The National tribune., 1908-10-15

l n00r, Tor tnAt matters Is upon SWO Smal
elevators which hoids abous t6 people
tion, OF q four-foot stairway which ha.
two turns In II to each stofn. Two peo.
pie can just pass eGeh other On thai
stairway. To get toIard from one 0l
the auditoriums there. which fs on tht
| first floor, there n two-foot stairway
Of five or six steps. With small plat.
form at the top stop anA one ct ths
foot where ther. Il. step of ontt
steps which lead to the lower regions
It il an extremely dangerous place, and
to get to the stage tits necessary to use
| these blind stairways. phe two biz
auditoriums arc worry fine ana Ynost
comfortable, but the way Of getting tc
! them will probably always be q bar to
large crowds going there. II - q thou.
sand pfties that this great, handsome
building should have been 10 badly ar
the building is on the exterior. It should
have had at least an eisht-foot stair
way and elevators that will carry SO
people. It IL said that the elevators
will be used to take people up, and
they can walk down tae five flights Of
stairs. If there were panic ON the
fifth floor the loss of life would be
measured, in all probability. by the
number OF people on that floor added
to those on tho lower floors, for five
people can effectualIy block the STAIR
ways and the elevators.
They are telling story about some
pictures, alleged to be paintings in OIL
of past Postmasters-General which
have been hanging in the ante-room Of
Postmaster-General Meyer, and which
he has fired" to put It mildly. The
story runs that years ago Congress ap-
propriated $4,000 for a collection of
the portraits of successive heads Of the
Post Office Department. The portraits
were made by an eccentric artist, who
possessed the friendship of several
members Of the House, and 1t deveI-
oped, after the deal had been consum-
mated and the money paid, that the
artist had never seen any of the men
whose pictures he. had produced, and
had no pictures or any models whatso-
ever to guide him. The result was the
production of probably the weirdest ag-
gregation of faces ever assembled to-
gether on a wall or anywhere else.
Senator Spooner once. after calling
on Mr.. Cortelyou when the latter was
Postmaster-General, stopped in front
of the gallery, apparently lost in won
derment. Turning to the private secre-
tary, he asked:
do you really think that men ever
lived with visages like those?''
Some Of the pictures resemble the ef-
feet one gets by looking into trick
mirror. Some are idiotic. while others
look fierce. After once being officially
accepted, however, they were dutifully
hung up. They have always been "on
the nerves" of Mr.. Meyer, and while
passing thru his ante-room the other
and was confronted by silly grin from
one of his predecessors. Changing his
glance, he was confronted by a glare.
Holmes" said Mr.. Meyer, his mind
now fully made up, "take these -
things down and put them up in the
garrett" e5i s
And there they are now,
Mrs. Roosevelt is very fond Of horse
back riding, and is q good figure on a
horse. She often remains for three
hours at a time in the saddle on a
pleasure rfde.,, She wore one day last
week her customary black riding habit
Her hat was round crown soft sailor
with a rolling brim and no trimming.
She wore a small black vail. and the low
dressing of the hair with small bow of
black ribbon gave her quite a giriish
appearance. She was enveioped in
long pale gray cloak, with a jaunty
hood. which fell back during her brisk
ride to the White House.
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Gen. F. d. Grant. c0rf1mandirg the
Department OF the Eask In his annual
report, deplores the fact that there are
no ranges provided by the Government
for troops stationed near Washington,
New York and Boston
The nearest Government ranges to
which troops stationed near those cities
can be sent for target practice, he says.
are '474- miles from washington, $50
miles from New York and I8s miles
from Boston.
He therefore recommends the pur-
chase of sufficient grounds and the con-
of suitable modern ranges in
the Vicinity0of the three cities. = sftos
Commendation is bestowed on the
bakers and cooks schools at Washing
ton Barracks.
These feonociasts will be the death of
us yet. Now it's our pure malt whis-
KY that will let us live to be century
old If we drink it that they attack. The
purity and medicinal quality OF Duffy,s
pure malt whisky Is attacked in q libel
proceeding filed by United States At
torney Baker under the pure-feod law.
The claim that there are thousands Of
men and women in the United States
more than 100 years of age who have
retained their faculties. vigor and USE
fGlness by using the liquor IL declared
by the Governments petition to- be
false and misleading 1t is also claimed
that the whisky is adulterated within
the meaning of the law, because Il is.
claimed, it differs from the standard of
strength. quality and purity as deter
mined by the test laid down in the
United States Phacmacopeia, official 81
this time.
The libel filed few days ago aeses
for the seizure of 60 cases found Ii: the
possession of n. IA Shea. local whole
sale grocer.
DR.. Somebody or other. wl1e h. pi1ysi-
TO some Of the royal fun
lily of italy, has been tremendously IN
terested in tuberculosis search, and he
has evolved the belief that it's corsets,
just corsets, don't you know. that Causes
consumption! Funny theories some
people get to milling round in their
brains. In this country the Indians
and negros have a larger per cent OF
deaths from consumption than any 9TH
er races. Not one woman in a hundred
among them wears corset And, be-
sides, men die Of consumption. men of
all races, and they do not wear corsets.
The learned Doctor of Italy's Royal
family has another guess coming.
1t is estimated byo thG Democratic
Committee of the District that fully
5000 Democrats who are In Govern
ment employ will go home to vote.
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Commissioner OF Pensions Warner
tells a strange story of tteonscience,"
and as he has the documents and the