The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-27

On Tuesday after cabinet meeting, MT.
 MacVeagh usually lunches at a nearby oyster house, sitting in little room with a number of other persons. and perhaps touching elbows with his poorest paid clerk At other times, when a strenuous
 days work confronts him, he may visit a dairy lunch directly opposite his office,
 and elbowing his way to the pie counter,
 orders in the same manner as anyone else.
 Mir Von Meyer is not quite as demo- cratic in seeking his midday meals. His characteristics are discernable In con- versation and upon first meeting While | not cordial to the breaking point he is easily approached and hospitable. In gen. eral however, he rather holds aloof from the public, yet does not hesitate to mix with them when he desires
 MT. Wickersham is, perhaps, more or
 an aristocrat than any of the others. So- cially his associates are cabinet members and the best society in Washington. Some legal friends made since serving here as attorney general are numbered among his personal friends. He Is in much de- mand at social functions in the ultra | fashionable set of the national capital and to a great extent ir New York, Phil adelphia and Baltimore, where he spends much leisure time, frequently going to | New York for the week-ends.
 | While in his office at the department of justice he Is one of the most approach | able men in President Tafts cabinet | Sometimes it happens that an old ac- | ouaintance or a caller will be recognized by the Attorney General in the ante-room | to his office. He will stop, shake hands with his caller, and sitting on the edge | of the table with his feet in a chair hold his interview This, however, is the ex- +4 4ta r,t1p Attorney | General usually makes all callers, even | representatives and senators, arrange for | intervieWs in advance. At the beginning of his term members of Congress were wont to drop in on him without having | first made an appointment. Alter sitting | in the ante-room for several minutes they would become restless and accosting MT Wickersham's secretary demand an au- dience with the Attorney General. Inva- riably they would be turned down. The same treatment was accorded to news paper men until the Attorney General de- yeloped the name of "hermit.
 Gradually, however, he became "edu- csted" to Washington ways and adopted the appointment plan. Senators, repre- sentatives and legal callers now arrange their appointments with him several days beforehand, while others who seek to gain an interview without making an appointment take their chances. Ihey are often disappointed. Since his residence in this city he has
 not discarded the judicial mien that sur rounds him. He does nothing that does not comport with the formal judicial at
 mosphere." Coming to his. office in the
 morning he drives to the private en- trance. When leaving for the White House on cabinet days he departs from
 the department of justice by the private
 entrance.
 Contrary to other members of President Taft's cabinet is-'Uncle" James Wilson, Secretary of the Department of Agricul- ture. He is known in Washington as
 Farmer Jim' and throughout the coun-
 try as perhaps the best Secretary of Agri- culture that has ever been in the cabi-
 net Although rumors of MT. Wilson's resignation have received publicity from