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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAaLE. KEW YORK, SXJXDAT. SEPTEMBER 30, 19Q0. 19 EVENTS. May Hinsh, Mr.

John Mertz, Mr. Thomas Studies in American Character No. 22. reserves DANIEL SCOTT LAMONT. A Man of Affairs, Purely and Simply.

(Photo by Bell. Washington.) DANIEL SCOTT LAMONT. has occupied and the duties he has discharged, it follows that he is a man of large abilities. These abilities are, however, not at all of tho showy or brilliant order. Eloquence is not one of his gifts.

It is manifest neither in pronounced orations, nor in conversation. No one, during his thirty years of public life, has ever heard of Colonel Lamont making a set speech, and it is doubtful if ever in his whole life he has detained ah audience, however small, for five minutes. Yet in affairs he has the faculty of clear statement of a matter, which shows that he has thoroughly exhausted it on all sides in consideration and from this statement all the non essentials have been rigidly excluded. The great quality of the man is his profound common sense Mr. Thomas Mooney, Mr.

and Mrs. L. BecKer. Miss Clara Cooper, Mr: and Mrs Gebraths, Mr. and Mrs.

Stros and Miss E. Stros, Miss Schoenger, Mr. and Mrs. Schoen ger, Mr. Sanders, Mr.

Leonard Bckert, Miss B. Cooper and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Berg. CASE AGAINST WORE DISMISSED, Frank E.

Work, the retired stock broker, who was arrested Friday afternoon for fast driving and using abusive language in Cen tral Park, was arraigned in the Yorkvllle court, Manhattan, yesterday morning, before Magistrate Flammer. After hearing the tes timony of Policeman Baldwin, who made the arrest, and Policeman Collins, who assisted him, as well as the story of half dozen other officers of the Park force, the magis trate dismissed the complaint against Work Work was accompanied to the police court by former Mayor Abram S. Hewitt, who stated he was there only in the capacity of a friend, but who, nevertheless, cross exam ined Policeman Baldwin. TWO EINE HOUSES SOLD. J.

H. Doherty Bro. have sold during the past week two of their large and handsome new brick residences on Sixth street, near Prospect Park West, to New York parties. Palms and Flowebb for wedding decorations, receptions, teas, and arranged by SKTtiED Aktists. Send for plan and astlmate to J.

Condon, Hobxicultubist, 784 Firm Ave, 35 greenhouses, 291 to 313 24th st, Fort Hamilton parkway, Gravesend av and 734 and 736 5th ave. Telephone 27 South. Thebe are even druggists who' will sub stitute inferior mineral watero for Carl H. Schultz's because they get them cheaper, making a larger pront. Order from reliable druggist or Carl a.

Scbultz, 430 444 1st av, New York City, The victims of next winter's epidemic of grippe, those whose systems have not recovered from exhaustion of summer. Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bit ters, great South American tonic for weak people. Notices received too iate for thin col umn will be found on page 43. MARRIED.

FEANKEL RUSSELL On Thursday, September it, 1300, at the home ot the bride's parents, by the Rev. Dr. Hcnkel, FREDERICK DIONIS FRANKEL to VIOLA MAY RUS SELL. HANREHAN WALSH On Thursday, April 2s, 1300. by the Rev.

Wm. T. St. John. MARGA RET LOUISE WALSH, daughter of Anthony Walsh of Brooklyn, to DENIS FRANCIS HAN REHAN of Manhattan.

LORD SEE On Tuesday, September 25, 1900, by tbe Rev. W. C. P. Rhoades, at the residence of the bride's mother, 1,556 Paciflc st ALICE SEE to JOSEPH B.

LORD, both of Brooklyn. NELLIES COOKE On September 26, 1900. at the residence of the bride's aunt, 348 McDonough st, Brooklyn, by the Rev. George H. Charles, WILLARD CHARLES.

NELLI3 and BESSIE COOKE. DIED. BOERUM On Saturday, September 29, 1900, FOL KERT DE RAPALIE, In the 28th year of his age. Funeral services at the residence of his parents, 155 Nostrand av, Brooklyn. Monday, October 1, at 8 P.

M. Kindly omit flowers. S0 2 BRADLEY On September 28, JULIA N. BRAD LEY, aired 50 years. Funeral from her late residence.

26 Clermont av; thence to tbe Church of the Sacred Heart on Monday, October 1. at 9:30 A. M. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. 29 3 BRONNER On Thursday, September 27, ELIZA BETH BRONNER, aged 25 years.

Funeral on Sunday, September 30, at 1:30 P. from her late residence, 270 Eighteenth st, Brooklyn. CROMWELL On Friday, September '28, ED WARD CROMWELL, son of the late Henry and Sarah M. Cromwell, aged 46 years. Funeral from St.

