Something About the New Secretary of the Navy
(Copyright, 19 by S. S. McClure Co.)
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Thus William Henry Moody.
who is to become secretary of the nnvy on
May 1, defines his new position and tacitly
expresses his policy. His experience as a
mt'Dibi r of congress ha3 Inspired this re
spect for the legislative branch of the
government and his selection to be a mem
ber of President Roobi velt's cabinet ha
not turned his head or lowered his esti
mation of the body from which he retires.
Sitting in his modest parlor the other
morning, with his feet thrust Into a pair
of very rusty house slippers, with a short
sack coat closely buttoned about him and
the aiipearar.ee of one who had Just left his
breakfast table and morning mail, Mr.
Moody chatted most agreeably and pleas
antly about hie selection as the head of
the Navy department and of the Interesting
events that have studded an unusually
active life.
Almrst his first observation touched on
a question that Is always uppermost In the
Washinvtin mind. "I am not going to be
a social lender or attempt any extravagant
entertaining." he said. This was In answer
to the ucual inquiry as to what sort of n
social swath the new secretary of the navy
proposed to cut In the capital city. "I'n
less you newspaper men lean me the money
I will be too poor to live any other than
the quiet and modest life to which I have
been accustomed since coming to Wash
ington." There are people In Washington who
think the president ought to be gov
erned by social considerations in the
select Id. of his official family. There
are officers and friends of the navy who
believe that the secretary should be a
man of wealth and make his department
popular with socially Inclined statesmen
at Washington. When this Idea was sug
gested to President Roosevelt at the time
he was seeking a successor to Secretary
Long he became Indignant and In as force
ful language ae he can command declared
that he was not hunting a society leader,
but a man who could conduct the Navy
department successfully, who
a safe course through all the shoals and
treacherous channels of bickerings and
jealousies that unfortunately have attached
themselves to that service. "And I think
I have found the man," ho exclaimed, "In
Congressman Moody of Massachusetts."
When the office of secretary of the navy
was created in 1798 President Adams
KKSI DENCE Oh' SECRETARY MOODY,
HIM,. Mass.
imagine any one looking down on him." In
the Moody i staKishnient there was neither
poverty nor riches an 1 the education which
young William received at the Phillips
Andover academy and Harvard university
was the fortune with which he started to
win success ill the world.
Mmllcil l.uw nllli Itlclmril II. Dim ii.
SAI.TONSTALL HO AD, IIAVKIi-
wlure he shook han.li
and congratulated linn
Mr. Mocdy always speaks with great af
fection of his law tutor, the late Richard
II. Dana, whose "Two Years Before (he
Mast" may have had something to do with
the young lawyer's interest in naval af
fairs. "I always believed in coming in
contact with genius," says Mr. Moody in
Ms reminiscences of the effect his associa
tions with men like Mr. Dana have had in
shaping his own course. It was with a
good deal of satisfaction that Mr. Moody
passed an examination for admission to
the bar of Huston under Mr. Dana's tu
telage without having studied the nre-
could steer gt.ribed length of time. "Much as we de
sire to exclude you," said the chairman of
the examining board, in a humorous way
complimenting the young man on bis abil
ity, "we are compelled to admit you."
Mr. Moody had the same experience as
most young lawyers, and for the first few
inoiahs, as he expresses it, scarcely
earned his salt. "I remember distinctly
turned to Massachusetts for a man to place niat my first year's compensation amounted
at Its head. He selected George Cabot, a to the magnificent sum of $18.V lie said, in
statesman and a man of wide experience recounting the uphill work that faced him
In naval affairs. George Cabot came from n the opening of his legal career. Two
Salem, a town In the district which has
been represented several years In congress
by Mr. Moody, who now, 104 years later,
accepts the portfolio which was offered
to the great grandfather of Sena
tor Henry Cabot Lodge. It seems
natural for the president to turn to
MusarrhiiKetts and especially to this sec-
or three years put him on his feet, how
ever, and the earnings of his profession
have been Inert using ever since.
