Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10

White House babies, daughters OF eGn,
Grant and President Cleveland, were
born.
lie was made disbursing officer OF
the executive offices on March 3,
1877, and has held that position ~
TO the present time.
In the stirring days preceding and
Colonel Crook was on duty both night
and day. He and President Mckinley
during the Spanish American war
had much In common because OF their
Joint membership In the Grand Army
of the Republic He was In the White
House when the dread word came
from Buffalo that the bullet OF the
assassin Czologosz had reached its
mark. And he was in the White House
on the never-to- be forgotten night
when the body OF the martyred presi-
dent started on its last journey homo
TO Canton.
Teddy Moved Him.
AT all times Colonel Crook was en-
ployed In the White House proper un-
iii Colonel Roosevelt established the
present executive offices during his
term. Then the colonel with the other
attaches moved there.
In his Washington home the colonel
retains many interesting momentoes
Of his career. Many OF them are
priceless In value. Chief of course
is the little card. with the imprint
ofthe White House in one corner on
which President Lincoln wrote to the
provost marshal general declaring
that he could not spare Crook to go
to the front after he had been drafted.
But there are others also Of value.
On January 2S, 1891, General Grant
wrote to General Garfield as follows;
Colonel William II. Crook has
been in the presidents office as
clerk for seventeen years. can rec
ommend his as very worthy ana very
efficient"
on March 8, 1886, Chester A, Ar
thur wrote:
my Dear Colonel--In the multi
tude Of affairs I can find opportunity
only 10 dictate this hasty and inade-
quate expression OF my high apprecl-
alton of the faithful manner in which
you have discharged the multiform
duties assigned you"
From Princeton, n, j., January 10,
1897 Former President Cleveland
wrote:
at gives me great satisfaction to
testify to the regularity and painstak'
ing effort with which you discharged
your duties during the two months
of my presidency"
Former Presiden Harrison, who
interrupted the continuity of Grover
Cleveland's term, had written on
March 10, 1898:
Let me express my thanks for tho
courteous and efficient manner In
which you discharged your duties
while i was in the executive mansion"
March 10, 1909, Colonel Roosevelt
wrote:
you have served we'll and faith
| fully under me and / wish you all
! good fortune in the future"
Two years later the colonel wrote
again:
Mrs. Roosevelt and myself think
of you often and all of the White
House office force to whom we grew
so genuinely attached"
There are many letters of like
character. Some are from high Of
ficals in the united services, two es-
| pecially of which the old colonel Is
| genuinely proud being from Admiral
| David d. Porter and General William
r. Sherman.
81 have tried to do my duty as a
true American as / have seen it,"
said the colonel today. ut is a won>
derful country that we live in and
| love. Many things have happened
| since | first began to work here but
through 1t all there has been a guild
ing forward movement that had made
our country, broken and shattered by
civil strife half a century ago, today
most potent force for good in the
civilized world"