The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-08-13


4 white man, hence can not be admitted.
The balance left from the Martinique
relief fund collected by popular subscrip-
ton in the United States is now being
used TO succor starving natives in the in
terror provinces of the Philippines. In
all. S2o,OO0 of this fund was turned over
to Governor Taft. to be expended under
his direction. The money was cabled by
Cornelius \. Bliss. Chairman of the Mar
Unique Committee in New York. with the
following message: Il remit by cable
through the New York Guarantee Trust
Company. $4,000. unused portion of the
Martinique fund. mt suggestion of PreSi-
dent Roosevelt. for individual distribution
ut your discretion
Col. Eugene Ware. Commissioner of
Pensions. is on his way to San Francisco
to attend the National Encampment
\ story was sent out from Washington
about Gen. Nelson Miles going to run for
Commandment Chief of the Grand Army
Of the Republic ut San Francisco. OF
course it wasn't so. but the reporter who
was the author of it thought it was
Here are some curious milk" statistics
compiled by the Agricultural Department.
data having been obtained from 20 lead
ing cities:
1t is shown that Boston leads all these
cities. with Minneapolis second, and Kan
sas City third. The average consumption
of milk in the largest cities of the coun-
try is sixteen one-hundredths of a pint per
day for each inhabitant. In Boston and
Minneapolis a little more than one pint is
consumed by each inhabitant while IN
Kansas City the consumption is nine
tenths of a pint per day. The large use
OF milk in Minneapolis is accounted for by
the fact that Scandinavians drink it. St
Paul. which does not have this element
IN its population. uses but siX-tenths of
pint day per capita.
Philadelphia has record of using less
than half 4 pint of milk by each inhabi-
tant daily Kansas City uses $4,000 gal
Ions of milk per day. while st. Louis. with
nearly three times the population of that
city. uses but 10000 gallons. In the five
largest Southern cities the per capita con-
sumption of milk is less than four-tenths
OF pint per day, while the four largest
Northern cities consume twice that quaint
ty. The cities of New England lead all
others IN the use of milk. Some of the
smaller cities show a per capita of two
pmts a day. The per capita consumption
of Chicago and New York is the same st.
Joseph. Mo. holds the record of using
more skim-milk than any other city. large
or small. 1t is one of the wealthiest cities
IN the United States. but its people use
less cream than any other.
There was an explosion in the conduits
of the electric lighting company on the
Fifteenth street side of the Treasury
building the other night about L O'Clock,
and such an excitement, Manhole plates
flew into the air and fell broken into hun
dreds of pieces. The only thing that saved
people from serious injury from the flying
debris was the lateness of the hour, when
people were all at home or course, the
word was spread that there had been an
attempt on the Treasury vaults. which are
only few feet from where the explosion
occurred. and in an incredibly short space
of time the police had to order the street
cleared of the people who had gathered
Aug. was great day with the Wash
inston and Alexandria NIasons. in which
they were Joined by the Fredericksburg
Lodge. 1t was $50 years ago on the 18th
day of August that Washington was made
Master Mason. The Lodges of the vi
entity went to Mt. Vernon to hold ceremo-
MES. carrying with them many precious
relics.
Fredericksburg Lodge has in its pos
session the Bible used in comforting the
degree upon Washington; Potomac Lodge.
of Washington, has the gavel used BY
Washington in laying the cornerstone of
the Capitol, and Alexandria Washington
Lodge of Alexandria has the trowel used OH
the same occasion, and some other Lodge
has the gavel and the apron which he
Nk-lr in h, 4
ter and the candlesticks which were used
at his funeral
HAWAII now has two cadets in West
Point. Ellis Lando was appointed this
year and admitted, and a son of Lieuten-
ant Commander Charles F. Pond was ad-
mitted TO the Academy last year and is
still there accredited to Hawaii
The annual report of the Auditor for the
War Department shows that during the
year enlisted men Of the Army made
l21.IO9 deposits under the act of May ID.
1872. amounting to S:3,751 GIG, and that
loS,1I9 deposits were withdrawn amount
ing to S4.SO2. 100. upon which the depos-
itors received $262.37S in interest.
Mrs. Teresa A. Meredith, wife of Capt.
VIM. NJ. Meredith, Director of the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving, weli-known
in G.. A. Il. circles, died August ), at her
home in Washington. at the age of %
She was Il woman whom everyone appre-
ciated. and loved and the hearts of the
comrades will go out in sympathy 10 Capt.
Meredith.
Mrs. Jean NJ. d. Lander, widow of Gen.
f. W. Lander. whose brilliant career was
cut short by his untimely death in 1862,
died at Lynn, Mass, August 3. and was
buried in Washington, August ). Before
her marriage to Gen. Lander, Mrs Ian
der was a very successful actress, and
general favorite throughout the country.
After her marriage she retired from the
stage, and for many years her home in
Washington was a most attractive one to
large circle of friends
The District of Columbia is going into
debt at the rate of any boom Western
town. July I, 1901. the public debt was
5000. 1873: July 1, 1903, it had increased to
S4,600,0OO.
A romance was consummated this week
in the marriage of Weldon Brinton Hey
burn, Senator from Idaho, to Miss Cher
atine Yeatman. of Chester County. Pa.
The love affair began in 1884, when the
Senator was young lawyer in Pennsyl-
vania, and before he had gone West to