The sun., 1918-08-15
ANOTHER GLIMPSE OF THE OLD NEW
YORK CUSTOM HOUSE.
Interesting Characters the Memory Not R
an Older Time

twelve months. II was for thls
quisite that the palms OF bands of so,..
clamorous office seekers once ,,cnsS
No wonder that Preston King ,h,ou
himself INTO the river.
But me men who followed 49,,
method were not really disho,os.'
they were not more so than the vai,,.
who serves you with your meal ~
public. They we've the willing ct.
Tins and the calculating hencac.,r.,
Of system.
II likeness Of these men--as d.,,
and as impervlous to criticism
Drake or Raleigh or Froblsher nv.
in some respects as worthy a. bo,.
their names written on the scroll. -.
fame-could be drawn with ~.
graphic skill of a capable word na,r,,.
there would be set before the ro,aa,
the portraiture OF some viri.o Ane-
cans men from the pine WOOD,
Of Maine. or the prairies OF Toy,s
Yankee traders from tho fertile ,,I.
leys OF the Connecticut River ora
farmers boys from the West ,o wbo,,
husbandry had become irksome and
Government job attractive
Let me give thumb sketch
charcoal delineament Of Judge" roh,
Quackenbush-he OF the lconire ae,I
that frosted and who, in spite Of ,sa
axiom OF immortality contained in N.
Few die" phrase. died in tho SERVE.
Quackenbush came, I believe =,
good Holland stock He had hcc,
police Judge in New York city SONS
tiypn IA hnit thu narinl 81
Woods leather head policemen I.
was 10 this service tina: lie owed taa
title which was one Of his chief brides
He was ponderous and positive n r
type OF the men OF those day,.
subordinate in speaking remin.srcnty
of him once said;
The Judge is wonderful mar
He has learned that two and tv,
make four and insists that h. has
made an arithmetical discovers.
But for all Of his critics caus,.c
wit the "Judge" had for years ST.,
| diligently at desk in The Gus.
tom House and with painstaknE &c.
Curacy daily calculated how much
certain merchants Of New York civ
were to pay into Uncle Sans Golfer,
and how much into his own. H. lived
on his farm in New Jersey and tray
elled 70 and fro with faultless ana IA.
tagging regularity. He was an IN.
compromising protect!on!st, and would
exhibit his baggv trousers made OF in.
ferior domestic woollens as an ev.
| denCe of his faith in the honesty G..
the American manufacturers OF d..
mestic woollens.
When the Republicans. icnor!r,
their settled policy OF protection pr
sugar-raw sugar, of course. for wiz
were they to gain from creole sugar
planters who were their irreConCilab..
opponents at the polls ON the free
list he was loud in their praise as the
only original friends of the poor man
breakfast table.
The Judge" to picture some ~ III
personal weaknesses, was a pcrs!sten.
chewer OF tobacco. He was a mem
Der OF Dutch society in New York
the st. Nicholas. ! think--and he al.
ways attended its annual dinner. IN
these days he would come to the Gus.
tom House in a bluebottle frOck coat
with brass buttons. and he was n,
vain as n peacock in his ancient toEs
The antithesis of Quackenbush 10th
mentally and physically was Andy
Green, who was at one time an er'-'
clerk to the Naval Officer. ard afte-.
ward held more responsible positions
under successive supcriors in the sam
office. He was the proteE6 Of ThGr-
low Weed. Physically unimpress'ye. r.
Z ,N,-n VII ~ II.