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litf THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1911. YEAES OF NOTE IN GENERAL-LATROBE'S LONG LIFE LATBDBE.THEMAH Loved His Fellowmen And Had Failh In Bal- Umore. Bpirit of the Old World he had felt the spirit in him respond to the re-echoing call of the crusades. He never forgot that trip, as he never forgot anything that happened in his life, and friends who stopped in to chat with him have forsaken all other work just to listen to his descriptions. It was on this trip that be attained the artistic ideal that led him always afterward to stand for handsome public buildings.

STUDIES LAW. When he returned from Europe We went into his father's law office, and there, at the desk where he sat last Wednesday when he was taken with the chill that led to his death, he began to prepare for his admission to the bar. In a reminiscent article which he wrote for the Sunday Sun in October, 1908, he was reminded of those days in the following characteristic description BECOMES ItEMIMSCtXT. The General tells the story of his study of law in a reminiscent article he wrote far the Sunday Sun October 18, 1908, in the following manner "After two years of etudy, having twice 1833 Born on October 14 in Baltimore. 1850 Graduated from St.

James' College, near Hagerstown. 1854 Traveled abroad for eight months with his father, d'ohn H. B. Latrobe. 1859--Admitted to the bar.

18G0 -One of those who welcomed King Edward, then Prince of Wales. 18G1 Harried Miss Louisa Swann, daughter of Governor Swann. After her death married Mrs. Thomas Swann, a sister-in-law of his first wife. 18GS Started political career by being elected to the Legislature.

1870 Speaker of the House of Delegates. 1871 Counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1872 Defeated for the Mayoralty nomination by Mayor Joshua Van Sant. 1875 Elected Mayor for his first term. 1878 Filled out unexpired term of Mayor Kane, who had succeeded him.

1879 Elected for his third term. 1881 Withdrew in favor of William Pinkney Whyte. 1883 Elected over a fusion candidate by 3,470 majority. 1S85 Succeeded by James Hodges and returned as counsel to the Baltimore and Ohio 1887 Elected for fifth term. Retired at end of it to be counsel again for the Baltimore and Ohio.

1891 Elected for sixth term. 1893 Elected for seventh term. 1898 Appointed member of the Charter Commis'sion. 1898 Appointed member of the New Courthouse Commission. 1899 Eleced to the Legislature for the session of iCOO.

1901 Speaker of the House of Delegates at extra session. 1901 Accepted presidency of the Consolidated Gas Company. 1903 Appointed member of the Park Board. 190? Appointed member of the Municipal Art Commission. 1904 Appointed chairman of the Board of State Aid and Charities.

1909 Appointed president of the Park Board. 1910 Resigned from the presidency of the Consolidated Gas Company. the Schuylkill to Philadelphia for drinking purposes, and when, In 1814, the British destroyed a portion of the national Capitol, Thomas Jefferson brought him to Washington to repair the damage. The designs worked out, which were for a long time credited to Jefferson, were In reality those of Latrobe. FATHER XOTED LAWYER.

This Latrobe married a Miss Hazelton, of Philadelphia, and three children were born to them. Benjamin Julia and John II. B. Latrobe, who was the General's father. John H.

B. Latrobe settled in Baltimore and became one of Its most noted lawyers. That was In 1820, when the world was on the verge of its most wonderful discoveries. When the railroad 10 years later was to bind together a nation, when 14 years after that the telegraph was to click from Washington to Baltimore for the first time and the world was to be astounded with the fact that a message registered on wire could be delivered iu a moment hundreds of miles away. BOR OX GAY STUKET.

It was into an age like this that Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe, named for Gen. Ferdinand Leigh ClaWorue, of Mississippi, a relative of his mother, was born on October 14, 1833, In a nouse in South Gay street, near the water's edge. That was when the houses of the best people stood about the harbor, and young Latrobe, as a child could see the clipper ships come In from the far-off seas and drop anchor in Canton Hollow. He saw the slaves toiling lu the yellow sun along Pratt street und heard the cries of tin-workers as they carried the coffee bags off the ships. their stories correct.

He knew when everything in Baltimore had happened for years and one had only -to--enll him up go round to his office. And he could always tell offhand Or if ft concerned some detailed information the General would ransack his old desk in the corner, where the broken pann was stuffed fsded yellow paper and out would come some diary of a year nor ages past and jthere would be the date. "Sit down," he would always say when any of the reporters came hi, "and tell raw all the news." In a few minutes the General would skillfully extract all the Information tho ieporter knew. He took a mighty keen Interest in politics, although few thought so. and he was always kept informed by his friends.

FOXD OF THE OUNG. He was fond of young people and believed they should be allowed to do just a- they pleased. "General." said a reporter one day t- him. "one of your park policemen has arrested an estimable young man for kissing an estimable young lady in Druid Hill Park. How soon are you going to fire the.

cop." "Terrible said the General with mock astonishment. "He shall be decapitated immediately. In the meantime anyone who desires to osculate in the park can jret a permit at my oflice." The parks became a great part of his life in the last nine years of that interesting career. In the morning he came down to the St. Paul street office he went to the Gas office for an hour or so, and then to the Marylaud Club, where he bad luncheon.

After o'clock in the afternoon he would leave the t'as oflice to go to the St. Paul street oflice and stay for an hour. THEN DRIVE TO PARKS. Late in the afternoon he would drive out through the parks until dinner lime, when he would return home. He would go to the library.

whVh was the front seeoudr story room, yfud there iu an old-time chair read away the evenings. He had a certain kind of strong black cigars, whiuh he always used, and a huue barlow knife always lay on the table inside the cigars. He would "worry" the end off a cigar with the knife and then, with the smoke clouds rolling around him. he would go deep into the French Revolution, which, of all things else, interested him most in literature. 3IEMOIRS HIS HORRY.

