Evening journal., 1913-10-02
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Some Of the Striking PeCuli-
aritleS Of Charles Sumner
BY Holland.

By Holland.
Charles Levi Woodbury.. son Of that
great Democratic statesman. Levi
Woodbury., who was governor Of New
Hampshire. United States Senator.
secretary of the navy in Jacksons
cabinet. secretary Of the treasury in
Van Buren's cabinet and the sue
cessor of that great jurist. Joseph
Story. as associate justice of the SUI
preme Court. was always somewhat
ovorshadowed by the very great repu-
tation as a statesman and lawyer
which his father gained. But he was
successful i'm his practice ai the bar,
and was especially happy in gaining
the friendship of many men Of in
huence and IN retaining that friend
ship.
He WAS man Of great wit, with
very keen sense of humor. The table
IN the dining-room Of the hotel in
Boston in which he made his home for
many years was always surrounded
by friends at dinner time whom he
entertained with his reminiscent an
ecdotes of stirring events. Judge
i
that reason had time az his disposal
for entertaining I'm an informal man
ner men Of influence i'm politics, al
| the bar and i'm commercial life.
found Judge Woodbury. one even-
ing sitting in his accustomed corner
! of the lobby OF the hotel at Boston.
This seat had been for so many years
occupied by him for two or three
hours in the evening that il was re-
earded as belonging to him and
strangers who unwittingly took the
chair we're oourteously Informed that
il was Judge Woodbury's seat In my
! conversation with Judge Woodbury.
! chanced 10 ask him If he knew
Wendell Phillips
eyes, I knew Phillips, and ! think
was one of the few mon in Boston
who enjoyed his friendship at the
time when he was under no little po-
lltical and social ostracism on ac-
count OF his advanced views on the
slavery question" Judge Woodbury.
replied
81 had no sympathy with him in
this respect. but ! had the greatest
admiration for his wonderful gifts
as an orator He was on actor rather
] lUtN great OIttNis iAt Nhn n ''ih-
cr of phrases He studied gestures
and ! knew that he gave incredible
| labor. fully equal TO that bestowed
/ by very great singer upon her voice.
/ TO the cultivation of his voice, so that
/ 70 would become beautifully melodi-
Gus when uttering the spoken word.
Now 7 will tell YOU something
about MIR. Phillips that is not general
.It tr, far A
from Phillips himself lie told me
that he resembled Charles Lamb. the
English author In his fondness for
the city and his indifference to the
co-rtry He found exquisite pleasure
in strolline along tho busy streets Of
Boston. He liked our CHIEF business
street better than he did the famous
Boston Common Wendell Phillips
never strolled through our Public
Gardens, but he was very fond of
reading the signs over the shops and
he knew most of them that are on oui
chief business streets by heart anC
exactly whore they were. lie wal
never happier than when walking
along the sidewalk and looking into
the shop windows That WAS his
daily habit when the weather was moi
severe and when he was at his homo
In Boston.
! spoke to him once about this
rather unusual disposition. lie told
me that some Of his best inspirations
for his lectures and addresses came
10 him while strolling along thu
streets u rarely happened that
happy thought failed him when HI
was looking into the shop windows
although tho thought was rhetorical
and had not the slightest reference Il
! what he saw In the windows. Hi
memory was marvellous, and whel
he returned TO his home on Esse
street. after an afternoons stroll h
turned over in his mind tho variou
rhetorical expressions which had oC
CURED TO him. and. having done tha
stored them away In his memory s
that he could utilize them in hi
speeches. have been told that /
this way his famous Phi Beta Kar
pa oration al Harvard. In which h
praised the Russian nihilists. was pre-
pared by piecemeal and then assim
lated and brought into one cOmpa'
whole while he was lying on the soft
What was unusual about this Hai
ward address was that Il was write
out. Every one Of his other addressf
was written upon the tablets Of h
mind only. and have understood In;
he was disappointed i'm his Harval
address. believing that Il would hay
been better II he had not committed
TO manuscript"
Copyright 1918. by y. J. Edward
All rights rescrved.)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will te
Glow the Nation Trusted Mckinley
, the Spanish War"
SMRRNA SOCIAL NEWS.
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