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Theodore Roosevelt writes to Frances Kellor about politics. He does not understand why Herman A. Metz objected, but feels “each objects to whatever the other side does, good or bad.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-26
President Roosevelt has invited Herman A. Metz to the Conference on the Care of Dependent Children instead of Vicar General Mooney’s suggestion, Daniel C. Potter. Metz and Potter work in the same department, so Roosevelt hopes Mooney understands his decision to only invite Metz.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-12
President Roosevelt thanks Bishop Greer for the letter, and says that he has passed along Greer’s question to New York City Comptroller of Currency Herman A. Metz. Dr. Daniel C. Potter serves under Metz, so Roosevelt does not think it would be advisable to ask Potter as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-06
President Roosevelt has already invited a number of the men Thomas M. Mulry suggested to invite to the Conference on Dependent Children. Roosevelt has sent out invitations to Mulry’s other suggestions, with the exception of Daniel C. Potter and some members of Jewish charities. Roosevelt says he has invited others who are more connected to children’s work instead.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-07
Charles W. McMurran thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter on his son, Russell W. McMurran’s behalf. He included Roosevelt’s secretary’s instructions only to use it as described. Russell wants to make California his home, much like Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt and McMurran hopes Roosevelt will visit Russell when he is in San Francisco. He asks to meet with Roosevelt to discuss a business opportunity. In a side note, McMurran predicts that Tammany Hall will elect their men and the Democrats will control the New York Legislature.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-04
A bingo board-like, twelve-frame satire of real and fictitious important figures shows: 1. Dr. Albert Frederick Cook, “Inventor of the North Pole,” 2. Herman Metz, “Who Discovered Brooklyn,” 3. “Professor Gloom-Bayside,” 4. “Col. Dillpickle Champion Pinochle Player,” 5. “J. Sargeant Gram Public Service Com.,” 6. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, 7. “Major Joy,” 8. Theodore Roosevelt, wearing a pith helmet and identified as “Bwana Tombo-3rd Term Kid,” 9. “Bill Stam, Discoverer of Stamford,” 10. John Davison Rockefeller, labeled “Oily John, Inventor of the Soft Pedal,” 11. “Casey” of “Casey at the Bat,” and 12. “Col. Baum, Man Who Discovered Hair Restorer.”
This cartoon was drawn by Thomas E. Powers for the New York American and newspapers of the Hearst chain. The “Gloom” character is self-referential — Powers drew a popular series of cartoons for more than three decades called Joys and Glooms, where stick figures representing moods and reactions of readers and caricatured figures either pranced or sulked. Often they occupied corners of cartoons, a Greek Chorus of sorts.
Cameo portraits of “Clark, Saulsbury, Metz, Wells, Marshall, Gerard, Wilson, McAdoo, Sulzer, Bryan, Elkus, Hudspeth, Underwood, Harmon, [and] Daniels” form a cluster of comets in the night sky on election night, November 5, 1912. An elephant and a bull moose are frightened by the “celestial display.” Caption: A celestial display which may be seen to best advantage on the night of Tuesday, November 5. Elephants and Bull Moose should beware of comets and seek cyclone-cellars. Display will be especially dazzling at Oyster Bay, N.Y., and Beverly, Mass. Visible anywhere in the United States, however, shortly after sundown.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-23
George Wood Wingate, President of the Public School Athletic League, writes an open letter to boys across New York, urging them that, “You cannot expect success in life however well you may be educated, unless you have got a sound body.” Wingate recounts the successes of the league in holding hundreds of tournaments and games throughout the city. The articles were enclosed in a letter from Jacob Riis to Theodore Roosevelt, who supports the Public School Athletic League.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-01