The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-26
STATESMEN REAL AND NEAR
ny FRED G.. KELLY.

tnen got up anu moved away.
81 am willing to take risks when nec-
essary." said he, but I don't intend
to sit there quietly and let those fellows
gesture into my jaw"
Speaker Clark was remarking one
day that there Is just as much Of .
knack in trimming ones name as in
trimming a hedge. The case OF the
shift In the Speakers own name Is well
known-how he used to be known az
James d. Clark which would doubtless
have caused him to be buried under a
thick blanket OF obscurity. And how
he changed to Beauchamp and finally
to pain Champ Clark.
Along this same line the Speaker tells
OF the case Of plain John Brown, whom
he used to know out in Missouri. He
was a wise man. was John Brown, and
he knew that he was cursed by too
usual a name. And so what do you
suppose John Brown did7 why he be-
gan signing his name John X. Brown,
thereby changing it from an extremely
ordinary name to a name that would
cause one to stop and turn around to
look at II the second time.
Charles Lee Cooke. an attache Of the
office OF the Third Assistant Secretary
Of State. devotes himself chiefly to
keeping tab on the social doings Of that
office. He has to know what diplomats
are out OF the city. where invitations
will reach them. the dates for sending
birthday letters of congratulations to
foreign rulers and a score of other
things OF a similar nature.
IL one Is about giving a party and il
uncertain about the proper title OF
Supreme Court Justice or a foreign Am
bassador the man TO see IL Charles Lee
Cooke one day Cooke decided, tust out
OF curiosity, to keep track OF the teie-
phone calls from hostesses in Washing
ton inquring about the proper use OF
titles. The calls on that one day, Sc
lected at random ran up to 104.
Representative Buchanan of Illinois
was structural ironworker at the time
OF his election TO Congress. one day a
big steel structure on which he was
working fell over, killing about nifty OF
his fellow laborers. But Buchanan him
self and one companion were left on the
top OF a narrow steel pier nearly 100
feet high,
Their one chance Of getting down
seemed to be a piece Of rope cable about
twenty feet long BY unravellng this
and tying the pieces together they
formed a rope that would almost reach
the ground hut It was a slender hope.
and there was grave question about II
| supporting their weight,
Buchanan's companion. being the
! lighter OF the two. went down first
When Buchanan got within a foot or
two OF the end the rope broke right I'm
/ his hands.
Talk about luck" says he, suppose
the weak place had been at the other
end"
Secretary Bryan has never lost a
cent Of money at poker Neither did ne
ever win any money at poker. The fact
Is, he never played a game ~ cards In
his life, not even casino. He doesn't
know one card from another
After John Shelton Wlllams's pro-
motion from Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury TO his present place as Comp
| troller Of the Currency 1t was noted
/ that he delayed moving from the Secre-
tary's Office to the room provided for
/ the Comptroller OF the Treasury II was
nearly month after his appointment
before he packed up his belongings and
went over 10 his new quarters
The accepted theory about the Treas
! ury Department In explanation of this
! delay was that the office Williams had
been using afforded better view, and
also was more prettily furnished The
/ Comptroller OF the Currency was n less
| important place formerly than Il Is I'M
der the new currency law and the fur
nIshings were not In keeping with the
new dignity tho place had acquired. Be-
fore MI. Williams could reconcile him
self TO his new surroundings he ar
ranged to have II All reequipDed with
rich colors and modern appointments
The thing one notices most on enter
/ ing Williamss office Is the floor cover
ing, rug Of solid red making the red
dest red floor, perhaps. ever seen out
side Of a slaughter house.
Williams's biography shows him 10 ne
related TO more prominent persons
especially these who settled in Virginia
and helped to establish the T.. f. VS.
than any man in public life to-day
Mention any family prominent in early
American history. such as the George
| w dSulngtons, the RandOlphS, the Capt,
John Smiths or any Of dozen others.
and John SHELTON Williams can show
that he is kin 20 them.
Cole Blease, tho Governor Of South
Carolina, whose pardoning record and
unusual utterances have caused much
comment from time to time, and who
is now seeking q nomination as Sena-
Tor from his State, has a weakness for
good clothes. He is said TO be the best
dressed man in South Carolina.
No matter how hot and humid the day
may be. or how many men go about
among their fellows In cute little dane
ing pumps, Third Assistant Postmaster
General Dockery wears the same kind
OF footgear that he does in winter. He
wears old fashioned leather boots-the
kind that reach to the knees-and he
wears them regardless OF fashion or
weather. But he wears his trousers on
the outside.
When James A. 0allivan was sent Il
Congress by the people OF Boston at a
special election little while ago the
first thing he did was to hold a reunion
in Washington with one Samuel Wins
low, skate manufacturer and member
| of CopUraxs from, yVorraa,ar