The Washington times., 1908-01-19
lcicles and Frigidity Vanish
AS Snow in a Warm
Sunshine.
Presidents Secretary Now a
Member of Two Boards
of Directors.

William Loeb. jr.. is a changed man.
No sunlit smiling vale of afability Is
so remote that he has not bIazed the
trail to it with gurgHnE laughter. No
heid of warm and inviting cordtaIity
is so hidden away that ne has not been
its Christopher Columbus.
William Loeb. jr., treads the paths
that are bordered by the lilies Of sweet
comPanionship. He seeks the gardens
where the roses of competitive endeayor
haunt their fiaTlng c0l0rs.
He is remdde.
Within the last week he has been
elected a director of the Chamber of
Commerce and also a director of the
washington Railway and Electric Com
pany- All praise 10 the excitement tho
hot glow and the heated tumuIt thar
come from the strenuous life of rha
business and commercial world This
life has melted the eternal fcfness that
once surrounded William Loeb, Dr.. Sec
rotary TO the President The SHOWS of
Yesterday have vanished like the morn
ing mist before the summer sun.
He Melts; He Warns.
fe sianderers, who have said that
Loeb was frozen for all time, retire in /
silence TO where the raH and uncut /
timoefs gag even the voice Of rolling
echo. He melts, he warns. he en- (
thuses-
Blood, warm as that Of human be-
iass' pulses through the veins he has
so long kept in cold storage. The
frozen smile is dead Loeb has aubi-
mons he has plans, he is in the thick
OF the life that calls for enthusiast,
and the rousins hustle Of competition.
No more does he take pleasure in
creating about himself a frIgid zone
that shall freeze up the Iouuacitv of
White House callers and put to naugbt
the questionings Of newspaper CORE
spondents. He is no more a buffer he
tween the President and the public. He
is in the thick of the action. He is |,
worker.
GOOdby to the IcicIe.
He has discarded the icicle as the
greatest thing on earth. He no longer
gazes with Alteration upon the hoari
frost Snow is not now his choice eli
matical condition. A falling mercury,
is not Kept forever on the job, nor is ]
ice water the only thing in the official 4;
pitcher.
Loeb smiles with warmth. Suddenly.
like a lightning flash in winter the
radiance of his laugh has Illuminated
the channels of commerce. He is done
with the clamuy clasp. IL is the warm
handshake for him hereafter. To the
business men of Washington he has
come. transformed, revivifed endowed
with all the lGnsuorous graces of the
torrid zones, where heat is a daily af-
fair. They have unveiled him to the
world. He is not Loeb. the private sec
rotary, with a thousand secrets on his
brain. He is Loeb. the business man,
with business to do.
Nr. Loeb is not the only man who.
with a White House training. has en-
tered in the last week the realm of
business in this city benjamin +.
Barnes, now City Postmaster but for
-nerly assistant secretary 90 the Presi-
dent, was elected director Of the ham
per of Commerce on the same evening
hat cav Mr.. Loeb warmed into life
He, Too, Has Thawed.
From that gentleman likewise has
lropped the mantle of secretiveness and
esentful silence. He, too, is free from
he dominating sign of silence" that
S the law in the offices of the Chief