New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-24
PUSH WOODRUFF BOOM.
Dinner for Junior Senator at
.NOntauk Club.

For the thirteenth consecutive year the members
OF the Nontauk Club. Brooklyn. of which ex-Lleu-
tenant Governor Woodruff has just been eIecteo
president gathered last night to honor the birth
dav of Senator Chauncev VI. Depew. As usual the
Senator was the only guest and the only speaker
and the clubmen had good time jollying the
Senator in order to get his responses
The celebration was in honor OF the seventeen
birthday of Senator Depew, and birthday CAKE
surrounded bv seventy small incandescent lights
and surrnounted by a bust of the Senator IN sugar
sat on the table in front of the guest o"lhs 70
the recent death of Mr.. Woodruhs wite' ne OF
course. could not be present in MS caPacl'S DC
president to act as postmaster. An urgent plea
however was sent over TO his home near by for
him to come over for few minutes. He arrived
in business suit just at the conclusion OF the
dinner. and was forced to take the chair and IN
troduce Senator Depew
The entire gathering seemed to be bubonhg oVei
with the boom for Mr.. Woodruff for the guberna-
torial nomination The members of the CLUB, DEM
ocrats as well as Republicans. have pledged tnem-
selves to work for the BOOM and 1t was much III
evidence last night.
Senator Depew said in part:
The science of proper living the benefits of TEN.
reI9nce i'm an things and the healthful influence OF
a balanced mind from which all worries are co 9n
pelled and few gain entrance, nave DecoIhe 80 col
mon that seventy is now middle me- IN every ue
tater is the harvest of trained and experienced
labor. coterie OF elderly Senators; IN
ton with the Speaker of the House OF RepTGse' az
tives who is of their period, are the real rulers ol
our Republic Roberts in his seventeen year coll s
Quoted the South African campaign and retrieved
as far as possible the bunders OF the juniors Whie
in another sphere Commodore Nanderp VIZ en- SS p
TO the age of seventy-one. had accumulated slV0o.
COO added ii ninety more from seVehty-ohe 10
eighty-three. III, ,osf,,, maj,
who has not confessed that failure TO accohphsn
what he most wished for and when seeHSu 10 -. ve
the end of his hopes turned MIN INTO tle P d.ti
where he won his triumphs 1t is the losses whlch
come from the too easy affixing OF one signature
TO the note friend the giving OF credit 10 assist
a neghbor the leg which advertises It's weak
ness that the promoter pulls it with success winch
teach the lesson that enables man 70 ha'e ca
roof over his head competence for his OLD age
and patrimony for his family. A..
pulpit or the platform the stage. nothing EQUALS
the sensation of applause or the incense OF g.
baton from listening thousands. SinguIar as ~
NAV appear the most difficult audience In the
country is the company gathered at great O. aner
merce or Of the New England Society. 1t Is COM
posed of men from every State in the United states
netitions where multitudes fail and have risen by
sheer ability and pluck to be successes In the pro-
No change has been more remarkable in my time
than that OF the characteristics OF the Iea9lns
huanciers became an attorney IoT C3I h;,os
vanderbilt when young man. and had business s
dealings with Daniel Drew, and frequently me,
George Law. These men were ioI more . l!ah a., .
quarter OF a century the prominent factors IN
france whose operations were wonder, and whose
movements everybody tried to follow Ihey mao nau
fought their way into leadership. especially COM
nodore Vanderbilt. without assistance or assocI-
ates by skill. far sightedness and Will power.
They never conided In any one what they were go
ing do. never consulted about their plans never
crate reports to the stockholders or TO the press
would have seemed to them the i0lies OF t9oI,
Their successors Of to-day are all In association
with large numbers Of strong men. Their WORK is
the result OF consultation with their associates anu
the best legal advice obtalnabie lhey dppeat "a
the public hy prospectus. interview and report ana
conduct their business upon scientific principles or
high finance, which require education ana lons
training There has been change IN the specu-
lator plunger. MeteoTs are always the SAM;
They illumine the sky fash before the eye ana
explode.