The National tribune., 1908-04-23

sisted on sticking to the Army until he
reached the statutory age of retirement
| He will not reach the retirement age ol
64 years until July 13, 1913, but the
| President has authority to place him
| on the retired list on his 62d birthday
in July, 1909.
Col. Stewart entered the Army from
Rhode Island just after the close of the
civil war as Second Lieutenant of the
| 4th Art.
Word has been received in Washing
| ton of the suicide of George w. Scott
formerly of this city and one of Presi-
dent Lincoln's bodyguards, which oc-
CURED at Hartford, Conn. He was for
long time one of the guards at the
White House before the city policemen
were detailed for that service. At that
| time there was a White House watch
force, similar to those of the Executive
Departments. Scott committed suicide
by shooting himself. His remains were
robbed by vandals, it is said, who took
his gold watch, iewelry and war medals.
He was II years of age.
A Fighter" to the very end is Rear
Admiral Robley d. Evans. The enter
prising correspondents who are writ
ing at SO much per have had the sturdy
old seadog on the edge of the boneyard
for the last six months. They were not
going to permit him to even start on
this wonderful world voyage" then,
when he did start in good time and
made every date exactly as he planned,
they went after him some more. They
decided that he was to be a second
Moses. He should get just close enough
to the promised land to look over the
blue waves to the enticing fiower-car-
peted country, and then he was going to
quit sure Just you mark this. How
ever, Evans is not gutter He has
just said so over his own signature, and
really he ought to know. This is the
last utterance of the fighting Rear-Ad-
miral:
For 40 years 1 have served my
country, but now for a few weeks /
must serve myself until l have COM
pletely routed this attack of rheuma-
tism. I'm not sick, and I resent any
one saying SO. 1 have had bad attack
of rheumatism and / am recovering
from it.
"They have had to give me severe
treatment, and, naturally, / am weak.
have a very slight attack in my knee
this morning, but they tell me it is the
natural consequence of the baths l am
taking here.
''At first, one feels better, but before
one is entirely recovered one has to
have a slight recurrence of the trouble.
'fSince / was first attacked with rheu-
matism my life never has been in dan
ger; the only trouble was that L suf-
fered a great deal. / have not had
particle of fever, and I am taking no
drugs, only the regular treatments Civ
en- here. l VIII be the same Evans as
of old in a few days"
Who remembers McAuliffe? "Jack"
McAuliffe, to speak more familiarly.
Well, the fact that he was once a
"champeen" pugilist and prizefighter
brought him into sudden and active
prominence the other night in Hotel
Normandie, of this city. McAuliffe was
a guest of the hotel, and there happt ID
to be negro bellboy, who had another
bellboy on his string for the "tarna
tionist'' shooting up on the calendar.
In the dusk of badly-lighted hallway
McAuliffe came up from the basement
tonsorial parlor. and the elevator boy
turned loose with his gun, expecting
that it was his enemy, into whom he
was putting his lead. He was bad
shot, however. and none of the bullets
took effect. The ex-pugilist was some
surprised naturally, and before he got
his fighting blood up the boy had found
out his mistake, and fed up the stairs
to the upper regions. McAuliffe fol-
lowed and out of the rooms poured the
people, till a riot was threatened. None
arrived. McAuliffe caught the boy, and
the way he uppercut and undercut
showed that he was vet in trim, and
when he was finally pulled off the negro
he was about out of the running, he
sure was McAuliffe refused to prose-
cute the negro, and said he had got full
satisfaction. So had the negro, but not
the kind he was looking for. McAuliffe
left the city that night.
The Reina Mercedes, one of Admiral
Cevera's ships, which was captured in
the battle of Santiago, is to be given
her annual Spring ''housecleaning." This
vessel has for several years been a.
station ship at the. Newport Training
School. She was taken out from her
berth last week in tow of the canal tugs
Powhatan and Pontiac, for the New
York Navy Yard.
After being given her cleaning she
will be towed back to Newport, where
she will resume her regular duty.
Following the capture of the Reina
Mercedes in the battle of Santiago, the
vessel was towed to Portsmouth, n. H,
where she was repaired and her boilers
and machinery removed AS she was
an old ship, ii was not possible to re-
store her to a fighting shape, so she
has been used ever since for station
purposes.
DR.. W. Hutson Ford has presented to
the National Museum a 40-pound can
non ball fired from Fort Sumter at the
beginning of the engagement, April II,
1861, which marked the opening of the
civil war. In connection with the his
tory of the shot, Dr. Ford says:
This cannon ball was fired by Maj.
Anderson from Fort Sumter on the 18th
of April, 1861. AT the beginning of the
fight Mai. Anderson devoted his atten-
tion TO the floating battery which was
moored in the cove at Suilivan's Island
near the western extremity, about a
mile and a quarter from the fort. Three
of his shots struck the battery and re-
bounded upon the sandbar. This is one
of them"
That cycling for women is slowly but
surely coming back into favor is shown
by the number of women who ride now
as compared with those who rode last
year. 1t is a pleasant kind of exercise
If not taken too violently and to excess,
as il was when the craze for It was on
1t is a sad commentary On our society
conditions in this country that a man
has TO come TO the rescue of his daugh-
ter's reputation after the fashion that
Senator Elkins has had to do to obtain
justice for his charming daughter. Sem
ator Elkins sent the following to the
newspapers:
IF you can consistently. will you
kindly cease the publication of dis
patches and rumors of the reported
engagement of my daughter? The mat