The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-04-23
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statue of Lincoln in Lincoln Park denudeC
of portion of its symbolism. At the
feet of the Emancipator in the Lincoln
Park statue is naked, crouching negro
who is looking up into Lincoln's face with
an expression of pleading agony on his
black features. Mr.. Keefer wants the
negro taken off the statue. He says he
makes the thing inharmonious. The
Commissioners have happily informed the
gentleman that they have no jurisdiction
over the matter.
Landscape gardeners and people with
public Improvement: fads are positively
memorable in their demands. Just now
the War Department is doing things
Congress appropriated money to erect
statues to lot of old fellows that the
world has we'll nigh forgotten, and the
War Department is about to place these.
Lafayette Park, opposite the White
House, is to get at least two. which
should go in the corners to balance the
two already erected In the corner Sc
lected for one is a magnificent elm Tree.
1t is known to be over Il century old, and
is as sound as dollar. 1t shades a great
big corner of the Park in Summer and is
a favOrite place for the children that play
there. The iconoclastic people who had
the placing of the statue ut that particular
spot were already to go to work chopping
the tree down. when Il protest was rushed
over to the War Department, and Secre-
tary Root recalled the order. so far as
destroying the tree is concerned.
Abner Taylor. ex-Representative from
Illinois, died in Washington last week.
He lost his eyesight Il few years ago his
vision having always been defective. This
defect kept him from being mustered into
the army during the war of the rebellion.
He was born in Maine in 1929.
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Hon. Binger Hermann, OF Oregon.
former Commissioner of the United States
Land Office, has been nominated for Con-
gress in the First Oregon District. Mr..
Hermann served two years in Congress
before going into the Land Office.
Hallet Kilbourn died at 81. Elizabeth's.
Washington, last week. His career had
been notable one in many ways. He
was ''Forty-niner," and was one of the
writers for the old National Republican
of this city. He was associated with Gov.
Shepard in the improvement of Washing
ton, and was once indicted by Congress for
participation in what was known as the
Real Estate deal'' of Washington. He
refused to give up the books of the real
estate firm with which he was connected.
and was sentenced to Jail. The Jail of
the town was horrible place, SO Mr.
kilbourn was incarcerated in one of the
Committee rooms at the Capitol, where
he lived like a prince for nearly two
months. Then he was turned loose, and
that was the last of the case. Mr.. Kill
bourn had been in failing health for a
long time, and his mind left him over 4
year ago.
The butchers of Washington are through
giving credit except under certain cir
cumstances. They had meeting recent
ly, and, after discussing the $500. 900
worth of failures of butchers in Washing
ton Ill the last 10 years. determined to put
a stop to the wholesale loss they had been
suffering through purposely dishonest peo-
pie. They have sent out a circular to all
their customers, which reads, in part, as
follows:
'A1ost of these accounts are not made
by persons who cannot pay but by ex-
trayagant persons who will not pay. Do
You want to pay for, what this eXtraya-
CANT class eat? A person who now gets
credit from butcher and wishes to trans
fer his trade to another will, upon the
payment of his bill at the first butcher
receive card which will help him to OBJ
tain credit from the new butcher"
The Indianola Post-office is not to be
discontinued, and the Postmistress, Mrs.
Minnie c. Cox, is drawing her salary, and
viii until the term for which she was
appointed expires. The denizens of that
neck of Mississippi woods will not get
their mail at Indianola however, until all
danger to Mrs. Cox is past.
Miss Rebecca Taylor, the young lady
who undertook to buck against the Civil
Service Commission and the President of
the United States, has just fallen heir to
S3O0OOO fortune from an old uncle who
lived in San Francisco. Failing heir to
fortunes is much easier way of acauir-
ing them than fighting the Government
for a chance to earn one. Miss Taylor
announces that she will be back in the
Fall, and proposes to use good deal of
that S30O,O00 in continuing the fight on
the President.
There is an old saying about ''the fool
and his money! Miss Taylor is nobody's
fool-yet.
Commissioner-General Sargent, of the
immigration Bureau, is on his way to
Hawaii. where he will establish an i'm
migrant station at Honolulu Congress
appropriated $4,000 for this purpose last
Winter. The opening of the Pacific cable
has greatly facilitated the work of the
immigrant service in the Hawaiian sta
tons. The Immigrant Commissioner is
now in touch with the work IN Honolulu
every day, and can decide questions in n
day which used to keep immigrants in
detention for more than month at a
time.
The Treasury Department has Just
rented fireproOf storage room for the old
files of the Auditor of the POst-office De-
partment. There are 800 tons of these
files. They consist of old money orders
and guard books which, under the law.
must not be destroyed until after a lapse
of seven years.
1t is not generally known that the Gov
eminent finds ready sale for all its old
papers, and as soon as the law releases
these old files they will be sold to the
manufacturers of paper, when they will be
made into new paper. Every scrap OF
Government paper is sold. Ii is not even
permitted 10 take an old envelope from
one of the massachusetts. for these are
all sold TO stamp men, who realize enor
'mously on the finds they sometimes make
among the foreign postage stamps.
1t is said that President Roosevelt i.
carrying Il gun on his person during hi.
trip.