The National tribune., 1902-11-06
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

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Many of the comrades who have waited
over to view the sights of Washington
more at leisure are favoring The National
Tribune with calls Among others was
Mimi Comrade Hawley is retired
printer. He has been up in the Empire
State visiting the home of his mother,
who, like himself and the generations be-
fore him, was born in the Baker home
stead at Sandy Hill. n. Y. This was the
first frame house built in Washington
County. and it was put up long before
states that BurgOyne had his headquar-
ters there during the Revolutionary War.
Comrade Hawiey followed the fighting
blood in his family, and enlisted in the
1st Wis. He was a resident of Chicago
before going to Minnesota. and retains his
membership in George II. Thomas Post.
the largest Post in the United States, hav-
ing membership of $50. 1t did have a
membership of over 1.200 at one time, but
''swarmed' and formed a new Post.
Comrade Joseph Parkin, his son George
Parkin and brother-in-law W. Newsome,
all of Derby, Iowa, called to see the author
of Isl and Shorty" and exchanged greet
ings. Comrade Parkin, who is now a men,
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served in the 29th Pa, and veteranized in
the 203d Pa. He has been visiting in his
old home in Delaware County. Pa. for
several months. and was Joined in WASH
ington during the Encampment by his son
and the brother of his wife. Mrs. Parkin
had four brothers in the service, and four
brOti tiers-in-law.
Minister WI, who represents China in
this country, has a 16-year-old son, who
has been placed in school at Atlantic City,
much to the surprise of all who know the
father and son. for both like Washington,
and the son was highly esteemed in the
public school here. 1t now appears that
Atlantic City was selected to enable MIR.
Wu to crafty his own ambition as well
as that of his son. The young Wu wants
to be a soldier. and WI senior would be
delighted to have him become a military
man. but the laws of China say nay. No
son of Confuscius may belong to mill
tary organization outside of the Orient.
Over in Atlantic City the Morris Guards,
the crack military organization of New
Jersey. has its home. Minister WI has
prevailed upon the regiment to let the WI
son and heir be sort of honorary mem
Der of the regiment, so that he may attend
the drills and learn the duties of a soldier,
but not have his name mentioned as being
a member of it. and neither will he be
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whipping the devil around the stump. but
If it is possible to teach China military
tactics through these roundabout channels,
nobody should object There is no doubt
at all that China needs all the enlighten-
ment along these lines that she can get.
When the Pension Office was being. dec
GRATED n few years ago, the artist, Samuel
Allison, who was painting the huge pillars
to represent Sienna marble, let his imagl-
nation run riot, and his paint brush fol-
lowed suit. One day some visitor at the
Pension Office noted on one of the columns
a shadow picture of giant Grand Army
badge. 1t was all of six feet long. and
perfectly proportional. but its outlines
dawned upon you slowly, and were sug-
gested rather than defined. Nobody guess
ed that it was painted designedly, and all
sorts of superstitious accidents and Incl
dents were ascribed to that shadow badge.
A little later, another shadow picture was
discovered. 1t was the American Flag,
In all its beauty. streaming in undulating
billows half around the great column. Its
red stripes were apparently under a pink
ly-tinted cloud, and the blue field melted
into the blue of the color scheme, but ''the
Flag was still there" and the head decora
tor began to think that he had a genius
on his staff. The next discovery was a
'.littie red schoolhouse," with the Flag fly
was an uproar! 1t was just about the
time that 1.-The little red schOOlhouse" was
playing great stunt in politics, and the
'iother" side insisted that this was carry
ing the schoolhouse and the Flag toe far.
When it got noised about that the Pen
sion Office was starting an Art Exhibit
tion, business nearly stopped, the influx of
visitors being so great as to delay the
work. Mr.. Allison was directed to erase
his artistic efforts, and did so partially.
Now he has been at it again. He was
engaged to decorate Statuary Hall in the
Capitol-the Hall of Horrors as it is
called by maryland to give its gray stone
walls Sienna marble finish Just as the
work was completed, it was discovered.
that the artist had painted the veins in
the marble in such manner as to pro-
duce startling lifelike outline of the faces
of the la.e President Mckinley, and of
President Roosevelt. In another place an
eagle keeps its piercing eye upon the mar
BILE effigies, and in another Old Glory keeps
watch and keeps guard. When it was
known, the trouble began. People who
had forgotten what the Capitol looked like,
rushed up to see the wonderful pictures,
for they were wonderful Just slIadowy
outlines, but someway strikingly distinct
when you once traced them out Finally
the police had to be called in to clear q
way for the workmen. and as this did not
ed up by phone and ordered to get busy
on eliminating the pictures from the color
scheme of the quaint old hail. He pro-
ceeded to do so, but under protest. Now
the imitation cracks and veins on the his
toric walls, are as commonplace as could
be desired, and the Capitol Police can
once more doze.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt's pony is named
Jocko. 1t is little beauty with long name
and tail. The pony that Archibald rides
is piebaid, bay-and-white, and not very
big, but full of life and go. The little fell
low rides hiI- c-erywhere. and is very
democratic in his ways, taking up with
any nice boy who addresses him as he
rides round, usually attended at a short
distance by a White House policeman.
This is absolutely necessary for the safety
of the children, for it is sadly true that
there are always abroad people who would
frighten the child just because he was
the son of the President. When the
Roosevelts first came to Washington to
occupy the White House little boy who
lives up or Capitol Hill, and who has
very pretty little bay pony of the Shet-
land variety, rode himself down to the
White House one day and asked for Archi-
bald, who came bounding out into the
pOrte-cochere. The Capitol Hill boy asked
the White House boy to go riding with
him. Archibald replied rather sadly that
he could not. Because, don't you know,