The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-26
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondence.

erS, through the BUILDING department,
recently issued a permit for tie cree
ton of a private stable at a cost of
$$.21.COO. DO you know that this is not
Il marker to the cost Of some of the sta.
,:sad by the thoroughbred eauines
~ national capital?" remarked a
:ent veterinary surgeon. wash
81 IS known from one end Of the
,:.yry to the other as Il city of pa!a-
t...i residences. more so of recent years
;i.aa 1T any time IN its history. but few
people know that the owners of these
dwellings, have hcmcs for their horses
that cannot be outranked south of New
York, and some of them have finer
equipments than even the stables of
New York's thoroughbred horses. One
would be surprised to visit the places
where Washington's high bred jumpers
and driving horses are kept.
'Take, for instance. the stables Of At
torney General Knox. the Letters. Pat
tens, Townsends, Mr.. Walsh and any
number of owners Of high class horses.
They are simply marvels of excellence,
and what some of them may lose In
architectural appearance is more than
made up by the up to date equipment
for the comfort. l might say the luxury.
of the occupants"
Society Gossip.
Ambassador and Lady Herbert will
do no more formal entertaining this
season, but propose remaining in Wash
ington until they sail for England
- T,,o Y,l,,;u, 4.r> 4co,>c S;Jpor, c,,.J
Michael Herbert. return to England
this week to resume their studies in an
English school.
The Mexican ambassador has leased
a cottage for the coming umlner at
Ayelon, N. j., where he. with his fam
lily and staff, will take up his residence
in June. The third secretary of this
embassy. Mr.. Torres. with Mrs. Torres
and their small children, will go to
Mexico for the summer.
Miss Knox. the attractive young
daughter of the. attorney general, has
not given up the trip to Europe which
has been in contemplation for the last
year. but which was temporarily ADAM
doned on account of i'll health. Miss
Knox has lately returned from Florida,
where she spent the latter part Of the
winter. and is greatly improved by her
stay in the sunny south.
With her spring clothes Miss Alice
Roosevelt has resurrected her toy cane,
which she adopted last spring. She
carries it to teas. out driving and, in
fact. everywhere and is quite a con-
spicuous figure in the striking gowns
she now wears.
When she first returned home from
Biltmore. where she visited Mr.. and
Mrs. George Vanderbilt. she appeared
everywhere in black. Now her favor
lite costume is a white gown and a large
black hat with a dropping plume, and
with this she carries the little silver
mounted cane, which causes much COM
ment and thus far has been adopted by
very few of the other society maidens.
Hanna HASH.
eggs. coffee and hash." said a sena-
tor at the Arlington the other morning
when ordering breakfast.
Eggs. sab; yes, sab. What kind,
sah?"
"Very fresh and soft boiled"
"And hash. sab. Shall l bring yon a
little hanna, sah?'
Hanna. What's HANNAH"
New style of corned beef hash, sab;
very nice"
mo; I'll get my hanna hash at Han
na's," was the senator's reply.
And thus. it seems. a United States
senator and chairman of the national
Republican committee has given his
name to a fine brand of corned beef
hash from his series of corned beef
hash breakfasts a year ago.
Cannot Pry Into a Wife's Letters.
The qualification of Il husbands idle
curiosity in receiving and opening his
wife's letters against her protest will
no longer be afforded. This is the COM
mand which has gone out from the
post office department. As a result of
repeated requests by ~postmasters
throughout the country for Il ruling in
the matter this action has been taken.
The ruling is as follows: "A husband
has no right to receive the mail adj
dressed to his wife against her wishes.
to the mail addressed to the chill
dren. the father has the prior right to
/ receive it unless there be some par
| ticular circumstances in the case which
! the department might take into consid-
GRAFTON on a statement of the facts be-
ing presented"
The Dome's New Coat.
The great dome of the capitol is re-
ceiying a coat of white paint, nine
painters being engaged in the work.
These human spiders as they climb
about the dizzy heighted structure at
tract much attention from those on
terra firma. The exterior Of the dome
was last painted nine years ago. One
thousand gallons of white paint are