Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-19
War Secretary Now q M0VIqg Pic.
lure Attraction In New York.
HIS MOUNT SIIRs SYMPATHY OF ALL
Animal OF Amazing Dignity and Pro.
dialous Proportions Dashes With
ohioan to Maneuvers at Fort kiyer
-cirth Tightening Strategy.


NEW YORK. April 1S.-Everybody
who knows anything about Washing
ion knows that Secretary Taft on
horseback Is one of the sights of the
Capital. But il Isn't Il sight that is
very easy TO zee. To get really
good view of this phenomenon you
have got 10 rise very early In the
morning. But they do say II Is worth
All the trouble.
The secretary has horse that Is
the boasiful possessor OF Il waist line
that any member of the old guard
might well be proud Of They have
TO send 10 Letting company to get
ia saddle girths made. Its back Is
ike the back OF behcmoth. IT.
weighs pretty nearly ion. IL has
feet like elephants ears. II ha,
amazing dignity. 1t seems 10 know
That II may he carrying the fate of
The nation.
Taft Rides Revealed.
Anybody who desires can verify
these statements for himself by drop-
ping into one of those movlng-pIcturs
SHOWS That are pushing vaudeville so
hard these days up In Fourteenth
street. The Taft rides are secret no
longer The films got to town TODAY
ana every half hour from O'Clock
you could, by the payment OF cents,
see the secretary OF war gnlloplng
'hadly over the Virginia pike ut the
rate of at least four miles an hour.
The gentleman who takes tickets
nj The door of one or these moving
picture parors assured visitors that
no political significance Is attached to
he exhibit, and 1t certainly Is per-
iectly true that after witnessing tho
SNOW You can't tell whether the sec
retnry OF war Is in favor of tarifY re-
vision or not. You can't even tell
whciher he favors reciprocity with
switzerland The only thing you're
surc OF Is that you're sorry for that
horse.
The moving scene opens with n
view OF the portlco of the Army and
Navy building. Maj.-Gen. j. Franklin
bell, Chief OF Stan u. 3. A., is appar-
emily telling the secretary OF war that
ne VIII be nominated on the first hal
ioi. The secretary has n wlstrul looI,
ANYHOW. the subject of conversation
Is evidently something of very con.
hdehtial nature. because at the end
or 1t the secretary removes his hat
turns his back on Gen. Bell. ana turn,
on The smile that won the hearts OF
me Mikado and the Car ana makes
a low bow.
Decoyed Into Focus.
Several weeks ago dispatch from
washington told how Gen. Bell had
put up job on the secretary OF war.
lie mad decoyed him out on horseback
Ill me interests of the movlng-picture
men, had posed him unsuspectInply
ana had then killed time foollne with
/ MS own saddle girth while n moving
picture man. disguised IA the third
stone from the top In a neighborlnp
wall. mad exercised his art
Sure enough, It's all there IN The
moving pictures. The glrth.tishtenins
stunt comes off as the dispatch sail
bnt 1t cannot really lie said thai Cen
BEL looks guilty. MIR. Taft too. nm.
pears quite at his ease. All or Con
Bells aides look quite comfortsh,s
''''S itSiiNG member of Tho
party is Secretary Taft's horse. Ho
looks as il he didn't really enjoy en-
s'heering so large party.
Next we come to Fort Never thre,
minutes away, having made the stunt
III ABOUT one-sixtcenth of a second.
here we see the secretary regarding
ms mount commiseratingIy and rr.
viewing the Second Squadron of the
thirteenth Cavalry and two batteries
VI Tue lhird Field Artillery. We also
Charles p. Taft. We also see tSat
practical Joker, Con. Bell ana in nil
probability we could sec his Macbja.
vellian smile. If 1t wern't for the hill.
nous headache effect with which oIl
moving picture machines accompany
themselves. Probably the ticket man
, m%s slght about there being nothing
political In Il. but the show "a rIehis
approved by all nculjete