On some nights he would write memoirs Robert, the General's man. sat by the fire reading The Sun and telling visitors that the General waited within. There was no more ceremony the General's door was always open. LIKE DAY'S OF OLD. Queer-looking documents, saffron with years and never touched by fingers of this age, peep out of the "chambers" of the desk, and the General sat there and wrote with the atmosphere of 1800 about him.

Over on the other side of the room is another like desk piled with papers, unused since the General's father died. On the floor are litters of books, papers, maps and what not placed there years ago, and no obtrusive band has marred their generation of rest. The dust seems sacred. GENERAL IN A TOP HAT THERE. A picture of the General, with top hat shining bravely and seated in a "wagon" behind old Liz, Is on the north wall.

Behind him is a commission or so, fresh and newly hung, and they seem strange beside the dry-point etching of Thomas Jefferson, who consorts with Samuel Johnson, Calhoun and others at? nightfall, when the General has gone. And over all things was the dust that the General would not have touched. SOON' BACK IN' SERVICE. But he was to be out of public life only three years. Mayor.

Malster appointed him to the commission which had in charge the building of the new Courthouse, and also made him a member of the' new commission which drew up the Charter under which the city is now governed. On this commission with him was William Pinkney Whyte. who was chairman: Daniel C. Gilnian, now dead, who was head of the Johns Hopkins University Judge Samuel D. Schmucker, George R.

Gaither, Judge Thomas T. Elliott, ex-Mayor Thomas G. Hayes and former State Senator Lewis Putzel. The General always stuck to the view that the Mayor should be a member of all city boards, but he was overruled in this, although his wide experience aud knowledge of the workings of the city government were of great value and shaped niauy of the policies of the present Charter. GOES TO LEGISLATURE.

In 1S99 he was prevailed upon 'to go to the Legislature from the Eleventh ward, and In this session he made a brilliant defense of the Gas company, when efforts were being made to force it to reduce the price of gas. The price was finally cut down, but the General was a good loser. When the extra session of 1901 wus called by Gov. John Walter Smith he was elected Speaker of the House and reigned over the making of the Wilson ballot laws with an iron hand. In 1901 he also became president of the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and I'ower Company, a position which he held until a month before he died, when he was succeeded by Mr.

J. E. Aldred. By V.iOl the General was OS years old, but he had grow old in appearance only. His step was still steady, his speech brisk aud clear.

Aud always those gray eyes, peering out from behind the thick spectacles, were seeing ahead and he was keeping step always with the advancing age. The last nine years of -his life were active, and while he received do salary from either the city or the State he served them both in that time. NEARLY' MAYOR AGAIN. Once he was nearly Mayor again. In the campaign before Robert M.

McLane was nominated Mr. Rasin had sent the word "down the line" for the ortran'zatlon to get behind Latrobe. There had been a popular demand for him, the old order had changed, but Latrobe was of the new order, just as he had been of the old. And the public affection he enjoyed was the envy of his compatriots in the organization. But McLane was put on the slate and the General took it good naturedly.

Mr. McLane, when elected, named the General as a member of the Park Board and also as a member of the Municipal Art Commission. A year later he was appointed president of the. Board of State Aid and Charities by Governor AVarfield. The daily routine of the General's life then became known intimately to his good friends and ardent admirers the reporters.

If there is a reporter in Baltimore who has not met the General at some time; who had not interviewed him or "taken his speech at a banquet theu he is a young reporter, indeed. GLAD TO TALK. He was always glad to talk, aud while there were many occasions when he would not allow himself to be quoted he would always discuss the question freely. Many, many times have the reporters sat there in his office and listened as he talked of municipal affairs, as he "roasted" some public movement which he thought was not meritorious But just about that time the General would say "But don't quote me as sayii anything at all." And the confidence was never broken. At other times he would say "You can quote that." and then the next day the General would chuckle mightily when the story aroused some public official or created a sensation, as many of his public utterances did.

HAD SENSE OF HUMOR. He had a sense of humor a humau. loving sense of humor that made him sacred to the reporters who wanted to write the kind of things that bring a smile when the newspaper is laid on the breakfast table. Whenever there was sadness in the air the General was sure to dispel it. Not more than a month ago a reporter went to him and asked him if he were raising terrapin in his oflice.

"Lord bless you, no!" be said. "A man wanted to pay his rent and I bought them from him to help him out. I sent the terrapin home as soon as my wagon came." HIS CARRIAGE. The wagon was his carriage which Robert, the faithful, attended each day with young Liz in the shafts. When Lizzie the Third was born the General met a reporter on the street.

"Come here." he said laughingly. "Von have missed the biggest news of the day. I am ashamed of you." And he straightway told the story of Lizzie coming into the world. He was the mainstay of accurate reporters who wanted to have the dates of would the city move the car tracks from the side of his pavement, where at that time they menaced the lives of his children. "Yes," said the Mayor.

Then years later he was making a Bpeech In that same section of the city and the man got pp in the audience and reminded him of th6 promise. The tracks had not been moved. The General did not stop until the tracks had been changed. HODGES SUCCEEDS HIM. In 1885 James Hodges succeeded him, but again the tide of public opinion, as it had three times before, changed in favor of Latrobe, and he was again elefcted in 1S87.

He continued his work for the improvement of the city and not only spent $2,000,000 to build a retaining wall About Jones falls, but also laid out the 6unken gardens on Mount Royal avenue. He always wanted to have these gardens enlarged and have the houses on the east side of Charles street, from Mount Royal avenue to Union Station, torn down. One day about three weeks ago, when at the Eutaw House attending the meeting of the Jackson Day finance committee, he said "It would not require much money to do this. Mr. Michael Jenkins Will help, and I knowT some other people who are also interested in having the city beautiful.

