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52 THE SUNDAY. OREGOXIAN, POKTLAJfD, OCTOBER 28, 1906. jFrcsh Photographs of thelU Bs- V Vr4 x . ; Dreadnought, JL glP: ' " " Most Powerful Fighting mse"' $f 1 ; ' Mhine . . J , Ever Floated. ( . t i 1 - l. r .. - . i.,v,-.sN--; i:.--; . . - - , (Thee picture are by Stephen Cribb. off Icial photog raph r of the British Admiralty. The United State Government wrote Mr. Cribb asking him to supply it with photographs showing the Dreadnaught from every possible viewpoint, the Government's idea be ing evidently to study the photographs for construc tion purposes-1 THE WORLD'S GREATEST BATTLESHIP. The Dreadnaught going out of Portsmouth Harbor for her recent trials. A unique photograph position, showing her upper decks, great guns and masts. with their tripods. Dock Yard men on the tug alongside. with their tripods. Dock Yard men on the tug alongside. - w ': 'i ' it:y:t M I 0 3 1 1 si -k - , . - , l I" ll'Pi ft - - W I n 7 I Ohio nd Virginia to preach. Ho rodo circuit until ho wis 80 years old. ex horting and doing much good. The first Methodist church in Pittsburg was built with funds which ho collected. I am told he even, did some of the work of con struction with his own hands. He was an economical and prudent man. and In course of time saved a little money. There was a farm across the river from Pittsburg and some village lots in Ohio. My grandfather bought the lots, and they are about as valuable today. I suppose, as they were then. The city of Allegheny was built on the farm. I nave orten thought that my grandfather left mo a better legacy than he imagined. I am satisfied that it was well I learned the printer's trade, that my expenses at col lege were no more than $350 a year, and that I earned the money with which to study law." "Are you a Methodist V "No; I am a member of the Episcopal Church." Xo Thought of Public Career. "Was a public career in your ambition during your course at college?" At no time, either as a student or a young lawyer. We had two literary so cieties at "college, and every Friday held open meetings for the discussion of public questions and other matters of interest. The meetings' were attended by the Judges, lawyers and physicians of the surrounding towns. William McKlnley was prosecuting attorney of Stark County and more than once took part in our de bates. It was at Mount Union that I made his acquaintance. I was concerned in political subjects and spoke at our meetings, but I had no thought of being anything but a lawyer. I practiced law for twenty-six years before I consented to take public office." "You and James H. Peed, the son of a Pittsburg physician, formed a partner ship and soon had a lucrative practice. "How did you get it?" "Oh, I don't know; it Just came. From the start I had all the business I could do. I know nothing about the traditional waiting and starving of young lowyers. Clients looked us up, our offices were en larged, and before a great while we had quite a large business." "When did you become Andrew Car negie's attorney?" "I never was his personal lawyer. I had known Henry C. Prick from boyhood and through him was made attorney for the Carnegie Steel Company." "Is there business lor all young lawyers who come Into the profession each year?" "If they are worthy, yes. My observa tion may be unlike that of others be cause I lived in one of the greatest work shops In the world. In Pittsburg there have been plenty of opportunities for good men of all trades and professions. I think it must be so elsewhere. A lawyer need not be a genius: Indeed, it is not neces sary for him to be brill'ant. But he is obliged to be industrious and to like his calling. The law Is In the books. He is compelled to go there to find It; that means work. The law found, he must know how to apply it." "But isn't that genius?" "I should call it common sense. In my own experience, we were always looking for reliable and capable men and boys. I have seen boys made clerks, then helped along as students, and finally given places as assistants in our office; but they were gooa Doys. wno had to be told only once how to do a thing and who reached a point where they could and did anticipate ur wants. Instructing Assistants. "When a strange young lawyer came to us as an assistant I called him in and gave him the rules of the office. I would tell him to Ingratiate himself into the confidence and esteem of our clients. Act.' I would say, 'just as if you exDect- ed to remain here a year or two, and then go away and take all of our business with you.' That requirement was sound THE DREADNAUGHTS PECULIAR STERN The men's quarters are here instead of forward. On other men-of-war the officers quarters are aft The Dreadnaught ha no stern walk. Photograph taken at Spithead. THE TOWERING BOW OF THE DREADNAUGHT. , Observe. in this and the side view photograph how it is cut away sharply little aft exposing the upper decks. The Dreadnaught is here shown at Spithead engaged in anchor trials and taking soundings. Senator Philander C. Knox in Private RICH CORPORATION LAWYER WHO GAVE UP A PRINCELY INCOME TO BECOME A PUBLIC SERVANT BT JAMES B. MORROW. WASHINGTON. D. C, Oct 23 (Spe cial Correspondence of The Sunday