The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
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 of which in Ohio was started by Niok's father.
 Butler Ames, of Lowell, Mass, is an- other member of the lower house who did not have to make his own fortune. But, though worth i've or six millions of dollars, he does not pursue the ways of idleness by any means. in mo- ments not occupied by legislative toll, he devotes himself to inventing things. He rides about Washington in an auto mobile made by himself. and just at present he is building flying machine on pattern of his own. It has not flown yet; but comparatively few fly ing machines ever do get ns far as that.
 Aines is only thirty-eight years old He is grandson of General Benjamin F. Butler. and his money came to him by inheritance-though not from his grandfather. Preferring West Point to civil college, he was graduated from that establishment, and was ap- pointed second lieutenant In the reg ular Infantry, afterwards resigning his commission. Since entering congress he has given his entire salary as rep resentative to his private secretary. One of the episodes of the recent tariff discussion in the house was a vigorous exchange of epithets between Adam Byrd, of Mississippi, and Joseph W. Fordney, Republican member from Saginaw, Mich. The language became so warm that Byrd started for Fordney, evidently contemplating, as- sault; but paused, presumably because Fordney made no move seeming not Tn the least alarmed. It may be taken for granted that Byrd knew nothing of Fordney's personal history, or of the fact that. beginning life as lumber jack" in the Michigan woods, he liter ally fought his way through the camps, whipping every man who ven tured to tackle him. Being so well equipped for physical endeavor, he was able to get along with a very mod crate amount of education. and, chiefly through his skill in estimating lumber values. became millionaire. Parhaps the most popular man in the lower house of congress is William B Mckinley. who halls from Champaign, Ill. He calls himself a farmer which means he spends his leisure time not in Washington. on an extensive es- tate which Is cultivated on up-to-date and scientific principles. It costs him good deal of mnoey. but this is not a matter of importance. Most of his wealth Is invested in an interburban system of trolleys.
 MT. Kinley is not in politics for any serious purpose, but for the fun he can get out of it. The time he devotes to his legislative duties would probably be worth $1oo.000 a year to him, if he chose to expend 1t in other ways. An- other s100.o00 a year he gives away chiefly to friends of his who happen to want the money. Anybody he knows who happens to be in a hole financial ly can go to genial. fat Bill Mckinley. and get substantial help. No wonder people like him.
 Another man of somewhat the same type is George D. McCreary. from Phil adelphia. His father was one of the pioneer coal operators in western Penn sylvania, and left large fortune to his son. who has used it in all sorts of ways to contribute to the comfort and happiness of other people. No ad- vertising tag is attached to his phil anthropy. But everybody in this world has his weaknesses. and one of McCreary's Is a weird pattern of panta- looms with flap up the front-so that. his fellow-members say. one cannot tell whether he is going or coming. For some years he was treasurer of the Quaker City. but put his salary back into the public funds. This example has not since been initiated; 1t great iy surprised Philadelphia.
 The Pullman car millions are rep- resented in the house by Frank o. Lowden. of Oregon, Ill-a flne-looking man, slight and dark. He was born in 1861 at Sunrise City. Minn. and is therefore forty-eight years old. Four teen years ago he married Florence Pullman, and since then has not been obliged to work. She was a daughter of George M. Pullman, who built the car. He is particularly good fellow Gas may be judged from the fact that everybody calls him Frank, and re- gards himself as g farmer.
 One of the handsomest men in the house is Francis Burton Harrison smooth-faced. well-built, thirty-six years of age, and a graduate of Yale In the Spanish war he enlisted as a priv ate, in Troop A.. New York Volunteer cavalry, and was promoted to a captain cy. Though so young. he has already married two very rich women--his first wife being killed in an automobile accident. He belongs to Tammany Hall, though of the silk stocking stripe, and is thought to be a coming man. Indeed, the New York Crowd at Denver wanted him for vice-presdet, but Kern got the nomination.
 Hamilton Fish Is another represen- tative of Fifth avenue in congress- though. in a geographical sense. he pertains to the town of Garrison, N. r.. and was born In Albany, in 1S4s, while his father was governor of that State. He is a widower, with five children. When his father Hamilton Fish, was secretary of state under Grant, from 1869 to 1871, young "Ham," as he was then called, served as his private secretary. He was appointed assistant treasurer at New York in 1908, by Roosevelt. In congress he is distinguished as hard worker never being absent for a minute while the house is in session. Wealth, $1,000, ,O00, estimated.
 Another millionaire representative Is Everis A Hayes, of San Jose, Cal. Many years ago he became interested in the wonderful iron deposits of the Gogebic range, in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, before many people had come to know the wealth that might be derived from them. From this source he drew a large fortune, and since then he has been extensively en- gagged in the fruit-raising business in California.
 George Franklin Hufr elected as a Republican from Greensburg, Penn, has recently built a white brick pal ace at the corner of Q street and New Hampshire avenue in Washington. He Is supposed to be worth about $5,0OO,- 900. The beginning of his career was made Tn the car shops of the Penn sylvania railroad at Altoona. snort and stout, he is one of the best-looking men in the house, though owing to sixty-seven years. His business Is banking and coal-digging. It is, in- deed, as a coal operator that he has gained the bulk of his fortune An eccentricity of his is an unwillingness