Paul's Church, Glen Cove, October 1. at 1 P. M. Carriages will meet the arrival of 11 o'clock train from Long Island 29 2 DRAIN On September 29, 1900, MARY M. DRAIN, wife of Wm.

Drain. Relatives and friends' are Invited to attend the funeral at the Fourth Av M. E. Church, Fourth av, corner Forty seventh st, Monday. October 1, at 2 o'clock.

19 2 DUNLEAVY Suddenly. On September 28, 1900, MARY DUNLEAVY, wife of Christopher Dun leavy, In the 28th year of her age. Funeral her late residence, 570 Twentieth st, Monday morning, 9:30 A. M. thence to Church of the Holy Name, where solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of her soul.

HAWXHURST On September 29, 1900. JULIA E. HAWXHURST. Funeral services at 8 P. on September 30.

at 276 Halsey st. Interment at convenience of family. JESSUP BENJAMIN T. JESSUP, in the S7th year of his age. Funeral from his late residence in Whitesboro, N.

on October 1, at 4 P. M. KAMMANN Entered into rest on Saturday, Sep tember 29, CAROLINE KAMMANN, widow of Frederick ivammann, in the 76th year of her age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral on Tuesday, October 2, from German Emanuel Church, Seventh st, between Fourth and Fifth avs, at 2 P. M.

30 2 KEENAN On September 29, at his residence, 678 Bergen st, MICHAEL KEENAN. Relatives and friends Invited to attend funeral on Tuesday at 2:30 P. M. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. 30 2 KIS.SAM On Friday, September 28, 1900, PHEBE RYERSON, widow of late George KiBsam, in the "4th year of her age.

Funeral from the residence of her son, W. Ry crson Kissam, 91o President st, Sunday, September 30. at 2:30 P. M. Interment at convenience of the family.

LAKE Suddenly, on Thursday, September 27, 1500, JAMES, son of Wm. B. Lake and Phoebe M. Cropsey, in bis 19th year. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his parents, 364 VanSlckleu st.

corner Lake place, Gravesend, on Sunday, September 30, at 3 P. M. 2R 3 LEWIS On Saturday, September 29, 1900, at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, MARY E. LEWIS, In the 23d year of her ago. Funeral sorvices Sunday, September 80, 4 p.

at 'Simpson Church, corner Clermont and 'W'll loughby avs. Interment at Los Angeles, Cal. MABEE Entered Into rest Thursday, September 27, 1900, MARGARET T. MABEE, widow of George J. W.

Mabee, 83 years of age. Funeral at residence of her daughter, Mrs. Cronyn, 151 Monroe st, Sunday, at 2:30 o'clock. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. 28 2 MILFORD On Friday rooming, September 28, 1900.

THOMAS M. MILFORD. in his 35th year. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at his late residence. No.

387 Keap st, on Sunday, September 30, at 8 P. M. Interment Cypress Hills. Monday, 10 A. M.

8 2 MURPHY A solemn high mass of reoulem (month's mind), will be offered for the soul ot Mrs. ANN MURPHY, in the Church' of Our Lady or Meroy, Debevolse place, on Monday October 1, 1900, at 9 A. M. Friends are In vitea to atiena. OAKES On September 28, Mrs.

EMMA OAKES beloved wife of Joseph Oakes. Funeral will take place Monday afternoon at 3 P. M. from her late residence, 1,317 Atlantic avenue. FARDESSUS At his residence.

1,288 Paciflo st, Thursday night, SEMAN J. PARDE6SUS, in his 83d year. Funoral private. jj2 PARKHOUSE On September 28, 1900. ALBERT PARKHOUSE.

Funeral services at his late resldenee, 42 Pulaski st, Monday, October 1, at 7:30 P. M. Interment at convenience of family. jo.o RILEY On September 28. 1000, after a lingering Illness, JULIA wife of the late ex Sheriff Thomas.

M. Riley, at her residence, 123 Albany av. Funeral. Monday, from Church of Our Lady of Victory, Throop av and McDonough st, at 0:30 A. M.

Interment In Calvary. 20 2 SPRAGUE Friday, September 28. JOHN SFHAQUE, at Hillsdalo, N. J. Interment Evergreens Cemetery, Sunday, 11:30 A.

M. (Providence papers please copy.) SWENTZEL at Newburyport. September 27. 1900, ULLIE LITTLE, wife of the Rev. Henry C.

Swenticl and daughter of the late Moses Little. Funoral services In St. Paul's Church, Newburyport. Monday afternoon. October.

at 2 o'clock. Interment West Newbury. Mass. A memorial nervic will be held In St. Luke's Church, this city, at the sometime.