That Mr. Moody is a man to attract at
tention by his manner and ability was early
attested. As far back as 1S"'., after hi;
had been practicing only two or three
years, he made his first argument In tb"
down to the bar,
will Mr. Mi.ody
on his argument.
In the first session of the Fifty - fourt a
congress two ttockily built young nu n hap
pi i"il to draw seats next to cm h i.thcr.
As they sat down at tin ir desks arrang
ing papi rs, etc., one of them, a smoolii
f.iced Hum with stiff, light hair, brushe.:
back from his forehead, turned to the other
and said:
"Haven't I seen you somewhere?"
"Really, 1 don't know," replied his neigh
bor. "It is possible we have met some
where." "Oh, 1 know you. You were counsel for
the commonwealth in the Lizzie Lturdeu
trial at Fall Klver, and your name U
Moody. My name is Quigg, and 1 reported
that trial for the New York Tribune."
The two men shook hands, and Lemuel K.
Quigg of New York and William Henry
Moody of Massachusetts started on their
congressional careers together. Mr. Qulgg's
congressional experience was Untiled to
two terms, while Mr. Moody kept on until
now he is transferred to another branch
of the government service.
The Burden trial marked one of the dis
tinct triumphs in Mr. Moody's career. At
the time he was district attorney for the
eastern district of Massachusetts and was
brought into the case at the solicitation of
Attorney General Knowlton, who desired
his assistance. Mr. Moody's conduct In the
prosecution was so able as to command
national attention. Few trials of recent
years have attracted so much attention and
seldom have the details of examination
been published so mluutely.
tlon of the Ray state, for cabinet advisers, supreme court or tne state or .Massacnuseus.
as that ccmmonwealth has furnished more Associate Justice Gray of the supreme
cabinet ministers than almost any other tourt of the I'nlted Stales was (hen chief
state in (he union. The out r-ssex aisim-i. justice ui me iMussuciuiseiia bupm-uib tuun
as it Is known, has been the home of many
nlstlneuished men. and Mr. Moody, the
latest cabinet officer to come from that sec
tion, is not overshadowed by any of his
predecessors.
Who the Sew Seerelary Is.
Horn within sound of the surf on the
north coast of Massachusetts, Mr. Moody
has a natural love for the sea and matters
connected with it. In his native town of
but a few miles from the
Gloucester coast, and, as a boy, spent many
happy hours fishing, bathing and boating
in the salt water. He comes of a long line
of New England farmers and seafaring men.
According to the custom of New England
families the sons of the household are put
In various avocations and professions, so
that each generation furnishes worthy
members of the standard occupations of
"that region. One son might remain at home
on the farm, another be sent to sea, an
other enter business and perhaps the fourth
take his heritage In the best education af
forded in New England colleges and uni
versities. The Moody family was no excep
tion to the rule and from the time the first
of the name. William Moody, came from
Ipswich, England, to Newbury, Mass., In
1634, members of the family have cultivated
the land and plowed the sea. Mr. Moody,
the new secretary of the navy. Is the ninth
In descent from the English Puritan who
came to Massachusetts shores 2fi8 years
ago. His father, Henry Moody, now long
past the four-score-year mark and lovingly
cared for by the son In the latter's home In
Haverhill, Inherited a farm from his father,
and, amid the ordinary surroundings of a
New England farmstead, the new head of
th navy began life. Following the
New England custom, Mr. Moody's parents
decided to give him his portion of the es
tate In a liberal, sound education. "I was
not extremely foud of farm work, although
outdoor exercise has been to me always
life's elixir." Bald Mr. Moody, "and I will
ingly accepted the parental distribution of
favors In the way of an education."
Mr. Moody came of the same class of peo
ple as President McKlnley, and of him can
be sab), as Secretary Hay, the orator of the
McKlnley memorial exerclsi In congress,
said of the dead president: "He never
looked down on any one, nor could he
He was never noted for suavity of man
ners in the court room, and most young
attorneys appeared before him with fear
.ind trembling. Young Moody went in
with the assurance of havln the best of
the argument on his side, anu his first ef
fort before that high court was In the
elucidation of a vi ry fine point of law.
