Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-25
[xAslHINcroN LETTER
rspecial Correspondence. ]


- M. Rixey continues to visit the
.Th;te House daily, as he used to do
NnrIng the administration OF President
NrKlnley. President and Mrs. Roose-
to,t have made no selection of family |
,nrsician. and DR.. Rixey occupies that |
p.;tlon. Whether he will remain In |
lh,+ capacity when he becomes sur
'oon General Of the navy is not known.
Tho late DR.. Bates, surgeon general of
~ army. was the first physician to
n.osidcnt and Mrs. Mckinley. When
"a died, DR.. Leonard Wood, now Gen.
40, Wood, was designated to the posi-
sion He remained until the breaking
~ of the war with Spain, when he
40 to the front as colonel Of the
pponah riders. DR.. Sternbefg,: surgeon
rsnoral of the army, was. next looking
sstor The health of President and Mrs.
SfcKinley, but only for d short time,
TMhen he was succeeded by DR.. Rixey.
Tho latter called at the White House
lilly for three years.
currency to Send Through Mails.
The recent robbery OF the Chicago
,ostofIice and the possibility that the
robhors will dispose Of $4,000 worth Of
stolon stamps has called attention
ofrcsh to the need of some kind OF sub
cidiory currency which can be sent
.h,ouGb the mails. 1t was never in
landed that stamps be used as money,
rot thc enormous growth Of the mail
nrder business has really brought that
rmos,,lt about The mail order con-
earns accumulate large quantities Of
stamns and to convert them into mon
az often have to sell at discount.
Thus STAMP trade" has sprung up
which enables burglars to dispose Of
stolcn stamps with little danger OF de-
faction. The next congress will doubt
less be called upon to consider plans
for relieving this situation.
Miss Roosevclt's Chums.
Miss Harriet Wadsworth OF New
York, daughter Of Representative
Wadsworth will be a close contempt
rarv OF Miss Roosevelt, as will be also
Miss Helen MackaySmith and Miss
Mathilde Townsend.
.aNiss 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
nrincjpal 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 i'aris
and at the German baths.
The District Budget.
The District commissioners have
transmitted to the secretary or 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 ~
1893. The sum asked is SIC, 439, SSl.S7
Tho sum asked for the preceding yea'
was $1,000, 7O3.94, and the sum appro
priated was 1882, 519.31. The secre
tary of the treasury Will forward tne
estimates to congress-
In making public the estimates Com
missioner Mcfarland stated that tn
commissioners had followed this year
as last, the policy Of asking for what Il
really necessary. regardless OF the pos
sjblc deficit due to the diversion OF dis
trict funds by congress to street exten
sion purposes.
Isthmian Canal Commission.
The isthmian canal commission go
together here and is now hard at Worl
finishing up it's report, which 1t prom
ises to have in the presidents hand
long enough in advance Of the meetln
of congress to enable him to make us
OF it in preparing his annual message
The president Of the Panama Cana
company is here trying to get the con
mission to report in favor OF Duylh
his canal. 1t will be remembered tha
in it's preliminary report made to fres
ident Mckinley last year the commi'
sion declared against such purchase
President Garfeld's Widow.
Word comes from the Mentor "
farm Of the Garfields that the widow
the former president, who is now we
on in years, is in n serious condltion
i'll health. Her only daughter, the iitt
Mollie of the White House years ag
now Mrs. J. Stanley Brown ana u
mother of several children. has gol
with her family and mother to Callo
MIA for the possible benefit OF the ialle
They have leased for the winter yea
tiful cottage on Orange Grove aFen'
in Pasadena.
The Bonapnrtes.
Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte and her 81
Mr.. Jerome N. Bonaparte, arrived
their Washington home the other va
after visit Of several months 10 u
Count aA Countess de Moitke-n n a.
feldt, at their estate in Glorup' ~
mark. MI Bonaparte is the thiru
that name to be known in TINS counl
and is the great grandson OF Jerol
Bonaparte, the Corscan, ana youns
brother of Napoleon l., who, III 40.
narried the beautiful BallimoTea