Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-11-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Chatty Gossip About Prominent Army
and Navy Officers.

Admiral Dewey and Rear Admirals
Benham and Ramsay are taking things
much easier than they did while the
Schley inquiry was being made, now
that they have settled down to the
work of sitting the testimony taken
during eight weeks They have two
rooms in an office building, one for
themselves and one for their clerical
help, and stalwart sergeant of ma
rines keeps guard at the outer door to
see that the sittings of the court, which
are secret, are not disturbed by in
quisitive callers. The court holds one
session daily, from 10 to 1870 o'clock,
Admiral Dewey says the court intends
tomake its own abstract of the testimo-
ny, taking the conclusions of no one,
and that it will naturally take
some time to separate the wheat
from the chaff. By the way,
Admiral Dewey's suburban residence
had a narrow escape from fire this
week, from forest fire in the vicinity
He and Mrs. Dewey were not in the
house at the time, as they had moved
into their city home some days before
Mrs. Dewey is not we'll. She is not
confined TO her house, but has been
unable TO shake off the effects of an at
tack of the grip.
There will be gathering of army
officers in Washington the last week
in this month, that will arouse the in
terest of those who are fond of looking
at men of prominence and most of US
are. The Secretary of War has ordered
the following officers of high rank to
convene in Washington on the 18th
inst, as a board to consider several
military matters, including the selec-
ton and location of army posts: Lieut..
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Maj Gems. John
r. Brooke, Elwell S. Otis, S. M. b.
Young and Arthur Macarthur, and
Brig Gems. John G. Bates, George NJ.
Randall, and William A. Kobbe This
board will include practically all the
general officers of the army on active
duty in the U. s., and if its sittings
were public, which they will not be,
would draw as large an audience as the
Schley Court of Inquiry did, although
the interest would be in the individual
members of the board and not in its
proceedings.
Among the numerous college presi-
dents who are attending the annual
convention of the Association of Agri-
cultural Colleges and experiment Sta
tions, now sitting in Washington, are
DR.. w. o. Thompson of the Ohio State
University, and DR.. Joseph Swain of
the Indiana University. In an inter
esting conversation ON the extraordi-
naIy growth of technical or industrial
education, DR.. Thompson said: "The
demand for engineering talent exceeds
the supply. / do not believe there is a
single idle graduate of our institution
at Columbus. We have 200 students
this year in our agricultural college
alone, and they find ready employment
at salaries ranging all the way from
$500 to 1,500 That may seem like big
money to pay for a skilled farmer, but
there are many owners of broad acres
and breeders of stock on an extensive
scale who are glad to avail themselves
of we'll informed man, capable of TAX
ing entire charge of valuable proper
ties of such a character. We teach
young men about the breeding of stock,
the value of different kinds of food,
the nature of soils, and other subjects
with which one must be familiar who
conducts immense agricultural prop
critics. The growth of mining indus
tries has increased the number of in
quiries for mining engineers, and this
wear there are $50 students in our en-
gineering college acquiring practical
knowledge of different branches of that
subject"
Representative Boreing of KY, loses
no opportunity to head off the idea en-
tertained by many that Kentuckians
are large consumers as well as large
producers of whisky. In the course
of a talk on the subject he said: "Ken-
lucky makes and consumes vast deal
of whisky, but there are sections of the
State where whisky drinking is much
restricted. In my section one finds
local option and in the town of London
there are neither saloons nor side
doors where one can buy intoXicants.
True, occasionally a man brings a
bottle of whisky to town, and little
moonshine is sold from the alley, but
as general proposition the sale OF
strong drinks is tabooed."
President Roosevelt's praises are
being loudly sung by those who oppose
the docking of horses tails because OF
his announcement that he would not
purchase carriage horses with docked