The Washington times., 1901-10-07
PERSONAL.

! OF the Vice Presidents of the United
I States who have succeeded TO the Presi-
dency through the death of the President
Tyler served 3 years and II months; Fill
more. 2 years months and Is days; john
/ son, years 10 menths and y days;
Arthur. 3 years 5l2 months. ROoSeelt 5
( term is years months and 20 days.
The friends of the late Lieutenant Com
mander Jesse NJ Roper. Z. S. N. who
lost his life in the line of duty while in
/ command Of the Runboat Petrel, propose
Ito erect tablet TO his memory at the
United States Naval Academy at Annapo-
! lis. The plan for raising the necessary
amount is not yet completed, but II is
understood that Lieutenant Commander
Charles z. Fox will act as custodian Of
the funds.
Capt James H. Reeves, Fourteenth Cav
airy. military attache at Peking, has pre-
scented to the Military Academy at West
Point the celebrated international gun, s."
which rendered effective service in pro-
tectiEg the foreign legations during the
siege.
Dr. Field Flowers Goe, who has resigned
the Anglican Bishopric of Melbourne,
Australia possesses a grimly humorous
collection of names worthy Of Puritan
in the days OF the Commonwealth. At OK
/ ford it was sNfacetiously prophesied by his
tutor that Field would be ''plowed.
| Flowers ''pIucked," and Goe sent down"
This ominous prediction was falsified by
the event, for the future Bishop graduated
with some distinction.
Henry G. Bryant. who attempted the
ascent of Mount Assiniboine, In the Cana
dian Rockies a few weeks ago has re-
turned to his home in Philadelphia In
COMPANY with Walter Dwight Wilcox Il
fellow of the Royal Gee graphical Society
of London, he reached an altitude of 4. .125
feet. the altitude Of the summit being
200 feet.
The Hon Arthur James Balfour entered
Parliament at twenty-five. was a Cabinet
Minister at thirty-eight and led the House
at forty-three. In Britain, too, the young
man has chance.
Edward N DinPley, of Kalamazoo. has
nearly completed a biography of his
father, the late Repre- sentative DingIey.
and it is expected the biography will be
published this fall. It viii consist of
two independent volumes, ore purely bio
graphical. the other containing the most
notable addresses and speeches of the late
Representative. The author has been en-
gagged for two years on this work.
\. d. w. Wolmarens, one Of the Boer
ENJOYS, who has been visiting Mr. Kru-
ger in Holland, found the mental condi-
tion of the former President Of the Trans
vaal 10 be by no means satisfactory. Mr.
Kruger is slowly growing weaker. ply
sicalIy and mentally.
Thomas Skelton Harrison. who has sue
cceded Daniel Baugh as president of the
Philadelphia Art club, was until a year
ago Diplomatic Agent and Consul General
of the United States at Cairo. Egypt. hay
ing been appointed by President Mckin-
ley.
Among the passengers on the steamship
city of Rome, now deu at New York, is
the Eight Rev. Knutc Henniug Gezclius
Won Scheele, Bishop Of Wisby, Sweden.
who comes to this country under the per-
sonal commission Of the King of Sweden.
10 be present at certain important fuuC-
tions. including the bi-centennial of Yale
College.
The sergeant major who drilled King Ed
ward in 1861, when he was serving in the
First Grenadier Guards, is just retiring |
from active work. This Is William Cook. |
who has for the last thirty years been a |
sa nitary inspector.
That President Mckinley was a great |
reader of poetry was frequently evidenced |
in his speeches. in nearly all Of which he !
quoted a line or so of verse People have |
been wondering where he obtained two |
lines which he quoted in his Buffalo ad- |
dress. The Buffalo Commerci9r' an
nounces that they are from the poem
What Shall We Name lt?" written by
Richard Watson Glider after he had seen |
the Exposition lighted on the evening of
May Is:
What shall we name It.
As is bcunden duty
This new, swift-builded. faery city of beauty?
What name that shall not shame it
Shall make 1t live beyond its too short living
With praises and thanksgiving?
The last two lines are those quoted by
the President.