New-York tribune., 1921-02-23


President Rarding'S Cabinet. aVho, II
aOos said yesterday at ST. Augustine,
Vjrtuoiiy have been selected, are
0tuen below. The sketches of Charles
E. Hughes, aoho aciH be Secreto4p,of
State; Harry NJ. Dou0bertg, aoho
soiu be Attorney General, and Her.
bert C. HooVeT, slated for Secretary
Of Commerce., previously haze been
pubiished
EDWIN DENBY
Edwin DENLY, lawyer, slated for Sec
retary of the Navy, was born at Evans
vile. Ind, November Ia 1851. He is q
graduate Of the University of Michi-
gan, and has lived for many years in
Oetr it. where he has been on3 Of the
most active figures in the motor indus
try. He also is president Of the Detroit
Chamber of Commerce.
When the Spanish American War he-
gan Mr.. Dcnby gave up his practice and
enlisted in the navy as a gunner's
mate. He served through the war, and
fterward was elected to Congress for
three successive terms.
His early training IN the navy gave
naval affairs, and he has since been al
enthusiastic participator in naval mat
ters. During the World War the DENLY
"Enlist-the country needs an army''
was widely used and useful. He
squared mis- actions with his words by
enl;sting in the marines as private,
becoming one of the popular men in
that corps.
Mr. DENLY obtained his training for
1
He was for ten years in the Chinese
Hare. while his father Charles Denby,
was United States Minister to China.
Wnilerserving Wit e imperial mar
thine customs in China Mr. DENLY
held sway over great interests covering
a huge territory and met with distin-
guished success.
He is at present a member of the
firm of Chamberlain, DENLY. Webster
Kennedy, of Detroit; treasurer Of
the Hupp Motor Car Company and Of
fetal in many social and charitable in
stituticns. He is a golfer and devotee
Of winter sports.
Mr.. Denly was married in 1911 to
Miss MArian Bartlett Thurber, of De-
troit,|a daughter of the secretary to
President Cleveland. When he enlisted
ln the Marine Corps, being married
man, weighing 254 pounds and more
than six feet tall, it was necessary for
him to obtain special order from the
commandqnt of the corps at Washing
ton waving the official restrictions for
age and weight. There was some red
tape to be overcome, but DENLY would
not be denied, and he was permitted
to have his way at last.
ANDREW WILLIAM MELLON
Andrew william Mellon, Of Pitts
burgh, Pa, slated for Secretary of the
Treasury, is one of the least known
though one of the most important men
in modern finance. He was born in
Pittsburgh and is sixty five years old.
! ntering the banking business in 1874,
he became president of the Mellon
National Bank in 1902 and has held
that Office TO the present time. Through
out his career Mr.. Mel on has been
active in the industrial and financial
development of western Pennsylvania.
He is a trustee of the University Of
Pittsburgh and, with his brother, found
ed Mellon Institute of Industrial Re-
search. being also identified with many
charitable and welfare organizations.
Mr.. Mellon is the son of the late
Judge Thomas and Sarah Jane Mellon.
He was educated at the University of
Pennsylvania. He founded the town of
OoUoTa, Fau IN the PttSDurRh ulsSrlcI,
wl.ere he established some of the great
est steel mills in the world.
JOHN WINGATE WEEKS
John Wingate Weeks, of West New
ton, Mass, slated for Secretary Of War
was born at Lancaster, N, H., and IS
sixty years old. He is a graduate e.
the United States Naval Academy, 1851, g,
was midshipman of the navy from
1881 to 1883 and associated with
Boston firm of bankers and broker RS
from 1883 to 1912.
Mr. Weeks became a member of the
lower house of Congress in 1905 and
served until 1918. He was in the Sen
ate from 1918 to 1919. His activity In
the campaign that resulted in the elec
tion of Mr.. Harding to the Presidency
was incesaant.
During his entire career, both as
a public and private citizen, Mr.. Weeks
has been keenly interested in the mill
tary and naval policy of the United
States. During the Spauish-American
war he commanded an auxiliary naval
force
inthe Republican convention Of 1919