Orgonian." A boy. badly hurt in an explosion of natural gas, was gathered up and galloped off to a hofpital. Agents of the corpora tion which was responsible for the ac cident cheated him into an outrageous settlement. Remember, he was a boy; poor, friendless, maimed. Besides, he wa black. Men who know him say the passion for justice is the finest quality in the manhood of Philander Chase Knox. He heard about the hoy, gave battle and got him JS000. It is said in Pittsburg that he put more steam and interest into the case than in any other he ever tried. During 26 unbroken years at the bar, Senator Knox earned as large fees, perhaps, as any lawyer in America en gaged In private practice. In the main his clients were men and not corpora tions. He went Into McKinley's Cabi net in April. 19(11. At the age of 4S. therefore, he was rici enough and gen erous enough, employing no better or broader word, to step away from the noisy aid greedy Jostle of the money makers and give himself to something else. Possibly a gauge of his revenues might have been found in the manner of his living. He bought a splendid house in this city and then, yielding to his Joy in blooded livestock, country air and pastoral scenes and to his ap petite for real butter, pure milk and fresh eggs, purchased one of the best farms In the United States. He couldn't have done ail that on JS000 a year. When he took up public mat ters he broke off every business rela tion as a lawyer. His name was scratched from the sign on the door and struck from the ledgers within the office. It is common talk with men in his profession that he threw away considerably more than $S000 a month when he surrendered to McKinley and consented to become Attorney-General in his Cabinet He says nothing, being dumb in his own sense of propriety, but what must be In his mind when he reads in some of the yellow magazines that he is grouped among the am- k i JO' ""vS"'" - I: ns' -t" s I f as? SENATOR PHILANDER C- KNOX. bushed and sordid enemies of his coun try? The library in the Washington home is where I talked with him a magnifi cent room, wide as the house itself, and filled with the odors of books, roses, leather and new-burned, tobacco. If he were to stop, fold his arms and look gloomy, there in the middle of the floor, as he comes toward me, he would be a replica in blood and bones of Na poleon. Rarely is there grace in mas culine movements, but Senator Knox has It Ha is elegant ip manner, ap parel and conversation. But there is quite another picture. Tou see this tranquil and kindly man in cap and gloves driving a pair of fleet trotters. Then his placid brown eyes give back the fire of iron-shod hoofs. Again, you see him osi the skirmish line of a law suit or in the bloody trenches of its trial, and his face, round and un wrinkled as youth, tells of war and hot pursuit. Many questions were in my mind, but first of all I wanted a personal story. How did this man succeed? But his spirit was reluctant. So I touched him at a point where much of his affection is centered to bend his mood to my purpose. "Ton have a farm at Valley Forge?" I said. "Yes, and I have been told It is one of the most beautiful farms in the country. For more than a century it was owned by men whose means could indulge them in that great pleasure and luxury. The trees alone are worth all that I paid for it. From youth up my plan of life includes a home In the country. I looked at farms in Vir ginia. West Virginia. New York. Mary land and Pennsylvania, and then found just what I wanted within an hour's ride of Philadelphia. I have about 300 acres, five houses, a swimming pool, running streams, shady walks, fine drives, and views that are an eternal and ever new delight to those who are fond of scenery." I had heard of a famous hackney stallion at Valley Forge, and I knew that Senator Knox owns the fastest team of trotters in the country. Ac cordingly, I asked him about his horses. "I have 25, of one kind and another, at the farm. I loved horses as a boy, and I have loved them as a man. Not one of my horses has ever been matched for money. At one time my team was the fastest in the United States, but I suppose there are better ones now." "What do you produce on your farm ?" "Corn, wheat and miscellaneous crops. Until a year ago two milk wag ons left the farm every morning at 3 o'clock for Devon, not far away, but my herd of cows is not so large as" it was. and I have gone out of the milk business. I live at the farm part of the Summer, and in Winter I get eggs, butter, milk and chickens every other day at my house in Washington." His Youth. "Did you live on a farm In your youth?" "No, I was born and brought up In the town of Brownsville, on the Monon gahela River, south of Pittsburg. My father was a banker." "So you were the son of a rich man?" "Far from It. I am thankful to say. Up to the time of the Civil War my father never received more than $800 a year as cashier of the Brownsville Bank. After the neat .hi salary was never greater than $1750 a year. There were 12 children in our family, I being the 11th, but my father, an educated man himself, sent all of us to school and kept us there. I was graduated from Mount Union College, near Alli ance, Ohio, in 