The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-16

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 The second quality which has made for MT Roots success in law in his tact and that is quality which Is rare in these
 big. analytical ntellects. The man of balance and far sight Is likely to be un- magnetic, wanting In perception of men and in sensltiveness-and the sensitive spirit Is the mother of tact Elihu Root has the knack of handling men. of rub bing their fur the right way, of making ], them see things with his eyes.
 Settle It out of court" has been one of hls unformulated notices. Again and again he has settled big cases by calling l in his opponents, talking 1t over getting them together
 l Superficial observers have called MT. Root cold. The same thing was said of his predecessor. Secretary Hay, and for the same reason since the two minds were of the same type at bottom
 Mir. Root Is of the mental temperament: his psychology lies deep down-lt Is only with an effort that he throws his feelings to the surface. There is & dynamo under the Ice, however, a very wHrm and human personality, as his friends and his family know.
 His charities have been many. but very quiet. His gift of science hall to Hamii- ton college has been almost his only pub lie act of giving
 He is called by hls employees one of the squarest and most liberal employers in the country, and his lberality goes further than money He always gives his sub erdinates full credit. From the time when lie was first able to afford clerks in his office he has made 1t a rule that ev- e;y creditable brief shall bear, not his own name, but that of the clerk who drew il up. In this respect he is an exception among eminent lawyers
 Above all these qualities is that of nard work and intense concentration. They used to notice at Washington that he never knew when meal time came and that night was announced for him by coming of the electric lights.
 When important matters came before hme he went Into long periods of con- oentrated thought, during which the doormen and employees learned. he was not to be disturbed only at their peril. When his door was closed when the sec retary had gone into executive session with himself not even a senator or a cabinet member was allowed to disturb him. He had started to analyze some thing; he must carry it out to the very end before he let the machine stop.
 Tn his earlier days his recreation, like that of President Roosevelt lay in long hunting trips to the west. He has dropped that in his later years.
 For time he found recreation in golf Now his vacation is his friends and his family He loves long, familiar talks, in which his exterior sloughs off and the real man shines out.
 Otherwise 1t is all work. During the troubled summer of 1900, when the Boxers were besieglng the legations at Pelsin, he was the only cabinet officer who stuck t out all during the hot Washington sum- mer He stayed with 1t twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four. while the melting asnhalt pavements were pulling off shoes.
 He Is no longer "Young" Elihu Root The name was dropped after he entered the cabinet. Yet he appears younger than his 60 years
 Ills photographs make him appear still