The National tribune., 1910-07-28

!: NASHlNGTONs II. CO THUR
and dozen times, the traffic which
makes Il gateway thru Washington to
tn" South one of liGs speciEI .-.:,tures
cxquiSitely decorated, which is called
the Presidents Room" and which is
large enough 10 hold1 the Governor of
one of the States Eith his bedizanet
StaT-horses and all. II was designed
that the Presidents of the United States
in going out or couiiiig into Washing
ton. should rest the!r weary limbs in
this wonderful room. and it is kept sa-
cred for that particular PURPOSE. But
alas and alack, the plans OF mice and
men gang aft aElee. Only one Presi-
dent of the United States mas ever made
use of that room. Mr.. Roosevelt While
President made use of it three or four
times. but never since he made his
notable hike out of town, on March 4.
909, has the door been unlocked The
present Chief Executive of the United
States despiseS pomp and display. 1t
looks as tho he lodges the presidents
Room premeditatcdly. When he is GO
ing out of town. which il is Well known
he frequently does, he rushes up to the
Union Station in his auto, climbs out
under the public, entrance or else gets
out at the first colonade entrance, and
marches thru the station. smiling and
bowling to those who bow to him, and
goes directly to his special train, and
so the magnificent dream of PreSiden-
tial parades thru this paIatial waiting
room have gone slimmering.
Postmaster General Frank NJ Hitch
cock sailed on the Mauretania for Eu-
rope a week ago, expecting to rerlain
abroad about two weeks. He was look
ing very tired, and is making the trip
more for the salt water part of it than
for anything else. He expressed good
deal of satisfaction over the work of
his Department for the last few months.
stating that he had saved $4,000, 900
in the past nine months, an average of
over S1,000,000 a month.
Ten billion postage stamps will be
printed by the United S,ates Govern
ment in the coming IL months. 1t is
a record of its kind. To be exact, the
estimate calls for 9,S64,22O,000 stamps
of varying denominations. with the two
mate is a conservative one, however.
being purposely made so in order to
avoid a waste should q change be
made in either the design or cnIo1ing.
The two-cent stamps called for
amount to 1922, 100000. with the one
cent variety close second, with 4,02i,-
100000. Fifteen million one hundred
thousand Specials are called for and
5O,520.000 ''postage-due" stamps. These
are of varying denominations.
Altogether the value of the stamps. Is
s177.783,000. This is more than ST.
10000 in excess of the face value of
the requirements of last year, which
was a record year.
The denominations specified are one,
Arry1 Gry@ e-f.~ Nsr~LA 4
Is and so cent and 81 stamps. The
dollar stamp is the least used. Only
100000 are asked for
Prof. F. W. Kelsey, of the Archeolo-
gical Institute of America, has an
nounced that Prof. Mitchell Carroll, Of
Washington. has been selected as Cen
eral Secretary of the Institute. 1t is
stated that the purpose of the office OF
ganization, reaching 10 all parts of the
United States and Canada, have be-
come SO large and important as to re-
quire the full time of a man Of power.
The Washington Society is one of the
largest and most influential of the afli-
lated socia:ies of tho institute.
You folks who are able to, fling SO
bills around want to look out. John E.
Wilkee, Chief of the Secret Service Di-
vision of the Treasury Department, has
discovered that there is a spurious $40
gold certificate in circulation. 1t is
represented to be of the act of July IL,
1882. series OF 1901, and there is the
check letter d. plate 100. 1t is signed
by w. T. Vernon, Register of the Treas
ury, and Lee McClung, Treasurer Of the
United States, and bears the portrait of
Hillegas. The note is said to be from
a photograph plate and is printed on
bond paper 1t made its first appear
ance in Kentucky, and is said to be
very fair counterfeit.
A funny thing happened on one Of
the street cars of Washington the other
day when typical farmer from up in
Virginia boarded a 14th street car at
the Union Station. The conductor de-
manded his fare, and he stopped the
line of P. A. Y. e. passengers to pull
out big wallet from which he palms.
takingly extracted a street car ticket.
1t belonged to the old BELT Line" Sc
ries, and had stamped on the back of
it 1872. The ticket was good, tho it
was ancient, and the old fellow had
received 1t when he made a visit to
Washington in 1872, and he never had
set foot inside of the District Of Co
lumbia since.
The recount of the tickets cast in the
primaries in the 30th Congressional
District of Pennsylvania, in which Rob-
ert j. Black was contesting with Repre-
sentative DalZell for nomination for his
seat in Congress, came out with good
majority for DalZell. Black says. how
ever, that he is going to go on contest
ing.
Here is a prod for those foreigners
who come to this country to make their
homes and to take advantage of our
splendid institutions and who are not
loyal enough to us to become natural
lied citizens. Christopher Guigne,
former student at Georgetown Univer-
sity and well known in the younger set
of Washington, has been drafted by
his own country to serve two years. His
father lives at San Mateo. Cal. and
has never become a naturalized citizen.
Christopher was born in France. He
came to Washington in 1904 to enter
Georgetown University, and studied
there for year and then went to Har-
ward. He has yet some time to study
at Harvard before he will have COM
pleted his course. Under the laws of
France any man under 25 years of age
whose father is living and who is phys
ically and mentally qualified can be
drawn for service. Being in foreign
country is no bar unless he or his faith
er has renounced his country and be-
come subject or citizen of another
Nation. 1t is stated that there Is no
international law by, which he can be
extradited IL he refuses to go back, but
If he refuses to go he would be black
listed and disgraced", in France. Young
Guigne'S father when informed that