The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-22

Shillworthy that neither | nor anyone else guessed
~ any rate knew well enough what required
of me. Consequently my secretary drew a check
for SloO and enclosed ii in a letter to Shillworhy.
telling him how delighted was To aid such highly
moral movement My tongue in my cheek
| signed the letter.
few days later came another letter from Shlll
worthy. lie asked il would act aS counsel for the
Association He cN ained that the Association
would be Incorporated by Congress to give it
greater standing than II IT were incorporated in
New York. He sent list of the incorporators.
which read like combination of the Directory OF
Directors and the Social Register. Shilworthy must
have gone up and down Wall Street rahiuc in the
biggest men in New York. and his wife must have
Travelled up and down Fifth Avenue getting the
women What between high finance and high society
! felt was IN pretty good company. and nothing
helps man more than To be- connected with great
public movement that j. purely unselii>h. | saw
That my hundred dollars had been we'll invested. and
! wrote to Shllwortly that would act the legal
adviser of the Association without remuneration
like himself. ! was deeply interested in the mental
and spiritual improvement of the Indian.
That was the middle of November. and on the first
Monday III December Congress met IL usual. Shortly
afterwards Smllworhy came TO WASHINGTON. H.
explained that he had decided 10 spend the winter
there, partly because of the interest he took i'll the
Indian Association aud he wanted to see it start OF
with biz boom. and because lis wife was beiu.
.
Smwnrthy took large house. he brought down
corps Of well trained servants and his carriages and
horses He not a man who >plmgcd with hi
money or made show. but he did everything we'll
ind Washington trade>uen welcomed him as an
other good thing. and Washington society an
other place to gable. gobble and git
As cot NSEL for the Association ! supposed
"A ShllworlN would want me To draft the bill
for their Incorporation. but ~ several DAYS went bN
and he said nothing | thought he had overlooked
that important detail If had known him a well
then a. | came know him later. | should have
known he was not the man 10 forget ANYTHING when
hl> interests concerned. no matter how trivial.
suggested to linn that the bill ought to be introduced.
but he told me there hurry and ! need NOT
concern myself about H. Senator hartman. he sand.
lad agreed to stand sponsor in the Senate. bur that,
would be no opposition To such a meritorious scheme
hartman the Senator who had sat in poker
zane with few of H. at Chanbcrlin's one night.
a few months prey iOuslN. when Shllworlhy had lost
~jl.ooo to the Senator lightly ~ | might Hip
dime 10 a street bc.gar Well. il was none of m,
affair. but when Nhillworlly gave his time to i'm.
proving the condition of the Indian and hartman
was also Il convert to the cause. il struck that il
would be well for hardworking but trusting lobby
Isl to be careful he wasn't asked to buy gold brick
| felt that Shillworly and hartman in partnership
~ moral uplfelS and dealers in all kinds of phlau-
thropic goods meant job somewhere. but couldn't
see what they We're driving ut. The day before Con
gresS ad ourued for the Christmas recess hartman