Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23
GOSSIP AT THE
 NATIONS CAPITAL Where the Big Men and Their Little Ones Are Go, ing For the Summer Months.
TEDDY AT OYSTER BAY
Past Year One of Disasters and Catas~ trophes-Life Saving Devices Government Board Will Meet in Boston Monday.

Washington, June 22.-With Presi- dent Roosevelt and his family at Oy- ster Bay and all the members of his cabinet preparing to scatter to various parts of the country, the coming sum- mer will likely be a very quiet one
 for official Washington. Secretary Taft has just completed an extensive speaking and inspection tour of the West, and will leave shortly for Mur ray Bay, Canada, to get little rest before starting On his invasion of the Philippines.
 Secretary Straus, of the department Of commerce and labor, will leave next week on an extensive pilgrimage that will take him to Hawaii, where he will investigate immigration and coastwise shipping problems.
 Secretary of the Interior Garfield has already closed his Washington resi- 1ence for the summer and will speni the next two months in a prolonged tour of the West. The management of Indian agencies, forest reserves and othr problems now yeXing the inter- ior department, will come under his personal observation during the trip.
 Secretary Root is now on a vaca-- ton at his home, but will leave in m Mexico, necessitatng his absence from the state department office for fully ) month. Every honor will be accorded the secretary by the officials of the southern republic. President Diaz has expressed keen delight at the secretary's decision to visit Mex icO
 Other members of the cabinet, in cluding Attorney General Bonaparta, Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou and Secretary of the Navy Metcalf. will stick close to the capital during the heated term, but all will take va cations of greater or less duration at nearby resorts. Postmaster General Never will spend a month in Canada and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will address the farmers in various parts of the country. At least one member of the cabinet. however, will be in Washington throughput the summer, in order to advise the presl- dent regarding any important business that may arise.
 Vice President Fairbanks and family will leave the latter part of next week for Danvers, Mass, where they will spend three months at the his toric old Pedrick mansion, now the property of the vice president.
 To Consider Life Saving Devices.
 The government board of life saving appliances will hold it's annual meet ing in Boston Monday, when many new inventions and appliances will DC inspected with the view of their adop- ton by the service Captain kimball. superintendent of the government llfe saving service, will attend the meeting in an advisory capacity. At the close of the meeting he will go to the Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire, to se- lect & site for the station to- be es- tablished there by authority Of con gress. Dozens of new appliances for the use of life saving crews are annu- ally being adopted, with the result that the percentage of fatalities is con- stantly being reduced.
 1907 Is to Be Year of Disaster.
 According to government statlstlcs' there is little doubt that 1907 will 50 down in history as year Of terrible disasters and catastrophes. Although less than six months have elapsed since the church bells welcomed the infant year, it has already made bloody record unsurpassed in history The total casualty list of lsoo ha' been surpassed, making the pre-emlit- hence of 1907 certain even if all the dedth-dealing agents of disaster snouid retire from active business Tor 'ae balance of th etwelve months. Natu-