Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-29
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LOCAL SOCIETY
0. D. Brandenburg Of Madison
Sends Number of Letters With
Signature Of Important Persons


From o. D. Brandenpurg OF Madi-
son come some autographs for the
Sauk County Historical society. One
is that of former President Taft, who
expresses appreciation of an editorial
written by Mr.. Brandenburg. The
letter is dated March "a, 1915. at New
Haven, Conn, and June 2S, the same
year, President Wilson's secretary.
VIM. Tumulty. with accent on the
"Tum", signs typed epistle, the
president being away. Then there is
an autograph letter from President
Mac Gracken of Vassar College, who
tells how the "deplorable death OF
Miss Laletha Folks * ): * * has been
matter of great regret to us ALL"
Miss Foulks, poor girl, a brilliant
student at vassar, came to Madison to
specialize in sociology, and one day
wandered about two miles west OF
the university, alone, and suicided by
shooting. 1t was winter and the
frail body was found frozen rigid. To
the depressing effects Of the morbid
study was attributed the pathetic
tragedy. The girl lived in a hand
sure home on tile Hudson. DR.. Mac
Gracken's letter is dated December
%, 1915.
There is a fine letter from the dis
tinguished naturalist w. It. Horniday,
director of the New York ZOO, who
ever is battling zeaIously for our
birds; another from r. H. Meyer of
the interstate commerce commission,
who hopes Mr. Brandenburg will Find
interesting" certain reports that he is
sending; one from the late Governor
w. d. Hoard (1915), and one (1910l
from j. M. Gillett, governor of Cali
forlia, formerly a Sparta boy who
says no clippings please him so much
as those from his "own native state.
Sir Gilbert Parker (1915) writes to
say he is having the London Observer
sent to Mr. Brandenburg because of
its excellent war discuss,o ons. Herbert
l.. Bridgman, general manager Of the
Brooklyn Standard Union and sec
retary-treasure of the Peary Arctic
club, wrote December 80, 1909, to say
lie was never more disappointed in
a man" than in Dr. F. A. Cook, the
two having been longtime friends,
and never had a difference" Mr..
Bridgnan rather playfully says he
has it in for Mr. Brandenburg be-,
cause the latter had entertained DR..
Cook
| a long letter (1913) is from DR..
Frederick j. Turner, once a Portage
hoy, now Prof. of America history at
HArylrd, who speaks Of DR.. r. G.
Thwaites, then recently dead, and II
/ liked him So" he says. This COM
nunication is especially interesting
! because Dr.. Turner modestly OBJ
] serves that his capacity for admin
istration is too limited to make such
place one for me"-meaning the
/ Thw;tites succession, for which just
now an occupant is being sought.
Arthur Capper, u. S. senator from
Kansas, penciled these words (191D
on the margin of a 7-column sheet
containing press endorsements for
governor: Dear Mr.. Brandenburg-
I'm going 70 try just once more" He
did; then served four years as COVER
nor, recently entered the senate, and
in few years, very few, Will probably
appear among presidential possibil-
ties. He had tried once and failel,
His wife S fuLLer was Civil War gov
crnor OF Kansas. There is note
(1913) from 81. P. Morgan, Jun"
though he was no longer Jun, since
his father, famous financier, had
been dead for some weeks. Clark
Howell, owner of the Atlanta Consti-
iutioa an9 one OF the foremost edi-
tors IF the south, expresses a wish
TO be of service, to Mr.. BTandenburg
ard hopes 10 SEE him in New York
this month April of 1914. Mr.
Howell is director of the Associated
Press; and there is a pathetic letter
from Melville E. Stone, general man
ager of the Associated Press, whose
son perished later in 1915 at sea, vic
tim of a German submarine
Charles H. Grasty is another
journalist of distinction, whose auto
graph (November IA, 1870 is in the
collection. He is treasurer
of the New York Times, went to
Europe and sent home some of the
most powerful letters that the great
conflict produced. They we're syndi-
Gated far and wide. Some four years
since Grasty sold one of the big
Baltimore papers, and not long ago
he was heavily interested in st.
Paul daily.
Mr.. Brandenburg also sends an un-
used guest ticket to the Baltimore
convention when Wilson was first
nominated. 1t has s coupons attach
ed, and is a handsomely engraved
impressive piece of blush cardboard
all numbered in red and perforated.