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...Chauncey Depew," intoned a clerk in a Brooklyn police court last week. The furtive-eyed perspiring group of profaners of public morals, committers of malicious mischiefs, waiting there for their cases to be called, gaped, nudged one another, bent forward excitedly to hear charges read. Chauncey Depew, it was alleged, had made indecent advances to one Mrs. Louise Kracher, had addressed her in profane language. The malodorous crowd leered knowingly at the culprit-a bald, skinny little man with glasses...
...World. For the 34th successive time, Chauncey M. Depew celebrated his birthday at the Montauk Club, Brooklyn. Said he: "I have come to the conclusion, after a long experience and many large observations with mature judgment, properly based, and properly buttressed, that the only sure guides to success are character, health and happiness...
...problem of this second group was treated, last week, by the classic nonagenarian of the U. S., in almost classic, although not scientific, language. Chauncey M. Depew, approaching his 91st birthday (Apr. 23) wrote for Collier's Weekly...
Then Mr. Root arose: "It was 57 years ago that I joined the Union League Club. Of the men who joined in that year, only three are now alive: George F. Baker, Chauncey M. Depew and myself. . . . Mr. Baker travels on golden clouds and Mr. Depew has given up counting his years by ordinary measures of time, using light-years instead...