The National tribune., 1909-11-04
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Secretary of the Navy Meyer is ir
favor of greater battleships and more
guns. He will ask Congress to appro-
pirate for S0.000-ton battleships with
14-inch gun equipment. He also be-
Heyes that this country has followed
too closely the naval designs of Euro
pean countries and he is going to in
sst that hereafter the United States be
| a leader in battleship construction,
rather than an imitator.
Edward C. Baker, who has been Act
ing Chief of Far Eastern Affairs in the
State Department for number of
months, has been appointed Consul at
Antung. China. This consulate is one
of considerable Importance because of
the fact that Antung is one of the cities
at the terminal of the Antung-Mukden
Railroad, which has become of great
| importance of late.
| Since it is fashionable for ladies who
can wear strawberry and clover leaves
to go into trade abroad it is becoming
quite fashionable for them to do the
same on this side of the water. Rear
Admiral Converse has a charming
daughter, who has been for several
years one. of the leaders in the social
set in Washington and one who was
considered a brilliant light in social
now startled her society friends tre-
mendously by marking out a business
career for herself, and her business is
an establishment in the swell society
section of the city in which she offers
for sale the latest styles in hats and
evening gowns from Paris. Miss Con-
verge doesn't expect to handle any
thing common at all. Everything is to
be imported, which of course means
style. but also shows lack of American
ism in the people who prefer that kind
OF style. She proposes TO handle eve
ming gowns, dinner gowns, ball gowns
tea gowns, hats and children's clothes
as well as the cobwebby sort of under
wear for women and children. She will
have no tailor-made gowns in the es-
tablishment. She doesn't want any
thing as common as that. Miss Con-
verse will herself design the gowns
The plans of Miss Converse, however
met decided shock when she ran up
against the labor people. She an
nounced that she would bring from
abroad some of the finest needle wam-
en- in the world. Most of them She
would import from Italy because there
are no women so skillful as Italians
with the needle. As all of the work
to be done in her shop is to be of the
finest kind she thought that she would
need the most cunning embroiderers
ana trlmmerS. Just as soon as the la
Dor unions heard of Miss Conyerse's
plan they got busy and now Miss Con-
verse VIII be unable to import her la
Dor, as it is against the laws of the
United States. This of course is cx-
tremely annoying to Miss Converse.
but at the same time it is an absolutely
correct procedure, and so now she has
a shop on her hands and nobody to do
her fancy work. and is not going to
have until the law gets out OF the way
and lets her import her Italian en-
broiderers.
My, my. but isn't this awful At
torney-General Wickersham. after in
specting the Jail of the Capital of the
united States, declares that it is posi-
uveiy the worst ever. He visited the
jail all by his lone self on two or three
occasions when the officials didn't know
that he was coming and was perfectly
dlsgusted with it. He found the prison.
ers cramped together in their small cells
too small for one prisoner, in fact.
and the health and sanitary conditions
ne declares to be perfectly vile. 1t should
be understood that these conditions do
not exist thru any fault whatever of
The jail officials, as they have done the
very best they possibly can under ex-
lstins eondi uons, but the place is old
and unsanitary and was not constructed
TO care for fully half the culprits who
are crowded into it every day. and II