The Washington herald., 1908-08-09
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON." AN OLD AND TRUE ADAGE
w. H. Taft and Herbert
Gladstone Examples of
Men in the Government
Whose Fathers " ere
Famous in the Same
Field of Endeavor.

Brewer was led 10 remark that Culoer-
sons arguments were the most brilliant
he had ever heard delivered before the
court
Passing from =t.f craft real and near.
to stagecraft. (. II. SOthe-n Is 50 much a
chip of the old block that last season he
revived ''Lc~d Dundreary.T one OF the
plays made iau-us BY his father. and 50
well did Ie tray the title role that
many c. j .-ere at a loss 20 decide
whether Che son excelled the father or the
father the son in the part John Drew =
held TO BE at HIS best when play affords
him Opportunity 10 display his powers Of
coined: his father was an Irish come
dian And James X Hackett- whose wife.
Mary Mannering, has brought suit for
divorce. IS the son Of an old American
actor. James HeRry Hackett-
IN Francis y. Greene. who was police
commissioner Of New York under Mayor
Seth Low. the military has a fne example
Of a man who has made an enviable rec
ord for himself in the speciality OF his
father. also a leading specially Of his an
cestors reaching back 10 Revolutionary
days
Francis Y Greene was eleven years old
when the civil war broke out; his father,
George Sears Greene. came out Of the
contest a brigardier general and pretty
much al the time he was at the front he
was accompanied by his son The year
after peace was declared the boy entered
West Point. and four years later be was
graduated with the highest honors in his
class, his father also had been graduated
from West Point In such great battles
OF the civil war as Antietan- Gettysburg.
and Cedar Mountain the father displayed
great bravery: during the RussO-Turkish
war. II 1sT7. the son was Uncle Sans mil
I itary attache with the Russian army. and
for bravery displayed at several battles
Z he was decorated twice by the Gar For
bis part IN the battles that led 20 the cap
ture OF Manila in the SPaaish-Amerioan
{ conflict the son became a major general,
rising a grade higher than his father
And then. when the trouble with Spain
was over. ne left the service. and a few
years later tackled the thankless but re-
l sponsibie Job of police commissioner of
New York City; thirty-six years before
Z his father had taken up the duties OF head
I OF that cityfs water supply. following his
retirement from the army
Many Others Noted.
I IN bevfldsring finance and equally BE-
wildering giant industry. :. P. Morgan.
. jr: Cyrus Mall Mccormick. son OF the
/ reaper inventor and head OF the harvester
trust; J. ogden Armour reputed head Of
{ the meat trust. Clarence H Nacksy ana
ArEttL Ee A1tALtAs dL44IL4E DLa-eLe- are more
less business chips Of the old blocks. IN
the publication field. the sons OF The orig
iuaI Scribner and the son os the original
Lippincott are big figures. Walter and
Frank 5Damrosch- IN music are following
largely in the footsteps OF their father,
Leopold. who was among the leading ml-
steal figures OF the country twenty-five
years ago. The Beard brothers and SIS
tters-Daciel Adelia. and the -est-i1herir
their enthusiasm for the pencil and the
brush from their father. whose canvassss
are 70 be found IN Americas finest coIlec-
lions Of paintings. DR.. Austin Flint. than
whom there is no more skilled physician
in the entire American profession is Ihs
son Of a physician who was distinguished
Throughout the East IN the middle decades
Of the last century And 50 the list might
be continued al length Of men who.
through their own Efforts have proven
themselves the equals. and sometimes the
svperiors. Of their fathers IN the activities
which made the latter more or less prom
inent in their day and generation
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