The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-22

summer house at Valley Forge, Penn,
which is only fifty or sixty miles from
Washington. Occasionally he comes
down in his fast automobile and some
times he journeys by rail, but he is
keeping in very close touch with the
business of his department during the
summer months.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh, whose home is in Chicago, has
had beautiful summer home for years
at Dublin, \. III. He has been there
once or twice this year and viii go
there again for vacation during g.
part of August and September But
he is one of the busiest of cabinet
officers now, with new tariff law be-
ing put into operation. This involves
a tremendous amount of administrative
labor The Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr.. James B. Reynolds, who
has immediate charge of customs. will
remain in Washington all summer to
keen an eve out over this work. Hum
dreds of new questions about classified
tions and rates will arise. There will
be a food of controversies and pro-
tests against Treasury rulings. Often
the department will be asked by col
leetors to interpret the law with ref
erence to given shirGehts. Many of
these questions will have to go up to
the Secretary. for which reason Mr..
MacVeagh will be much on the job
all summer and will do as much to earn
his official salary of $4,000 a year
as any other member of the cabinet.
The Secretaries of War and of the
not return for several weeks. Secre-
tary Dickinson has been called to his
home at Nashville, Tenn, by the seri-
Gus illness Of his son, who is now i'm
proving. He will not be back in Wash
ngton before the middle of Septem-
Der and will use the intervening time
in resting, with a little inspection
work He is going to Camp Perry,
Ohio. late in August to attend rifle
match. and will also inspect some of
the forts in the Middle West. The in
snection trips of the Secretaries of
War and of the Navy occupy a lot of
their official time AS both of the Sec
retaries are new men to their work,
they have been performing their in
speetion duties with much care during
the few months of the administration
which have passed thus far Secretary
Dickinson has inspected the Coast Ar
tillerv Forts all along the North At
lantic Coast, where he spent the best
part of two weeks. But he yet has to
inspect the Coast Artillery to the
South and there are many army posts
in the middle section of the country
where he will be expected to 60 before
Congress convenes again. These in
spections are not only necessary for
the benefit of the army service but
also to enable the Secretary TO acquaint
himself with the business from those
forts which comes over his desk. Then
when Congress takes up the matter Of
annual appropriations for the army, its
appropriation committees call upon
the Secretary of War for detailed in
formation and he must have it for
them.
Secretary Meyer has quit his navy
cares for while and is up in Canada,
fishing for salmon on the Restagouche
River. He makes an annual pilgrimage
there and gets exercise and enjoyment
out of E'killing" the big fish, as the
term is used by the natives there
abouts In the course of a few DAYS
he viii be at his home at Hamilton,