Cabinet Coachmen Fear Intrusion of Automobile
—
ASHINGTON.—Half n dozen or more veteran coachmen in the cabinet
set viewed with no little trepidation Secretary of State Lansing's move
to have automobiles substituted in the legislative, executive and judicial
ppropriation bill for the traditional
torse-drawn carriages used by mem
bers of the president’s official family.
The secretary nsked for a $0,000 ma
chine. The house scaled the allowance
to $4,000.
j When he gets his motor cnr the
Secretary of state’s pair of sleek bays
iwlii be relegated to the depleted
(equine market. It may he expected
(that other cabinet officers will follow
he premier’s lead. The passing of
he cabinet carriages will be regretted
by many Washingtonians, who have taken a sort of pride In the prancing
Isteeds which transport the various secretaries On their official errands. Presi
dent Roosevelt was the first chief executive to discard the White House
^enms, when he purchased a limousine, now doing taxicab duty here.
Subsequently President Taft drove an unusual bargain with an exclusive
nutomobile concern, by which he obtained three big cars at an annual cost
rf only $500, with new cars furnished every year. The same agreement is
bttll in force, nnd the manufacturer, nlthough he is not allowed to advertise
ttiie fact that his cars are used at the White House, hus shown no inclination
to alter the contract.
Boulevards Along the Potomac River Are Advocated
I* BOULEVARD on both sides of the Potomac river from Washington to
A Great Falls. A bridge across the Potomac at Great Falls connecting
these boulevards. A boulevard from Washington South to Mt. Vernon, con
necting with the upper Potomac park
development.
These, In brief, were the sugges
tions made to the national park con
ference by A. B. Casselman, as the
next stage in the development of
Washington’s park system.
Mr. Casselman, an employee of
the interior department, has made a
prolonged study of the scenic beauties
of the Potomac, with a view to adapt
ing a park plan to make them acces
sible. Mr. Casselman pointed out the
propriety of connecting the Great Falls boulevard with Mt. Vernon because
iOoorge Washington was deeply Interested in Great Falls and helped dig the
canals there, the first in this country.
Below the Highway bridge, and north of Alexandria, he said, there lie
400 or 500 acres of shallow river which should be reclaimed.
Some of the portion of the original District of Columbia, ceded back to
Virginia in 1846, Mr. Casselman snld, should be restored to the national gov
ernment, because the government has Interests of great magnitude, especially
those in the power site at Great Falls, along both sides of the river.
He said that President Taft had recommended the acquisition by the
government of a portion of the Virginia tract, and that Ambassador Bryce
had said: “It is an ingratitude to providence if the country does not use the
great natural beauty of the upper Potomac.” “Nowhere in this country,” Mr.
Casselmuu said, “does such scenery exist within easy distance of a great city
as that this side of the falls."
He said that If the plan to have a great lake at Little Falls is carried
ut that makes the development of the land above Little Falls all the more
eel cable.
The beauty of Washington, he continued. Is no longer a matter of local,
ut of national, interest.
“It will not be many decades,” he predicted, “until Washington has a
illiou population, and then it will be too lnte to acquire the territory needed
'or thp Great Falls park plan.”
Aged Servants in Washington Are Awarded Prizes
HAVING lived in Washington for 64 years, and not having been downtown
in the last 40 years, is the strange record of Theresa Harper, elghty
jseven years old, as revealed at a meeting of the Federation of Women’s
)CIubs, when the prizes were awarded
In the domestic servants’ contest,
She was awarded a diploma and
first prize of $10 for having served the
piost number of years as a servant in
|one family. She is now in the house
mf George Clifford Boarman, and has
fc>eon in the Boarman family since she
(was a child.
Theresa was brought downtown In
Ian automobile to receive her prize,
land she said that it was the first time
(that she was south of M street in 40
Tears. She is well at her advanced age and said that she could still sew,
pake and cook in the same unequaled style that Is known only to her kind.
The daughter of an African priucess and a Nubian nobleman is the regal
lineage of which Regina Taylor boasted when she received the prize for hav
ing seen the longest service under one mistress. She has been a servant for
Mrs. J. H. Mucais for 52 years. Regina sang a song in Spanish. Robert
Alien received the prize for being the male servant who saw the longest
service under one master. He has been in the residence of William M. Galt
for 62 yeurs.
Miss Flora Briggs led the singing of “Carry Me Back to Ole Vlrginny.”
!As the old servants, many of whom were born slaves, Joined in the singing
tears streamed from their eyes.
When the Residents of the Capital Go Skating
WASHINGTON on Ice Is a very giddy Washington. It is not the Washing
ton of broad-brimmed senators, frock-coated representatives and tailor
made diplomats, but a grund, whirling, gliding Washington of youngsters from
eight years old to eighty. It Is a city
turned loose on Its very small parcel
of ice to enjoy In the pleasant, crisp
ulr all the carnival spirit that Jack
Frost will allow in this southern lati
tude. Only a few hours’ Journey to
the north will bring one to a re
gion where ice skating lasts for days
ut a time—often for weeks.
