The National tribune., 1910-05-12

mess ana nldue lollS SHIPS lc HiVVN ti''
President. leaving him to attend the
fiestas and holidays that were observed
in his honor. Furthermore, she felt
that ~her young daughter was shown
considerably more attention and adula-
ton than was just exactly proper for a
young girl. and this probably assisted
her in making up her mind TO give the
social functions the gO-by. Former
President Roosevelt is accused of being
the original shirt-sleeve diplomat do
ing things well, but in the rough, so to
sneak He further demonstrated his
''shirt-sleeve' diplomacy by declining
to be entertained by Mrs. Geo. Cornwall
lis West, which has rather startled the
society world. Mrs. West had arranged
to give former President Roosevelt a
tremendous ''womans" dinner, and she
had got all the Countesses and Prin-
ceSseS and ladies and every other shade
of royalty over there she could rope in
to hold themselves in readiness for the
date of this dinner, which was to be set
after the arrival of Mr. Roosevelt in
London: but what does Mr.. Roosevelt
do but sidestep the whole business. Mrs.
/ George CORVALLIS West went to Paris
to meet the former President while
there and get from him the date on
] which he would accept her hospltalltieS,
and she was about the maddeSt woman
on two continents when Mr.. Roosevelt
llatly declined the hoSpltallly lShueieu
/ Senator Owen has introduced a bill
! providing for the election of Postmas-
ters The Oklahoma Senator believes
the servants of the public should be
elected instead of being responsible to
any appointing power. He also has
pending a resolution providing for an
amendment looking to the popular cleo
tion of United States Senators.
After 50 years of service. DR.. E. NJ.
GaIaudet, founder of the college of
that name for the deaf and dumb has
resigned as President. He is now 73
years old. and says that he desires to
spend his remaining years in an unoffi-
Lcial capacity.
The United States ship Albatross. ex-
ploratien boat of the United States Fish
cries Commission, has returned from
two years cruise in the Orient Com
mander Charles Mccormick has been
accompanied by party of experts from
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor. =
The AIbatross has on board q large
amount of data concerning sea life in
the Philippine waters, as well as sew
eral thousand preserved specimens of
fish and deep-water forms of life never
before seen in this country. All the
specimens and data viii be sent to
Washington for classification.
Mrs. A. W. Gregg, wife of Representa-
tive Gregg, has been elected President
of the Woman's Congressional Club to
succeed Mrs. James B. Perkins, of New
York. who resigned several weeks ago
on account of the death of her hus-
band. Mrs. Gregg is a native of Pales-
tine. Tex. Mrs. Olin Young, wife of
Mrs. Fassett, of New York, are the Sec
retaries. The Congressional Club is re-
ported to be in a fourishing state finan-
cially and everything harmonious.
After u years the wreck of the bat
tleShip Maine is to be removed from
Havana Harbor, and the bodies of the
men who went down with the vessel
will be inferred in the National Gene
terry at Arlington. A bin providing for
such removal and burial, which had
passed both Houses of Congress, directs
the raising of the vessel by the Secre-
tary of War and the Board of Engi-
neers with all convenientSpeed." The
mast will be placed above the graves as
a monument.
You just ought to have heard Thomas
Nelson Page and F. d. Millet roast the
art in the National Capital of the Ma
tion at a meeting of the American Fed
Grafton of Arts the other night. Mr..
Page declares that the American eagle
as it is depicted around most of the
statues in the artistic" decorations in
so many of our public buildings is taken
by foreigners to be a buzzard rather
than an eagle Statuary Hall comes in
for a knock every time anybody thinks
about it, and Mr.. Page says that Con
sistent with my opinion, it should be
called not the Hall of Fame but the
Hall of Horrors and it makes us the
laughing stock of ali the observing per-
sons and critics who view it," Mr.. Mil
let thinks that the pulling down of the
finest trees in the United States to-day
TO make room for questionable statuary
in the parks of the city of Washington
Is little short of a crime. Examples of
this are the KoSciusko statue in Lafay-
cite Park, the Grant monument in the
Botanical Gardens and the Pulaski
statue on one of the little diamond
parks on Pennsylvania avenue. The
kosciusko statue was just about to dis
place what is considered the finest old
elm tree on the continent, but the peO-
pie OF Washington rose up in their
might, and their howl was too strong
and so the tree was spared and old
Kosciusko stands on his marble pedes-
tai with his head up among the boughs
of the tree. The Grant monument was
planted in the Botanical Gardens at the
foot of the slope at the Capitol in an
inconspicuous place. To get at the
monument and to see it in all its beau
ty, the one undisputed beauty spot in
Washington will have to be remodeled
and made over, its splendid shrubbery
moved and a great many of its magni-
fcent trees destroyed. Many very fine
trees were uprooted TO make place for
the statue in the first place. If its ar
tistic merits are to be seen by the pub
lie about so more big trees will have to
be taken out. The square in which is
located the Botanical Gardens is one of
the most beautiful in the world. 1t is
said that there is growing there a tree,
shrub or vine from every known
and that exception is made only because
nothing from there will grow outdoors
in our climate. There is a quaint old
iron fence set on sort of a parapet
reaching all around the Botanical Gar
dens, with wide gates on four sides.
There are a few tagged sidewalk pave
ments thru the grounds, but if you
want to see the real beauty of the
bushes you walk up to them on car
pet OF Velyety grass. Here the famous
palm houses of the Botanical Gardens
are located, and big ]. Q. U. A. Ward
fountain stands in the center. 1t is old
fashioned, II is true. The beginning of
1t dates back in the early sos or late
'40s, and there has been a constant
putting in of a bush or tree until an
artistic commission got President
RooSerelts ear, and commenced to
knock this real beauty spot OF nature
BEFORE very long It will undoubtedly