Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-25
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Board on Wireless Te;'egraphy
Appointed.
QUESTION OF CONTROL
EX-MAYOR LOW VISITING THE
PRESIDENT.
Prominent Foreigners Presented-Con
gratulations Received From the
Seat of the Eastern War.

appointment OI Il DOdTd ~ SoiiSiuSi N''N
question of wireless telegraphy in the serv-
ice of the national government. The board
is to consist of Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans Rear Admiral Henry n. Manney,
Brig Gen. A. W. Greedy. Lieut.. Com
mander Joseph j. Lane and Prof. Willis l..
Moore.
The work the board is to do not an
nounced at the White House. but the prin-
cipal object is known to decide what de
partment of the government should have
control of wirele IS teegraphy as applied TO
the government service. The War Depart
ment the Navy Department. the weather
bureau and the Department of Commerce
and Labor, by reason of navigation ana
lighthouses. all have interest in the
proper control and future management of
wireless telegraphy. The board will consider
the question carefully and will make re
port to the President, which will probably
determine him in placing wireless tcleg-
raphy in charge of one of the four estab-
lishments mentioned. The work OF the
board may extend even further, for ii IS
expected to report such facts as will ell
able the President to make recommends
tions to Congress looking to suitable legis-
lation covering the control of wireless
telegraphy.
The board is composed of representatives
of the War Department. the Navy Depart
nent, the Department of Agriculture ana
the Department of Commerce and Labor.
The board is expected to make thorough
inquiry into the merits of the various sys-
tens now in use with a view to selecting
some apparatus that will work interchange
ably with any and all of the best systems
now installed on ship board. 1t will also
determine which of the executive depart
ments shall take charge of the shore in
stalla ations and prescribe the extent and the
terms upon which the governmental sys-
tenn shall be applied to the commercial
marine.
Mr.. Lows Visit to the President.
Seth Low former mayor of New York. Is
guest of the President at the White
House. Mr. Low has just returned from a
long European tour. and his visit to the
President is considered more or less signih-
cant. There has for number OF months
been considerable talk about his going
into the diplomatic service, and the Presi-
dent has been represented as desiring to
give him one of the best foreign places to
be found. Mr.. Low has been talked about
il, connection with the American embassies
to France and Great Britain, and gossip
now associates his name with the Italian
embassy at present filled by George V. l..
Meyer of Boston. Mr. Meyer is in this
country on leave, and, there is renewed
talk of his severing his connection with
probable that Mr.. Low would be offered Il
desirable position abroad If there should be
a vacancy 1t is believed that the object of
Mr. Lows visit to Washington is TO dis
cuss with the President political conditions
in New York.
The President and Mr.. Low have always
been close friends and co-workers in polii-
cal matters, and there is nothing more nat
ural than that they should confer about
good many things connected with the cam
paign in New York this year.
The proposed nomination of Gen. Horace
Porter, the American ambassador to
~ New York nv the
republicans would, If it became a reality,
make a vacancy abroad that would be
worth a man of Mr.. Lows caliber. There
has been no decision reached in the case
of General Porter, however, and it is not
known what the program will be when the
New York machine takes up the question of
a nominee for governor.
Invited to Republican Celebration.
William c. Connor, president of the New
York stste Republican Club Of this city;
Charlie E. Thatcher. secretary of the Ne
Lraska association of Washington and
Charles A. Schuldt of the national repubN-
can league of Washington called on the
President to invite him to attend the cele-
bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the
republican state clubs of Washington, to
he held Wednesday. July 6, at pm. in
the National Rifles Armory. The President
expressed regret and said that he would
not be able to be present. Prominent
try will be present.
The Presidents callers included Repre-
sentative Mudd of Maryland. who desired to
pay his respects and extend congra ratulatons
Mr.. Mudd was asked about the talk of the
democrats of his district that they would
succeed in defeating him this year. Yes"
he said, Il am always defeated by the dem
ccrats in my district until the day of the
election"
Secretary Shaw's Return.
Secretary Shaw, who has returned from a
visit to the west and the Chicago conven-
tion, called on the President to add his~con-
gratulations and to present some friends.
Other callers during the day were Gen.
George H. Harries of the District, Assistant
Secretary Oliver Of the War Department.
Admiral Dewey, Admiral Taylor, General
Chaffee James c. McReynolds, assistant
attorney general; Representative Adams OF
Pennsylvania and a number of others. Ad-
miral Dewey remained to talk on some
Navy Department matters.
Prominent Foreigners Call
Two foreign callers of prominence were
Count Franz Graf Merveldt and Joseph
Maria Baernreither, former minister of
commerce of Germany. They are On their
way to St. Louis. Baron Sternburg, the
German ambassador, made the appointment
for them.
Four other prominent foreigners who
were received were Jose de Olivares, COM
missioner from the Argentine Republic to
st. Louis. and Mrs Olivares: Juan p.
Tomas, managing editor of the leading
commercial paper of the Argentine Republic
and Senior Manuel B. Zavaleta, the fore
most archaeologist of the Argentine Re-
public Mr.. Zayaleta has arrived with an
Immense collection of antiquities and nat
ural curiosities to be exhibited in a special
pavilion at st. Louis The collection is one
of the most notable and interesting in the
world, and has required forty-two large
cases for transportation to this country
In replying to the congratulations of
Senior Olivares the President said many
kind things about Argentine, predicting its
growth into one of the great nations of the
earth, and declaring that 1t was ON the
high road to prosperity.
Wages at the Navy Yard.
James OConnell and the general execu-
tive board of the International Association
of Machinists called on the President today
to urge that he make advance in the
wages of machinists employed in the Wash