Chief Justice Gray listened attentively, and,
when the young man had concluded, star
tled his colleagues and the whole court
room by leaving his seat and passing
I : tile red the In
"There is a man who will make a name
tor himself in congress," was the remark
if Senator David It. Hill of New York when
Mr. Moody entered the house in 1895. "I
read every line of the Iliirdeu trial," said
Mr. Hill, ' and 1 was impressed with the
high grad ability showu in Mr. Moody's
conduct ef that ease. He is an extru
i rdinary man and the country will hear
from him " This tribute to a staunch
republican from an equally determined and the evidenee
Coggswell. "Those are the kind of people
wo grow up in Massachusetts," was Mr.
Lodge's retort.
General Coggswell had been re-elected to
the Fifty-fourth congress, but died several
months before It met. There was a universal-demand
in the district for the
nomination of Mr. Moody. Every news
paper, representing both patios, in his
d strict, suggested him as the man most
likely to do credit to that const ii in ncy and
to the state. He was nominated without
opposition, and In discussing In political
experience Mr. Moody dedans wnh nunc
satisfaction that he was n niiiuie.l an I
elected four times without the e,i -n.il lire
of one dollar on bis part. He made Ins mod
est contributions each year to I In- -auipaign
funds, but never spent a penny hi Ins own
personal campaign.
"My elect ion to congress froai I lie old
Essex d. strict was a high lienor and 1 re
gard it as such, it is a great satisfaction
to have the endorsement of 'r home
people and to know that those wnh whom
ou have associated from youth and who
have known you from birth repose so much
eoiitidence in you." Mr. Moody might havi
added that he never goes back to Ins home
town of Newbury without receiving a royal
welcome and listening to expressions of
pride from his old neighbors at his sue. ess
The district which he has represented in
congress Is a notable one and its pral-es
have been sung by many statesmen Sena
tor Hoar, wluse pride ill Mas-a. Imsd i s
and love of its people and hlstoiy prompt
him on all occasions to sound Its praises,
thus referred to this district in pr. noimeing
a eulogy on the life ami iharacter of
General Coggswell: "Essex, where Wln-
throp landed, where Endlcotl dwell, where
Putnam was born, where Whittier sang,
win re Dane and Cutler planned the great
ordinance ef ITsT. which stands, with the
Declaration ami the Const it ut ion, as one
if three great title deeds of American
liberty, and where sailors put to sen for
the great sea lights of the war of 1S12."
Moody la lleil-llenili'il.
"You ought to go over and hear that red
headed chap from Masai bust I Is." was the
word brought to the senate pr ss gallery
one day in the first session of the Fifty
fourth congress. The suggestion ; acted
upon, and the interested corrivpuii li nU
were soon listening to a new orator, a new
debater, a new statesman. U was Mr.
Moody of Massachusetts, who had caught
(he ear of the houi-e and was holding the
attention of republicans and democrats, on
ono of the dryest subjects of legislation a
report on a contested eleetion ease. As Is
iiiiiial with a new member, Mr. Moody hud
not received any very prominent committee
i:ssigimients, but was put down at the bot
tom of the list of republican member in
elections committee No. 1. His llrst work
was to oppose the policy of unseating mem
bers for purely partisan reasons, and he
reported ugaiiwt his republican colleague In
a celebrated Illinois case, where he con
tended the evidence; before the committees
showed the democrat to be enlilled to hl-t
seat. It wan on this question (bat he was
arousing the house when someone discov
ered in the "red-headed man from Massa
chusetts" a new legislative force. Ho ad
vocated a recount i.f the votes In tne case
and carried his proposition througn th
house. His pofi.ii u that the republican
contestant was not infilled to the seat on
then produced was fully justl-
swords with some of tin old party leaders
and declare his independence and love of
justice his position was assured. The next
congress he was appointed on the appropri
ations loiuinluee, and "Uncle Joe" Cannon,
chairman of tin appropriations committee,
looks upon hint ns a son. Together these
two gritty, vainly Inured slatiyuncn have
pot through reforms and fought abuses un
til their power ill the house Is assured.
