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FRECKLES McGRAW.
A YOUNG STATESMAN'S MEMORABLE SERVICE TO THE CAUSE OF REFORM.
BY SUSAN KEATING GLASPELL.
I.
MANY visitors to the State-House made the grave mistake of looking upon the Governor as the most important personage in the building. They would walk up and down the corridors, hoping for a glimpse of some of the leading officials, when all the while Freckles McGraw, the real character of the Capitol, and by all odds the most important person in it, was easily accessible, and affably inclined toward conversation.
Freckles McGraw was the elevator boy. In the official register his name had gone down as William, but that was a mere concession to the constituents to whom the official register was sent out. In the newspapers—and he appeared with frequency in the newspapers—he was always "Freckles," and every one from the Governor down gave him that title, the appropriateness of which was stamped a thousand-fold upon his shrewd, jolly Irish face.
Like every one else on the State payroll. Freckles was keyed to concert pitch during this first week of the new session. It was a reform Legislature, and so imbued was it with the idea of reforming that there was grave danger of its f
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