The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-05-07

has so many callers, and Ihe house is
So far uptown that he prefers the club.
I'm an his life Richard Croker has never
been accused of the pastime which IS
known under the generic term of 'firt-
ing" Ills stains nave been purely
those of politics for in his private no
moi n word has ever been brcathcd about
him. lie is intensely proud Of MIS-.
Croker. the big. handsome woman who
rules The mansion. and has for quarter
Of a century trusted her with his home.
his children and his fortune Other
bosses may be bosses in their own home,
but Richard Croker sits around and en-
joys himself al home, a guest of n0nor.
Mrs. Croker. too. is something of BUSH
rcss woman and knows She nature of
good investment as Well ms her husband
She is a woman of firm principle a.i Is,
ike her husband. a deVOut churcheOer. .
None of his children are married. on
this subject MI. Croker says.
II don't expect TO have The response
bnity Of a father-in-law for long time.
When ! am | hope my sons-in-law will he
mechanics, or at least men Thoroughly
versed I'm echanics for find that they
are shrcwd men and good citizens
''Piatt Of Tioga" is another sort %
man. Small. quiet. not very ailable but
possessing many friends. little inclined 10
show. a poor spender he holds the rcins
as firmly as ever aid Croker. The matter
was well expressed by Richard Croker
before Chairman Mozet: IL have got the
city. but ne has got the state
And Boss Plat has got The state. In
one evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
he sees more State leaders than most
men see fin a lifetime. They come miles
TO consult him and when they 20 away
Al. L.. .H Ffrn 40 .Hf
Thomas Collier Platt was born ON the
18th of July. 1883 at Oswcso. Tie received
an academic education i'm that city ana
later went TO Yale. but was unable 10
continue his studies at the University
on account of ni-heauh. One of the first
rceponsfble positions held by Mr.. Platt
was the Presidency Of the Tioga Ma
tlonal Bank. and later he was engaged
in numbering. i'm Michigan. His political
career began when ne was elected clerk
or the 1yoea County Court in 100, an
Office which he held for two years When
MS term OF county clerk expired MI
Platt was sent as representative from
New York 10 the Corty-third Congress,
and became prominent IN Washington
on account of his political procivities.
Unlike most politicians T. C.. Piau
profits nothing in money way from
his political Influence He works all day
in the offices OF the United States ia
press and az night goes home 10 dinner
like any other laborcr
Tor nearly twenty-five years Mr. Plat
has lived I'm the Fifth Avenue Hotel ana
for nearly that number of years he has
occupied the same suite Of rooms. lie
is % creature of habit and dislikes TO
move when once settled Every evening
lac stands in the same place in the lobby
and every evening he goes up 10 his
private parlors al the same hour,
T. c. Platt has a very cultivated wife
and an interesting family. IL IS said that
the two boys. Frank and Harry. or Ro-
muus ana Remus. as the Democratic
papers call them. are now Fronting from
the political bond business IN which they
are engaged. But when It comes down
10 the real matter how many businesses
are there in which politics cannot be
made 10 enter In one way or another?
The daily routine OF Nit. Platts BE
Is very Interesting lie has as nearly
"a good time" as any man 30 intensely
husv could encompass His winters are
spent In New York Toward spring he
takes his private car and journeys 10 his
Fiorida plantation summer he lives.
ana has lived FOR years. at Manhattan
Beach and autumn finds him home again
I'm New York. ready to live another year
IN the same even way.
rhe secret Of Platts power Is said to
be his own personal eyenness. lie keeps
"a cloar head up0r his shoulders. casts
hts horoscopes correctly and seldom
makes a political mistake. In 1851 when
ne was supposed Go be politically dead
with ConklIne he smiled ana Went right
on. Now no Is stronger than ever