The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-24

Geological studies during all his term
as the Mayors secretary. Whether
I Homer Folks, Charity Commissioner of
| the city under MIR. Low, was ever gen
eral secretary of the Charity Organ
! ization, l am not sure, but at all events
he belongs to the same general type,
and his development has been along
lines similar to the development of Mr.
Reynolds and DR.. Finley.
DR.. William Howe Tolman, secre-
tary of the League for Social Service,
head and front of the Get Together
Club and chief factor in the Social
| Service Museum, is quite as well
known as q graduate of the Charity
Organization Society as DR.. John H.
Finley.
DR.. Tolman began life as a student
with the definite intention of following
what may be termed a sociological
| career" for lack of q better phrase,
, and has succeeded i'll sticking closer
to his ideal than any of the others.
With Dr. Josiah Strong, president
of the lea cue. he has succeeded in in
teresting u number of well known peo-
pie of ample means in his project, and
their work as planned, and already
partially accomplished, is found to ex-
ert no inconsiderable influence upon
the country at large as we'll as the
city of New York. The Social Serv-
| ice League and Museum are in con-
slant correspondence with the Paris
/ MUSES. Sociale and other European in
situations of similar scope, and so well
| has DIR. Tolman become known Tor his
work on the other side that he wears
the red ribbon of the French Legion
of Honor in his buttonhole.
Col John A. Mccall, the insurance
| man, tells this story on himself Some
time ago he was attending an agents
| gathering in a Western state. OF
| course, the agents were all anxious to
| shake him by the hand, and in order to
make it possible for them all to be sure
of this treat, it was arranged for MIR.
| Mccall to stand in the rotunda of the
| hotel and have them pass him one by
! one. Not many of the agents said
much to the great man, as a matter of
! course. but one, possibly a Frenchman,
and. at all events, full of enthusiasm,
| blurted out as he grasped the out
stretched hand:
IT'S the fine job yez have, Mr.. Nc
! Call; it surely isl"
At the banquet which followed Mr..
! Mccall told of the enthusiastic greet
| ing, adding that he would like to know
| whether the agent referred to the job
of shaking hands with a hundred agents
| in one evening or to something else.
| Quick as a flash the agent spoke up:
Il meant the job that brings you
| fluffy thousand a year, to be sure!"
! McCalrs recital of the story had
brought down the house as a matter
of course, but the agents retort
brought out ten times as much laugh
| ter and applause as the story.
| There have been some stories of as
sessments collected by Tammany from
city employees, especially in the Street
| Cleaning Department, since McClel-
! Ian became Mayor, but these are prob
! ably without foundation.
| A superintendent in this department
| who has been in since Warnings day,
both under Tammany and reform, and
who has never had to pay an assess
mept, declares that no change has
taken place.
But" he adds, "the men undoubt-
eddy think they have got to put up.
know this because a lot of them, la
boring under this impression, sent me
six crates of live turkeys and chickens
| and geese the other day. They almost
filled the inside hall OF my little fiat
OF course l sent them all back But
what gals me is that II cost SO to pay
the expressman to take the birds
away" Duane.