The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-01-02

request for contributions Of provisions was so
generously responded to that IL took several
| heavily -loaded teams to distribute the articles
| which had been sent TO Grand Army Hall, aud
! ut least 100 people were furnised a suhstaH.
| tial Christmas dinner. President Harrison was
generous contributor to the committee, as
were most of the Cabinet officers. This way of
| giving comrades dinner which they cannot
afford TO purchase for themselves will probably
DO continued each year.
THE PRESIDENT GOES HUNTING.
On Thursday President Harrison, accompa-
nicd by Mr.. Bateman. Senators Edmunds and
lawley, Justice Gray, of the Supreme Court
and J. w. Thompson, the Washington banker,
started down the Potomac in Mr.. Bateman's
| yacht duck shooting. The party had plenty Of
sport, and brought home goodly number of
/ canvashacks and rcdheads and had good
| time generally, rs the Lower Potomac and its
| tributaries at this season of the year abound
with all kinds OF water fowl. The party re-
! turned Saturday evening.
| DEATH OF MRS. GEN. GEORGE II, THOMAS.
| Mrs. Frances Lucretia Thomas, the widow OF
| the late Gen. George II. Thomas the celebrated
commander of the Army of the Cumberland,
! died mt her late residence No. 1919 | street
northwest Washington. on tho evening Of
Thursday. Dec. 26 Mrs. Thomas has been
making Washington her home for the past six
years, and owned the residence in which she
| died. During the entire period of her resi-
dence in Washington Mrs. Thomas has been
more or less OF an invalid but none OF her
maadies seemed of really serious character,
so that upon the announcement of her death
| from cerebral hemOrrhHgo her many friends
were greatly shocked. Up 10 the hour of re-
! tlring on Wednesday evening there was moth
| ing TO cause uncasiness to the family, and the
wife of tho hero of the Army of the Cumber-
| land, +" the Rock of Chickamauea," passed away
rs quietly rs did her soldier husband 10 years
ago.
Mrs. Thomas was the daughter of the late
Warren Kellogg and was a native Of Troy, N.
Y, where she was married TO Gen. Thomas.
The funeral took place at 230 o'clock Saturday
afternoon from The family residences, and was
largely attended by Army and Navy people.
Aiterward the remains were conveyed 10 Troy,
where they were inferred by the side Of those
of her husband, who although a Virgnian
by BIRTH selected the beautiful cemetery of
that city for his last resting place. Mrs.
/ Thomas never had any children. and the only
relatives she has residing in Washington are
her sister Mrs. Kellogg, aud her son, Capt. ).
{. Kellogg, 18th L. S, Cav, but there u num-
Ter of connections living in New York aud
New Jersey.
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE RULES
President Harrison has amended the Civil
Service rules so rs TO provide for filling vacan-
cies in the Railway Mail Service hy certifying
for each vacancy the names OF the three persons
having the highest standing on examinations
resident in the Counties on the line of road ON
which service is 10 bc rendered The former
practice was 10 invariably certify the three
persons standing highest ia the entire State In
which the vacancy occurred. The amendment
also provides that in the case Of public and
pressing exisenCy, demanding the immediate
q.
be detailed from any division Of the service Tor
period not exceeding 80 days.
SEW DEPARTURE
A colored evangelist who holds forth Mt the
fountain at Seventh street aud Pennsylvania
avenue, IN Washington. has given a new idea
regarding the creation Of woman. In his TO.
marks on Sunday last he said that Adam was
Ewes mother Some one ia bis audience do
sired an explanation Of his meaning His re-
ply WIS that, according To the Scriptures Eve
was created from "A rib in ADAM side. There.
fore, Eve came from Adam, aud Adam was
Ewes mother. To the Go5sipeF this was q new
departure and lao gives IL 10 the religious read
ers OF TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for what IL is
worth
George w. Bousman Co. II, s7th Ind. and
Co. ID. 9Th u. $. Cav, stafford, Kan. ComFasie
Bousnan is in the real estate business.
NAVY YARD AT BOSTON.
There is movement on foot to cause the
restoration 10 il former Importance aud useful
ness Of the Navy Yard Mt Boston, or rather
Charleston, Mass. Certainly the abandonment
of that naval station with its lne dock large
solid buildings and excellent plant was a great
mistake-Ru error OF wisdom and judgment IL
is remarkable that Norfolk and not Boston Is
prominent in the construction aud equipment
OF our new Navy No une could walk through
the massive granite buildings. the long. large,
stone dry-dock, the huge shiphouses aud over
the splendid streets and wharves, noting the ex-
ten5ive water front. the strong modern ma
chinery particularly in the Engineer depart.
inent--and not help wondering that new dry
docks should have been constructed at Norfolk
aud those ut Boston be left unused
When ~ Is remembered that there II more
water at the Navy Yard docks mt the Boston
yard than at New York, and that Boston has so
many expert mechanics and iaboreis. with n
great number Of general and special facilities
for iron, wood and steel workings the useful.
ness and Importance Of tho station become
doubly evident. .
1t is 70 be hoped, for the good Of tho Navy,
that the next Congress will appropriate n liberal
sum OF money 10 properly put the Boston yard
among tho great construction yards And
then, what's the matter with the yard at Ports.
mouth, \. IT,, or kittery, Me2 However. until
the Massachusetts,, New Hampshire aud Maine
Senator'S and Representatives in Congress wake
up and Cook after the interests Of their own
States with nj least - per cent. Of the vim
shown by the Virginia delegation nothing diff.
fercnt need be expected