New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-11
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES
IRON THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.

he approached the White House. having conceived
desire to greet the President. AS you all know.
the front gates were reserved for Senators and
Representatives. but this fellow walked boldly up
and attempted to pass through the east gate. The
officer on duty tapped him the shoulder. say
inS You can't go in here, sir The man stopped
snort and with great show of righteous indigna-
tion exclaimed Why not. I'd like to know? Isn't
this gate reserved for Senator's? The bluff worked
and he passed up the walk as the officer mumbled
the most abject apologies It was this same man
who, in the days when Senator P was in the
reception. The Senator was out Of the city ana
he coolly borrowed the Senator's carriage and in
Nled several young women TO accompany him. In
mitted to the White House by the south entrance
so my man ordered his driVsr to go Spe to the south
% tie occasion This entrance is reserved for the
diplomatic corps and members of Congress said
the secretary. angrily. This is Senator P7-'s
FOURTH ESTATE QUALIFICATIONs-Fou
O'Clock is the hour when Secretary Root ordinarily
sees newspaper correspondents who desire to ask
him about the days work in the War Department.
Nearly every day he welcomes from five to fifteen
newspaper men at that hour and has chat with
them. Recently he talking to a dozen news
paper men who had in for the O'Clock
ference concerning some important Investigations
which the department making into contracts.
Inspectors had investigated a contract which
questioned and had submitted report to the Sec
rotary which the correspondents were anxious to
get hold OF. Rumors had been circulated that the
report whitewashed tie contractor: still. the
torneys who represented him had asked for hear
ins from the Secretary before final action
taken the report
Mr.. Secretary" said a correspondent for a well
known New-York paper. I'VE have to the
conclusion that it would be a stragge proceeding
hearing. In other words, we don't think that re-
why, you should have been a lawyer" was the
SecrettaTy,s q.li, reply. - .r -
mtted 70 practice before al courts in South caro-
b tried two cases lost them both and went Into
II hope you DIDN'T think the newspaper business
t tof place for lost cases. was the Se'Ee'aFyS re-
NO SYBARITE-""The compliments OF the
to your This is the greeting Alvey A. Adee,
Assistant Secretary of State, extended TO all his
friends who called at his home during the
holidays. With every one else speaking the GUS
tomary Merry Christmas and happy New Year
greeting. Mr.. Adee realized that he was doing the
unconventional thing and volunteered this eX
PLANTATION to friends:
You see. it used to be customary In olden times
TO wish your friends merry Christmas and
happy New Year. That Is relic OF barbarism.
In those days a Christmas could not be merry ana
New Years could not be happy without feasting
and riotng | don't wish any OF my friends to
have drunken and riotous time, according to the
UNsYMPATHETIC sIMMONs.-Even the an
nouHCeHfnt lnat Jerry Smith, the aged cOlOred
tanitor at the White House. is about TO die with
throat trouble. has not lessened the enmity which
exists between Jerry and Arthur simmons the
doorkeeper for Secretary Loeb, who has been n
familiar figure in the White House for a quarter
OF a century. Jerry is a Maryland negro and Ar
thur is native OF North Carolina. They have not
spoken to each other for years unless their work
made IT absolutely necessary. and in talking OF
each each Other have always rem2Eked contempuously
gers" as the case might be. don't know nothin''
IS veil With h hfhr e and H2 err9 W Hh9
Knows OF the feud existing between them attempted
POOR JeTrys not long for this world the man
man. he cahnt chen read"
A GENUINE TRIBUTE-On account OF the re-
cent death OF his brother Secretary Shaw escaped
the round OF calls this year which a Cabinet mem
Der Is expected to make on New Years Day. The
Secretary OF the Treasury. who IS anything but n
man Of society had his first taste OF Cabinet
members New Years Day duties on the first day
OF 1903. Last year ushered In by a cold misty
day in Washington. At o'clock Secretary Shaw
drove away from his observation-disclosures home
and from that time until in the evening he drank
tea and lemonade and ate kisses and fudge and
shook hands with everybody who IS anybody in
Washington at least dozen times. The new Cabi-
net members day at doing receptions was best
described by his colored coachman. who was dis
cussing tho affairs with other coachmen waiting
before Major General Corbin'S handsome homo at
we started 8 o'clock and we've been to the
White House and Mrs. Dewey's and everywhere
else that there's Il canopy I've drove nine
teen times around every square on Massachusetts
cup Of coffee but the secretary he ant no betah
off than me l amt kickin'. cause these certainly
for the most feelnseSt hearted people evan worked
CONTAGIOUS POEsY-The poetic flights OF
fancy which Pension Commissioner Ware so fire.
quently pc ~petrates and the beautiful thoughts
with which certain of Mr.. Wares elderly women
clerks are always crediting him have finally pro-
duced their effect and. result visltatons OF the
muse have become contagious. Ordinarily in the
government departments when a clerk resigns
he or she pens brief expression OF his or her de-
sire TO quit the service OF Uncle Sam. Not IN
the Pension Bureau. as witness the following
Hon. Z. F. Ware Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir: With pleasure not unmixed with sad
OF the BureaH Of Pensions The disruption of ties
formed during service OF nearly eighteen years
than mere passing regret: and while I am glad in
my broken health and declining days 10 be free from
ness that place my hand in the horny old palm
e ana has n Se Sgc oob ne
one who sails from port where years OF deepest
where the surges call with voices of friends and
comrades whose tender sympathy and helpful
Gods children all must drink-so from
s 0 re and Whefe and 8 W6
helpless children were shepherded out OF the
nlent. In looking backward upon long experience.
ii seems to me that only the true. the beautiful
real thines-the immortal part OF life on earth.
The rest has dTopped from us as the worn gar
perhaps hlood-dved in some dark Gethsemane
ysT 4 Pbee to Cod dra the dust that fell
from the great Sculptor's chisel. thanking Him
ey.s watch the receding outlines Of days that
are more" Dear old days! Good bless them to
er things.