The National tribune., 1902-10-23
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

SW1SS Minister, WHO mas pfeSeuteu He
farewells to the President, and will leave
for his home in Switzerland the last ot
the month. Mr.. Pioda has been many
years in Washington, and while represent
ing his Government with dignity and di
plomacy, he was frank and friendly, ant
became immensely popular. He leave.
the United States with regret, and goes Il
Rome in the capacity Of Minister to Italy
Senator Knute Nelson is one Of th'
strenuous kind. He had a date in 1--WE
Harbors, Mich, and a wreck delayed MN
so that those who were expecting him Il
speak OIL the political issues were bound t.
be disappointed unless he made an extra
ordinary effort. A hand-car was IN SIGHT
and it offered solution OF the trouoie
Senator Nelson mounted the hand-car ant
tackled the handle bars. The way thai
machine covered that hve miles Is said u
have been u revelation to the average sec
ton n-haud, and the sturdy Senator IRON
Michigan kept his appointment.
Washington had guest last week
JamseIJee y. 1ata, OF bombay, lhdia
MIR. Iata is Parsee merchant, and-is SAT-
home, the ksplanade House, Is said to be
regaily elegant in its appointments, the
most beautiful in Bombay. MIR. Iata /,
the Carnegie of India, and has founded
many schools and colleges. He has been
for some years exploiting iron i'll his coun'
try, and has visit to the United States Is
for the purpose of studying that industry
here, and IN fact to get all the informa'
ton possible concerning the cOuntrys IN
4, al -i,-i.- 10 t-
a representative of j. Pierpont Morgan
who is assisting the distinguished mer-
chant to secure the desired information.
lie was presented to the President by ex-
Secretary of State John W. Foster.
Assistant Secretary Of the Interior
Frank l.. Campbell last week received the
degree of LII. ID. from the Washington
and Jefferson College, Of Washington, Ia.
Col. Mills. Superintendent of the Mill
tary Academy ST West Point, has been Ill
conference with Secretary Root at the war
Department this last week regarding the
extensive improvements that are to be
made at West Point. Congress appro-
priated S5,U0U,U00 for improvements there,
and it is estimated that the older portions
of the Academy can be entirely rebuilt ON
this sum-
The white marble palace which will be
known as WashingtOn's Carnegie Library
will be dedicated some time between Dec
l and 15. The exact time will be deter
mined on the arrival in New York OF MIR.
Carnegie, the donor, who is now IN Eng
land.
One of the Washington jewelers. manu-
factured as a display for the Encampment
big Grand Army badge in pearls, rubies,
diamonds and gold, the gems alone being
100000, tag value.
Seven feet tall in his socks, and adding
insult TO injury in the minds of his chunk
Ter comrades by wearing high shoes and
of Washington, Pa, came to town to hunt
up other veterans Of Co. A, 22d Pa. Cav.
and tell them his favorite joke about not
being so aged as some, but having lived
longer" than any other man in the Grand
Army Certainly nobody marching in the
parade was longer than he.
Washington thoughtfully imported a
few selected detectives from each of the
Eastern cities, and travelling, in the other
direction from the food of incoming
Grand Army men, was a smaller army of
crooks going back home where the envi-
comment was easier Some of them pre-
ferred to stay, and were bottled for safe
keeping in the most mechanically auto
cratic way. There was nothing doing In
their line during the Encampment, and
very few losses were reported; One man
deposited his wallet among the vines in
the Capitol Grounds for safe-keeping, and
It disappeared-tha was altogether too
much Of a strain upon poor fraIl human
nature. Another comrade from NenIa lost
his commissary fund of S36.
The most irreverent souvenir in the
market was badge with lump OF an
thracite ON it, and the words: Coal. S2O
a ton-wouldn't that G: A. Il. youF
Capt. +. X Wagner, who won promo
ton from the ranks to Captains COM
mission in the 9th Ill. during the rebellion,
marched up the Avenue in the great pa
rade bearing a large flag decorated with
a garland of Missouri oak leaves, brought
by him from his home in Warrensburg.
Mo. During his stay in the city, which
he now visited for the first time since he
returned here with Sherman's army in
1865, the Captain met many old, and
made many new friends, including the
heads of several of the Executive Depart
ments and Bureaus. At the close of his
military service the Captain was presented
with a beautiful sword by the men OF his
command, being the only Captain of his
regiment so honored. He is an active
member of Col. Grover Post, IS, Depart
ment of Missouri.
Among the many fine exhibits with
which Western States ornamented their
beadouarters was that of Oklahoma.
Capt. Thos. w. Swanagin, of Parkland,
Lincoln Co.. Okla, exhibited some tre-
mendous big ears of corn and branches of
cotton plants with huge bOlls just ready
to burst into perfection.
The Daughters of the American RevO-
luton last week broke ground for their
Continental Hall, which is % be a splen-
did structure. Just u years before to an
hour the four founders of the Organiza-
ton perfected their plans for small so,
ciety 1t now numbers $4,000. The
President General of the Society, Mrs
CorneIia Cole Fairbanks, turned the first
spadeful of earth for the new building.
The implement used was a tiny spade
made of gold and silver from the mines OF
Montana, presented by the Montana
Daughters of the American Revolution
through Mrs. Harvey Weed, Vice Regent.
1t was set with blue and white sapphires
found in Montana. 1t will be several
years before the building is completed, but
it will be large enough to contain an au-
dience chamber capable of holding 5000
people. 1t will be constructed on Colonial
lines. probably of white marble, and will
contain the offices of the organization.
Mrs. Fairbanks, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood,
Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, and Miss
Mary Desha.