Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-26

Jewish peddler on the streets of Phila-
delphia In 1853, while journeying from
Switzerland to. America, this man with
the pack on his back had met in the
Jewess who, as his wife, later bore him
seven sons, which indeed proved a lucky
number. How these parents, Meyer and
barbara shab is Guugggenheim. later kept little
shop IN Philadelphia; how She with her
little ones at her skirts, tended store
while her husband went out soliciting or
GERS, Is picture In striking contrast
=, IT. that at presented today by the modes
his six multimillionaire brothers; how
the one-time peddler in less than a gem
Grafton developed from an insignificant
importer Of this country has recently
been told in the public prints, as has the
Arabian Nights tale Of how he accepted for
bad debt shares in a hopeless silver mine
whose later earnings laid the foundation
OF his monopoly Of the silver, lead and
copper business of North, Central and,
South America.
Although his eldest brothers had to COM
mence life as errand boys and shop clerks
when their father was still poor, Simon
Guggenheim after passing through the pub
lie schools of Philadelphia was sent abroad
10 complete his education. Then, like his
brothers, he was made to go to work as a
iaborer IN the smelling works and thus
learn the business from the very bottom
His precocity showed itself markedly
When ne was twenty-nine. His exterior at
that time led his party's leaders in Colo
RADIO to suppose that he was a man of much
maturer years and they nominated him for
lieutenant governor, although he was be-
low the legal age limit and had to with
draw his name. But he was nominated for
governor when only thirty-one In 1898
when he married Miss Olga Hirsh, daughter
of Henry Hirsh of New York he hired
SPACE in the leading oil IF
spread a feast of several thousand covers
for the poor of that city and upon the birth
OF ms son ne presented Denver with an i'm
posing building for the Golden School of
Mines. Mr.. Guggenheim is nearly thirty
TOUR years younger than Senator Teller
VINO VIII be his colleague in the Senate.
Montana's New Senator in His 3O's
Joseph M. Dixon, who succeeds in the
Senate the mutimillionaire copper king
William A. Clark, is but five months the
senior of Mr.. Guggenheim. He is a Tar
heeF by birth, having first seen the light
at Snow Camp, N. c., two years after the
close of the civil war. He went west
when youth to study at Richmond, Ind,
but returned home to complete course
at college, being graduated when twenty
two. For the next three years he studied
law, and then struck out for the far west
soula, Mont, he hung out his shingle
and in year was made assistant prose-
cutting attorney. In two more years he
was made prosecuting attorney and in six
years mLre was In the legislature. Mon
tana having but one representative elected
lat large he must be the choice of a ma
and his popularity must be wide. Young
Dixon so well succeeded in making his
mark in the legislature that after serving
there but two years he won this seat
in Congress. Last spring came the sena-
torial. announcement that the bitter feud
between the rival copper kings of Mon
tana-Senator Clark and F. AuguStus
Heinze-had resulted in a truce, by the
terms of which Clark was to retire from
the Senate and Heinze, also a democrat,
was to succeed him. With these two rival
glove, it was foregone conclusion that
a democratic legislature would be elected
in Montana last fall But with Repre-
sentative Dixon's aid that body was given
a republican majority, and at the joint leg
islative caucus this month the young rep
resentative received more than double the
votes given to Lee Mantle the once power
full republican senator.
Nearest in age to these three young men
ranks in the Senate, Bailey of Texas, who
is forty-three. The only other senators below
forty-five are Flint of California, Beverage
of Indiana, Smoot of Utah and Sutherland
of Utah. Senator Bailey's record quite ex-
ceeds the average for precocity, he having
entered the House when but twenty-seven
and the Senate when thirty-seven. But it
has been many year since any senator has
equaled the records of Jackson, who entered
the Senate at thirty-the constitutional
minimum-and of Monroe, who took his seat
in that dignifled body when thirty -two. In
deed, the Senate today does not contain
man as young as were the following great
American statesmen when they performed
the feats enumerated:
Hamilton at thirty-two was leading
member Of the constitutional convention,
and he left greater impress upon the ma
tional charter than any other delegate;
Madison, "the father of the Constitution"
anti hat mr. Qv1tfn vUh vt W
while Monroe and Jay sat In the same body
when only thirty-three. Indeed. when JEFF
ferson's inspired pen drafted the Declaration
of Independence he was thirty -three-six
years younger than our youngest senator or
senator-elect of today.
In Their Twenties.
Eight members of the House of Repre-
sentativs were in their twenties when
elected to the present Congress.
The youngest Of these, only twenty-six-
one years above the constitutional limit
when elected-is Anthony Michalek Of
Chicago. He was born In Bohemia. and
was brought to this country when three
years old by his poor immigrant parents.
They settled in Chicago and managed to
keep their boy in the public schools until
he had equipped himself In bookkeeping.
He opened a little grocery In the Packing
town district, made famous by Upton Sim
clair. This district had gone democratic
chosen to lead the forlorn hope His choice
was due to his ability to speak the va
rious languages of PackingtOwn, and his
shrewdness can best be illustrated by the
terms on which he accepted the hopeless
nomination. He demanded that In every
campaign speech and upon every campaign
banner his business should be referred to.
Sure of losing the election he was equally
certain to boom his store and make some
capital out 1.-The campaign. But the
Roosevelt tidal wave carried him to VIC