Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-16


rear admiral In command of squadron are
being specially prepared for the use Of Mrs.
Root and Miss Root These quarters In
Guide cabin. staterooms, bathrooms ETC.
Duplicate quarters, usually occupied BY
the captain OF the ship have been as
signed TO the use OF Secretary Root. Com
manaer cameron MGR. Winsiow. In com
Inand OF the vessel viii occupy humber
quarters In another part of the ship. IN
oroef to bring the members of the family
nearer TO each other the steel bulwArk
which separated the quarters OF the adj
miral from those OF the commanding officer
mas been removed
This action has made room for grand
salon twenty-five feet in width and fifty
feet long athwart the Ship which will be
utilized in entertaining South American
tied
1t will be almost strictly a family party,
the only members OF it, in addition to Sec
rotary Root, RS. Root and Miss Root, be-
ing secretary, a valet and a maid 1t is
expected that they will start from New
York July Z. stopping first at San Juan,
T. r.. and then proceeding direct to Rio
De Janeiro. Visits will be made subse-
Qoehtiy TO Monteyideo, Buenos Ayres Vail
paraiso, Callao, Guayaquil and Panama.
AT the iast-named port the party will dis
embark from the Charleston and pro-
ceeolng by rail- across the isthmus to Colon,
VIII return to New York on a merchant
steamer.
~ X "a
Talk about red tape" said one of the
sixty young men ordered to take the ex-
animation for admission to the pay corps
OF the navy. well. 1 ran into it today with
vengeance. First 1 reported to the COM
mandant of the Washington navy yard.
He Endorsed my papers and referred me to
tne president OF the examining board. He
indorsed the paper and referred me to
| the recorder of the board. The latter
added his Endorsement and referred me
TO the surgeon general of the navy,
10 tn. ~
BY him | was referred back to the presi-
dent of the examining board. whose Office
Is In the Mills building, and then by him
l was referred to the senior medical MEM
Der OF the board. / was then notified to
appear before the medical board five days
later for physical examination. If / pass
that examination I will be examined men,
tally and professionally by the entire
who went through the same routine as my
SELF One young fellow from San Fran
cisco got disguised with the whole pro-
ceeding. ana, tearing up his papers said
he was going back home, as he had already
had all he wanted OF military service
y
They do not keep gold fish In the big
fountain tank at the east side of the White
House any more There are different ex-
plantations why this practice has been given
up. Some say that the fish browsed off the
water lilies In the tank. and others that the
4uoiity VI water 1urnlS0eu Dy the city
mains did not agree with the constitution
or the fish. But one OF the most ingenious
explanations is that the tomato-can hoboes
drank the fish up at such a rate that it
was impossible to keep UP the supply. 1t
Is not to be understood that the tramps
drank the fish up directly but vicariously
as 1t were. The gold fish were of the
japanese variety. that is some of them
Dig reiiows with fan tails. and some others
of a -piebald sort with white spots on their
red sides, while there were some of the
commoner sorts. Now everyone knows
that there are a lot of policemen on duty
about the White House, but 1t was said
that they We're kept in such solid pha-
ianx around the west wing where the ex-
ecutive offices are. that the tramps could
SCOOP In hsh at almost any hour of the
evening. and that there were several sa-
looms In the neighborhood that had a stated
tarin for gold fish, common one being
good merely for glass of beer, piebald
one for drink of red-eye and full
blown fantail for two drinks OF whisky or
mixed drink of any sort, bar only cham
payne cocktails. How true the tramp ex-
PLANTATION is one can only guess. The fact
remains that the tank in question does not
contain gold fish any longer.
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''New York policemen are amazed" said
detective from the great metropolis to a
Star reporter. lat the suggestion made by
Washington detective that the women of
this city arm themselves with hatpins az
means of defense against possible assault.
The reason for my surprise at this sug-
gestion Is that the woman with a hatpin is
feared by the police of New York more
than the italian Spaniard with his dag
ger or stiletto, the darkey with his razor
or the American tough with his revolver
Most of the women of the street are pro-
vided with these hatplns, and use them
with terrible effect on the slightest provo
cation. AS policemen are their most fire.
qhent targets. they have naturally become
very leary of them. The great danger
from these long steel pins is that they are
easily concealed and you are not apt to
discover their presence until 1t Is too late.
women who carry these weapons for Of
fenslve or defensive purposes generally
strike for the eyes, and liz they land II
usually means funeral. The pin pene-
trateS the brain and death ensues. OF
course 1t would be all right IL women used
these deadly weapons alone on brutes who
attack them with evil intent but our ex-
pcrience in New York has been that they
are mainly used as weapons by women of
bad repute to assist in robberies or to re-
sist arrest by the police Several police
men have already been killed in that way.
and the most of are always guarding
against the possibilities of the same fate.
Only few days ago / read In the papers
where young man who was trying to sep
arate two girls who were fighting near Kit
tanning, Pa, was stabbed to death with a
hatpin welded by one of them. Hatpins
may be good weapon for the women of
Washington. but In New York we would
like to have a law prohibiting their use
entirely"