The daily sentinel., 1908-01-25
Is
To Happen
during NEXT WEEK
Roosevelt will Receive Rail-
road Men---Taft will Cam
Paign.- Chinese New Year
Observance Other Events.

| NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-One of the
most interesting events of the COM
ing week will be the wedding of
Miss Glays Moore Vanderbilt and
Count Laszlo Jeno Maria Henrik
Simon Szechenyi of Hungary. The
ceremony will be performed at noon
Monday at the home of the brides
mother, West Fifty-eigth street.
New York, Mgr. Michael ]. Lavelle,
rector st. Patrick's cathedral. offic-
iating. Archbishop Farley will not
be present. Many relatives of the
groom from Hungary and the en-
tire staff of the Austro-Hungarian
embassy at Washington will be pres
ent. The brides cousin, Miss Ruth
Ruth v. Tombly, and Miss Dorothy
Miss Vanderbilt is 81 years of age
and is in possession of fortune eX-
ceeding s12,0OO,0O0. Count Szech
enyi is 2S, is memeber of one of
the Oldest of European families and
is imperial and royal chamberlain
at the Austro-H Hungarian court.
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II President Roosevelt will receive
in audience on Monday many of the
/ operating chiefs of leading Ameri-
can railroads, who will bring to his
attention several matters which are
alleged to have adverse effect upon
railroad operation and extension.
1t is expected that the conference
will lead to important results in
the matter of railway supervision
and control. Governor Patterson of
Tennessee will also meet with the
heads of railroads operating In that
state. in the hope of reaching an
amicable agreement in the question
of reduction of railroad passenger
fares. The conference will be held
Monday in Nashville.
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Several important changes will
take place in both army and navy
next week. Brigadier General Me
dorem Crawford. who was appointed
to that rank on January 3 by Pres
ident Roosevelt, will retire for age
Monday, and Brigadier General j.
NJ. X. Davis, now in command of the
department of the Gulf, will retire
Friday. Rear Admiral Robert NJ.
Berry, until recently commandant of
4 the naval station at Norfolk, Va,
will retire from the army by opera
tion of the age limit Tuesday. The
/ American battleship fleet is exepect-
ed to reach its next stopping place
Punta Arenas, on the Straits of Ma.
gellan, on Friday. 1t will be met
there by the Chilean cruiser Chaca-
buoc, which will pilot the vessels
through Chilean waters.
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Secretary Taft is slated for several
speeches next week, most important
of which will be the Mckinley day
banquet at the Tippecanoe club in
Cleveland on Wednesday night. On
Saturday night he will speak at the
annual banquet of the Ohio society
of New York, when Governor Hughes
is allos expected to deliver an ad-
dress. Governor Hughes will also
speak at meeting of the New York
State Charities association In Albany
Monday, when a campaign will be
commenced to wipe out tuberculosis
in the Empire state.
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| One of the most important conven-
] tions of the coming week will be that
| of the American Breeders associa-
tion, of which Secretary James Will
son of the department of agriculture
is president. The sessions will be
held In Washington on Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday and will
be addressed by some of the leading
practical and scientific plant and
animal breeders of the country. An
other important meeting in the nat
ional capital will be that of the ex-
ecutive committee of the National
Editorial association, which will con-
vene Monday. The committee will
likely enter decided protest against
the rulings made recently by the post
office department in regard to second
class mail matter.
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| Responding to call by Governor
Dawson, the West Virginia legls-
lature will convene in special session
lon Tuesday. Thirty-seven subjects
are named by the governor for con-
sideration, the most important of
which is an act to limit the amount
, of levies by public bodies.
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In accordance with the proclama-
tion of King Edward. the British
, parliament will meet in London on
! Wednesday and will begin the con-
lsideration of many important legts-
llative matters now agitating England.
.. An even of interest to Americans VIII
be the sale at auction wednesday, In
London. of the battle-flag which once
floated over the American man-o-
war Chesapeake, before its capture by
: the British during the war of 1912.
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The Chinese New Year will be cele-
3 brated by Celectials in every cline
next Saturday. The customary OBJ
servances will mark the festival In
L the Chinese quarters of New York,
San Francisco and other large cities
v of this country.