1872. when I was 59 years old." "What influenced you to study law?" "I can't remember the time when I didn't intend to be a lawyer. I grew up with that purpose, and started to college with the law in mind. "Were you compelled to help pay your wav into an education? ' "While attending college I got ahead of my classes, and at my father's sugges- year. He had learned the printer's trade, and believed if I did so I would know how to spell and punctuate, and would have some rudimentary and practical knowledge about composition. I got a place on the Brownsville Clipper, a week' ly paper scarcely larger than a hand kerchief. I learned to set type, to write the news of the town, as well as rural editorials and to pull the old Washing ton handpress. I did everything from keeping the books to sweeping the floor and washing the rollers. Only one other experience of my life was more useful to me than the year I spent on the Cupper. I am sure I could go into a printing office today and set type. Lived on $25 s Month. "Where did you read law?" ' "In Pittsburg, with H. B. Swope, one of the most successful and eminent men at the bar of Western Pennsylvania. After I was graduated from college I obtained a clerkship in the Brownsville Bank. My father had died, and what property he left went to my mother. It was necessary for me to go to work. ' I remained in the bank a year, received $700 and saved $600. which was enough to pay my way into my profession. 1 studied and lived on Eio a montn ior two years. I sought a place In the bank to earn money, but. better man money, i enterea Into the most valuable experience of my life. I learned how to meet business men, all about bookkeeping and commercial paper, and how and why notes and drafts go to protest. After I began to practice law I never had to call on a bookkeeper to explain entries, trial balances, or the technical details of his accounts to me I could study a set of books and under stand them. Every young lawyer can't be a clerk in a bank, but he should ob tain a thorough knowledge of the under lying principles ef business and of book keeping. The more he knows about such things the better." "Is there any advantage with the boy who is poor? "Yes, but it is hard to make him be lieve that he has been favored by circum stances. I am well pleased that I had to work and that I narrowly missed being the son of a rich man. My grandfather, a Scotch-Irish Episcopalian, joined the Methodist society within his own denomi nation. Coming to this country, he was sent into Western Pennsylvania, Eastern all around. It was good for the young man, good for our clients, and good for us. 'Furthermore.' I would add, 'act as if you knew more law than any man in the office. Thus. I got relief from pres sure and small matters. If one of our as sistants would hesitate and say, 'I am not sure about that: we'll go In and see Mr. Knox." and kept It up. he lost his Job. When I took the office of Attorney-General I found that the demand for trust worthy and competent men was as great in Washington as it had been in Pitts burg." "A lawyer in private practice, you sud denly change the whole way of your life and entered public office. What impress ed you most in your new, relations?" "I am glad to answer that question. That which Impressed me more than any thing else was the real. Integrity, in dustry and unselfishness of all our public officials, high ana low: judges, members of Congress, and clerks." But the Senate is much censured these days?" "I am a new Senator and don't feel qualified to discuss that body, but the Senate is always liable to do things which are not popular. This is its constitutional function to stand between the people, when they are unwise or hasty, and their own interests. In the Senate the Nation 'stops, looks, and listens." " "A lawyer for the trusts, you came Into the Attorney-General's office to fight the trusts. You brought fourteen suits against railroads for giving rebates to favored shippers, and when certain captains of finance sought to throttle competition be tween the Great Northern and the North ern Pacific railroads, you beat them in the courts, and broke up the Northern Securities Company. The change to you, as a lawyer, must have been very great?" "I suppose you use the term 'trust law yer." Senator Knox replied, "because I was the attorney for the Carnegie Steel Company, which, by the way. was a lim ited partnership under the laws of Penn sylvania, during the period of my rela tion to It. Throughout my career at the bar I was the lawyer of persons, rather than of Impersonal, Intangible, and unified interest. I could Invariably work better for a man than for a corporation. I had no part whatever in the creation of the United States Steel Corporation, as has been alleged. When I took the of fice of Attorney-General. I severed all connection with my law partner In Pitta bur er, and wholly abandoned my practice. So the change to me was not so great as you think. Moreover.. I was deeply interested in my work." Xo Fear of Socialism. "You are not afraid of socialism? "Not at all. This Government was built on a rock, and the storms and thunder of those who seek to move it or to tear It down will come to nothing. I have