Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1905 — MEN OF AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

MEN OF AFFAIRS.

It is said that Secretary Taft is the weightiest man \vho ever held a cabinet office. J. I*. Morgan's greatest charity is keeping young boys off the streets by-getting them work. Gov.-elect Higgins lias chosen Frank Porloy, a New York newspaper man, as his private secretary. W. Hall Harris. Baltimore's new postmaster, is a native of that city, u lawyer, and a most scholarly man. Russell Sage cares little about what is going on in Wall street these days. He realizes that his day is over.

It is said that William F. Cody, better known as “Buffalo Bill,” will Income a citizen of the French republic. Albert M. Bradshaw, postmaster at Lakewood. X. J.. has George Gould and several other millionaires on his bond. Oregon's junior United States Senator, Charles \\ . Fulton, is classed as one of the brightest legal lights in his State. President Roosevelt has presented to the national museum an outfit of the gunehos of the South American plains. lludyard Kipling's lungs are too weak to stand an English winter. He has not been strong since an attack of pneumonia caused apprehension years ago. Joseph S. Frelingliuysen, personal aid to Gov. Stokes of New Jersey, is a cousin of the late Secretary of State and United States Senator Frelinghtiysen. Judge Thomas 11. Paynter, former chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, would like to succeed J. 8. C. Blackburn as United Statos Senator.