William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, prohibition fanatic: "Before sailing from Manhattan for Europe, I told newspapermen that in a six-months' tour of America I had seen only four intoxicated people. Said I: 'These United States are a Sunday School compared to what they used to be. This talk about gin and petting parties is, for the lack of a better word, bunk I'" Alphonso XIII of Spain: "John D. Rockefeller and I were elected foreign associate members of the French Academy of Arts--I to replace the late Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish painter; Mr. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Shannon, of London. It was said that Mr. Rockefeller's election was prompted by the fact that he had donated 18,000,000 francs ($900,000) to various French causes." Tyrus R. Cobb, Manager of the Detroit American League Baseball Club: "In a newspaper interview at Toronto, I repeated that next year I shall not play regularly with my team, advocated baseball as a British national sport. Said I: 'If I had my time over again, I would probably be a surgeon instead of a baseball player. ... I shall not have done any real good to humanity when I retire. I suppose everybody will have forgotten me in a few years' time!'"

Robert M. LaFollette: "I was reported to be 'paralyzing Washington' by wearing a hat with a straw crown, felt brim. Said a Chicago colyumist: 'Since Bob made an animal all his own out of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant, he's simply running wild. He'll be eating ice-cream on his ham and eggs next!'"

Rex Beach, novelist: "I accepted the Honorary Chairmanship of the Alumni Committee on Athletics of my alma mater, Rollins College, at Winter Park, Fla. Rollins alumni of the early '90s remember me as an outstanding Rollins athlete, as Captain of the Rollins baseball team in 1896, my senior year."