New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09

Market street. that boundary which, in the
social world Of the City Of Brotherly Love
SEPARATES the sheep from the goats. Yet
Penrose Augustus was elevated 10, and is
maintained in political life by, a populd-
ton IN which. numerically speaking, the
aHstocracy Of Philadelphia amounts 10 less
than the proverbal drop in the bucket
Hardlv one I'm a thousand OF the voters who
have cast their ballots for Penrose lesis'
lators know the social distinction between
a Bddle and a Flanagan.
SO we come 10 one parallel between Pen
rose and Roosevelt which we cannot over
look Each became a master politician IN
spite Of prouu birth and a boyhood spent
OF velvet Roosevelt Is a member Of the
Four Hundred and Penrose is a Biddle OF
Spruce Street. Yet --ldrich was poor boy
who commenced work behind a counter.
In that same seething year 1850, when
the Young Prince Of Wales visited Phila-
delphia, BOies Penrose was born upon the
first day Of November, which means that
he now nears the halfway post Of his nifty
first lap In the race OF life He was started
in at private school--the Episcopal AGA
demy-but later placed in the hands OF
private tutor engaged 10 make him and his
younger brother Charles, ready for Har-
ward ahead OF schedule time. And that
this tutor did good work--also that he had
likely material 10 work upon-was proved by
the fact that when the two boys entered the
university together Boies was sixteen and
Charles not yet fifteen. When they came
,, In as freshmen Theodore Roosevelt had Just
become a sophomore but history does not
record that the future President ever hazed
the future Senator. Indeed, the odds would
! have been long on the latter had there been
such "A single handed fray, for Boies was
| even then a giant, growing past the six foot
mark while Theodore in those days was a
puny. asthmatic lad, whose parents had
had hard struggle 10 keep him alive.
Forsooth and verify, r. r. would have
made but small grease spot upon the
page of history had "freshy'' Boies done
his darndest" 10 him in that strenuous
year Of rushes and hazlngs.
While the boy Aldrich gave no clue 10,
and dreamed no dreams Of what he was
going to be. the boy Penrose saw his
horoscope clearly when still in his teens.
When graduation day was drawing
nigh, in the spring OF 81, FIVE out Of the
go youths In his class were selected By
! connective examination to deliver COM
mencement orations. and Boies. now
towering Hercules with wavy black hair
and austere dark eyes, was one OF the
! five
Ponder with due seriousness at what
! Roles chose as a subject for his Grafton.
/ IT was:
Martin Van Buren, as a Politician.
Now sit for awhile and scratch your wise
head and mediate. Or are you pIt
rusty on your Little Van"
So Boles. still In his teens, learned
how the arch politician of ante-bellum days
pIayed the game. And his former COZ
leee mate Theodore Roosevelt, did ike
wise in later years, and printed something
on the same subject.
Upon this same commencement day. 80
prophetic for Boies, that youth also re-
ceived honorable mention for his studies III
noliticaI economy. And thus did he go OUT
into tho world well equipped both az 10
the theory and practice Of politics Brot"ei
Charles was graduated the same day. anu
| electing 10 follow the paternal eHa'hp!''
became physician and professor OF 'heu'.
cine in the University Of Pennsylvania pu,
Boies went in for law. 1t was the suieS'
vestibule TO politics
For his preceptor he selected wayne Ma.
yeagh, skilled diplomatist ana iesai "e"'