New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-10

Men of National Repue Recall Their Most Appreciated Christmas 1ts
pr..;dent Taft Pins His Affection to Holsten COW anu
DR.. Wiley Weaves the Romance of His Life
Around Yuletide Trophy,

conditions this particular present sticks
out most prominently among all those ha
has received tie tells tho story himself:
81 WAS Minister 30 Panama said Mr..
Barrett during the time when the hrSr
preparations were being made for the Dig
ging OF the Panama Canal. and that flrss
wear will always hc remembered as thu
time that Wassmost trying upon the men
who have accomplished the biz task.
Sanitation was the first problem and yell
low fever was the great dread. And plenty
of yellow fever came during that first year.
Always there was the danger OF stam-
podc from the isthmus ard then mere
would have been the difficulty Of INDUCING
workmcn ~ return So SO diecrcdited a tasH'
ono of the important duties ~ the men
in authority I'm Panama Was to remain 81
their posts and attempt 10 F'ean5 INC
pcrves Of tho people vino wcrc Undertaking.,
the great enterprise. =!
II was offered leave oi absence lor
instance. but If the minister had ieit hs
most il would have set the example 10
,..t,,,s to do tho same SO / remained and
,.cd su my influence to induce others to
do so. Incidentally. I sought 10 relieve hs
stress bv offering a ht of cnt'riaihHeht
occasionally at the legation rcn'mo,r
AT one time entertaining ten Young mon }"
This way and within week louT OF ,"'"D
had died. 4 Young girl came down ROM
Washington and lived just i'n days ~
Young architect died in my arms ana
/ to,l a message 20 the girl in Z mcago 70
whom he was engaged. When Ne got to1
,otho. and parted again the usual thinSl
,,os ,o qnoak of the probable absences
! from the circle at the next meeting. 4
I'm, we stuck and in time the zone "as
/ made sanitary and the danger passeo'
vas tho Christmas following Its pdssih>
| that I received the most appreciate" pre
! ont I'm ALI my career. This was ioVins!
! cup and IT was presented by surviving
roonbers Of the company that l va"
| ofte, entertained while the danger "dS ~
rs greatest They considered that my III
auence had been Of great assistance
,hor, while the stress was great ana lh<
scribed the cup to that effect mat Guy
ls ono Of nv greatest treasures.
FIRST SLED IN SALT LAhh.
eiods seem 10 have been popular with ouH
u.oa, mon I'm the DAYS of their youth. SehS
ator Reed smoot. Of Utah. states that TIC
Chr,stmas present which first fastened ~
soIf irrevocably to his memory was a sen3
:, 90. however gomewhat different froflls
1
tho sled IF clifford Pnchot the son on
wealth.
81 think / owned the first Sled that "a5
..,. -oc,, I'm Salt Lake CITY," said senatoS
smoot in telling Of IT, There were h't
railroads. in that part Of the world W mN
Icaity Youth. For that reason there "eIo
row supcrnuous things, such as lows lo'i
.hitdrer that ever found their way INTO
tho homes of the early settlers. rms 'hsS
rod or mine was made by an old man Oh
my acquaintance who was hanuy WIN
tools IT was shaped up as arc inc uest
ra,tory-rnadp sfleds and had iron runners
made of barrel hoops u "as 'at'Ahs
good sled. There was long hiii out by oui'
Mace in Salt Lake city. and down TINS "as
q great place for Shedding. ot course we
hovs hail been doing more or less lh 'na
way Of sliding down hill on lulpro~'sen
eledS made of boards and Old doors or any !
thing that csmc our way. But reaS
steel runner sled was a novelty.
when / appeared with my steel rnnner
zlod - course was the cock Of the Wake
! for 1 could make much greater speed man
the rest Of the boys. When we started
down hin ! PASSED all my rivals, and waz.
p consequently. the envy 81 them all
4 In those days there was little money
{ I'm salt Lake city We did not buy ana
=. soil with money as tho medium Of EXCHANGE
o i'm those DAYS as we do now So when my
= father came to pay for the sled he did ic
- I'm something which ne had produced !
o remember that in this instance personally
10 took around 10 the old man from whom va
had bought the sled its equivalent in -FOUR
o So WAS the debt discharged. and 50 Il the
A contrast between tho lives Of tn" boys OF
II my time and those Of to-day most strongly
90 shown.