The National tribune., 1907-09-05

The PreSidio, at San Francisco, tal.'
has been designated by the War Depart
ment as a saluting station for the har-
Dor there instead of Alcatras Island.
The resignation of Gov. George r.
Carter. of Hawaii, which was submitted
to President Roosevelt about six weeks
ago. took effect last week, and his sue
cessor, Judge Walter + Frear, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Ha-
waii, entered upon his duties as Chief
Executive of the Islands
The yellow fever epidemic in Cuba
is causing the Government consider
able uneasiness. It is reported from
down there that the people are not at
all careful. and that ii they were there
would be no fever scare, because there
would be no fever
Work of surveying Almirante Bay.
with a view to its use in the scheme oil
defense of the Panama Canal, has re-
Gently been completed under the direc-
ton OF Lieut.-Commander Chester NJ
Knepper, of the Navy, who was in
charge of the survey expedition. me
charts are now being made ready tor
reproduction by the photographic Or
fee.
Alr,lirante Fay lies in Chiriqui La
COON. on the Caribbean side of the 18TH
mus of Panama. and at the extreme
west of its boundaries The bay is sep
arated from the Caribbean Sea by the
Chiriqui Archipelago. It extends along
the coast about so miles, and from 40
to so miles inland. 1t has a depth
sufficient for ships of the largest class
II has frequently been used for drill d.
naYa. vessels, and il has been proposed
to locate a training station there. IL
is now used to some extent TO coal from
colliels alongside. In the system OF
defense of the canal its chief value
will be as a harbor for warships. 1t Is
500 miles southwest of Guantanamo,
Cuba, where we now have naval sta
ticn.
Here's a pretty kettle of fish! From
Newark, n. J., comes the story that
summons has been issued from the
Sheriff's Office in a suit for SiVv,Ouo
damages brought by Assenbiymaa Ed
ward H Wright, Jr., of Essex, against
former United States Senator James
Smith, Jr., for sianderous statement
alleged to have been made recently by
Smith at the Governors cottage at Sea
Girt
The alleged slanderous statement was
this: 1T kept Charles Bell, a VINE
agent. busy all last Winter supplying
Wright with wine and women"
1t is charged By the plaintiff that this
statement was made in the presence of
the Governor, his Secretary, I. W.
GRAY, and other State officials, and that
there were some women within hearing
distance at the time. The summons
was issued at the instance of W. Mayo
Atkinson, counsel for Mr.. Wright.
Wright belongs to what is known as
the reform end of the Democratic Party
in New Jersey, and has been antagon-
istic TO Smith.
The stepmother of the Little Lord
Fauatleroy'' keeps a clearinghouse in
Washington. 1t is a rather round
about way of advertising, but no doubt
this slight relationship will add to the
pleasure of the boarders Little Lord
Fauntleroy' was Lionel Burnett, who
died carly, soon after his artist mother
drew her immortal character from the
elder of her two little sons. Years later
their parents We're divorced, as every
one knows, and both married again,
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett becom-
ing the wife of her private secretary,
and DR.. Burnett wedding this lady, who,
since his DEATH is Obliged to exc out
her income with paying guests.
Preparations have been made BY the
Bureau OF Equipment Of the Navy De-
partment to ship to the Pacific Coast
large amount Of coal to supply the pres
ent and future needs of naval vessels
in that quarter. Already charters have
been made for the transportation of
nearly $4,000 tons of coal, about $1,000
tons to go to Mare Island and -, 900
tons to Puget Sound.
AS sufficient number of American
bottoms was not available for this pur-
pose. il has been necessary TO charter
foreign ships. Among them are the
following under charter TO Mare Island:
Ferndene, to carry 5000 tons; Cars
no vii =
tons; Strathendrick, 5.S02 tons. and
Huttonwood, 5000 tons. Vessels under
charter to Puget Sound are the Angus,
1895 tons; Netherbe, 1856 tons: STRAIT
hood. $500 tons. and the Hamilton,
5000 tons. other vessels will be char
tered from time to time as they are
available.
Gen Coxey, leader of the famous
hobo march across the country to Wash
ingtcn some years ago. is planning to
start a new pilgrimage, but he refuses
10 tell its destination or its purposes.
Jacob Sechler Coxey earned the title
of General by leading the march
of the unwashed comm onweal to
Washington in the Spring of 1894. 1t
started as a demonstration of discon-
tent among the unemployed after the
money panic of 1893. Coxey was then
operating a sand quarry near Massillon,
O., from which he was making great
deal OF money. Like other business
men of 1893 he had trouble in getting
currency for conducting his business,
anG he saw himself helpless to give
employment 20 his men. His thoughts
were turned TO a remedy. The basis
of his belief was that the community
owed every man an opportunity to earn
a living, and when, thru any business
upkeaval, men were thrown out of en-
ployment, the community ought to fur
nish work on public. improvements. He
proposed to urge Congress to action by
means of a mammoth petition, with
its boots on" a personal appeal of the
unemployed, who should march 10
Washington from all parts of the coun-
try.
The march" caused a sensation. But
by the time Coxey's army reached
Washington the 100, 600 promised had
dwindIed into 1000, and the whole af-
fair ended IN laugh.
Coxey's new pilgrimage may have
something to do with railroads, for in
1895 he addressed the following to the
Subcommittee of the WAYS and Means
Committee, Of which W. j. Bryan was
Chairman:
THE great issue, ] believe, which is
before the people to-day is whether the
railroads are going to own this Govern
ment or the Government is going to
own the railroads"
$50 far as ! know, fish in their ma