The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-30

marvel Of energy and activity. l be
lieve he met every man at the con-
ference, and he had always time to
sit and talk. He enjoys people, he
enjoys being host, his love of life is
as open as his habitual smile. He Is
not an orator. but a most pleasing
speaker and a most admirable presid-
ing officer for such a body as the
conference. In person he is large,
tall and broad. grey-haired and grey
bearded, with a prominent nose,
long, clean shaven upper lip, and
strongly marked mouth. When he
permits himself thoughtful repose,
his eyes are quiet reflective, sedately
judgmatical. He presided untiringly
and his interest never for a moment
tagged. His sincerity in the matter
of the conference is too evident for
argument.
Mr. Wallace Buttrick, Of the South
ern Education Board, has little of
North Cardinals Charles ID. WcIver in
his temperament. He is a Democrat
of democrats. He. too, meets every
body, knows everybody, talks to
everybody He is ga worker and a.
theorist combined, withal one of the
most popular men personally at the
conference.
Rev. w. G.. Biting, a Virginian, but
now in New York, is another extreme
ly wide-a- wake member of the party,
in appearance much like Mr.. But
trick.
Bishop McVicker. of Rhode Island,
is one Of the most picturesque of the
"Ogdenites"- immense man, pro-
badly six feet six in height and of tre-
mendous bulk. In him the milk of
human kindness overfows in joyful
keeping with his size. He is jolly to
a degree, this bishop, quite the sort
one reads of in books, with the
strange look of boy about him that
is characteristic of most over-grown
men. The Bishop moved among the
women like a conquering hero, peer
ing down upon them as one looking
over wall, instant with quip and
jest and courtly in compliment.
EX-Mayor Seth Low, who with Mrs.
Low, is in the party, was one of the
men most noticed. He is simple and
modest in demeanor and possessed of
certain half-shy genialty that
makes him very pleasant to meet and
talk to. Short of stature, with a red
face and a tip tilted nose and small
eyes, Mr.. Low gives one a first i'm
preston of "heaviness" that is dis
PEELED when one hears him speak. His
address on Thursday night was poll
1Sned, IN eXCelIenC taste and SO inter-
spersed with anecdote and humour as
to make it all the more appreciated
as a contrast to the statistical work
of the afternoons sessions of the State
Superintendent.
The brilliant editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle, ST. Clair McKelway, is a stu
dent type, large, -whiskered, near
sighted with much work; one of the
most famous of editorial writer's, q
strong thinker and conversant with
Southern conditions to a degree re-
markable for Northern man.
Personnel of The Visitors
Others in the party, from Northern
cities, for the most part are Mr.. r.
M. Ogden, Mr. j. e. Chamberlin Mr.
II. P. Waugh, Mr.. and Mrs Fred T.
Gates, DR.. Jones E. Russell. all of
New York; Mrs. c. w. Ide, of
Brooklyn Mrs. Robert Able, New
York; Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hamlin
Abbott, New York; Mr.. and Mrs
stephen Baker. New York; Mr. John
Graham Brooks. Cambridge, Mass. :;
Rev. and Mrs. j. n. Blanchard. Bos-
ton, Mass; Mr.. and Mrs. s. H. Bishop,
New York, N. Y: Rev. and Mrs S.
n. Grother, Cambridge, Mass; Miss