Show 2 N e fn acts t t About Ori 4 Real E Hugh r ft s r ruy lf c ct t r rBy 1 By Y Guy G uy T is IS l pO 0 you vou ou the unusual training tr 00 that lots lis made blade it pos possible for forto hini to be regarded as a newly risen 5 mathematical l wonder How the c that has ha led to his national ii 1 was Wu presented to him and un una a 4 r what t condition lone lona he lie consented to It Jt How th lightly lightb spoken words Of ot a 1 college classmate te shaped his hll whole lifter lUt r Ute life a law school honor intensified In ten lIned his minds mind analytical benta pent a let lett tp t of ot introduction gained him a valuable able training as a young youn lawyer a n famous rm partner and a In Iri brief do your you know the real man manlo mano lo o has so 10 successfully uce fully hidden his hl per from tram many nany of ot his intimate a fr friends nd that they knew naught ht con corning the majority of ot the now told tol facts Mahout bout him here set fortH with some of the things probably already known more or less leas le s widely in certain quarters serving as u the warp This man Charles Charlee E is lushes Hu h has American life Ufa insurance meth Jode generally to stink Unk in the nostrils nostril no of ot men the world over oer but so HO adroitly that ha he has neither sacrificed the great principle of ot life lite insurance itself nor not the financial stability of the tha th t nation n s sH H He Fc hoc has ho knocked oft are their lofty lott gUll gild nd such idols hols as the the and George Georgo E proving not a few of them by their own sworn worn statements more for anything else than as trus trustee trustor te tee for tor other mens millions of ot sav saving sa saving v vInS ing InS for tor the future protection of their families He lie U has hart made known beyond be ond the shadow of ot a doubt what the n people pannIe have havo long suspected su that the colossal colo al campaign funds raised rallied In latter Jatter day da presidential contests have ha been con contributed almost wholly by b the big bis cor corporations corporations themselves tb HIves He has hall uncovered the slimy trail of or the legislative leah agent a enta a finely drawn term torm for briber leading direct from tram the bursting coffers of or the big life Uta insurance companies to the capi tola of New York Massachusetts and Other Ot r states st By the tho witness g stand confessions t I of Its very past toasters masters he has branded modern high finance as thievery made He Ile has done alt all this and amI more with in rU sixty days and who can prophesy what widespread civic citie what lyly sly and guarded tons dons will not lie be b blasted In n a moment i i in a twinkling of an eye ey by br the mans questions of ot tomorrow And nd fi lends close can toll tell yen yeu very little of the real loal Charles IS El Hughes Hushu inside Story of His Selection Of Qt course the world has hits been told that Mr 11 Hughes was selected as senior se senior counsel for the tho life insurance in vt solely because of r the record the he made while occupying a similar po in last springs legislative la e in into Inlo the gas and amI electric light ing i situation in ht New ew York City CIt This I Is I true Governor Higgins vigorously t insisting that Mr Hughes be secured Therefore it becomes become pertinent to know how it came about that Mr ir Hughes was wag selected to conduct the lighting fighting investigation and here heie Is ia the inside story stor The resolution t for fo this inquiry I has Hns as Introduced Into the New t I legislature early r during Its Us last tt t session i y Alfred R Page Pa o one of ol the tho Re publican senators from New York City It t was not until late in the session however that the resolution was passed asked Naturally Senator Page Pase wash was I I h named as a member of ol the c I tee toe appointed to conduct the tion It t so happened that he ho was the only lawyer on it and the chairman ot of f the committee Senator Stevens recognizing Senator S Pages wide ac acquaintance a among the legal Jegl profession proc sion of at state and an city asked him whether he lie could suggest sug est the name of or any one onea OI OItis Ha a counsel Senator Page replied that a could that tram from rom the time It became evident that an investigation would probably bo hi ordered he had had in mind the name of or Charles E HuSh Hughe a I as i that of or counsel 1 Hushes Hughes asked Chah man Stevens Stevena and the other In 8 effect affect Senator Stor Page replied that Mi l Hughes wits a member r of o the tb Nov Ncr N lok lIk D City eity af that h he had an extensive extensile general g practice that in his work ork which had hado o tits under the senators observations i He us had given cIvet e evidence of ot an all analytical mind and an aptitude for tor dissecting for tor the committees committee counsel to possess it if It were not to prove proe a laughing stock in itt the tho community Senator Page Pa e fur tur furt further t ther th sr stated t ted what every everyone one knows know j that Mr Hughes HuChes was wu entirely I politically that he be owed nl al ian e to no corporation by re reason son of tIC a fat retains retainer and that It was his the 1 senators belief that Mr r Hughes one once started in on the investigation