29 2 The opening meeting given by the Criterion Educational Alliance will be held Sunday evening, October 28. at LtederKranz Hall, Manhattan and 'Meserolo street. The Monday Clnb win visit the Brooklyn Dls clpllnarv Training School at Eighteenth avenue and Fifty eighth street on Tuesday at 3 P. M. Bpworth league Chapter No.

1,093 of the Han son Place M. E. Church will hold Its opening business race ting at the season and social at the 7 church on Monday ovenlng. The opening exorcises of the educational de partment of the Twenty third Street Branch of the Manhattan Young Men's Christian Association will be held at Association Hall to morrow even ing at 8 o'clock. Dr.

Lyman Abbott will deliver an address and the music will be rendered by the Metropolitan Opera House orchestra. A mass meeting to promote the cause of prohibition will be held in the Pentacostal Tabor nacle, South Third street and Bedford avenue. Thursday evening noxt. Addresses will bo made by William T. Wardwell, Prohibition candidate lor governor, and the Rev.

Dr. C. H. Mead. T.

31. MELEOBD'S DEATH. At a special meeting of the Bushwick Co operative Building and Loan Association (l.eld Friday night at Its meeting rooms, 704 Grand street, appropriate resolutions were I passed by a lull meeting of the board of man acement upon the death of Thomas M. Mel ford, who was assistant secretary of the as Bociauon. COMING WEDDINGS.

The marriage of Miss E. A. Clark to "Will iam.J. Clark of Corona, L. will take place at the residence the bride's parents, S4 Rochester avenue, on Wednesday, October 3, at F.

M. The marriage of Dr. Anna Elizabeth Mar tin to John Henrv Kine of the Eaele. will take place on Tuesday evening, October 9, at azs uancocu street. ACCOMMODATIONS IN DEMAND.

It seems that New York City is becoming an attraction for pleasure seekers from all parts during the summer months. This has been fully demonstrated by the very liberal patronage wblch tbe Hotel Majestic has had during the season just closed. Most of the suites have been occnnted constantlv and the demand for accommodations Is extremely large. PARTS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 23 Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus.

Rue Coral pink cloth gown, machine stitched; vest and undersleeves of cluny lace. HAYDN CHOBAL SOCIETY. Eirst Meeting of the Season Will Be Held To morrow Evening. The first meeting of the Haydn Choral Society will be held at the Iinmanuel Congregational Church, Decatur street, near Patchen avenue, Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. The Haydn Choral Society enters upon its eighth season, with every prospect of successr The object of the society is to study the higher class of music and to promote social intercourse among its members.

Concerts and socials are a feature of the society. The society consists of active and associate members, each sharing equally in its privileges. Active members must possess the ordinary vocal qualifications, and have a fair knowledge of sight singing. Any per Bon of good moral character is as an associate member. The officers are: President, the Rev.

Dr. Edward P. Inger soll, D. 467A Macon street; vice president, William M. Lindsay, 95 Macon street; treasurer, Edith M.

Bush, Henry street; secretary, Anne Watson. 430 Halsey street; librarian, T. T. Bostwick, 429 Macon street; musical director, Millard P. Cook, 529 Macon street.

SANCTUARY SELECTIONS. The first number of the Brocolini collection of anthems and selections for the sanctuary has been published by F. H. Chandler for J. Clark Brocolini of this borough.

This little volume of fifty folios contains a number ot choice arrangements of sacred offer lags which will be welcomed by a large number of organists throughout the country as being exactly what la needed for small choirs. The English words for the Te Deum, Ve nlte, Benedletus, Jubilate and Sanctus have been set to tuneful music, which is of comparatively easy range, and several recitatives and anthems are also included in this volume. Mr. Brocolini is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on church music In New York, ami is well fitted for the work which he has undertaken. If the succeeding volumes of the collection are up to the standard set by the initial numher music lovers and those who care for a little sacred music at home now and then will be equally as anxiouB as the organists for the issue of the other selections which are to follow in due course.

RED CROSS AUXILIARY. At the request of Miss Barton, under whose direction Mrs. Ada G. Mohr has been worklng for the Texas sufferors, a new auxiliary of the Red Cross has started with twenty charter members. As a result of same ou nas been sent to Clara Barton.

The charter members and officers are as follows: Ada G. Mohr, president; Florence M. Westcott vice president; Martha E. Oliver, secretary F. W.

Watkins, treasurer; Henrietta D. Beaver, chairman; Mrs. Signa, Mrs. Bartlett, Mrs. Topham, MIbs Holly, Ella B.

Eason Misg A. Holly, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Greenfield' Mrs. Clement, the Misses Holmes, Hewlett, Hughes, Smith and Staats, SCHEETEL HARTMANKT.

