The National tribune., 1907-08-01

ington is concerned. Not only the Pres
ident, but every member of his Cabine;
is out of the city, and in some OF the
Departments men two or three times
removed from the chief, Officially. are
in control. Secretary Root is at his
Summer home in Clinton, n. Y. and AS
sistant Secretary Robert Bacon is the
man to whom employees in the Depart
ment of State go for orders. Secretary
Corteiyou is in Hampstead. L. l., and
Assistant Secretary James B. Reynolds
presides over the destinies of the De-
partment of the Treasury. Secretary
Taft, regardless of politics and official
cares. is having a good time at Murray
Bay, Canada, where his first lieutenant,
Assistant Secretary Oliver. is also tenn
porarily located. This leaves Gen. F.
c. Ainsworth in charge of the Depart
ment of War. Secretary Metcalf is tell
ing his home folks out on the Pacific
Coast about the coming of the Pacific
fleet of battIeships, and Assistant Sec
rotary Truman H Newberry is in COM
mand at the Navy Department. He
finds time to run up to his Summer
home at Watch Hell. r. l., occasionally.
however Assistant Attorney General
Charles W. Russell presiies at the De-
partment of Justice. in the absence of
Attorney-General Bonaparte, who will
spend the Summer al LenoX. and AS
sistant to the Acknowledgement Purdy.
who is in Europe. Secretary Gar
field is out West looking after land mat
ters, thus leaving George w. Woodruff
in charge of the Department of the In
terror. First Assistant Postmaster
General Frank H. Hitchcock is 1T the
head of the PoStoffice Department. in
the absence of Postmaster General Mey-
<ay yIln ic in ht-s-S HI NAr, L.
knows the exact whereabouts of Secre-
tary Wilson, of the Department of Agri-
culture, but Assistant Secretary Willet
NJ. Hays is acting in his place, Secretary
Straus is on his way to Hawaii, and AS
sistant Secretary Lawrence O. Murray
Is acting as Secretary
Acting Secretary OF the Navy New
berry has completed arrangements for
the installation of submarine bell signal
apparatus upon several of the larger
battieships of the Navy, and upon some
of the smaller craft. The apparatus
consists of a bell of high pitch. which
is immersed in the water to depth of
25 to so feet, and is rung by compress
ed air or electricity.
The sound travels thru the water and
is picked up by microphones. similar to
telephone receivers The use of these
bells on ships of the Navy is regarded I
as important in view CT the fact that
they have been installed at practically !
all of the lighthouses and on lightships, /
and have proved of great aid to naviga-
tors.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt. daughter of the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. who has
recently celebrated her 7th birthday in
the Roosevelt Summer home, Sycamore
Hill, at Oyster Bay L. L. is teaching a
Sunday School class cf small children
in Grace Church there. She drives
down to the church every Sunday /
morning in the same little trap in which |
she drives out to the Cathedral School 4
on the Tenleytown road during the Win |
ter. She is great favorite with her /
pupils, children of the residents of the (
belong to class taught by daughter
of the President.
Theodore Roosevelt. jr., who last I
year taught a class of small boys in |
the same Sunday school. has not taken |
charge of one this year.
J. Eugene Harding is the youngest |
member of the coming Congress He is |
but 20. and he is also one of the richest /
elected last year. He will ac- /
quire additional fame and happiness by |
being the first bridegroom of the new
House. His engagement and approach
Ing marriage was announced during his |
recent visit to Washington. He had in
tended keeping his intentions secret. but |
his eager quest of a big apartment L
aroused suspicion. Rich young bachel-
ors are usually better pleased at tav-
ern. Harding put in two days going up
and down elevators, looking at south L
ern exposures and all that sort of /
thing, and then spent much time in fur
niture stores.
This gave his friends tip as to his
plans, and he confessed.
He is to marry Miss Wilson, of Mid
o., his own home town. She
Is the daughter of a millionaire tobacco Il
Capt. Wilson, one of the big
men of the Miami Valley. The wedding
will occur some time in October and the
wedding journey will conclude when the
Congressman comes here to he sworn {
In and to take up his duties. Harding's i
marriage leaves two bachelors in the
Ohio delegation. Burton, of Cleveland Il
and Cole. of Findlay. but the latter may /
also bring bride when the solons again Il
assemble.
The Department of Justice is aggres- 4
sively pushing its campaign against i
peonage practices. Agents have been II
sent recently into Virginia to investigate
that men are being held in
bondage in turpentine camps.
Prosecutions are now being conducted /.
IN Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and /!
Alabama. The Government is being
fought bitterly by the contractors. and
IN some cases it is charged that State
authorities are lending moral support Il
10 those under Indictment. II
Conditions in some sections, as rep.e- Il
sented 10 the President and Attorney
have been deplorable One of
fetal today declared that magazine arti-
cles upon the subject, while looked upon
In Northern States as tinged with vel
low" have really understated the situa-
tion. Il
1t has been brot out that a mana |.
member of a Kentucky family of feud- |,
men who escaped from the
camps where they had been kept under /
and brot them back under
a shotgun guard, and tied together at /
The waist like cattle.
wanted: Scissors grinder. salary
1850 year! That is the advertisement
which the Government has last father
I'd. BY scissors" of course, is meant
somebody to sharpen all sorts of thicgs.
but it certainly does look funny occu-
patton. that of Scissors Grinder to the
United States Government"
Secretary Taft has finally arranged
70 make his political speech at Okla
homa City. Okla, on Aug "a. three
weeks before the election He will stop
there en- route from the East to the Pa
cific Coast, whence he sails from Seattle,
Wash. on Sept. 10 for the Philippines