The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-16

81 INC rrlOJr come mere IN search OF lame
and fortune. And of all the great men 0f
Gotham who now fill the public eye rot
one Is born New Yorker
have interviewed 100 people during
the past fortnight with "a view of ascer-
tanning if possible who is New York :
brainiest man. / selected the best judges
of human nature, men who should be able
TO gauge pretty accurately the abilities OF
their fellow men. They were newspaper
men, lawyers, politicians, bankers, brokers
and bonifaces. There was great diversity
of opinion and the hundred talesmen Sc
lected something like % candidates. Sen
ator David i. Hill was not balloted for as
ne is an up country man and not a resident
New Yorker. Here are the nominations:
Chauncey Nj. Dcpew, John a. Mccall,
Thomas G. Platt, Joseph II. ChOate, Will
liam G.. Whitney, Henry Clews Robert G..
Ingersoll, James g.. Carter, DIR. Charles II.
Parkhurst, Charles a. Dana, Joseph Pu-
liter Whitclaw Reid, James Gordon Ben
nett, Frederic r. Coudert, William r.
Grace. PierpOnt Morgan, Leslie W. Rus
sell, William NJ. Evarts, Ex-Governor
George II. Hoadley, DR.. Edward McGlynn,
Russell Sage, Bourke Cochran and Richard
Croker, eI-king of Tammany Hall.
A Brilliant Quartet.
-Four candidates led all the rest by a de
cisive majority. Strange to say, each had
~ voteS-4S out of u possible 100. This
brilliant quartet We're Chauncey NJ. De
pew, statesman, orator, wit, lawyer and
railroad magnate; John a. Mccall, presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, litterateur, fnancier and great cor
porate organizer; Thomas G.. Platt, great
est of living politicians and most success
full of business men, and Henry Clews,
keenest and most farsighted of Wall street
har TanlffIninn ha hnG
1ense OF the word) and public spirited citi-
zen. These four men came the nearest,
IN that they possessed the genius
which commands all the faculties" Rob
ert O. IngersOll, who with William c.
Whitney, ranked next to the 'big four
in voting strength (they received nine and
eight ballots respectively, was designated
rs the greatest living orator. William G.
Whitney was pronounced n man of many
splendid qualities of head and heart, but
what he lacked most were firmness and self
reliance. 1t was pointed out in the ballots
how Grover Cleveland dominated Whitney
when the latter was secretary of the navy,
from 1885 TO 1889, something he could not
do with Depew, Mccall, Clews or Plat
They would boss him were they in his
cabinet. Choate, Carter, Coudert, Evarts,
Russell and Nicol were voted astute law
yers whose mental energies were all bent
IN one QlFctIlOD. CIdTleS a l)dIld, W llllt-
law Reid, Joseph Pulitzer and James
Gordon Bennett were adjudged great edi-
tors, whose aggrcSsiyeness, sterling honesty
and unbending will would prevent their
succeeding as politicians, diplomatists or
statesmen. DIR. ParkhurSt and DIR. Nc
Glynn were viewed as brainy, brave men,
with n zeal like unto that of Peter the
Hermit, the first crusader; Thomas ByrneS
was aptly pictured as the greatest detective
who ever lived, with an almost infalliblc
insight into human nature, and Croker.
Grace and Cochran rs the most discerning
OF politicians, who knew Il good thing
when they saw it. All of these mems men
tai energies, however, are bent in one di-
rection. They have not the 'all around
ability OF the ''brainy four The big
four, - whom the picked voters by an equal
ballot proclaimed the brainest quartet in
Gotham, are pretty well known through
out this broad domain. All of them, odd
y enough, possess strong points in COM