The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-23

President Roosevelt Will deliver az
address at the commencement exer
cises of the Friends School, in tn,
Friends Meeting House, Washington
May "a. The subject of his address viii
be The American Boy"
He has four of 'em, and ought tt
know exactly all about the American
boy. Indeed, he ought.
Among the distinguished visitors a
the circus here the other day was Mas
ter Quentin Roosevelt, who was accom-
panied by one of the Presidents Mill
tary Aids Lieut. Bulmer. of the Navy
who commands the Sy!ph. one of the
naval tenders set aside for the pleasure
of the President and his family. The
lyoungster had as good time as any
of the hundreds of lads who were eX.
cused from school half a day to enjoy
7 the circus. He was Joined under the
big tent by some of his schoolmates
and Lieut.. Bulmer saw to it that the
: crowd conducted itself with proper de.
corum, which seemed to be a tougher
job than maintaining discipline among
the tars.
Speaker Cannon was one of John w
Gates's earliest friends and hackers in
, Illinois. and to Uncle Joe the big mil
lionaire plunger owes perhaps more fol-
, his great financial success than to any
other one man in the country. Tine
friendship then formed has strengthen
,, ed with the years, and Mr. Gates has NO
more intimate friend in public life than
the Speaker of the House. In numer-
GUS ways he has attempted to repay
: Uncle Joe for his kindly help when
Gates most needed it. but the statesman
has declined every such proffer. Nearly
a year ago Mr.. Gates gave an order to
Waltman, the artist who has made the
pictures of so many public men in
Washington, to do an extraordinarily
fine job with the Speaker. When the
artist came to Washington to make ar
Irangements for the necessary sittings
Uncle Joe baked little, because he
couldn't find the time to spare. This
occurred just before the close of the
i first session of the last Congress The
artist waited until the Speaker had re-
turned to his home at Danville, whittier
he followed him, and after much per-
suasion induced the Speaker to sit still
long enough for him to obtain an i'm
preston of his outlines. Like Oliver
Cromwell Uncle Joe told Waltman that
If he must paint him, then put IN warts
and an And this is what the artist
has done. the result being the finest
picture ever made of Mr.. Cannon. By
Mr.. Gates's order the picture will be
presented to the Boys School at
Charleston, Ill. At present it is on ex-
hibftion in an art store in New York.
/
Tho the London season Is still young,
the number of stranded Americans
breaks the record of previous years. It
| is stated.
| Visitors from the United States stop
ping at West End hotels are waylaid
daily by disillusiOned young men, who
worked their way across the Atlantic in
cattle ships. expecting to find employ
ment there this Summer, and who
waived the right to return passage be-
fore leaving America.
A large percentage of the young men
are students and youths of good social
standing. comparatively few being pro-
fessionai deadbeats. Consul-GeneraI
Wynne. who has received many appli-
cations from cattle-ship victims. says:
.! hope Congress will pass bill COM
pelling the steamship companies to
grant return passage to every Ameri-
can citizen who works his way to Eu-
rope. Such legislation is necessary to
protect the young men who ship on
these vessels. These young men should
be made to understand. however, that
this is the worst country in the world
in which to obtain work.
The President has appointed Edward
B. Moore. Of Grand Rapids, Mich, to
be Commissioner of Patents, to succeed
Frederick 1. Allen. resigned, to take
effect June 1. Mr.. Moore's appointment
Is recognition of his efficient and
faithful service in the Patent oaice.
where he has worked his way up from
the bottom
Edward B. Moore, now somewhat
past so years old, entered the Patent
Office in June, 1888, as clerk at $1,000,
and was transferred a year later to the
position of Fourth Assistant Examiner.
from that time mis- rise was gradual |
till, in 1898, he became law clerk, and
IN 1899 Principal Examiner in the
Patent Office. On May 81, 1899, he was
appointed by the President Assistant |
Commissioner of Patents, which posi- |
ton he has held to the present time.
Mr.. Moore was sent to Paris in 1900
to represent the United States Patent
Office at the Exposition.
Now just listen at this, and "fawncy"
IL you can our President Roosevelt
talking as this Frenchman SAYS: AL
conversation he had with President
Roosevelt during his recent visit to the |
United States TO attend the Carnegie |
Peace Conference is related by NJ. Paul |
Doumet in the Gaulois. The simplicity
or American life imprest the French
statesman more than anything else
Next came Mr.. Roosevelt, and the talk
NJ. Doumet had with him.
Il am far from being man of |
him. IF l am rather popular it is be-
cause the Nation sees in me a pretty
complete embodiment of it's own char
acter. / began work early in life, have
been civil magistrate, was a soldier
when that was necessary, then a civil
officer again. have six children in all.
So l am a good American and my fell
low-citlZens like me as a specimen of /
the most widespread American type
that is, good average man and well
balanced" What utter rot to suppose
that the President talked like that to a
stranger.
According to James Hill, son-in-Iaw
OF James J. Hill, the building of the
Panama Canal Is the greatest business
biunder of the age. Mr.. Hill, who bears
the same name as his father-in-Iaw.
and seemingly holds the same views. II
SAID in an address before the students of
the University of Nebraska:
The Suez Canal is barely paying ex-
penses. and the Panama waterway can
do no better, because only a small per-
centage of the population of the world
iiVes south of the equator"
The products to be sent thru the canalf
of necessity, he said, will have to be
shipped from the Middle West to New
York and then reshipped to the South"
TT Is tradition that no American
ever refused Presidential nomina- '
tion," said Judge w. B. Rodgers, the