The National tribune., 1903-04-09

was taken to his native place and buried
in Lakeside Cemetery last Saturday with
Grand Army ceremonies by Post II, q.
A. r., Wakefield. Mass. The deceased
was member of Burnside Post, Wash
ington, ID. c.. and served in the civil war
in the Signal Corps, under Gen. Candy,
in Louisiana.
Gen. A. W. Greedy. Chief Signal Off
Ger of the Army, has troubles of his own.
He can't keep men enough to get the
military telegraph lines put up in Alaska
Nearly every civilian engaged for that
purpose has fled to the newlv-dlscoyered
gold fields in the Tananah district. Not
only this, but many of the enlisted men
in the Signal Service in Alaska are ask
ing for discharges. and the work on the
telegraph lines has been greatly -retard-
ed by these OBJECTIONS.
Miss Alice Roosevelt has a unique SOU
yenir of the races in New Orleans during
Mardi-Gras week. On the day of her
visit to the Crescent City Jockey Club
races she was accompanied by Gen.
Joseph z. Wheeler and Rear-Admiral
SchIey, who bantered her for bet on
one of the horses. She picked L'Etrenne.
who was not Considered a winner, having
been beaten by several horses considered
her interiors. This fact bore no weight
with the two distinguished representatives
of the Army and Navy, however. and
they proceeded to back up Miss Roose-
velt's judgment. L'Etrenne came home
in gallon, winner over all, and as she
passed the judges stand she cast her
shoe. The owner of l. Etrenne, Ed. Cor
rigan. on learning that Miss Roosevelt
had picked his mare as a winner, had the
shoe mounted and presented it to Miss
Roosevelt as souvenir of the race. MIR.
Corrigan is an Irishman. and a Demo-
crat of the deepest dye, but he is moth
ing if not gallant.
Rear-Admiral Evans has submitted a
report to the Navy Department in which
he vigorously protests against the prac-
tice of assigning inexperienced Midship-
men to the command of gun divisions on
war vessels. He says it is menace to
the service and is a menace and serious
danger to the fleet under his command.
"Baron" Stephen n. Buynitsky, Po-
fish nobleman with a romance back Of his
arrival in the United States in 1862, died
at Garfield Hospital the other day. He
had been employed in the Treasury De
partment for over 40 years.
Everybody has heard of things which
s'fourish like a green bay tree" Well,
there are four of a kind. costing 5000 each,
which are to decorate the western terrace
of the White House. They are imported
from Holland. to which country they are
indigenous The bay trees are very beau
tiful, of rich, dark, glossy green. They
were so tall that a special car had to be
secured for them, and then it was too big
to go through the tunnels, and had to be
sent thousand miles in q roun iabout
- how, tbA
famous Long Bridge over the Potomac
was reached. the big special car was too
tall to pass through under the trusses,
and so the trees had to be unloaded on the
other side of the river and brought over
In wagons.
Some time ago the residents of the
region of country which lies between Del
Norte and Durango, and embraces the San
Juan Mountains and portion of the Con-
tinental Divide. in Colorado. petitiened
the Land Bureau to include this great wa
tershed in the forest reserve. Commits
sioner Richards has decided to withdraw
it 'temporariarlly until he can look into the
merits of the case. 1t covers an area of
1,115,000 acres.
Ones. ideas of the eternal fitness of
things get serious jolts these strenuous
days So many things have been said, so
many objections urged to the various i'm
provements" in the remodeled White
House that it would seem as though the
limit had been reached, but there is yet
one innovation to record. Those who
visited President Lincoln during the
troubled years of war, remember how he
often walked with his guests to the broad
windows of the big oval room above the
Blue Parlor where he could look out over
Arlington and the Potomac in between;
and that he would often call attention TO
the gaunt, unfinished monument, under
whose shadow a great hospital camp was
spread. 1t was about the table in this
same room that he unfolded to his Cabi-
net-that great War Cabinet of men
, whose names enrich every page OF his
tory-his Emancipation Proclamation, and
it was in this Cabinet room. while his
great heart was aching with the woe and
suffering which his armies were enduring,
that he gave utteranee to the rarely good
stories with which he used to quantity il
lustrate home-trusts.
At this same Cabinet table sat the great
silent leader, Grant, and those other SOL
der Presidents. Hayes, Garfield, Arthur,
Harrison, Mckinley, and the men of note
who formed their councils. In that room
was made the history of the country, one
might say, for in it have congregated the
Cabinets Of the Presidents for the last
hundred years, and no finer decoration
could be desired than the illumination upon
its walls of the names of the illustrious
, men who have been the advisers of the
Presidents Of the United States since the
White House was first occupied by John
Adams.
The sole reminder of these rien that is
left, however, is the oval room in which
they were wont to congregate. 1t has
been impossible TO change the shape OF
the apartment. The room is now known
as the department of Physical Culture"
1t is decorated with boxing-gloves, foils,
swords, sword-sticks, padded vests and the
other paraphernalia of an athletic en-
thusiast. 1t is the room where Gen.
Wood '.swiped" the President on the
wrist and disabled him for a week, or
thumped the President on the head, rails
ing bump that made a larger chimney
pot hat necessary, or poked the President
in the ribs, causing a good sized bruise.
The President has never been able to get
the better of Gen. Wood in the exercises
which they both love.
Some OF the by-gone political powers OF
the Nation who have visited the White
House since this innovation are not at al
backward about expressing their displeas
ure at what they call the dissertation" OF
the room which has about its ancient walls
SO many sacred and thrilling memories. II