Evening star., 1909-03-01
FAREWELL TO FRIENDS
President Entertains tennis
Cabinet" at Luncheon.
LAUDS THEIR PUBLIC WORK
Young officials Warmly Praised in
Heart to Heart" Talk.
TRIBUTE TO jim" GARFIELD
"The Type of What Good Public
Servant Should Be-" Mr.. Roose-
Welt Tells His Hearers.

farewell luncheon to warm. devoted
personal friends was given at the White
House today by President Roosevelt. and
the occasion was immensely enjoyed
From official life the guests included a
coterie of young men who have been Ar
IDENTIFY and enthusiastically at the call
of the President In his arduous work. al
ways striving to aid him in his efforts
and policies. part of them constituting
what has come 10 be known as the ten
mis- cabinet From the unofficial part OF
life came those who have served the
President just warmly and devotedly
and who have been with him on some OF
his most memorable hunts, both before
and after he entered the White House.
The list OF guests was personally select
ed by the President and may be regarded
as his roll of close personal friends. 70
whom he feels under obligations and for
whom he has deep attachment.
Those Who Were There.
At the head Of the list Is the French
ambassador. J. J. Jusserand, who has
played tennis with the President oftencr
than any other man. and who has had the
entree to the White House on all occasions
formal and informal. Then came Secre-
tdry Bacon Justice MOODY or the supreme
Court. Postmaster General Meyer. Secre-
fary Newberry, Secretary Garfield, Secre-
tary Loeb. Solicitor General Hoyt, Assist
ant Secretary OLaughlin. Assistant Sec
retary Winthrop. Assistant Secretary Sat
terlee. Assistant Attorney General Wood
ruff. Assistant Secretary Phillips Law
renee o. Murray, controller of the cur
rency. Commissioner Leupp Commission
er Neill, Commissioner Smith OF the
bureau of corporations Commissioner
Of he civil
Clifford Pinchot, Henry L. Stimson. United
States attorney at New York: James r.
REYNOLDS. who investigated the beef trust
and other corporations for the President:
John c. Rose. United States attorney at
Baltimore: Capt. Luther s. Kelly, known
everywhere as Yellowstone Kelly
whom the President met many years ago
on the Little Missouri river, and now IN
indian agent In Arizona; w. w. Bill
Sewall, Maine hunter and guide. With
whom the President has enjoyed many a
hunt: Capt. Seth Bullock, now marshal OF
North Dakota. and an old friend In ranch
ing days back In the sos: Commissioner
keefe of the bureau of immigration, DIR.
Henry 8. Pritchett Of the geological sur
vey. John Abernathy, marshal OF Okla
homa and noted as a wolf hunter and
guide of the President in Oklahoma wolf
hunt; Capt. A. w. Butt, Presidents aid
and warm personal friend: w. w. Heffel-
finger famous Yale foot ball player.
Bill Sewall has been in town several
days He is collector of customs at
Aroostook, Me. While he Is a compara-
lively old man he told the President today
that he wanted to go to Africa with him
mighty badly.
The strictly tennis cabinet" members
are Ambassador Jusserand. Secretary Ba-
con, Postmaster General Meyer, Secretary
Garfield Assistan Secretary Winthrop.
Controller Murray, Commissioner Smith
and Clifford Pinchot
Praised by Their Grief.
The President, addressing his guests,
said:
Gentlemen: You are here nominally as
members. or to meet the members, of the
tennis cabinet'-that is. as men with
whom at tennis or hunting, or riding or
walking, or boxing, 1 have played, with
whom l have been on the roundup, or int
the mountains. or in the ranch country.
But really, as you know, you are not here
for that reason at all; you are here be-
cause you are the men and because you
represent the men with whom / have
worked while ! have been President. No
administration has ever had finer or more
loyal service than you have given, and [
do not believe this country has ever had
an abler Or more devoted set Of pub 10
servants. 1t is through you and those lihe
you that l have done the major part of
what has been accomplished under this
administration. Moreover, in a vast num-
Der of cases the doing of the work itself
has been your only reward. The credit
has come to me, to the chief of the ad-
minstration. For exactly as men like to
symbolic a battle by the name of the
commander, they like to symbolic an
administ ration by the man at the head,
forgetting that the immense ma jority Of
his acts can be done only through others
and that a. really successful administra-
ton successful from the standpoint OF
advancing the honor and the interests OF
the country, must be managed as ours has
been. In a spirit of the most loyal asso-
citation and partnership.
Representatives Of Others.
There are many others like you whom
would have given much to bring hero
today. but there simply wasn't room
enough and as / have brought you here
partly for your own sakes, but primarily
as representing thousands of other work
ers; representing all good. faithful,
fearless public servants, who strive their
best TO do what the public need demands.
and who. in the last analysis, stand all
on the same level when judged by that
supreme test which takes into chief ac-
count the spirit Of the service rendered.