The National tribune., 1909-11-25
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poets TO have as her guests, at least dur
ing part of the social season, in Wash
fngton. Lord and Lady Suffolk, of Eng
land. Lady Suffolk was formerly Miss
Daisy Letter, the youngest of the three
Letter girls. She has three sons, but
these viii be left in England.
Mr.. II. Rfnge, a shipping agent of
Srcraerhavep, Germany, who is visiting
! this country in the interest of his busi-
ness. was very emphatic the other day
In saying: "Yuu can't have a merchant
hlsrlne in this country until the price
OF labor goes down far below what it is
now, and when that time comes Amer
tea will not be the great country that
Mr.. Ringe says that the greatest OBJ
| 6tacic to merchant marine is the mat
! ter of trained men to man the ships,
| end he says that the men cannot be
| Secured in large enough number who
S'ill work aboardship, because the
wages are not sufficient to induce men
20 go to sea when they can remain at
I homo and earn more money. He says
that if is impossible Tor this country to
compete with Germany, England, Italy,
France and Scotland or any other Euro
Sean countries in the carrying trade,
because labor is too high, and America
Is not and never has been ship-carry-
Eng country. MF, Ringe also says that
those who are trying FOR an American
merchant marine don't stop to think
that American shippers are making
money by shipping their goods in for
sign bottoms. The American shipper.
he says, doesn't pay tile freight on his
goods sent abroad 1t Is the buyer who
pays. and 1t Is the buyer who selects
the route by which his goods are
shipped. MF. RiBge says he knows what
Pc is talking about, as he was once in
serested In shipping company whose
ships sailed to this country and to South
Iamerica. II found from actual expert
ence." he says. that ships flying the
American Flag cost $1,000 year more
20 man than The ships OF other coun-
Sries."
s. Washington has in its Jail man
known as Edward Letehemere. the mu-
scum thiefn This thief has been able
60 abstract fTsna the cases IN the Ma
{ional Museum a number Of yaluables.
Including some crystals and medal spec
linens TO the value OF over 800. After
be was arrested and placed in Jail War
Gen Mckee made the discovery that he
had made a saw from the steel shanks
Ia one of his gboes, and with this he
had severed two stout iron bars in his
window and got away. When he was
fearrested the other day and examined
&c was discovered that he had a pass
Eey, which was really 81 varieties, and
would open any paddock in the place.
which ran around his waist. The key
was taken from LeteheInere and tried
On various locks and found to work
perfectly. Warden Mckee took all of
bis clothing from him and gave him
prison garb, including shoes without
Eteel shanks. The prisoner was then
placed in the een in which Charles Gui-
teau was Imprisoned.
The TURKISH, Embassador, Col. Azziz
Bey, and Zia Pasna, Turkish ENJOYS to
this country, whose mission was to no.
fify the President that the new Sultan
of Turkey has assembled the throne,
are having the time OF their lives.
They were entertained by the Secre-
tary of State AZ a State dinner and then
Ut the TuriS33 EN- Dassy, and then were
given an exhibition drill at Fort Myer
The President also gave them a din
ner at the White House, receiving them
sn the Blue Room, and showing them
every honor possible. 1t has taken
about week to impress this notifica-
rion upon the President and Cabinet
fn the proper polite Turkish form, but
the notification has soaked in good and
the envoys have departed much i'm
pressed with their visit
Mrs. Robert J. Wynne. wife of
former ConsuI-General to London,
with her daughter, Miss Ruth Wynne,
and her younger SONS, will spend the
Mynne, who is very fond of society,
viii receive her friends.
It has been stated from Nebraska,
and not denied, that William J. Bryan
viii be a candidate for the United
States Senate in 1910.
Mrs. q. 8. Grant, Jr, died suddenly
OF heart disease at the home of the
Grants in San Diego Cal, Nov 10
Mrs Grant WAS planning to start on q
tour around the world. She was the
daughter OF former United States Sen.
etor Chaffee, Of Colorado, and had five
children.
And there e yet another-and it I.
not PeaTy nor Cook. According to
Mime Elsie PfeiffsP, resident of Cum
berland County, Virginia This young
lady. who is French born. and the
graduate CT a French academy, hal
authorized the French ambassador u
file suit I'm the sum Of $4,000 dam.
ages for the alleged theft of a maj
sshich she claims to have made, ani
which dieeloses the locality of tn,
North Pole. Nine. Pfeiffer says tina
she has given lifetime of study to de
GnIng the position OF the North Pole
and that she finally found IL in 1903
She made O map showing the pointinl
of the pole and the condition of tn,
globe, and II Is this map which Is ap
parently lost. Mime Pfeiffer claims tina
1t is utterly impossible for Cook O
Peary to have discovered the pole. a
she is the real tfiscuverer. The youn
lady doesn't suggest that she has eve
been outside Of the State OF Virginia
however.
Washington always waits until ,ther
has been an awful accident here o
an awful accident somewhere else be
fore she begins to look into the safet
conditions OF her buildings. There wa
en awful frs IN a manufacturing hous
ont day last week and lot of peopl
were burned to death because the win
dows were barred with iron to preven
robbery in the institution. Nobody
the District had seemed 10 think abou
barred windows before, and there ar
any number Of them here, but the Com
missioners Immediately began to loo
into the matter and proposed to hay
the bars removed from all window
%here there would be any danger {
them holding people in the burnin
building.
There was great tumult and clamo
raised in Washington two or three day
ago by some OF the merchants, VIII
declared that the trees along the side
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