The National tribune., 1907-08-15

concerting news. or 1t would be If true.
This Is the way IT reads:
Tho Miss Jean Reid. the daughter
OF the American ambassador. has been
surrounded by every advantage of
wealth and position her father could
give her. she will arrive in New York
this week disappointed girl.
Miss Reid has never been forgotten
In the purely official affairs given by
court and society, but various little in
cidents and inattentions indicated that
she was invited only when necessary.
The bitterness of II all is that while her
father and mother have used all the
power of their wealth, not only for their
! own. but for their daughters advance
ment, they have seen laurels and popu-
larity in the highest circles of English
society and court showered upon the
daughter of a subordinate in the En-
bassy, Miss Mildred Carter, the beauti-
full daughter of the First Secretary.
Since her debut in 1906. Miss Carter
has been the most popular girl in the
American set She has been taken up
by the King and Queen and the most
exclusive set of society. She is invited
everywhere. and it is reported that it
has been particularly CALLING to the
Reids to see the daughter of the First
Secretary made SO much of while their
own was sighted.
After every court function which
Miss Carter attends her name appears
in the court circular. Miss Reid's name
is never mentioned in court circulars"
Plans have almost been completed
for the organization of another new
patriotic or hereditary" association to
be known as the Society of the De-
scendants of the Signers of the Declara-
I'M nf In n1ny.o n H. \
ters probably will be in this city. The
name tells the story. and is enough to
kill II. Not the why of the society
but its title. Sons of Signers' would
be more comprehensive, and would
mean just as much.
One of the bright CD young men who
talk to sightseers on the electric auto
mobiles thru big tin horn has little
joke which he gets off every time he
passes the Executive Offices, the place
where the President works. Just in the
rear of the offices is the tennis court
where the President plays the game
with those who have come to be known
as his tennis cabinet, number of
young men he has appointed to posi-
tions of prominence. AS the autOm obile
lecturer passes this point he gets off
this: And there's the tennis court of
the White House, where the President
plays with distinguished friends. among
Them ambassador Jusserand, of France
Nearly any pretty afternoon you can
see the President reaching for a high
ball" And the fellows who have had
experience with high balls. no matter
whether of the baseball or various other
varieties. smile broadly.
The persistency of Helen Pierce GRAY
in charging that politicians, cattlemen
and others are engaged in si1amefully
ooting the Indians of the Crow Reser-
vation. and have already taken nearly
S2.O00.O0O from them, has resulted in
turther Investigation into the conditions
on the reservation.
The Government. thru investigators
appointed from the Department of the
Interior, will learn more facts connected
With the thieving that Is said to have
been practiced right along on the i'm
poverishmcnt of the Indians.
Mrs. Gray was arrested at Helena,
Mont. charged with having obtained
money from the Indians without first
obtaining the consent of the Govern
.nent. She does not deny that the In
dams gave her $3.50 for the express pur-
p Sc of coming to Washington and ae-
quainting President Roosevelt with
%hat is going on. This she did. with
the result that an investigation was or
Tered. She persisted that the investiga-
ton was not thoro enough. and her re-
peated charges are now to be inquired
into by Government officials other than
the one who made the first investiga-
ton.
Beekman Winthrop, former Cover
nor of Porto Rico and now Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, is the recip-
lent of one of the handsomest as we'll
Us most unique. tokens of esteem ever
given to a public official. Ii is a set of
'ommendatOry resolutions adopted by
The House of Delegates of the. Island
Government. over which he presided for
nearly two years. inscribed on solid
gold and silver plate
The resolutions are long and elabo-
rate, and immediately underneath this
inscription Is embossed the Government
seal of the island and then come the
names of the individual Delegates, "a
in number. The plate is nine and half
inches long and six and a half inches
vide. and is encircled by dainty taste
fui laurel wreath. It's value must be
between S400 and $500.
Mr. Winthrop was only % years old
when the President recalled him from
the Philippines and made him Governor
of Porto Rico. where his administration
gave general satisfaction to the people
A big corset manufacturer of Ansonia.