I think it wijj be possible." He had prepared a plan had found out what the property was assessed at and was ready, to go ahead. This is only one of the many plans, however, which were stopped by his death. NEGROES REVERED HIM. While he was claiming kinship with the Irish, the French, German and other nationalities he was also doing good, substantial work for the uplift of the negroes, and the members of this race still regard him with favor. His father had been one of the members of the Maryland colonization society and had assisted in the founding of Liberia.

There is a Maryland county in Liberia now and a Latrobe town named after his father. The General was a regular subscriber to a Liber iau paper, which often mentioned him as one of its patrons. The General was instrumental in having colored teachers put in schools where colored children were being educated, and he tried in other ways to assist them. The result of this was that not did he gain many negro votes, but he was ajlso looked upon as the adviser of. the race in Baltimore.

STORY OF EBEXEZER. He was asked to their public affairs and on one occasion he was asked to attend the laying of the cornerstone of Ebenezer negro church. The General tells the story his way. "I had it in my mind that Ebenezer was a great prophet, so when I got up to make the speech I told of my great regard for Ebenezer, whom I regarded as one of the greatest of the prophets. I described him as my favorite character in the Bible and told how on lontr, w-inter nights I read his writing with muclipersmiil satisfaction.

"As I continued I saw one of the colored ministers raise his hand. Another smiled. I thought that they were applauding my efforts and I laid it on Ebenezer pretty thick. Finally when I finished one of the ministers said: 'General that was a good speech, but you are 'way "I was a little surprised and when I got back to the City Hall I sent for the late Judge Conway W. Sams, whose father was a minster, and I asked Conway, who was then a judge of the Appeal Tax t'ourt, to find out who Ebenezer was.

The next day Conway told me that Ebenezer was the name of a rock." RETIRED IN 18S9. He retired in 1S89 without seeking re-nomination, but again the same tide of public opinion and he went back in 1.891 to serve two more terms. The old gray mare was still with him, although she had a foal "Lizzie." the second, who took her turn in dragging the oil buggy around in which the General rode each day. The storm of 1895 was nrewing in his last two terms. Discontent with the Democratic party in the city and State was becomng strong, the reform element at which the organization had so long scoffed was growing more powerful, but Latrobe would not bend to the storm.

He wns inflexible. The organization had always helped him to gain public improvements; he bad crone on bettering the city. FAITH IX RASIN. One day when he did something which was criticised he was told that the reformers would not like it. "Rasin is stronger than any of them," he answered, and went ou with his work.

He was beginning to know how to sign thousauds of checks a day without being tired. His former terms had prepared him for it, and while he never hurried with his signature lie could do an astonishing number in a short period. Then the storm of reform broke out afresh and Henry Williams was nominated for Mayor on the Democratic ticket against Alcaeus Hooper. But Williams went down to defeat, with John E. Hurst, the Democratic nominee for Governor, and in 1895 Latrobe saw a Republican Mayor and Governor in Maryland and Baltimore for the first time since 1867.

MARRIED AGAIN'. He retired to practice law and be counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He had married in 1880 Mrs. Ellen Swann, widow of his brother-in-law. Thomas Sv inn, aud they had three children Mrs.

O. Howard Harvey, who was Miss Charlotte Latrobe. Miss Ellen Virginia Latrobe aud Ferdinand C. Latrobe, all of whom survive bim. REVERED OLD OFFICE.

During these days he went back again to bis old oflice, on St. Paul street, which had been his place for all the years since 1S59, when he was admitted to the bar. Time was when this office was the best known perhaps of any in the city, and its appointments were considered quite the thing, but sadly the days of soft carpets and mahogany furniture have gone. Blond telephone girls have come, and those unused to the ways of olden Baltimore or afraid to get dust upon their gloves would find his office uninteresting. Outside a coal stove sat in the middle of the bare ante-room, burning with dignity, and while the draft might be cold upon the floor the upper strata are warm.

Sitting in his oflice not more than a week ago he said: "I can remember u.i a child 4 years old going to a child's party down on Exchange Place to great mansion which stood there) nt one time. Our house was near the site of the present Custom House, and all about us were pretty homes of Maryland folk whose names have gone down into history." MlVEIt FORGOT THE I A ST. He never forgot those days and it is no wonder. His father was counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, which procured its charter from the Maryland Legislature iu 1827. Three years later the first locomotive had run for several miles near Ellicott City toward Washington.

Then in 1S46, when he was 13 years old. he sat in the hallway of his old home and saw a strange-appearing man talking with his father. The man wah Morse, who bad just invented the telegraph and was asking Johu II. B. Latrobe to get from the Baltimore und Ohio for him permission to lay the wires along the tracks of the company from Baltimore to Washington.

WHEX MORSE TRIl'MI'IIEU. Sitting there quietly the 13-year-old boy heard Morse in nervous accents tell the story. In a few years the boy, Ferdinaud, i or "Ferdie" as he was always called, was to wituess the sending of the first message 'and hear the exclamations as the people at the Baltimore tid of the wire knew that a new epoch had been reached in the history of the world. The General told the story in the following words: "As stated, my father was counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and, as such, in the days of 1845 aud 184tj, wns in the habit of going every morning to the oflice of the company, then on Hanover street, to ask if there was any law business to be attended to. The Hon.

Louis McLane was at that time president of the corporation. HIS A'ISIT TO B. AND O. "To this inquiry one morning President McLane replied in the negative, but, as my father was going away, he called to him, saying: 'There was a gentleman here yesterday applying for permission to lay a lead pipe along the line of the railroad from Washington to Baltimore, in which he proposes to run a wire, over which he says he can talk between the two cities. He seems to have obtained an appropriation from Congress of $25,000 to enable him to make his experiment.

I was too busy to talk with him, so have referred him to our counsel. He will doubtless call on you. Ease him off. We have many theorists and visionary people calling here with wonderful inventions. I suppose he is one of that kind.

