The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-28
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondencs.l
|, stop Postoffiee Robberies.-De.

| connecticut, winch nave been upset
| ting the department for the past few
weeks, orders have been issued putting
| Postoffice Inspector Lea:aerman at
Boston on the trail If the criminals.
| He has been instructed 10 make an in
vestigation Of the robberies, and will
probably take charge Of the work In
| person at once. Yeggmen have been
terrifying cities in Litchfeld county
near the New York line. Washington,
Canaan, Roxbury and Bridgewater are
cities which have been robbed. This
section is in the New England dis.
| trict, and Mr.. Leatherman has been
| directed TO break up the gang, and If
| possible secure their arrest
Army Balloon Corps.-A balloon
company for the United States army
! will be organized at Fort Omaha, Ne
! braska, as regular branch Of the ser.
vice, If plans now under consideration
| by the officers of the war department
are adopted. One of the officers hav.
ing this scheme in charge is Lieut..
Frank p. Lahm, 9Th cavalry, whose ex-
plot in winning the long distance bal
loon race from France to England for
the Bennett cup gives him first place
| among army balloonists. Lieut.. Lahm
is now in France attending a cavalry
school. The war department has Just
received a new balloon made in New
York, and the army now owns six
balloons.
Pacific Fleet Not TO be EnIarged.-
President Roosevelt does not intend
to send any more battleships to the
Pacific ocean for the present That
was said the other day by one who
ought TO know the Presidents mind.
The subject was discussed before the
President left for Oyster Bay. II was
brought up by prominent naval Off.
Ger, who thinks several battleships
from the Atlantic fleet should gradu-
ally be transferred to the Pacific.
This officer is a member of the gener-
al board, from which fact probably
sprung the report that the general
board had recommended to the secre-
tary Of the navy that the Pacific feet
be enlarged materially forthwith and
that extensive preparations be made
at once TO have a large naval force
on a war footing in the Pacific ocean
Secretary Metcalf and Admiral Brown
son denied this in such emphatic Ian
guage as TO carry conviction in official
circles After a full discussion Of
the situation, the President became
satisfied that the dispatch of more
battleships to the Pacific would great
ly inhame Japanese sentiment AS
Japan is carrying such a financial bur
den that war with the United States
at this time would be almost prepos-
ferrous, the administration feels that ii
is unnecessary to aid the agitators
who are now busily occupied in Japan.
Sternbure Not to Retire.-There is
said TO be little truth In the report
circulated recently that the German
ambassador, Baron Speck Won Stern.
burg, will soon terminate his diplo.
matte career. A member of the en-
bassy here has information that
troublesome sore on the ambassadors
face has improved since he took treat.
men" for II this spring in Germany.
The ambassador is expected back in
this country about July /, and will
take up the work of framing a perma-
nent reciprocity treaty. He will spend
a part of the summer in New England
During the war between Japan and
China, Baron Sternburg visited Man
churia on imperial business, and en-
dured some hardships. One night he
had to sleep in stable, where he was
bitten on the face by an insect. The
sore resulting therefrom has proved
very annoying. The Baron says it is
not cancer, although his physicians
describe ii as lupus. After some
years il was partly cured, and then
broke out again. His friends declare
the ambassador does not give this af-
Fiction proper attention. He is a
very hard worker, and exhausts his
frail physique by continued applica-
tion TO official tasks.
A Social Arbiter.-Miss Isabelle
Hagner is the social Bradstreet of the
national capital. She is social secre-
tary TO Mrs. Roosevelt. She is not
only the leader of the many social
secretaries here, but is a pioneer at
the White House. And she moves
with such effective quietness and
such quiet effectiveness that many a
person interested in social Washing
ton has never heard Of her. Mrs.
Roosevelt became her friend when
Roosevelt was civil service commits
sioner. As a small girl Miss Hagner
belonged TO Mrs. Roosevelts Sunday
class at st. Johns church, the most
aristocratic church in this city. Lat
er. when Roosevelt became assistant
secretary of the navy, Miss Hagner,
we'll bred and highly connected, was
much with the future Presidents wife.
When Mrs Roosevelt became mistress
OF the White House, Miss Hagner was
soon installed as the social Bradstreet
OF the national capital. In the ar
chives OF her memory-perhaps she
keeps a notebook for this purpose