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Show PROMINENT 1-IEN GOSSIP. - Pen Portrait of William E. Corey thee New Steei King. I William Ellis 'orry. the man of destiny who has sueceded Schwab, is a jolly-lookintr. jolly-lookintr. square-faced young man of 37. who wears spectacles and smiles behind the pebbles. The lower part of his face is broader than his head. His mustache is trained up at the enids. like Kaiser "VVflhelm's. revealing a wide mouth and a thick underlip.- He wears a folded collar and a butterfly butter-fly tie. His fanny runs to baseball, football and horses when he is out for recreation. In baseball he is an ardent enthusiast. lie has a son 14 years old. Corey had more advantages than Schwab. The - latter drove a stage roach at V-years. V-years. Corey went to c.-Vioo whpn he was 16. Schwab started in the steel business as a sUkedriver: Corey started as a helper In the laboratory. At the nolo jramrs of the Philadelphia Country club George Gould, like all the other players, wore breeches of . whito duck. On the porch of the clubhouse he he said one afternoon, looking down at his breeches with a smile. "Duck trousers always remind me of an incident that happened aboard a battleship bat-tleship last slimmer. The battleship was one of those that lay off Newport, and 1 was visit ins it. The day was fine, and a multitude nf little boats were circling cir-cling about, bent on seeing all that conlr be seen. "There was a young orrirer on boar-1 who must have sat down accidentally on a freshly-painted btnch or something of that kind, for his white duck trousers trous-ers were very dirty. . He, though, was not aware of it. He moved among the ladies trallanUv mid his trousers "were an eyesore. Suddenly someone on one of the little 'boats below caught sfsrllt of them, and in a stentorian Irish voice rliouted: 'Oh. misther, wouldn't yer ducks be bettctr for a shwjm?' " A New York man has a souvenir he thinks much of. It is a list of tne peculiar pe-culiar names of Maine citizens written offhand by the late Themus B. Reed, who used to say that his stale could produce more statesmen, foxes, water, deer and peeuliar'names than any other state in the -Union. Or. day. while speaking of this matterv he wrote thij list: Ezek Smith. Ha-sasiah Jc.ns. Liberty Lib-erty Brown. Calvary T'.io-nas. Honest;!! Waters. Kann Bullock. Kilah Hanley, Gelon Kirk. Summer Allfiend. Generous Pascal. T'zzah Fellowes. Zophan Harum, Dicdfim'a Gibnore. Merharh ('arson. Cotton Cot-ton A!il'iln. Piram Sproull, x-luva Dicfc-fen Dicfc-fen and B-ir.'i!lai Sawyer. These men were a'! personally known to Mr. Reed. Thnneh The iahd H aPre with pres- i.ce;i;s. few people know :hat this branch of tii'tb-pcrverting is not a masculine monopoly. New York" City has at least one woman prers agent. Her ranie is Frances Dernison, and she was an actress ac-tress until she realized that stories concerning con-cerning actors would meet with a kinder icrention and with less "pen in redulity when told by a pretty girl instead of by a "mere man" press aeent. So she at (.nee beg.in an "invasion" on her nwii n. 'count of a fi ld of industry and imag- j ina;ion heretofore a!mo-t wholly uiicx- j plored by her (;ey. |