The pretty little lake out a Chevy
Chase has the reputation of freezing
first, with the water of the pelican
,pond in the zoo a close second.
When Washington goes out to skate the population of the city appears to
be made up of a tremendous number of very pretty girls. That is an inter
esting proposition to start off with. Wherever there Is Ice there is also Mabel
and Maud and Clarisse and all the rest, followed persistently by a large mob
of very sporty-lookiug and proficient youths who really think they have gone
out to skate—but who ore following the eternal feminine as blindly and as
slavishly as did their parents long before them.
There is always on view the brave young man who seems to be stuck
•with wall flowers at dances and upper berths on hot nights on trains, and
whose skating career seems to be limited to teaching two very heavy ladles
liow to do the simplest maneuvers on ice. With a heavy beauty on either
side of him, his whole afternoon Is spent In falling first on one and then on
the other, varied only when one or both of them fall on him.
The Chevy Chase and zoo ponds have what seems to be the same crowd
continuously through the few days of skating In Washington, but whenever
the basiu freezes over, then. Indeed, is the Washington skater »n the seventh
heaven of delight. And when the river Itself offers a safe .tourney to tho
skater who would go from the aqueduct to the Long bridge—well, all
Other skating ftdes Into Insignificance.
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NEWS AT A
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CONDENSATION OF WEEK HERE
TERSELY TOLD.
Strange and Interesting Happening*
That Are Taking Place Daily
In the Wide World.
FOREIGN.
The maximum Issue of notes by
the Bank of France has been raised
by the government decree to $4,200,
000,000.
Francisco Villa, the bandit leader,
has called a convention of his chiefs
to be held at San Andres to form a
civil government and select officials.
The pope has informed the nuncio
at Munich that he contemplates an
appeal to all neutral governments to
take joint action in favor of peace.
Representatives of the American
commission for relief in Belgium will
remain in Belgium and northern
France for the present.
Germany’s war costs to date have
reached the total of 60,000,000,000
marks ($15,000,000,000).
By order of the military commander
of Santiago, Cuba, the entrance of the
harbor has been mined.
Two large ammunition factories at
Them, East Prussia, and at Guleck
auf, near Hamburg, were destroyed by
explosions last week. Sixty-three per
sons were killed.
Sir Henry Norman was informed by
the home secretary that London
would follow the example of other cit
ies and issue licenses to women to
drive taxis.
Reconstruction work in East Prus
sia has made marked progress. It is
said 11,000 buildings out of 30,000 de
stroyed by the Russians have been
rebuilt.
The Chinese cabinet has endorsed
the American action against Germany
on the submarine campaign.
Public prayers will be offered for
the French armies throughout Lent
through the action of Cardinal Lucon,
archbishop of Reims, and Cardinal
Amette, archbishop of Paris.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The general dam bill—one of the
water power measures before con
gress—was killed for this session by
a hopeless disagreement of conferees.
Miss Dubose, the 17-year-old daugh
ter of the man who is entitled to the
position to which Dr. Cary T. Gray
son has been appointed, has secured
enough senatorial support to prevent
his immediate confirmation.
President Wilson has signed the act
establishing a national leprosarium to
provide for the care and treatment of
persons afflicted with leprosy.
necrologIcal.
Jacob C. Marsh, 9S>, said to be the
last survivor of the Seminole war, is
dead at Lincoln, Neb.
Judge John Gibbons, 69, for 24 years
a judge on the circuit bench in Chi
cago, is dead.
FIRES.
Fo’ir buildings containing 10,000 bar
rels of potatoes, valued at present
market prices at upward of $60,000,
were destroyed by fire at Maysvllle
Siding, Me.
LITERARY.
Thirty-seven thousand verses have
been submitted by the Japanese peo
ple in the annual poetic competition
under imperial auspices. This year
the subject is: “The Distant Snow
Clad Mountain.”
LABOR.
German authorities have suddenly
called to the colors all officials of
trade unions and Socialist organiza
tions. These officials have previous
ly been exempted from military serv
ice.
Tulsa is threatened with a strike of
the building trades as the result of an
organization effected by local contrac
tors, who in labor troubles hereafter
have decided to act as a unit.
ACCIDENTS.
Mrs. Teresa Walsh, 50, a patient ai
a St. Louis hospital, Jumped from a
fifth-story window of the institution.
She was dead when picked up.
Samuel Adams, manager of a shoe
factory in Lowell, who formerly lived
at Montgomery, Ala., killed himself by
leaping from the fourth floor of a
rooming house.
Engineer Charles M. George and
Fireman J. H. Marsee were Instantly
killed when an old type of Frisco en
gine exploded three miles out of
Thayer, Mo.
Blood poisoning from a scratch on’
the hand result in the death here of
Wilbur fl. Roberts, stockman of Au
rora, 111.
DOMESTIC.
