A voice hailed me by name, and Bob sat up, looking attentively at me for his cue as to the treatment of the owner of it. I recognized in him the principal of the telegraph school
where I had gone until my money gave out. He seemed suddenly struck by something.
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Photo by Marceau, N.Y. Fig. 9. Richard Mansfield, Actor-Manager.
A fine, balanced combination of artistic talent, creative power, and capacity
for great emotion, with good judgment, financial sense, great energy, great
determination, uncompromising devotion to ideals, fine powers of expression,
and executive ability of the driving, compelling, rigid type. Note high
head, domed above temples and wide across center of forehead; large nose;
long, straight upper lip; firm mouth; prominent chin; long line from point
of chin to crown of head; intense expression. |
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| Fig. 10. Hon. A.I. Cutting (same as Fig. 11).
Intellectual, idealistic, yet practical; mild, but very shrewd and
persistent; good-natured, friendly, social, sympathetic, kindly, yet with
good commercial and financial judgment. Observe height of head, with dome
above temples; moderate width of head; pleasant, but firm-set, mouth; fine
texture and fine chiseling of features; strong, prominent chin, and
genial, kindly, friendly expression.
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| Fig. 11. Hon. A.L. Cutting. Ambitious, aspiring, hopeful,
cheerful, friendly, social. A good public speaker. Excellent planner, prudent,
far-sighted, and deliberate in speech and action. Note high head, both at
crown and above temples, long behind ears; high forehead; well-formed eyes
and nose, and prominent chin. |
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Fig. 12. The late Melville Fuller, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States. Unusually keen analytical powers,
unaffected by sentiment or irrelevant considerations. Great ability to get
down to essentials. Note fullness of brows and of upper corners of
forehead; keen, penetrating eyes, and long nose with depressed tip.
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| Fig. 13. Frank A. Vanderlip, President of National
City Bank, of New York. A man of both financial and political acumen—also
humanitarian. Note high, domed head; width across center and lower part of
forehead; inclination to stoutness; large, well-formed features; long
lines of face.
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| Copyright American Press Association. Fig. 14. Hon.
Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri. A keen politician, shrewd lawyer, and hard
fighter. Note height and width of head; large, prominent nose; square,
firm jaw; long upper lip; dogged set of mouth; unflinching eyes, and
inclination to stoutness.
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| Fig. 15. The late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode
Island. Keen, practical observation, financial judgment, diplomacy,
shrewdness, energy, intellect, industry, courage, determination, and
command. Note well-developed brows; height and width of forehead,
especially across center; long, well-developed nose; straight, firm mouth;
broad, square, prominent chin; long ears; long line from point of chin to
crown of head, and keen, shrewd, alert, penetrating expression of eye.
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| Fig. 16. Showing large, well-developed base of brain, usually
an indication of a tendency to stoutness. Note fullness of back of head
at nape of neck. |
"'Why, what are you doing here?' he asked. I told him Bob and I were just resting after a day of canvassing.
"'Books!' he snorted. 'I guess that won't make you rich. Now, how would like to be a reporter, if you have got nothing better to do? The manager of a news agency downtown asked me to-day to find him a bright young fellow whom he could break in. It isn't much—$10 a week to start with. But it is better than peddling books, I know,'
"He poked over the book in my hand and read the title. 'Hard Times,' he said, with a little laugh. 'I guess so. What do you say? I think you will do. Better come along and let me give you a note to him now.'
"As in a dream. I walked across the street with him to his office and got the letter which was to make me, half starved and homeless, rich as Croesus, it seemed to me.
"When the sun rose I washed my face and hands in a dog's drinking trough, pulled my clothes into such shape as I could, and went with Bob to his new home. The parting over, I walked down to 23 Park Row and delivered my letter to the desk editor in the New York News Association up on the top floor.
"He looked me over a little doubtfully, but evidently impressed with the early hours I kept told me that I might try. He waved me to a desk, bidding me wait until he had made out his morning book of assignments; and with such scant ceremony was I finally introduced to Newspaper Row, that had been to me like an enchanted land. After twenty-seven years of hard work in it, during which I have been behind the scenes of most of the plays that go to make up the sum of the life of the metropolis, it exercises the old spell over me yet. If my sympathies need quickening, my point of view adjusting, I have only to go down to Park Row at eventide, when the crowds are hurrying homeward and the City Hall clock is lighted, particularly when the snow lies on the grass in the park, and stand watching them awhile, to find all things
coming right. It is Bob who stands by and watches with me then, as on that night."