The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-10-11
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondencs.l
lew Use for Post cards-seeming

IL there is no end 10 the usefulness OF
the post card. This is the latest
thing out. In this city and several Of
the big cities OF the middle states an
insurance card Is being sold. When
you wake up in the morning and have
breakfasted your burial money and a
comfortable legacy, should you cease
breathing within the next "a hours, is
guaranteed you IL you take nickel
and purchase an insurance card.
respons sible insurance company is
backing the scheme and claims have
already been paid. For five cents
your life is insured for the sum of
! $500 for a period of "a hours. Uncle
Sam at first was spectical about the
plan, but his very best attorneys have
told him il keeps within the law and
Is all right.
A Plan to Save Millions-After a
conference with President Roosevelt
! a few days ago. POstmaster-General
! Meyer announced that the attorney
general had completed an opinion
which would be promulgated shortly,
sustaining the Meyer modification OF
/ the Cortelyou mail weighing order,
which, il is stated, will save the gov
ernment several million dollars year
in railway mail pay The Meyer mod
ification makes Sunday working
! day" in all cases where the mails are
carried and weighed on that day.
Erring Rich In Oaneer-Attorney
! General Bonaparte was in conference
recently with Milton ID. Purdy, his as
sistant, in regard to the various trust
! prosecutions under way. Asked as to
whether any immediate prosecution
was TO be begun, and also remarking
that President Roosevelt's speeches
! in the West indicated purpose to ed
ucate the people to the idea of some
man of enormous wealth being put be-
! hind the bars, he replied: II hope all
! persons who have been SO fortunate
! as to amass considerable wealth have
| done so by strict obedience to the law
] and by an exhibition Of all the virtues
which go to make up good citizenship.
! II. however. il should turn out that,
! owing to the weaknesses OF human
! nature, one or more Of them have to
some extent gone astray from the
! fold, we may, perhaps, take such ac-
! ton as may recall them The attor-
! ney-general said there was nothing to
| say at this time relative to the Harri-
man case.
! The Army's Health Good.-The
! rate per one thousand of deaths in the
| army during the year 1906 was lower
| than for any year since 1898, accord
ing to the annual report of Surgeon
! General r. NJ. O'Reilly, which has
just been made public. II shows that
! there were 355 deaths from all causes,
| equivalent to a rate OF Gil per one
| thousand of strength compared with
| 6.3, 62S and 14.62 per one thousand,
| the corresponding rates for the pre-
vious year and the period from 1898
! to 1904, respectively. The death rate
for disease, 3.2S was the lowest at
| tanned since the occupation Of tropi'
! cal countries, and compares favorably
with the rates prior to 1898. Tuber-
| cuosis again leads as a cause OF
! death. with a rate Of or per one
thousand and typhoid fever was sec
ond, while the rate of death from
pneumonia was less than the previous
! year.
| Deweys in Larger House-Admiral
| George Dewey has rented the Dewey
house at 1747 Rhode Island avenue,
which the people of the United States
|
Manila at the conclusion of the Span
ish war. Admiral and Mrs. Dewey
really gave up this home last spring
when they removed to the Hazen
house. where Mrs. Dewey lived as
| Mrs. Hazen before her marriage to
the admiral. This house was for
many years occupied by Secretary of
the Interior and Mrs. Ethan Allen
| Hitchcock. II is located at the cor
er OF sixteenth and X streets, just
couple OF blocks from the White
House. The Deweys moved into this
residence. because their home, the
| gift of the public, was too small for
their requirements. The admiral and
his wife propose to take more prom
| inent part in the social lie OF the cap
ital from now on, and as dinner-giving
Is to be a big feature of their enter
tainments. they wanted larger din
ing room than that at the Rhode ISL
and avenue residence.
Rural Free Delivery Primer-The
development of rural free delivery has
been so rapid and the popular interest
| i'm and desire for the service is so
great that the postoffice department
has been compelled to issue text
book on the subject and there has
lust been issued in book form a code
~ revised and ampliied instructions
for the guidance OF postmasters and
carriers In the rural delivery service
which will be furnished all~postmas'
ters at rural delivery Offices and rural
carriers within the next few days. AS
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