The National tribune., 1908-09-17

THE NATIONAL TRIBUN
| try of the world. The people abroad
/ are very particular in regard to what
we send them and the hope, therefore,
of meeting the requirements of COM
merce rests largely in the highest m
| telligence of the men who are put upon
our lists
Mrs. Thomas Gary. of this city, is J.; D
| ing after the city of Wilmington, Del,
to the tune of 100000. .0O0-that or a
little more or less. A million or so won't
matter. 1t is matter of an old lease
from Gen. Rodney. her ancestor. The
land originally belonged to John HUM.
| His daughter married Cesar Augustus
| Rodney. Attorney General under Presi-
dents Jefferson and Madison. Mrs. Gary
is direct descendant of Rodney. The
land in question was leased by the fam
lily to a Swedish church in Wilmington
for 80 years, and when the lease expired
in 1852 a man named Springer stepped
into the tangle somewhere and released
the land in his own name, according 10
Mrs. Gary. In the meantime the Rod
ney heirs had amassed considerable
money and the leased land was over
looked by chem, and at that time was
of no great value. Since then 1t has
increased wonderfully in value.
Mrs. Gary has had long experience
with lawyers and courts, and fought
out one suit for nine years, at the end
of which time she was successful in get
ting $4,000 from an old estate that
some of the descendants of the old
Rodneys had been ENJOYING all to them
selves. That had nothing to do with
the present large fight which she Is
preparing to undertake.
Former Representative Shafroth. of
Colorado, has been nominated for Gov
ernor of Colorado by the Democratic
Convention of that State.
Miss Patricia Egan. daughter of Mau-
rice +. Egan, the American Minister to
Denmark, was married last week under
brilliant auspices. The marriage took
place in Copenhagen, the bridegroom
being J. E. P. Murphy, of Los Angeles.
Cal Count Raben LevetZau, the Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, and his wife, who
was Miss Moulton. of Boston, all the
members of the Diplomatic Corps, and
numerous aristocrats, literary men, and
scientists were present.
The Pope sent his benedictiOn. Con-
gratuiatory kilograms were received
from the King and Queen of Denmark,
the Prince and Princess Waldemar,
President Roosevelt, Cardinal Gibbons
and many others.
The Secretary of the Navy has prom
ised that he will send 13 warships to
attend the celebration of Founders Day
at Philadelphia. Oct. is the beginning
of the festivities which will last pretty
much all week.
There is always so much trouble over
pawn shops receiving stolen goods that
there has been much discussion of how
to identify those who take stolen goods
to pawn. It. has remained for Maj.
Sylvester. Chief of Police of Washing
ton. to suggest remedy. He thinks that
finger-print methods of identification
would be excellent. Maj. Sylvester SAYS:
"If this system were put into practice.
I believe it would act as a deterrent to
the disposal of stolen property, and in
this way prevent crime, or at least make
it less profitable. 1t would be much
easier to trace thief who disposes of
booty in pawn shop, junk shop or
secondhand store
"Finger-print Identification is used to-
day in many cases where there Is mol
suspicion of crfminality, as in the Army
and Navy. In the same way it could be
used as 1 have indicated, and would be
as much a protection to the honest mani
as a means, If necessity arises, of iden-l
tifying the criminal"
Charles S. Draper, an employe of the
United States Senate since 1852, died
at his home in this city last week after
a long illness. Mr.. Draper, who was IN
his 10th year, was doorkeeper for the
diplomatic gallery of the Senate. Prior
to that position he served as clerk for
years with the Senate District Commit
tee. in which position he rendered val
liable service by reason of his long resi-
dence in the District and familiarity
with its affairs. He also held the posi-
ton of confidential clerk to the Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Senate.
Treasury officials are disturbed over
possible early exhaustion of the fund
appropriated by Congress to meet the
expense of shipping subsidiary coin to
National banks of the country. At thel
last session the usual appropriation of
$50, 600 was made, but a proyiso was in
sertee requiring half of this amount 20
be expended in shipping fractional silver
by registered mail. The Treasury be-
gan shipments by registered mail on
July /, and in less than two months the
whole fund of 100000 was exhausted,
and shipments by express were resumed.
The officials fear that the remaining
0,090 will be expended before the re-
assembling of Congress in December, in
which event all shipments of fractional
silver will necessarily cease. The cost
of shipping silver by mail is 1880 per
1000, while the same service is per-
formed by express companies at AM
average of about "a per 1000.
At least one man has head the size
of the Presidents, and has proved IL.
Representative Cocks, of the Oyster Bay
District, visited the President the other
day wearing a brand-new lid" and
when he returned to his home he found
that he had upon his head a battered
broad -brimmed hat which certainly was
not is own. Then he discovered that he
had "swiped" the hat of the President
of the United States. He hastened back
to make proper exchange. The Presi-
dent declared that as the hat left was
new he had been quite willing to make
the exchange, If the "other fellow" was
agreeable.
Lieut.. U. S. Grant, Sd, is the father
of a daughter. Mrs. Grant was Miss
Edith Root, and she was staying at the
Root Summer home in Clinton. n. Y,
where the baby was born, Sept. IL.