The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-11-24
George Brinton Mcclellan, Ole Man

opponents of W years ago. and even
| caused the redoubtable Dr.. Parkhurst,
Tammanv's eternal enemy, on his re-
turn from Europe in h fall. to pat
Mr.. Mcclellan on the back.
Croker's Little Surprise.
II. Mcclellan WAS doing" the tinan-
cial district for his paper when he was
told OF his appointment TO the treas
urership of the New York and Brooklyn
bridge. The news vas a decided sur
prise TO him; three years later his sur
prise wns even greater when, called
into the presence of Richard Croker,
that far known leader of Tammany
SAID to him:
Il am going to nave you nominated
for president of the board IF alder
men,
He was not only nominated: he was
elected by the largest majority of n
candidate on the ticket, and when
Mayor Gilroy left the city for the first
tim after taking office. Mr.. Mcclellan,
at IS. foundh himself the youngest acting
mayor New York ever had. The record
is stfll his. and ten years later he be-
came the youngest mayor the city has
had in many Il year. In the interim oc-
CURED his various terms as representa-
tive i'll congress-: in fact. since his APP
Doinlment as treasurer OF the New
York and Brooklyn bridge he has held
office continually. all except the first be-
ing elective.
Like his father the mayor delights in
being in the open as much as his du-
ties will permit.
His favorite form of physical recre-
alton is the good cid fashioned one Of
weather is good, he walks from his
residence on Washington suuar to the
city hall. about Il mile and a half, and
when the days work is over he walks
back again, frequently taking a round
about way. that he may be out longer.
He is d good walker and can swing over
the ground at a four-mile clip without
apparently eXerting himself in the
least.
On Saturday afternoons it is the
mayors custom to slip out of town for
over Sunday, and a large part of the
time that he is away is spent in BIZ
cycling. About a month & he went
to Princeton, and in the morning did
siNty-eight miles over the roads that
became familiar to him during his COL
lege days, which came to an end with
his graduation nineteen years ago last
The mayor is a devotee of the bicycle
Cor two appeals to him as
being a good means of exercise. and by
using it hard and often he manages to
keep down his avoirdupois. which has
shown a decided tendency to Increase
in spite of the worry incident to being
the executive head for over 1000. 900
people
1t is While he is taking his recreation
that the youthful look for which the
mayor has been locally remarked is
evident in all its boyishness. Then the
tension of muscles caused by the Off
cial care departs from his face. and
despite the fact that his hair has be-
come half gray within the last two
years. he looks more the budding
young man than the staid mayor of the
metropolis.
But when he gets in his bicycle cos
Observation-Disclosures. sweater and cap
his general appearance is actually
boyish.
One day last summer. while he was
bicycling in Long Branch, he over
heard this dialogue as he passed two
men standing at a street corner:
who's hat kid on the wheel YOU
just nodded to?"
You dub. don't YOU know that's the
mayor of New York?