tUiiiil) i. ml llu e w in lie r Men.
ltefore Mr. Moody decided to enter the
profession of law he had a great fancy
for Journalism. While et a student at
Harvard univer.-ity he debated in his own
tn I ml whether ir not to take up the pen
as his weapon of conquest and iiiiplemeiil
of livelihood. He finally decided In favor
of the law, but his keelilii ss of observation
and faculty for seeing nowji and the fea
tures of "a goeil story" In every evi nt wild
which he Is ciinieelid causes great I egret
that he has not given 'lie public the belli II'
of these rare Journalistic qualities. He
lia.s a mighty respect U V I lie press, and
last leugiess. while lighting valiantly for
the Loud bill, ngiilating second elas mall
matter, someone asked linn If the pnqiot-od
law would alTict the legitimate .irciilatioii
of newspapers. He declared that it would
not, us the gentlemen of the press would
not permit it, and then paid tins tribute to
new spa pi r mi n :
"Those gi nil nun silting above the
.speaker's ihiiir. and those whom Ihey i epre
Milt, wield more power than we who s ii
In low It. They cany along part lis to vic
tory or defeat. They make and unmake
statesmen,
opinion."
Vr. Miiiuly
Tiny mold and create public
mill Hie I'ri'nlili-nl.
If President Roosevelt had been
a double for himself in personal
iniee, tastes and temperament In
not have i ume more closely in 111
I hall In I he selection of Mr. Mm
staunch democrat was praise of (he bigbes
character.
"liodge, that young man of yours from
Mi Rsachiisclts. Moody, is all right." This
was Speaker Thomas II. Reed's comment on
the young congressman who succeeded the
lied by an examination of (he ballots, mil
fortunately fi r (h. c nteslant a m stike
was discovered in a pn ciuci which hail l.oi
been before questioned and he was declared
elected by a majority of 3 votes.
This was Moody's Introduction In (he
well known and distinguished Generalhouse, and from the day he dared to enms
seeking
appeal
could
I nil l k
ly. The
new s.cietnry nf the navy Is p 'rliaps two
Inches shorter ill stature than the presi
dent, but he is built on the same stocky
plan, with well knit form, clear, llorid
complexion, good eye and eliergelle gall,
eviil. in ing a healthy phy que and body,
under perfect eoniril and raining. "1 am
as fond of outdoor excreisi as the presi
dent," Mr. Moody nays, "and I pro
pose to continue my present habits. 1 am
intensely fond of any form of outdoor exer
cise, but prefer that of walking. 1 walk
to the cap. tol every day, and at lea-t once
a week enjoy a twelve or lirteeli-tnlle tramp
in I he lounlry. No, 1 have never accom
panied President Roosevelt on olio of Ills
walks, ami I do not boast of my horse
manship, nlllioiigli I do ride horseback and
onjry the exercl.se. I am fond of bicycle
ri ling and am an enl biislnst mi base ball,
love fool ball, but have not yet bad lime
to play golf. There you have my ac
complishments In the Ht f athletics. I
i an not express too highly my belief In
and enjoyment of outdoor sports and ex
ercise." Mr. Moody's acquaintance w it h Hie presi
dent Is of many years' standing, but the
two men never "got real close" until Mr
Roosevelt came to Washington as assistant
secretary of the navy. At a dinner given
in Washington by the Harvard alumni In
January. 1 s-.is. Mr. Moody was seated be
tween Mr. Roosevelt and Dr. Ionard
Wood, th- latter at thai time being sta
tioned ill Washington and acting as Presi
dent McKinley's medical adviser. Tlu
three men became chummy and their
talk was principally on the war cloud then
gathering. After the dinner Mr. Roosevelt
went home with Mr. Moody and the late
Representative Slmpkins of Massachusetts,
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YOUNGER MEMHERS OF HASTINGS' SOCIAL SET A3 THEY WERE COSTUMED FOR A RECENT FANCY DRESS PARTY.