The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-30
OFFICERS
| have ABLE ALLIES
Private Secretaries Have Had Wide
4 Experience, Collectively, and
Travelled Much. NJ

N ~ ActiiN1i ONs April ~ Il ne nine
secretaries to cabinet members in the
uew administration are young men.
With the exception OF one. K. J. Bah
cock, In the state department. anu
M. Babcock is old only In point of
service He Is SO young that all the
secretaries or state since John SheT'
man have found IL necessary TO re-
tain him In that position.
AL OF the others, including also
Fred w. Carpenter. secretary To the
president. are on the hopeful side OF
forty years. or the ten including
again, Mr.. Carpenter). five are unmar
ried. The bachelor division is headed
BY the secretary TO the president
The personal history OF all OF them
shows that they have been chosen for
the confidential places that they &C.
cupy because Of close attention 10 busi-
hess under conditions that make many
young men weaken.
Fred w. Carpenter is quiet, re-
served sort OF young man, who OBJ
serves a lot speaks seldom and then
with hesitation, and smiles almos.
nEyer.- Mr.. Carpenters reserved ma
ture caused great alarm when the new
administration came In. Between the
reservation and the fact that Mr.. Car
penter was trying TO find out the uiI-
known angles of a perfectly stranye
Job, tine communication between Pres
ident Taft and the public Through the
press) vas broken. Nothing doing at
all IN the news line. But he quickly
found his bearings and Is beginning
to 63l-to the full the new position.
tia almost necessary TO contrast
Mr.. Carpenter with his predecessor.
Mr.. Loeb. The latter radiated CONT
dence In himself and spoke seemingly
ex cafhedra on all subjects. Mr.. Car
penEef at FIRST gives an impression
OF s'U4cking away" but the impression
fadeg when one waits.
suited Future President.
Fred. w. Carpenter was born in
Sank center, Mimi, Dec. u, 1873. he
weut~tU California at eight years Oh
sge--aoA was educated in the public
schools. and a private academy there.
He returned TO Minnesota IN 1898 and
was graduated from the university
Of that state as a bachelor OF laws IN
1897. Al postgraduate course gave
him the degree OF master OF laws.
and he was admitted 20 practice IN
minnesota and California. In 1900,
Mr.. TAFT, In the Philippines, wanted
O competent. secretary. Mr. Carpen-
ter ~as recommended and sailed Tor
Manila-v MT. Taft had not known him,
but sha~suited the future president SO
well-4that he has been with Mr.. tart
even atnce. He was secretary TO Mf.
Taft when the latter was secretary OF
war. and resigned that position 10 stay
with the candidate for president dur
ing me recent campaign.
Esq Batcock, right hand man 10
Sccretary-KHox, OF the state depart
meD<,-ts aa-.Albany~ man. He came %
Washington years ago as clerk OF the
foreign relations committee he De-
came private secretary 10 John Sher-
man when the latter took charge OF
the state department, and has been
nrfyate secretary TO all the premiers
since that time-six in all. Mr.. Bah
cocks knowledge OF the state depart
sment affairs is so thorough that ne
has been asked by each succeeding
7xfcretary uf1Erate tu remain at hfs
desk. Mr.. Babcock is married.
Rolling stone Settled Down.
The department OF the treasury fol-
lows the department OF state in order
OF cabinet precedence, and that brings
70 the front Robert o. Bailey, who has
iust left the newspaper business to as
sfst MIR. MacVeagf. Mr.. Bailey was
born In Lena, H., on st. Patricks day,
1873. The Bailey family moved from
Mace to place and finally settled in
Cleveland. .. II became evident
when Robert was eleven years old
that he didn't like Cleveland. He ran
away and went TO Chicago. whefe he
lecame a Western Union messenger
boy. sold papers, swept out Offices and
generally earned a living. He says
that he was making $3.50 week be-
fore he was twelve years old. one or
the places that he swept out was
school of stenography. and he took
his pay in instruction. The age o.
thirteen found him in San Francisco,
where he became a printers devil.
and eventually both Journeyman
printer and a journeyman prcssman.
Deciding that he would like TO do
newspaper work he came % Washing
ton in 1897. He went To the Washing
ton Times and said he would work TO-
nothing To get start The second
dav of his service he was sent TO the
house TO report debate, and did 1t so
well that he was put on salary and
assigned to the house regularly.
Walter /. Pedigo Is private secretary
TO the secretary Of war. he is only
twtnty-nine years old. but he has seen
n lot OF service. both as a soldier and
as clerk and secretary 10 soldiers.
Frank Cole secretary TO the attor-
ney-general, was born on farm IN
Fairfield county, o., where he spent
twenty-one years. He then attended
business school at poughkeepsie,
". ", and afterward was employed In
New York city He went into Mr.
Netherlands law Office In New York
four years ago and came here when
AIR Wickershams was ma le attorney
general. Mr.. Cole married in New
York city.
Charles T.. Taylcr. secretary to the
secretary of the navy. comes OF Mas
sachusetts stock. His grandfathcr was
the celebrated Samuel Tayior."for for
Nv years principal of Phillips Andover
academy, and his father. George II.
Taylor a Dartmouth and Harvard Law
school man. also taught at Andover as
professor of Greek.
George w Reik, acting secretary to
postmaster-General Hitchcock. is a ma.
tive of Delaware. whore he spent his
youth. He attended Delaware college
1T Newark. Del leaving there just be-
fore graduation. He has spent tho
last ten years in the government serv-
fee. being appointed In 1899 on the
tivii STAFF of Maj Leonard
Wood. then serving as governor gener-
nj OF Cuba. AT the expiration Of his
Cuban service Mr.. Reik became stea-