Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-11-22
WASHINGTON LETTER


Especial Correspondence
DIR. p. NJ. Rixey continues to visit the
White House ds..y, as he used to do
during tlse administration Of President
Mckinley. President and Mrs. Roose-
welt have made no selection Of a family
physician, and Dr. RiXey occupies that
position. Whether he will remain in
that capacity when he becomes sur
geon general of the navy is not known.
The late DIR. Bates, surgeon general of
the army, was the first physician to
President and Mrs. Mckinley. When
he died. DR.. Leonard Wood, now Gen
eral Wood, was designated to the posi-
tion. He remained until the breaking
out of the war with Spain, when he
went to the front as colonel of the
rough riders. DR.. Sternberg, surgeon
general of the army, was next looking
after the health of President and Mrs.
Mckinley, but only for a short time,
when he was succeeded by DR.. RiXey.
The latter called at the White House
daily for three years.
Currency to Send Through Mails.
The recent robbery of the Chicago
postofiice and the possibility that the
robbers will dispose of $4,000 worth Of
stolen stamps has called attention
afresh to the need of some kind of sub
sidiary currency which can be sent
through the mails. 1t was never in
tended that stamps be used as money,
yet the enormous growth of the mail
order business has really brought that
result about The mail order con-
Germs accumulate large quantities Of
stamps, and to convert them into mon
ey often have to sell at a discount.
Thus n STAMP trade has sprung up
which enables burglars to dispose of
stolen stamps with little danger of de-
lection. The next congress will doubt
less be called upon to consider plans
for relieving this situation.
Miss RooseveIfs Chums.
Miss Harriet Wadsworth of New
York, daughter of Representative
Wadsworth, will be a close contempo-
rary of Miss Roosevelt, as will be also
Miss Helen Mackay-Smith and Miss
Matnllue townsend.
Miss Mackay-Smith is the eldest
daughter of Rev. DR.. Mackay-Smith,
who is in charge of the quaint colonial
church at Washington, st. Johns,
which has been the scene of so many
historic ceremonies and is one of the
principal places of interest to all sight
seers in Washington.
Miss Townsend will make her debut
in December, and has Just returned
from Europe, where, with her mother,
she has spent the past six months,
having been much admired in Paris
and at the German baths.
The District Budget.
The District commissioners have
transmitted to the secretary of the
treasury their estimates of the appro-
priations that will be needed for the
support of the government of the Dis
tr!ct for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1908. The sum asked is $10,439 SS1.ST.
The sum asked for the preceding year
was $9,0S0, 703.94, and the sum appro-
priated was $7,532 2519.31. The secre-
tary of the treasury will forward the
estimates to congress.
In making public the estimates Com
missioner mcfarland stated that the
commissioners had followed this year,
as last, the policy of asking for what is
really necessary, regardless of the pos
siblc deficit due to the diversion of Dis
trict funds by congress to street exten-
sion purposes.
Isthmian Canal Commission.
The isthmian canal commission got
together here and is now hard at work
finishing up its report, which it prom
ises to have in the presidents hands
long enough in advance of the meeting
of it In preparing his annual message.
The president of the Panama Canal
company is here trying to get the COM
mission to report in favor of buying
his canal. 1t will be remembered that
In Its preliminary report made to Pres
ident Mckinley last year the commits
sion declared against such purchase.
President GnrfeId's Widow.
Word comes from the Mentor (O)
farm of the Garfields that the widow Of
the former president, who is now well
on in years, is in a serious condition of
i'll health. Her only daughter, the little
AIollie of the White House years ago,
now Mrs. j. Stanley Brown and the
mother of several children, has gone
with her family and mother to Califor-
mia for the possible benefit of the latter.
They have leased for the winter beau
tiful cottage on Orange Grove avenue
In Pasadena.
The Bonapartes.
Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte and her son,
Mr.. Jerome N Bonaparte, arrived at
their Washington home the other day,
after visit of several months to the
Count and Countess de Moltke- HUT
feldt, at their estate in Glorup, Den
mark. Mr.. Bonaparte is the third Of
that name to be known in this country
and Is the great-grandson of Jerome
Bonaparte, the Corsican, and younger
brother of Napoleon l., who, in 1903,
married the beautiful Baltimorean,