At the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hartmann of 257 Bleocker street, Brooklyn, the marriage of their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, to Henry J. Scheffel, took place last Wednesday evening, the Rev. Mr.

Bernhart officiating. The parlors were decorated with ferns and flowers. The bride was attended by Miss Bella Cooper and Leonard Eckert acted as best man. The bride and groom left for a short trip to the mountains, and on their return will reside in Brooklyn. Among those present were Mr.

and Mrs. Hartmann, Mrs. E. Hartmann. Misses Minnie and Annie Hartmann, Mrs.

E. Schneider, Mr. and Mrs. John Schneider, Mr. Otto Schneider, Mr.

and Mrs. Wunder, Miss Wunder, Mr. Fred Wunder, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr.

and Mrs. Forschner, Mr. and Mrs. Oundell, Mr. and Mrs.

HInes and son. Misses Annie Wilson and Lena Blatz, Miss Moore. Mlsi Macks, Mr. Hinsh and Miss Are made strong when fed by the rich, pure blood given by Hood'a Sarsaparllla. Sweet, refreshing deep Returns, mental and physical vigor is restored, and the terrors of nervous prostration are.

Many a weak, nervous woman and overworked man has found help in this great medicine. All nervous people should try Hood's SarsapariHa Is America's Greatest" Medicine." Price Jli Hooa's Pills' cure liver iHsf'the non lrrltating and only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparllla. ing at his mustache and. examining and reexamining the figures as they came in. Telegrams of congratulation began to pour In from prominent people and these, with every manifestation of annoyance, Lamont tossed aside.

Finally, he exclaimed: "If this thing keeps up, they'll beat Cleveland." Then came a change in. the figures. The apparently comfortable majority of twenty thousand ran down to ten, then to five and there everybody nailed it fast as if certain. Every one but Lamont wa3 happy. True, tie majority was not so large as had been hoped for, but, like Mercutio's wound, it would do, Lamont said to one present: "This majority is running down so fast that it will be run out If we do not prevent it.

Come with me and help me." Mr. Lamont led the way to the executive chamber and then wrote a telegram. That year a law was in force for the first time providing that the return of each district's voting should be filed with the clerk of the county by 12 noon of the following day. It was an effort to prevent the tampering witi and of returns the following day. The value and effect of this law had been appreciated by Lamo.it as it had been by no one else and he had insisted that at each polling place a lawyer should be assigned to watch" the interests of the Democratic candidate.

He had carried his point and had had provided him a list of these watchers When he became alarmed by the way the majority In New York was retreating as the night passed he determined it would be close enough for trickery. Therefore he addressed a telegram to each one of these watchers at each polling place, directing him to assure himself of the exact vote at his poll, that the return was made out at the close of the count as the law directed and that it was filed at the county clerk's office by noon of the next day. He had called hl3 companion to as sist him in this work of sending telegrams Thls. 'dohe in the omall hours of the morning, secured Cleveland's, plurality, which dwindled to 1.047. The efforts made in certain parts of the state to change results showed 'not only how easily it' could'have been done but how it would have been done but" for the.

pre science of Mr Lamont and his habit taking the worse rather than sanguine. side of any matter he is. concerned, in. J. There is nothing dramatic, theatrical or spectacular in Lamont.

Reticent. by nature, reserved by habit, secretive through impulse, he leaves no tracks after him in his movements. He was a man of power and. in fluence before those well acquainted and in daily association with him realized. All his life he has 'cared little for the semblance.

of power hut he has never Jos a point that would give him its possession, and, exercise. As the; years have grown he has taken; on. flesh and bulk until he has lost that frail appearance that deprived him of a presence and dignity of bearing and has thereby gain'edin impresslveness, but even now he would not be taken by strangers as a man who is one of the Important figures of the day, a position ha has gained by his own efforts and his ow merits. ABOUT BROOKLYN PEBFtE. Mr.

and Mrs. Harry James Hilair Btarted? last Thursday on a New England trip. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W.

Spencer of Utica, N. take, pleasure In announcing the engagement of their youngest daughter, Maude, to Electus Backus Ward of Brooklyn, son of the late Dr. Electus Backus Ward and grandson of the late Dr. Samuel G. Armor of Brooklyn.

Mrs. E. F. Hudson, president of Branch No. 11, International Sunshine Society, 'will receive next Thursday evening, from 8 to 11 o'clock, at her residence, 505 Clinton avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Chase have an nounced the engagement of their daughter, Josephine Mlddletou, to Frederick S. Bole nius.

