The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 August 1910 — Page 6

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How Lincoln Was Re-elected L_

Harry Vanderbilt Obtained Nearly $300,000 to Pay for the Campaign by Personal Appeals to Wealthy Men in the East. As a remarkable instance of how st is possible for a man to accomplish a work regarded at the time as of supreme importance and still remain in comparative obscurity, the case of Harry Vanderbilt, a nephew of Commodore Vanderbilt, who died ret cently in New York city at a green old age after making a fortune for himself as a manufacturer, is of especial interest. For this Vanderbilt, on the authority of his life-long friend, B. J. Jayne, who earned a name and a fortune for himself in the seventies Uy uncovering a nest of great customs frauds, should be with the honor of having made it possible for Abraham Lincoln to secure hisj re-election to the presidency in 1864. •’For some years prior to the outbreak of the Civil ‘ war,” said Mr. Jayne, who is now almost eighty years of age, “Harry Vanderbilt held a Responsible position in he Portsmouth (New Hampshire) navy yard; but when Salmon P. Chase became Lincoln’s first secretary of the treasury, Mr. Vanderbilt went to that department as appointment clerk, remaining there for more than ten years, or until the middle of Grant s administration. It was during Lincoln’s first administration that Mr* Vanderbilt’s ability as a trusted political worker was discovered and proved on several occasions by the party, chiefs. “It is well known that, following Lincoln’s renominatlon, the party leaders in charge of the campaign greatly feared that Mr. Lincoln would fail of re-election on account of the inability of the national committee to obtain funds sufficient to carry o'a thorough and aggressive campaign. It was at a very anxious period of the war. The drain on the resources of the, nation had been exhausting and no immediate relief was in sight. Taxation had reached what appeared to; be the limit of safety and all demands for money for political purposes were met by sullenness or absolute refusal. The national committee seemed to be powerless to find away out of the uncompromising situation. Its chairman. Henry J. Raymond, the distinguished newspaper editor, was not an adept in the art of raising oampaign funds, and he had a profound distaste for ordinary political methods of getting money for campaign purposes. Gov. E. D. Morgan of New York, his predecessor in the national chairmanship, had collected upward of a hundred thousand dollars to conduct Lincoln’s first campaign, but it was estimated by the party leaders that ebn-

— —~ | Tweed's Methods in Business

Illustrated by the Impulsive Manner in , Which the “Boss” Sought Some Property He Wanted to Add i to Country Estate. When William M. Tweed, who is notorious in the history of American graft as “Boss” Tweed, was at the height of his power in New York city—when, in other words, the metropolis of the New World practically ate out of his 9 hand —he lived the greater part of the year not in the city that he and his riug were robbing right and left, but in the town of Greenwich, Conn. There Tweed bought a farm in 1865. It is now the country home of Mrs. A. A. Anderson, who is well known throughout the country as a woman of great philanthropy. In the farm as it was when Tweed bought it there were forty acres, and upon the place Tweed began at once to spend a large amount of money. The barn which he built cost $40,000, a large sum for such a building in those days, and it gained national notoriety. About five years later Tweed decided that he would like to secure an adjoining piece of property and add it to his country home. This was a tract of twenty acres owned by the late Frederick Mead, who in his time was a * prominent merchant and banker in New York city. Tweed was very anxious to obtain possession of Mr. Mead’s acres because he felt that they would round out and complete his own place. Whatever else may be said to Tweed’s dishonor, this must be said in his favor —he was a man of a good deal of artistic taste and had a keen eye for natural beauty. “What will you sell that twenty-acre * tract for?” Tweed said to Mr. Mead one day. “I don’t think 1 want to sell it at all,” was the reply. “Well," said Tweed, “think it over, and if you can decide upon, a price let me know.” JBeveral weeks later Tweed, meeting Mr. Mead at the Greenwich railroad station as they both were on their way to New York city, pressed the latter

