The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

wouldn't be an effective remedy here. I'm not New York's favorite son or greatest civic treasure, but just a- plain stranger. How are YOU on the favorite son and civic treasure business ?That's all the situa- tion requires, you know"
 We've got favorite sons and civic treasures to burn" l repied. "Fact is. there are so many that I doubt if wt could settle definitely upon any one of them for the sacrificial act"
 You might have an election" suggest ed Marcus. T understand that is the way you settle great questions of public i'm port in this country. Why not call q con- vention of each party and choose by bal lot the chap who shall jump into the subway and so appease the angry gods?'' FavCrite Son and the Civic Treasure.
 The trouble with that" I explained to the stranger. lis that you can't always get the favorite son and the civic treas ure on the same ticket. We've just had case of that in our municipal politics. MT. Mcclellan has recently walloped Mir. Low in the race for the Mayoralty, thus proving that he was the favorite son. though nobody denied that MT. Low was the civic treasure.
 There was a MT. Grout. who pretty nearly approximated the ideal combina- ton that the case demands when the re-
 
 doubts if he could be induced to jump into the subway even for so noble a pur- pose as the act would have in view. He has pretty heavy job ahead of him as it is trying to be a reform Controller in a Tammany administration, and don t think he will be willing to abandon it until he has shown what he can do, Moreover. he is the sort of man who won't jump into a hole unless he sees I -V |. out of it. He did it this fall and nobody expected ever to see him emerge again, but three weeks later he came up as smiling as a basket of chips So you see our trouble. Most of our favorite sons already have a job"
 'I sec" said Marcus Curtius But aren't there some who are not in politics who would sacrifice themselves for the good of their country? I seem to have heard somewhere that New York is full of philanthropists-li MT. Schwab, for instance. Whats he doing now?"
 As to MT. Schwab.
 MT. Schwab is great and good man. .'' said I. He measures up to Caesars lovely phrase 'Osnnis Gallia.' doubtless familiar to you; but he wouldn't do. He is too busily engaged jumping out of holes to consider jumping into any new ones. Then there is Mir. Carnegie-he is favorite son and civic treasure house, if not exactly a civic treasure like Mir Low. He would beyond all question full fill all the requirements of the gods in search of propitiation. but he cannot af- ford to take the chance as yet. He still has a small balance at the bank and until he has managed to get rid of that his conscientious scruples against enter ing the great unknown with the crime of wealth fastened upon him will forbid him to volunteer. 70 it goes. my dear Marcus. In the language of one of your most brilliant poets. Virginibus puerisque virus vincit invidiam sed vacuus cantat quemque voluptas,"
 How about Faversham and Hackett?"' demanded Curtius. They are we'll be- loved of your people and of the gods as well'-
 ''The gallery gods, yea, verily," said I. But the others?"
 1 "As to that I cannot speak" replied Curtius. My wanderings have not been among the Olympians, but they might try it"
 Ne sutor ultra Faversham." said I, | sententiOusly
 Hum" said Curtius That's very 1 true. hadn't thought of him in that light, But Hackett-how about him?" | No more likely than Faversham, ] replied. And simply because. as one of l you Romans had it. Racket olim memin. isso iuvsbit Under such circumstances LInn couldn't s4Dect him Go uX IL could