The National tribune., 1908-06-25

clerk has a wife The wife objects to
living outside the State of Baked Beans
six months in the year, the time her
husband has to spend in his duties as
a Secretary to a Congressman. and 50
she is letting her husband get di-
yorce.
Mrs. John A Logan went to Chicago
last week, where she attended the
unvailing of a bust of her husband,
Gen, John A Logan, presented to the
G.. A. r. Hall of the Library of Chicago
by Mr. Cummings. During her stay
in Chicago Mrs. Logan will be the
guest of Judge and Mrs. Tuthill.
Later she will go to Springfield, Ill,
TO superintend the storing in the State
house of the relics belonging to her
husband and will return to Washing
ton after. an absence of three or four
weeks
Representative A. A Wiley. of Ala
bama. died in Hot Springs, Ark, from
a general breakdown and a severe at
tack of infiapmatory rheumatism.
Shortly before his death he became de-
lirious. The on{y member of his fam
lily with him at his death was his son,
Lieut.. Noble ]. Wiley, U. S. A.
Representative Wiley was 40 years
old. His youth was spent in Pike
County, Alabama, to which section his
parents moved soon after his birth.
After graduating from Emory and
Henry College, in 1871, MIR. Wiley be-
gan praeticing law at Montgomery,
Ala. In 1882 he was elected to the
Alabama Legislature and served there
for IS years, being elected during that
time to both houses.
At the outbreak of the Spanish
American war he was commissioned
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 5th u S. Vol
Tnf rNs- hTaIy i,,Ta bic /;
ment being one of the socalled I'M
munes organized under a special act
of Congress.
He served in Cuba for one year,
first as a legal adviser and chief of
staff to Gen. Lawton. at Santiago.
and subsequently assisted Gen. Wood
in the establishment of civil govern
ment in eastern provinces.
He was elected a member of the
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Con-
crosses on the Democratic ticket. re-
elected to the Fifty-ninth without OPP
position. and again elected to the Six
tieth Congress, overwhelmingly defeat
ing the Independent-Popuiis -Republi-
can candidate, j. c. Fonville.
The "dawSs'' IF the District of Col
umbia nave to be muzzled or kept in
leash while on the streets, else they
will be shot or done to death in some
way. Several mad dog scares in the
city have made people afraid of all
CANNES. Some % children have been
bitten in the last few weeks. and it was
found that some of the dogs doing the
mischief were really mad. 1t has also
been discovered that pet dogs go mad
two TO one of the common street dog.
The United States Treasury building
Is just now looking pretty dilapidated.
The 80 soft sand stone pillars on the
east side of the building are being re-
moved. and granite to match those on
the North and South fronts are being
put in, or will be very shortly.
After the soft sandstone east front of
the Treasury building and its lofty
colonnade of thirty massive Ionic sand
stone monoliths have been replaced by
granite, there will not be anything left
on tn exterior which was part of the
old structure.
Another remarkable fact will be that
with thei removal of the sandstone
parts, which were quarried from Aqua
Creek, Va. the last vestige of stone
building material in the building pro-
duced in this part of the country will
have disappeared The Treasury build
ing. after it is finished, will have been
erected from new granite, brought from
Maine and New Hampshire.
The old part was erected in 1898.
under the direction of Robert Mills,
architect. and was completed in August
1899, being, therefore, nearly 20 years
old. 1t has been claimed the sandstone
was dead, and that ii was deemed adj
visable to replace it with granite. This
theory Is ridiculed by experts, who de-
clare that sandstone acquires hardness
and toughHess with age. They call at
tention to the medieval sandstone cas-
ties in Europe for substantiation of
their theory.
The second session of the 59th Con-
gress appropriated total OF $500. 900
''fer repair of east front of the Treas
ury building. including substitution of
granite for the soft stone used in the
east front of the building" The north.
west, and south facades of the Ionic
Greek building are adorned with large
portieos, the pediments of which are
supported by eight huge monolithic
granite columns of The Ionic order
The granite pillars, as well as all the
granite pilasters and Biocks in the con-
struction of the north west and south
wings, were quarried on Dix Island.
near Rocllland, Me, and brought to
Washington in sailing vessels. where
they We're cut and dressed on the
grounds. a large number of expert
stonecuttcrs and scuIptors doing the
work.
The new columns for the east side
are being quartered in New Hampshire,
and will be cut and dressed and fin
ished ready for erection.
What shall be done with the old pill
lars is a question that is troubling the
Government officials. The tremendous
pillars are solid stone, and it Will cost
a great deal TO do anything with them.
so that when they are ready to cart off
they should be carried directly TO the
spot where they are to be utilized again.
When the old War Department Build
ing was torn down the columns were
taken To Arlington. and there they were
utilized in constructing the great por-
tails Of entry To the cemetery There is
talk now of erecting a great auditorium
at Arlington for use on Memorial DAYS
The 80 great columns could be utilized
in making support for the roof of the
auditorium. The statement is made by
some scientist. who examined the pill
lars of sandstone, that they are dead"
Which is very funny, don't you know.
Sandstone has been used in those Won
der buildings of the cliff dwellers, and
they have stood so long that nobody
has been able TO compute the time, but
they are certainly several centuries old
and that sandstone is just as live to-
day as ii was in the long-ago centuries
when the Indians carved it out with
their rude tools and set ii iE mortar.
OF course, a nice, fat job for somebody
was fixed when the appropriation was
made for the new pillars. There are
those OF us who wish that the old ma