The National tribune., 1910-10-27

graduated from the Naval Academy Il
1860. He served thru the civil wal
and was sent to the Arctic in charge o
the Greeley relief expedition. He is
very jolly gentleman and fond of lif
and society.
u Washington has had two somewha
remarkable cures in the last month
One of them was q case of pellagra
and the woman who had it seemed
doomed when she went to the hospital
and the other is the cure of a case o
infantile paralysis. The subject of The
latter was Bill HinrichS, the pitcher Of
the Washington Baseball Club, who was
attacked with infantile paralysis las
July. When taken to the George Wash
ington University Hospital his pitching
arm was completely paralyzed and bOtf
legs We're affected. He has been takeI
to his home at Los Angeles, Cal, ant
while he may never be able to pitcf
ball again his arm will soon be strong
enough to perform ordinary duties. Hi:
physician was DR.. S. Clifford Cox, {
Spanish War veteran.
Another big slide has developed in
Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal at
Bas ObiSpo, where a quantity of rock,
estimated at 5000 cubic yards, is slow
ly moving toward the canal prism. This
slide is 95 feet above sea level, and the
break follows the lines of fault in the
rock.
Steady progress, however. is shown
by the monthly report of Chief Engi-
neer Goethals to the Isthmian Canal
Commission. The total excavation for
the month of September was 2,6S7, ,0SS
cubic yards, against 2,813,462 cubic
yards during August.
1t is estimated that s47,920,84S will
be required to continue the,s construc-
tfaro nT I,n !
beginning July 1 next. pie principal
items are s19,211,306 for skilled and
unskilled labor and s19,186,751 for the
purchase and delivery of material and
supplies.
The total appropriations on account
of the canal to date are s24S,002,668.
OF that amount s4O.0O0,000 was paid
to Panama.
We count that day lost in Washing
ton whose low descending sun finds in
our city no ra-distinguished guest.
Last week we had here NJ. OZaki, the
Mayor of Tokyo, Japan. He was ac-
fcompanied by his charming wife, Nine.
Ozaki. who is touring the United States
with her distinguished husband. They
were both very much charmed with
Washington, and as they were given OPP
portunities to see everything in or near
the District of Columbia they spoke
with knowledge when they both de-
clared that Washington was undoubt-
edly one of the most beautiful cities in
the world. The Mayor of Tokyo said
one of the things that he particularly
admired in Washington were our beau
tiful trees utilized in beautifying our
"boulavards." He said that he would
like very much, indeed, to see the cities
of Japan decorated in the same way.
Just now Washington is very much
Mortified over the suggestion by the In
ternational Humane Society, that has
been meeting here, that the horses in
the District are poor and decrepit beyond
those of any other city in the country,
and the Humane Society is pretty near
ly right about ii. There are probably
fewer fine horses in Washington, con-
its size and population, than in
any other city half as big in the United
States. Washington never was overly
blessed with high-bred horses, and since
the institution of electric motors the
condition Is very much worse. In the
first place the asphalt and block pave
ments of any city stove up a horse
quicker than almost any other sort of
pavement. No matter how fine bred a
horse may be, if his feet get sore and
he gets lame in any way he soon goes
to pieces. Just as soon as one of the
better class of horses shows symptoms
of failing he is sold for a song to the
marketmen and small express
men of the city. OF course, ii does not
take very long to ruin horse after he
Is on the downhill path, and the four
footed beasts of burden attached to
express wagons and gone
tossed cabs of Washington are truly
a pltiable sight The papers of Wash
ington have been having pictures of
some of these broken-down clubs, and
the Humane Society is now going to
take the matter up and see If anything
can be done to break up the number of
these painful exhibitions of hopelessly
gone-to-seed pieces of horse flesh.
Gen. Leonard Wood himself led the
squad of Army officers on their test
ride, and they all came thru the 80 miles
in three days trip in pretty fair condi-
ton. No accidents marred the ride of
the officers who left Fort Myer, AZ in
number, and all returned in good con-
ditiou.
The second squad, under Brig. Gen. I
w w. Wotherspoon, President of the
Army War College, has just returned.
He declares that the 40 officers with
him looked upon the test as an outing
and not one of hardship, altho these
officers are all of them on duty in the
War Department and do not get much
outdoor exercise.
Edward 4. Moseley, Secretary of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, who
suffered an attack of heart failure a
couple of weeks ago, is much improved, |
and IL is thought will now recover. At |
the time Of the attack the chances were |
small, and his condition gave his friends !
much alarm.
Just at the present time, when japan |
is SO much in the public eye, il Is re- |
called that in 1863 Chaunccy NJ Depew |
" Hs appointed United States Minister to |
japan, and his appointment. Was con |
lrned by the United St2tes Senate and |
then he declined. AS his reason for |
declining, he stated that he wanted to !
go into railrCad:ng. AT the present |
time such an Office or any high office |
to Japan is not declined. Senator De- |
pew having MADE a number of millions |
IN railroading, IS now member of the
United States Senat, from New York. |
and says he is going to be a member |
gust as lcng as he can coax the New
fori Legislature 20 elect him.
Washington's "a hours Of hiIarity is |
at an end. Twelve hours is as long as
can usually stand any ex-
citement on any particular subject The /
statue of Miss Natalie Barney, which
made even the lower stratum of Wash
lngton society gasp in its Altogether
ness, has at last been chucked into the
house and the doors and windows barred !
1n it. One night last week some mis-
chievous urchins picked that piece of !
up and hiked out for parts un-