Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04

desks for week end In the mountains
OF Virginia, that state being the near
est with anything like virgin forests.
Those whose duties have prevented
their absenting themselves at this time
read the telegraphic reports OF the
hunting excursions of the various par
ties with avidity and curse the luck
that Keeps them here.
With the majority OF the hunters,
president RoOsevelts favorlte sport
seems to have taken firm hold. Nearly
all are after a brace or so of wild
turkey to show when they get back
TO town, but they are keen after the
rat quail and pheasants which abound
In the Virginia hills.
The hunting lodges owned or rented
by various enthusiasts are crowded
with guests, while others have put up
AT various farm houses or at the inns
and hotels scattered over the state.
The Virginia hot springs, q resort
much affected by official Washington
of late, Is in the heart of the widest
portion of the state, and consequently
the big Homestead hotel there is the
headquarters for not few nimrods.
While the president was at Pine Knot
he also Kept open house for his friends.
but owing TO the large party which he
took with him the lodge was too
crowded to permit of his entertaining
any outsiders over one day.
1t looks as though the fad will
keep up throughout the hunting sea-
son, but IL they all have as bad luck
as the president 1t is not likely that
there will be dearth of game next
year. Meanwhile the Virginia authors
ties are finding no fault with this
latest craze, for every addition to the
force of hunters means the issue of
another hunting license
Shaw Jokes with Pittsburgers
Still another Joke which has tickled
the risibilities of Washingtonians is
the one perpetratetd by Secretary
Shaw the other day on a delegation
of Pittsburgers, who were here in an
effort to influence his department in
the location of the new postoffice
building which congress authorized for
the Smoky city at the last session.
Some weeks ago Secretary Shaw de-
cided upon a site for the new building
but his decision created such a storm
of disapproval from advocates of other
locations that he decided to reopen the
case. He spent one entire day. from
10:30 a. m to 4:35 p. M. listening to
the arguments of the three or four diff
ferents factions represented by some
fifty delegates and when they thought
that one faction had won they were
surprised to have him say:
We'll, gentlemen, come around
again tomorrow morning at 1880"
They one and all stood aghast and
questioned him as to the reason for
such a request.
"Well,' he said, 'you haven't given
me a chance to have my say today,
so 1 will have to put it off till tomor-
row, but be sure to come round early
as 1 don't want the interview to break
into my regular working day. which
begins at o'clock"
Most of them showed up between
1880 and o'clock the next morning,
though it was rumored that several
had to sit at poker all night in order
to be awake at that unearthly hour.
The house adjourned after a session
of fifteen minutes. Immediately after
the approval of the journal the creden-
tials of w. F. Englebright of the First
California district, to fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation of James
Norris Gillett. and of Charles G. Wash
burn of the Third Massachusetts dis
trict, vice lockwood Hoar, deceased,
were read and these two gentlemen
took the usual oath.
No quorum being present and no
committees being ready to report, ad-
journment was taken until tomorrow.