The National tribune., 1904-09-08
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National Encampment to visit the Antie.
tam battlefield. where he lost his right arm
and was wounded in the left. Comrade
Iauer served i'm Co. r, Goth y. u, Turner
Rifles" He is now janitor of the schools
Of Glen Ellyn.
Comrade C.. F. Drake. Commander OF
the Department of Idaho. G.. A. r. visited
Washington on his way from the National
Encampment. He served in the 10th and
9th Mass. He resides in Weiser. Idaho,
and is engaged in mining.
COmrade ]. F. Emert and wife came to
Washington on their wav home from the
National Encampment. They live at Daw-
son. Ohio. Comrade Emert served in the
then i'm the 50th Ohio. Among other incl
dents of his was that of standing through
the bloody day at Franklin at the breast
works near the Carter House. He is a
farmer by occupation. but has retired from
hard labor.
No more ''bob-tair' horses for the army.
The new Army Regulations will prohibit
the mutiatiOn of names. tails and fore
locks of horses. 1t is stipulated that
there shall be no alteration in the length
of these appendages by docking. banging
or clipping. Those in charge of the ami
mails shall do only such trimming and
clipping as may be necessary to prevent
shaggy appearance.
The War Department has put into eff
feet an act passed at the last session of
Congress providing for the issue of new
Medals of Honor to those who now hold
the old medals. which are to be destroyed.
This was done by the issue of a circular
calling the attention of the public to the
act and requesting the holders of Medals
of Honor issued under the acts of 1862
and 1868 to forward the medals and bow
knots by registered mail to the Military
Secretary. who will replace them by
medals and roSettes of new design. Here
after all new medals will be issued from
the Military Secretary's office on due
proof of the identity of the persons i'm
whose behalf the medals are applied for.
The Republican State Convention of
California has nominated L. s. Grant. jr..
for Presidential Electoral Large for the
Golden State. This looks as though
young Grant intended to go in for politics.
The day of the celebrated old Long
Bridge is over. and soon it will be but
memory. 1t was over this historic
structure that nearly all the traffic of the
South had to pass from 81 to 80, GER
tainly all that which came into Washing
ton. 1t never was much of a bridge, but
it hiss withstoOd the ravages of time and
much better than might have been ex-
pected. Last week the first trips over the
new railroad bridge, just completed, were
made by the Pennsylvania trains. The
bridge cost in the neighborhood of $3.50
600. and the construction has required
three years. The new structure has all
the advantages which the science of
bridge building has developed in recent
years. The type is known as the Pratt
truss bridge. taking its name from the
engineer of bridges of the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
The bridge has total length of 2,52S
feet and six inches. There are ~ granite
piers built of stone from the quarries at
Port Deposit, Md:
The old Long Bridge. which is from 60
to 260 feet TO the east, has considerably
more piers than the new structure and
therein lies one of it's disadvantages. In
times of freshets and ice foes the short
space between the piers does not give
enough room for ice and debris to flow
through.
Old Long Bridge has been threatened
with destruction many times. In 1880 il
was saved by heayily-loaded freight cars
being pushed onto it. In 1881 an ice
gorge formed at the bridge and three
spans were washed away. In 1880 and
again in 1891 the bridge was threatened
and each time the structure was a menace
to other property. Debris. ice, and, in
one flood, vessels. lodged against the
bridge. forming dam which diverted the
river over the lower part of the city.
The present bridge and its companion
the highway bridge. were authorized BY
Congress in 1901. the railroad company
to pay for one and the Government fol
the other.
Of course. greatness" has always tc
suffer the whips and scorns" of the
eager. enthusiastic, non-thnking partisan
Roosevelt has not escaped. but it does
look as though the Post Office Depart
ment might have saved him some of the
infections imposed in naming post offices
after him. Here they are! Four years
from now there will be another crop. and
then Roosevelt can laugh at the Other
fellow:
Mississippi. Ohio.
Observation-Disclosures, Kentucky, Louis
lana. North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
West Virginia.
''Theo-Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi
Texas.
observation-disclosures, Minnesota, Ten
nessee
Observation-Disclosures. Arkansas. Cali
fornia, Georgia. Idaho. Kansas, Kentucky
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri New
York. North Carolina. Oklahoma. Penn
sylvania, Texas, West Virginia, Wiscon
sim"
Rev. David g. Cincore. of Phila delphia
has addressed Mr.. CorteIyou, Secretar,
of the National Republican Committee
on the necessity and importance of tn.
negro vote in the coming Presidential
election. and clearly demonstrates to hi
own satisfaction. at least, that the negroe.
hold the balance of power in New York
Indiana. Illinois, New Jersey, and severa
other States. He addresses Mr.. Cortel
you after the following famboyant fash
ion:
Chairman of the Republican Nationa
Committee, Eminent Field Marshal OF tn,
grand old party of Lincoln. Grant. Sum
ner, Morton. Thaddeus Stevens, John C
Fremont, Frederick Douglass, Simor
Cameron, Old Ben Wade, Black Jacl
Logan, and others. Partisan sire"
Rev. DIR. Cincore writes Secretary Cor
telyou:
at is just as natural for the rank ant
die OF the negroes to vote the Republican
ticket as il is for a canvasback duck (,
take to water" He extols Presiden
Roosevelt, predicts certain defeat for th
Democracy and then prapdIoonop,J II,