Get rid of him as politely as you can." "That evening tne gentleman called at my father's residence and sent in his card. It was Mr. Morse. Going with my father into his library, be fully explained to him the idea of the electric telegraph, and wrote for him on a sheet of note paper the Morse alphabet. The next morning my father, as usual, went to the railroad oflice.

said Mr. McLane, 'did that gentleman call to see you?" 'He was the reply. 'Well, what has he 'Mr. said my father, "you have been Secretary of the United States Treasury, you have been United States Minister to the Court of St. James and are now president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but when you and I are dead and long forgotten the name of that man will be remembered.

He has the most wonderful invention of the age, an invention which will revolutionize the system of MORSE'S LA "My father then explained the proposed telegram of Mr. Morse. The permit asked for was granted, and the pipes were laid. When the Thomas viaduct over the Pa-tapsco was reached the soil on the stone arches was too shallow to dig the trench, and the difficulty was overcome by putting the wire across the bridge on poles. My father always said that this was the first idea of telegraph poles.

"Xo one then thought of reading the messages over the wire by sound. They were recorded on a tape In the Morse alphabet as the prices of stocks are now recorded on the ticker iu a 1 roker's oflice but the operator soon learned to understand the meaning of the sound as well as he could 6r.4w,,m,1UU',U i i i i i i HIS HEART OPEN TO ALL Made Few Enemies; Held Friends Close To Him. PEOPLE CALLED HIM "FATHER" JIU Life l'ublk'n And lliinnelf Warn Looked Un An Dalnrark Of Deniocrncy lie Saw World Of Selencw Enlarge Its Work Recollection Of Days Gone Bj. Time has worn smooth the name of Ferdinand C. Latrobe on many a tablet erected on public works in Baltimore, but when he deeds of liini who was seven times tayor are reckoned bis friends will insist Unit In? did more for I no city than any other single man.

And in nil that Lie did ho was propelled by the dominant characteristic which marked his whole life his love for Baltimore aud its people and his absolute and unswerving faith In the future of the city. He built bridges over Jones' falls in North until people in other sections cried him down as a spendthrift, only to live to see millions added to the taxable basis when that great part of the city which now lien north of Mount Royal avenue quickened into life, sprang up us if Inspired from what was before licld and forest. Looking uheud, ho saw that Baltimore "as nipidly outgrowing itself, and iu oue of his terms as Mayor began the move-nii'iit for adding to Baltimore that part now known as the Annex, which has brought, other millions to the city's taxable basis. ri promises. lie spoke nightly in cumpaigns for this and other improvements; lie promised much, but did his best to fulfill every one of them.

He built a $2,000,000 retaining 'a all around Jones' falls, and had the sunken gardens at Mount Royal avenue laid out. Know for a time as the "Bridge Mayor," lie f-oiineetcd the city within itself. He spent millions for schools, paving, firo.cu-gine houses, and iu it all was the note "For Baltimore." And when in the last years of his life lie was retired from his powerful oflice of Mcyor, when he passed the age of 70 years and grew near to 80 years, he did not become one of those whom he indignantly and with disgust referred to as "moss-backs." His keen gray eyes were still turned toward the He wanted llighlandtown aud Canton annexed he wanted more streets paved, more schoolbouses erected he wanted Baltimore advertised. His last, speech in public was at the dinner given several weeks ago to Col. Jerome H.

Joyce, and there he said that the city had gained much from the aviation meet and thut he welcomed the innovation. I'l siuii) park system. He wus one of those who pushed the park system to its present wide bounds; one of those who wanted the dock system enlarged. At the Logislatureof 1SGS years ago It was he who worked out the plan 'of reorganizing the State militia Ju the way iu which it is now. His life was one of achievements for the Ity and State, but most of all for the city.

Aud for it he got in return a rich harvest of public affection. The people of Baltimore loved hint. There may be some who had criticised him in the past, but they had lived to see that his Ideas were always for the city's good. In later years he had become a municipal ligure, a gonial, kindly soul, who, from his wonderful wealth of knowledge and experience, drew forth wisdom and advice, given kindly and with a promise to assist any good movement. No banquet, even In these latter yeas, was complete without him and though the active Mayors responded to that toast, "The City of Baltimoe," to hich he had responded hundreds of times in his seven terms, there was always the I oast for him of "Baltimore's Future" or something about Baltimore.

K0VN TO A Mi. His well-known figure, the big frame, broad shoulders, dressed in gray or black fcuit, with the worn black slouch bat pulled down ocr his eyes those shrewd gray yca which peered out from thick spectacles, the gray mustache, which dropped over the liolMlsplug mouth, the Iron gray hair which tumbled about Lis forehead, his Lands folded over ccucrous front the chuckling old man who never grew old a municipal Idol from whom the people thought Time had spared its withering touch. Hunched up in his carriage, slapping the lines down on the back of "Young Liz," with Robert, his colored man, sitting betide him, everyone knew him as he drove through the streets and the parks. Many waved at him or stopped to chat awhile. There was no public question the General was not.

well versed iu no national issue on which did not. have an opinion and, better than all. those wonderfully interesting corners of his well-stocked memory, out of which he drew the pictures of long ago in a five minute chat, one got. much of this frotuhiin. LIKE FATHER Ob' CITY.

It is a sudden shock oue that is hardly to be realized that he is gone, because the people, who never heard him complain of Illness, who looked upon him as the paternal head of this large family of 000,000 people who are liviug in lialtimore, are as Knocked in a loving way as is his family. His positlou was unique, for in the city there Is none perhaps except Cardinal Gibbons, whi was more universally loved and respected. He was the link between this age and one far gone, memories of the fifties crowded his mind and yet he kept step to 1910. unfaltering, unafraid and with it all a genial numanlty which made those who met him like him and those who knew him love him. LIFE A BUSY ONE.

