Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1907 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Chi«f of the Thnw Counsel. Delphin M. Delmas, who lately came Into the limelight as chief counsel In the defense of Harry K. Thaw, was for many years leader of the bar on the Pacific slope. Mr. Delmas Is six-ty-three years old and practiced law in California for upward of thirty years. Most of his practice has been in civil cases, but some of his notable victories have been won as a criminal lawyer. Mr. Delmas is a striking personality. He has been called the Napoleon of the bar In the west not only because

of bis resourcefulness, bis tireless -aggressiveness and bis courage, but because of liis remarkable resemblance to the great Corsican. The San Francisco earthquake was mainly responsible for Mr. Delmas’ removal to New York. Before that disaster he bad no thought of changing his residence. Mr. Delmas was offered a big fee by the Southern Pacific railway to become its general counsel and declined. He was paid $50,000 by Claus Spreckels to defend a libel suit. He received a fee, variously estimated at from $75,000 to $150,000, in the Fnir will contest and something like the same amount in the Farker will case and in the Martin case, both of which were famous in their way.

Doesn’t Ride In Cabs. In a Washington note the Chicago Record-lleraid says that a few nights ago when miserable weather prevailed —sloppy under foot and a storm of half sleet pelting down—a man In evening dress boarded the Connecticut avenue owl car. He had come from one of the downtown hotels, dexterously avoiding tlie cabbies marshaled at the entrance. As he sat in the crowded and bedraggled car, drops of dampness hanging to the brim of bis silk tile, wedged in between a white man and a negro carrying an obtrusive bundle, and groped for his nickel fare, half the passengers snickered aud made half audible remarks about some people who could afford cabs. Halfway up Connecticut avenue the passenger who excited so much comment alighted and trudged through the storm to bis place of abode. It was Senator William A. Clark of Montana, one of the richest men In the country. Few. if any. In Washington ever saw this multimillionaire in a cab, but every day lie may be seen waiting on a corner or chasing bis way through the vehicles of this tborongbfare to board the economical trolley.

Opr Ambassador to Germany. Charlemagne Tower, United States ambassador to Germany, seems to have stirred up unite a tempest In a teapot by presenting Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lehr to Kaiser Wilhelm. Following the presentation a Berlin newspaper printed an account of Mr. Lehr’s so called “ape entertainment” at Newport and safd editorially: “Such affairs are characteristic of the entire Four Hundred of New York.

The view held In Berlin that the Four Hundred represent good American society is an Insult to reflned circles in the United States. In America it ls as with us—it ls the best society of which nothing ls said. “One would suppose that the diplomatic representative of the United States here would know enough to select such persons for presentation at court as have won eminence by genius In business, polities, science, etc., and not those who have only the control of money bags.” Mr. Tower ls a native of Philadelphia and In his fifty-ninth year. He was appointed minister to AustriaHangary in 1897, lifter went to Russia •a ambassador and since 1902 has represented Uncle Sam at Berlin.

DELI'HIN MICHAEL DELMAS.

CHARLEMAGNE TOWER.