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Hall
of
Fame
However, coming down through the ages, as it were–
that is to say, from 1897 to the early days of the war–
Iet us follow Time's spotlight as it focused here or there.
The Congressmen who used to find the way to it when
they came over to New York were almost too numerous
to mention. Here are just a few senators-some seen
rarely, some often in the crowd, and most of them dating
years back. For example: Edward 0. Wolcott, of Colo–
rado, known to be a good patron of Canfield's exclusive
gambling establishment in Forty-fourth Street; the aris–
tocratic George Peabody Wetmore, of Rhode Island; the
astute John Coit Spooner, of
Wisconsin~
one of the ablest
of conservative republican leaders, and recognized as one
of the spokesmen for both the McKinley and Roosevelt
administrations; Joseph Roswell Hawley, ofConnecticut,
Ciyil War veteran, editor and member, in turn, of the
House of Representatives and of the Senate almost con–
tinuously for more than thirty-five years. Senator Haw–
ley should be canonized by authors as one of the original
advocates of International Copyright.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, who, as republican
boss of Pennsylvania, ruled politics in that State with an
iron hand, in contrast with the method ·of Senator "Tom"
Platt, the "Easy Boss" of New York State, dropped in
at rare intervals, in the early days. His long-time lieu–
tenant and the inheritor of his power, Senator Boise A.
Penrose, was a far better patron of the Bar. He was a
frequent visitor to the Waldorf. Often he preferred to
drink in isolation. He was what was called in those days
a "Ione drinker," needing no other company than a bottle
and a glass and his own thoughts. This same exclusive-
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