The Geueral's life was crowded offices stepped upon each other's heels in the chronological (succession of his life, as a glance at it will show, and behind all this life of achievement is an ancestry from which be doubtless inherited the spirit which had made him through 42 years a tlotniuant factor in the city's life. ills ancestry, his training and his spirit Mm his achievements and his love for his but it was his temperament, his lispoeitiou which got for him iu return the love of the people. Ho held malice toward none tluise. who knew him intimately can attest to this; though he might be harshly criticised he only smiled aud said his critic would know hlin. better some time.

1I1S ANCESTORS. But to trace that spirit and capacity which made him one "who did things" his life must be predicated by the story of his ancestor, Boneval de la Trobe, who emigrated from France to Holland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This la Trobe bad a family which went to utmost every part of the world, and in 1704 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the General's grandfather, was born in Yorkshire, England. Ho was educated in Saxony and Leipzig and finally, after an adventurous arcer all over Europe as an architect and engineer he came to the United States, where he immediately became one of its sreatest engineers. He was the first oue to pump water from of his family anil his own career, and many' of this writing is preserved at his otliee or in his safe.

He had always kept a dim-van knew exactly what had occurred n.i, every day in his long public-career. Sometimes he would turn las attention to poetry and he had several long ones with ambitious themes to which he ha 1 o-ivon tiiTi. nl -ilrmition now "he retaliated. He was fond ot telling a story of a man. prominent in Baltimore, who used to lore him much with various ideas on which he' would talk at great length.

Finally the General wrote poem of. about 40 stanzas, aud the next time tfce man bored hini be hauled out the poem. "I made him listen to every 'durn' line." he would say with a hearty laugh, "every 'durn' line of it. Aud he said it was good. It was a At times he would forsake the library for the club, where he was always to bej found with Frank II.

Ilanibletou. "Old man Hainbleton." he used to say when sneaking of him. The two would have many arguments, but always continued friends. DONOVAN" BE 11 EST. Another of his friends was Cardinal.

Gibbons, who blessed hint as lie was dying Their friendship dated back to the time when Mrs. Caroline Donovan wanted to make her will and desired him. who was 1 theu Mayor, to be the executor. The lady hail some money, which sln wanted to bequeath to public funds, and asked the Geii-. eral's advice.

"Mrs. Donovan said she wanted to give. some to the Catholic Churcn and some to another institution." said the ral. telling the "and advised her to put a certain sum in trust which could used to educate each year a ouiig man "who was studying tor lie- priesthood, the Car- dinal to have the privilege of handling the money. "She agreed to this, and went to see the Cardinal.

Tt was the first time 1 had met him for an extended conversation and we formed an attachment which I think was. mutual. I know that I was much taken with hiin. "1 also advised Donovan to give a I sum to the Johns Hopkins University, and 4 with this money was founded Donovan UOUlf TABLET BEARS N'AME. The tablet in the Donovan room at the Hopkins bears also the name or Latrobe.

Besides serving as the basis for inr with the Cardinal the gift to the Hopkins endeared the General 4 vo iTwtttnl ion IR1END OF SEYBOLD. Ill the squabble over the retention or dismissal of Superintendent Seybold, of Carroll Park, the General was Seybold" best friend and only agreed to his dismissal when it was determined upon by bis col: leagues. He was the closest friend of Ross R. Winaus and was godfatle'r of Mr. Winans" pon.

Thomas R. Winaus, who married a dancer aud is uow living abroad. Ross It. Winans aud Ferdinand C. Latrobe were young men together, and the General often told of the times wlen lie and Ross Winans went up to New York to the opera together.

In addition, be was trustee of the estate of Walter Winans, who owned much property along Ferry Bar. and also the counsel for the Princess de Beam et de Calais two childreu. She was Ross R- Winans' daughter and died soon after her second child was born. DISLIKED BIRTHDAYS. The General had a dislike for the celebration of birthdays, and he did not like to tell how old he was.

He said often recently that he did not want the voters to think that he was years 411. tiecause (Continued on 1'asc 11. lack read Blackstone's Commentaries and then read Coke Preston on Estates, I was admitted to the bar in May, 1859, nearly 50 years ago, in the Superior Court of Baltimore city, by Judge Uobert N. Martin, one, I may well say, of Maryland's great judges, a man of urany peculiarities, but of great dignity and thoroughly versed in all the intricacies of the profession of which he was undoubtedly one of the leaders in this State. "My admission was moved by my late father, and the Judge appointed two attorneys to examine me as to my qualifications.

One of them was the late Rcverdy Johnson, Jr. The name of the other I cannot now ..,...11 1 had. of course, made every prepara-j tiou for this ordeal and had thought over and prepared myself to answer auy ques- i i.i i. Lion im luiaKiufu uuiu oaiw.u i my examiners. I was, however, most agreeably Uisannointcd.

After a few general questions about how long ana with whom I bad studied, what books I had read, 1 asked only two other questions. rirst uat was iuh siaiue oi tions and whn did it apply? "Second What is the difference between an executory devise aud a contingent remainder "I recollect stumbling a little over the first, forgetting exactly how long it was in Maryland before a claim was barred by the statute, but I was fully up on the latter, and, after congratulating me, the committee reported that I had passed a satisfactory examination. "I was then admitted by order of the Court. My certificate, which now hangs in my office, was signed by the Judge. I paid 5 to the Court and walked out of the Superior Court a member of the bar of Baltimore.

About a year thereafter I was admitted at Annapolis to practice in the Court of Appeals of Maryland." JUS FIRST TRIAL. Tlio General useil to like also to tell of his first trial. He said: "Tho first case in which I made my ap pearance at the trial table was in the Su perior Court of Baltimore City. His Honor Judge Robert W. Martin was presiding.

