Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-23

interesting. Thus. John D. Rockefeller Is
director in only one company, the stand
ard OIL. of which he Is president. His
his brother william on thirty-one. The
champion director of the country Is
Chauncey Depew. who serves as MEM
Der OF seventy-four boards. Some Of
these corporations are intimately allied
with each other. and the duties of their
directors are largely perfunctory. Yet
they require consideration from time to
time and involve a certain degree of in
dfvtdual responsibility for the conduct
or the separate business enterprises. The
next in the list Is William H. Newman,
president of the New York Central road,
who serves on sixty boards. Most of these
are the same those which claim Mr..
Depew as director. They constitute in
the main the great Vanderbilt series of
corporations. William X. Vanderbilt is
Frederick w. Vanderbilt of forty-four
J. Pferpont Morgan, who might be ex-
pected to be one of the most occupied of
men In this respect. Is director of only
thlrty-nlne companies, a small number as
compared with the hfty-eight of Henry E.
huntington. fffty-five of James Stillman
hIty-two of George ]. Gould, forty nine
OF Edward H. Hartman forty-seyen each
or James II. Hyde and Anthony N. Brady
Iorty-sx OF H. NICK. Twombley and
forty-four of George w. Young Mr.
Young, 1t Is important to note, in part ex-
PLANTATION of the large number of some of
these titular duties, is a director on each
or the subsidiary properties in this Dis
trict grouped under the holdings of the
washington Railway and Electric Com
pany. Russell Sage sits at only twenty
TOUR boards. In addition to this directory
OF names, the book contains selected lists
OF corporaHons. with the names of their
omcers and location of principal Offices.
IDOLS. BY William J. Locke. New York: John
Lane. ~
A secret marriage. a mysterious murder.
the accusation of an innocent man and his
trial lead to dramatic denouement that
gives the reader of this novel start Two
men love the same woman. and after her
choice of one of them the unsuccessful
sutton becomes her steadfast and honora Bile
friend, remaining also the devoted friend of
the husband. He becomes involved first in
financial and then in matrimonial Difficult
ties, and these lead to his arrest for muir
der. The wife, thinking that her husband
would sacrifice anything to save the ac-
cused man. and feeling that he will other
wise be condemned to death, falsely con-
fesses to relations with the prisoner which
J prove his alibi he refusing to account him
self Tor his whereabouts. Then she dis
covers the feet of clay of the man she has
idolized as husband. for he accepts her
false confession as true and divorces her
Despite his secret marriage. which has
been morally but not legally dissolved by
mutual consent of himself and his wife
the acquitted man later marries the woman
he loves and who has so suffered for his
sake Then by a chance the divorced hus-
bands meets the woman who Is really the
that relationship. Through this medium
the secret Is disclosed and a second idol Is
shattered. 1t is a story of intense feeling
and bitter suffering. relieved at last by rec
I'll To-, nv4 -
perfect love, savors the whole mess of
intrigue, lying, deception and cowardice.
THE LITTLE vANITIEs OF MRS. WHITAKER;
novel. By John Strange Winter. author of
/ .'Bootle's Baby" &c. New York: Funk & Wag-
nails Company.
For sheer comedy. based upon the &C
tivities Of entirely commonplace middle
class English people, this sprightly story
Is one OF the most enjoyable of the year.
Mrs. Stannard has been lately cultivating
the field of the domestic novel, and In this
example she surpasses herself for ingenuity
of situation and fresh humor of suggestive
ness. Her chief character Is a diverting
parsonage, a woman who regards and ex-
ploits herself as being in every way re-
markable, and who pursues her life with
| the placid calm of such assurance She
marries after she has thoroughly educated
HeISelt, anu DelieVeS lNdt ner husband is
the most perfect of beings and her daugh-
tiers dreams Of loneliness. She allows them
later to go their ewn ways and dress as
they please, with the result that they are
wonders to behold. having inherited her alb
solutey bad taste in clothes. Meanwhile
she is growing stout, and when well on in
middle life she discovers evidence that
points to her husbands infidelity. she de-
termines. upon recovering from the shock
to render herself more attractive to him.
She bants and consults smart miliners
and dressmakers and complexion and hair
specialists. and evolves as a butterfly, to
the amaZement and not unmixed Joy of
her family. When she has accomplished
remarkable results in physical regeneration
she finds that she has been mistaken as to
her husband. The story is told with a
brisk cleverness that carries the reader en-
loyably through what otherwise might be
a dreary desert of unimportant words.
THE ROSE OF OLD ST. LOUIS. By Mary Dillon.
Hlustra ted by Andre Castaigne and c. NJ Rel
yea. New York: The Century Company
The author Of this enga ging narrative of
life hundred years ago. centering round
the Louisiana purchase, has followed his
tory closely and employed as far as posi-
BILE the actual words of debate and of ne
collation.. But she has departed sufficient