The Washington times., 1920-04-30

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and boxing contests took place two
or three times "A week. Expert Jap
anese instructors taught the Presi-
dent jiu-Jitsu, and there were fire.
quent broadsword encounters with
his intimate friends and with sons
OF the house. In one day he rode
"A hundred and six miles in order
TO give the army men an example,
after making Tule requiring them
10 ride thirty miles a day for three
days, TO show they were in proper
condition. Wallace Irwin wrote OF
him in contemporary weekly:
"You were often hard TO follow In
Your chase for bull and bear;
And your walks with army cab
taius-7my, you 'hiked IL so!
Say, we almost choked TO see you
beard the Congress in its lair
And emerge without bump, and
OH, you liked IL so!
You were never doll and clsmmy-
you were either pleased or
vexed, = '.
And we woke up mornings asking:
What will he be doing next?
VIII ne give the railroads Hades?
Oryexpress his views on Ladies,
Or impale some Rabbit Kaker on
pointed Moral fext@'P
lie believed IN tea mwork and
Eaye& generous praise 10 those who
worked under him. His successor
| said he had never served any chief
so willing 10 accord more thantheir
deserts 10 the men who stood shoui-, +,
der TO shoulder with him. -. !.
Prominent in his. administrator
were Root, Knox, Taft, and Cor
telydu. Perhaps the most distin-
guisbed member of the Cabinet was
| John Hay. Secretary OF state. My.
| husband writes OF him: John Hay
belonged to the group of cultivated
men of the world who at one period
made. Washington a most delight
! fuI .capital. An "incomparable
diner-out and table companion, his
Iive-and.take OK talk was brilliant
| land z, Profound Soldier, author
! lstatesmph.-he was'the most charm
\ ing american type, deeply cultured.
widely Travelled; with that great
gift OF humor characteristic OF our
4 race, and yet with wise ana
INdocn appreciation that made
| him an ideal diplomat and great
statesman; he was a philosopher
whether he spoke in Fight VEN or
seAously. Fond of having young
men about him. he would talk to
Itthem. and unfold his views with as
I mich care and interest as If he
were. in most important company.
they responded by aEdeVotion to
| him and many of them have owed
+ much to- his helping hand While
he was Ambassador to England the
English liked to think him one of
themselves, for he fitted in so per-
fectly with their cultivated groups
of intellectual life. Indeed, al
- hn r.
haps his personality, as well as his
literary work, was appreciated
moro. abroad than at home. j re-
member that on one occasion ] ac-
companicd him to a Sunday service.
at Westminster Abbey when Canon
! Farrar in his sermons quoted from
Little Brceche s.. not even knowing
that the author was in town and
! much less that he was sitting at
I that moment in the stalls.
| One cotcric Of Rooscrclts. best
! friends and political followers was
called the Tennis Cabinet mem
bcr Of which L knew wch. Mr.. Al
| ford Cooley. WHOSE career was
unhappily cut short by illness.
| An extract from Roesevclts let
ter. written, on hearing of
| his in-hcalth. shows both the
| Chief Magistrates own personality
! and his fine recognition of the ofi-
cial who served under him:
| You know the Russian proverb.
| once in ten years YOU can help "A
man" Now, mn DEAR Mrs Cooley.
it may stiH be that hcEpowcr Tor
me to be Of any aSsistancc TO Alford
! will ncvfit spmc, But 4 shan esteem
il a real favor 10 ,pu will let mo
! know at any time when YOU think
do ~
or Afford. or for YOUR small son
| when he grows up
| Sometimes ! met tho President at
| Mrs. Cooley's house fer afternoon
tea at tho end of a game of tennis,
| and he would talk in tho most di-
Y vcrtinC. land unrcstrslned manner.
| Ills choice of words and flow of
l. language were. unparalleled. Once
he told us about an encounter with
| two newspaper, reporters whom he
| diSlikCd, 49,.
"and skinned them. -, -,
l. II had a good chance that winter
to see some of the inside workings
of politics and the wire-pulling. In
spite of Roosevelt's popularity,
there were innumerable scrim-
! images and verbal encounters
strife seemed TO be in the very air.
+, His name was on every tongue.
Hos got the, foot and mouth
| disease Hes crazy, Or as the
.Nalc policeman put it, Hes love
| ly man, but he's distressing" Some
ono was always singing something
] at him, and he generally returned
! as good as he received.
IN iarmy officer hit him on in a
! couple of stanzas which were much
quoted at the time hef made his IA.
nous trip TO Europb., -
Before him blaSed a big brass, band,
He shot'off 'gu uns'w either hand;
\ red torch flarcd above his head,
And as he checrcd, again he said,