siderably more than double that sum would be required to re-elect their candidates. To whom should be allotted « the herculean task of obtaining J-is immense sum? “It was at this trying moment that the name of Harry Vanderbilt was suggested as that of a man who knew many prominent men in the money centers. Who put forward his name Mr. Vanderbilt never learned, but immediately thereafter he was asked to undertake the raising of the campaign fund, and, with characteristic modesty, he replied that he would do his best to get together the badly needed funds. “Quietly, and with his mission known to only a few, Mr. Vanderbilt began the task of trying to raise at least two hundred thousand dollars, and as much as three hundred thousand dollars if possible. The first city that he visited, as I now remember it,’ was Boston. There he made personal appeals to men of wealth who were of the Republican party, and at last secured from them, either in actual

Lecture Beecher Forgot About

Newspaper Accounts of the SulllVanRyan Prize Fight Caused the Preacher to Be Late for Engagement at Divinity School. | ■ The well nigh universal interest that was being taken in a certain event scheduled to take place in San Francisco on July 4 has served to refnind me of the lecture that great and powerful preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, forgot all about. My authority sos the anecdote, which reveals one side of the abundant human nature which was so characteristic of Mr. Beecher, is the late Prof. Johnson T. Plait of the Yale Law school. “Mr. Beecher was always a favorite lecturer at Yale, before the divinity school,” said Professor Platt. {“You may recall that he delivered several series of lectures on the Lyman Beecher foundation, named after his father, and at other times he also lectured before the school. “Well, on the' afternoon of the particular Beecher lecture I have in jmind the hall was packed to the doors with students and others eager to; hear him. The hour set for the beginning of the lecture was three o’clock, but when it arrived there appeared no Henry Ward Beecher, to the ( mild surprise of the professors in eparge, for hitherto Mr. Beecher had {never i been tardy in appearing in the hall. But when it got to be nearly half after three and still no Beecher, the surprise and consternation were {great, and, after a hasty consultation, h pro-

to put a price upon his twenty j acres. Tweed, in fact, was insistent thiat Mr. Mead should do so, but the merchant as steadily insisted that his was not for sale. “But you will sell if you can get your price, won’t you?” Tweed;finally asked. “You will certainly spll the property for a Tweed price?” “What do you mean by a iTweed price?” asked Mr. Mead. “Why,” was the reply, “a price that Tweed will be willing to pay.”: Mr. Mead laughed. “Well, I would sell that twenty-acre lot for $’55,000,” he said, still laughing. “That is $2,750 an acre. You would not be willing to pay that for it?” , j ' Instantly Twed turned to the station agent. “Look here,” he said, “lend me pen and ink, will you?” At the same time he pulled out a check book, opened it, seized the proffered ink and pen, wrote out a check for $55,000 on the little shelf before the ticket agent’s window and handed it to the' 4 astonished and nonplussed Mr. Mead. “Now that I have paid you, Mr. Mead,” he said, “you can send me the Warranty deed at your convenience.” [ A high value upon the property at that time would have been SSOO an acre. Today a high value upon it would probably be a thousand dollars an acr->, almost two-thirds less! an acre than Tweed paid in the heyday of his notoriety. ■ (Copyright. 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) ■ t Cure for Sleeping Sickness. A new treatment for the sleeping sickness is called the cold mire, and requires a refrigerator with a hospital ward installed in it. The room is painted white, devoid of carpet, but made comfortable with a table, a deck chair and an electric light The patient who submits to the treatment sits for hours at a time in the ward which is kept at a temperature of from 10 to 20 degrees freezing point. The rom is 12 feet by 9 feet and has double wooden * walls, the space between being packed with cotton. —Popular Mechanics.

