The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-30

"Over $1,000, 900 is spent annually b.
the District of Columbia in the care OF
its unfortunate, said George S. Will
son, Secretary of the BOARD of Chart
ties, in an address at the mems meet-
ing in the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION building.
This is an excessively large proper
ton for city no larger and richer
than Washington.
An average of 1,400 prisoners are
continually cared for, at an annual eX-
pense to the District of Columbia of
s250,000. Three hundred and fifty of
these are in Moundsville, w. Va, by
contract, and the remainder are con-
fined in the workhousa. Jail, and reform
schools of Washington These might
be made self-supporting were it not
for the objection to convict labor.
Knowing the danger of idleneSs, the
Judges in nearly every instance impose
a workhouse instead of a Jail sentence
in order that the men may be en-
ploye6.
Henry Watterson said most beauti-
fully about Mrs Mckinley:
If ever a star fell from Heaven into
the arms of man-if ever a flower grew
into a woman-that star and that
flower was Ida SaXton Mckinley. There
was an aroma of sweetness and grace
in the very name. Her husband never
addressed her. never referred to her,
except as Ida BY an interposition
little short of divine the full knowledge
of the supreme tragedy which descend
ed into a life yet in its noon, was
spared her; the angels drew vail as
of tears between her and its full reali-
cation.
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fifty mated. There were many beauties
and virtues in the character of William
Mckinley; his career was abundantly
fulfilled, and the crown of glory he
wore with such consuming mode.ty.
was studded with jewels both rich and
radiant: the soldier the civilian, the
man of affairs, and the party leader;
but the rarest of all that shone in that
priceless diadem was his devotion
simple. constant unerring-to Ida
In his multifarious activities Presi-
dent Roosevelt never forgets the Army
more than temporarily, and he is sure
to quickly return to it, and his solicit
tude that its efficiency shall be kept at
the highest grade. Example:
The White House,
Washington. May IS. 1907.
To the Secretary of War:
field officers who We're physically I'M
able to ride even few miles at an in
creased gait. and rs 1 deem it essential
that the field officers of the line of the
Army should be at all times physically
fit and able to perform the duties per-
tanning to their positions, especially in
the field. and as l believe that such
physical fitness can only be demon
strated by actual physical tests, L de-
sire that you give the necessary direc
tons to have the physical condition of
all officers of the line who come up
for promotion to the grade of field officer
actually tested for skill and endurance
in riding, this in addition to the physi-
cal examination now required by law.
I further desire that an annual or
biennial test of the physical condition
and skill in horsemanship of all field
officers of the line be made under the
personal supervision of the several de-
partment commanders when making
their annual inspections. The test
should be thorough and should consist
of ride of not less than fifteen miles
at varying gaits adapted to the terrain,
not less than ten miles of which shall
be at the trot and gallop-approXi-
mately five miles at each, with such
other exercises in equitatfon as may be
deemed advisable.
AL Eeld officers who belong to or
gani.atIons which are required to en-
gage III the field training prescribed by
General Orders No. A, War Depart
ment, 1906, should invariably partici-
pate in all practice marches, encamp-
men:s and field exercises. All absences
from these exercises should be ex-
planned to the Department Commander
anc only the most cogent reasons for
such absences should be accepted asl
satisfactory.
I think that all officers of the Inspec-
tor-Generais Department should here
after be required to especially inquire
into end report by name, affirmatiyely
or negatively, as the case may be-
whether the field officers belonging to
commands they inspect are believed to
be physically fit to perform all their
duties in the field.
Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt made a pilgrim
age 70 Mount Vernon, the home and
tomb of George Washington, last Mon
day.
1t was not an ordinary sort of pill
grimage. Part of it was made by troll
ley car. and the rest on horseback, and
the journey was attended by circum-
stances of weather that made it par
ticularly interesting
A couple of severe thunderstorris
caught the President and those who
went with him, but Mr. Roosevelt did
not mind such trifies
The Presidents companions on his
Mount Vernon pilgrimage were Mrs.
Roosevelt. their doughter Miss Ethel,
Postmaster-General George Won L.
Meyer, and Capt. Fitzhugh Lee, of the
9TH Cav, one of the White House Aids
Hardly mile of the way was with
out scme landmark associated with the
man who lived at Mount Vernon
The clouds grew blacker and black
err. They were low hanging clouds III 1T
shut ort the sun and brought about the
dimness OF late twilight. In Washing
ton and Alexandria it was necessary to
turn OF gas and electricity to obtain light
enough to see plainly. Thunder rum
bied in the distance, and there We're
occasional flashes of lightning as he
President and his companions cantered
along. Mount Vernon was far away
when the rain began.
At first il was gentle sprinkle. Then
the wind came, and as the low clouds
raced b. they turned loose their M Dis
ture or the head of the Nation and
those with him. There was no prot.c-
ton frcm the downpour