Cone Johnson, solicitor of the state
department, has presented his resig
nation, to take effect March 1. He
will resume the practice of law.
Of $076,000,000 given to all benevo
lences in the United States in 191C
the largest single amount was $11,
000,000 which went to the pension
fund of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
Abraham Lincoln Goldschmidt. 21.
born at Fosen, in Prussia, has applied
for first papers at the federal natural
ization bureau, Manhattan.
Henry 1*. Fletcher, American ambas
sador to Mexico, spent one day In
conference with Gen. Funston and is
uc'V i.t his post.
Six hundred thousand boy scouts
throughout the country have been or
dered by the national council of their
organization to prepare for non-mili
tary service in the event of war.
All American citizens have been or
dered to leave Austria at the earliest
possible moment.
GENERAL.
Announcement was made at the Al
berta temperance convention here
that a dominion-wide prohibition cam
paign is to be begun immediately.
A severe epidemic of measles has
broken out in San Juan, 1,700 cases
having been reported. Several deaths
have occurred.
Mother’s flat iron is a wonderful
germ killer. The United States pub
lic health service reports germs may
live through the family washing, but
the flat iron wielder gets 'em.
German credit abroad has been
strengthened by about $7,000,000
through the purchase of German in
terests in the Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
E. J. Simon, a radio engineer, flew
from San Diego to Los Angeles and
sent radio messages from the airplane
a distance of 112 miles.
The coal shortage in Toronto con
tinues acute and the Univresity of To
ronto had to close owing to scarcity
of fuel.
The Philippine National Bank has
been designated as correspondent of
the Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Two of the attaches of the American
embassy at Vienna were married, the
brides being natives of Vienna.
President Wilson has restored to the
public domain 475,000 acres of Papago
Indian reservation in Arizona.
The United States navy has com
pleted arrangements for arming all
sea-going tugs at Galveston and other
gulf and Atlantic ports.
Early in June will be the first na
tional gathering of one-legged men in
Washington to organize the National
One-Legged Men's association.
CRIMINAL.
Sidney Zinn, 21, a newspaper man
of Toledo, Kan., was shot and killed
by Clyde Brown, a newspaper mailing
clerk. Brown found Zinn with his
wife.
Charles “Big John’’ Murphy was
hanged for having murdered Louis
and George Romas at Hillery, 111.,
Oct. 9, 1915, when he attempted to
rob the brothers in a bunk car.
George Holler, 45, a farmer of Pal
myra, Mo., was sentenced to 15 years
in the penitentiary on the charge of
attacking Lillian Reed, 7.
Police began searching for a woman
who, they believe, shot and killed C.
C. Harl, 30 years old, a Memphis real
estate broker.
Mrs. Ida Mae Innes, wife of Victor
Innes of Portland, Ore., was sen
tenced to three years for larceny in
connection with the disappearance
and supposed murder of Lois and Be
atrice Nelms.
John Dowis, a farmer living near
Sheridan, Mo., was arrested following
his indictment on a charge of having
poisoned his mother, Mrs. Isaac
Dowis.
Louis Kamerad, suspected of the
murder of little Alice Parkos at Ord,
Neb., confessed bis guilt, after severe
questioning on the part of officers.
Gov. Lowden is considering the ap
plication for a reprieve of Vincenzo
Martellaro, the Joliet murderer sen
tenced to hang Peb. 16.
PERSONAL.
Blind, 8G years old and weighing
300 pounds, former Police Inspector
Henry Steers of New York risked
death going back through his burning
house to rescue his bravery medals.
Representative Thomas G. Patten,
who represents the district including
New York county, was nominated by
President Wilson as postmaster of
New York City.
“Billy’* Sunday is coming to Chi
cago Sept. 20 to purge the “wickedest
city in America” of its sins.
The engagement of Gen. John J.
Pershing, commander of the Ameri
can forces recently withdrawn from
Mexico, to a New York widow will be
announced early in March.
Speaker Champ Clark of the house
of representatives Joined the ranks of
grandfathers with the arrival of
Champ Clark Thompson, son of James
M. Thompson. Mrs. Thompson was
Genevieve Clark.
Ignacio Bonillas has been designat
ed by Gen. Carranza to be Mexican
ambassador to the United States.
MISCELLANEOUS.
By a vote of 19 to 17 the Ohio sen
ate passed the Reynolds house presi
dential suffrage bill. It goes to Gov.
Cox, who will sign iL
Fire broke out in the Holland Amer
ican liner Noordam at New York and
entrapped six men in the ccal bunk
ers. One man was killed.
Although a reward of $20,000 Is of
fered by the German government for
his capture, Capt. William Miller,
steamer Clan Robertson, left New
York to take a general cargo to Eng
land.
A plot to blow up the Massachu
setts statehouse was reported to the
authorities. They refuse to disclose
the identity of their informant.
According to the German papers,
letters for delivery to foreign coun
tries by submarines will not be &»
tepted at present
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The chief enemies of plants in heavy
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For genuine comfort, and lasting pleas
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