The National tribune., 1910-02-24

llads name is William Clark. and he has
taken a great interest in Miss Farrar's S
loperatic career and is perfectly devoted
to her. Last week she sent dozen
photograph records of her songs to the
boy, now a grown man. and it will be
the delight of his life to listen to these
songs.
| J. Horace Mcfarland, President of
the American Civic Association. has
been in the city, and his artistic senses
have been laid flat by the representa-
tions of art scattered about the city.
He was particularly disgusted with the
lsignboard nuisance which surrounds the
lCapital. He declared that the Garfield
statue was only used as a background
! for the Advertising of Quaker oats. and
before long he expected to sec hung on
the National Capitol the pleasing sign
for refreshing. cooling Summer drink.
The Hall OF Horrors with its great
stone effigies nearly gave him heart
| failure.
Fred ]. Jones, one of the Capitol po-
! licemen, is strictly entitled to the title
Father of the Capitol Police" as he
has been there in police capacity for "a
Iyears. celebrating that anniversary last
week. He has been at the Capitol long
er than any member of either House or
Senate excepting Gen. Bingham, Of
Philadelphia, who is the real Father OF
the House. Capt Jones guarded the
lines in the Hayes-Tilden count, lowered
the Capitol flag to half staff when Pres
ident Garfield was assasSinated, and
performed a like duty when President
Mckinley fell by the assassin's bullet.
Capt. Jones came from Indiana. His
father was a newspaper man and per-
sonal friend of Abrham Lincoln. Capt.
Of nSt and
at the same time one of the firmest men
that ever wore the policeman's uniform.
You might just as well butt your head
against a stone wall as to try to get by
him when he knows that you should
not. He was for many years guard OF
the main door of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and is now on the Senate
side.
Representative Perkins, of New York.
was taken to the Garfield Hospital last
week on the edge of nervous prostra-
ton. He is not seriously i'll, but intends
taking the rest cure for a few days.
The friends of Civil Engineer Peary
are trying to find a precedent for his
advancement from the staff to a Rear
Admiralship of the line and to retire
him on pay in excess of what other off,
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they have not been able to justify them
selves in such an unprecedented and
unheard of jump in the Navy. Some
would-be historians are trying to argue
that Gen. A. w. Greedy was jumped
from Lieutenant-C Colonel to Major-Gen-
eral in recognition of his work in eX-
pIoring in the Arctic regions, but these
would-be historians are not getting
things very much straighter than usual.
When Gen. Greely returned from the
Arctic in 1884 he was a Lieutenant.
Two years later he was made Captain
in regular succession, and not as
marked recognition for his achieve
ments in the Arctic Three years after
his return from the North he was made
Chief Signal officer, with the rank of
Brigadier-GeneraL Some of the hiSto--
rians are saying that he was promoted
from Lieutenant-Colonelt to Major-Gen-
erai in order that he might be eligible
to the position of Chief Signal Officer
and il has also been stated that Gen.
Greely's promotion was made in the
face of even greater opposition than
that with which the Peary promotion is
being greeted. While there was some
objection. to Gen. Greely's promotion,
it was not because he lacked expert
ence and fitness. Gen. Greely had been
officer in the Signal Corps for some
thing over 90 years, and ne won dis
tinction in that service long before he
went North the first time. and. further
more, Gen. Greely was not transferred
from the staff to the line, as the friends
of Mr.. Peary are proposing to do with
him. Gen. Greely was promoted regG-
larly. AS pointed out by Secretary of
the Navy Meyer, the appointment of
Mr.. Peary to be a Rear-Admiral of the
line would be a burlesque of the title,
cheapening it and actually humiliating
II (;
ly would make Mr.. Peary ridiculous in
the eyes of people who knew anything.
A member of the House Committee said
the other day that one of the principal
reasons for not advancing Mr.. Peary
from staff to line and making him a
Rear-Admiral was that he lacks the
education, training and experience of
a Rear-AdmiraL"
Mr. Allen Williams, of London, Pres
ident Of the Royal Society of Miniature
Painters of England. who has just COM
pleted miniature of Mr. Taft, has been
in Washington for some time, having
come to America for the express pur-
pose Of painting the President This
miniature will be added to the collec-
ton of portraits of rulers which Mr.
Williams is making for the gallery of
London. Mr.. Williams says that Presi-
dent Taft is like King Edward in his
geniality and cordial warmth Of man
ner. He says that he thinks one of the
secrets of the Presidents great popu-
larty is the almost hypnotic sway he
holds over men with whom he talks, no
matter what their politics may be- and
his likeness in manner to King Edward
is to Mr.. Williams most remarkable.
Mrs. Longworth is having JUST as fine
time with her small zoo as her father
is with his all outdoors one. Represen-
tative and Mrs. Longworth gave a din
ner the other evening in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York, at which there were covers for
probably 90 guests. Just at the close
of the dinner, when the talk drifted to
animals, Mrs. Longworth told her guests
of new acquisition of hers, two pet
monkeys, and, of course, the guests
wanted to see them. Mrs Longvorth
ordered the butler to bring the cage
with the two monkeys in it into the
dining room. In some way or other
the door of the cage got unfastened and
one of the monkeys got out, and there
were things doing right Off. The monkey
landed in the mid die of the table and
turned handspring from there, land
ing in the chandelier where it hung by
its tail and chartered to the company.
The women yelled, and coat-tails fairly
flew as the men in evening clothes hiked
out of the nearest doors. Then the
monkey jumped to a plate rack, where
it did stunts among the valuable china
and bric-a-brac. by the time that
monkey was captured and back to its
cage again it had sent to the trash pile
q good many dollars worth of very fine