The National tribune., 1908-10-08

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been given to colored men of Ohio re-
Gently. Three promotions have oc-
CURED in the Office of the Auditor for
the War Department, the positions be-
ing in the Treasury Department. Chas.
II. Fillmore, OF Springfield, O., was a
Lieutenant in the Army at the close of
the Spanish-American War. He was
appointed to clerkship in the Audi
tors office at $1,000, and has been
raised to $1,000. He was then trans
ferred to the Marine Hospital Service.
William H. Clifford, of Cleveland, o.,
the colored legislator whose vote elect
ed Senator Hanna to the United States
Senate, was in the Treasury Depart
ment at a salary of $1,000 for several
years, and then was transferred to
Cleveland as Inspector of Customs, and
office that was abolished. He was then
sent back to Washington to the office
of Auditor of the Treasury at salary
of $S40. He has gone up quite rapidly.
it would seem, for not so long ago he
was raised to s1,400. Another colored
man, Robert ]. Harlan, of Cincinnati,
has been promoted from $1,000 to
S1400. In the case of Mr. Harlan it is
said that he has been at the head of
the list for promotion for several years,
but others were raised over his head.
1t is said that this could no longer be
Harlan at last came into his own.
Chief Boatswain Francis E. Larkin,
of the Navy, who was injured at the
time the battieship Maine was blown
UP in the harbor of Havana in 1898,
died at the Government Hospital for
the Insane, and was buried in Mount
Peace Cemetery, in Philadelphia.
Chief Boatswain Larkin was born in
Dow -l,-o. 10 sr,1 Nd nIrrnn taI
at Girard College. After his gradua-
ton he enlisted in the Navy, and
reached the grade of Boatswain in jan
uary, 1895. He was serving in that
capacity on the Maine when that vessel
was blown up Altho he was badly
hurt in the explosion, and his clothing
torn to rags, he worked all night in
the Captains gig assisting in the res
cue of those Of his comrades who were
fined to the Naval Hospital at Norfolk
for several months as result of his
injuries and exposure.
IN 1904 President Roosevelt commits
stoned him Chief BoatswaiE, ranking
as Ensign, and he was assigned to the
new battleship Rhode Island. He re-
mained on that vessel until last Octo-
Der, when he became afflicted with
necessitating his transfer
city, where he finally passed away.
TH g.
Now, what do you think of this for
heroic exercise? Maj.-Gen. ]. Franklin
Bell, Chief of Staff of the Army, COM
placently wends his way up and down
sig of the longest flights of stairs ever
in the War. State and Navy Building
by the way, Just fix the State" before
the WAR in your minds, for that is
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whole push in that big granite pile of
turrets. Gen. Bell is a
firm advocate of exercise for Army
officers, lots of exercise. He takes
good deal of his in riding, but he says
that the elevators can go rust out for
all of him; he will walk, and he does.
He's a fine figure of man, too. Years
of service and campaigning in the
Western country has kept him down to
proper weight, and he does not intend
to put on extra fat if he can so easily
help it, as walking miles every day in
chasing around over those six floors
Of the War Department without eleva-
tor aid.
Miss Helen Taft will have a unique
decoration IN her room at Bryn Mawr.
She has been collecting cartoons of her
father and posters in which he or other
is TO have poster panels and cartoon
frieZes in her rooms, with pen and ink
sketches interspersed. Tho demure
girl, she is making plans for rousing
time if the election goes according to
her hearts desire. She will remain at
school and get the news by special
wire. If her father wins she will feast
the entire school. Helen will get fat
check from Uncle Charlie to help her
plan.
Mrs. Alice Mcclellan, whose maiden
name was cockerhan, writes from 2243
Turk street. San Francisco, asking for
information about her mother, whom
she suspects of having lived in AleXan-
dria
Mrs Mcclellan says she was seven
years old when she was kidnapped, and
cannot recollect the name of the place
from which she was taken. Her moth
crs maiden name, she says, was Mar
shall. but she is inclined to think that
her parent married again. Mrs. Nc
Lellan says she would be more than
happy to find her mother, and feels
sure the mother would be equally glad
Mrs. Mcclellan says that she was kid
naped 13 years ago.
No imported Mormons. After a
lengthy hearing. at which the 104 Nor
mon immigrants detained in Boston
were represented before the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor by Sem
ator Reed Smoot, Secretary Straus
passed on IA of the cases. He admit
ted five of the immigrants. and ordered
nine to be deported on the ground that,
If admitted, they would become public
charges.
Senator Smoot presented a petition
to the Secretary asking for the admit
lance of his corelgionists on the
grounds that no member of the Nor
mon Church ever was allowed to be-
come public charge, being taken care
Of by their ellow-churchmen. The
petition was signed by Senator South
erland and Representative Howell, col
leagues of Senator Smoot.
In spite of the statement in the petit
tion, the records of the Department
show that many Mormons have be-
come public charges, tho these cases
are generally immigrants who aban-
doned the Mormon faith Secretary
Straus said that the religious aspect of
the subject would not be considered by
him, but that every case would be de-
cided on its merits.
Among the immigrants are num-
ber of German girls, who are expected
TO marry Mormons in this country.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has chosen
a queer profession or business. but as
he is the one to be pleased 1t makes no
odds 10 anybody else. He has entered
the employ of the Hartford Carpet
Company. in Thompsonville, Conn. and
1t is stated that he will begin at the
bottom ard go up. He is to fill a cleri-