The National tribune., 1907-10-31

At last the United States has come
into possession of its first Embassy
premises in a foreign country. Embas-
sador Leishman. at Constantinop!e, haV-
/ ing concluded the negotiations by which
| he has bought the property on which
| the Embassy has been located for sew
eral years.
Mr.. Leishman has notified the State
Department that he has finally secured
the consent of the 40 heirs to the es-
tate on which the Embassy is situated,
and the deal has been consummated
| The exact price is not made KNOWN
but it is said to be we'll within the $780,
| 900 appropriation made by Congress
for this purpose. The negotiations were
begun more than six months ago.
| A fraud order has been issued by the
Post Office Department against +. L..
Crayton and Max Longfellow, of Oak
land, Cal, who conducted a novel get
rich-quick scheme under the firm name
of the United Mail Order Company.
The scheme was to keep close watch
ION mortality records of various cities
and send to persons who had died a
fountain pen with SO charges thereon.
The parcels were sealed, and could not
be inspected without permission, and
this the company declined to grant.
Some relative or friend of the dead
person in most cases would pay the
charges and find in the parcel pen
worth about 25 cents.
! Both Crayton and Longfellow We're
arrested. 1t is said the business was
assuming large proportions.
| There is fake story abroad that the
reason the President was SO dictatorial
on the trip down the Father of Waters
was because he had been warned by a
clairvoyant that things would happen,
so he was looking for them. 1T sounds
to me like lie
Quentin Roosevelt loves an engine,
and recently took the swift trip to Phil
adelphia on one of the big mogulS Of
the Pennsylvania line, in company with
the son of the general manager of the
road. 1t was day of delight for the
youngsters but the fireInen and engi-
neer aged 10 years during the four
hours trip.
Algerncn Sartoris grandson of Presi-
dent Grant, and son of Mrs. Nellie
| Grant Sartoris, has been designated by
the State Department as Secretary Of
the American Legation at MontevideO.
Uruguay. Altho Mr.. Sartoris has made
his home in New York. his appoint
ment is accredited to the District OF
Columbia.
During the Spanish War Mr.. Sartoris
served as First Lieutenant of the 1st
Vol. Inf from May 19, 1898, to early in
1899, when he was appointed Captain
of the Sd U. S. Vol Inf He resigned
from the service within a few months,
and in May, 1902, he was appointed a
Second Lieutenant in the 18th Inf, in
the Regular Establishment He started
out on what promised to be a brilliant
military career. but he resigned his
! commission in April. 1903, at the in
stance of his mother, on the eve of his
regiment being sent TO the Philippines
for tour of duty. Mr.. Sartoris served
as one of the Aids to Gen. FitZhugh
Lee during the SpanishAmerican War.
He volunteered for service at about the
same time as his companions, Capt.
fitzhugh Lee, U. s. Grant, Sd, and
Lieut. Phil Sheridan, Jr The other
serving with the volunteer forces, and
all have remained in the Army.
The Storers have leased handsome
home in the Back Bay district of Bos-
ton. and will spend the Winter there,
instead of coming to Washington, where
/ Dear Maria" can be close to the Presi-
dent. 1t is said that Mrs. Roosevelt
Longworth will visit the Storers this
Winter.
i And that, gentlemen, means there
was no disagreement in Lincoln's Cab
met, and there is none in mine"
/ There was a Rough Rider left out in
the cold, but he's in now. 1t was Sloan
Simpson, of Texas. Both Simpson and
his father, John n. Simpson, are warm
personal friends of the President, they
having owned 4 ranch close to the one
he once occupied in the Northwest, and
having become intimate with him then.
1.-THE hnnd hetwcan SimnSnn and
welt was made all the stronger by the
circumstance that the former, like the
President, is a Harvard man, and when
the Wood Roosevelt regiment was or
ganized nine years ago, the Texan has
tened to become a member. Since
Roosevelt became President Sloan
Simpson has dabbIed in Texas politics
as a sort of an aid to Cecil Lyon, who
lis the whole Republican machine in
that State. and on any number of oc-
casions in that period he has known
that a Federal job, and a good one,
too. was'his for the asking Sloan Simp-
son succumbed TO an offer of salary
flee attached 1t was young Simpson
and Col Lyon who were the Presi-
dents hosts on his trip to Texas and
the Oklahoma wolf hunt two and a
half years ago.
speaker Joseph u. cannon mas DceH
in the House of Representatives about
!. as long as any man, but his record OF
, service is broken by one defeat. That
) was in 1892, when so many Republican
: Congressman were buried by the Demo
! cratic landslide. The man who defeated
him was Col. S. IT. Busey, a wealthy
: banker, living at Urbana, in the County
adjoining that to which Mr.. Cannon
belonged. Col. Rusey's campaign was
{ well managed, great stress being laid
upon his war record, something tina,
, Mr.. Cannon lacks, and he was returned
, the victor by a close margin. He served
/ his two years in Congress without max
ing speech. and he refused a renomi-
nation, saying that it had simply beer
his ambition to serve one term in Con-
[ gress, and that now he was satisfied
Mr.. Cannon was elected to succeed Coz
I, Busey. and he has never had any serious
5 opposition since.
!, In connection with the recent repor;
from Commissioner Rousseau that the
locks in the Panama Canal will have t,
be widened. 1t has developed that the
= War Department has sent five engineer.
g to the Is:hmus to look the matter over
and that each of them, at different
times, has reported that the ditch viii
be too narrow for such vessels as some
of the larger ones now projected by the
{ Navy Department.
The general belief is that the lock.
should he Ividened IN not less than