could e not be lie swerved from his hie hi sworn t duty by any influence whatsoever A 11 a r lt It of ot this Ull picture Senator and A Agnew to New York City and sought out Mr Hushes Hughes in his hl law Jaw at Q B Broadway Mr r Hughes Bushell who had bad bun boan apprised of their purpose pur o e over tha tJ phone hon t by Senator Page iu It Albany S flatly atly refused rotu d to consider conder the proposition altion they th made to him He said in I of feet I Gentlemen I do not care to give up Un my extensive general practice to in tiny Any ny such fiasco as u I believe II investigation will turn out to be bethere beth there th w was much muc ucb m more mar strai straight ht t n fit Of the t e w for r i ar arl hit q l atom b M pJ IQ j t t otle tae o agreeable a frame era fra of o mind hd and wondering how with all the emi w x y r b p pt pt pt pF t I I f t 1 1 t X t F is F r rI i i iII t 4 I II w wl i e l nj I t tt JI His Mother Feared at One Time That He Would Vo ld Never Ce Be Able to Grow a Beard I nent they th y could think by big retainers to corporate interests such as ItS they purposed to Investigate they were going to secure a man to keep the im investigation from fulfilling Mr Hughes Hushes prophecy It was Wits right here that Senator Page did a little hustling for which when they the learn of it the McCalls McCaUs the Mc and others of their stripe AN will doubtless not write him profuse notes noles of or thanks He got into immediate com communication communication communication with Mr 11 Hughes and began be began began gan pressing him hard to accept the subcommittees otter offer Mr Hughes raised the objection that no man would be able to equip himself to conduct such an examination as ns the committee had in mind in the short while that would be at his disposal be he before before fore the committee began its public hearings Senator Page overcame this difficulty by informing Mr fir rr Hughes that Comptroller Grout who had long ong been collecting data concerning con the modus operandi of the gas pras as and elec elee electric lighting companies in order to tore ic re resist their claims against the city for light furnished would be only onh too to let Mr Ir Hughes make use of the data in any an way he could William Randolph Hearst for purposes of his hia hl own had been gathering somewhat similar information and from him al also also also so Senator Page Pa e secured a promise to turn over oer to Mr Hughes HUgh the results of his investigation But Mr 11 Hughes urged still further he was by no means convinced that he would have a free hand as counsel that once he had ha 1 started on the In he could carry it to its logical conclusion without let up or hindrance 1 from any an source I If I accept the otter offer he lu said aid hr I r must be permitted to go to the tho nub mib of I the matter That will Rill be my m worn sworn duty that is what I always try to do In any an matter mattei brought to my atten atton I tion tian Senator Page o however at last suc succeeded succeeded succeeded I in convincing Mr Hughes that he would surely be allowed Uto to gO so to I the nub of the matter and over overcoming j I I coming minor objections as itS well had Mr Hughes in a receptive frame of ot mind before returning to so O i t I that fall all that remained r rc named to be b done to i secure him as us counsel was for Senator Stevens as chairman of the commit committee committee tee additionally and officially to assure Mr 11 Hughes that he ho would be allowed to investigate to his hearts content no matter whose whole toes might bo crushed or whose head broken in the examina examination examination tion The assurance was speedily given Revelation That Amazed City The first public hearing of the com committee committee committee was held on March 30 It In is nt nn reflection on the intelligence e of souls onUI members of or the committee to State that as a they the r took tok their seats an amid be ho beheld held for tor the first time lime the seemingly innocuous ous Mr Hughes or what they could of t f his ls slight stature for or bi his hia ample beard heard they felt that the subcommittee tee had made a grave mistake in choos choosing choosIng ing lug its leading counsel But before the day was half hall over they were following the tho quizzing pt pf the quiet affable ata e ques questioner questioner with unconcealed amazed admiration admiration Uon Here was a man who two weeks s be before fore had stated to the tIle subcommittee su appointed to visit him him that he ha knew absolutely about tho the lighting situation situation not t so s much even evon as as had been contal contained ed cd in inthe the newspapers or orha orho ha ho had too pis us q m o to lid ad much mI of anything U r r l lo i A tom X iy y question he ha t fO g an in intimate intimate i knowledge of or the lighting Jn in I j l so intimate in fact that the eminent men ih had come to dodge as most eminently respectable iH wit nesses nesse have done in various arious famous in inquiries I f before the rise ilse lj e of Hushes to confess There Then was never a question asked primarily for the mation and guidance of the questioner himself Now Mr fied fled will you kindly tell teli me just now hoW ow the pressure pres in the pipes is i regulated emulated Mr Me Hughes