The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-19

the County Democracy. Theodore
Roosevelt was the Republican candi-
date. The result at the polls was:
Hewitt, 90,552 votes; George, 6S,11O;
Roosevelt &C, ABS. During the campaign
Henry George alluded to Mr.. Hewitt
as a rich man. At the next opportu-
nifty the latter replied to the charge as
follows:
He asks your suffrage because he
is a poor man. In New York we have
long been familiar with the beggar in
the streets. We know that poor old
blind Belisarius stood with hat in hand
begging an obolus in the streets of the
capital he had served, but never before
in a free country has a man passed
around his hat and begged for your
SURFACES, alleging as his chief reason
that he is a poor man."
The history of Mayor Hewitt's ad-
ministration shines. He insisted on a
rigid enforcement of the laws and held
the head of every department to a
strict accountability.
Mr.. Hewitt was opposed to the con-
solidation of New York with Long ISL
and centers of population and Staten
Island. He opposed the scheme before
the Legislative Committee and de-
nounced the measure as being Crude.
dangerous, untimely. childish, and sure
to lead to protracted and costly litiga-
ton" He was the orator of the day
when the East River Bridge was open
ed, in 1888. and in a speech incidental
to the occasion. said:
"Contemporaneous with the rapid
growth of urban population have grown
complaints of corrupt administration
and bad municipal government. The
cutlery may be said to be universal. for
1t comes from both sides of the Attain
tic, and the complaints appear to be in
direct proportion to the size of cities"
Phases of Mr.. Hewitt'S career in his
special business and manufacturing
lines, in humanitarianism, in civic pre-
eminence and as a national figure
abound. He has been among the fore
most In the work of metallurgic sci
ence from 1862, when he learned the
process for making gun barrel iron in
England to the time of the formation
of the United States Steel Corporation,
OF which he is a director. His ad-
dress on "a Century of Mining and
Metallurgy in the United States" when
in 1875 he retired as president of the
American Institute of Mining Engi-
neers, is regarded as an important
monograph. To him in great part was
due the creation of the United States
Geological Survey. Nine years before
this his report on iron and steel at the
Paris Exposition attracted information
al attention.
The present satisfactory condition of
Cooper Union is due to his tireless and
Jealous watch on the interests of his
father-in-law's benefaction His serv-
ices in the cause of rapid transit were
recognized at the October meeting of
the New York Chamber of Commerce
in 1901, when he received a gold medal
lin recognition of his services in the
cause of civic rapid transit under mu-
nicipal ownership"
Some of Mr.. Hewitt's social and pub
lie affiliations are learned from this
partial list of the clubs and societies
of which he is member: Metropoli-
tan, City, Church, University, Engi-
neers', Tuxedo, Players and Century
Clubs, Down Town Association, Dun
laps Society, Scientific Alliance, Amer
lean Institute, Columbia University
Alumni Association, Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art, National Academy of De-
sign and American Museum of Natural
History.