Crewe’s misfortune to draw number 415, in the extreme corner of the room, and next the steam radiator.  But he was not of the metal to accept tamely such a ticketing from the hat of destiny (via the Clerk of the House).  He complained, as any man of spirit would, and Mr. Utter, the polite clerk, is profoundly sorry,—­and says it maybe managed.  Curiously enough, the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher join Mr. Crewe in his complaint, and reiterate that it is an outrage that a man of such ability and deserving prominence should be among the submerged four hundred and seventy.  It is managed in a mysterious manner we don’t pretend to fathom, and behold Mr. Crewe in the front of the Forum, in the seats of the mighty, where he can easily be pointed out from the gallery at the head of the five hundred, between those shining leaders and parliamentarians, the Honourables Brush Bascom and Jake Botcher.

For Mr. Crewe has not come to the Legislature, like the country members in the rear, to acquire a smattering of parliamentary procedure by the day the Speaker is presented with a gold watch, at the end of the session.  Not he!  Not the practical business man, the member of boards, the chairman and president of societies.  He has studied the Rules of the House and parliamentary law, you may be sure.  Genius does not come unprepared, and is rarely caught napping.  After the Legislature adjourned that week the following telegram was sent over the wires:—­

Augustus P. Flint, New York.

Kindly use your influence with Doby to secure my committee
appointments.  Important as per my conversation with you.

Humphrey Crewe.

Nor was Mr. Crewe idle from Saturday to Monday night, when the committees were to be announced.  He sent to the State Tribune office for fifty copies of that valuable paper, which contained a two-column-and-a-half article on Mr. Crewe as a legislator and financier and citizen, with a summary of his bills and an argument as to how the State would benefit by their adoption; an accurate list of Mr. Crewe’s societies was inserted, and an account of his life’s history, and of those ancestors of his who had been born or lived within the State.  Indeed, the accuracy of this article as a whole did great credit to the editor of the State Tribune, who must have spent a tremendous amount of painstaking research upon it; and the article was so good that Mr. Crewe regretted (undoubtedly for the editor’s sake) that a request could not be appended to it such as is used upon marriage and funeral notices:  “New York, Boston, and Philadelphia papers please copy.”