El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-17
Charles Evans Hughes---the Man
Upon Personality Governor YoEDeepy
the Unsympathec
Random Anecdotes By Close Newgpaper Aeauantanee

down on my knee with a resembling
slap, and cried:
And yet there are people who think
l was born day before yesterday
A PantOmime Of Gettysburg
OF the party Of civil war veterans
most OF them generals-and state Off
GERS. that went to Gettysburg to dedi-
cate the Greene monument on Cu1n's
HILL riding in the private car with
Gov. Hughes. several are dead now
among them Gen. Fred Grant. Gen 4 ex
Webb, Gen. Sickles, senator Eaines. The
rest OF US viii long remember an epf-
sode on the evening Of our arrival in
Gettysburg, when the special train Law
IN the railroad yards, surrounded by
a curious crowd Of tOwnspeople
As we sat about the table after ain.
ner. Gov. Hughes told US of the thrill
ling and wholly unauthorized ascent
Of the spire Of Strassburg cathedral
by his son, Charles, IT., then somewhere
about Il years old
Talks with Hands,
The car was brilliantly lighted, and
the shades were up. It was dark out
side So intent was the governor up-
on mis- story, so thrilled with the mem
DRY Of that hair raising climb, that he
rose from the table and fairly danced
about, gesturing eXcitedly as he told
ahead of him and was lost to sight;
how the steps narrowed. with the
chance Of plunge either inside or
outside to the ground 500 feet below.
Gettysburg standing in the dark out
side the car watched in amavement
They could not hear a sound And the
chief magistrate of the state of New
York continued his antics. his hands
continued circling above his head, as
ne told this group Of listeners how ne
found the yOungster cliuging. monkey
fashion to the fragile stonewOrk out
side the pinnacle Of the spire.
4 Heavy DrInker.
Then some one called the governors
attention to the hitherto unnoticed (
throng outside. For a moment he was
disconnected. as he thought OF the con-
tOrtiOns with which he had illustrated I
his narrative. and how il must have
looked to those WHO could see but could :
not hear a word Then he Joined in {
the shout OF laughter, and said:
THAT comes Of drinking three cups /
OF tea at dinner I shall never again (
be able TO tell that story without chills /
OF the spine
One of the guides Of Gettysburg ,
man perhaps So years old-stood under /
the trees at the Bloody Angle" where
Picketts charge was stopped, and told g
the story Of the placeEtIld it to Webb, {
and TO Sickles and McCCok After he
had finished. Gov Hughes made a little I
speech, in the course OF which he said,
7 know that many brave things
were done on this field; but I think
nothing ever done here eQualled in d.
cold nerve the act Of this young man
who has stood here today. describing
the battle Of Gettysburg TO these old
fellows who were in itl'
4 visit of Ceremony at Fort Monroe.
It would require more space than is
now at command to tell adequately OF
the visit Of Gov. Hughes, with his
glittering staff in full Uniform to Fort
ress Monroe. on q day during the
jamestown exposition
In full panoply the score Of valiant
officers, in column Of twos, marched
in at one Of the pOstern gates and
were chased out by sentry in the cor
ridOr; they marched out again and
round by the main gates There an
armed guard commanding a squad %
prisoners cleaning the road, pointed
them toward the postoffice. There was
nobody at the office.
Nobody met them, nobody paid any
attention to them They might have
been Knights Of Pythias. or visiting
firemen from Painted rosL As they
passed the parade ground q football |
came within four inches OF the gov
ernOr's head and landed bang on the
solar pleXus OF the adiutant general (
IF New York
It was fun % minutes before the
post woke up 10 the fact that this was
2 visit OF ceremony, a distinguished
military occasion There was panic in
The fort such amends as were possible
we're hastily imprOvised But from the
point Of view OF military etiquette the
hing was objectionable And Gen
grant, GoNlAldl4AlS lAt DtpdE tl.lell Oh
he East at whose personal invitation
IS they supposed, the commander-in-
,hief Of the military and naval forces
If the state OF New York and his staff
we're paying q visit OF ceremony To the
'ort. was mapping in his dressing
GOWN at the Hotel Chamberlain,
4 Peach of a story killed.
OF course, II was all a misunder-
tanding: but II Washington ever had .
leard of it there would have been live
y times for Gen, Grant and the Off
ers at the fort I never saw mad
Ter lot OF men than the members of
he governors staff. They were for