The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-10-16
SENATOR CRANE
PERSONAL SIDE
How He Has Won Hearts of
Fellow Citizens.
NEVER TIRES DOING GOOD
Many Philanthropic Acts-His Great
Business Relations With the Gov
ernment-Eficient Public Career.

! cnusetLs. who win take his seat in the
1 Senate six weeks hence as the successor
/ Of the late George Frisbie H0ar, has had
I a career noteworthy for a greater diver
/ sity Of good deeds than most men are
/ able to record in q long lifetime lie
has become almost q patron saint 70 the
1 people Cf western Massachusetts, while
/ 10 the rest Of the country he IS known
more particularly as keen. hard-headed
J business man
! matter OF national interest in con
/ nection with Senator Cranes notable
/ career is his business relations with the
! treasury Department. In the Crane
mills al Dalton ali OF the bond and cur
/ rency paper used by the Federal Gov
/ erment is made by a secret process
/ kown only To the members of the Crane
family and some OF the most trusted en-
I ployes.
/ Some Of the most expert counterfeit
ers IN the country have endeavored to
make paper that would resemble the
Crane note paper in the manner In which
the delicate silk fibre is inserted. but they
( have never succeeded, and It is said
that none OF the men 10 whom the secret
l has been entrusted has ever been dis
loyal TO the confidence that has been
imposed in him.
For years the Crane mills have been
/ one Of the SHOW places Of Berkshire
| county ranking with GreyIock and the
I annual procession Of the authorities Of
/ Williams College with the high sheriff Of
( the county at their head as a popular
/ attraction.
Man of Quiet Tastes.
/ The esteem In which Senator Crane
/ Is held by the people Of Massachusetts,
! Is wen eXemplifed by a story a promi-
/ nent Government official tells Of his first
/ glimpse OF the Bay State man. who
! was then serving as governor.
[ UnpretentiOus 10 the last. Governor
/ Crane was accustomed to walk alone
/ in the beautiful country about Pitts
/ field One day a party Of visitors, in
/ Guiding the Washington official were
\ out driving on the Dalton Road. when
! they saw a slim-built man. very bust
uess-lilze in appearance, and apparently
/ much absorbed in thought, coming
I toward them on the road. They paid
/ no attention 10 him, for they were look
! ing at the hills and valleys. and they
| had no time 10 waste on men passing
along the highway.
As the stranger approached them the
driver OF the carriage drew up his
! horses and took OF his hat AS he did
/ So he turned 10 the visitors and said
+ in voice choking with anger:
why don't you take on your hats?"
/ The NeW Workers were amazed at
4 what seemed 10 them the drivers inn
! pertinence. tie had previously shown
no signs OF deEsntia, and they were at
a loss 20 md the cause of his sudden
I departure from reason One of the
party asked why they should take on
/ their hats.
Praised by Cabby.
Don't you see that that was Governor
/ Crane, Murray Crane2" said the
/ DIR. -ar. You ought 10 know enough 10
/ take your hats or 10 him. He's the
! governor of the State, and he's the
/ best man in the State and you'd better
have taken of your hats 10 him. "a
/ One Of the party said that ne was not
[ in the habit Of taking on his hat 10 any
/ mEn, and ne was not particular about
I Crane The driver looked at him as
/ though he had found a new kind OF
/ serpent Then he began a talk that
/ lasted an hour. In the course OF which
Z ne told the various reasons why the
people who live about Dalton take their
hats on 10 Winthrop Murray Crane
. then governor of the Commonwealth.
and the leading citizen of Berkshire
county.
The recital was long, but the gist OF
il was that Murray Crane was man
by bowling 10 whom any man hOuored
. himself. Ii showed how the new Sen
ator is regarded in the state where he
was born and where he has always
lived
Real PhilanthrOPist.
/ Senator Crane bears the reputation OF
being one OF the most generous and
phuanthropic OF men. His charities have
I been dispensed throughout the State
and In many cases the recipients have
nor knowa whom 20 thank
/ A man who talked vaguely about rep
|resrutiug large interests" has appeared
at the door of more than one concern
that was about 10 fail through no fault
of the men who were conducting its
business and has tided IL over the
/ storm. and then gone away; and no one
has ever known that the paper maker
of Dalton was the man who bad saved
the concern
widow with a small farm, and a dis
pr0p0rtionlIe mortgage has been visited
by "a man Nho had iu his hand the re-
lease for the mortgage, and she has
never known that Murray Crane hear
ms of her plight, had stepped up to the
owner OF the mortgage and taken il up,
without any man knowing why.
Aided Former Enemy.
Dalton people tell a story of a man
who thought that one Of the Cranes
had done him am iujury-the man was
I always q bit queer who talked IN
way about the governor that caused
him to be thrdshcI several times wiz
I great enthusiasm. lie hually fell
evil days and needed help. There va
only one man TO help him. and that W
Mr. Crane. The help was torthcomu
/ without "a question
No one knows what Mr.. Crane
. done lie has hidden it in many cas-
. from his check book, by work.
I through other men,
| Mr.. Crane is known as one of the me
/ acute business men that have ever be
{ turned out iu the western END of
! State-that means, of course when il
I said there that he is one OF the M
[ acute men who have ever lived.
( He was one of the earliest 10 see Z
I wealth that laT I'm the industrial deV
opmeut o. the coal and OIL fields sad
I the telephone industry. and le luEas
/ literally iu these securities He is ri