The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-10
Personal Characteristics.

lowed that he would have been elect
ed Governor.
Personal Characteristics.
Judge Parker, a man of SO years
last May, does not look his age by
ten of them. He is a handsome spe-
cimen of manhood, standing feet in
his shoes. His hair is a reddish color,
his eyes hazel brown with a reddish
tinge his face wears the furnished
livery of the sun with the same red
dish tinge. His nose is aquiline and
aggressive and his chin is aggressive
in its breadth and thrust forward.
This high color first attracts attention,
then his chin, which conveys the inn
preston of great will power, dogged
adherence to a purpose once made and
determination to carry forward the en-
terprise agreed upon. The nose claims
attention, with its showing of force
and investigative power. The coarse,
red mustache between chin and nose
tells you of virility, and by this time
you are beginning to think, perhaps
that the animal qualities predominant,
until the eyes engage your attention.
when those windows of the soul tell
you that if there are animal qualities
in the makeup of the man they are
IN control and are tempered by kind
ly disposition and an acute intelligence
that is wide awake and cogniZant of
all that is transporting within their
ken. Above rises a high, broad,
smooth, white forehead, which is SYM
metrical, in it's slope preserving the
fullness of the intellectual part with
out minimizing that of penetration
and observation. If you are phre-
nologist, you will say that he is a
man who is fond of music, that he is
a good guesser of weights and in his
youth had an inclination toward ath-
letic sports, especially of a gymnastic
nature, with fine sense of color and
the quality of telling the time of the
day without consulting the watch.
And you will also determine from
that high, broad, white forehead that
he thinks without effort, with unusual
powers of concentration, that with lit
tie difficulty he removes his mind
from one consideration to another
without friction, that he has Won
derful nervous endurance and can
labor for long hours with less fatigue
than most men. You shall also
discover that the moral ia
culties are fully developed
and that reverence and conscience
play their parts even in the small
things of his life. In hhort. you will
determine that you have been observ-
ing a very strong man, mentally and
physically, who is well balanced, not
easily swayed, tenacious of his own
conclusion, well nigh resistless in his
energy combative. if not pugnacious;
acknowledging no master but MINI
self, wholesome, kindly, courteous and
abundantly enjoying life in the mere
matter of having existence. And on
acquaintance and observation 1t Will
be found that the qualities suggested
are all part of his makeup.
OF Executive Power.
Tt is but natural perhaps, that. on
first thought, the disposition should
be to regard Judge Parker as n stu
dent who was Immersed in mental
speculations wholly given to the IN
tellectual process of weighing pflncl-
pies. But there is a large executive
side of the man which has found play
in the management, by proxy, of three
farms one on which he was born in
Cortland; one in Accord. which. came
under his management through his
wife, and one at Esopus. which is his
home farm, and each is under his di-
rection and each is actually making
money for him. 1t is this side of him
that his associate, Judge John Clln-
ton Gray, paid tribute to when he
said
81 take occasion to say that under
the attentive leadership and the un-
wearying efforts of the present chief
Judge of this court. that under his
management the present arrangement
has worked admirably, wonderfully,
smoothly and we'll. His loyalty to the
decisions of the court. his studious
consideration of the principles and or
the points in each case, his great tai
ent and unfailing tact and courtesy
and frmness make him an admirable
chief Judge, and add. in thus speak
ing Of him. 1 know / voice the opinion
of each of my associates.
A Stirring Incident.
That he is a man of action and q
doer as well as a student and man of
meditation was well evidenced in
matter which is a part of the history
of the city of Kingston. One Sep
TENDER day. in 1891, the Ulster County
Savings Bank, of which he was
trustee. closed it's doors suddenly be-
come of embeZzlement on the part OF
the treasuser and assistant treasurer
which could no longer be concealed.
1t was a bank which had deposits of
$2500,000 and the embezzlement
amounted to 100000, wiping out the
supposed surplus and making def
cinecy. The bank had invested about
$1,500,000 in real estate mortgages,
one-half of which were on the farms
in Ulster county. To wind UP the
business of the bank, by appointing a
temporary receiver, and distribute the
assets pro rata-the ordinary way
would be to fOreciOSe these mortgages,
throw many on the market reduce
! their values and ruin the farmers and
inflict further loss on the depositors.
At the time Judge Parker was at his
farm at Accord, but hearing of the
disaster, he hurried to an investiga-
ton. There were other trustees,
among them General George III.
Sharpe, but Judge Parker in his mas
terfulness, became the only one. His
first act was to lodge the assistant
treasurer in Jail that night. His next
n prompt effort to induce a strong
fiduciary institution to take an assign
ment of the mortgages with a local
bank as discount agent. But that
failed. No institution was willing.
Then he showed his resources and his
inventive powers He asked the equity
court, in the place of appointing a
temporary receiver, to name twenty
five prominent citizens as trustees. 1t
was a new idea, and it commended
itself to Charles M. Preston. who was
at the time State superintendent of
Banks and resident of Kingston. The
Judge pleaded with the leading men OF
Kingston'S merchants bank president,
etc. and secured twenty-five who had