cash or pledges, SB,OOO. Next he canvassed Philadelphia, where he also secured a large sum, then New York and several other cities. In none was his mission known to or even suspected by any one on whom he did not call; and in this manner he at 'last got together a fund that totaled close on to three hundred thousand dollars, to the great delight and relief of the national committee. Then, having been assured by those In the secret that he had performed a great service in behalf of the Union, Mr. Vanderbilt went back to his duties as appointment qlerk in the treasury department. Just how Mr. Vanderbilt Induced the men he visited to contribute to the campaign fund, no one ever knew exactly,” added Mr. Jayne. “All any one ever learned from him was that he made personal appeals. He never boasted about the important part ho played in making possible the re-elec-tion of Abraham Lincoln. I am one of the very few men with whom Jlarry Vanderbilt ever talked about this feat of his; and I am certain that I am the only ' one now living who knows personally that it was he who raised the Lincoln campaign fund of 1864.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.)

fessor was sent to the hotel where Mr. Beecher usually stopped, to get trace of the missing lecturer, if pos sible. “Yes, Mr. Beecher was stopping at the hotel, the clerk informed the professor, who thereupon hastened to Mr. Beecher’s room, knocked upon the door 1 and was told to come in, which he did at once. But before he could frarhe even a “how do you do” Mr. Beecher, spying him, let out an astonished ‘I declare!’ followed it up by hastily pulling out his watch and looking at it, and exclaiming in dismay, ‘Why, it’s going to four, and you have been waiting for me all this time at the divinity school.’ “He grabbed for his hat. Then, as he was reaching for his overcoat, he turned on the professor with a quaint smile. “ ‘Oh, well,’ he said, 1 might as well make a full confession. When I left my home in Brooklyn this morning I bought copies of two or three morning newspapers. There wa c something in them that Interested m greatly, and I Intended to read a about it on my way to this city. Bm after I got seated in the train a friend came along, I shared my seat with him, and he talked to me all the way here, so that I did not 4 have an opportunity to read my papers. But as soon as I got to the hotel I saw that I would have an hour of leisure before the lecture began, so I slipped up here and began reading—and, do you know, I found the reports of the event so graphic that I actually forgot all about the lecture. It’s in the Anglo-Saxon blood to be interested in such an 1 event, doctor —I was reading about the Sullivan-Ryan fight which took place yesterday down in Mississippi.’ “For a moment or two Mr. Beecher looked the professor of divinity squarely in the eye. Then he reached over and dug that gentleman in the ribs. ‘And now that I have made my confession,’ he said, laughing, ‘l’m go ing to say something to you. I wqu 1 be willing to wager that you yourse read the report of that battle wit bare knuckles this morning before you went to the divinity school.’ “ *Well, Mr. Beecher,’ replied the professor, ‘I might as well confess too, I did get up a little earlier than usual this morning and go to the front door for the morning paper. It hadn’t come, so I actually waited at the door until the boy brought it Then I sat down and read the report of the fight before breakfast.’ “Mr. Beecher beamed on his companion in wickedness. ‘Come,’ he said, and linked arms with the other. And that shameless professor afterwards told me that the lecture which Mr. Beecher delivered a little later was the best he ever heard that gift ed orator make on any platform.” (Copyright, 1910, Edwards.) Studying Bird Habits. Whether birds, especially migrator? ones, return to the same nests year ■ after year is a question of much in 1 terest to the naturalist. Swallows that ! summer in England do not winter 1 ] north of Africa, but an observer at High Halden, Kent, England, has r< □rded that one returned on April 1 o a nest it occupied last year, j ; wns recognized by a ring placed on it leg May 8, 1909. t To gain a better knowledge of birr! [ habits more than 2,000 British birds were last year marked with inscribed l aluminium ririgs, and twice as many t more will be similarly tagged this t year. r t The Summer Girl. 1 “How’d you like to be engaged to a f millionaire?” J “I was engaged to one all last sum t mer, and he seldom spent a dime. ? want to be engaged to a young mci - i who Is down here for two weeks wit? I about S3OO in his roll.”