revealed at no time that common lamentable weakness of the 1 profession ignorance e of f the practice of I 1 trade and therefore gave gate the tWit tWitt I t noises no such golden to utilize the traditional tra loophole f r to the salving of their consciences later I ter on onUe onlie He Ue kne knew the gas as business seemingly as if he had been engaged en aged in it or ot years no useless question fell from train his lips all ull were eie asked for COl the express purpose of ot fattening fa completing the i record And the witnesses fattened it t through sheer inability to o dodge through fAhr fe f tl r to with a man seemingly as thoroughly posted in their specialty special as they the themselves and fault lessly lessl equipped to check them at every squirming But the greatest surprise Ise to alt all con concerned on came when Mr Hughes began on the elaborately prepared ear d financial I statements furnished him by b the th light lighting lightIng lighting ing companies He would pick up 7 a weighty statement glance hastily tily down the time long ong columns put one of ol 0 ais big fingers on a figure and he the the next minute have lurve the witness limply Con Confessing confessing on that well perhaps it I I Il represent present l the true state st ite of affairs ex exactly exactly I but And then clear to the i nub of the matter Mr Hughes would go goIn In numerous 1 y lie ire gave ga v evidence of his wonderful aptitude for fOI mathe mathematics mathematics matics which has been even een more marked marke in the he insurance investigation and led to so many startling exposures and confessions Early Earb in the course of or his examination a witness Would state the amount of various financial transactions Perhaps half an hour or half a day da later Mr Hughes walking I over oyer to the raised desk behind which the committee sat would swiftly sv jot down a column of ot figures add them 1 lei a e t V FF S I Y ti mot motY f 1 I I 1 Lr c I IR os i ii i I III II III III III III R w t rF I 1 s sA p A y A w r 3 I T TL I I I L I I I His Nis t Residence Is as Plain Outside as tie the Man Himself The Style of Law Of fice fie Is Good Enough for foe fo Mr Hughes up at a glance turn to the witness and say in his well modulated voice V IC Now the total of the amounts you tOU have given glen me In ht your examination I is naming the time total Tile The witness would look lock surprised J I dont know he would say sa I 1 added them m up upWell upWell upWell Well here they are Add them for yourself was Mr Hughes set reply repy Again the first of at the week he would force torce a 11 witness to tell him about the I Wont none clear financial transactions of ofa a certain subsidiary su company of the tle Consolidated Gas Oas company SlY say The witness would be excused temporarily mutters not sot pertinent to hip hl testimony be brought out for several days day straight ht running thou then the witness sg would so go oIl the stand again and probably bly the first question put at a hint him would mention the various amounts the witness had testified to early in thu week Mention thorn thom correctly too down downto to the very ery cent and yet et Mr h hJ J Hughes would woul 1 have havo about him no memoranda of ot the time figures They were all aU carried In his head school schoolboy schoolboy schoolboy boy says Senator Page had told lold the committee commit committee tee tec that MK Mrs Hughes was Kas good on an analyzing analyzing figures but not even he who had eb dd Mr Hughes career at the baT Ual for tor a number of ot years yeara had ri rr r real depth pf pt 1 minority with arithmetic and ash the tricks that can be played with i in his astonishment was as liS deep as Mr Perkins undoubtedly TV was as five flue months fater when wIlen Mr Hughes ability to put his finger on the weak spot in a finan financial financial financial cial statement caused him to make Mr ins to testify that he had bad win window window window dow dressed dress Q the annual statement of ot ote the e New N York Life Insurance company with the aid or 01 o J P Morgan Co Cot thereby laying himself him S elf open to crim criminal t inal i al prosecution 1 tics His Training Trani g In and Love for Mathe Mathematics Mathematics J matics Front From the start of the gas inquiry it Was as humorously dubbed Mr Hughes Class in arithmetic after the first day da Mr Ir Hughes victims and those lt n Jn UI Im A position to follow close closer e r fy his JIs work have earnestly asked one another Where did dl ho he get set Jt J It his h surpassing ng mastery of figures his arithmetical mind Well W eU that IS ISan isan s san an interesting story stor dating back to Mr 11 Hughes H gh first years ye r Mr Hughes isa is p a son s n of a 8 Baptist minister From the time Ume of his birth in Glen Gl Falls on April Apri 11 1862 until his father was called to New flew r York City from Jom Newark N J about twelve years later the thc family was more or orless orless less SS on the move mOYe as Baptist preachers are aN apt to be His mother had been a aI school I hool teacher before her hei marriage and realizing ng the thc disadvantages that thata a child labors under in ht getting an d first at this school t hool and then at that site she decided to teach the boy bo herself her herself herselt self Mrs Mf |