The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-12-03

Owner Of -Four Homes.
The present naval secretary has not
quite as many homes or dollars as
Rockefeller, but doubtless has an
easier conscience. The two things
may stand to each other in the relation
OF cause and effect. Possessions some
times do burden ones conscience, but
as Mr.. Newberry got most Of his from
his father, his wife and legitimate
business he is free from much Of the
individual responsibility that worries
other possessors of millions. It is said
that the new cabinet member is about
twenty times millionaire, but as this
IS paper estimate you may apply to
1t all the grains Of saline matter YOU
think it requires. AS for his homes,
he has four, one in Detroit, one lust
outside that city, one in Rhode Island
and one in Washington.
Mrs. Newberry was a Brooklyn girl
and a granddaughter Of A. S. Barnes,
the famous publisher. She was one Of
Brooklyn's popular debutantes and has
maintained that popularity as a ma
tron and society leader. The navy
has a social set Of it's own in Wash
1ngton, one Of the most exclusive there.
10 say that the navy is ruled by bu-
reaucrat1c clique is only half the truth.
The real governing power is not bu-
reacratic, but social. At least it used
to be so, and I have heard of no vio-
lent revolution in Washington to upset
the old order. Well, the Newberrys
stand so high socially that the new
secretary's double power is at once
seen. BE Is not only naval expert,
fact that everybody admits, but both
he and his wife are social experts. so
he Is supreme in his department from
both sides. It is a statement which
could truthfully be made of but few
secretaries of the navy.
The Newberries have three children,
a daughter aged nineteen and twin
sons now sixteen. In their Washing
ton home they entertain extensively,
as they have done wherever located
throughout their married life. The
secretary was never in politics, though
he did serve on the staff of the gov
ernor Of Michigan. His connection
with the political world was through
his father, who was not only a con-
gresham, but business partner of
the late Senator Mcmillan.
Truman Handy Newberry was born
in 1854 and was educated in the public
schools, in a military institute, in a
private academy and at Yale, taking
the degree Of Phi. B. He began life
as railroad man and was at one time
superintendent of construction, later
paymaster and still later a general
freight and passenger agent. The
death of his father in 1887 threw upon
his shoulders the management of a
large estate, and he has made the pa
ternal dollars grow, blossom and bear
fruit. To do that has a dollar going
some
A mere recounting Of the various
companies that Mr.. Newberry has been
connected with is enough to make the
average American shrivel into his shoes
and wonder just how many trusts there
are. l am not certain that any Of these
Newberry companies are trusts, but
they sound like it. Here is a partial
list on which he has served either as
president, vice president, treasurer or
director: Detroit Steel and Spring CON-
pany, Union Trust company, State Saw
ings bank, Michigan Telephone CON-
pany, Parke, Davis & Co., Railway
Steel Spring company, Cleveland Cliffs
Iron company, Detroit Steel Casting
company, Union Depot and Station
company, Union Elevator company and
Grace hospital. When a man acts at
the head or in the directorate of that
many corporations and still has time
to be lieutenant in the navy, a yachts
man, an automobilist, a society man;
an assistant secretary and a secretary
Of the navy he must not only be great.
but widely diffused.
Has Three Hobbies.
This furnishes but mere outline of
Mr.. Newberry's career and gives about
as adequate an idea of the real flesh
and blood man and his personality and
accomplishments as a skeleton does of
the love affairs and escapades Of the
being that once covered it's bones. To
get a concept Of the real Newberry
one must imagine man with a large
waist measurement, jovial, direct, full