The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-25


sleeve OF New York city is renomnated and
reelected this fall. he will have five years OF
his new term to serve. Justice GildersleeNe
will be e5 years old on Aug
Gen Horace Porter until very recently
Ambassador to the French Republic, cabed.
1t was said. that no would accept place on
the City Water Commission, but Mayor
Mcclellan had already appointed j, EDWARD
Simmons. president OF the Fourth National
Bank. at the request Of the Chamber OF COM
merce.
Cord Meyer, chairman OF the Democratic
State committee. Is said TO have stated To
D-Cady Herrick that If Mayor Mcclellan Is
reelected by rousing majority this laii
nothing can prevent his nomination for Gov
ernor next year. Perhaps the Mayor HIM
self will have something to say on that SUBJ
ject
Politicians speaking OF men OF destiny.
say that only Lincoln. Grant, Cleveland.
Mckinley and Roosevelt can be named In
the last forty-hve years as men who we're
bound to overcome all obstacles. and that
Mayor Mcclellan Ia already considered by
some to be "the coming man Of destiny" An
Indiana Democrat figured 1t all out yester-
day when he said: Mcclellan will be nomi-
mated and elected President In 1912"
David Graham Phillips. author Of the
political novel, THE Plum Tree" by birth.
training. education and bearing Ia markedly
O cultivated gentleman, yet singularly in
teligent woman flung the novel aside the
other evening with the remark What hor-
rible creature the man must be who could
write such a book!"
1t was only after the fair one was rem inded
that Thackeray was no more like Barry
Lyndon than Dickens was like Bill Sykes. that
the author was restored to her good mental
graces.
Grover Cleveland lie not college graduate.
and yet Princeton University In 1897 conferred
upon him the degree Of ILL., d. This would
seem to dispose of statement to the effect
that only college graduates can be 80 honored.
Representative Lucius n. Littauer Of the
Twenty-f1fth New York district has told his
friends that he will not again be the Congress
candidate of his district
Now that Mayor Mcclellan first and Gov.
Higgins, as the final ar,iter. have signed the
four year Mayor term bill for New York city.
there promise to be no elections OF moment.
except for Assemblymen. in New York State
In 1907.
The salary Of yermont's Governor is 1880
a year: OF New Hampshires. 81 900.
Women can vote at all elections in Wyoming.
Colorado. Utah and Idaho.
Because Of the peace negotiations between
Japan and Russia inaugnrated by President
Roosevelt Cardinal Gibbons is said TO have
called the President the angel Of peace"
at the White House the otler day.
Philip c. Hanna, ConSul- General to Monte
rey saws that 500. 900. 900 of American money
is invested in Ncxico's mines. railroads.
ranches, street car systems. electric Ng!t
and power plants and manufacturing eetah-
lishments. AMI that nearly every successful
enterprise is mana sed hy American brains
and operated by American capital
Joseph n. Choate has grown bit fesh'er
under eight years of English hospitality. lie
is now almost chubby faced. and the Ngire
that once was trim as a sailors shows some
en,bonpoint. Yet Mr.. thoaie at ~ is cfirpy
as a cricket
The total police force of New York city
nun bers s,2lo. including sixty eight police
matrons.
All told there are 24s. oei members Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic.
Six Secretaries OF State became President
Of the United States. as follows: Thomas
jefferson. James Madison. James Monroe
John Quincy Adams and James Buchanan.
Only two Secretaries of War ever became
President, James Monroe and Ulysses :.
Grant. No Secretary OF the Treasury. the
Interior Navy or Agriculture and no Post
master-General or Acknowledgement has been
President