The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-28
HAMILTON COLLEGE
 HON0RS HAWLEY. A Memorial Window Placed in the Old College
 Chapel. SAM CALEF DONOR. The Meteoric Career of the Late Senator's Great
 Admirer.
SAM CALEF DONOR.

General Joseph R. Hawley, a trustee of the college and an alumnus. class of 1S47 The window is about three feet by six feet and contains in an oval cen- ter, a fine portrait of General Hawley which President NJ. w. Stryker of Hamilton says Is a fine likeness of the general, with whom he was very well acquainted. The window was made in London, England, by Heaton, Butler & Bayne and comports well with other portrait windows in the chapel, among them memorials to Alexander Hamil- ton, Oren Root, father of Elihu Root, and Judge Truax of New York. The window Is the gift of Samuel Prescott Calef of Utica, N. r., formerly of Mid dletown, and cost $500. The inscription on the window reads
 Joseph Roswell Hawley,
 United States Senator 1881-1905
 Curator 1875-19O4.
 MT. Calef, the donor of the window was an admirer of General Hawley and his first recollections of the general hark back to the time when he was a little boy and General Hawley was the guest of his father, the late Judge Ar thur B. Calef at the family home in MiddletoWn. General Hawley, Judge Calef and his sons, Arthur B. Calef and Dr. ]. Francis Calef were all Psi U men and several years ago General Hawley would occasionally give an ad- dress in Middletown to the Wesleyan Chapter of the Greek letter society. 1sSam" Calef's admiration for the gen. eral never ceased during the lapse of years and about a year ago he had talk with President Stryker of Hamil- ton about placing memorial to Gen eral Hawley in the college. The chapel was suggested on account of the gen. eral being a regular attendant at pray CTS while a student, and the fact that there were other portraits of dstin- guished men in the memorial windows, and MT. Calef agreed to furnish the window which is now much admired
 The life of Samuel Prescott Calef, the donor of the memorial window to Gen eral Hawley reads like page from the s'Arablan Nights. Sam" Calef, as ev- erybody calls him, was born in Mid dletown forty-two years ago, the youngest son of Judge Arthur B. Calef, o prominent resident of that city who died about seven years ago. He is a brother of the present Judge Arthur B. Calef and Dr. J. Francis Calef of Mid tlletown and of Edward B. Calef of this city, who is employed in the office of the Electric Vehicle company. Sam" was educated in the local schools and spent a period at Wilbraham academy but did not graduate. Then he return { ed home and tried to study law in his fathers office, but did not make much of a success at it. When the late Lev erett M. Hubbard of Wallingford be- came state secretary in 1887, Sam" was appointed 8 clerk in the office and managed to put in enough time at the capitol to make little showing for his salary. He was then in the class of young men who possessed champagne arLetites and lager beer incomes and consequently was generally in an i'm pecunious condition. Early in the game which John Addison Porter played for the governorship without success, Sam espoused the cause of the Hartford newspaper proprietor and having the faculty of making friends easily, for sam was a good mixer, soon ingra- tisted himself with MT. Porter. The result was that when Porter became secretary to President Mckinley in- -4tead of getting an ambassadorship he bmenbered his young friend from Mid letown and got him a clerkship in the flee of the secretary of state at Washington, D. c.
 That was the turn in the tide of sam's" affairs, which taken at the tocd. etc., helped him along. Sam" idn't have much money, but he had he faculty of making friends pretty rel1 developed. Soon a friend advised i'm to buy certain piece of real es- ate adjoining one of the principal ho- tels in washington and helped him raise the wind. It was profitable buy and the young clerk tried again and was successful. He bought some more Washington real estate and found his time was more valuable in that line than in a clerkship in a department where he was simply part of the ma- rhine and resigned. Then he dipped in- to mining stocks some, and the stocks he bought went soaring up, until pret- tv soon his income from his invest mepts was far more than his former salary in the department of state and "San" was on the high road to for tune. He continued to make good in- yestments and now his wealth, on the authority of relatives, is not less than S4OOo00, and is growing rapidly. His brother Arthur said recently that it seemed as though everything Sam" touched turned to gold.
 MT. Calef has three or four homes,
 .ses and autos galore and now en-
 5 himself to his hearts content.
 eral years ago he went to Santa
 bara, where he joined a friend in
 purchase of an old mine in Ari-
 j. which turned out a very profit
 venture. He is now building ESQ.,
 9use in Santa Barbara, has an-
 winter home in Alexandria coun-
 l., and lives in Utica, N. Y,
 sver he feels disposed to. Last
 day Mir Calef sailed in the Amer
 pr Europe, taking along Mrs. Ca
 sis auto, valet chauffeur, lady's
 for his wife, and a lot of para
 nalia, and will tour England, Scot
 and Ireland and probably on the
 nent before he returns in the fall.
 5uite of rooms on the steamer for
 v,I Acf