Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-10
POSTMASTER GENERAL
sARToRlAL MASTERPIECE
OF ADMINISTRATION,
TALL TILE INVENTED
PARTICULARLY FOR HIM.
President Taft's Military Aide Has
Name That Is Difficult to Live Up to
Fine Fellow Regardless Of Over
balance of Title Given Him by His
Parents.
Especial correspondence

Washington, April 1O.-The Hon.
Frank H. Hitchcock, postmaster gen
eral, is the sartorial masterpiece OF
this administration. No statistics have
been compiled on the number of clothes
Mr.. Hitchcock owns. Lost in admiring
contemplation of their refined yet
fetching splendor, for people have been
able to recall themselves to the mere
mathematical aspects of the splendid
procession of variegated vestments.
Mr.. Hitchcock is one of those men who
wear their clothes Well He is partic-
ular that they be newly pressed and
carefully busted. He, Will stop in the
midst of the most serious conference
to draw up the port compartment of
his trousers in avoidance of a menacing
bag at the knee. adjusting it in the ex-
act position to obviate the bag at the
knee, and yet to prevent any unseemly
wrinkling at the thigh. Thus elevated,
the Hitchcock trouser invariably dis
plays a modest segment of hosiery
never known to depart from the rule
that correctly tailored mans hose
match his necktie.
Mr.. Hitchcock is plainly the original
man for whom the tall, shmmery silk
en- tile was invented. 1t has long been
contended by scientifically inclined per-
sons that there must have been an or
iginal excuse for inventing that awful
production in headgear. There must
have been a man on whom it looked
good, comfortable and homelike That
man has been discovered. He is now
postmaster general.
The f street tailors are said to study
Mr.. Hitchcock with great care, in ,r-
der to know just what is correct
recherche, they call it, The man who
makes the Hitchcock clothes would be
assured fortune if he were allowed co
advertise the fact. There are sacks,
frocks. getaways. long and short:
tweeds, plaids, broadcloths, worsteds:
but all are in up-to the minute FASH
ions, with just a touch of the distin-
guished, sometimes even of the daring.
to force attention which always must
be tinctured with admiration. Shoes
always are selected to match the rest
Of the outfit.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer has his
clothes made in England, while it is
avouched that Mr.. Hitchcocks are all
of domestic production. The secretary
of the navy is a splendidly tailored
person; but in the competition be-
| tween him and the postoffice depart
ment, the American tailors win in a
walk.
Capt. Archibald willingham de Graf
fenreid Butt. That's his name. 1t
should be written Capt. Archibald
Willingham de Graffenreid Butt. U. S.
A, Military Aide to His Excellency
the President" It's a good deal of a
name and something of title to carry
around, but Captain Butt does IT
handsomely. He looks the part in every
inch of him, whether in uniform or in
civilian toys; but he is especially
fetching in his uniform.
| Captain Butt, it is worth while to
mention, is an Englishman by birth
There are number of young military
men In the army who came from the
English service. AS a rule they saw
service in the South African war, and
then. getting the idea that the chance
of promotion was better in the I'm
4 tied States, entered the service here
1 Some others came for the war with
! Spain, but these as a rule have
dropped out since, and very few of the
number who rendered their services al
! that time were accepted. The Ameri-
| can army has many attractions for
clever young English officers, who in
any future war this country might
have would volunteer in greater num-
/ bers than they ever did before, purely
from low of adventure.
| But about Butt He is one of the
finest fellows in the army, and has sc
many friends that it is utterly i'm.
possible that any jealousies should
ever develop because of the handsome
berth he has attained, with it's assur-
ance of batter things in the future
The president and the whole Taft
family are very fond of him, and II
is calculated that he will have a mar
VelOus promotion of some sort, one
of these days. just as Commando,
/ Willard S. Sims, naval aide to Roose-
welt, was given a battleship Of the
best type over the heads of men who
outranked him. These positions in the
personal encourage Of the president
are always stepping stones to the bes
things in the services. The men who
occupy them necessarily acquire an in.
fiuence that makes them useful t.
others in the service; and if, like Com.
mander Sims, they are strenuous per.
sons full of programs and theories an6
uplifting ideas, they are certain tt
have ample opportunity to make good
with their schemes. If they do this
as Sims did-there is likely to be moth.
ing too good for them in the future.
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