The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-13
NAMES AND FACES IN MEMORY.
James c. Blaine. Simon Cameron, and the
Hotel Hat Men.

hhotCt MT
T, nm y, tho hir hotels at Old Point Comfort
there ia cmnIoved n midd,e.aged colored man
vho ar.,., GOD solory h.corss NJ bis romarr.
ahle memory for faces He attends 70 the hat
r.ct th., .t.,a. In the hal, AZ IN. entrance m
The hig dlning room. Az the men mass In 10
breakfsst or lunch or dinner thew hand their
hats to George without any anxiety as to its
Sav,' II 1 If thew s~I sap Deen to o. be sI newcomers con- thew are
apt to hesitate a moment before intrustine a hat
without any check to a man who may have a
hundred mats on the rack oack OF MN. Inelr
hesitation doesn't bother George. He knows
mat they WIN ses over !. ai.er 'hey nave gone s
'niouSn II op,i"',on '0'o,ai INV
ceived their own hat back each time.
to am nntr,incs nerson # would seem almost i'm.
p @Sa to fir the hat to the man correctly each
time. George says that it is a matter of nero
n-.c,;o. ". nloces The man Who Gives him .
hat by some popularity in dress or features, and
then he connects this popularity with the make.
.ty. ana colon ~ m. h,, and With the Mac. IN
s,le' ana Color Oh the nat anu WIN .he place
tho rack where heputs II. "hen the man walks
out Of the dining room George meets him with
III !" YEAR! eH '" II tAtse une
winter resort hotels employ such men for this
m1s "a ~. auor ". go 'pa. th;s oo,.
~ l had tne memory LOT faces that this COL
okCo 1lah hhos colo II o VA HSN
eral years ago. ct should not have been defeated
o., Co,n.a.., a, ,hI. L., .,.,,i,n uauorv ,or
y Sohst"e' Al 'uis inss eiee.ioh- GAIN wi
faces and names 10 o most valuable gift to O man
IN public life. and Il really IN a Gift with, some
- ~. .,.1 - .o,ui,. $500 ,.r,, T
Won' Sioo se4ui'
have offended more constituents whom ] ought
to have known By being unable to recoenizo
them Than / have 81 nny act In ConRrees.
No nan In public life OF his Time was moro
famoup for rem embor names and fares than
Jamoa a. blaine. and he we'll knew the value OF
thia faculty. Probably a good many Of tho
atoriea thnt arc fold Of Biaipe'a remarkable
memory Tor names and faces are eIaReerated,
but ali men who ever knew him can vouch for
two or three storiea. each from their own ex.
periences- They can tell Of men who met Mr.,
Blaine casually at receptions and then met him
eeyeral years afterward. when Mr.. Blaine not
only remembered their names and faces. but re.
recalled Inc occasions on which he had met them.
Nearly twelve years ago a Young man who
had iust joined the SIAN OF a New York news
paper was assigned to interview Mr.. Blaine,
WHO had come 10 New York for a few DAYS. Mr..
blaine was always an approachable man for
renort.rs and his knowleds e OF newspaper WORK
and his wide ncouaintance with newspaper men
belped him 10 estimate very Justly the results
Thai were likely To follow any interview that he
might give He looked over this Young man
was. With the ne Newspaper men whom be knew
Mr.. Blaine FREQUENTLY talked confdentially. He
once said that his confdepce on such occasions
had never been Violated. With new men he
was exceedingly cautious. Mr.. blank was a
younS man az sense. and he frankly told
and then he asked him II he wouldn't say some
thing about the weather or his vacation plans
or any other subject that he Thought could be
handfed nv an nerneriepcs IA renorter without