Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-12
Personal Anecdotes

The incident which above all others
proved key to John Hays character
and TO his success as an undisputed
leader among the worlds diplomats hap
pened in Washington in connection with
a newspaper correspondent. 1t was this:
Mr. Hay had once and for all an in
controvertible understanding with all the
CORE spondents that on no account was
he TO be quoted in the newspapers. one
day during an ordinary private CONVEX
sation the great secretary told number
of newspaper men a story which, having
been rendered with all the pointedness
and cleverness which made Mr.. Hay
famous as a story-teller, struck one of
the correspondents as too good to be lost.
He sent it to his paper and next day
confessed to Mr.. Hay that he had print
ed 1t.
With the icy, calm, penetrating cold
ness which the secretary knew so well
how to assume when necessary he re-
proved the correspondent. This happened
on a Saturday. On Monday morning the
newspaper man received this note, writ
ten by Mr.. Hay:
My Dear -: 1 am sorry if l seemed
somewhat abrupt on Saturday. had not
seen the paragraph, but l ought to have
remembered how fair and considerate
YOU always are, and kept my temper
Please excuse me, and reflect that II
made you uncomfortable for moment
I made myself so for all day.
Yours sincerely, JOHN HAY.
'Eddie" Foy insists he is serious in his
intention of adding his family name of
Fitzgerald to his stage name of Foy, and
that his contemplated debut as Hamlet is
ON the cards. Roy McCardell suggests
soliloquy for f. Foy Fitzgerald that VIII
read as follows:
To be or not to be? Huly Geel That's the
question:
Whether tbs nobler, DO, not TO set up tai
cream
When you're stung; or put up a scrap against
a sea of troubles.
To croak to pound the feathers; or jump in
At the sound of the gong and go to it, kiddo,
And so forget your troubles, see?
guy is sure up against it in this world
And il you jump off the dock, where do you
come in?
A lot of boobs put up with it because they
don't
Know where they get off. It's a hard luck
story, DO,
For most of us; so many things put on
the cheese;
Our best friends pan us, a skirt will throw
us down;
Bulls in harness pinch us; what's the user
*
"One wretched., blustery day. said
Pittsburg iron man, g had a cap with
ear tabs on when / met Mr.. Carnegie en-
the street. He joked me about my ear
tabs. He said there was an old Scot who
always used to curl-you know the game
i'm ear tabs, but one bitter day he APP
peared on the ice minus the tabs and
friends said: 'Hullo, whaur's yer aud
lug warmersT oh. was the reply, I've
never worn them since my accident
Accident? What accdent@ A man
offered me a drink an wi the dashed
flaps l didna hear him.
Ex-senator Stewart of Nevada passed
the main portico of the White House to-
day on his way to the executive offices,
where he talked with the president about
the Goldfield troubles and thanked him
for sending troops there expressing the
hope that he would keep the soldiers
there for awhile.
Pointing to the historic steps of the
White House, he said; II saw President
Lincoln get into his carriage from those
steps the night he was killed l was the
last man to speak with him at the White
House. He wrote me note that night
that | would give $1,000 if / had now. 1t
was this way: Mr.. Lincoln's calling hour
for congressional visitors was o'clock in
the evening. J. was in the senate and
called at the White House about 80 that
evening. The presidential offices were
then located in the second story From
there / sent my card to the president, who
wrote upon it Il ese words II have an
engagement to take Mrs. Lincoln TO the
theater; an engagement / never break.