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Show LUCKY MR. VVADSWORTH The first week in November showered show-ered honors on James Wolcott Wads-worth, Wads-worth, Jr., with profligate hand. On Tuesday the electors of New York etate, by a plurality of. 47,000, made him a senator of the United States. On Thursday Father Stork brought him a bouncing boy. He was "raised" to be a senator. Not a single educational educa-tional detail was overlooked. Senator Sena-tor "Jimmy's" grandfather followed Btates-manning ' until a Confederate shell, ended his glorious career at Chancellorsville. So did his grandfather's grand-father's son, who now wears the ' laurels as Senator "Jimmy's" father. Thirty-seven years ago Jimmy was shered, an innocent and lusty infant, into the ancient homestead in the ilenesee Valley. When "Young Jimmy" Jim-my" went away to Yale college after finishing off at "the little red school-house school-house on the hill," he had the fundamentals. funda-mentals. Then the future senator was sent a soldiering to Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American war in 1898, and later , was given six months xercise against the kris artists in the Philippines. While studying national politics at Washington he married the daughtei ot the late John. Hay, and thereby became the brother-in-law of Payne hit y and a nephew-in-law of Oliver Payne, the Ohio oil magnate. lu 1904 n aa 6lecte4 to the New York assembly. |