It was the case of O'Counell vs. the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, a suit brought for personal iujury by the plaintiff, who was an employe of the road. He ))ad been thrown from a dump car being improperly fastened to the truck, due to the carelessness of a fellow-employe. The defense was that, under such circumstances, the defendant was not responsible for damages. "It was one of the first cases where this question of relation of master and servant was decided by the court.

As junior counsel, I made the opening argument on the prayers of the defendant and also the opening statement of the defendant's case to the jury. The case was decided in our favor maiuly on the ruling of the court. It was subsequently taken to the Court of Appeals, where I argued it alone, my father saying it was an easy case and he would trust me with it. My side won. I was certaiuly very proud of my success.

MET XOTEU BARRISTERS. "I knew many, I may say all, of the prominent lawyers of that day. Most of them had offices near to my father's. I recall some of them Iteverdy Johnson, William Schley, William Collins, J. Mason Campbell, Thomas Alexander, S.

Teackle Wallis, I. Nevitt Steele, John II. Thomas, George M. Gill. George W.

Dobbin, afterward Judge Dobbiu; Charles A. Pitts, William Talbott, James Malcolm, Robert G. lireut, Sahuicl H. Taggart, Thomas Lauahan. Thomas Donaldson, William George Brown, Frederick W.

Brune, Henry Stockbridge, Grafton Dulany, William Henry Norris, William Price, T. Parkins Scott, afterward Judge Scott; William Pinkney Whyte, Orville Horwitz, William Reynolds, Thomas W. Hall, John V. L. Findluy, Albert Ritchie, afterward Judge Ritchie; Charles Marshall, William A.

Stewart, William A. Fisher, John K. Coweu, J. Alexander Preston, A. Winter Davis, Morrison Harris, James M.

Buchanan and many others whose names I cauuot at the moment recall. JUSTICE TANEY. "I also knew remember well the great Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, whose statue, by Riuehart, now stands iu the State House grounds at Annapolis, aud a replica of which, the gift to the city ot the late William T. Walters, is in the north square of Mount Vernon Place a of the House of Delegates of Maryland I bad the privilege of voting for Hie appropriation made by the State, at the instance of the late S.

leackle Wallis, for the erection of this statue at Annapolis. I recall a conversation between my father and Judge Taney, which the former related to mc. said my father, 'suppose a client should ask my opinion on a law question, the proper reply to which I was not myself certain of aud I had no time to look up the authorities what should I say TANEY'S PLAN. 'Just said the Judge, 'what would be good, common sense base your answer upon that, and when you have time look it up in the books and I am sure you will tiud plenty of authority to back up your "Reverdy Johnson was at that time the leading member of the bar of Baltimore. He was during ids long career as an attorney United States Senator, Attorney-General of the United States.

Minister to the Court, of St. James aud a warm friend of ad the honor ot being his colleague niv father s. i tnen ssnerur, anguwu. i i A 4 rPL 1 lature aa enact from mrv uutv an Honorary luemuera in militia regimeuts. The constitutionality of this law was questioned and in order to have it decided a pro forma case was taken to the Court of Appeals.

REVERDY JOHNSON' HELPED. "Realizing the importance of a proper decision, I was authorized by the Sheriff to have assistant counsel at the trial. I at once went to Mr. Johnson. He said, 'I will help you, and I think we have a good "We went to Annapolis together.

The afternoon before the trial he told me to go to the library and look up authorities, making some suggestions as to where I should look, and to b'ring the books that night to Mrs. Green's boarding house, where we had rooms, and read them over to him. This I did. We talked over the case, he giving me what he said he thought was the law based upon, the language of the act and the authorities I had read to him. he said.

'Ferdinand, tomorrow you will make the first speech on our side, and I will close' I. replied, 'Mr. Johnson, you have told mc the whole argument on our 'Go said he, 'do the best you can. When you get through there will, I am sure, be something left for me to talk about' "Mr. Johnson at that time was almost totally blind, but his memory was remarkable.

He quoted almost verbatim many of the arguments I had read to him, never making a mistake1 in his references. The case was decided in our favor." THEN" 2G YEARS OLD. The General was then a young man of 2G, and those who remember him at that time describe him as being one of the handsomest men in the city. Tall, heavy built, with coal-black hair, a black mustache, an aggressive temperament and a fire-brand sort of oratory that made him an opponent well worthy of his steel in debate, he began to attract attention at the bar. PRINCE C03IES HERE.

But he was likewise socially prominent. He was paying his addresses at this time to Miss Louisa Swann, daughter of Mayor Swann, who was afterward to become Governor. The Mayor then had a mansion on Franklin street and when, in 1S60, King Edward, who was then Prince of Wales, came to Baltimore on his tour? of the i Lmted States, "Ferdie Latrobe was one of thse who. helped to entertain nim. The Prince was vouiiuer than but the two became good friends in his short stay, and the General confessed in moments of confidence that after a certain ball given while the Prince was here he had accompanied him to a tenpin alley, where, with certain others of the Prince's suite, they played at tenpins for several hours.

HE MARRIES. In 1S61 "Ferdie" married Miss Swann, and they had one child, Swann Latrobe. who died after reaching manhood, while they were living at Chart -s and Eager streets, with his grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. John H.

B. Latrobe. Mrs. Latrobe, bis mother, died not long after his birth and Ferdinand C. Latrobe remained a widower until 1S80, when he married Mrs.

Ellen Penrose Swann, widow of Thomas Swann, a brother of the General's first wife. GOES INTO POLITICS. It was seven years after his first marriage that the General went into politics. It was inevitable. lie had been surrounded by it all during his life.

His father-in-law-had become Governor and he wanted to begin his career. lie was then 33 years old, in tUe prime of his young manhood and with an energy and aggressiveness that could not be stayed. He was elected in 1868 to the Legislature and became chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. It was in this session that he began "doing things'' by introducing the measure which plan led the reorganization of the State militia, which since the Civil War had been in a sorry state. This was passed and Governor Swann appointed the young judge-advocate-general on his staff, thus giving him the title of general, which from that time on was placed before his nam" and which as years passed took on the term of an af-iectionate address.

