The National tribune., 1907-10-31

Navy Yard shows that this site is prac-
tically out of the running.
A prominent naval official pointed out
| the fact that a large fleet could not
reach Mare Island because of shallow
water and the lack OF space for an
lchoriug vessels
The one dry dock. sos feet long at
top and AS feet ut bottom. will not
accommodate the largest warships now
on their way to the Pacific. A 1855
foot dry dock is under construction, but
may not be completed because no bot
| tom can be found on the site. Mare
Island has cost $7,000,000 Now, add
| to this the fact that there is not anoth-
| er harbor on the Pacific Coast except
| south at San Diego, and the problem
looks ''tuff." very. The Pacific Coast >
almost its own defense.
Plans for the consolidation of the
artillery school and the school of sub
marine defense at Fortress Monroe, Va.
have been completed by the War De-
partment. and the latter school. which
is now situated at Fort Totten, n. Y.
will be transferred to the Virginia fort
| by September of next year.
| The main problem which may delay
the engineers of the Department is that
much land about Fortress Monroe will
have to be reclaimed SO as to provide
sufficient area for the site of the new
buildings. The idea is to redeem some
Submerged land
This city will now be a harvest for
cabmen, owing to the contrariness of
Congress. The two railway stations ara
to be abandoned. and the railroads will
be in the new Union Depot after this
! week. That Union Depot is beaut
J ca g h1tt h ts lrp,t
blocks is just as close as you can get to
| 1t on the street cars. Four good long
blocks up hill. and Congressman frugal
/ ly inclined will walk it and carry grips
or pay advanced cab hire. When the
Union Station matter was under con-
sideration strenuous effort was made
to have the street car lines forced to
would not vote, and SO the bill died
a-bornin' SO to speak. Now, for a year
at least, the walkfest will go on, for
the street car lines will not build into
the station until Congress acts.
| Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, has been in
the city talking prohibition in Kansas
and politics to beat the band. Pri-
marily he is here to get the President
to appoint his brother-in-law to judi
cial seat in Oklahoma. In the opinion
of Gov. Hoch Kansas sees only "Roose-
velt and third term" OF course.
A. c. Walter, formerly resident Of
Washington and later of Orange Coun-
ty. Va, which County he represented in
| the Virginia Constitutional Convention
six years ago as a Republican, has been
here attending the Postmasters' Con-
ventiOn. He is now resident of Ala
bama, having moved there from Orange
County five years ago. Mr.. Walter says
that conditions are prosperous in the
State. He did not care to say much
about politics, because of his official
position as Postmaster. but he admit
lted that there was no candidate but
President Roosevelt talked about for
the Republican nomination. Mr.. Wal
ter will probably be a delegate from
Alabama to the Convention, and he pre-
diets that no other name than Roose-
welt will be considered by the National
Convention until it Is settled beyond
question that the President cannot be
Induced n,Sgr fsro to take the nomination for an
The meeting of the Supreme Council
of the Scottish Rite Masons has been in
and such doins! They have .fnducted''
a lot of men into the 33d degree, and
they have had banquets and secret ses-
sions, where deep, dark, d-ble deeds
We're possibly done. and altogether they
have had a g-l-o-r-i-o-u-s old time.
|
| Goodness me, but Representative La
cey (ex). of Iowa. is an iconoclast. He
says that lower IS for Gov. Hughes,
of New York, for President, and as for
himself he is for Uncle Joe Cannon.
Why, this is rank heresy. don't you
know.
| Representative Maynard. Of Virginia,
lis dreadful high and mighty like in
calling the Government to account for
the failure of the Jamestown Exposition
as money-making proposition.
'If the jamestown Exposition Com
pany fails to repay the $1,000,000 1oan-
ed to it by Congress. the fault will be
largely due to the slow processes of the
Government" said Representative May
nard, of the Norfolk District. More
than any other one man, Mr.. Maynard
is responsible for the granting of the
loan, as it is generally conceded that
his efforts with his colleagues in the
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