The Washington herald., 1913-02-23
YOUTH AND PLUCK WON
FIGHT FOR NEW MEMBERS
amples-Lindquist was Bellhop and Got.
His Newspapers on the Streets

! came to this country a poor immigrant
boy from Germany. He got employment
in Rockport sawmill, and being enter
| prtsing and energetic, ic was not very
long before he had a sawmill Of his own.
Then he started a box factory, which
was likewise a business success, and in
! the course of time he acquired a whole
string Of very profitable tow-boats
! One of the youngest OF the new members
IL John Jacob Rogers, who, at thirty
three years of age. Is already one OF
the most prominent citizens Of Lowell.
Mass. Not much older Is Fred A. Brit
| ten, Of Chicago, who is conspicuous In
the politics of that city. and has earned
| much local popularity by putting a stop
to extortion by the taxicab trust. Dud-
| ley Doolittle, who halls from tho fourth
Kansas district. is only thirty-one. yet
has already served term Mayor of
| Strong City, his home town He is un-
married.
There will be IN the new House 435
members, and Of this whole number 1s2
are men who have never before served
in the national legislature 1t is re-
markable how great a percentage of
them are in their thirties. Among the
youngest is Peter Golet Gerry, who halls.
politically speaking, from the city Of
Providence. Perhaps the most remark
able thing about him is that, at thirty
| three years Of age. he has already made
his mark in the world. although fright
fully handicapped by fortune.
II, on the other hand. II be difficult To
rise out Of obscure circumstances and
overcome the disadvantages of early pow
erty. 1t is. on the other hand, a task even
more tremendous tosaccomplish things
that are worth while when one Is born
with a silver spoon In ones mouth But
in young Gerry's case the spoon may be
to 30 D1$a
be it realized, was born in one Of the most
magnificent OF Fifth Avenues palaces
(on the southeast corner of Sixty-second
Street, the second son of the multi-rnil
honaire Elbridge T. Gerry. and all Of
his early life was spent in the very lap of
luxury. Nevertheless, he took a distin-
guished degree at Harvard, has worked
hard a lawyer. Observation-Disclosures
the additional handicap of marrying the
richest young woman in Washington.
Miss Mathlde Townsend-has earned
his merits an election 10 Congress.
Got Up at Four O'clock.
What contrast is afforded by the case
of Percy Quin. who comes to Congress
from McComb's City Miss When he
was a younGster, he was obliged to get
up at four o'clock or earlier every morn
ing, to do chores on a farm. The work
was Of the hardest kind, and such small
leisure as there was had to be devoted
largely to prayers and other such seri-
Gus forms of entertainment; for ouin the
elder was a Baptist minister as well
a. farmer-and took his religion hot and
strong As for Percy. he was left an
orphan when barely fifteen. and, while
working his way through college, in des-
perate determination to acquire an edu-
cation. was obliged to do his own wash
ing and ironing. for lack of the where
withal to pay laundress.
Much the same difficulties beset the up
ward path along which Howard Suther-
land, of Elkins, W. Va. sought to force
his undsunted way. He likewise, was
born on a small farm lin Missouri, and
in like manner did he work his way
through college, afterwards becoming
newspaper reporter. Woodson Oglesby.
OF Yonkers. y. Y, got his education in
the same arduous way; but in his case
the obstacles to be overcome were even
greater. inasmuch as, left an orphan at
fourteen. he had three brothers to sup
port and bring UP. He did it. too.
At least two of the newly-elected Rep
resentatives began life as humble me-
chanics-Stanley Bowdle, OF Cincinnati.
and Allan r. Walsh. OF Trenton, y. J.
Bowdie worked as an apprentice in the
machine shops of the Cramps. PhiladeI
phia. and Walsh made electricity his
speciality. being first employed. in 1900,
by the Roeblings.
The handsomest man in the new House
is William ]. Macdonald. He is thirty
eight years old. Sixteen years ago he was
clerk. in Washington, to a Michigan Con-
cressman. Then he took up the practice
of law at Calumet and was made prose
cutting attorney of Houghton County,
Mich. He was elected on the Progressive
ticket. being ardent supporter of
Col. Roosevelt and his policies.
RENE EACHE