The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-04
PLAN A VISIT
To WHITE HOUSE
Great Austrian Singing S0cie-
ty Will Visit the President
Next May.
LOEB AS A GOOD FAIRY
SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT FIGURES IN A CON-
SPICUOUS MANNER - OTHER
WASHINGTON NEWS.
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Washington, Nov. 4.-With prln-
ce, a count and fifty millionaires In
it's company of 500, the Weiner Maen-
nergesung Veren of Vienna is COM
ing to the United States in May and
will sing before President Roosevelt
at the White House. This musical
organization is world-famous. Last
year it sang before King Edward, and
London audiences went wild over the
music that came from the million
aire threats, whose owners aggregate
wealth is believed to be in the neigh
borhood of s3OO,O00.000. A pretty
feature of the organizations policy
feature of. the organizations policy
lies in the fact while it gives public
concerts, all the proceeds are turned
over to charity. Since its organlza-
ton in 1S43 the choir has given to
hospitals alone the sum of more than
$250,000. The Maennergesung Verein
will be the guests of the Washington
Saengerbund on the occasion OF its
visit here. Among the members are
Prince Schvenberg and Count Mems
dorff, both immensely wealthy and high
in court circles. In addition there
are fully forty-eight others whose in
dividual fortunes range from S16,OOO,-
900 down to $1,OOO,000. The organiza-
ton is the most unique of it's kind in
the world.
William Leob, Jr., secretary to
President Roosevelt, played the fairy
godfather to the White House family
this week, and as a result the Roose-
velts have been gourmandizing- When
Secretary Leob was in Wyoming on a
hunt he had the good luck to bag an
elk Knowing the Presidents fond
ness for game, he promptly sent a
quarter of the animal to his distin-
guished chief. The Presidential fam
lily have had elk served in nearly ev-
cry known style, and the White House
chfef has brought up few original
ways of serving the meat. Secretary
Leob's gift has silenced the filings
made by rivals, who insisted he had
succeed in getting nothing more i'm
portant than a couple of jack rabbits
on his cunning trip into the West.
| When Secretary Metcalf drops the
portfolio of Commerce and Labor to
rule the destinies of Uncle Sans sea
force, the service will find in him a
warm friend and ardent champion of a
greater navy. In the Fifty-sixth Con
gress Mr.. Metcalf was a member OF
the House Committee on Naval AT
fairs, and he urged, in season and
out the need for building more battle
ships and adding steadily to the ma
wy However, Mr. Metcalf will face
pretty problem that now confronts
Secretary Bonaparte. With the ad-
vent of gigantic battleships, it will
be discovered that the harbors of the
country are not able to receive them.
This has unexpectedly been found to
be the case with the proposed visit
of the battleship Louisiana to New
Orleans, a visit which had to be abOnd-
oned because the harbor could not
Accommodate the vessel. In New York
harbor Dire dyes are working day and
night to have a channel cut that will
insure the safe entry of the two big
liners now building in Great Britain.
That this condition of affairs should
prevail in the most important North
and South ports of this country is
due entirely to the short-sighted pol
icy of Congress in devoting more
than 40 per cent of appropriations to
providing for the army and navy, for
pensions and the Interior Department.
and giving less than 5 per cent to
rivers and harbors Improvement. OF
hot mil ha hc
harbors of the nation cannot shelter
the vessels in case of war or storm
This is a query that is being asked
| here daily, and which finds no ans
wer. The question probably will be
one of the topics of discussion at the
convention of the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress. which meets
| here December 6 and T..
| President Roosevelt is taking every
advantage of these fine fall days to
indulge in his favorite game of tennis.
Every afternoon at o'clock the Pres
/ fdent appears on the court behind the
Executive Office. His costume US
ually is a white cheviot shirt with
collar attached, well-worn pair OF
old trousers and rubber-soled shoes
that are known most generally by the
vulgar but comprehensive title OF
sneakers" Jean A. A. J. Jusserand
| the French Ambassador is the Presi
dents most cherished opponent. AL
though H. Jusserand is fifty-one years
old, he is as active as a boy of fifteen
and is every inch a match for the
strenuous President of the United
| States.
Much amusement has been occas
toned in unofficial Washington this
week by the legacy left to the local
branch of the Brewery Workers Un
ton by Joseph Lindauer, member OF
the organization, who died recently
in Pittsburg. On his deathbed, Lin
dauer, evidently with elaboration
lperpetrated joke on his fellows by
beaueathing to the union the sum OF
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