| Show FOR THE TREASUR Y no longer young himself franklin macveagh of the united states treasury is the patron of 0 youth he brought the north wind with him to the flat banks of the yellow potomac Io tomac a washington correspondent asserts so short coats fancy vests and stick pins to match shirts and cravats the visible symbols of a new class have displaced boots and rusty plug hats in the somber offices of the nations treasury lee mcclung the new treasurer of the united states is a bachelor of forty but a boy when lie he is compared with his antediluvian forerunners mcclunes McC lungs blood confederate though points to his politics with a pretty certain guess Hoi however vever he be makes no flourish of his views and in his speech now accented by the east he declined to mention john marshall the chief justice or albert sidney johnston killed at shiloh or john morgan the cavalry leader and raider all of whom wore were of his family in the past unless in answer to a quest question lon at yale mcclung still square muscular and heavy breasted slim at the waist and in the legs like a racer was captain of the football team and famous as a plunger and runner socially he wasa was a leader in all respects he was waa conspicuous and popular he went into traffic as a prof profession easlon obtaining freight for a rall railroad road and then lie he became treasurer of his university watching of endowments and receiving annually in rents interest and tuition some of the mcclunes McC lungs scotch presbyterians rians back in the highlands fierce men in love in war and as musicians brought their temperamental eccentricities to america and handed them down to their generations A notable heir notorious heir indeed to such stich an inheritance was alexander keith mcclung the mississippi duelist who should have maintained a graveyard of his own and employed an undertaker in ills his retinue |
