The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-30

81 these ships at each balloon station
: would be of great service in wardin.
off an attack by warships.
!, For the past year or more Gen. Allei
| has been engrossed with the study @
4 aerial navigation and its possibilities il
, the Army. The Generals desk is GOV
d cred with extracts from foreign ant
: American publications bearing on prog
ress in aeronautics. The Assistant Chic
Signal Officer is Lieut.. F. p. Lahm
winner of the Gordon Bennett interna
tional balloon race of 1906.
i
Here is a story which Presiden
Roosevelt's cobblcr is said to have told
] 1t is said that the President, like mos
sensible men, likes to hold on to pail
of shoes just as long as they will stay
with him. He likes the ''easy set OF
the old ones. Then he is thrifty and
has them half-soled.
Mr.. Roosevelt is awful hard on his
Shoes" said Kahn, the cobbler of the
Presidential boots at oyster Bay. 'He
! just wears them all to pieces. Most
men wear their shoes out in some par
ticular spot-at the toe, at the ball of
the foot or the heel-but the President
wears his out all over. 1 have to charge
him extra when half-sole pair of his
shoes, for I have to fix up everything.
He must be a terrible walker Some
times he has me put big bobnails all
over the soles and heels. Then, within
couple of weeks. the shoes will come
back with the nails and leather all worn
to nothing. The President is a nice GUS
toner. never have to hurry the work.
He says he knows 1 cannot do good
work if 1 have TO rush it.
THE President buys all his shoes
ready made. but I am hoping he will
let me make pair of hunting boots
before he goes to Africa. / would lire
to feel that he was depending on my
work while he is out there shooting
elephants and lions. 1 only hope / can
fix up. the shoes in which he will walk
into the White House again some day
after the next four years"
1t is probable that in the coming
September the remains of Mai. Pierre
Charles L'Enfant, the French engineer
who drew the original plans for the city
of Washington, win be removed from
their. present resting place on the
Digges farm, in Maryland, to a place
more accessible and one worthily
marked
On the campus of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, at Brookland. the
body is to be placed, and suitable
monument erected over the spot by
the United States Government. The
authority for this move and an appro-
priation of $1,000 for the purpose was
voted by Congress at the last session.
Commissioner Macfariand, who has
recommended this action to the Board
of Com nissioners, has been in confer
ence with those interested with a view
to action which would meet the wishes
of all concerned. He has been enieay-
oring for years to provide SO that the
public could visit the grave of Maj.
LEnfant, and that it should be suitably
marked.
An appropriation Of $500 obtained by
the Commits toner's three years ago
failed, because a right of way could not
be had across the Digges property. |
Thereupon the proposition to remove
the remains was made to Congress, and
il was accepted. The present owners
of the Digges farm are willing that the
remains be removed, provided that they
are placed in the campus of the Catho-
lie University, their reason for this pro-
vision being that the Major was a Cath
Ole, and they desire his remains to rest
in consecrated ground.
Now, wouldn't this jar your Stats, as
the young lady said when the folding
bed shut up on her favorite cat. Amer
leans are too Independent. That's why |
they are losing in the commercial game |
in Cuba and Mexico" is the story that
William Henry Cox tells. He was sew
eral years in the office of the American
Consul at Havana. Cuba, and Vera Cruz, /
Mex.
THE French, English and Germans
are picking up the money down there
continued Mr.. Cox, because they cater
to the wants of the people.
II remember case in Havana that
shows the difference. An American
was showing samples of silk
to a dealer whom 1 knew. On one
piece the stripes ran up and down. My
customers want the stripes running the
other way said the Cuban. That's
the only kind / have said the Ameri-
can; take it or leave it.
THE Cuban left it.
"a few days later Fernchman came
along with silk with the stripes running
up and down. The Cuban made the
the American.
"'All right. said the Frenchman,
wait a month and I'll have silk made
for you with stripes running whatever
way you want them The Frenchman
IS now selling the Havana merchant all
the silk the latter uses.
Americans can't pack goods we'll
either. Stuff coming from New York
will land in Havana all knocked to
Il
Goods from Europe are always Welt
packed, and arrive never damaged in
the least"
From the mass of stamp vending ma
chimes that have been invented, the
Postmaster-Generars committee select
ed seven to give trial. These machines
have all been tested thoroly, it is stated
and they all have defects that
be overcome at this time. An
other committee has been appointed,
and will continue to investigate models
and try to find one that is practicable.
Mrs. Alice Hale Hill, widow of Unit
ed States Senator Nathaniel p Hill,
died at the family home in. Denver last
week, aged 68 years. She was born in
r. /.
Senator Hill died a northumberland,
one of his possessions being the Denver
Crawford Hill, the only
son, is President of the Republican Pub
fishing Company.
Almas Temple, Mystic Shriners, OF
comes back from the grand
at St Paul all done up in
blue-blue ribbons, il you please The
Aimas Temple Patrol is one of the cracKl
irill teams of the world, ii is believed
II was so eminently superior to any
hing at st. Paul that the teams which
went there to compete declined to enter
after seeing Almas Patrol do its parti-
cular stunts.
The pure-foed wave is sweeping on.
and maybe it means something real