The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-27
washington letter.
ttrom cur regular correspondent
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once more on hand with their pretty inian-
try, children brown with the tan of sea
and mountains. There is however one
notable wanoerer who does noteome back,
and he is President Harrison. That he
makes a mistake in junketing around the
country and carrying the capital in his
| coat tail pocket, his enemies insist. The
talk of his cumming at Deer Park with
Steve Elklns, Davis and Camden and of
| WINDOWS influence will not soon die out.
| President Harrison might have selected
better summering point than Deer Park,
| the summer home of the most notorious
political brigade in the country, trium-
yirate that represents Wall street in its
most vicious aspect.
This intimacy has been of the closest
character Even the children are tangled
up in it. The daily paper inform us that
young Blaine Elkins gives swell party
| at which Baby Mckee is the honored
guest, and these august infants pledge each
other eternal friendship. And this pre-
cious scion of the Elkins tribe undoubted
| ly adroitly swells the head of the young
Mckee while more experienced Elkns
swells the skull of the Baby's grandfather
on the front porch. The President might
do worse than come home and take up the
burden of state again. 1t is not too warm
! to sleep in the White House now and the
cold nights have killed the mosquitoes.
l. h,, ri, l.
better opportunity to consult with the
leaders as to successor to Corporal Tan
ner as Commissioner of Pens ions. He did
feel it necessary to come here to secure
the Corporal's resignation, but allowed his
haste to get the better of him in supposng
that Ex-Representative Warner would
jump at the appointment. 1t is most like
ly that General Warner will not accept
The office at all, although the President
sticks to the idea of his acceptance with
all the tenacity OF a man who has once
solved problem to his own satisfaction
| and cannot get the result verified.
Geo. S. Merrill, of Massachusetts,, would
doubtless be willing to accept the position,
but in stating in an interview for publica-
ton that man must be selected for the po-
sition who is mot committed to service
| pensions he killed his chances, unless he
| can explain the language satisfactorily.
| Any one who wants to bea Commissioner of
| Pensions should avoid a newspaper reporter
as he would the plague, for the admins
| I1&a he
pension policy and may not until well
along in the next Congressional session.
| In the meantime, silence is insisted upon
We have the notable example of Mr..
Hiram Smith, Deputy Commissioner of
Pensions. No sooner was Corporal Tan
ner bounced and the charge of the Bureau
given him pending the appointment of a
successor than the Deputy Smith swelled
up with Importance. He at once, under a
mistaken notion that the administration
would be pleased with a general reversal
of all of Mr.. Tanners plans, rescinded
several orders that had been promulgated
by the Corporal. On last Wednesday Sec
rotary Noble sat upon Smith with a dull,
sickening thud and he has not been heard
to utter a sound since. His indiscretion,
together with the fact that he had his own
pension re.rated during the wholesale grab
by the Pension office clique of clerks, will
doubtless cause his removal. In the ten.
der and expressive language of the street
Mr.. Smith has been ''too fresh" The
| rtn tlatp laa dor
through the gap in the fence are not sucl
fools as they look. If Corporal Tanner
had waited to see what his leader intended
to do he would be in the Pension Office
yet, and if Dir. Smith had not bindly
started in for himself he would not be Sc
chop-fallen this evening.
Frank G.. Carpenter, the we'll known
newspaper correspondent, has returned
from his trip round the world and settled
down to the seasons grind. Mr.. Carpen
ter left in September last for Japan ant
went thereon to all the oriental countries
He had with him a photograph outfit, ;
type writer and his wife to operate thu
? typewriter. The amount of work he sup.
piled to syndicate during the trip ant
the amount he brings back are tremend
GUS I firmly believe that Mr.. Carpente
would contract to write a history Of thu
moon in thirty days. He would doubtless
draw on his Imagination for his facts but
tho supply of copy" would be incxhaust
lille.
All preparations for the conclaye o
Knights Templar are being carried on OF
the most extensive scale. The final arrange
ments are being perfected and all will b
in readiness in good time. Additional
notifications from commanders that hay
not heretofore sgnified their desire to b
present at the conclave are being receive,
daily, but no fear of exhausting the &C
commodations of the city is feared by tn
committee of arrangements.
WESTON
The new directory Of Johnstown ha
just been published by c. B. Clarke, o
| Altoona The number of drowned is pu
at thirty five hundred and is considered
close estimate, it being impossible TO oh
tain the exact figures One Of the thing
, noted is that of the 95 saloons and liquo
n