No date has as yet been fixed for the wedding. Miss Elizabeth C. Hoopes of Bedford, West i Chester County, N. is entertaining friends for a few days, her guests from Brooklyn being Miss Maud Velie Curtis and Roger W. Curtis ot East Fourteenth street, Flatbush, and Clarence Heman Day of Hancock street.

Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Wilklns are making an extended tour through Maine, and will not be at home until October 15.

Mrs. George W. Alpers and her son; Ed ward TJnderhill, of Macon street, are at Central Valley, N. where they are re cuperating from an attack of typhoid. THE OflXVESTON COITCERT.

An Orchestra of Tour Hundred and Chorus of 2,000 Will Take Part. The concert to take place this afternoon. in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, under the auspices of the Aschenbroedel Verein, seems likely to prove one of the most events of the musical season. Four hundred, of the most accomplished musicians of New York and Brooklyn have been organized Into an orchestra to play for the benefit of the sufferers by the Galveston calamity. Four of the great conductors, Emll Paur, Walter Damrosch, Victor Herbert and John Philip 6ousa, will each In turn take their places on the conductor's stand and iead' in selections from Wagner, Massenet, Handel, Straus, Sousa and Herbert.

The Choral Union has volunteered a chorus ot. nearly 2,000 voices, under the dlrectioji of Frank Damrosch, and it will inaugurate the concert with the national anthem, "America." The concert will be under the direction of Colonel A. B. De Frece, who has left no stone unturned to make it a success. Popular prices only will be charged so that the public of all classes may have an opportunity of enjoying a great musical treat.

Co AN CEAXXENOR. A quiet home wedding was celebrated Wednesday afternoon, at the residence of the bride's guardian, at 75 East Fifty fourth street, Manhattan, when Miss Frances Catherine Challenor. was married to Clarence Arthur Coan. Miss Challenor is a member of various amateur art societies of New York City. Mr.

Coan is a graduate of Columbia College and a member of the New York Bar, and is well known In Brooklyn society, being a member of the Crescent Athletic Club and the Twenty third Regiment, and having held the rank of captain in the volunteer service throughout the Spanish American war. There wore present at the wedding only the imme diate members of the family, the ceremony being performed by the Rt. Rev. Cortland Whitehead, Bishop of the Protestant Epis copal Diocese of Pittsburg. NO BIDS ON OLD Washington, September 29r It has been decided to sell the old single turret monitor Nantucket and the tug Cheyenne.

A naval board recently appraised the former at $15, uuu ana tne latter at No bids were' received on September 27. when DroDosals were to be opened for the purchase of the ships, and bids will be reinvited. NEW APARTMENT HOUSE. The Rlverview, at 183 Columbia heights, is one of the newest and handsomest apartment houses on 'Columbia heights. It stands In a prominent and convenient location and In all its appointments is strictly first class and up to date.

A personal Inspection of th oae la invited the owaer (, Action Personified, I 'HE possibilities of the American citizen I are illustrated in the career of Daniel Scott Lamont. Neither wealth nor distinction was his heritage. His parents were farmer folk, held In esteem in their community, intelligently doing their duty within their sphere. When, in his boyhood, he looked out on' his horizon it was not rosy with the promise of influence, nor gilded with assurances of the aids of power. The potentialities were all within himself.

The heights of power and influence he has reached in the forty nine years of his life, and the distinction he has attained and enjoys, are in strong contrast with the mod esty of his beginnings. There are lessons to American youth in the career of Colonel La mont, as he is widely known to day. Born in Cortland County in this state of Scotch Irish stock, his traits of character are those of the stock from whence he sprang His boyhood life was not different from the lives of other boys born on a farm save in this, that his delicate constitution and per haps general health bred a large doubt as to his fitness for the rugged life of a farmer and insensibly turned the minds of his parents and that of the lad toward avocations whereof exhausting physical toll was not a part. How much a slight frame and little promise of rugged health and strength had to do with setting the feet of the lad on the path he has followed with success must, perhaps, remain a speculation. It Is probable that while no definite determination was ever reached in family council the conclusion that the lad was little fitted for a farmer's Hie influenced the parents in the purpose of equipping the son with an education fitting him for functions lying far away from the cultivation of the soil.

So, when the resources of the common 6chool of his district were exhausted, he became a student in the academy of a near by town, where higher branches were taught. And here he was fitted for his matriculation at Union College, in Schenectady, which he entered at an unusually early age. Mr. Lamont was not then, nor indeed Is he now, an impressive looking person. Less than the average size, so slight in frame as to appear frail.

