The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-19
WTCKERSHAM, TRUST BUSTER,
 IS 54 YEARS OF AGE TO-DAY

George Woodward Wickersham is the greatest trust-buster and corpora ton slayer that ever held the jon of Attorney-General of the United States.
 George Woodward Wickersham is a friend of the monopolists and eats from the hands of the octopii that are sucking the life-b1ood of the republic. opinions of that eminent gentleman who heads the Uncle Samuels Depart his choice, according to his lights. It's nothing to me.
 MT. Wickershann vii receive the con gratuiations of his cabinet colleagues today on his 54th birthday. Pitts burgh. the city Of smoke and scandal and multi-plutocrats. was the birth 19 1858. the date. He was born with a silver spoon in his moutl1--not gold- en, understand me, but just sterling silver, indicating that his parents . were weH-to-do bourgeoiste, but not indicators of great wealth.
 Engineering was the goal of the that profession at Lehigh University, South Bethlehem. Pa. Wisely he changed his goal to the law and grad uated from The University of Penn sylvania with the clas sof 80. He hung out his shingle in Philadelphia, but in two years removed to New York. His progress was rapid, and in 1887 heswas admitted to the law firm of Strong & Cadwalader. In those days corporations and millionaires were the clients of this concern, and the wickersham practice was with men to whom God has entrusted the property interests of the world. A member of that drm also, was Henry Taft brother of the president, and this fact may have had something to do with the cabinet appointment given in 1909 to Samuel George Woodward wickersham-for originally there was a Samuel attached to the front end of his name.
 From managing clerk" which was his first position with Strong & Cad- waIader, MT. Wickersham rose to full partnership, and income of at least a hundred thousand dollars a year. In his latter years as a New York law yer, before his country's welfare ca1l- ed him to Washington to Sbust'' the been, Mir. .Wickersham was one of the most exclusive of personages He dis liked publicity, and gave the cold were able to pass the body guard of 2T clerks that stood between the public entrance to the offices of Strong 6 CadwaIader and the inner holy of ho- lies where Mfr. Wickersham turned his intellect toward the solution of baf- fling legal problems. He disliked pub licity, seldom appeared in court, and would as soon have jumped from Brooklyn Bridge as talk for puelica- ton.
 For eight years before he went to general counsel for the 1nterborough Rapid Transit Company of New York, 3 corporation which has for it's motto, ''The public be pleased" and which, regardless of expense, makes It rule to provide seats for all who patronize It's subway and elevated lines. He was also counsel for the construction com pany which built the New York sub way. and has been attorney for the Mexican National Railway Company and other transportation and indus trial corporations.
 Religiously, the Attorney-Genera1 is an Episcopa1ian, having forsaken the Quaker Meeting House of his youth. He is a student of literature espec cial- W that of Spain, and can carry on a conversation in four or five 1an- guages. Finally, he is responsible for Ehe assertion that Dante is greater