The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-05-09

Sberman's War Relics Given to TIL e
National Museum Mrs. Mckinley
Wishes an American Gown For In
auguratIon Ball.
The western congressman, homesick
for the scenes of his boyhood; the
Maine man, whose mind reverts with
tenderness to the sawmill on the edge
of the forest; the southerner, in whose
nostrils yet fingers the spicy odor of
the newly sawed pine wood of his ma
tive village-all are furnished by a
complacent government with the op-
portunity of renewing the memories Of
their native heath in the erection of a
miniature sawmill close by the main
thoroughfare of Washington.
Executive avenue. running at right
angles to Pennsylvania avenue and
separating the north grounds of the
White House from the narrow parking
of the war, state and navy department
building, has been transformed within
the past few days into a scene Of busy
activity, says the Washington Post. A
shed, such as perambulating lumber
men put up temporarily for the conven-
fence of forest owners with its sheet
iron chimney protruding from a slant
Ing board roof, with its busy wheel,
buzzing saw and a floating flag Of
steam, has been built; huge piles of
lumber disport themselves in the vicin-
lty, clustering crowds watch the prog
ress of the saw and discuss politics,
small boys place their hands on the vi
brating timber ito feel the buzz"-in
fact, all the elements of small logging
camp are reproduced in the center Of
the nations capital. This democratic
simplicity of work is preliminary to the
erection of stands on the avenue for
the accommodation of the Inauguration
crowds.
With characteristic disregard for the
dignity that doth hedge a king" the
coping of the White House fence is
made to serve it's purpose and forms a
support for the lumber as it is being
passed under the saw. Diplomats car
riages approaching the state depart
ment by this route are forced to edge
to one side. and pedestrians taking a
constitutional must, willy nilly, keep
to the right going south and to the left
going north. The city boy listens with
Ill concealed impatience to the boastful
knowledge Of his country cousin whose
father sends wood to the railroads, and
the department clerk stands around at
the noon hour, an interested spectator
of progress.
After many years of waiting the hall
of American history of the National
has just come into possession
of the w. T. Sherman war collection.
writes the Washington correspondent
Of the Chicago Tribune Nearly all of
the other generals of the civil war
were represented in some way. and
scarcely a day passed that tourists did
not ask for some memento of the great |
general.
After the death of the brother, John
Sherman. and the ultimate scattered
condition of his effects Miss Lizzie and |
Z. Il. Sherman of New York, son and |
daughter of the general, concluded to |
give the valuable relics into the keep
ing of the National museum. Starting
with Sherman's diploma from West |
Point. the commissions as second lieu
tenant and all the way to that of full
general, major general, brigadler gen.
aral. secretary of war and regent of
the Smithsonian institution permit one
to follow his full course with great reg
llarity.
Again, the story of Sherman's prog
'ess is told in his uniforms. the first be-
ng his coat. hat and sash, the uniform
of the Third artillery, U. S. A. Among
he swords Is one the general carried at
he battle of Shiloh and q more orna-
mental one having a gold hilt studded
With diamonds. The watch that sery-
ID him on his famous march to the sea
lwakens great interest
In fact the collection is the most
of that of any officer of the
'ivll war. General Grant not excepted.
nasmuch as the Grant collection Is
more that was gained on his foreign
our than of his war exploits in the
United States.
These are busy days at the White
House. says the New York World.
IRIS. Mckinley is about to order her
own for the Inauguration ball. and
amples Of goods and fashion plates
re strewn all over her sitting room.
Mrs. Mckinley recently told friend
he wished to obtain the handsomest
own money could buy for her hus-
ana second Inauguration. She wish
d 1t to be an American fabric. 1t
III be made probably by her regular
lodiste in New York. She has decided
} get heavy cream satin and to boro