Evening star., 1924-11-23
3enator Butler Close
Friend of President
Since the Early Days
Relations Of the Two Com
parable to Those Main
eained Between Senator
Lodge and President
Roosevelt.

though the future chronicier will
look in vain through the memoirs of
resident Coolidge for calculations
of Cal" or Billy. it is. neverthe-
lsss, true that these two eminent men
lc.d the same relations to each other
hat marked those of Theodore
roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge.
And l said. Cabot" thus and 50 is
1cund very frequently in the familiar
cabot said Theodore, you must do
nus" But it is typical of the pres
~at Executive that while he Is sim
cerely devoted to his manager and
-ong- time friend, he always has call
I'D him MIR. Butler" and in return
vas favored with the same formal man
rzr OF address. The same Is true
.. the Presidents way OF addressing
tfr. Frank A. Stearns, and, in fact
he thirtieth individual President and
se thirtyfirst in the way Of desig-
,t-ting his separate term, has all the
""ticence and inherent dignity OF his
ancestry and all sorts Of familiarity
8 utterly foreign to his nature
But Senator and Mrs. Butler will be
'<ry close, indeed, to the occupants
=; the White House. merely con-
.auing friendship which dates far
sack and long before either man had
.:y hint Of the distinguished destiny
which was awaiting him. Time seems
almost here when every detail of the
romantic career of Henry Cabot
Lodges successor will be one of the
tales used to point a moral for the
young and thoughtless and to show
now industry, frugality and a strong
Will wrest success from the least
promising situation. AS lad of
IL and not yet out Of the graded
schools of New Bedford, Mass, young
Billy was compelled to seek q situ-
alton to help the family exchequer.
His father, the late Rev. James D.
Butler, a native of New Bedford and
at one time in the whaling business
and the master Of his own ship at
~, had deserted his calling of fishing
4or fish and gone into fishing for
men.
He entered the Methodist ministry
ana had an eminent career, serving
sn southwestern Massachusetts and
In Connecticut and Rhode Island. In
mis- latter days. the Rev James But
ser was chaplain of the Port Society
OF New Bedford and labored inde-
fatigably among his former asso-
ctates, the fishermen of the whaling
fieet. He and his wife, Eliza Place
Butler, had large family, eight
youngsters and but a meager income
on which to rear and educate them
So Billy. who was among the elders,
obtained a position as office boy in
the shoe mandatory of Hathaway,
Soule Il Harrington and at night
he learned double-entry bookkeeping
from his friend, the city auditor
Soon he felt competent to seek a posi-
tion in Boston in a big business
office, and after a year or two of
close application by day and intense
study at night he was permitted,
though he had no collegiate educa-
lion, to matriculate in the law col
lege of Boston University. And In a
year and half he had finished the
course with flying colors and had en-
tered a well known law firm. His
foot on the ladder, Mr. Buffers
climb to handsome fortune and to
the confidence and respect of his as
$ociateS was almost meteoric
The new Senator has been twice
married. His first wife, who was
Miss Mary Norton of Edgartown,
Mass, died in 1905. and left three
children, of whom the son, Mr.. Will
lan Morgan Butler, jr., or Morgan
Butler, as he is known, has fire.
qGently accompanied his father to
Washington. There are two daugh-
te's, one of whom is married and
lives with her father in Boston. The
present Mrs. Butler was married in
1907 and she has two little girls
still in school and who will probably
not come to Washington until after
the Christmas holidays. Mrs Butler
belongs to two well known families
of Boston and is well equipped for
her social duties. She was Miss Mary
Lothrop Webster. Like her husband
she rather shuns the limelight and
is not excessively fond OF the social
side of wealth and high position.
She is an ardent home body, and
though she and Mr.. Butler take great
pride in their handsome domicile, on
E0mmonw ealth avenue. Boston, they
really feel freer and enjoy life more
thoroughly In their Summer place, off
.Iarthas Vineyard and not far from
Woods Hole.
IN the nearby waters Mr.. Buffers
schooner yacht rides at anchor. al
ways ready, when he can find day
g. so of leisure, to sail into a rough
s-s, and have a first-class battle with
T:e waves. Mrs. Butler is good
sailor, too and frequently accom-
paaies her husband, and, in fact. both
prefer a yachting trip in the Winter
when the high winds blow and it
means something to handle sailing
schooner. Not foreseeing how events
vtL.d turn out, the new Senator had
promised Mrs. Butler that when he
lad terminated all the business con-
.ected with being the Presidents
olnpaign manager they would put
the children at boarding school and
sail away to pass four or five months
in the South, going through the Pan
anna Canal and trying out the yacht
on the Pacific side Of this continent.
Ill of which has now been aban-