESSES that make
the salt of life.
What with the young mans inheritance
of blood and breeding. the unusual acquire
ments which have already yielded to his
ambition and the exceptional opportunities
in which it may find a field, there is no
budding career. perhaps, which the Amer
lean public may watch with livelier inter-
est or more promising auguries of Sue
cess which shall be conspicuous. Not many
of the foremost Americans have had sons
able to live up to the full family stature
in the following generations. But nobody
will be disappointed to see the youngest
guest at the asserub.age of public men who
gathered about the table of DR.. Depew take
a foremost place in future convocations of
bodies of an equal prominence.