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New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
FOR PRESIDENT 4LONE.
Private Waiting Rooms in Ne0
Union Station at Capitol.
BY UaIdOn Fawcs It

One of the most notable features OF the new
Union Station Just completed at Washington
said to be the largest and costliest railway ter
minaI in the worlds the state suite Of pri-
vate wa. .lg rooms provided for the use Of the
President CT the United States
The Presidential apartments in the new $40
600 terminal occupy the eastern end of the
vast station. facing the United States Capitol
The suite extends the full width of the struct-
ure, anC this entire portion of the building may
If desired be completely shut off from the re-
Inainder of the terminal At the southeastern
corner OF the station is the main entrance to the
Presidential suite, arched portal Of simple
design, and over it the seal Of the United States
surrounded by flags.
II preferred entrance OF egress may be had on
the east front, where several doors open from
the apartments TO a corridor portico spacious
enough to permit all the White House carriages
to be drawn up in a line before It at one time
On entering the state suite by the main door
way tie visitor finds himself in vestibule
which communicates with the main reception
ROOM from which also open most of the doors
on the east front
The reception room, which is the essential
featu-e Of the Presidential suite, is an impress
sive, high ceilinged apartment, almost large
as the historic East Room at the White House
and suggestive of that in its general outlines.
There is mosaic floor. and the fresco ornanen-
taton and other decorations. which are eIab-
crate, present color scheme in which blue and
gold pre- dominate The woodwork and furniture
are nah Dgany: In daytime flood of light is
admitted to the Presidential rooms by a row Of
large windows opening to the east and at night
both concealed and exposed lights are utilized
for illumination There are three massive chan
deiers suspended from the ceiling, and these are
supplemented by eight side wall brackets of cor
respondingIy massive design
Although the reception room takes up the
major portion of the Presidential suite. there
are tucked away on either side of the vestibuIe
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

to remove his hat steal up behind him and
quietly remove it, and Il boys bad table man
ners made unpopular by the judgment Oh
his peers"
In the spacious dining on the grouh1
floor, with its white table linen and its big rub
Der plants the diners are seated on one side Of
the tables only. This is in accordance with MT
Kenyon's belief strengthened by lifelong expo
rience. that when you put large number OF
boys where they easily make faces at one
another they will make them and will indulge
in other table pleasantries which frowned
on by good manners. BY his expedient he has
been able to cultivate among the boys policy
of nOn-nterfercnce at meal times which has
had gratifying results Each hoy has his own
napkin and napkin ring. bearing a number
corresponding to that of his locker.
Where all the boys who are registered?'
| visitor asked Mr.. Kenyon few evenings ago,
after having been through the house and hav-
ing seen only a minority Of the seventy-nine-
''Oh, some of them calling on friends; some
of them are in the street; they all spending
their evening about as the average boy would
do. We think that for most boys who are at
work all day the house in the evening is good
a place any, but don't insist upon their
staying in. provided they in for the night
at a reasonable hour.
Il believe" continued Mr. Kenyon, expounding
his favorite theory OF boy development ''in tn
spring boys to respect themselves by treating
them as if they were worthy of respect Nap-
kin rings may seem like frills to some people,
but they tend TO set boys who perhaps never
used napkins before up in their estima-
ton that they live up to their blue china
In furtherance Of this policy have march
ing of the boys to meals or games You noticed
the mirrors in the sitting room; a boy with
ragged and dirty clothes and a dirty face doesn't
care particularly to see himself in a mirror, and
a boy who Is spruce and well dressed usually
does. l have seen whom had fitted out
with clean. new clothes in place of his old dirty
ones and who had had his first bath in the hotel
burst into tears of pride at the change which
he saw in himself"
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
4 HOTEL FOR BOYS.
One Way to Help Make the Youth a
Mnn
Nan.

.-The child is father of the man" might well
be the motto emblazoned over the door or the
Harlem Boys Hotel, if the management OF that
hostlery were given to indulgence in such frills
rs notices and blazonings In every possible
way its projectors have endeavorcd to appeal
TO the passion of boys to be treated as men,
and In many respects the new hotel is coun-
terpart of those for grOwn-ups-
That the hotel exists at all is due to the gen
erosity of a wealthy woman (who insists upon
remaining unknown as the giver), who shoul
6ered the cost of site, building and equipment
shout $500 000-and turned the completed hotel
to the Children's Aid Society, under whose
management it opened the other day with
seventy-nne patrons registered and with ac-
kommodations for about many more. IT is
a handsome five story freproof structure at the
southwest corner of Lexington avenue and 12.th
breet. The rates are calculated to fit the finan-
cfal resources of its patrons, who are all wage
earning boys between the ages of ten and eigh-
teen. Few under twelve though those
younger may be received as transents.
The Boys Hotel is run entirely on the Ameri-
ean plan, with some improvements. Board,
lodging bath and laundry work may be had
for Is cents a day, or 81 OJ a week Patrons
whose requirements to privacy are more ex-
acting, and who prefer (and pay for) bed
room instead of n bed in a dormitory may be
accommodated at an expenditure of So so a
week Nobody gets anything for nothing
long, at any rate. If a boy applies at the desk
there is a real hotel desk, with clerk and a
register-and says that he is without money to
pay his bill he is not turned away if he is ether
wise desirable patron, but is told that he will
be expected to pay when the management has
found work for him. Before he is admitted to
the privileges of the house each patron signs
promise to obey all the rules and regulations
IS directed hy the manager.
But there isn't much need Of formal rules"
Eaid Abel c. Kenyon, the superintendent. NO
is sharper to notice and reprove breaches Cf
etiquette among the boys than their fellows. l
have a boy who had a visitor who failed
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

anteroor,s finished and decorated IN harmony
with the main apartment These anteroons
may be used by the President for confidential
conferences on the eve Of his departure from the
capital OF for any other purpose where seciu-
scn is -sirabe. Opening from one % the ante
rooms a Iayatory.
Through a vestib lie ct tie north end the
PRESIDENTIAL suite communicates with the train
shed and concOuTse, the latter one Of the Larges.
rooms IN the world Trains en- or this station
by tAirty-three tracks. but all Presidential "gne-
cials' Will use a track which viii enable the 5is-
charge of their passengers directly opposite the
entrance to the Presidential suite
The station proper cost S5.5G0GO0 The terr,i
nal approaches and improvements excluding
the station. s15.0OO.0O0. The total cost is TINS
over $40 100000
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
A REAL APOLOGY.

when the late Joel Chandler Harris was an
editor here among US" said an Albanian. II
called on him one day and found him very VIII
ing to correct an error about me that crept into
his columns
we talked about newspaper contradictions
public apologies and the ike. ard Uncle Re-us'
took down scrapbook and read me an apology
that was apology indeed
1T had appeared. he said. IN a TransvaaI
paper III never forget it I agreed with Mr.
Harris that it was the finest specimen OF the
public apology and retraction extant II SAID:
81 the undersigned. A. c. du PIcsss ret-act
hereby everything I have said against the in
nCcent Mr.. G. P BezuideEhout, calling myscl;
an Infamous liar. and striking my mouth with
the exclamation. You mendacious mouth Why
do you .-es SOP I declare. further, that I know
nothing against the character OF Mr.. G. P
Bezuidenhout- I call myself, besides, a genuine
liar OF the first class-A- c. du PIessis-'"
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one lrOTRNER SIZE.

The lawyer was drawing up Enpecks viii
Il hereby bequeath all my property to ny
wife" dictated Enpeck- Got that DOWN."
Yes" answered the attorney
"On condition. continued Enpeck, that she
marries within 4 year"
But why that condition." asked the man q
law.
Because answered the meek and IowIy tes-
tator. Il want somebody to be sorry that
died"-Tit- Bits
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

"You see" said the professor, the science Of
chemistry depends the discovery Of certain
afinities-''
Pardon me-" interrupted Miss Fryn, 'I trust
the conversation proceed without drifting
into scandaL"-Washington Star.
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25


by & New
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-06-26

other power Therefore when President Nc
Kinley asked him to go to Manila and I'M
dertake the difficult and tharGkless task of
starting the Filipinos upon Them true course
he sacrificed the judicial which was
his LIES ambition and shouldered the white
mans burden 1t in March, 1900 that
he received his appointment as chairma of
the Philippine commission.
Not many Americans have ever comprel aend-
ed thoroughly the size of Mr. Taft'S Under
taking or the full meaning of his ac nieve-
with Aguinaldo and the Filipnos the entire
native population of the islands had come to
believe. with some reason, that the Am orleans
their enemies and had betrayed them
subdued by force of arms, but unanimously
hostile, sullen and suspicious. They Were still
struggling, with the bitterness of despair
against the power in which they all saw
Overcoming the Barrier Between East and
West.
Moreover, their leaders had been inocuated
with the belief that between west and east
there is an impossible barrier which will AL
ways prevent the Occidental from understand
ing and sympathzing with the Oriental The
experience of generations had confirmed them
in that belief. The only government IN their
knowledge was tyranny. The only education
III their history deceit. The only tradi-
tion they possessed hatred of oppression
made concrete for them by their experience
with western domination.
That was what Mr.. Taft had to face, and in
three years he had overcome and changed it
ALL He did it by the persuasive power of the
most winning personality the Filipinos had
ever known. He met them on their own level.
He lived with them, ate with them, drank
with them, danced with them, and he showed
them that here was an Occidental who could
He gave them new conception of Justice
and they saw with amaZement that it was
even handed, respecting neither person nor
condition, greater leveler. equalizing all be-
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AND they believed the promise of even wider
experience OF self-government to come
Ar. Unparalleled Achievement.
IL was practical demonstration of honesty
ana good faith such the Philippines had
never known 1t a showing of sympathy
justice ana comprehension which, could not
De resisted. Conviction followed it inevitably.
Inc Wnoie people knew-because they saw
that the Philippines were to be maintained
Tor the t1llpinos, and they recognized their
own unntness for the full responsibilities of
set themselves to the task of prenaration
That is the achievement of Mr. Taft in the
t Fiji s 1t has scarcely parallel in his
oory: what d II cost him he paid without
judicial career when he went to Manila p E3nt
three times in the course of his service for
the Fllipinos the opportunity to re-enter il
came to him, each time with an offer of a
place on the supreme court which had heen
his lifelong goal. Each time he refused II
Not even President Roosevelt understood the
call to Mr. Taft from the Filipinos, and when
he offered a supreme justiceship to Mr. Taft
he accompanied it with almost a command
But Mr.. Taft declined He saw clearly his
duty lay to the people whom he had led to
erican justice and good faith, and he made
the president see it too. How the Filipinos
felt was shown when on hearing of the dan
ger that Mr.. Taft might be called away from
residence and begged him not to go. When
ultimately he did leave the islands it was
only TO come home as secretary of war, in
which office he could continue his direction
there should be no deviation from the sue
cessfu line of policy he had marked out.
VIII. : The Birth Of Nation.
,rhe nat so Is tne result! The birth of nation.
the compelling agency of Mr.. Taft has paused
ever SO slightly in it's triumphant onward
march TO stoop down and lift up feeble,
Ignorant and helpless people and set it on
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the broad highway to liberty Vaguely UNI
certainly do not comprehsnding clearly Just what
either the object the means of accom-
plishmemt but its heart 1 right and submit
in whom it trusted implicitly, this nation has
assisted in new birth of freedom for
ward Taft belongs the lions share of the
credit Not IT., often is it given to one man to
altruism as his displayed. Many other hon.
ors have come to him; many others will yet
er significance or OF more lasting value than
his work for the Filipinos.
Secretary of War.
1t is not important here to discuss in detail
Mr.. Tafts administration of the war depart
rotary of war on February /. 1904. He has
be- at the head of it during the years of
merely secretary of the army, almost
all his predecessors were. He is secretary of
tiers of the utmost Importance affecting every
one of the oversee possessions of the United
often proved sufficient to occupy the whole
attention of an able secretary. Mr.. Taft has
pine and Cuban business, but to direct the
construction OF the Panama canal well.
called on to participate in the direction of
other Weighty affairs of government. He has
welt and has been called into consultation on
every important matter which has required
The administration of canal affairs has re-
quired IN high degree that quality described
as executive ability. The building of canal
is a tremendous enterprise, calling constantly
for the exercise of sound business Judgment
In it Mr.. Taft has displayed in ripened pro-
portions the abilities he foreshadowed when>
solicitor general and collector of internal rev.
enne.
Building the Canal
When Mr.. Taft became secretary of
this country had just taken possession of the
canal zone, under treaty with the republic
Of Panama. and of the old canal property.
including the Panama railroad. by purchase
from the French company. The work was
all TO do. The country expected the dirt to
begin to fly at once. The newspapers and
periodicals were full of cartoons representing
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of interstate corporations which in the later
years has come to be known the ''Roose-
American Bar Association Detroit, in the
summer of 1895, had enunciated the principle
great fight foR the suppression Of monopoly
and the abolition of special privilege THUS
Mr.. Taft pioneered the way for the ''Roose-
Blazing the Philippine Trail.
Since the settlement of the reconstruction
questions no more delicate or fatefHl problem
has confronted American Craftsmanship than
a result Of the war with Spain, created a
our statesmen. The path had to Be hswed
Capitalization of opinion among the American
people as to what should be done with the
Philippines A considerable element was Wig
orously opposed to retaining them, but the
vast majority demanded the maintenance of
first, the desire was undoubtedly due to the
glamour of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, The possibility
ways catches the imagination, and there can
be no question that the great mass of the
consequences. toward American exploitation
of the islands.
can thought and action, who clearly the
determined to meet it fully, no matter, what
these President MCKINLEY was one. Mr. TAFT
was .os another Mr. Taft had been opposed
retaining them. More than all he p opposed
their exploitation for American benefit He
believed that the Philippines belonged to the
Filipinos. and should be developed in the in
terest of their people
ShouIderng the white Mans Burden"
He saw the possibility of lifting feeble.
ignorant people into the light of liberty and
setting them upon the path to intelligent ef-
6cient self-government, That possibility re-
conced him to the continuance of American
authority over the islands for none saw
more clearly than he the chaos certain to
result from immediate independence for the
Filipinos, with its inevitable and speedy end
IN complete and hopeless subsection to some
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after three years in Washington he was sent
back to Ohio as judge of the sixth federal
circuit, po~t generally recognized a pre-
Gminary step the supreme court, which
then the goai of his ambition.
1t during his seven years the fed
eral bench that Mr.. Tafts qualities a Judge
became known throughout the country. He
called upon then to decide some of the
most important cases that have been
tried in the federal courts, in the conduct of
which he established an enviable reputation
sential attributes of a great jurist. His
power of application and his ability to turn
off enormous masses of work received ample
demonstration during this time 1t in
labor decisions which have made him famous
as an upright and fearless judge. In his
: treatment of both labor and capital he showed
that here was judge who knew no distinc-
giants before him. He voiced the law as he
knew it and the right as he saw it, mat
ter where the blow fell whom it struck
If sometimes the decisions went against what
organized labor at that time believed to be
it's cause it must not be forgotten that
clearer broader statement of the true
rights of labor has ever been made than in
some of his judicial utterances. Lawyers
conducting litigation in other courts behalf
of labor unions have often cited these decs-
ions of Judge Taft in support of their
tentions. Neither should it be forgotten that
one of the most important and far reaching
of all his judgments was that against the
Addystone Pipe company, in which for the
first time the Sherman antitrust law
made living, vital force for the curbing
reached the supreme court, Mr.. Taft
ceived the distinguished and unusual honor or
having his decision quoted in full and handed
court which sustained him at every point
Pioneering the Roosevelt Policy.
This AddyStone pipe decision marked the
beginning of the struggle for federal control
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fore the law. They saw Mr.. Taft under
anS n eets nan tns d eb
lens more wisely than their leaders had
dons and standing all the time me- like rock .
opposed by almost all his countrymen in their
islands denounced and assailed with the ut
simply because he steadfastly resisted Am
erican exploitation plot and persisted in his de-
the Filipinos. They saw hin laboring day and
night in their behalf and facing death itself
their cause 1t was revelf ton to them. IL
was something beyond their previous ken, out
and their tradition. 1t convinced them.
Revelation to the Fpinos
cisinterestedness and good faith which they
could not fail to comprehend He gave them
of the dearest wishes of the whole people.
No man who was not in the Philippness in
will ever understand thoroughly with what
ptiful eagerness the Filipino people desired
haired grandfathers and grandmothers craved
above everything the opportunity to go to
rudiments. It is difficult to tell how deeply
that eager desire touched Mr.. Taft and how
nt Education es %ss only l beginning Mr.
Taft gave the Filipinos the opportunity to
erete Example n of 0 Simple justice When they
saw him negotiating for the frar lands. and
at great fs tho to the nnos te rgt to
to the dullest among them that he was
working unseshly in their behalf.
And they saw his justice in theif. courts.
For the first time in all their experience the
poorest and humblest Filipino found himseif
able to secure an even handed. honest decis-
ion, without purchase and without influence.
Even that was not ALL They saw Mr.. Tart
literally and faithfully keeping his promise
and calling Filipinos to share in their own
government not merely in the subordinate
and Iowly places which they had been able
to purchase from their old masters. but i'm
the highest and most responsible posts They
saw men of their race called to membership
in the commission. in the supreme court, and
in all the other branches of their government.
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HAIL TO MIR. TAFT.

Hail to William Howard Taft, the
republican nominee for president OF
the United States!
The party has nominated man
who has made good in every capacity
he was called upon to occupy. His
record is A, No. l, and during the com.
ing campaign republicans will not be
called upon to offer excuses in his
behalf, but on the contrary they will
find it most pleasant and encour-
aging task to plead his cause.
Mr.. Taft goes before the American
people as a presidential candidate with
united party as his support. His
nomination on the first ballot by prac-
tically a unanimous vote presages for
nim a most brilliant victory at the
polls in November He will carry in
to the White House the high ideals of
craftsmanship which has characterized
his every public act He will make good
"S piSoiuche do TIC hdo III lHc many
positions which he filled with such
signal ability. He is as big a man
mentally as he is physically. He has
Theodore Roosevelt's O. X, and Mr..
Roosevelt has the O. X. of the peo-
pie.
The republican convention has car
ried out the will of the party. The
party wanted Mr.. Taft named for the
presidency and their wish has been
needed. Naturally the party stands
ready to give hi mthat strong backing
which he deserves.
The Free Press is pleased with Mr..
Taft's nomination. His selection as
the standard bearer of the political
organization that has a record of bril-
liant achievements, is entirely salts
factory to the rank and file and is
received with acclaim by the public
generally. While his nomination was
foregone conclusion the news of his
having been made the, party's leader
was received with no less enthusiasm.
The life history of Mr.. Taft is told
in detail on the second page of this
issue. Read it. His biographer has
told the tale WELL