The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-10
LETTER
Especial Correspondence.l

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greater personal Importance to him
than the affairs Of state. He Is busy
trying to reduce his weight, which is
more than 300 pounds. e.
With Mr.. Taft 1t is a question of his
health, for the doctor has told him that
II he does not materially reduce his
weight he will suffer during the two
months he will be confined to a steam.
ship next summer OH his trip to the
Philippines. In his extremity he has
taken up horseback riding in desperate
earnestncss and takes a long trip every
afternoon. With all his weight Mr..
Taft knows wv to ride, and only once
has Co!onelS wards. who always leads
the way. s..>e>r1cl in getting him into
u hole where he was forced to dismount
and lead his horse. That was when
they struck an almost perpendicular
decl;vi;y of fifteen feet with only one
doubtful break in the side.
An international Alliance.
The mex international alliance to in
terest Washington will be the marriage
Of Miss Frances Ncwlands. youngest
daughter Of Senator Newlands Of Ne
vada, to Lieutenant Leopold Won Bre-
dow Of the German army. which ia
scheduled to take place in this city
about the LIST Of May, Immediately aft
er the arrival Of the bridegroom elect,
who obtained the consent Of his en-
peror and sailed for America April 20.
Lieutenant Won BredOw, who Is now
stationed in Berlin with his regiment,
the Cuirassier guard, is we'll known in
Washington. where he was an attache
OF the German embassy during 1903.
Miss Newlands is the youngest Of the
three attractive daughters OF Senator
Newlanus. and through their mother,
who was IL Miss Sharon Of California,
inherited la.ge fortunes.
4 Remarkable Plant.
Those IN Charge OF that section of
the E~ovurA..-ir greenhouses devoted to
tropical p... ), and agriculture recent
Is whites ~. the blooming Of a very
remarkable plant. This Is the Amor
pAJi.I.iu" r%ivicre. IL pant indigenous
to Cochin China and the only speci.
mcn in Washington. The plant looks
Ike Il giant Jack-in-thc-box or Indian
ttti.llp, the specimen i'll question stand
ing tive feet nine inches in height. The
.i.Ii is green, notified with curious
looking white REGULATIONS. which
u it ~ resemble the body OF q
snake. The blossom opens out in the
same pulpit fashion as the Jack-in-the-
box Of our southern woods, and out OF
this rises Il giant purple red spathe
The blossom has a most pungent, sick.
eiliug and uisagreeable ouOr, which IL
the present cas- 50 permeated the
greenhouse in which the plant was
placed that work had to be abandoned
there for nearly two days. One nan
an employee of the department who
has this greenhouse under his care
contracted II severe headache as a re
suit Of inhaling the odor.
New Army Hospital.
Secretary Taft approved the recon-
mcndation Of Surgeon General O'Reilly
for the erection Of a new general army
hospital OF the Cameron tract on the
west side Of Brightwood avenu near
" opposite the Battle National GENE
terry. Congress fixed the limit of cos
Of this hospital, including site, at $500.
GOO and appropriated 100000, which
was made Immediately available. fo1
the purchase Of the site.
The property acquired for the pur
pose contains about forty-three acre.
and cost about $4,000 leaving $2,OO(
Of the appropriation to he devoted t,
n<hnn MONS IN u0vunn%ior V~,:%1, <1NI
new building. The property is owned
almost entirely by ex-senator donald
Cameron OF Pennsylvania.
Fairbanks In arble.
The vice president in cold but con
vincing marble will soon occupy on
Of the two empty inches in the vic'
presidential Valhalla along the wall:
Of the gallery Of the senate chamber
Here a long procession of other presi
dents of the senate, sawed off at tn
waist. glare down sepulchrally on tn
up to date proceedings below. TIL
bust of Mr.. Fairbanks. for which h
has been sitting all winter, is now IL
the plaster stage of its artistic evolu
ton. Franklin Simmons. its sculptor
Will iiNt IL lIAIIlIVNIlulSly W lAOAIS " ~
done in marble.
nent Press Room.
The press rooms Of the government
printing Office are said to be a verif
cation Of the saying that 'the use o
paper is the barometer Of n nation
progress" for the greater the progress
Of the American nation the NOR
presses the public printer is compelle'
to install. The press room Of a mod
ern newspaper is II of its shoy
, places, and the same holds true Of tn
. government office. Some idea of tn
magnitude of the main press room o
the largest printing office in the worl
might be gained from the statemen
, that the daily consumption Of pape
+ is about nine tons, 300 pounds Of in,
! being required. Twenty tons of pape
=, Of different kinds are used each da
in the operation Of the entire plant
over twenty-five cars being require