GAINS EXPERIENCE. It was at this session of the Legislature his first that he was to gain an experience in politics which stood him in good stead ever afterward. His father-in-law. Governor Swann, wanted to be United States Senator: but was opposed by William T. Hamilton.

Governor Swann gave into the hands of his son-in-law his campaign for the United States Senate, and young Latrobe, filled with ardor and spirit, made a brilliant canvass, but the vote was close and against him. He used to say afterward that had he had more political experience he could have won that campaign. When lie canfe back to Baltimore he knew more about politics than he thought he could gather in so short a time, and when Governor Swann was prevailed upon to accept the nomination for Congress young i.atrooe manajreu nis campaign and the Governor won out handsomelv MEETS MRS. BLAINE. Young Latrobe was a frequent risitor to Washington, where his father-in-law was staying when attending the sessions of Congress, and he often told this story: "During the session I often visited Governor Swann in Washington, where he was serving as Congressman.

His house adjoined that of the Hon. James G. Blaine, then Speaker of the House of Representatives. One evening Mrs. Blaine was visiting at the Governor's, and on -my being introduced to her she said, 'Your father-in-law tells me that you are Speaker of the Maryland House of 'I have that I she said, "I only hope you do not have the same trouble that my husband has with the opposition in the House of 'No.

I said, 'for we have no opposition. our mcmoers oolong to on political party You don't say said Mrs. Blaine: 'all good Republicans, 'Xo, I answered, 'all good 'Why, what a set of sinners you all must said Mrs. "WHAT THEY ALL SAY." Iu the meantime the young legislator had been appointed on a commission to dispose of the old furniture in the Executive Mansion at Annapolis, which had been sold to the Uaited States Government. A question arose as to the sale of the so-called Eden bed.

in which it was popularly supposed Governor Eden, the last of the Colonial Governors, had died. "Ferdie" Latrobe did not believe much in the Eden story, and when the auctioneer tried to sell the Eden bed for a high price by calling out to the General about the Eden story, he said only "That's what they all say." The bed was sold for $10. Then in 1870 he had gained such prestige in politics that on being elected to the Legislature again was named as Speaker of tho House of Delegates, win- ing against William T. Merrick, who had put up a hard fight against bim 1MKE FRIENDS "Lt rue tell you something." ho used to say in recent years. "Why don't some of those fellows in public lifetry to make Some friends instead of enemies? Why, when Merrick was defeated I made him chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and he was with me, not against me." That was a part of the General's creed.

"Make- friends," he always said, "they will be with you. But if it is necessary to make an enemy make a god red-hot one then you have the better of the argument." When the Legislature adjourned he came back to Baltimore to be counsel again for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but in 1872 he liad decided to quit the smaller stage of the Legislature for the more ambitious field of the mayoralty. He went into the primary fight against Mayor Joshua Van Sant. who was running for a renomination, and when Van Sant carried the largest number of wards he went into the convention at the- llolliday Street Theatre, made a speech and supported him. ELECTED MAY" OH.

But he was watching the situation carefully, and in 1875 he was given the unanimous support of the organization Democrats and was ejected Mayor for his first term. Comptroller MacCubbin died and he promptly appointed Mr. Van Sant to fill the place, thus getting a harmonious Democracy at the back of his administration. "I am a he used to say, "and I believe that a Democrat can fill an office better than a Republican in my administration because he will be with me and not against me." And straightway he fired everybody wlio was lukewarm and procured red-hot Democrats in their places. Those were in the days when the City Council committee of ways and means made up the annual budget of expenditures and the Mayor was at the mercy of the Councilmen for getting appropriations.

But the General was wary. "I used to swap a coup of lamp-lighting jobs for a vote," he would often say, "and when the time came I could get pretty much what I wanted, although some of them kicked a great deal." FINE JOB In those days the Mayor had the appointing power of every man in the city government; department heads mere only figureheads. The Mayor was the single power in the whole administration and he dealt out offices, using them always to rood of In 1878 he was succeeded by Mayor Kane, but at the end of those two years the people were "yelling" for Latrobe again. "Lath-roby," the Germans used to call him; "La-throbe," the Irish called him, and he was German or Irish as the occasion required. At banquets he used to always say that his mother was of Irish descent, if it chanced to be an Irish banquet or If it was a Germau banquet he said his great-grandfather had been of German descent.

SILK CORD FOR LUMBAGO. He was troubled with lumbago in those days, and when it came upon him severely he used to tie a silk cord around his waist and then wait for it to have the curing effect. He always said that a silken cord around the waist was the best cord of all. And he was a hearty eater. Many nights he went to banquets and after going through a course dinner which lasted uutil 10 or 11 o'clock at night he world go home or to the Maryland Club and cat another meal.

He continued this habit nearly ail of his life up until about a year ago, when continued attacks of indigestion made him careful. About a month ago at the Maryland Club he said to a reporter of The Sun: HERRING FOR BREAKFAST. "I eat very little now. I always have a herring for my breakfast. I have eaten (ne at that meal for many years, and I find it the best thing for me.

Then at o'clock I come up here to the club and have some soup for lunch, and for dinner I eat but little." "Is it true. General." he was asked, "that you often take herring with you in your pockets when you are compelled to go out of town?" "Well, now." he smiled, "you mustn't ask me about that." This going to banquets became one of the features of the General's life while he was Mayor. He. thought that a Mayor ought to be a part of the city's social life. he soon became prominent ot every public dinner, responding with merit to the toast "Btie City of Baltimore." His old secretary.

Col. William II. Love, now dead, used to compute that the General had answered that toast about 10.000 times. But the General never grew tired until recently, and then he had to quit the iob of being Mayor. "The Mayor ought not go to so many banquets," said the General.

