New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-02

You want to know what happened
Henry Clegg and Kitty writes
Sarah Arlington. "Ill tell you. I know,
because Sinjun IRVINE told the rest
of the tale at small meeting which
attended not so long ago.
Henry and Kitty went to Montreal.
Couldn't go to Quebec because he didn't
know French. He went into luxury
trade ribbons or something. He earned
the salt for all Of them (they had three
children-two girls and boy, and they
lived rather foolish, decent, satisfy
ING life. And how those two got on to-
gether! You never would have be-
lieved it.
"Of course, insisted Mr.. Ervine, it
was a play with happy ending. And
just to prove it he killed off Ma Clegg
right then and there so that we could
all breathe easily with Jane. For Jane,
her new life was an unmixed blessing.
Her son turned out to be an engineer
and a fine lad to boot. 1t is true that
the little girl grew up to make messy
marriage, but she left her husband and
came home again to Jane, so that was
q nero episode.
AS to gambling, Mr.. Ervlne didn't
say. Nor did he tell US the names of
Kitty's children. Aside from these his
account was pretty complete"
talks with T. r." by John ]. Leary
jr. (Houghton Mihlin), should be salts
flying book to all lovers of the Colonel
1t tells what the Colonel said about
Wilson and Charles 4. Hughes at such
time as he was INDUCING in the lux
ury of talking not for publication. Of
course, Mr.. Leary has not been able to
accomplish the probably impossible task
of making the Colonel talk as we'll in
cold type as he did in actuality. 1t is
vivid, interesting talk which he records.
but it is by no means brilliant talk
And yet in the days when the Colonel
lived, people came away from seeing
him firm in the conviction that in pri-
vate conversation he was as agile and
as unexpected as Dr.. Johnson Much of
this effect was because Of the glamour
of the man. Even in his private CONVEX
sations plattudcs crept into the talk
of the Colonel not infrequently They
did not seem so when he was just
behind them. However, something of
his animation and his keen, though
definitely limited, sense of humor re-
mains even in the cold tipping of the fol-
lowing "reminiscences
"Most men, I believe, are good citi
zens according to their lights. Take
Big Tim Sullivan for example.
I'm came to me while l was in the
White House to get q pardon for a
friend. The man was in Atlanta for
blowing postot1cc safe, shooting the
Waterman, and know not what Tim
was insistent that he had reformed and
that ned go straight il he were par
doned. The Postotticc folk did not think
so; neither did the Department Of Jus-
ticc. They insisted the man must not be
pardoned But Tim was so sure, so posi-
tive. however, that his friend had
changed, that l decided to favor him.
III give you this pardon, Tim said
|, ON one condition. You must take il
to Atlanta yourself, see this man before
he has n chance to see any of his old
pals, and warn h.r, that if he goes
wrong again he will not only be pun
ished to the limit but will have to finish
out this sentence as we'll There will be
no mercy for him. And Mt the end of n
year want You to bring tho fellow
here and let me know how he's made
out
Tim agreed to this. Ho would have
agreed TO anything and kept his srree-
ment, too. He got tho pardon and went