The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-30

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do IT.
Mr.. Hughes IL an effective speaker, but
he can hardly be called ar orator. His voicp
In q littlss m~onotonous and his delivery
forced. His speeches read better than
they sound. He Ia, however. able to hold
an audience well.
MS HOME. u
Mr.. Hughes's home at $40 West End avenue
II unpretentious. By most lawyers OF his
standing at the bar IL would be considered
small. But Mr.. Hughes il not a rich man.
IL is doubtful whether he IN worth more
than 800 900. The largest individual fee
he ever received Ia said TO have been the
Q 5000 which he got for his services in the
insurance inquiry. A prominent 'corpora-
ton lawyer. speaking OF Mr.. Hughes, said
that he was NOT q money maker; chat hsS 10
one Of the few lawyers who consult their
clients a. to the amount of fees.
Mr.. Hughes's home Is furnished simply
and artistically. In the parlor h a largo
piano, at which Mr.. Hughes spends a good
deal Of his leisure time. He Is lover Of
music put is net atrathed musician He plays
the piano by means Of aAmechanical appli-
ance, Music, he says, reefs him as it re-
lakes the tension caused by close mental
application.
IL is in his library that the tastes Of the
lawyer are most clearly seen. ON the wallss
are pictures of Herbert Spencer, John.
Stuart Mill, Darwin, Huxley, Ernst Haeckel
n other men OF philosophy and sciences
There are few law books on the shelves.
They are taken up mostly with treatises
on philosophy, works OF historySsnd fictaen.
Mr.. Hughes is still considerable of a fiction
reader. There is nothing, he contends, like
a good blood and thunder romsnce to rest
q persons brain and nerves occasionally.
It was In this little library in which moet
OF the Armstrong laws were Framed. Mn
Hughes worked over them there for almost
-four weeks, taking only a few hours a day
for sleep and recreation, until hts friends
urged him 10 let up, lest he should go 20,
pieces. Mr.. Hughes laughed at warnings
Of that sort. He has a theory that no man
ever died from ~ovcrwork; that the brain,l
like the muscle Of a we'll trained athlete,
grows stronger through use.
Mr.. Hughes is a good deal Of a home man.
He enjoys the companionshipiof his children
and seldom goes out for a walk unless ac-
companied by one Of them or his wife.
Mrs. Hughes is a young looking woman
with dark hair and dark eyes. She is in
tensely interested in everything that her
husband undertakes. She frequently at
tended the hearings at the Armstrong iS<
I Yeettgarim. She IA NOT a club woman.
MIR. ~HugSes,s son, Charles Evans, Jr.;
Is a sophomore in Brown University, where
he has already won honors as a debater.
He has been hisfather's constan at companion
/ ~ ,,anoNt,Aa To- tha TScf FAM =. 0rya
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes have twb daughters;
Helen, who'is-iAyea% Old, sad C~atharine;
lwho is 4. The girls, are offending a pri-
vate school on West End avenue.
Mr.. Hughes for several years taught a
Sunday school class OF youngs men in the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, but he gave
Ethat mp about six years ago., His class is
said TO havehcen the beginning Of the John
lp, Rockefeller, .Jr, class Of young men.
Mryand Mrs. Hughes are s~tiAhnembers Of
! that church.
Mr.. Hughes is liberal in his views on re-
Lyon. He In not steetotaler. taking his
whiskey straight. when he feels like il,
which isn't often, however. Mr.. Hughes
also smokes, but never more than five cigars
in a day. He always eats the plainest Of
foods.
Mr.. Hughes's father, who is now "a years
old, and his mother both Live with him in
the West End avenue residence. One OF
the most interesting sights at the insurance
hearings to many was Mr.. Hughes's father.
He attended almost every hearing, listening
intently to every bit of evidence and smiling
satisfaction whenever his son scored a point.
Mr.. Hughes's favorite sport is golf. He
usually spends his Saturdays at the Nassau
County Golf Club. In the summer he goes
on a mountain climbing trip in the Alps.
He has not missed a summer in Switzerland
in thirteen years.