The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-22
WITT DRAW
FROM CLUB
Rejection of CorbIn's Name
Causes Trouble.
FAIRBANKS CANDIDACY
Mr.. Faulke, 9flndlana, Evidently Believes
the Bee is Buzzlng In the Ear OF
the Senator from Indiana.
Washington News.
Times.Dlspatch Bureau,
No, 1417 G Street, N. W..

Washington, d. c., April 81. 1903,
There is turmoil In tho membership OF
tho Metropolitan Clup by reason of tho
recent rejection OF Adjutant- General Cor
bins application for membership tho
story Of which was printed In Tho
Times Dispatch this morning, after the
Board of Governors took final action. or
rather, after they allowed the name OF
General Corbin be withdrawn. I learn
tonight that General Gillespie. chief OF
engineers, has withdrawn from tho club
because of tho action of tho board, Pay
mnster- General Bates, OF tho navy, who
presented General Corb!ns application,
will take similar action and 1t Is said that
a number OF other officers or tho army
and navy as we'll. will in short time
withdraw from an organization which
cannot forget that General CorbIn was
expelled from Chicago club some years
ago.
Tho somewhat surprising announcement
WINS mido by General Marcus ]. Wright,
OF tho Confederate Records Division or
tina War Department to-day, that tho
rosters Of nearly NIL Confederate orEhn-
izntions wcro already In tho possession OF
tho Department..
when Richmond WAS captured IN tho
sprinr OF 1885, said General Wright. the
Confederate records taken included chiofly
company rosters. mean there were
moro OF these than anything else az
course, Mi tho companies serving IN tho
Confederate regiments did not nave
copies Of their rolls in Richmond put me
great ma ority did, as may DO "e!4
imagined. These arc now In the possess
sion OF tho War Department, and VIII be
copied and published In connection with
rosters of tho companies which tousht On
tho Union side. Now, / do not moan that
It Is not important that the governors o.
tho Southern States should cooperate
with the War Department, ana loan such
rolls rs may be authenticated. II IS safe
tn assume that every roll In possession
~ state governments Is missing from the
War DEPARTMENTS collection 1t IS or the
nrst Importance that these be loaned
ia ia for copying OF course. they VIII
be promptly returned.
General Wright is at present engaged
in compiling list Of the staff OFFICERS OF
| the Confederate army. 1t is an ul'uer
| taking of considerable magnitude ana VIII
keep him engaged for some time " coi,le'
though he said to-day he hoped TO De ape
IN ro over to Richmond soon to visit
| friends.
ut is estimated that In fifteen years
the turpentine industry of North anu
South Carolina will be u thing OF me
past" said an official Of the Deparement
of Agriculture to-day. The turpentiHe
| forests arc disappearing at a rate Whlcn
is simply appalling. The present method
| of boxing the pine tree for the run OF
turpentine kills 1t In about three years.
This method hos boon In practice for
I wears, with the result that the trees dls-
appcar by many thousands every year:
Tho saw-m!lls try to take what IS lett'
Tho Foresty Division OF the Department
has devised tin box with spout "hich
L ~ tr,)n1( nv tho tur-
ncntine gatherer which II used, would
nrolong the life of the tree for many
wears The amount OF turpentlne obtain-
| ed Is said to be fully rs great as by the
old method. But 1t is not being generally
adopted.
The National Lurnbermen's Association
which Is now In session here, Is. strange
as 1t may seem. In View Of the fact thal
mills represented in the association cu'
ten billion feet of lumber annually, II
thorough accord with the efforts or the
Department Of Agriculture to preserVe
the forests. The department wishes tbs
lumberInen not to cut tree rs slnal AZ
fifteen Inches in diameter The asso-
citation may take action at this session
looking to the adoption of some such reg
ulation, Certain 1t Is that many members
favor this course.
Mr.. p, G.. Forsburgh, OF Norfolk, WI
be reelected president of the association
He and Mr., John L. Roper, also of Nor
folk. are two Of the most influential mer
In the association. Mr., Roper Is n Vlr
gilman by birth, and Mr.. Fosburgh
though a Northern man, has resided II
Norfolk and vicinity so long he feel
( almost a Virginian.
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