It will be seen that he bad not even those advantages of person that un questionably aid youth in the beginning of their ascending steps. But back of this apparent Iraility was a clear mind, resolute in its purpose, a dogged determination and persistency, a power of concentration of all the energies possessed on a given end, shrewd ness, penetration, sound judgment, profound common sense and thriftlness. If these qualities did not make a notable student and a brilliant scholar they certainly did give him a place in his class which, if not among tho honor places, was yet so close as to be eminently respectable. It was in entering upon college life that Mr. Lament's first real struggle in life began.

What aid from he had hitherto received ended when he entered Union. The problem was presented to the young man of how to support himself and pay his college expenses while pursuing his course. The manner of its solution seems to have fixed his course in life. He had been in college some two years when in January he addressed a letter to John T. Hoffman, than Governor of the state, setting forth his condition, the necessity of employment for an income to continue his studies, and asking for such employment about the incoming Legislature.

Perhaps in these years, profound politician as he subsequently became, familiar with all the intricacies of political machinery and drifts and currents of influence about it, he would laugh if he thought of the innocence of his first efforts to break into the charmed circle. But the letter, among the hundreds pouring in on the executive desk, arrested the attention of the Governor. Perhaps it was the pathos in the youthful cry for help, perhaps it was sympathy excited in the Governor for a struggling youth that led that high functionary to comply. He has said that he was struck by the extraordinary character of the penmanship. The theory that in the characteristics of the chirography the char asteristlcs of the man may be read receives some support in the case of Colonel Lamont and some denials.

However, according to Governor Hoffman, it was sufficient to attract his attention and enlist his Interest. He handed it over to Armstrong, the clerk of the Assembly, asking him to Inquire into the young man and the inquiries being satisfactory to employ him. The result was that the young Lamont was installed in the engrossing room as an engrossing clerk and his entrance into the political world was made. His feet were set on the path which was to lead him to distinction and success in life. He was not yet 19 when his appointment was made.

The winter and spring of 1870 were educational to the young aspirant of reserved contemplative moods and penetrative eyes. Evidently he 'studied the motions and parts of the political machine, the operations of which were in such evidence in Albany. When he came up the next year for the session of 1871 he was supported by the requests and indorsements of the Democratic organization of his home county and his appointment this time was the more important one of assistant Journal clerk of the Assembly. These times were momentous. When the youthful Lamont entered politics Tammany then, as it seeks to do now, dominated the Democratic p'arty.

Bill Tweed was the powerful political figure in Democratic politics, just as Dick Croker seeks to be now. The carnival of political crime was at its climacteric point. The year of young La mont's entrance saw the last political tri umph at the polls, of the Tweed hordes. The ticket dictated to the Democratic state con ventlon, with Govornor Hoffman at its head for re election, was chosen at the ballot box, but the air was full of charges of cor rupt practices, of the reckless use of money, of frauds in the counting of votes. But Tweed and his co thieves were in high glee, believ ing they were in for another long lease of power and plunder.

The next year the storm gathered, the dark clouds rolled up and Tilden loomed up a gigantic figure of reform. That year of 1871, an effort, in the war within the party against Tweed and Tweedlsm, was made by the reform element of the Democrats to send some of Its more conspicuous representatives into the Assembly. Tilden was chosen and, if memory be not playing tricks, Francis kernan from Utlca, while Horatio Seymour ran and was defeated in New York City. This year saw the first advent of David B. Hill into state affairs, for he came up to the.

Assembly as a member from Chemudg. Of this Assembly young Lamont, then of age, was again the assistant journal clerk, modest, secretive, reserved, clear eyed, clear brained and efficient. In this Assembly ho attracted the attention, of Tilden, that superb judge of men and of In struments. He cultivated the young clerk and attracted him to himself. His penetrating eye discovered tho qualities of the clerk who made no parade of himself but who had the opacity to rise to the level of every demand made on him.

It was in this Assembly, last H. as Opposed to Philosophy. too, that Tilden came first to know David u. mil and measured his qualities, for he saia or him, "Watch that young man; you win near of him in the future; he will rise." Then he gathered him into the band of young men from all parts of the state he was organizingthat band which later was dubbed by the opposing faction "nincomoooDS." That year of 1872 the storm burst in all Its fury on the heads of Tweed and his horde. He was driven from power to a fugitive iiuiu justice.

mounted into supreme power in the state and Lamont became a con fidentlal agents one of his chief aids. An al liance was cemented that had a molding innuence on the young man. In the reor ganization of the party machinery Tilden be came the chairman of the State Central Committee, Daniel Manning secretary, and Daniel Scott Lamont clerk of it. The latter's do lUical education began In earnest, for te was a pupil under the guidance and instruction of Tilden, that great, supreme master of the art of politics of modern times, trusted as tnat astute, cautious, even suspicious old master trusted few, the medium of communication between the outlying posts, of that great army the leader had built up in the state. In 1874 was elected Governor; in is to John Bigelow was chosen Sec retary or state, and Lamont became chief clerk of that department, but still he was clerk of thn Rtnto onm.

mittee, still the trusted servant of Tilden sua ills. confidential messenger. Two yearf later in a revolt against Tilden, Bigelow waj aeposed and Lamont went out of office, wher Daniel Manning, who, In the meantime, hr.d come to the control of the Albany Argus, offered the young man a place on the editorial corps of that paper, which, accepting, he oc cupied, for the ensuing five years. Still he continued to be clerk of the state committee. even when Manning was chosen chairman and Decame state leader in the retirement of Til den.

