The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-02
CALLERS BY HUNDREDS
Senator Hanna's Door Bell Is Al
ways Going.
NOT A METHODICAL MAN
Is FOND OF GOOD LIVING, BUT
DRINKS SPARINGLY.
Never Makes Speeches, Never Chan
ges His Mind, Never Loses His
Nerve and Never Reads Books
Likes Whist and the Theatre
Hobby Is Lots of Company.

Hobby Is Lots of Company.
The most overworked piece of me
chanism in all Washington is Senator
Hanna's doorbeil., Scarcely a day
passes that it is not set ringing at leas
$50 times, and often and again, between
breakfast and bedtime, it announce;
the arrival of the two hundredth caller
No man in Washington, except tbs
president, receives as many callers.
Senator Hanna,s abiding place II
| Washington is the Arlington hotel, anC
ms rooms are on the ground floor of al
annex, which was once a private house
A colored man in the livery of the hote
| is appointed to guard the street door
and of the ten score callers whose card
he receives every day, not more thar
fifty or seventy-five succeed in obtain
ing an audience. Many call, but few
are chosen. To give heed to the speech
of even fifty persons in one day, how
ever, is no small thing. Only a mar
trained as Senator Hanna has beer
from boyhood in business methods anC
endowed with a remarkable executive
ability could accomplish it. 1t is the
penalty of being in the confidence Of q
president, for Senator Hanna is nearer
President Mckinley than any other
man in the land.
Senator Hanna is a business man.
first, last and always. He is polite in
business. business-like in politics. He
eXacts business methods from all with
whom he comes in contact With none
of his callers does he waste either time
or words. Nothing pleases him more
than direct, concise and to-the-point
statement of a case, but his official, po-
litical face is the face of a sphinx: MOI
line nor a muscle of it ever betrays
what he is thinking, nor an expression
even tells whether he is pleased or dis
pleased. He is an unerring judge of
men, and when he thinks a man worthy
of confidence, he is unreservedly COM
municative but with his average caller
he is as sponsive as a craven i'm
age.
HANNA NOT METHODICAL.
Although he accomplishes great
deal in a day, Senator Hanna is not a
methodical man. He has no fixed plan
of daily life. He is not an early riser.
He breakfasts at 9, and breakfast is to
him the chief meal of the day, for he
says that he does not feel that the day
is properly begun unless he has break
tasted well. His morning meal is a
invariable item on his bill of fare. He
has always been blessed with a fair APP
petite, and although by no means an
epicure, he is fond of good living. He
likes sweets. Coffee he drinks sparinS
ly, and in regard to alcoholic liquors he
is extremely abstemious. He is very
fond of good cigar, but smokes only
moderately.
Immediately after breakfast he re-
turns to his reception-room, and callers
are admitted. Some of them are the
characteristic office-seekers of the cap
ital. Some of them come to him on
matters connected with the national
Republican committee, of which he has
been chairman since 1896. Some of them
call because they fancy that to have
the ear of the Ohio senator is to have
the ear of the man in the White House,
a long stones throw across the park.
Some of them have business with him
which concerns some one of the almost
innumerable commercial enterprises.
shipbuilding, lake carrying, banking,
railroad, mining and what not, in
which he is interested, and some of
them come to him for reasons which
few who know Mr.. Hanna only as a
skillful and determined politician ever
guess. His friends say that he is one
of the most open-handed and charitable
of men, and that he never turns a deaf
ear to any honest story of suffering.
He has been an active member of a.
number of charitable organizations,
and his private charities are carried on
without regard to society or creed.
At 100 ne drives to the capitol. He
enjoys thoroughly the part of the day
he spends there. He never makes
speeches. Almost the only public ad-
dress of his on record is the one he
made in Chicago, during the last presi-
Dental campaign. 1t was brief, force
full and unadorned. Senator Hanna s
work in the senate is done in the COM
mittee rooms, and not on the floor of
the senate chamber. He makes other
men do his talking for him. He prefers
to be the power behind the throne. In
comparison with senate orators. with
Senator Wolcott, for example, Senator
Hanna is as the engineer, deep in the
bowels of a man-of-War, to the gold
laced captain on the bridge. He does
not seek for applause. and he cares not
rap for criticism. He knows exactly
what he wants, and as he never changes
his mind, never loses his nerve and
never gives up, he always gains his
point in the end.
FOND OF OPERAS.
He reaches home after his day in the
senate only in time to dine. After din
ner he has usually some special engage
ment, for he is undisguisedly fond of
society. He is fond of the theatre, AMI
enjoys the lighter operas. In Cleveland
he is owner of the opera house which
is a pet hobby of his. He gives it a
great deal of attention, and all its
bookings are subject to his approval.
When he is in Cleveland he never fails
to appear at the theatre. with Mrs,
Hanna. every Monday evening.
For books he has no great liking. IN
the days when he was not quite so busy
he used to read a great many light
novels for relaxation Now he finds
time for nothing but the newspapers, of
which he reads a. great many, and a
few of the magazines. He is extremely
fond of whist, and plays exceedingly
well. For horses he does not care at
all. He takes no interest in outdoor
sports. He does not fish or hunt nor
play golf, but does like yachting. Travel
is a rest and relaxation to him, and the
trip he made last year to the Yellow
stone delighted him so much that he
proposes to repeat it as soon as he can
spare the time.
He is a vestryman in the Episcopal
church, although he is not a member
of any denomination. He says of him
self that he is Quaker, for his grand
parents we're Of that faith.
HANNA'S ONE HOBBY.
Mrs. Hanna says that he has but one
hobby. and that is the entertaining OF
his friends The Hanna home, Glen
mere, is only four miles from Cleve-
land, on a high bluff overlooking the
lake. The name is one the senator had
a share in choosing, for he said he
wanted a name that meant something.
and in the eight acres of his grounds
there is a glen sufficient to justify the
first half of the name. The Glenmere
dining room seats twenty-four. and