The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-04-11

bles and greenhouses. Mr.. Rockefeller
intends the estate to be used as public
park, and has endowed it with fund
of 100000 for Improvements. etc,
the only conditions imposed being that
no street railroad line shall be permit
liquor sold on the place, nor dancing
allowed.
Mrs. Bayard Tuckerman, of New
York. has quietly but very determinedly
taken a decided stand against the So
ciety women of New York who. leaving
their babies at home with a maid, take
spaniel or ugly pug. As soon as Mrs.
Tuckerman learns that any woman on
her calling list pays more attention to
her pet dog than she does to her baby
and, alasi their name Is iegion-she
promptly strikes that name off. II makes
absolutely no difference what social po-
sition. blue blood or money power the
woman may possess, she is no longer a
friend of Mrs. Tuckerman. This brave
and sensible lady does not expect to
revolutionize fashionable New York So
ciety but if she succeeds in waking up
these silly, Indifferent mothers to a
sense Of their folly and their neglected
duties she will have accomplished much
of "Cyrano de Bergerac," is so eccentric
that most people would call him crazy:
indeed, he was reported insane num-
Der of years ago and placed for sea-
son under watchful eyes and care. Four
years ago he agreed to write play for
Coquelin. the famous French comedian.
and recently sent for his publisher to
come out to his chateau to see him
with regard to the play. The publisher
m
Rostand, who said her husband could
not see him till the next day. The next
day Rostand decided he would not leave
his room, and the interview was again
postponed. AT the end of the third
day the disguised publisher was actual
ly obliged to return to Paris without
having had word with the eccentric
author OF even having seen him. AL
most as soon as he arrived he received
the manuscript from Rostand, with the
request that it be printed at once, but
before this could be done telegram
was sent by the author desiring its i'm
mediate return. Stories are told Of the
expedients resorted to by RoStand to
avoid seeing visitors, of his even crawl
ing under table and remaining there
several hours to accomplish this. His
favOrite pastime is said to be DOMINIC
his Legion of Honor coat and going to
the private chapel of his house, where
In solitary grandeur he reads aloud his
verses. No one Is ever allowed to enter
the chapel while he is thus engaged.
It is rumored that Emperor William
Is going to send his fifth son, Prince
Oscar, to Harvard University next
Autumn. This he Is supposed to be
doing In pursuance OF his American
policy which began with Prince Henry's
visit in 1903. and which is calculated to
keep us feeling good. He has selected
Harvard because 1t was President
Roosevelt's college, as well as Embassa-
dor Towers, who is one Of the Kaiser
favorites, because it makes a speciality
of German subjects and because it is
opposed to the Monroe Doctrine. He
his sons grow up with one of President
Roosevelt's. Should the young Prince
enter next Fail he will probably have
two of the Roosevelt boys as college
mates, as the Presidents second son,
Kermit, may enter the university then.
II Prince Oscar is at all like his i'm
perial father he and the Roosevelt boys
ought to make things pretty lively at
old Harvard.
They do say that when the 100000
Hartman mansion which is being built
in New York is finished, and the Harri-
man family esta blished in it, that Mrs.
Hartman will begin an active campaign
for the elimination Of Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish from the leadership Of New York
society. There has been social warfare
going on between these two excellent
ladies for some time, and it Is said that
Mr.. Fish lost his position as President
OF the Illinois Central on this account.
Mrs. Hartman has all the requirements
for a social leader. birth. breeding,
wealth. etc, and she has besides two
very charming daughters to assist her
in entertaining, but until quite recently
she has not been particularly active In
social matters. Mr.. Hartman cares
crossed in business for any sort of
recreation.
Mrs. James Henry Smith, whose hus-
band. SILENT Smith, died in Japan the
other day. Is one Of the richest widows
in the world. Mrs. Smith, It will be
remembered, was Mrs. Rhinelander
Stewart. and her sister Is the wife of
Anthony J. Drexel, Of Philadelphia. In
less than q month after she received
her divorce from Mr.. Stewart she mar
ried. Mr. Smith. and they were on their
wedding trip when he died suddenly in
kioto, Japan. II she inherits all his
estate she will be the third richest wo-
man in the country. Mrs. Russell Sage
and Mrs. Hetty Green being the only
women with larger fortunes than hers.
Mrs Smith Is said to have $4,000, 900.
and will make New York City her home.
She has beauty also. and social aspira-
tons. so Mrs. Fish and the others had
better look to their laurels.
Mr.. F. c. Mclean, of Paral, Mexico,
says we have no idea whatever of the
wonderful wealth Of that country. and
he predicts that more fortunes will be
made there in the next 20 years than
In any other part of the world. The
country, he says, is not only the richest
In the world in a mineral way, but agri-
culturally and every other way. Mexico
has about ZOE, 900 acres planted IN rub
Der, which will produce before long
about one-fourth Of the worlds con-
sumption. The country is developing
very rapidly under President Diaz,
whom Mr.. Mclean considers one of the
greatest men of the century.
new way has been found of hatch
ing chickens, which, however, is not
exactly according to the views Of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals nor the w. c. T. U. One Samuel
Unro. Cheswold farmer and poultry
dealer, concocted what would undoubt-
eddy be considered by these societies as
a wicked" scheme of dosing hens with
rye whisky before putting them on the
nest. 1t worked like charm, as wicked
things often do. the stupid. sleepy hens
clicking coptaptodlv 70 III, mast