Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09
Morgan Peeling an Apple.

| "A proconsul in the Philippines" slowly
repeated J. Pierpont Morgan who was
found sitting on his office steps, peelipg an
| apple and watching the crowd pass in Wall
| and Broad streets, ever and anon throwing
a strip of big yellow pippin skin over his
| left shoulder to see if 1t didn't twist up and
come down like dollar sign.
! But he didn't seem inclined at first to
| discuss the question. On the contrary, he
| rather pointedly evaded the question by
addressing the messenger boys grouped
| about him on the steps, and asking: (Which
| one will get the core tOday?" The lads
| laughiIfgly jumped to their feet to prepare
for their regular morning romp with the
well known banker. and there was the
usual scramble when he threw the core
high up in the air
You want to know" he began after the
| froic was over. what l think of the sug-
gestion that Mr.. Roosevelt go to the Philip
pines as proconsul He would go first
| cabin, of course?
| Assured of this. he continued:
Il can't tell you what l think. I would
| like to. But the idea overcones me- 1t
| the years. l am suffused with joy.
why can't our artists paint ideas? ?
| Why can't our sculptorS embody them in
| the living stone? / shall have statue
| of the proconsul in my Metropolitan
| Museum, of course and picture of him
| crossing the Sierra de Tagatay to make
| the Batangas reform their spelling; but
who can paint for us the idea of his 60
ing? Who can perpetuate on canvas our
joy in 1907 al the prospect of 1905? My
, museum awaits such an artist"
Whats the Filipino word for 1iar'?"
asked II. NJ Whitney, rather crustily.
when the proconsul plan was unfolded
to him. He seemed to miss the larger
view, the broader conception, Of the
thing altogether.
So did DIR. Long, who at the present
time is all wrapped up in his studies of
Wall street fauna. In the opening chap
tiers of brochure on that subject he has
| tJ,o
dendsis trafticus should be classed among
the extinct animals, and he dedes the
President to contradict him.
Heaven help the Tagalogs, was all
that the Bellamy Storers would say.
Like Caesar, Says John D.
Caesar was a proconsul too" remark
ed John D. Rockefeller, a well-known
/ classical scholar darkness First Reader
for Beginners, with notes and vocabu-
| larry Caesar was a proconsul, and he
reformed the calendar somewhere. What
will Theodore reform first? What shall
it be-" He repeated the question mus
ingly.
member to put two 'ps' in Philippine, and
only one Il in Manila. He'll attend to
| that first. He'll declare war if any other
nation puts in two rs or leaves out
| one p.
tional agreement called the Manila de-
cree, substituting 30 for our famous %?
Twenty nine for yours from any Lands
would be as bitter. AS proconsul he'll
be able to attend to all those things.
Then he'll cross the Alps and the Rubicon
and the Delaware. He'll be a great man
some day.
"Oh. yes. personally I'm glad he's going
Hope he'll have good time"
I'll lend him my yacht kanawha as
soon he wants to CO." said H. II Rog
ers. She's the fastest boat in the world
He can keep her over there as the
nucleus of a great navy, If he'll only go
now. She's a grand yacht. but III give
her up as a transport for just one person.
l am ready to make this sacrifice for my
country's good, for the markets larger
welfare. Steam's up already"
Hes got to use tact with those people
over there" remarked Thomas +. Ryan.
He'll have to amuse them and put up
bluff that he takes an interest in their
cockfghting and wants to reform and
regulate it on a sound and conservative
basis. He must eliminate the mollycod-
dies from the cockpits and he'll need
help. The best one l know to take care
of this sporting end of his administra-
tipn in-the far east is Belmont. I'll lend
him, and the proconsul needn't ever
send him back. This offer is based on
the one condition that they will 10th go
at once"