AUTOMOBILE RACER TURNS TO AEROPLANES Jtw zzzm jyjsur From •tereoirr*ph.copyright, by Underwood A Underwood.M. T. New York. —Lewis Strang, who has won fame as an automobile racer in America and Europe, has now turned his attention to the aviation game, and there is no doubt that he will make a new name for himself as an aeropianist. JStrang has Imported a Bleriot monoplane and is practising with it assiduously. He is noted for his fearlessness and nerve, but he is wise enough to learn thoroughly the new vehicle before attempting to make any extended flights. » ,

COST OFMARRIAGES

Some People Try to See How Much Can Be Spent. Amusing Story of Clergyman in London Who Was Out for All the Cash He Could Get—Some of Accessories He Would Furnish. London.—Some of the fashionable weddings that have taken place lately would seem to indicate that the people concerned were anxious to see how much money could be spent on the affair. In England the ceremony is much more complicated. The most usual form of marriage is by “banns.” Notice is given to the clergyman of the ehurch where the young couple desire to get married, the announcement is given out three Sundays running before the wedding day, and for this the bridegroom pays the clerk 50 cents. If neither of the parties live in this parish, one or other of them must do so for three weeks before the ceremony takes place, but this condition is often filled by the bridegroom taking a room and putting a stick or bag in it for the a required time. Os course, you have to pay the clergyman something for performing the ceremony for you, and the legal fee is $1.25, with 50 cents to the clerk, and a further 50 cents for a copy of the certificate of marriage, but each clergyman asks what he chooses, and some of them place their services rather high. Recently a young couple who live in the suburbs decided to get married at one of the churches in the Strand, in London, as this was a convenient center for all their friends, and also near Charing Cross station, from which they were starting for Paris immediately after the ceremony. It was to be a quiet affair, no bridesmaids, no bouquets, no carriages, no red carpet, etc So one fine morning the brides’s father started off to find the incumbent of one of these London churches, an individual with a double-barreled name and, incidentally, a double-barreled loquacity as well. After a great effort the father got him to talk about the wedding, and finally inquired the fee. “The fee would be $25,” said his reverence. “And, of course, you would like some music? We supply that and it would be $5.” The father was about to say something, when the padre broke in again: “And you would like some red carpet put iown, I suppose? We supply that for $5.” “Oh,” began the man out of whose pocket the money was to come for all thjs, when —” “And if It’s a wet day, you would require an awning,” continued the clergyman. “We supply the awning and the fee would be $5.” “Yes,* gasped the father,, casting about in his mind for away" of escape, when the other went on: i “And, of course, you would have i some flowers. My daughter always does the flowers, and I’m sure she I would be delighted to do them for t you.” Before the astonished father f could reply, the clergyman rang the bell and requested the servant who answered it to ask “Miss Louie” to step in.” “Miss Louie” duly arrived, and expressed herself enchanted at the prospect of doing the flowers for the ! wedding. ! “And what do you think it would i kiost, dear?” asked her father. “Do you ? suppose you could do for s2s?’ s As this last straw was laid on the « poor victim’s back, he roused himself and managed to stammer that he must consult his daughter before making the Anal arrangements, and made for the 3 door, trusting to escape. But the clergyman had reserved a parting shot. Taking up a small paper-covered booK from the table, he said: “This is a small book on the history of the church. I am sure your daugh-

ter will like to rea<| all about it, as she is thinking of beifig married there.” “Thank you; I’ll give it to her,” said the innocent man. “That’ll be 25 cents,” said his reverence, and the . unfortunate father placed the money on the table and fled for his life. Needless to say the marriage did not take place at his church. FISHHOOKS BAD FOR FOWLS Pennsylvania Chicken Fancier Believes Old Saying Is in Need of Revision. Lewiston, Pa. —John B. Clemmens, a Pennsylvania railroad signalman at Newton Hamilton, is of the opinion that the old saying, “Never count your chickens until they are hatched,” could be well amended to read “Never count your chickens.” Clemmens is a chicken fancier and had a flock of half grown games of which he was especially proud. The other day his two sons returned from a fishing trip and threw a number of large eel hooks, baited with spieces of veal, on the bank at the boat landing. An hour later there was a great commotion among the flock of games and an investigeltion showed that each had swallowed a chunk of veal and an eel hook with it. Clemmens killed six of the chickens in removing the hooks, DAINTY LITTLE FLY-ABOUTS Three Tiny Monoplanes Ordered for Use of New York Society Women —Weighs 180 Pounds. New York. —Three of the tiniest, prettiest and speediest Vendome monoplanes are now on the way across the ocean and are expected shortly. These dainty little air craft promise to be just the thing to satisfy the growing

