The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-10-10
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

Comrade T. B.ETucker, 18th Pa. Cav.
Sandusky. o., was in the city last week
Comrade Tucker, who is ticket agent fol
the Baltimorer& fOhio Railroad at San
dusky, was Assistant Quartermaster-G Gen
eral of the Department of Ohio, under
Commander l. Mack, and made very
efficient officers
Last week President Roosevelt told
Charles A. Moore, Clerk of the Senate
! District Committee. that neither he nor
| Mrs. Roosevelt desired any changes or
alterations id tife White House. The
President said the building suited him,
both as residence and as an official
home. Beyond this expression of his OPP
| position to all the talk of additions and
alterations at the White House, the Presi-
dent gave no expression of opinion as to
what he thought ought to be done to in
crease the facilities of the home of PreSi-
dents. The Presidents statement was
made in an emphatic way that admitted
of no miSintefpretatiOn.
Mrs. Roosevelt will attend st. Johns
Episcopal Church. opposite the White
House, on Lafayette Square, and will oc-
cupy the pew that has been set aside in
that editice for many years for Presidents
of the United States. The pew, because
of scarcity in seating capacity, has been
y
Hitchcock, of the Interior Department
Mr.. Hitchcock gracefully surrendered the
pew to the wife of the President.
A plan for union station, to be built
on the site of the present Baltimore "
Ohio depot, and to replace both that and
the Pennsylvania station, is again under
consideration by the officials of both roads.
Those who are furthering the project
promise that the station built will be one
worthy of the Capital in every respect.
1t will be one of the most magnificent
stations i'll the world, they say, and will
be known among railroad buildings as the
Congressional Library is known among
libraries. The plan is to bring trains to
the station from the South by a tunnel
under the Capitol Grounds. This
would provide for the trains of the Penn
sylyania, Southern, Chesapeake d Ohio,
and the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard
Air Line. These roads all stop at the
Sixth street station now, and by no other
short route could they be brought to the
Baltimore & Ohio site.
The Secretary of War has made an al
lOtment of 100000 for the purpose of
preparing the military post at Washington
Barracks for the use and occupation of
the Army War College, the School of Ma
tional Defense, and the Engineer School
of Application. The War College and
School of National Defense are entirely
new institutions, and will be organized I'M
der plans prepared under the special SUI
pervision of Secretary Root, who CON
siders such institutions as essential parts
OF properly equipped military establish
ment under modern conditions. The En-
gineer School is now at Willet's Point, n.
Y, and will be formally installed at the
Washington Barracks next week. 1t is
at this school that the star graduates of
the Military Academy receive their final
military instructions. The Battalion of
Engineers, consisting Of three companies,
now stationed at WiIlet's Point, will also
be transferred to Washington Barracks.
-
Glasses il the proposed War College and
School of National Defense will be COM
posed of honor graduates of the existing
infantry and cavalry and artillery schools
at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Monroe,
The 100000 allotment is to
be devoted to the improvement of the ar
Senal grounds. and the erection of few
necessary buildings.
1t is the intention of the Secretary of
War to make Washington Barracks a
model military post, SO that it shall be the
finest of its kind in this country and the
War College the best postgraduate mill
tary school i'll the world. There are 81
acres of land IN this military reservation,
and the plans of the War Department
their development and i'm
provement with view TO their forming
part of the general park system of the
District of Columbia.
Chauncey Depew, who is 81 and rich,
besides being United States Senator, is
to marry Miss May Palmer, who is %,
very beautiful and highly accomplished.
Delighted, I'm delighted the Senator
says. I've been receiving all manner of
from every possible quar-
ter. I'm wonderfully tickled at one thing.
| came across last month on the st. Paul
and smuggled this delightful secret in;
lodged all the Customs inspectors, all the
newspaper men. | think it was mighty
diplomatic. l went to Newport and about
carrying this secret with me.
THE date for the wedding has not been
settled yet. But one thing is sure, | do
lot want to put off the wedding long"