The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-17

Secretary Knox here breeds the best
Of horses. Hunters are the popular
steeds and the neighborhood is studded
with hunting clubs that go riding over
hedges and streams in the best accred
tied English style. Likewise through
the summer and fall these hunts hold
meets and all these steeds are matched
against each other in all manner OF
events and ridden by gentlemen Jockeys.
Secretary Knox horses win many hon
ors in these events. His chief pride,
however. is in his trotters which arc
currently less popular than the hunters
OF these he is the owner OF a number
with excellent records including tho
fastest double team in America. Secre-
tary Knox is not so far from the nation
al capital as TO be entirely out of touch
with affairs and should international
complications arise he will handle them
over the telephone or go seurrying back
TO Washington. This summer he is plan
ming as quiet time with his horses ls
circumstances will permit.
Wickersham Has G.ouch.
Mr.. Wiekersham of the department Of
justice is somewhat fretful against his
enforced giving over his customary
trips to Europe. For many years prior
to his acceptance Of his cabinet position
he had each year gone abroad. Lass
summer he remained on this side of the
big pond and is fearful lest the pro
gramme Will repeat itself. He will,
however. vigilantlv watch an oppor-
tunity to steal away. in the meantime
he will go to his home near Cedarhurst.
Long Island, His place is known rs
Marshfeld and deserves the name. 1t
is an old. rambling. wooden structure
with world Of room and quiet and
mosquitoes. Here the nation s chief
advocate retires to absolute quiet and
devotes himself TO his favorI,e light di
version. that of poring through his
books of law. None of the call Of the
outside for the attorney general when
! Blackstone and his satellites invite aud
the dronc of the mosquito composcs the
mind for the receipt of precedent and
deduction.
Gum Shoe Hitchcock.
The last of the cabinet officers to
leave Washington viii be Postmaster
General Hitchcock. This young man of
the gum shoe and clam-ike silence,
this advocate Of the steam roller and
the rewarder OF the faithful, will stick
diligently at his desk until late in
August, The matter of physical ex"
haustion never occurs TO him for he
was a famous athlete when In college
and sees to it that every muscle OF his
wiry frame is each day given the tug
that will, keep 1t alive and healthy.
Therefore he is able to work longer
hours and more days than are those
who fail to recognize the need of keep
ing physically fit.
But In August he will make run to
the west He will visit postal conven<
tions in the states beyond the Rockies.
Then, finally. he will join Ralph Came.
' ron, the delegate who got statehood
for Arizona, on the banks Of that
great gorge that cuts almost TO the
core of the world and the two will ram
BILE about the big mountains and little
towns.
This Arizona habit has become chron-
ic with Mr.. Hitchcock, He began 1T
several years ago and has done it ever
since. It was these trips that developed
an interest in the admission of the ter
ritory as q state and they do say about
the capital that it was the work of the
astute postmaster general which gained
statehood for the two territories Just
at the close of congress. The wise ones
also whisper that the postmaster gem
eral is nursing the idea of going to
Arizona to live and there so shaping his
career that he will settle snugly into
one of the senatorships Of the new
state. But this may be but gossip. At
any rate. the athlete of the cabinet may
be seen doing stunts in the Grand can
yon in the early autumn.