Show SECRETARY TO FRED W CARPENTER IS SOR TO WILLIAM LOEB was born and raised in minnesota and Is graduate of state s ty Is tactful and a mas ter of deta I 1 washington when president tatt special reached minnesota on its great campaign trip last fall the railroad men tec elved orders to stop at sauk cepter what on eaith are we stopping here fora the candidates traveling compan ions asked each other why this 1 where fred carpen ter was born and brought up replied one of the party who knew almost everything concerning the itinerary I 1 want carpenter out here an bounced mr tatt as they came to a stop beside the little station and a group of possibly a hundred dersons gathered around the end of the train in spite of 1 Is protestations a dart complexioned slightly built young man was dragged out on the back platform of the car and mr tatt put hig arm around him in a fatherly sort of way as he exclaimed you all of you re member I 1 red carpenter you bet we do cried halt a dozen robust cices in the crowd at this point the dark complexioned slightly built young man attempted to slip from mr batts grasp and dodge back info the car the big candidate was too quick for him however for he took a stronger hold on his shoulder and continued W ell I 1 want to say to ill of his old neighbors and friends that carpenter 1 the best secretary that a man ever bad I 1 got him by accident when I 1 rs fred W carpenter was out in manila I 1 needed a secra tary and a man named dan told me that if I 1 got carpenter I 1 would lave the best secretary in the united states or the philippines or between the two williams was right I 1 have bad him almost ten years and he has not grown any older except in service he ia eten better today than he waft hei tor he understands better 1 ow to control me and keep me straight the crowd gaye a rousing cheera mr carpenter aiom mr grasp t e locomotive whistled and the train rolled awain on its vote getting tour hurrah for sauk center cried everybody on the train except mr Carpen toi and from that day to this the obscure town in the north west has occupied a warm spot in the hearts of all the er men but feltl er sauk center nor any other little town cou d old for very long he personal that aa to become to the i of the united states when he 12 deais old in 1884 he removed to and most of his younger yeara were spent on a big ranch near san I 1 uk obispo he attended the schools in the golden state and then brushed up at an academy he wa about 20 he returned to minnesota entered the state university where ia die time he was graduated took thu law course and was admitted to i rac tice ln in the year following har took the degree of LL M and waa soon liter admitted to practice in california where he returned to set tie down or lle he became connect ed with the law firm of wheeler and it was while acting as mr wheelers stenographer and law clerk that he got the message from mr tatt that sent him half the world and put him straight on the path to fame carpenter took the next steamer after getting that message and neither he nor mr taft has avei regretted it from that day to thi mr carpel ter has been mr taft shadow and much more useful he ha proved aan most shadows lie has been with him twice around the world mr carpenter has already gained or tie name of the secretary which daniel lament car ried through one of tie clev eland ad ministrations and which in later eire was held by george cortelyou those who know cortelyou Corte lyuu and cari enter will find a great deal of similarity between the two each is tactful pleasant helpful apu ipu bously polite and a master of detail has a genius for organization each knows human nature like a book and each can keep his mouth shut in more languages than are talked by the entire diplomatic corps at the capital it cortelyou lets anything blip by mistake its because he wants the mistake to happen became an adage during the of mr cortelyou at the white house and the same might be ap plied to mr carpenter |