Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-11-21
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondence. |

welt have made no selection of Il family
physician. and DR.. Ri1ey occupies that
position. Whether he Will remain in
that capacity when he becomes u I
geon general Of the navy is not known.
The late DR.. Bates. surgeon general of
the army, was he first physician to
president and Mrs. Mckinley. When
he died, DR.. Leonard Wood, now Cen
eral Wood, was designated to the posi-
tion. He remained until the breaking
out of the war with Spain, when he
went to the front rs colonel OF the
rough riders. DR.. S~ternberg, surgeon
general of the army, was next looking (
after the health of President and Mrs.
Mckinley, but only for a short time, !
when he was succeeded by Dr. RiXey.
The latter called at the White House
daily for three years. i
Currency to Send Through Mails.
The recent robbery of the Chicago
postofice and the possibility hat the
robbers will dispose of $4,000 worth Of
stolen stamps has called attention
afresh to the need of some kind of sub
sidiary currency which can be sent
through the mails. 1t was never in
tended that stamps be used as money,
u NHS M AAOoS CIV
order business has really brought that
result about. The mail order con
Germs accumulate large quantities of
stamps, and to convert them into mon
ey often have to sell at a discount.
Thus a STAMP trade has sprung up
which enables burglars to dispose of
stolen stamps with little danger Of de-
lection. The next congress will doubt
lass hA ballad T1nnn fn R0nCi6nT MA na
for relieving this situation.
Miss RooseveIt's Chums.
Miss Harriet Wadsworth of New
York, daughter Of Representative
Wadsworth, will be a close contempt
rary Of Miss Roosevelt, as will be also
Miss Helen Mackay-Smith and Miss
Mathilde Townsend.
Miss Mackay-Smith is the eldest
daughter of Rev. DR.. Mackay-Smith,
who is in charge of the quaint colonial
church at Washington, st. Johns,
which has been the scene Of so many
historic ceremonies and is one of the
principal places Of interest to all sight
seers in Washington.
Miss Townsend will make her debut
in December, and has Just returned
from Europe, where, with her mother.
she has spent b past six months,
having been much admired in Paris
and at the German baths.
The District budget.
The District commissioners have
transmitted to the secretary Of the
treasury their estimates Of the appro-
priations that will be needed for the
support of b government Of the Dis
trict for the fiscal yea ending June 30,
1908. The sum asked is $1O,439,SS1.S7.
The sum asked for the preceding year
was $1,000, 7O3.94, and he sum appro-
priated was 1882, 1881. The secre-
tary of the treasury will forward the
estimates to congress.
In making public the estimates Com
missioner Mcfarland stated that the
commissioners had followed this year,
as last, the policy of asking for whati is
really necessary, regardless of the pos
sible deficit due to the diversion of Dis
trict funds by congress to street extern
sion purposes.
Isthmian Canal Commission.
The isthmian canal commission got
together here and is now hard at work
finishing up it's report, which it prom
Uses to have in the presidents hands
long enough in advance of the meeting
of congress to enable him to make use
of it in preparing his annual message.
The president of the Panama Canal
company is here trying to get the COM
mission to report in favor of buying
his canal. It will be remembered that
in it's preliminary report made to Pres
ident Mckinley last veal the commits
sion declared against such a purchase.
President Garfeld's Widow.
Word comes from the Mentor CO.,
farm Of the GarfieIds that the widow Of
the former president, who is now wei
on in years, is in a serious condition OF
i'll health. Her only daughter, the LITTLE
Mo1lie of the White House years ago
now Mrs. j. Stanley Brown and the
mother Of several children, has gone
with her family and mother to Califor
mia for the possible benefit Of the latter
They have leased for the winter a beau
\tiful cottage on Orange Grove avenue
in Pasadena.
The BOnapartes.
Mrs. jerome Bonaparte and her son
Mr.. Jerome N. Bonaparte, arrived a
their Washington home the other day
after a visit of several months to tn
Count and Countess de Moltke-Huit
feldt, at their estate in Glorup, Den
mark. Mr.. Bonaparte is the third o
that name to be known in this countr.
and is the great-grandson of Jerom
Bonaparte, the Corsican, and younge
brother Of Napoleon l., who, in 1905
married the beautiful BaltimoreaI
Miss Elizabeth Patterson.
By building some bedchambers in til
attic for women servants h presideI
tial family have contrived to settl
themselves comfortably in the. Whit
House and reserve one commodiou
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