The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-25
Army Officers All
Want To Go To
China.
THE CABINET IS
A WAR COUNCIL
Gen. Miles Would Like Active
Service Abroad---Visit of
Prominent People.
Especial Correspondence.l

WASHINGTON, August S-The flow
er of glory can only be plucked In the
field of danger. That is why army off,
GERS and their friends are thronging
the corridors of the war department,
pulling every wire in sight to get as
signed to duty with our troops in Chi
ma. The army officers expect it to be
big war, and believe, in the language
OF Admiral Schley, that there will be
glory enough for all who are on the
ground. The glory hunters are by no
means confined to the youngish officers.
They all seem to want to go. Lielten-
ant General Miles, commander of the
army, would himself like to get service
in China, and even General Leonard
Wood, military governor OF Cuba, who
is over here to talk about Cuban mat
ters with Secretary Root, has taken the
Chinese glory fever and Will go If he
can get the consent of the President
and Secretary Root to go there, but
that is not likely. Gen. Wood is want
ed right where he is Some Of the old
retired chaps have been scenting glory,
too. Gen. Q. .. Howard stopped while
on his way to the Blue and Grey re-
union at Atlanta to assure Secretary
1
| department if he could be of any SER
vice in connection with the trouble in
| China.
| Mrs. Mckinley did not accompany the
President on his flying trip to Wash
ington, but remained in Canton and
awaits his early return there. Mean
while the cabinet room in the White
House is again war council chamber.
Whatever may be the opinion else
where it is a sure bid for public atten-
tion in Washington for man to decline
a prominent office. Therefore, when it
was announced that Curtis Guild of
Boston had declined the position of
first assistant postmaster general,
which Perry Heath is about to give up
and take an active hand in the game
of politics, which is only one grade be-
low a member of the cabinet, every
body was trying to find out something
about Mr.. Guild. But they didn't find
out very much. He is an active news
paper man with large business inter-
ests, which he declined to jeopardize by
Iaccepting office, although he did not
hesitate to let his business take its
chances when he thought the country
! needed his services to fight; he wore q
uniform during the war with Spain
. Mr.. Guild is not yet forty, but he Is
, recognized and spoken of by such mer
, as Secretary Long and Senator Lodge
as one of the solid men of his state.
John T. Spear of Denver, who is nov
in Denver, believes that every maj
should help advertise his state when h
, ! is away from home. Here is a portion
L ,f hi rrl n
' coming more and more to be the healtl
resort of the nation. The high altitud
a makes residence there very beneficial
in cases of lung trouble. When / lef
home on July there We're many place
in the state where the snow had no
vet melted. The combination OF warr
sun and unmelted snow gives peculia
I balminess to the air that 1 have fel
. in no other section of the country; bu
a peculiar thing about this combinatio
= is that it will sunburn a man quicke
~ than exposure on the Sahara deser
A single day outdoors when the su
shines brightly and the ground is Gov
cred with snow will make the skin pei
off a mans nose as thoroughly a
a though he had dipped it in boiling wa
. ter
;, There is a gentleman in Washingto
Just now who so thoroughly dislike
=, notoriety that he is thinking seriousl
:" of either taking to the woods or adop
ing a new name until after the Pres
Dental election. His name is w.
IN Bryan. and his home is In Atlanta, Ga
pc and although he invariably puts n
- home town and state after his nan
- on hotel registers, he no sooner entel
no a town than he is bombarded wilt
cards and notes intended for the oth'
Mr. Bryan, whose home is in Lincol
- Neb. The duplication of names migl
he make even more trouble for the A
lanta Bryan were it not that he diffe
so widely in appearance from the LII
coin Bryan that he saves much e.
no PLANTATION by simply showing himse
nm A way suggested to him that he u
er gummed portraits of himself, instead
ey writing his name on hotel register
but, as before remarked, he shuns N
toriety.
~ There is quite a futter among t
ay Washington masculine fortune-huntel
la who are in town for one reason or a
other, principally because they have
sell a portion of their time to live. ov
the announcement that Princess S
phia and Princess Bamba, daughters