New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-09
PERSONAL.

When Judge W II. Taft assumes the War De
psrtment portfolio he will sit at the same desk
which his father. Alphonso Taft. occupied "LI's
holding the same Office under President Grant ne
elder Taft occupied the post only ic~ niOis ss.
when he became Attorney General. being si'er-
ward sent to Russia as minister.
Governor William II. Hunt who. It Is repor'sa'
may soon resign his Office in Porto Rico Is nat'Fe
Of New-OrIeans and is son OF william Henry
Hunt VINO was a member of Garhelds Cabinet.
and later Minister to Russia. Governor Hunt Is
not yet fifty years Old
In connection with the erection Of the bronze
statue to Lafayette-presented 20 France oy the
youth of the Unitsd States-ln the Square du Car
rouse IT is announced that the name OF LetaysIse
granddaughter of the late VI Edmond de Lafayet'e'
the great generals grandson
memorial to Professor Joseph lie Conte VINO
died two years ago. has been constructed by tns
Sierra Club. OF San Francisco. In the Yosemite var
ley. II is building Of granite. erected under 'ns
walls Of Glacier Point. Everything except the roor
is of solid granite The building is divided into
three parts the main room measuring &x3s feet
Above the main room a gothic roof rises to the
height Of thirty-ve feet Inside are large reading
table; comfortable wall seats and large } =,
travel research and maps and papers furniSned
Dutch door on the northern exposure Of the buila3
ing, while at the other slde Is q hrepiacs' "eiSu
In with solid granite 1t cost SSOOO
Professor Albert Granger Hardness. Of Brown
University. has returned to his work as head OF
the Latin department. after spending a year as
professor Of Latin the American School or Gas
steal Studies in Rome This school was eSta
from many Of the prominent universities OF tn15
was doing special work on the famous paImpses'
Of Cicero's DE Re Publica
General Hooker's sobriquet OF Fighting Joe
Hooker is said by Sidney V. Lowell, OF Brook
Ivn in '"The Utica Globe" to have originated
as follows: IT was reading proof on The New
York Courier and Enquirer and had been at "orK
from O'Clock in the evening until O'CLOCK the
following morning. Mcclellan had come into con-
tact with the Confederate forces and was pressing
them back toward Richmond Our press dispatches
from the 'front.' written with carbon on manifoic
sheets Of tissue paper toll OF desperate fighting al
along McClellans line. Among his corps command
ers was General Hooker. whose command had been
perhaps too greatly engaged Just then the last
page from the front, giving further particulars OF
the fighting IN which HoOker'S corps was desper-
ately engaged. arrived. and across the top OF the
dispatch was written. Fighting-Joe Hooker
knew that this line meant that the matter should
be added to what had gone before. but the COM
positor who put II In type knew nothing about the
preceding matter; consequently, he set the phrase
as a headline Fighting Joe Hooker Concluding
that it made good headline, let II 90. realized
that IL few other proOfreafers treated the phrase
as 1 did Hooker would live and die Fighting
Joe Hooker Enough additional prCOfreaders acted
likewise to DO the business.
Mrs Martina Elizabeth Crouch who died recently
at her home in Baltimore. the widow Of Pro-
fessor f. w. ". Crouch. who composed Kathleen
MavOurneen.'
Professor Moses Allen Starr. Of the medical de-
partment of Columbia University has been elected
a corresponding member of the Neurological Soci-
ETY. of the United Kingdom: London in recognition
Of his contributions 10 the advanced stu1y &C, OF
delphia Is the only other American who has been
honOred by election to this society.