Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
HUGHES PUBLIC
 CAREER BRILLIANT
He Works Hard and Enjoys Out
 door Recreation.
THE ENEMY OF RICH RASCALS
Dishonest Gas Trust Rout and Life Insurance Scandal First Put Candidate in Limelight
 and Public Favor.

and Public Favor.
 The Republican candidate for presi- dent of the United States made him self famous by Investigating and breaking up the scandalous gas com bine in New York. Next he tackled the crooked insurance people and drove dozen or more big financiers into exile AS governor of the Empire state he made an excellent record for the cause of honest government by honest people. The politicians and gamblers and rascals knew him for an enemy that never forgot and never rested
 Hughes comes of good stock. His father, Rev David c. Hughes. who was a Baptist minister. and his moth CT, whose maiden name was Mary C. Connolly, were of more than usual cul- ture and shaped the boys early eduea- tion with the object of preparing him for the ministry.
 Charles was born at Glens Falls. N. Y, April II, 1862. but when he was very young his parents removed to Newark. N. J. Here the boy attended the public schools. from which he was graduated in 1873 Too youthful to enter college. his father tutored him for year, the intention being that Charles should enter the College of the City of New York when old enough.
 Has Fine Education.
 He matriculated at Madison uniyer- sity of Hamilton. N. Y, the school which is now known as Colgate uni versity. Remaining here until 1878, he decided that the curriculum of Brown university would suit him bet ter and there he entered and was graduated in 1881 His degree of A NJ. came in 1884, the same year in which he was graduated from the Co., lumbia law school
 At the close of his college days Hughes was of extremely frail appear anee and of delicate physique. His ia- clination was to enter the educational field. but he found difficulty in obtain ing employment.
 In 1884 Mir Hughes was admitted to the bar in New York, and practiced until 1891 In his time he was prize fellow of the Columbia law school and for year of his term was a student in the office of Stewart l.. Woodford, United States district attorney In 1883 he became a clerk in the offices of Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower. On December 5, 1888, he married in Brooklyn Miss Antoinette Carter, the Der of the firm.
 His tendency to teach was still strong within him, and despite the protests of his fat er-in-law. who wished him to continue with the firm, he accepted a chair in Cornell uniyer- sity law school.
 To Oregon for Bondhoders.
 Soon after MT. Hughes resumption of the duties of active practice he was sent to Oregon as the representative of the bondholders of an unsuccessful railway property. He spent seven months fin the West arranging affairs, and when he returned he became the court member of the new firm of Car ter, Hughes Dwight. From 1893 un- til 1895 he retained his interests in Cornell law school, where he frequent ly appeared as special lecturer. Three years ago when Edward F. Dwight died, the title of the law firm was changed to Carter, Hughes, Rounds & Shurman. The death of Mir Carter caused another change, and the firm became Hughes, Rounds & Shurman, with offices at 96 Broadway.
 Gas Investigation Stirs.
 This brings MT Hughes career down to the beginning of the gas in Yestigation in New York-an 1nvesti- gation that stirred the metropolis as nothing had stirred 1t since the Tweed ring exposure.
 Probably no one single investigation ever produced such far-reaching re- suits as the insurance probe. It drove Henry Hazen Hyde. chief owner of the Equitable Life Assurance society. into exile in Europe and it's president, John H. Alexander, into oblivion. It drove Mccall into his grave. It exiled Richard H McCurdy It exposed Andrew Hamilton, the insurance lobbyist It exposed the graft in the printing contracts manipulated by Andy" Field. It broke up the insur- ance lobby at Albany. It stopped the practice of great corporations making gifts of money to political campaign funds. It stopped the jugglery of trust funds between insurance companies and banks.
 Charles Evans Hughes is the man responsible for stopping this crooked ness. Even the gas and insurance crowds admitted that
 Is Strong and Earnest.
 Tn appearance Mir Hughes is not TO- bust He is about five feet ten inches in height of slight but well propor toned figure. His hair is brown and is becoming thin on top; he wears full beard, streaked with gray. The high. rather narrow foreheard indi- cates intellectually of high degree. and the blue eyes are wide apart and deep set. The nose is small. straight, and the nostrfls express refinement; the mouth is large, full-lipped, and the teeth are large. regular and white. In repose there is nothing striking in the face. but when Mr. Hughes becomes interested in conversation he pos sasses a soodlv smile and his eyes