Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

and works faithfully until dark. Ike .
wage-earner. perfecting patents, OF which
he has taken out dozens, chiefly In conuec-
ton with locomotives and their boilers.
Experts not in the habit of employing nat
terry unequivocally pronounce young VAN
derbilt mechanical genius, and many OK
his appliances are now in permanent use
on most of the railroads of this country
and Europe. When the Young man de-
cided that he would like to join the Nation
al Guard of New York state he did not
cast in his lot with any of the so-called
crack outfits, like the Seventh-which.
by the way, has been under heavy cloud
ever since its members showed the whlte
feather so mournfully and declined to go
to the Spanish war-but aligned himself
with comparatively obscure regiment
like the Twelfth, which is composed al
together of young fellows who work hard
for their livelhoods Vanderbilt is now
captain in that regiment. but he didn't get
his captaincy through any favoritism or
skullduggery, but worked for ii hard ana
earnestly. Two or three years ago, IT Is
reliably stated by man on the inside or
the republican machine in this state. Sem
ator Plat casually asked Cornelius VAN
derbilt if he would care to go to Congress.
remarking that he'd fix 1t out for him IL
he decided that he would like the expert
ence. Vanderbilt smiled at the suggestion.
and replied that he would like to learn how
to creep before trying to walk I'm the ways
of craftsmanship. He remarked that after
a term or two in the New York assembly
he might like to have try at Congress.
so that IL is not lmprODaDle tnat lie Will
be found on the floor of the House OF Rep
resentatives before many years. Cornelius
is the first of the Vanderbilts who has
ever shown tendency to cherish the INK
ing and the respect of the people of New
York, who We're mortally affronted, just
twenty years ago. when his lordly grand
father. William X. Vanderbilt delivered
himself of his famous speech, THE public
be d."
A Mercurial Populace.
This is pretty mercurial populace. Col.
Partridge had no sooner announced his in
tention of resigning the police commissions
ership of New York, after his year of serv-
ice, than the New York papers. for the
greater part turned squarely around in
their attitude toward him. They discov-
cred that, after ALL he had made i mighty
fine police commissioner; that he had ef-
fected many splendid reforms; that ne nad
saved the city hundreds OF thousands OF
dollars; that he had nailed scores of crooked
jobs, and all that sort of thing. Yet up TO
the very day that he announced his lnten-
ton of resigning they were almost unit
In casting Vituperation and scorn upon MN,
and the cartoonists favorite way of pictur-
ing him was as an aged grandmother in
cap and apron, sitting with a cat purring
at her footstool, and engaged In knitting
stockings. But it was poor Partridge. the
scapegoat of the reform administration,
when the police commissioner disguised
with the way all hands had been jumping
upon him. decided to quit.
1t doesn't make any difference who takes
the job of running the police of New York,
he is attacked almost before he has become
warm in his chair. Gen. Greene, the new
commissioner is already being assailed with
the weapons of ridicule. After while the
ridicule will change to out-and-out bludg-
coming. Already they saying that he is
foolishly lordly, pompous. vain, absurdly
military, dom :neering, vacillating, ana so on,
and the caricatursts are drawing pictures
Of York in the Id otic uniform of
Russian soldiers, going through imbecile
evolutions in heavy marching order, with
Gen. Greene at their head. 1t has already
been decided that Gen. Greene won't do,
although he has scarcely yet had chance
to wind up his personal affairs preliminary
to taking charge Of the police commits
sioner's office. wy don't youse pikers am
quires Bill Devery, defending Gen. Greene,
and his query is a timely and proper one.
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