Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-02
BY JAMES HAY. JR.

BY JAMES HAY. JR.
studied law, picking it up on the side much
as he had learned stenUgraphy in Chicago,
He took his degree as attorney; but has
never had time to practise. -
Personally, he is popular among the army
of officialdom in Washington. He is fat
little man, with humorous, twinkling eyes,
and he can laugh harder at funny story
than any man living, indicating that he has
not neglected the comedy effects in his life's
drama. He attends to his work without
making fuss or display aboutit, and always
manages to get the proper results.
He is strictly self made product; but he
enough to avoid getting stuck up about it.
CLIFFORD PINCHOT, who, since he left
the forestry service, has been famous
for his activity in stirring up interest in the
conservation of forests, was speaker at a
smoker given by the National Press Club
of Washington, and was introduced as "the
man who is still the chief forester of this
country"
He was followed by Speaker Cannon, who
said, @You gentlemen have made mistake
about my friend Clifford. He may be the
chief forester; but he is never STILL"
SENATOR THOMAS S. MARTIN of
~ Virginia says he is now in position to
appreciate the gift of the negro race for pic
turesque exaggeration.
He was driving along country road near
Alexandria, when he met an old negro whose
venerable appearance attracted his attention.
@You are pretty old, aren't you, Uncle?"
asked the Senator.
Il should say isl" answered the negro.
"How old are your"
II don know zackly," explained the old
man deliberately; @but is so old dat when
1 was a little boy de Potomac Rbber was
muffin but little stream"
A RECENT overhauling of desk in the
1 office of the District of Columbia health
officer brought to light small volume enti-
tied @The Medical Register of the District"
which contained complete list of the Sena-
tors of the Thirty-ninth Congress, giving
measurements. The author of the book,
DR.. ]. M. Toner, says in explanation of the
table:
at shows that in all the points observed
our Senators exceed the average of man.
kind in all parts of the world as well as the
average of our own country"
From the figures given, it appears that
the tallest Senators at that time came from
Kentucky, the shortest from New Hampshire
and West Virginia. The average height was
five feet ten and half inches, and the sena-
torial heads, measured little lower than
the hat is generally worm" showed an aver
age circumference of twenty-five and half
inches. Fourteen of the forty Senators were
six feet tall.
If Ollie James realizes his ambition to be
promoted from the House to the Senate,
Kentucky will repeat in the Sixty-third
Congress the reputation it had in the Thirty
ninth of having the tallest man in the upper
house.
SENATOR NATHAN B. SCOTT of West
- Virginia has great name in Washing
ton for charity and kind heartedness. One
of his performances not long ago was the
financing of hotel waiter who had invented
an aeroplane.
John HAYS HAMMOND, mining en-
> gineer and president of the Republican
League of Clubs, once paid five dollars for a
shave, and he did it at time when he was
not worth much money. He was married
in small town in Maryland, and arrived
there the morning before the ceremony after
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