Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-13

week. At the request Of the president,
Me-. Mcfarland agreed TO continue In
Cffee till January l
Postmaster General Hitchcock an
nouuced today at the White House The
appointment Of DR.. o. P. Gran6eld ss
postmaster of Washington, d. O., to
succeed the lste Benjamin Barnes. DR..
GraDd6eld is st present first assistant
postmaster general; be has lived rs years
In Washington, has come up through
the service 10 bis present position, and
ives born In Missouri. Mr.. Hitchcock
said that the appointment of DR.. Gran
field WAS made purely upon merits and
because be would be able TO cooperate
With the postmaster general In working
out the various reforms aud Innovations
in the department that are to be tried
within the next few months.
President Taft today signed the COM
mission promoting Brig. Gen. W. 81.
Garter to be major general In the army,
filling the vacancy created by the retire.
meut of Mi. Gen. Weston. General
Carter is at present in command of the
Department OF the LuzOn 10 the Philip.
pines.
Lieut.. Benjamin d. Fulois, one OF the
seroplane experts In the signal corps,
has been detailed, according to orders
issued today, for temporary doty per-
tanning to the proposed tests of firing on
captive balloons which the ordnance
division vii! conduct at Sandy Hook,
N. ]. The tests are to be secret.
Raymond Patterson, Washington staff
correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune,
died here today after protracted illness,
the result of 81 operation for glands In
the neck. he was one Of the best known
newspaper men in the country.
The commandant of the naval station
at Key West forwarded the following
dispatch received by wireless to the
Navy Department today: Hurricane
northeast Jamaica Wednesday and
Thursday. Unprecedented rainfall.
Jamaica railroad washed o7t. Tele-
graph crippled, cable broken. Five
hundred thousand bananas lost. U. s.
). Eagle smashed into pier and towed
OF by Epglish cruiser Scylls. Fruit
stesmen Bradford aud Armada ashore.
Armada A1ated, Bradford still on" The
Bureau of Insulsr Affairs also cabled
Porto Rico today to ascertain II there
had been any damage done on the
island by the storm.
To run the dishonest to earth aud
weed out the incompetents In the Gus
toms service is the platform upon which
Secretary Of the Treasury MacVeagh sn-
nounces he stands. "The Treasury De-
psrtment will not countenance fraud,
aud wherever it has gained foothold 1t
must, and will be, stamped out" said
the secretary today. ''Tbose that have
been discovered Ia New York involving
the so.called sugar trust are no different
from other impositions upon the govern
ment, and the Inquiry now under way
with regard to them will be prosecuted
until the guilty are punished, Ii the
evidence can be obtained upon which to
convict them"
President Taft returned from bis trip
to Connecticut at 10 m, quarter OF
an hour behind scheduled time. The
delay wss mainly caused by the bursting
of the steam hose which connected the
presidents car, MsyAower, with the
next passenger coach. A hobo boarded
the presidents car at Bridgeport late
last night and locked himself Ia the
kitchen for the purpose, 1t Is supposed,
Of getting a square meal. On the re-
turn from Connecticut President TAFT
was accompanied q portion of the way
by his brothers Horace and Henry w.
The president was met at the station by
Secretary Carpenter and at once went to
the White House.
President TAFT ha. shortened by one
week the sentence now being served by
Geo. Westervelt, Of Paterson, n. j.
Westervelt was convicted of counter
feiting coin and was sent to prison for
six Year.. His term would have ex.
pired November 81. But bis mother
died and is to be buried on Monday
next and ia order to allow the convict to
attend the funeral the president agreed
to commute the sentence and let him out
one week sooner.