The Washington times., 1901-10-10
PERSONAL.

Contractor Thomas Worthington Is
building a railroad in Alabama. He has
had dozen of the Tuskegee students
working for him this summer. 81 desire
| to state to you" he writes to Principal
| Booker T Washington, that the work,
conduct, and general bearing of these
! men during their service with me has
! been all that could be desired and re-
! fleets great credit on them and the train
! ing they have received.
John Redmond. who is shortly starting
| for a tour of America for the purpose Of
raising funds for the Nationalist cause,
viii be accompanied by p. 4. McHugh,
NJ. p.
Last week a man whose office is not
far from the stock exchange wrote Mr..
J. Pierpont Morgan note In which he said
he hoped he would be invited on board the
Corsair for some one day of the yacht
races Mr. Morgan wrote the following
note:
My Dear Sir., Unfortunately 1 have
loaned the Corsafr TO my friend Mr. Led
yard for the yacht races. However, II you
think YOU would care TO go on the yacht
OF either Mr.. Gould. Mrs. Goelet, Colonel
Astor or any of the others that may be
going down the bay, / will try to get an
Invitation for you, and will assure who
ever may take you that they nave the
honor OF entertaining the cheekiest man
ever heard from
General Andre. the French Minister Of
War, who has been so conspicuous in the
celebrations attending the Cars visit TO
France is a member of an enormously
wealthy Aisatian family. He is sixty
three years old and has been brigadier
general since 1888.
Mr.. shepard's present position as candi-
date for Mayor OF New York on the Tam
many ticket, though he has in the past
vigorously denounced the organization
headed by Richard Croker, is only one of
numerous Inconsistencies in his political
career. He opposed David B HiIl Tor
Governor and afterward supported Judge
Van Wyck. He opposed Bryan IN 1890 ana
supported him In 1900. From being bit
ter opponent of Mclaughlin for years, In
1893 he made peace with him. -Four years
ago he supported Low for mayor, ana now
he is going to run against MN
It has been said that Admiral Dewey
was made prisoner during the civil war
AT the time the gunboat Mississippi was
destroyed by Confederates. The Admiral
says this Is not true. 81 was not cap
tured'' said he when asked about the
matter, when the Mississippi was run
aground and burned. About $50 of our
men were captured but the captain and /
managed to pull away in a boat down the
river and escaped capture. | have seen
the statement made several times lately
and am glad to say that IL IS entlrely
Incorrect ! have never been captive"
THE University of Gottingen recently
offered the newly founded chair of inor-
ganic chemistry to Theodore William
Richards. of Harvard University. which
conferred upon DR. Won Holleben the hon
orary degree of LII. D., says the Ma
tional Zeitung'' THE effort to secure
Prof Richards failed because everything
vas done to keep him in his own country.
The offer was probably the first German
recognition OF the young but Jealous
American striving in natural sciences,
and heretofore 1t had been almost un-
heard of that American should be
called to German university"
DR.. F. w. True. head curator of the
Department OF Biology of the Smithson-
ian Institution. has been selected to rep
resent that institution and the National
Museum on the board to select and pre-
pare the United States Government ex-
hibit for the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
ton at st. Louis.