Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-09-28
EDWARD c. DAN A.
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. |


few minutes before leaving the White
House Mrs. Mckinley sent for Capt.
Charles Loeflier. the veteran door
keeper who served President McKin-
ley during his four years in the White
House. She wished to bid him good
bye and thank him for his faithful
services to her husband, She de.
sc ended from the private part OF the
White House on the north porch sup
ported by Abner Mckinley and DR..
Rixey. Mrs. Mckinley seemed some
what affected at leaving the mansion
for the last time, but she was not
greatly fatigued by her sojourn IN
Washington.
The Court Of inqulry-The Schley
court of inquiry Is again in session
with Rear Admiral Francis Nj.
Ramsey In place of Rear Admiral
Henry l.. Howison. excused from ser.
vice by his colleagues, Admiral Dewey
and Rear Admiral Benham, after hav'
ing been challenged for cause by Rear
Admiral Schley Admiral Ramsay's Sc
lection Is satisfactory to Admiral
Schley. His name was on the list Of
officers Of flag rank submitted to act
ing Secretary Hackett by Admiral
Schley's counsel when their unofficial
objection to Admiral Howison was
presented to the navy department
His selection is credited to Secretary
Long.
The cabinet-Secretary of State
Hay and Secretary of the Navy
Long remained in Washington
to transact current government
business at the request of President
Roosevelt. All the members of the
oabinet have accepted the reappoint
ments rendered to them by the presi.
dent. William Loeb. President Roose-
velt's private secretary. has been at
the White House getting acquainted
with the executive force and acquiring
some knowledge of the details OF the
work there. Just what position MIR.
Loeb will occupy under the new ad-
mnistration is not known here. 1t
is currently reported that President
Roosevelt has asked Mr.. Cortelyou
secretary to the late president. to re-
main with him for the present. The
first regular meeting was held Friday.
The session lasted an hour and
half No new policies were discussed,
the entire sitting being devoted to a
resume of public affairs.
Grief Of the Negroes-In the great
crowds that witnessed the funeral
pageant between the White House and
the Capitol there was a singular alb
sence of mere curiosity seekers that
made the evidences Of grief all the
more impressive. The most conspicu-
Gus signs of grief were shown by the
Negroes, of whom there is a popula-
ton OF upward of 100000 in Wash
ington. Near the Peace Monument.
| at the end of Pennsylvania avenue,
west Of the Capitol, an old cOlOred
woman. who had passed the roped bar
riers into the street, fell on her knees
and prayed loudly. She moaned pite-
ously as the hearse was driven by and
exclaimed: God help and protect the
nation" She continued her praying
and shouted for several minutes and
the police did not disturb her. There
| were many groans and exclamatiOns
of 20. Lord, o. my good Lord! See
| that poor mani" from scores of Ne
groes as the hearse passed by.
Wound Like resident's-Washing-
ton physicians and the surgeons of
No NJ nj ro iat n h.
ing with keen interest the case of
Henson Smith, a colored man, rs
years old. who lies at the Emergency
hospital here with a wound in his
abdomen that bears a striking SINH
larity to that inflicted upon the late
President Mckinley by the assassin
Czolgosz. Smith has rallied from an
operation similar to that undergone
by Mr. Mckinley, and his pulse, res
piration and temperature are normal.
The physicians have administered
nothing but liquid food to the patient.
and he is bearing up we'll. They are
not too hopeful Of his recovery, hav-
ing fear Of gangrene. In several
ways the Negroes wound is much
more serious that than received by
the late president, but the operation
performed on him by DR.. George Tul-
ley Vaughan, of the Marine Hospital
service. appears to have been highly
successful.
Washineton's sorrow-While Wash.
ington did not demonstrate it's sorrow
in a manner different from every big
town throughout the country, the peO-
pie here will feel the presidents S loss as
III the nature of a personal affllction.
Washington and Canton stand apart
from their sister cities in this respect.
No man in public life who came here
through the fortune Of politics has
ever been more popular than Presl-
dent Mckinley. Like Grant. he was
known to the citizens of the capital as
one Of them. His ways were Demo
cratic. He passed among them un-
ostentatiously and was always readyto
return salutes from those he met on
the streets or to stop and shake hands
with any stranger who might desire
that privilege. Here. where two presi-
dents had been shot down by assas-
SINS he had no thought Of harm. Like
Lincoln he had the affection Of Wash
ingtonians OF all degrees of society.
In women particularly his devotion to
Mrs. Mckinley excited the keenest ad-
'tion. And II anything is needed
axe clearer the great love and es-
ii in which he was held in the city
OF his official residence, it may be
found In the evident fact that among
the large southern population of Wash.
ington no man possessed greater per.
sonal lard.
Rettoc.
While cunning for sea birds at
Clarke's cove. Off New Bedford. Mass,