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"LAst week Unels Ted said he would
tall IN some moro about General
Dawes very soon. Maybe he would
tell us another story about him to-
night If We ask him" It was' jack
talking to his sister, Ruth.
"Let's ask him now for another
story. What's the use Of waiting
until latei'' said Ruth.
80 away they went after Uncle Ted,
teasing until he gave in and started
another story on the Republical vice
presidential nominee, General Charles
G. Dawes.
1.-THE last time I talked to you
kiddies about General Dawes, gave
you more Of . general idea Of his In
teresting career" began Uncle Ted.
''Tonight 1 want to show you the ten
der side Of his nature. General Dawes
has done moro for charity in . truly
practical way than many ten men Of
LII position N life put together. But
it has always been hard to learn .
great deal about his generous gifts and
phlanthropies, as they are called, be-
cause he won't talk sbonk thsa. He
would rather discuss new pipe. In
other words, he 10 . modest man and,
therefore, sincere.
General and Mrs. Dawes had a
great sorrow about twelve years ago
when their only son, Rufus Fearing
Dawes, was drowned in Lake Geneva.
This boy was 81 years old and in the
junior class at Princeton university
and had been working hard to train
himself so that some day he could 60
ahead with the work his father had
started. This meant that every vaca-
ton he worked instead Of loafing.
One time he worked in an engineering
camp in South Dakota where the party
took typhoid fever. He helped as a
nurse until he, too was taken i'll. Like
his father, he was generous to the last
degree. He saved $50 from his work
that summer and the following Christ
mas he spent 500 of it in buying bas-
kets of food for poor families.
''At another vacation time he
worked in gas house in Seattle. One
summer he worked for plumbing
firm, earning 500 month. The last
vacation job he had was in the labora-
tory Of the Chicago Heights Gas Lab
oratory. He was drowned during the
last two weeks Of his vacation. which
he had taken off for recreation.
Ellis death was undoubtedly the
greatest blow that his father ever re.
ceived or ever will receive. Genera.
Dawes hopes were all wrapped up in
his boy and the future.
"lt was not long after the death Of
his son that Gen. Dawes started his
three hotels that have been operated
so well for down-and-out men and
women. The first was built and dedi-
Gated as a memorial to his son. This
hotel is known as the "Rufus r.
Dawes Hotel for Destitue Men, and
is located on the West Side Of Chiea.
60. So many hotels and places of this
kind constantly remind those who are
forced to use them that they are up
against it and really accept charity.
But in the Rufus F. Dawes hotel there
is nothing to remind those who stay
there that they are having a hard time
in this world. The hotel was opened
January 1, 1914, and it has been pop.
ular ever since, Its reputation spread
ing from coast to coast. A man can
get bed for nickel or q dime and
the meals cost less than cents each.
During the first four months this ho-
tel was open, 74,161 men were accom-
modated.
"While General Dawes will not talk
about his hotels as general thing, he
will say at all times that he wants it
understood that they are not charity
institutions and that no one can inter
fere with the private affairs Of the
guests in his hotels. After the first
hotel was running along in good shape
he started another in Boston, giving
1T the same name and running it along
the same lines exactly as the one in