GROUCH GERM IS DISCOVERED

New Form of Bacillus Particularly Active in Hot Weather Found in Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo. —A new germ, as yet unnamed, has just been discovered in Kansas City. It is a hot weather bacillus and affects youhg and old alike, being particularly noxious in adults, it is said, and producing a chronic case of what ordinarily is called the “grouch.” The discoverers of this germ are Dr. E. L. Mathis, chief probation officer, and his assistants, who constantly are making a study of human nature and, by the way, this particular bug is one which attacks human nature only. “It is a hot weather bug,” said Doctor Mathias, “and can produce the worst case of grouch in a short time that you ever saw. “Just now we'juvenile officers have little to do so far as the juvenile court is concerned, but we are kept busy as bees looking after what we call hot weather business. “Somehow gr other, this hot weather seems to ‘peeve’ everybody. It takes the form of grouch in adults and the form of what the grown-ups are pleased to call ‘devilment’ in children. “A man lies down to take a nap of a hot afternoon. He is just tuckered out by the heat, he says,and a nap will straighten him out. Just as he gets comfortably settled, boys or girls In the neighborhood begin to romp, and, of course, they call back and forth, and the would-be napper is annoyed. “Then the irate adult goes putdoors. He is hard hit by the weather bug. He loses tils temper and gives the children a calling down. The bug, in

fad for aviation among American women. Ever since Clifford B. Harmon took up in his Farman biplane Mrs. Harmon, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt and other women have declared their desire for aeroplaning. It is announced that* three pretty French women aviators are to follow to this country shortly after the arrival of these’’ small airships. They will be costumed as the women aviator sh'ould be and will be prepared to demonstrate and instruct American women in the art of flying. Yves De Villers, the representative for the Vendome aeroplane, was at Mineola, L. 1., the other day, and said that the little monoplanes are being brought to this country as quickly as possible. At least one of the three machines wil be shipped to the aviation grounds in Mineola, where it will make daily flights. It is the smallest one-person fly-about in the world, and weighs 60 pounds less than the famous Santos-Dumont Demoiselle, The Vendome monoplane is the work of Raoul Vendome, a French builder of aeroplanes. It is equipped ■ with a 12-horSepower Anzanl motor, and complete, ready for flying, weighs 180 pounds. Girl’s Kiss Holds Liner. New York.—Miss Agnes Quirk’s desire to kiss a friend goodby “for luck” forced Capt. Warr of the liner Campania io hold the ship at the dock over scheduled sailing time. Miss Quirk was one of five Brooklyn teachers who won a trip abroad in a popularity contest. She forgot the final kiss till the shore crew tried to hustle her aboard. But their efforts were of no avail. Not until Miss Quirk had implanted a protracted and resounding smack on the cheek of a man friend. Mouse In Hat In Church. Berlin. —Commotion was caused in a church at Dornbirn, Bavaria, by a lady who felt something moving in her hat, and found a mouse hidden beneath her artificial flowers.

