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

~s7OW listen. my children, ana you
M shall hear OF him who hath fallen
heir 10 the power and the glory
sbdicated By AldTich
Under the committee on committees sys-
ten in our Republican House OF L'ros,
even as now in our Democratic House OF
Commons. power descends by the Ia" oil
seniority.
Ours being a commercial nation, roignlnS
respondent in an age Of commercialism'
the rule has been laid down that the char
man Of the Finance Committee OF the
United States shall be regarded as the most
important member Of that house or eider
statesmen, and that the chairman OF the
corresponding committee Of the lower
chamber shall have the Same ascendancy
therein.
Aldrich was chairman Of Finance unul
March 4 last. A year ago. when he an
nounced his future abdication, julius Casar
Burrows Of the sovereign State OF Micni-
gan. ranked next on the list Of committee
men, and il was taken for granted that
the title OF Augustus would descend from
Adrich 70 him. Indeed, II, seemed 10 bent
oil things that this title should again adcrn
Cesar. But the Michigsnders deemed
thtf,Casar too ambitious, and when the
Anglican Senators vacated their Chamber
On March last, they left him lying prone
political corpse. who no more shouid
banker 70 rthe crown OF Aldrich
And II now comes TO pass that he who
potts By the passing Of this western
julius Cesar is hefty giant from the city
called Brotherly Love, which is the most
powerful and populous town In tho com
menwealth Of PENIS Woods. And his
name Is Bo!es Penrose.
Il hath been said that despite their vaunt-
"a democracy, our people. at heart sun
Worship the aristocracy Of blood. For TINS
bood-worship Philadelphia has ever taken
NE lead, has ever been the most renowned
o. Our centres OF population. And the blu
es blood OF Philadelphia courses III Inc
veins Of Boies.
He was born, bred and still lives in arts
WeIatic Srpuce street. that CHIEF vein OF
me Quaker City's bluest blue blood. Ana
boies is "a Bidde."
When Albert, Prince Of Wales after
safd Edward, King Of England visited
rhiadelphis and inquired into this mighty
can prominent citizen replied:
Oh your royal highness. there arc rich
tlad!es and poor Biddles and Just Biddles."
plr Boies sprang from the rich Bid
DIES"
according 10 the published pedigree. he
direct descendant Of that william BID
se Who was one OF the proprietors Of New
s.'sey and under whose mahogany William
.nh himself was proud 10 thrust his
A'ees. Nor are the Penroses. who early
married with this proud Biddle clan. reck-
'Ded as less arlstocratic.
"est-grandfather Clement Biddle Pen
we was one Of the commissioners for the
,sl territory ceded by France 10 the
sSn'ea States; Grandfather Charles Bing-
ON Penrose was president Of the state
.ae at the time Of the "Buckshot war
-. Register Of the United States Treasury
s aoer Harrison and Tyler. while Father
,.ehafd A. L. Penrose was a medical pro-
az" In the University OF Pennsylvania.
az. prough his mother Penrose Augustus
su1ectly descended from one Boies boy
uot who helped erect the breastworks
bunker Hill the night before the IA
nous battle
a, eeo the hth and kin Of the new leader
he Senate would all go straight 70
S"e' In preference to living north Of