The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-23
'0LD JUDE" CUSSED
.0NLY'ME|N He ADMIRED
How Seattle Became a Great
and Growing
City.
.THAT cARse o WIVES
The President Is Not Avcrsc to
the Teddy Bear
Craze.
Timcs-Dispatch Bureau. :.
Munscy Building.
Washington. D. C.. september ..

I IF X,
Washington. D. c., September 90.
An old Confederate OF this city. WIN
Is a great friend OF Judge T. q. Jones
OF one Of the Federal District Courts
of Alabama, tells an amusing story OF
the Judge and his experience with Gen
eral Jubal a. Early during the War
between the States. The story illus
trates. MS hardly anything else has
done. the real kindness of odd Jubc..,
as the Confederate soldiers ike tn
call him.
John b. Gordon" said the Confederata
veteran. Ono day Gordon gave him
q verbal order to take to General Early.
Captain Jones galloped OFF and deliv-
cred the message to Early. He had
never seen Old Jube before. and had
not heard much about his habit He
was shocked to hear the general break
OUT IN very violent language. which
was finally directed towards himself.
Jones did not make reply. but as soon
as ne could he salutcG, and, turning his
horse. galioped back to General Gordon.
He complained to Gordon that Gem
eral Early had .cussed' him very Sc
Verely. and Gordon forwarded a ooan,
plant to General Lee that General Early
had not treated Captain Jones With po-
likeness. General Lee wrote General
Early gentle, kindly. but nrm let
ter. In which he directed him to apolo-
gize to Jones. This was not exactly
what Captain Jones wanted for he did
not care to meet General Early again
In few days he received a message
from General Early to come to HIS
Headquarters. Jones went. somewhat
Mustered. Early received him cordial
~. He told him OF having received the
letter from General Lee. ordering him
TO apologize for having cussed, the
young staff officer.
"'Of course, I apologize" said Ear
W but 1t oughtnt to be necessary
never 'cuss' people don't like"
How Semitic Wa. Settled.
A Washington woman, who has
spent considerable time in Seattle. and
greatly admires that city. and the
progressiyencss and enterprise of Its
people. asserts as a fact an incident
of the history of the town which is
not to be found in any history in tho
Congressional Library. The story was
told to her while she was visiting In
Seattle, but the narrator would not go
into details:} in fact she would scarce
discuss the matter above her breath.
Seattle was laid out in 1853. bu.
it did not grow very fast" said the
Washington woman. whom / am quot
Ing as authority for this story. II.
twenty years old. 1t began to grow
fast after the railroad reached .here
in 1854.
For long time there were hardly
any women in the town. Men would
brave the dangers OF the long tramp
across the plains, or the voyage around
the Horn. but comparatively few wo-
men came with them. One day there
appeared in the harbor a vessel which
rounded the Horn from some porr
along the Atlantic side OF the United
States
The vessel was laden with women.
girls whom the thrifty skipper hat
brought out as wives for the hardy
bachelors who were building city on
Puget Sound. The news of the arrival
of the ship, and OF the nature of her
cargo, spread rapidly. and in two or
three days the captain had disposed OF
every one of his passengers the man
who got the wife having to pay the
skipper for her transportation.
Il tried to obtain some details of thu
incident. but my hostess positively re
fused to give them. She assured mo
that some of the most prominent fami-
lies in Seattle were founded In this
manner. and that several danes of the
most exclusive social circles were part
of the cargo which had come from the
East, and which must have Melted the
captain goOdly sum.
"'But don't say word about It,
she said Tt would make all sorts OF
trouble She whispered the story, so
afraid was she that somebody would
hear her telling it. ] never said any
thing about it In Seattle, but l have
tried hard to learn something about ii
in the East, without any success. ]
the captain TO bring out the girls for
wives. or whether the captain just
gathered them up and took them out
on speculation.
He may have just known enough
about human nature to know the
bachelors We're pining for wives to
make them comfy. and would snap up
the first girl available. It's funny
histories of Seattle do not mention
the incident. isn't it?"
hardly thought so.
The Teddy Bear.
The impression that President Roose-
Welt feels that the Teddy bear, espe-
cially it's use in cartoons, is indication
Of unfrlendliness to him, is said to
exist In some quarters. but 1t is en-
tirely unfounded. C. X. Bergman, the
artist. who, as cartoonist on the Wash
ington Post. originator the Teddy bear.
met the President last winter at a
fore spoken to Mr.. Roosevelt, and was
In some doubt as to how the President
would receive him, owing to the bear,
but his doubts were soon at rest
Delighted to meet you. Mr.. Berry
man." exclaimed the President. as he
grasped the artists hand. 'The bear
has put the doll out OF business, hasn't
1t. Go right ahead. I like him"
Perhaps nobody regrets more than
Bergman regrets that he did not copy
right his idea Of the Teddy bear 1t
would probably require SIX figures to
tell his wealth by this time had Ia
done so. Instead his salary as carr
toonist on the Evening Star, to which
he went some mouths ago, is not suffi-
Client to Justify him In giving Up the
$500 position lle has In the patent
office. ''Ss