boundless faith in the good sense and pa triotism of the American people. After a question has been fully and intelligently argued, they will decide wisely. Safe as we are, however, we must meet all dangers and fight them. It will not do to trust to the blowing out of the storm. Whenever attacked and wherever at tacked, our institutions must be promptly and vigorously defended. Socialism should be answered and so should every other evil doctrine. Crodked thinking is not confined to any one class of Americans. So wisdom should be alert and energetic, as it is easier to control a rivulet than a river." "You declined to go on the Supreme bench of the United States, and might have been a member of McKinley's first Cabinet. Had you any special reason for not accepting public office in 1S97?" "Well." Senator Knox replied with a smile, "I hadn't bought my farm at that time, you know, and I thought I had bet ter be forehanded against the day when I did buy it. Speaking now as an agri culturist, and I have no other business, I I want to say that I fully Indorse my earlier Judgment." Why Cora's Wedding Was Postponed Little Stories From a Broadway Notebook, by A. Lincoln Hart. OUBR.ETTE ROW was agog over k the postponement of the wedding of Mr. Lick Landers and Miss Cora Russell, and all because some vandal went south with a wedding dress. The wedding was to have taken place Hal-' loween. It had been a delicious morsel of gossip in Soubrette Row a long time. for be It known that Cora is very pop ular in the burlesque, where her shapely figure is the envy of her professional sisters and the admiration of the public as well as beaux in their own sphere. To the writer of this story she poured forth a harrowing tale as to how she had saved enough money to "make a swell front" with, even going so far as to do without her malt liquor and sand wich after the show in order to accumu late a fund large enough to make a de cent start into the uncertain realms of matrimony, a sacrifice all the more re markable when it is known that a chorus girl's appetite is never so keen as It is Immediately after the show. This also Implies that she declined many invitations from "Willie Boys." whose principal vo cation is the buying of wine suppers for ladies in Cora's class 'But ain't it rotten, though?" asked Cora. "I lives on the cheap skate plan all season and cuts out the booze and other things, so's I could go to Dick with a lot of glad rags' when, just as I am all ready to get married, someone frisks me weddin' dress. Ain't it the limit? Who Is Dick? Say. Dick Is the candy boy, all right, all right; and I sure think a heap of that man. and there ain't none of them as 'as got him skinned when It comes to looks. -Why. he'd marry me If I didn't have a drink ter me name I mean a dress ter me back: and didn't he live like a priest all season so's I couldn't have anything on him when we closed? And him In company with a lot of fairies that was tryin' their best to get him to forget me? Nothing to it And you can take it from me; I m It with Dick. 'Who do I suspect went south with the dress? Well, I ain't saying nothing Just yet. But if the party as I suspects as got it don't put it back soon you can pin a burial notice on me If I don't decorate ber map. 'Hot. ain't it?" she continued, reaching under the table for a pail which looked as though it haa recently held liquid of frothy brew. "This Is enough to drive anybody ter drink, ter have some fresh Aleck steal your weddin' dress the night before the weddin'." She yelled from the top of the stairs for Dick to "go to the corner and get a scuttle of suds." "That's my Dick now." she went on, "an" he's pretty sore. But I ain't goln' to no church with a man without I looks the part. I come of a good family, if I do say it myself, and I come pretty near knowing what is right for a lady to wear. "You know Dick Is my third husband," she confided. "So I think I know how to do things up in shape. You see, my first husband got gay with another wo man before we'd been married a year. So I skidoos, and he loses his meal ticket, and I got a friend of mine to put up for the divorce, and then me and my friend got married. But he got drowned at Coney Island, and didn't have his life insured. Can you beat that for hard luck?" Just then Dick came in with the "scut tle of suds," and I was formally intro duced. For obvious reasons It Is neces sary to omit his picturesque, not to say profane, comment on the loss of the wed ding dress; still his Intentions were amiable, for after he and Cora had nearly strangled themselves by taking long draughts of the contents of the "scuttle," he passed it over to me with the Invita tion: "Kill it." Who Careet The Wise One So Restwell has gone. He was a good chap; do you know what he left?" The Idiot He left a world that needed hlra. He left a good name. He left be hind him so many good deeds that if half of them were recorded his enemies. If he had any. may have no fear of meeting him in another world. He left innumer able bonds of friendship interest-bearing bonds, payable in golden memories. He left "Thunder! I meant how much money did he leave?" "Oh, I don't know." Needless Alarm. 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