"Let him be a member of all city boards and that will take up enough of his time for him to quit going to banquets." THE BRIDGE MAYOR. In the term of 1875 he also started the mnrnwmeni a r. tha hri.i.,, falls. People beeran to call him "The Bridge Mayor." He would spend each vear thousands of dollars out of the tax levy for the bridges, and the people in East Baltimore would cry out against him, but when they saw the taxable basis increasing because of the property that was being put up north of Mount Royal avenue they soon ceased. But the General had another way of stopping their cries.

He would go and talk with them. On many nights he drov behind "Old Liz" to christenings, marriages, parties and things of that sort. He always kissed the babies, flattered the mothers and patted the voters on the back. At German festivals he would be met at the gate of the park by the hand and escorted to the drinking booth, where he would immediately "set them up" for the men around hiin. He was at home in any company, always genial, always having a pleasant time, never bored.

"OLD LIZ." Before the campaign of 1S79 he used to bring the old gray mare out nearly every night. The old horse began to be a factor in tho campaigns. She broke into print, her picture was published, and finally when the reformers began to howl against Ferdinand Latrobe one of his supporters broke into verse with "That Old Gray Mare of Mine," which when sung by "Tom" McNulty was chorused by thousands of voices. In those days the General always wore a high silk hat. Later he said it was an abomination and a nuisance.

"They were brought over here by the Prince of Wales." he said, "when he was visiting here, and they were thought fashionable. I used to wear one because I was a candidate, but the 'durn' thing always hurt my head and I was glad to get rid of It. I got a couple of them home now, but I only wear them to weddings and funerals mostly funerals." GOOD CAMPAIGNER. The General was a good campaigner. He could make a ringing speech and he al-1 ways played upon the note of Democracy, the lowering of the tax rate and the work-! lngman.

And lie was democratic iu hi" tastes. When he was elected in IS79 be i gave orders that the door of his office in the City Hall should never be closed hile he was inside. And it was not. Anyone jivho wanted to see the Mayor could walk right in. Like as not John J.

Mnhon or I. Freeman Rasin would be talking to him. but he did not wish to conceal that fact. "Wait till John gets through." he would say to anyone who chanced in while Mr. Mahon was talking to him, "and then you can see me." He never made any secret of the fact that he had the support of the leaders of the organization and in return gave them a great share of the patronage at the City Hall.

He handed out offices to them, but he expected them to stand by him when it came to a question of city improvements, and they did. "GOD BLESS THE GENERAL." The jobs he reserved to himself were given to poor people and there are many today who say "God blesg the General he gave me a job when I had none In 1SS1 he retired in favor of William Pinkney Whyte. but again at the end of that time the Democratic voters were saying. "Give us Latrobe and the "War Horse of the Democracy," as he came to be known, was elected in 1883 by a majority of 3,470 over J. Monroe Heiskell, a Fusion candidate.

This was the time when reformers uniting with the Republicans tried to overthrow the Democrats. But it was of no avail and Latrobe himself had a deep-rooted disgust, though not a personal hatred, of reformers. "They make me be said. "They used to get up and make speeches against me and call me everything under the sun. Then I would give one of them a job and before I knew it he was a hot organization man gone beyond reform." BELIEVED IX CITY'.

It was in this administration that he put through the annexation plan by which Baltimore increased greatly in size and the taxable basis was richly enhanced. He entered into this canipaign with his whole heart. He believed in Baltimore's future he wanted the city to expand and become great, and he believed In the ability of the city to keep its promises to the people of the section hich the city desired to annex. In the campaign people used to ask him many questions. "Would the city do this in case of annexation?" To a41 the Mayor replied in the affirmative and he kept a careful diary of these promises so that he could fulfill them.

One day a man out ou the Frederick road asked him if Iu case the annex were taken in gain his end, which was for the All ibis made a deep impress'ion on the i two or taicc -ases. one of which I The atmosnheve l.ini wn of call. I had beeu appointed counsel for the There's One Thing in other soda crackers and that is National fi-fceuit Goodness that In achievement. The blood of his ancestors stirred within him. and when he was sent to school at St James college, near Ha gerstown, after having been to St.

Timothy's School and a preparatory school known as the Baltimore City College, he was filled with the ambition to take his place in the big world and shape the destinies of his city. Times were changing. The social life of the city was moving. When he was talking only the other day of the sale of his father's house at Charles and Read streets to make way for at apartment house he said "When the trade if the city began to grow the warehouses, of course, were built in large numbers along Gay street and Exchange Place and started to crowd out the residences. Then the people of the city who wanted nice houses moved up here." He was sitting in his ancient office on St.

Paul street us he talked. "In those days my father's house faced on Lexington street and this was his office. All up St. Paul street to Franklin and on Charles street and Cathedral were the best houses. Then people started to move up around Washington's Monument and my father had a house built there at the corner of Read street.

That was away out in those days." STARTS OUT IN' AVORtD. In 3 S50 "Ferdie" Latrobe was graduated from St. James' a 17-year-old boy, who wanted to start out in the world of achievement. He determined to be a lawyer, but to know better the business life of the city before he took his place at the bar he entered the employ of Thomas a hardware Arm, with, which he stayed about three years. Then he told his father that he was ready to be a lawyer, but at 20 he was not yet fit to take his place, according to his father, and so he was ordered to pack for Europe.

He often told the story. "I was to see all the wonders of the Old World," he used to say, "and I could hardly realize It. I thought maybe my father would change his mind and I went about each day in terror." GOES TO EUROPE. But the trip was made, and for eight months "Ferdie" and his father traveled all over Europe, delving into all of the corners, visiting all of the well-known places arid some of those where travelers did not often go. Before the trip was over ic had become saturated with, the Moisture "Proof Tackages (Never sold in bulk) NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY.