Life — February 14, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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with sea habits and his ability in athletics will, however, go a long ways toward counteracting this deeling, and President Roosevelt's great popularity in the navy will also help. HOULD Connolly sling in a hammock and per- form his yeoman duties faithfully, he would find but little time to catch the spirit of the life that he is to portray. The yeoman branch i is known as the special branch of the enlisted personnel, the others being the seaman and artificer branches. It is the clerical force of the ship, and the working hours of a yeoman are longer than those of any other men in the navy, afloat or ashore. Yeomen are required to be expert as stenog- raphers and typewriters, and are placed in positions that are similar in their trust to that of the confidential clerk of civil life. From chief yeoman with a monthly base pay of $60, they are graded down to yeoman, third class, at $30 per month, O A ship of the Alabama class the captain, executive, ordnance, equip- ment, paymaster, surgeon and engineer officer each has his yeoman force of from two to five men. The captain’s chief yeo- man is aconstantly growing power aboard ship, being to all intents and purposes his personal secretary. ‘The signing of official correspondence and of routine papers alone averages about three hours of a captain’s working day. In addition to this preparation of correspondence, the yeomen of each department must prepare all monthly and quarterly ac- counts, requisitions and statements, and acquire an intimate personal knowledge of the capabilities of each enlisted man of the department and the complicated regulations of the navy. Yeoman Con- nolly’s official working hours will be from 7 A.M. to 9 P.M Our Leading Family AVID GRAHAM PHIL- LIPS says: “We already have quite an im) of ‘ princely families’ Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Field, Gould, Crocker, Fair, Goelet, Phipps, Havemeyer, Mackay, Carnegie, Harriman, Belmont, Morgan.” And Guggenheim? How did Mr. Phil- LEE lips come to omit the Guggenheims? Are the Guggenheims a family to be over- looked? We wot not. Not while copper is about 25 cents a pound and some of the other metals marketable at good prices. If we have a family that is princely the Guggenheims are it. “Seven brothers are they in the land”—as the Spanish ballad runs—and all of them are millionaires many times over, and one a Senator—the youngest member of the Senate. Meyer, the father, came over in 1853 in the steerage, where he met Bar- bara, the mother. Meyer peddled stove polish, then bought and sold embroid ies until he became the leading American dealer in them and made a fortune. In 1889 he bought a silver mine in Colorado and built a smelter. Barbara, good wom- an, contributed to business and fame the seven sons, and they all presently learned to be smelters. Isaac, Daniel, Murry, Solomon, Benjamin, Simon, William, all smelters, all active and saga- cious men of affairs, and presently in con trol of the smelting business of the West- ern hemisphere. See REAT are the Gug- genheims! If they look at a mine, even crosswise, up goes the price of the shares. If they turn away, down the quotations drop. It takes more than money to make a family. It also requires folks. Where is there a family that can line up with the seven-starred house of Guggenheim? There is none in sight. There have been Adamses, there have been Fields and Washburns, Hoars and Shermans, but they are all has-beens and also-rans com- pared with the Guggenheims. Great are the Guggenheims, and their motto is, ‘I came, I saw, I smelt How did Mr. Phillips come to overlook them? Has he no nose for facts? What other family has prospects so princely as theirs? What other princely family has dared to raise seven sons? I's Rockefeller that makes the world go round. Never look a gift Carnegie in the purse. ie) S NCE Carnegie Lake, at Princeton, has been opened for navifation the pious students of that well-known educa- 237 tional emporium have paraphrased the Twenty-third Psalm to read something like this: The Laird is my shepherd, I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me beside the still waters. Yea, though I walk through the valley of debt, yet will I fear no evil, for his wad and his half they comfort me. Anthony Comstock NTHONY can detect vice a league off; he has an instinct for immoral- ity, and can see an obtrusive leg quicker than the dean of the bald-headed row. He mourns the mistakes of heaven, which sends babies into the world without union suits, makes humanity naked and nature unashamed. ANTHONY AT WORK Could Comstock regulate heaven and earth upon the lines he love and the laws he would legis eS late, beauty, art, music, paint- v ing, sculpture, poetry and all the aids to naked sin would be abolished and the earth would be given over to cant and clothes, prudery and pruriency, in- tellectual nastiness and humbug. It takes nine Clyde Fitches to make a Scenario, comicbooks.com