The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-24
Dignity OF Ushers Upset.

Dignity of Ushers Upset.
1t quite upset the dignity OF the ush
| ers, who are ever on the alert for sus
| picious characters about the White
House The boys had come to invite
Kermet to join their company of rough
riders, and they were disappointed 10
find that he was out taking spin on
1 his bicycle. They had not expecte
/ anything so commonplace from Presi-
! dent Roosevelt's son. They regarded
/ him as a rough rider and wanted TO
know where his pony was kept. They
were informed that kermet's pony was
still at Oyster Bay. and that it would
probably remain there for time, as
the boys were in school and not ex-
pected to indulge in eecentricities.
The youthful rough riders mounted
their ponies and rode away in disgust.
bat they have not given up the idea
of having the Roosevelt boys Join the
company They will watch for an op-
portunity 10 present the matter TO ker-
met himself and will also try TO see
the President and secure his permits
sion for Kermet 20 join their organ
ization.
They will probably not succeed, for
Mrs. Roosevelt enforceS old-fashioned
discipline in her domestic circle, and
makes the boys understand that they
are not intimately connected with the
presidential Office. They are the Presi-
dents sons, but they have no new IL
cense because their father is the Presl-
dent They go TO school as they did
at Oyster Bay and Albany. and when
they go out for exercise they are the
same as other children. They Will not
become rough riders for the gratifica-
ton of the public. or to show them
selves as the Presidents boys. They
may ride their ponies alone or with
other boys. but it will be for exercise,
not to attract attention to the mem
bers of the Presidents family.
corbin a Domestic Man.
Adiutant General Corbin's domestic
tastes were made evident TO his assoei-
ates in the War Department before his
engagement q Miss Patten was an
nounced. A year OF two ago the Gen
eral complained of the eyesores made
by the sunken grass plots about the
War building, since they had been left
without care, and place for all kinds
of refuse He determined to convert
these places into pretty and interest
ing gardens. He first selected num-
Der of magnolia and small japanese
cherry trees and had them planted In
these sunken gardens, then made flow
erbeds in which old fashioned flowers
were grown. and after getting his gar
dens in shape, he planted ivy along
the walls so as to have these covered
by a robe of green. Every day last
summer and spring the General would
stop on his way to and from his office,
morning. noon and evening, to inspect
his gardens and see how the trees and
flowers and vines were growing.
He showed so much enthusiasm over
these two little plots on either sldS
OF the Pennsylvania avenue entrance
TO the big War office, that other army
officers. and Secretary Root. became
interested and began to make sug-
gestions. General Corbin was gratiief
at their interest in his garden work.
but he accepted no suggestions he
knew how TO manage a garden without
helm. He had been raised in the coun-
try and he knew how to plant flowers.
vines and trees, and how to cultivate
them. After he had this part OF the
garden to his taste he turned his at
tention to the ornamentation OF the
low wall separating the plots from the
stone walk ruIGing along the front
of the building.
Guns From All Wars
He concluded to make this historic,
and he gathered from the arsenal. the
navy yard and the stock OF captured
guns from Spain a number OF
brass and iron canon, representing
the war history of the Government
He had mounted en- this wall cannon
captured from the English in the war
of the revolution. some taken in The
war of 1872. one o. two cd pieces pre-
scented by the Stata of Texas, some
captured at New Orleans. ard others
brought from Santiago after the re-
cent war with Srain.
All these guns are Of Anticipated
uattern and most Z them cast IN
Europe. Each gin bears a brass tag
giving its historv pc to whore aHd
when last used aud how il came into !
the possession of the U7itrd states
Tho NV IF guns have
made General Corhin's work most at
tractiye to the sig-t GERS who thr ng I
the capital. The 20 down the stems |
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and they stav to esr,s-s the c~re-a"s
flowers and wires I'D trees Man la |
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taste of the len tor Of ihe big State. /
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