g, turn, attacks the ■ juveniles, and they answer back and make life miserable for the complaining one. “About that time we get a call concerning a big disturbance. Some of the men go out, learn it is the same old story, and it is up to them to explain to the adult that children must play and that they can’t be expected to conduct their ganje after the fashion of a Friends’ meeting. They also lecture the children and take steps to restore the equilibrium of the neighborhood which is ravaged by the summer bug." The juvenile officers have not gone into the investigation of the bug in scientific fashion, and as yet have worked out no cure. TRAP 200 CATS IN A MARKET Vicious Animals Fight Captors, But Are Put Into Baskets for Annihilation. New York. — Yowling, spitting, scratching and biting, 200 cats were cornered, one by one, the other night in the old Washington market find dumped into baskets, to be disposed of by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Agents of the society, policemen, watchmen, butchers, fishmongers, green grocers and all the little world of the market joined in a midnight hunt that, for activity and noise, outdid anything ever chronicled from Africa. For years the cats, at first encouraged to keep down the rats, had run wild and increased in garrets and sub cellars until they became an intolera ble pest. The market is now in process of renovation.

TEN YEARS OF SUFFERING. W Restored at Last to Perfect Health B by Doan’s Kidney Pills. ■ Mrs. Narcissa Waggone'r, Carter- ' I ville, 111., says: “For over ten years

I suffered terribly with backaches, headaches, nervous and dizzy spells. The kidney secretions " were unnatural and gave me great trouble. L One day I suddenly fell to the floor, where I lay for a long time unconscious. Three doc-

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tors who treated me diagnosed my case as paralysis and said they could J do nothing more for me. As a last fl ; resort, I began using Doan’s Kidney fl Pills and was permanently cured. Isl I am stronger than before in years.” Remember the name—Doan’s. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. . ’

Quaint Table Manners. Jerome S. McWade, the Duluth millionaire, talked at d dinner about th« delights of a backwoods vacation. “I go to a quaint i backwoods village every summer,” he said, “and numberless are the quaint people I meet there. “Old Boucher, for instance, the janitor of the village church, is most j amusing with his quaint ways. I had fl old Boucher to lunch one day, and V the cold lobster was served with a mayonnaise sauce. I When my servant offered this sauce to Boucher, the old man stuck his knife in it, took up a little on the blade, tasted it, then shook his head and said: “ ‘Don’t choose none.’ ” Try This, This Summer. The very next time you’re hot, tired or thirsty, step up to a soda fountain and get a glass of Coca-Cola. It will cool you off, relieve your bodily mental fatigue and quench your thirst delightfully. At soda fountains or carbonated in bottles—sc everywhere. Delicious, refreshing and wholesome. Send to the Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, . Ga., for their free booklet "The Truth ■ About Cqca-Cola.” Tells what Coca- fl Cola is and why it is so delicious, refreshing and thirst-quenching. And send 2c stamp for the Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book for 19HF-contains the famous poem “Casey At The (Bat,” records, schedules for both leagues and other valuable baseball informa- * tion compiled by authorities. A Fitting Design. .. “I want an estimate on 10,000 letter heads,” said the professional-looking man with the silk hat. “Any special design?” asked the en- s graver. y “Yes, sir,” replied the caller. “In j the upper left-hand corner I want a 1 catchy cut of Patrick Henry making I his memorable speech, and in dis- J tinct letters, under the cut, his soul- j inspiring words, ‘Give me liberty or J give me death.’ You see,” he added, 1 handing a card to the engraver, “I’m a divorce lawyer, and want something fitting.”—Lippincott’s. One Side Enough. « . Senator William Alden Smith tells of an Irish justice of the peace out in Michigan. In a trial the evidence was all in and the plaintiff’s attorney had made a long and very eloquent' argument, when; the lawyer acting for the defense arose. “What are ydu doing?” asked the justice, as the lawyer began. ! “Going to present our side of the : case.” “I don’t want to hear both sides argued. It has a tindency to confuse $ the coort.”—Washingtonian. A New Version. Lawyers have a peculiar system of abbreviation, such words as trustees, executors being cut down to trees, exors, and admOrs. This practise led to an amusing slip on the part of a solicitor, who, somewhat late in life, abandoned his profession and entered the church. A few Sundays after his ordination he startled his congregation while reading the lesson by deliv- j ering one of the passages as “I see men as trustees walking.” fl A woman may or may not try tefl avoid muddy crossings; it all depends! upon her understanding. 1

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