Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1904 — MEN OF AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

MEN OF AFFAIRS.

Judge Parker has red hair. Senator Thomas C. Platt is just 71 years old. Secretary of State John Hay can read and write Russian. James G. Blaine 111. is to try farming on Block Island, R. I. Senator Platt of New York is in deadly fear that he will get fut. As between polygamy and divorce, ( ougressninn Bourke Cock ran believes in tli«‘ former. Richard L. Croker, son of tlie former Tammany lender, is now a full-fledged Wall street broker. \V. L. Douglass will donate to the town of Brocton, Mass., a surgical building fully equipped. The wealth of former Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia is estimated at from $20,000,000-to $40,000,000. Walter Ivittredge, author of "Tenting on the Old Cauip .Ground,” is still living. His home is at Reed's Ferry, N. H. Isaac Perry Decker is the sole Salt Lake survivor of the bond which crossed the plains to Utah with Brigham Young in 1847. Col. John Jacob Astor spends much of his time in the attic of his house in hTftli avenue studying and experimenting iti electrical science. Fortner President Cleveland does not cure to go far from the shore in bouts. He has never crossed the ocean. He is afraid of sea sickness.