In this long service of clerk, the actual executant of the policies the party adopted, mr. Lamont grew to a large influence in the state and an acquaintance not only with all the men of the parties prominent in their af fairs, but with the political conditions exist ing in each civil division of the state, and accumulating an acquaintance with the citi zens of the state such as no man of the pres ent day has attained. This was his condition when Mr. Cleve land was elected Governor. Mr.

Cleveland was a comparatively unknown man without his city of Buffalo and his nomination was due rather to the intensity of the contest between General Slocum and Mr. Flower than to any Individual strength he possessed in tbe state. Nor was it only that he was unknown; ho was unknowing. His acquaintance with the active men of the state of the day was small, a fact which, after his election and he faced the responsibilities of office, gave himself and friends much trouble and apprehension. The campaign preceding the election on the Democratic side, practically had been conducted by Mr.

Lamont. Mr. Bissell, subsequently Postmaster General, was Mr. Cleveland's representative at the state headquarters and had been greatly impressed with the ability and organizing capacity of Mr. Lamont, but more particularly with his wide acquaintance with men and things of the state.

He returned to Buffalo strong in the idea that Mr. Cleveland should attach Mr. Lamont to himself in a close, confidential capacity, in order that the new Governor should have a benefit of such wide knowledge of those'things in which his best friends, as well as himself, felt he deficient. Thus he became the private secretary of Governor Cleveland. How he became a staff of strength and a rod of to' the Governor Is known of all men familiar with the executive chamber "of that day.

How the newly elected President Insisted that Mr. Lamont should accompany him to Washington, against the latter's wish and plan, is also well known. And how after an interregnum of four years Mr. Cleveland insisted on his taking the portfolio of the War Department is recent history. This makes the public record of the man.

His public career is ended if he is permitted to follow his own plans and From time to time his name crops up for this position and that dignity, but against his wish. Within a few days, in' the present Democratic entanglement, his name has been presented as an available gubernatorial candidate. What the movement in this direction would have grown to unchecked it is idle to speculate, but in the most positive and emphatic way he could employ, Mr. Lamont took all the means and steps to stamp it out. When he left the White House HENRY (From the Portrait by Joseph H.

Boston, THIS is a photograph of the portrait of Mr. Halgh, painted for the Manufac turers' Association of New York, and presented to the association at. the meeting Monday evening. Mr. Haieh was the first president of the association.

As will be seen, the portrait shows a bust pose of the subject. It was painted from life by Joseph Boston, whose studio is on Montague street. As a likeness it is very falthfuL Habit' Kg As i in of as the secretary of the President in 1889 he looked upon his political career as closed. He was 38 years old. He had been active in politics and public office for nineteen years, and it had brought him nothing but a living, fame and notoriety for which he cared little, and the consciousness of duty well done.

About him was growing a fam ily of his own bringing up and upon him had devolved the care of those who had cared for him in his youth. He had ac cumulated nothing against that rainy day which always comes to those unprovided with the financial umbrella. Leaving Wash ington he associated himself with that evq dicate of capitalists who saw in the con solidation of the street railways of New York City into one great system a means to great wealth. To that interest he de voted himself for the following four years. The syndicate of which he was the represen atlve, indeed the voice, was one of almost limitless capital and resources, and was in many fields other than the street railway transportation of New York.

In this new relation that great organizing faculty and executive capacity which had been so abun dantly shown in political party management and in public office were conspicuously made manifest again, even in a higher degree. In the many and great that this enormous syndicate engaged upon Mr. Lamont bore not a conspicuous part, for he never works conspicuously, but the laboring one, and he advanced to competence, even wealth. In this relation he remained until, the country having returned his old chief to the presidency again, he was summoned to the Cabinet of Mr. Cleveland's second term.

Mr. Lamont returned to Washington and political turmoil reluctantly. This is set down advisedly. As he said to a friend, he was making more money each year than at the outset of his career, even at the close of his public life in 1SS9, he had ever hoped to have, and it seemed to him that duty to his family and his obligations demanded that he should gather his crops while harvest was so promising. The pressure on him, however, was of a nature ne could not resist, and yielding, became Secretary of War, once more in the harness of public life.

