The National tribune., 1908-09-24

been daily recipients of the doctors
care since that time until their dis
charge. At no time did any symptoms
of rabies develop.
The IL were Maj. John II. Russell
Serg't c. B. Pennington. A B. Hobbal
r. d. Bugby, Il. Clark, G. Baxter, Chas
Yaple, w. H. McFarlane, w. Z. Coop.
er. Oscar Anderson, L. Moore and W
H. Hawkins.
The Commission on Country Life
which President Roosevelt appointed G
month ago, is now fully organized. an6
will hold its first meeting probably
within week in this city. Prof. L. I'll
Bailey, head of the New York State
College of Agriculture, who at first. or
account of pressure of work, declined
the Presidents appointment as Chair
man, has since accepted the place. The
Commission therefore stands as the
President named it.
All members of the Commission have
been close students of the country s
general agricultural conditions for so
many years that they are regarded by
officials here as entitled to rank as
experts. In addition, President Roose-
Welt managed in his selections to have
every part of the country represented.
DIR. Kenyon L. Butterfield, President
of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege, represents the East; Henry Wal
lace, of Des Moines, Iowa, the West,
and Walter H Page, who comes from
North Carolina, the South. In addi-
ton, the members will bring widely
different viewpoints regarding the ques-
tions they will consider.
The President. in his letter to Prof.
Bailey, outlined the general lines the
Commission will follow-to gather in
formation on the present condition of
country life, to recommend means of
supplying such deficiencies as are
found, and, finally, to suggest methods
of organized permanent effort in fur
ther investigation and actual work,
which will result in making life on the
farm more attractive and profitable.
Brighten. Augustus w. Corliss, u. s.
Army, retired, died at his home in Dem
yer, Colo, last week. He was born in
North Yarmouth, Me-, in 1887.
Gen. Corliss was retired from the
Army by operation of law on April %,
1904. He served thruout the civil war
in a Rhode Island cavalry regiment,
reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
on Jan. 10, 1868. Subsequently he en-
tered the Permanent Military Estab-
lishment as private. and rose thru
the various grades to the rank of Brig
adier-General, which he attained on his
retirement
Chief of Police Sylvester is after in
decent posters of all kinds. He will
recommend to the District Commits
sioners that an ordinance be passed that
half-clad pictures of women and all
suggestive posters of whatsoever kind
be condemned and not be permitted to
be placed upon the billboards of the
city. Tor several years bill posters have
been obliged to cover up their sugges-
tive pictures with smaller printed post
ers, but the Chief of Police thinks this
is whipping the devil around a stump.
He wants the whole business cut out.
The suggestion is in the direction of a
prettier town. If nothing else. Most of
the gaudy posters are giaringly mar
tistic, and by good rights ought to be
cut out entirely 1t is thought that
Maj. Sylvester will ultimately eliminate
the billboards, and that will naturally
take out the inartistic posters.
Theodore Roosevelt. the Presidents
oldest son, celebrated his 21st birth
day anniversary Sunday, Sept. 13. As
it was Sunday there were no festivities
in connection with the event.
Lord Curzon, son-in-law of Mrs. L. u.
Letter, of this city. was very badly hurt
in collision of his auto landau with
another in London one day last week.
He was cut about the head.
California has been State for 5s
years, and the California people in
Washington celebrated the anniversary
last week.
The beautiful new marble Office
building of the United States Senate is
perfect bugbear to the older Senators,
those who have been making their COM
mittee rooms in the United States Sem
ate end Of the Capitol their club rooms
for anywhere from six to Is years. The
marble palace cost over $4,000, 900,
and the money has been well expended.
The building will be ready to go into
in December. 1t is built on chastely
classical lines. harmonizing with the
architecture of the Capitol, and the
House Building. which is on the corre-
spending corners, with the House side.
1t is connected with the Capitol by a
subway lined with white brick, and as
light as day, and this will be as warm
in Winter as the Capitol itself. It will
not be to the older Senators. however,
what those wonderful committee rooms
have been, where the Senator simply
walked out of the Chamber and across
the corridor to his committee room,
where he could have his lunch and his
breakfast and dinner, If he liked, served
from the restaurant below. Consider
able has been said about the luxury of
the new Office buildings, but there is
little of that, and practically all the
show, as a matter of fact, is on the ex-
terio.o I'd those portions of the interior
Which re accessible to the public, such
as tn stairways, the rotundas and the
audience rooms of the more important
committees. In these there will be
marble and mahogany, and paintings,
and cut-glass chandeliers, but the
working rooms of the Senators and
Representatives are almost severely
plain, and are furnished with good, sub
stantial mahogany furniture, designed
and Built for wear rather than for
show.
The new Senate Office Building is To-
Gated just to the northeast of the Capt.
toI. 1t is built on three sides of a
square, the fourth side, fronting on
First street, being open. The total
frontage of the building is 1901 feet,
and its entire perimeter 2,341 feet. or
almost half a mile. The principal front
is three stories in hight, but the ground
falls away on Delaware avenue and
First street. so that On the, c street
side the building shows front of five
stories, the lowest being the sub-base-
ment The hight from the sub-base-
ment floor to the top of the balustrade
crowning the facade is 80 feet and one
half inch. The big court of the build
ing, open to the street on one side, will
be a feature worthy of mention. 1t
will be beautifully improved under the