The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16

SOME ATOMS IN THE MAELsTRoM.
You may dig them out Of almost every
office building, these senators. governors,
cabinet members, cougressmen--all atoms
In the Manhattan maelstrom. ants in the
great ant hills. scarcely recognized by their
fellow ants who have been there all their
lives.
Attorney General John w. Griggs. who
was lawyer. assemblyman. state senator
and governor In New Jersey before Press
dent Mckinley called him TO his cabinet,
has been practiCing law at No. ~ Pine
street since his resignation, but stu clings
70 his residence in Paterson, N j He Is
only 50 years old, and does not look on niu-
self as helpless "eN'' Of any kind, what.
ever nxed conclusions others may nave on
the subject.
Daniel s. Lamont, two years younger
than Mr. GrRgs, has been the shining light
Of post-politlcl success In life. Go up ever
so many flights at No. 40 Wall street and
find Yourself I'm spacious offices. marked
Northern PIcihc railroad. There, In the
presidents chair, sits the little man, quiet
ly genial but abnormally shrewd, looking
at YOU out OF keen, quiet eyes. who was a
Journalist after he left Union college. then
private secretary to Mr.. Cleveland when
he was governor and also when president
for his first term. When the second term
came he slipped into the chair OF secretary
Of war and held ii down so successfully
that his return 10 private life meant open
gates to fortune which he forthwith en-
tered aud made himself at home.
James u. Campbell was governor OF Ohio
ten years ago, after six years IN congress,
and he has found his way into the Inv IN
New York He Is 80 years old. with the
activity Of 20. and hangs out his sign with
the rest
Frank :. Black, who stepped out or the
governors chair at Albany to yield II 10
Theodore Roosevelt has also given up nre
In a country town for business purposes
and has hung up his single as lawyer
az No $40 Broadway. Two years In con-
in
nave probably concluded his public service
FOR some time 10 come.
OTHER GREAT MEN NOW HIDDEN.
Not only in the heart or financial New
York are the former foremost public serv.
ants 90 be found. Thomas l.. James. car
FIELDS great postmaster general, gives ms
Kindly presence and his fund OF informa-
ton TO those who seek the president OF the
Lincoln National bank, on Forty-second
street. where the tons or securities OF the
yanderbiits repose from quarter TO quarter
in the strong room
John wanamaker is only fractionaiiy
New Yorker, although his business nome
here covers nm important broadway block.
lie makes Philadelphia ibis residence ana
retreat from cares: but he, too, WIS post
master general, and he, too found the
magnet OF New York too strong 70 resist
President Cleveland, as has been noted,
was no exception 10 the rule that New
York will not be denied IL fortune remains
10 be won when public service Is ended. IL
was so NJ the close OF his nrst term. IN
! 1887 after the close OF his second term,
the result OF hs previous wise choice was
/ apparent FOR he no longer needed to take
up the yicissItudes OF law practice. And
SO, with his beautiful wire and their chit
! dren, he inhablts roomy mansion az
/ Princeton, n. j.. and lectures AZ times on
international law az the university
But the ea-president loves 70 come 70
1 New York, for no matter what majesty OF
repoae one finds in a university town. hero
| in New York Is the life, the thrill the STIR,
\ the power and the human hum DO not,
/ therefore, be surprised as You turn about
| the subtreasury n. afteT running acrudt
i any OF au OF the others mentioned hereto
| fore. you should recognize Mr.. Cieveiau6
| pansing a moment 20 look up at tbs status
1 Of Washington