Four years of this life and he was once more free to go back to the world of large private enterprises. But he did not go back to the old relations. His abilities as financier and executant had been impressed on the world of finance and commence. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company claimed his services, and he became what he is to day, the vice president of that company, with his offices in New York, in charge of its Eastern affairs, which is to say in practical charge of its finances. This record, in its various details, sketches in a certain degree the manner of man he is.

In the lines he has followed, the places he HAIGH. Presented to the Manufacturers' Association) while the style and general finish of the picture are thoroughly refined and artistic. Mr. Boston's portrait work has becorne very well known in Brooklyn during the past few years, seme of the best of it being included the gallery of portraits of former presidents of the Brooklyn Club. This portrait Mr.

Haigh has been hung in the meeting room ot the Mahufacturera' Association, at 19S Montague street. and almost as great, if not equal to this quality, is his excellent judgment, which seems unerring. He is a conservative in habit and thought so much so that he has been called cautious and timid. This is a great mistake, for when he has reached his conclusions, and his mental processes are by no means slow, and he has determined on the course to pursue, he Is both bold and aggressive. He has that mental and moral courage which enables him, when he has determined, to put fortune to the test and the trial, not letting "I dare not wait on I would." He Is tenacious of; his opinions, and though circumstances and opposing forces may compel him to forego their execution, yet it will be found In the end that ne nas not changed them.

In this he is nnnRtnnt oe Via j. in utuer tnings. rea soning faculties are large, but those of srim mentation small. He gives the results, not me processes by which he reaches them. No one coum De less or a controversialist than he is.

He will give you his conclusion n. given matter, and his reasons for them; if iiiey are opposea ne does not go to combat but contents himself with reiteration, believing that his reasons should carry by reason ui meir trutn. If aggressive in action, he is not pugnacious. If he is not fond of contest, he does not yield a point determined on until he is fairly beaten off, and he likes not to fight in me uyeu. ms iavorue methods ar nor rw of the open field, but rather of the still hunt that invention of his great master in the craft of politics.

All this is to say that he is diplomatic and tactful; would rather cajole than contest; would persuade rather than force but when his favorite methods fan with vigor enter the fight and bear himself The comments preceding, if accepted will show that he is a man of not a great imag, ination, nor of great originating faculty His tendency is to deal with things as they are presented to him and use the materials at his i.ucr seesing for others, nor new WaVS. He Is Tint fnnfi yet ne is a resourceful enemy, and the sam Eminently practical must be the Judgment ms mma. He is, moreover OI mla, as well as in cuo. rervea his communica ouauuuns nis reserve It DS assumed that he is most strongly moved. His sense of honor is not small but iu us expression.

He is true to his frieffds. Thin v. bated by some, but the adluntment the statement and the dispute will be found is siow in taking on friend shir nrtfl nr. "is associates and allies he does not see friends. He is true to his a.ie,y gives Uf evades the giving uut given, it is sacred.

Fidelity to those in whose service he has enlisted is a marked ana nas been in great meas ure potent his uprise. He was faithful to Tilden so long as that great man needed nis service; he was faithful to Manning until death, and his icvotion to Cleveland is a matter of history. With this travels in him a lively sense of gratitude inis, too, is a statement tBat may be disputed um, cne adjustment will be found in tbi that Mr. Lamont has a very clear notion of an tne motives lying back of service and great power of distinction. He is a Riinorv, Judge of men, with a faculty for the selection'5 or.

instruments and agents amounting almost to genius. And with his diplomacy, hia tner and his" power of impressing those about him witn tne accuracy of bis views and a quality that draws to him the unquestioning service ot men under him, he is a leader and a maiiror There is little of the philosophic In his maice up, but rather he is a man of action. His place is at the executive desk rather than in the forum or in the deliberative assemblage. In council he is strong; particularly in laying his fingers on the weaknesses of statements made. In execution he is prompt and strong.

Hopeful in his temperament, he Is not sanguine. His disposition is to underestimate the strength of his cause and overestimate that of his opponent, but that disposition does hot prevent him from building until he makes his cause stronger. This peculiarity of temperament made Mr. Cleveland the President elect in 1SS4. When the returns on that election day of that year were received it was early manifest that all depended on New York State.

As that 3tate should cast its vote so would the national election be decided. At the executive mansion in Albany those concerned in the management of Mr. Cleveland's campaign and pany friends were gathered to hear the result. The earlier returns seemed to be abundantly In favor of Mr. Cleveland and everybody was in high glee except Lamont.

He was looking solemn absqrbed, gnaw 7 7 hfiL i vs Ktr TrtJn'aHS.