The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25

what the newspapers call a felicitous
speech. Clifford Pinohot, the forester, is
serious, more 40 than Usual perhaps, when
he helps the President to chop down trees
Chopping down trees, with a n
President TO set the pace, IL enough to make
anybody serious.
All this mention OF seriousness brings
Herbert Knox Smith to mind. Mr..
Smith ia to succeed Mr.. Garfield as Com
missioner Of Corporations. He il now the
Deputy Commissioner.
There Ia a common belief In Washington
and in the dark caverns Of the Money Octo-
pus that Mr.. Smith hyphenates his name.
Il Ia noe so. You viii find him In Who's
Who under the letter s." right above the
immortal Hoke. There is not a hyphen In
sight and . search Of the Congressional
Directory. the list OF Yale alumni and other
publications IN equally fruitleAs.
In speaking OF him, however. it Is Gus
tomary TO refer to Knox Smith. Some
scoffers ave sought to dis6gure the name
by making it Knocks Myth but the
very character OF the man bellies this too
phonetic rendition.
Mr.. Smith knocks realities. He has been
engaged too long in the game OF hunting
bTustS % Dd iOOtCu ny any mGTo CnLDcTlCNi
combinations in restraint OF trade or any
thing else. He knows a real trust when
he sees one
There Is nothing frivolous about Mr..
Smith. He Ia earnest and pugnacious.
You can observe these qualities in his very
walk INC every hair OF his close clipped
mustache.
His IL not the genial earnestness Of Gar
field or Pinchot. His IL the take-you-by-
the-throat. stand-And-deliver kind. Yet
there In a halo OF romance over III his
seriousness.
Il will be a. II the days of chivalry nave
returned to this sordid. modern world when
Mr.. Smith assumes charge of the bureau OF
corporations. To him q trust is a brutal
giant holding the captive maiden in his forth
fed tower. Other knights Grant might
seek 10 obtain her release by writs Of habeas
corpus or by suits under the Sherman Law.
but Mr.. Smith is more direct.
He win his coal black charger and
al In srmor digit wiz storm the prison Of
the fair one. His motto ID: If you see a
trust. bust it,
Cooley 10 o pink checked. boyish looking
fellow, the picture OF health IND earnest
honesty. He and Garfield are the best
players Of the White House courts. There
10 u cleancut appearance about Cooley that
makes him good to look upon.
Like Garfield, who ia pink checked and
good looking, too, he attended St. Paul's
School at Concord, N. Fl. From there no
went TO Harvard while Garfield wen TO
Williams, his fathers college.
Cooley home ID at Westchester, NY. He
is a member Of the New York bar. served a
term in the Assembly at Albany, and be-
longs 10 several clubs. He mi Garfield are
fsvorites with the Roosevelt family, and
frequently drop in at the White House for
al after dinner chat.
Pinchot and tho President we're drawn
together through q common liking for the
woods. Pinchot is wealthy and pursues the
study OF forestry for sheer love OF n. His
family established q chair Of forestry at
Yale University.
In order TO secure a thorough knowledge
OF his chosen profession he studied in
France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
It war under his direction that tho first sys-
temati forest work was done In the United
States. This was done at George W. Van
derbilts place, Biltmore, near AsheviIle,
N. G.
President Mckinley ap~pointed'him Chief
OF the Forest Service. and he has lived in
Washington ever since. Pinchot il tall,
with the stoop OF the student. He and
the President take hong walks together and
their tramps are mostly through the woods,
where Pinchcq tolls the stories Of the