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...lady. Since Mrs. Coolidge could not go, Mrs. William M. Jardine, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, was invited to accompany the President. In recent years no President has ever escorted a lady other than his wife. Proper procedure had to be looked to. It was found that President McKinley, whose wife was frequently ill, had escorted other ladies. So precedent was followed. A White House car with one of the President's aides went to the Jardine home and called for Mrs. Jardine. The car then stopped at the White House, the President entered and they drove...
...career for himself by doggedness and a keen mind. When he first went to Washington he made a close friend of General Sheridan and from him learned Grant's way of getting results on the battlefield, and Mr. Aldrich made politics his battlefield. He was a confidant of McKinley and close to Roosevelt. He made his plans with care and he executed them with pressure. He did not care for the opinions of others and almost never read newspapers but he was a first-rate appreciator of men. In his power he was called "the power behind the power behind...
...annual Congressional Reception was held at the White House, drawing a great concourse of legislators, among them Speaker Longworth, Senator (onetime Speaker) Gillett, Senator Butler, Senator Deneen, Senator Pepper, Senator Stanfield, Senator McKinley, Senator Gerry, Senator Phipps and many more, with their ladies. After the President and first lady retired to the second floor, there was dancing in the East Room...
...court stenographer in Manhattan. At 23 he was acting as principal of a preparatory school. Entering the service of the state through a minor post-office job, he somehow became stenographer to President Cleveland in his 33rd year. President McKinley made him his Assistant Secretary. President Roosevelt appointed him the first Secretary in his newly created Department of Commerce and Labor. Two years later he became Postmaster General, and at the end of another two years he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. During the latter part of his cabinet career, the great corporations which he now heads recognized...
Died. William Christopher Patterson, 84, famed as "the world's oldest hangman and first electrocutioner," noted executioner of 54 persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought...