Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-01
PERSONAL NOTES.

the Governor of New York, has been
elected business manager OF THE
Brown Daily Herald" which is pub
lshed by Brown University.
w. H. Santelmann, the leader of the
United States Marine Band, is IS years
old and one of the best bandmaster5
in the country. He is also versatile
composer of band music and has had
printed many sterling compositions.
David Jayne Hill. the American Min
lister to the Netherlands and Ambassa-
dor Designate to Berlin in succession
to Charlemagne Tower, is clearing up
his affairs in Holland and making ar
engagements to leave The Hague in
time to assume his duties at Berlin on
June /.
Dean Frederick S. Jones, of the En-
cheering Faculty of the University of
Minnesota, has been agreed upon by
the Yale faculty as the successor of
Henry Parks Wright, dean of Yale
College, upon the latter's retirement IN
September, 1909, subject to the ratifi-
cation of the Yale corporation.
Edmund Robbins, a London news
paper man, has celebrated his journal
istic jubilee, having begun work on the
Launceston weekly News on April
4, 1858 He prepared the first press
telegram accepted by the post office
when Great Britain commenced opera
ting the telegraphs on February s, 1870
Charles H. Grasty will become gen.
eral manager of Frank A. Munsey's
newspapers-the Baltimore News"
the Boston journal, and the WASH
ington Times "A part Of my pur-
pose in the purchase of the Baltimore
News" said Mr.. Munsey, "was to
add the man who built up that paper
to my forces"
Richard Strauss, with the consent
of the management Of the Royal Oper.,
House, Berlin, has been chosen by the
Royal Orchestra as conductor of their
symphony performances in succession
to Felix Weingartner. This is regard
ed as a great honor in Germany, as
the Gern1ans consider the Royal Or.
cnestra the best in the world.
Baron Mayor Des Planches, Italian
Ambassador to the United States, will
remain in Washington despite rumors
to the contrary. 1t is thought probable
that Count Bonin-Longare, the Italian
Minister at Brussels, will be promoted
to the AmhaSsadOrship now vacant in
Paris The possibility of the transfer
of Baron Mayor Des Planches was
considered in connection with the an
polntmeEt of Il successor to the late
Count Tornieili as Ambassador to
France.
DIR. and Mrs. H. r. L. Worrall, med
zeal missionaries of the Dutch Re
formed Church, who are stationed in
Arabia. have arrived i'm New York.
They have come to America to attend
a meeting i'm commemoration of the
late DR.. Jacob Chamberlain, who was
for forty-nine years a missionary of
the Reformed Church in India
Captain G. ]. Badger, superinten-
dent OF the Naval Academy at Anna
polls. Will serve another year in that
capacity after the close of the present
academic term. Captain Badger had
made application for sea service, but
defers to the wishes of Secretary Met
calf, who is anxious that he continue
as superintendent of the academy
Captain Charles Def. Chandler. of
the Signal Corps. one of the aeronautic
experts in the army, who has been
recently making experiments with a
military balloon near Washington has
been ordered to proceed to Fort Omaha
Neb.. to establish a hydrogen plant in
the aeronautical park at that post
with a view to conducting a series of
experiments with balloons designed for
military purposes.
w. n. Gerty, a Massachusetts vet
eran of the Civil War, who hauled the
first Northern troops into Washington
at the outbreak of the war. has called
on the President. Gerty was a member
OF the Eighth Massachusetts Regi-
ment, and when Annapolis was reached
it was found that all the locomotive
engines had been dismantled by Con-
federates. Being a locomotive engin-
eer. Gerty put one of the engines to-
gether and brought the troops into
Washington.