The National tribune., 1909-07-01

cation of the names OF such men as
Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson,
Theodore Roosevelt and William Nell
son Cromwell with the purchase by the
Government of the Panama Canal prop
erty- from the New Panama Canal Com
pany of France, Mr.. Mcnamara was
appointed a Special Assistant to the
Attorney General. Mr.. Wickersham.
Indictments having been returned
against the publishers, Judge Hough.
of the New York Circuit Court, en-
powered the Government to cause the
taking of testimony from Parisian wit
nesses, and Mr.. Mcnamara will leave
the States this month and go to the
French Capital for this purpose. He
will be accompanied by United States
tatives of the New York World, Attor-
neys Delaney Nicoll and John D.
Lindsay will make the trip to Paris.
Don't Worry Member.
President Taft certainly belongs to
the Don't Worry Club" He is calm,
judicial, little conservative in every
thing, but not too much so, and he de-
clines to be rushed at any time; but the
work the man does, Why, it is aston
ishing. There is no blare of cymbals
ABOUT II, no ol tOIn-tOH1S anu
no flourish of trumpets, but he is like
Mogul engine one of the big drivers
that carry freight up the mountains;
he keeps going smoothly, regularly, cas-
lily, and he gets there. His manner of
speaking is delightful, and his way of
seeing everybody is most democratic.
He truly obeys old Polonious, Give
every man thine ear, but few thy
voice" He listens to everybody, but
ms nv
view expressed by the President, SO he
has established no Ananias Club His
one diversion is golf The President is
light eater, but a big man. He puts
on flesh rapidly in spite of his hard
work, and has been advised by his ply
sician to spend several hours each day
in the golf field, and he does. He had
given up playing, expecting to begin
when he should go to his Summer home
at Beverly. but he found that he would
have to remain here for several weeks,
so has yielded to the opportunities of
his friends to follow his physicians ad-
vice. He goes golfing every afternoon
He goes daily to the links of the Chevy
Chase Club and plays a foursome. The
men he plays with are generally picked
from the crowd composed of Gen. Ed
wards. Capt. Butt. Senator Bourne and
Vice President Sherman.
While he is fond of the sport, he
plays primarily for the exercise there is
in it. He must have exercise in order
to keep himself in good form. 1t is
commonly said that the way he has
stood the demands of the hard work he
has done this Winter has been due to
the exercise he got at Augusta, Ga, and
Hot Springs, Va, in playing golf every
day.
1t is for this reason that he is so in
sistent upon playing the game now. He
generally makes the run from the
White House to the clubhouse in his
automobile. carrying with him the gen.
tlemen who are to make up the four
some. %
Embassaodr Reid Ill.
OF all the ambassadors that we
have ever sent to the various courts
of Europe, there is probably not one
who has done us more honor than
Whitelaw Reid. He has been our EN-
bassador at the Court of st, James for
a number of years. and while it Is the
most difficult of all our foreign Of
fees to fill acceptably not once has he
faltered or ''flunked.''' as they would
call blunder over there. OF course
Mr.. Reid is enormously wealthy, and
his wife, the daughter of the tremen-
dously rich d. o. Mills, of New York,
has had her own fortune to help out
and her fathers purse strings have al
ways been unloosened for his daughter,
whom he was happy aite, see honored,
but with all these riches the Reds
have not made undue display. They
have lived like landed lords over there.
but after all simply, and against them
the suggestion has never been made
that they were cutting a splurge''
with their money. ambassador Reid
has handled all the delicate questions
of international diplomacy with skill
which has brought him the commenda-
tions of those high in authority, and
there isn't the slightest doubt in the
world that to him is due the very high
the United States has with the
powers, both in England and else
where in Continental Europe. He has
been wise in judgment, conservative in
action, and has at all times upheld the
dignity of his office and of the country.
Regret that he is to leave Ills position
reigrS in every circle in England, ands
a strong effort has been made TO retain
him as ambassador despite the fact
that he is slated to retire. Il is thought
that his retirement is really of his own
desire as his health is failing to such
an extent that he is obliged to return
to the United States at once to recuper-
ate. ambassador Reid has been forced
to retire from London to his country
home. where for ten days he has been
under the care of his physician suffer-
Ing from the effects of a severe cold.
There seems to be fear that he will
develop lung trouble.