The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-10
WILCOX AT SYCAMORE Hill,
URGES TIRE PRESIDENT no AP-
POINT MORGAN POSTMASTER,

Bnt n Is Understood Ne Premises We're
Made The President Gets tho HART.
man Report Another Writer secs Min
r TO Get Permission 20 Print somethinx.
OYSTER Bar, N. T., July s-President
Wilcox OF the Public Service Commission
was President Rooseveltia guest at luncheon
To-day. MFR. Wilcox with three other visitors
came TO Oyster Bay % the 1918 train and
rode up the hill In n Of the Secret Service
automobiles. The sending Of the auto 70 the
station confers q hind Of brevet rank upon
those 50 favored. Ths common or garden
variety OF guest travels by the public hack
and sees more Of the scenery.
D On his arrival Tho ex-Postmastsr refuped
10 discuss the affairs Of the ONCE which he
recently quilted, but sitter luncheon with
tho President at Sycamore Hill he admitted
that part Of his mission at least had been
10 press h case OF Assistant Postmaster
Edward NJ. Morgan. Mr.. wllicox,s candi-
date for the postunastership cf Now York
0ty.
Il talked tho situation over with the
President > said Mr.. WILCOX, and ! rscom-
rnended Mr.. Morgan very stroagiy. He 10
The most ancient man that I know Of n ths
Post Once DepartnpsoS and he has konR
been familiar With The work In tho Nov
York onioe. Mr.. Morean hes tho backing
~ the business men Of New York.s
Mr.. Wiiioox's attention was called to the
oft repeated assertion that Representative
Herbert Parsons' vas oppoesd 10 Mr.. Nor
gan and in view Of the fact that President
Roosevelt 10 particularly fhsnday TO Mr..
Parsons the latter's wishes were likely to
receive much considsrstion. After think
ing . moment nr. WILCOX replied:
a political one. politics should n0s Aeare In
n, but there 10 no harm in sAyine that Mr..
Morgan 10 and always has bean 4 stanch
Republican. He did much 10 aid Mr.. Par
sons In his hght for clean party politics In
that conaider Mr.. Morgan the bsst MAD
Mr.. Wilcox would not say vbethsr ar
not he had received any dsfinite uomise
from the President or any direct hint Of
York city postmsstership. but Il IL under
stood hat the President did not commit
himself. IL 10 the general impression hare
that Mr. Parsons can tell h'hs viii who
the new Postmaster 10 to be.
be announced before the end Of I'M week
and II may hang IRE for some time longer.
The other guests at luncheon we've Her
bert Knox Smith, chief Of the bureau of
corporations: Y. b. Aellogg. special counsel
tor the department OF Juetice, and W. ID. W.
Miller OF this American Museum Of Natural
History.
Neither Mr.. Smith nor Mr.. KELLOGG would
discuss the object Of their visit, bat IL "a
understood that they wished to confer with
me President conserving some feature Of
All Of the guests left on an early a~ftsrnoon
train Later Secrstary Loeb sajd that Mr..
Kellogg had been the bearer of O CODY of
the Hartman report to the Presfdsnt.
There would bs no a-npounosmsnt CONCERN.
President had had time 70 study it.
The regular luncheon guests were pre-
ceded by O professor Of political economy
from q Western university and q writer for
a well known weekly. These two arrived
Hill in the hack. Later the msSazine
writer said hat b was doing a ptecs about
the President and had come down TO see II IL
was agreeable. Since several well known
nature wi,tsr' ,r&ot theirs- the don't
Of literary folk 10 quite notiosabIs and
there are many writer's who como TO ask
permission to print.
While waiting for their trains several Of
the Presidents visitors WALKED down TO
sioc Uny s'y ysw q 81 Spray q 1oo Which &c ci x iy SSsHr II
rae harbor. Capt. Slocum sailed the craft
s.nglehanded around the world a few
years go. He 10 q great friend and adj
inirer Of tho President and was Q guest ct
Sycamore Hill last year. At that time
ne President showed his confidence in the
old sailor by allowing n Of his soos 70
make a cruise In the Spray. Two Of the
boys were looking the Spray over to-day
and listening TO Capt. Bloolm's yarns.
On Saturday h Spray vii sail for Newport,
and Archie Roosevelt, the Presidsnt's third
zoo, IS TO go along - mate and take another
haeon in seaman6hip.
The President to-day announced the
appointment Of william G. Rast0n TO be
Assistant Treasurer In the United States
Sub-Ireasury ct u Francisco.