The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-28
GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON.
NJ. Jules Cambon's Prophetic Feeling-M1
Knox's Foreign Tour.


M. Jules Cambon, who is to retire
as the Ambassador of France to this
country. has sense of intuition that
sometimes startles one. He is an eX-
cellent judge of men, and his view of
future events has time and again
proved to have been almost pro-
phetic. When Mrs. Mckinley was so
ill in the spring and summer of 1901
that her life was despaired of NJ.
Cambon postponed his departure for
France on his vacation until the out
come of her illness could be definitely
known. No one then expected Mrs.
Mckinley to live from day to day.
"Do you know" said NJ. Cambon
to friend just before the crisis in
Mrs. McKinley's illness came and a
change for the better was announced,
lit somehow comes to mel feel it
that Nine. Mckinley will outliye the
President"
NJ. Cambon took his vacation while
Mrs. Mckinley was convalescent and
before he had returned to his post in
Washington her husband had died in
Buffalo
Attorney General Knox will have
his real vacation when he steps
aboard the steamship Oceanic next
Wednesday en- route for Paris. He
said so Monday. a friend to whom
he made the remark ventured the
thought that the Attorney General
had already been away on vacation
for more than a month. Mr.. Knox
then explained how he has passed his
time. In Atlantic City he had even
a greater stream of visitors, morning,
noon and night, then he has in Wash
ington. He was lucky to get two
hours day to himself and family
He fled from Atlantic City to Pride's
Crossing, Mass, to visit friend, and
there business cares followed him
letters, kilograms and officials. Leav-
ing there he went to private fishing
club not far from Sandusky, Ohio.
To this place he was pursued by the
Panama canal question, the whole
thing eliminating in a cable from
Assistant Attorney General Russell,
in Paris, that now was the time to
come. Hence, the Attorney General
will begin to enjoy his vacation when
he gets beyond the reach of the wire
less telegraph on the Oceanic.
Visitors to Washington these days
are having trouble in finding the
White House. When they follow the
directions of the accommodating ho-
tel clerks and proceed one square be-
You'd the Treasury Building, on Penn
sylvania avenue, and begin to look
for the historic structure, they are
met with an unyarnished board sign
which glares at them in large black
letters from the middle of each pill
Jared gate to the effect that within
are located the Offices of firm of CON
tractors and builders who are doing
work on the mansion evidently could
not break the usual precedent of no.
tifying the public of this fact, but, in
sustaining this precedent, they have
broken another, and this is the first
time in history that the White House
has been used as an advertising med
ium for builders or other craftsmen,
and it has not yet occurred to Colonel
Bingham, in charge of the White
House grounds, to order the insight
ly signs down.
How old is Rear Admiral Thomas
o. Selfridge, retired?" is question
the Navy Department is trying to
solve. Is he 80 or 100? The records
don't show, and Rear Admiral Self
ridge won't tell. He says it is no.
body's business how old he is. But
as he entered the navy in 1918, and
must have been at least Is years old
at that time, the supposition is that
he is between 80 and 100. The Ad-
mirafs oldest son, Rear Admiral
Thomas o. Selfridge, Jr., owns to be-
ing 66 years.