The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-01-08
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence.)
Government Also an offender-sec.

Government Also an Offender-Sec.
retary Wilson says that while the gov
ernment has begun careful foresting
on the national reserves, private own
ers, in face of a rapidly diminishing
lumber supply and rising market,
have gone right on cutting reckless.
ly. However il all that is told of gov
ernment methods on the national res.
ervations is true the private owners
will not be likely TO sit up much.
Exports and imports Decrease
That the falling off of approximately
$500, 0,000,0 900 in imports and perhaps
$3.50, 100000 in exports in the com
merce OF the United States in the cal
endar year 1908 is merely part of a
general condition which has prevailed
the world over, is shown by the
monthly statement of the bureau of
statistics. OF the % principal coun-
tries of the world whose foreign COM
merce the bureau records month by
month, all except four show a falling
off in exports and nearly two-thirds
show a falling off in imports. An
analysis of the years foreign com
merce by grand divisions shows that
the principal decrease on the import
side occurred in trade with Europe
and on the export side in the trade
with North America.
An Old Naval controversy-The
placing in this city of statues of John
Paul Jones and Commodore John Bar
ry, both of whom are heralded as the
Father Of the American Navy" by
| their respective admirers, will prove
a difficult task for the special COM
mission charged with that duty. This
commission consists of the secretary
of war, the secretary of the navy and
! the chairmen of the senate and house
committees on the library. For each
statue congress appropriated $4,000,
but no action has been taken to de-
| eide the controyerted question relat-
ing to the navy's pedigree. 1t is for
! this reason that the sites for the eff
| gies is regarded as important, as the
prominence accorded each of the
heroes will be supposed to give some
| indication as to their respective mer-
| its in the competition for the honor of
| being the Father of the Navy"
Will Resist Doctors-There are all
ready signs that the officers of the
army medical reserve corps are con-
| templating legislation which shall en-
title them to promotion, and it is in
anticipation of a determined effort TO
| this end that there is under contem-
plation at the capitol some form OF
| legislation which shall restrict the
commissioned personnel of the medi-
cal reserve corps to the present rank
OF first lieutenant 1t is foresoon that
officers who have served for some
time will desire to be promoted mas
much as they are rendering the SER
vice which devolves upon regular
medical officers in many instances.
One proposition is to limit the period
of duty of a medical reservist TO five
years in order to have a comparative
ly new corps made up largely OF
young medical men. Any proposition
which places such a restriction on the
duration of duty of medical reserve
officers will create much discomfort
among the members of that corps.
New Social Secretary-NIrs. Elean.
! or Relyea, a clerk in the signal Office
of the war department, at a salary of
$1,000. will be the next social secre-
tary of the White House. and Miss
Isabelle Hagner, who now dictates the
social lists of the presidents wife, will
step from that coveted position back
into the ranks of government clerks,
by executive order, and will be given
a place in the surgeon generals office
of the war department. Unofficial an
nouncement of this change has been
made in Washington. Mrs. Relyea is
prominently identified with the social
set in Washington, though in a semi
social sense. She has gained a cer-
tain amount of distinction through her
ability as a bridge player ana has
made little pocket money "on the
side" so TO speak, by taking bridge
classes among the social set at Wash
ington. One of her prominent pupils
was Mrs. John r. Mclean, and it is
understood that Mrs. Mclean was in
strumental in obtaining for Mrs Rel
yea the position at the White House,
for which hundred social secretaries
in Washington have yearned. Mrs.
Relyea was the guest of Mrs. Mclean
! at the latters summer home the past
season. and through her hostess met
many of the socially prominent peo-
pie who will undoubtedly figure in her
future calculations,
/ The President VS.. Wiley-It is re-
| ported that DR.. II. w. Wiley, chief of
the bureau OF chemistry of the agri.
cultural department, who for years
has been carrying on a vigorous cam
paign against the adulterators OF
| foods. is slated for dismissal by the