Show I PERSONAL MENTION Among the late Presidents papers now In the liunils of Secretary Cortelyoii aro five thousand requests for Mr McKlnloys autograph It J had been his custom to devote spare moments to time gratification Of those demands In so far as hfc could but during a few months absence or through a period when the President would bo busily occupied with flairs of state these letteis asking for autographs would pile up The five thousand re furred to accumulated during the summer vacation season 00 The lalo Judge Jeremiah Wilson of Washington was the real author of the present systom of government for tho District of Columbia When he was In Congress over twentyfive years ago hu was a member of llif commltttp charged with the Invent I gat Ion of District affairs nnd at that limo he thought out and drafted the system which was later adopted by Congress John T Stewart Is probably the richest man In Kansas Ills wealth being esti mated at nearly Si000000 Ho owns ISO quarter sections In Summer county whore ho lives and his rentals are Bald to be 50000 this year Twenty years ago he was an office boy In Wichita o a I first became acquainted with Lieut Robert Edwin I Peary whoae namo lu I again prominently mentioned In the frozen North nway back In 1S73 says a citizen of Portland Me at JJowdoln collage where he was a freshman and I a Junior Peary was oven than un all round athlete with a tall finely propor tioned figure lIe was very fond of work In time fcymnnslum and there I came to know him well He liked to box and I frequently put the gloves on with him Ho had too long a reach for me to have much show when he really hit out fast and hard yet I took the punishment tnoil naiuredly l and when Ieary and I stripped for a boxing bout tho boys were pretty Hure to gather around to HOC tho spar rlng r i Of the lute Frederick Frnley the Phil udnlphla Press speaks thus From 1KM I when as a young man of roal111 ho never wa an old man ho helped to form time Philadelphia Board of Trade he might j truly way of all the financial and com mcrclal movemenls In time city and In tho Nation Auront part of iiesu > L have boon Ho waa riot a conservative ono of thosi vfi < f fearejdithuniow bUU < owing to a I keen InoulrhltfrtilnuVthat him a sclun tlllo trend K ho wa among Ihcw who led In ndvuralliijc and who believed In Im provemeiUi It wns by mason of lila and l not only time respect duo his great ate ronnliwl with iilt ndmlrnhln personal qualities that mado him in his latter one can hardly say declining yearn ro < toned and honored as ono of the truly representative men who had made tho city a great mi rt and entrepot and whoso memory and works are a precious heritage |