New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

In an account of dinner given in New York
few days ago, General Grenville NJ Dodge was
snoken of as zone OF the five surviving major gem
erals of the Civil War" An inquiry directed to the
War Department brings the response that the rec
ords on file ct Washington do not give the names
of the living officers who held the rank or major
general during the great strife OF lso b. however
an officer on duty In the War Department says that
..lt is understood from unofficial sources that OF
the Union officers who held the rank of major gen.
era1 C;renve NJ. Dodge. Benjamin II. Grferson
Oliver o Howard Wesley Merritt. Nelson A Miles
Peter j. osterhaus. Daniel f. Sickes julius Stahel
and James II. Wilson are living The Confeder-
atas OF the same rank now living. are Simon 3
Ruckner. Samuel q. FJench. Alexander P. Stewart
Stephen D. Lee. VIII T. Martin. Robert F. Hoke
Camillus ]. Polignac Matthew c. Butler. g. w
Curtis Lee, l. l.. Lomax and Thomas l.. Rosser
Mrs. Hoon docking from her newspaperl-
Here is item about convict who writes poetry
Mr.. Hoon-H'ml Is that what he is in for?-
Philadelphia Inquirer
The AhIwardt story in Dr. Max Kullnck's biog
raphy of President Roosevelt. recently published
in Berlin. is receiving much attention in the Ger
man press It Is to the effect that when the Ger
man agitation was in New York he feared that the
Jews against whom all his talks were directed.
would mob him and that he asked police protec-
tion, His request laid before Mr.. Roosevelt.
whose suggestion police bodyguard was as
signed every of whom Jew. AT the
meeting" so goes the story, "one tried TO
raise a disturbance but OF the long nosed po-
licemen grabbed the mischief maker and promptly
elected him" A German paper says: The story
makes good reading. but one in America will
believe it, Police President tsic) Roosevelt could
have taken the Solomonian action because
there Jews the New York police force"
Say. paw" queried little Tommy Toddes who
had picked up a few racing terms on the street,
what is the home stretch ~
Trying to make both ends meet my son. re
piled Toddles. sr. who was auditing the months
household bs.-Chicago News.
The Radetzky celebration. which took place in
Vienna last month to mark the fiftieth anniversary
the death of Field Marshal Radetzky, is the
subject OF a sketch in the "Neues Wiener Tage-
blatt'' by Wilhelm Frey in which he says Mar
shaIs baton and fiddle bow. general and musician.
Father Radetzky and Father Strauss-the stormy
days of AS brought them together 1t after
Strauss had far succeeded that the public
willing to allow him to share with Lanner the
waltz honors. after he had seen Vienna dance to
his fiddle and had turned the heads OF old and
young with waltzes pokas and gallops. that In the
days OF stress the political conscience awoke in
him, and to this he gave expression in marches.
The fourth of these written In haste.
and when the manuscript finished Strauss
wrote over 'Radetzky Marsch. took 1t to his
publisher received his fee, not than so gulden.
and probably had no idea as TO the popularity
which the march-opus 22S-would attain. Soon the
.Radetzky March was heard wherever there was
hand and since then it has never lost its popu-
larity' A story told in another Vienna paper is
that a stranger asked il he knew who Ra-
detzkv was In whose memory the military demon
stration was to take place. Certainly" said the
stranger; 'he wrote the 'Radetzky March ;"
II went to the theatre last night
a play called Hamlet
Fair. only fair. A good. lively sextet would do
IT a world Of good. Louisville Courier Journal.