Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

President of New York Life. Darwin Pearl Kingsley, who was recently elected president of the New York Life Insurance company, is a son-in-law of the late John A. McCall, and has been connected with the institution for mapy years. He succeeds Alexander E. Orr, who accepted the presidency on the retirement of Mr. McCall a couple of years ago. Mr. Kingsley la fifty years old. He was bom at Alburg, Vt„ on May 5, 1857, and graduated from the University of Vermont In 1881, having worked his way through college. He went to Colorado taught school and did news-

paper work for awhile and in 1886 was elected auditor of Colorado, an office which carried with It the duties of superintendent of Insurance. In 1889 he entered the New York Life as Inspector of agencies. In 1892 he was transferred to the home office as superintendent of agencies. He was elected third vice president In 180# and first vice president in 1896. Mr. Kingsley will receive a salary of $50,000 a year, or more than double the amount he has been drawing as vice president. The Irrepressible Kid. A Western Union Telegraph messenger put a crimp in the dignity of the postoffice department a few days ago. The youngster escaped the vigilant eye of the negro man at the door of Postmaster General Meyer’s office and presented himself to Private Secretary Holmes. “Does George something-I-don’t-know what Meyer work here?” he demanded, reading the name on a package he carried. T “This is the office of the postmaster general, Mr. George von L. Meyer,” he was told. “All right. Just have George sign his name to this book.”—St. Louis Republic. Mrs. Garfield’s Privilege. Mrs. Lucretia A. Garfield, widow of President Garfield, is the only woman now living who enjoys the postal privilege of franking her own letters, she being the only surviving widow of a president. Four women have been granted the privilege. Mrs. McKinley waff one of these, and the others were Mrs. Sarah Polk and Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widows of Presidents Polk and Grant. Not only did congress allow them to send their mail matter without postage, but all postal packages addressed to them were carried free. Princeton’s New Social Plan. The plan of President Woodrow Wilson, who has instituted a radical re organization of social life at Princeton university, is one that will be studied with deep interest by the other big institutions of learning. He will abolish the clubs and have an equal number of students from each class room in what he calls a quad. His suggestions have been adopted “by the board of trustees and will soon be pift in operation. “It is our purpose.” said President Wilson, “to draw the undergraduates

together into residential quads, in which they shall eat as well as lodge together and In which they shall, under the presidency of a resident member of the faculty, regulate their corporate life by some simple method of self government. For this purpose It would be necessary to place all future dormitories in such relation to those already erected as to fornf close geographical units. Every undergraduate would be required actually to live inc his quad—that is, to take his meals there as well as to lodge there." President Wilson is a native of Virginia and fifty-one years old. fie has been the head of Princeton since 1902.

DABWIN P. KINGSLEY.

WOODBOW WILSON.