The Irish standard., 1903-10-24

boots to-day-a kind of Arthur I'uc
German without Gorman's experience
in the national affairs of his party.
But German, under Il great strain,
sometimes tlushes; McCarren never.
German has the manners of Il calm,
stiff. dispassionate statesman: so has
AIcCarren, only McCarren occasionally
throws i'll Il kindly greeting and his
lips sometimes make something like
an attempt at Il smile. German in
private life never utters an unkind
word OF any man alive or dead.
Neither does McCarren. German. on
the floor of the United States senate,
once roundly abused Grover Cleve-
land. \ few years ago McCarren, at
meeting Of the Democratic State
committee, called David b. Hill a liar
to his face. On the floor of the senate
at Albany McCarren has occasionally
fired away in bitter words against his
Republican opponents. but never in
his private life has NIcCarren been
heard to say an ungentle word of any
man. So say his personal intimates of
many years. They speak of him as
one of the truest philosophers they
ever met; never elated by victory.
never daunted by disaster, adamant
as the turn of the political and finan-
cial wheel, whether for good or i'll.
and whisking off the little affairs of
life with listless unconcern. Such
man, it has been said. does not have
many happy moments, and neither
does he have many sorrowful ones.
How did AIcCarren attain his present
high place in the management of af-
fairs of his party in Brooklyn? First,
he is Brooklyn boy Of the old school.
There are thousands of families in old
Williamsburg and in Brooklyn like
those in the old Greenwich Village of
New York city that do not move from
one house to another. Generation
after generation. the descendants oc-
cupy the old spot no matter how hum
ble the home. Never for an instant
do they think of leaving it; and in this
way generations of neighbors grow
either to love or to hate each other
prodigiously. Generally speaking, the
feeling between the families is one of
intense kindness. and there is not the
same amount of gossip and twaddling,
envy and malice which oftentmes
mar the social life of country villages.
There is in these city neighborhoods
a keen interest in each others con-
Germs without the backbiting so fire.
Quent i'll country villages, and there
are pleasure and pride over the adj
vancement of neighbor. 1t is the
nearest approach to a really, neigh
borly spirit that can be imagined.
Little Pat McCarren had good heart
ed. neighborly parents, and they in
turn had neighborly neighbors. who
patted young Pat when he gradua ted
from Public School II in the old Four
| e>>hth "hiu. AlS NtS ID lucll, itlu uC
wanted to be cooper. The great su-
gar refinerics were in full blast on
the East River front. and young Nc
Carren served his apprenticeship in
Heatl's old cooper shop. at North
Sixth street and Wythe avenue. He
was a iourneyman cooper. at 10, and
all the neighbOrs said he was good
lad and smart.
| Later on. when he became an oil
inspector with Archer & Co.. at GA
Beaver street, in the great city of New
York, the neiglbors declared that Pat
| rick Henry McCarren was an honor to
| his people. Why he'd become scien-
tific expert. Did Pat McCarren have
to know all about the testing of kerO-
sene:-very few spoke of the oil as
petroleum in those days-and weren't
the great Standard Oil Company's re-
finerics being built OH old Newtown
Greek? Patrick McCarren might own
'em some day.
SO talked the old men and women.
and the lads and lassies of the old
18th ward. BY that time young Pat