Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-07
From Washington.


daleua bay. A big batch OF mall,
posted within a week after the neet left
Hampton Roads December Is, Wss for
warded to Rio by way of Gsnglano.
All mail posted after that has been sent
from New York to Colon, scro:s the
isthmus 10 Panama City and thence
down the coast to Calico, where the heet
is expected TO arrive February 20. All
mail meant for the feet posted from now
on should be addressed care the post
master, New York, for forwarding to
San Francisco. From there 1t will be
sent to Msgdalena bay on one Of the
warships.
Secretary of War Taft will leave
! Washington at 2 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon for Kansas City, where he
will be the guest of the Young Mems
Republican Club Monday night at q
ban Iuet, delivering a political address.
He will be the principal guest at the
Lincoln Day dinner Feb. IL at Grand
Rapids, Mich. Feb. IA, he will deliver
the diplomas TO the graduating class at
West Point.
Its authoritatively sta ted today the
Frank n. Hitchcock, Of Massachusetts,
first assistant postmaster general has &C.
@ VI ed the position OF eastern and south
ern manager of the Taft presidential
campaign and that he will, in few days
resign from the government service, TO
bs succeeded by Charles P. Grsufeld,
of Lincoln, No., at present chief in the
frat assistants division.
The indications are that congress Will
refuse to amend the law providing that
after March 4, 1908, telegraph operators
employed by railroad shall not be required
or permitted to work more than nine
hours day. Hearings on this subject
have been held before the House CON-
miltee on interstate and foreign COM
merce this week.
Rear Admiral Evans, In q cablegrsm
to the Navy Department today, an.
nounced that the tender Yankton hsd
departed from Punts Arenas yesterday
for Valparaiso. The journey from Puoti
Arenas to Oallao, Peru, was thought tC
be too long for the tender, 80 she is being
D sent through the inner passage to Val
parsiso. There she will coal and g'y'
the crew q chance to get ashore by tn
time the feet steams up the coast in fnl
3 view of the people Of the Chilean se@
t port.
The following official dispatch wai
,aceived today from United States Min
ister Hicks, at Punta Arenas: "Flee
sails Friday night, accompanied oy
O torpedo boat flotilla and in passing Val
q paraiso sails close into the bay, eacf
q ship firing salutes to the city. Hav'
requested Admiral OF the feet to do this
d and | am sure it will give much pleas
t ure to the people of Valparaiso. Fleet
o stay here has been marked by the great
Z est enthusiasm by the government
Rv an order dated Feb l, and mad'
public today, Postmaster General heye
!. announces thst hereafter all Legitimate
D daily papers may be sent from the Unite'
2 States to Canada, or vice versa, at th'
regular fourth class rate of one cent
pound. This order is in pursuance tc
q an agreement arrived at between thu
.pnstofice Department and the Dominion
and = A'rectly cancels the newspaPe
/ q rate made effec,,,- shout April l, 1907
requiring third class ratesos "' ~ l...,
papers sent from one country to the o..
The hospital ship Relief hiss been
placed 10 service at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, under command of Sur
econ Charles F. Stokes, with merchsn,
master and crew. Surgeon Stokes hsi
full staff of assistant surgeons and Ten
of the Hospital corps of the navy, and
also an officer of the pay corps.
Three hundred and eighty-four ma
chsnists recently discharged from the
navy yard force on account of 'lack o.
funds" are today being notified that they
have been reinstated in their former
positions.
Decidedly the most democratic and
typically American of all of the Presi-
dents State receptions was that at the
White House last nigh, known as the
Congressional reception" In point Of
numbers 1t was the largest of this season.
There were few gorgeous diplomatic uni
forms 10 enliven the scene, as many o.
the embassies are in mourning. The
President end Mrs. Roosevelt, with the
Vice. President and Mrs. Fairbanks, and
the members of the Cabinet and their
wives came down the State stairway to the
music of the Marine Band, and open the
reception In the blue room promptly at 9
O'Clock. Those asked to assist in the
blue room during the reception were
sfterward entertained at supper by the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
There was an important meeting of the
Senate committee on interstate commerce
today at which action was taken on sew
eral bills. Unfsvorsbls report was or
dered on the bill to allow publishers o.
newspapers TO eccept railroad passes In
{ payment for advertising. A similar fate
befell the bill which proposed to allow
the railroads to exchange passes Of
tickets with the passenger transfer com
psnies operating with them.
: The anti-saloon league and Kindred
organization continued their demands
: on the HOUSE judiciary committee today
for the passage of the Little6eld bill to
to make interstate shipments of liquor
} subject TO Stale laws.
Ella Ross, 40 years old, colored, wal
found roaming 10 nude condition a
North Capital and H street, Washing
ton, this morning. Some boys wert
throwing snow balls at her. The woman
was taken to the police station ACC
climbing mt ON her but she SecamI