The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01

opponents OF w years ago. and even
caused the redoubtable DR.. Parkhurst,
TaMmanv's eternal enemy, on his re-
turn from Europe i'm the fall. to pat
Mr.. Mcclellan ON the back.
Crol<er'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 Mas even greater When. called
into the presence of Richard Croker,
that far known leader of Tammuny
said to him:
Il am going to have you nominated
for president of the board of alder
men,
He was not only nominated; he was
elected by the largest majority of any
candidate on the ticket. and when
Mayor Gilroy left the city for the first
time after taking office. Mr.. Mcclellan,
at 2s, found himself the younges, acting
mayor New York ever had. The record
is still his. and ten years later he be-
came the youngest mayor the city has
mad in many year. In the interim oc-
CURED his various terms as representa-
tive i'll congress; in fact, since his APP
polntment as treasurer of the New
York II Brooklyn bridge he has held
office continually. all except the first be-
ing elective.
Like his father the mayor delights in
being i'll The open as much as his du-
tics will permit.
His favorita form of physical recre-
alton is the good old fashioned one of
walking. Every morning, when the
weather is good. he walks from his
residence on Washington square To the
city hall. abou Il mile and a half, and
when the days work is over he walks
back again. frequently taking a round
about that he may be out longer.
He is Il 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 own for
over Sunday. and a large part of the
time chat he is away is spent in BIZ
cycling. About a month ago he Went
TO Princeton. and in the morning did
sixty-eight miles over the roads that
became familiar to him during his coll
lege days, which came to an end with
his graduation nineteen years e last
summer.
The mayor is a devotee of the bicycle
Cor two reaSons-it appeals to him as
being Il good means of exercise, and by
using ii hard and often he manages to
keep down his avoirdupois, which has
shown a decided tendency to increase
III Sllts oi lNe worry incident TO DelllR
the executive head for over 1000, 900
people
1t is while he is taking his recreation
that he youthful look for which the
mayor la been locally remarked is
evident in all its bo~yishness. 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 andHap
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 that kid OF the wheel you
just nodded 90"
you dub. don't YOU know that's the
mayor of New York?"