The National tribune., 1910-07-21
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S-Nrs. Richard Henry Savage, widow
pf Col. Richard Henry Savage, and her
self writer and a former Washington
girl, died in New York last week. Mrs.
SaVage was the daughter of Charles
frederick Sheible. Court Chamberlain
10 William 1 of Germany, and was mar
Tied here at the German Legation IN
Washington to Lieut.. Richard Henry
savage, u. S. Army in 1873. Lieut.
savage left the Army to devote himself
to writing, but was appointed to SER
vice in the Spanish War, and died In
1903. She was buried beside her hus-
band at West Point. One daughter sur
wives them. Nine. De CARRIE, whose
husband is a member of the Russian
Court
! Again Washington is being eaten up
alive by caterpillars The park system
of Washington is magnificent and its
administration abominable. There is
not an adequate force to kill the cater
pillar eggs in the trees, and the people
who live in the houses which the trees
shade are too lazy and unpatriotic to
make the little eXertion which would
clear the trees of the caterpillar nests
and keep their beautiful foliage in good
condition This is one of the cases
where 10 cents of prevention would be
worth thousand dollars Of cure. The
trees are blighted and injured, the side
walks are a nasty mess and people can
scarcely walk under the trees for the
pest of falling worms. 1t is simply out
rageous that the trees are not taken
care of in time The Superintendent of
Parking TRANQUILITY says that "All our
energies will be toward ridding the city
of the caterpillars, lice, etc, that spoil
the looks of the trees. 1t is safe to say
that Washington's shade trees will be
In fine condition when the Summer Is
over" Why on earth the Superintend-
ent of Parking could not exert little
of his energy toward protecting the
trees from infection from these pests is
not at all plain. In some sections of
the city many of the fine old trees have
died just because of carelessness or ig-
porance of those who should be looking
after them.
1t is now stated that the statue of
Robert E. Lee, which now stands in the
Hall of Horrors" in the National Capt.
tol, was not modelled after him, but
after his son. George Washington Gus
tbs Lee. who served in the Confederate
army as a Major-GeneraL Custis Lee
now lives in Fairfax County. He was
the last owner of Arlington, under his
mothers will The estate Of Arlington
never did belong to Robert E. Lee.
1t was the property of his wife. and she
held the deed to it in perpetuity.
Before she died she made her will, and
gave the Arlington estate to her son,
George Washington Custis Lee, under
the stipulation that this son should drop
the name Lee and take his mothers
maiden name Of Custis. This he failed
to do. but some way managed to get
the property anyhow, and to get out of
the Government In the end several hun
dred thousand dollars for Arlington tho
under the conditions of his mothers
will ne had no right to a single acre.
1t has always been mystery why Mrs.
Lee should have desired her SON to drop
his fathers name and take her
own She evidently believed that
Gusts was greater name than Lee
The sculptor, st is soid, raade the face
of Gen. Lee in the statue from his death
mask, but the figure and the hands
were modelled from those of the son,
who is said TO be the living image of
his father.
1t is related of the late Senator John
w. Daniel, of Virginia, that he assumed
the personal debts of his father,
amounting to $780, 900, which he was
in no moral way obligated to discharge.
He considered it his duty to do so, how
ever. and on his 61st birthday had the
pleasure of making the last payment
Former Gov. Franklin Murphy, of
New Jersey, Chairman of the Republi-
can State Committee and a candidate
for Senator Kean's seat in the United
States Senate, is an ardent admirer of
President Taft. He says of him: Pres
3dent Taft Is man of quite resistless
power, moving smoothly on with his
great burden of National problems
Abraham Lincoln is the only other
statesman this country has produced
With Taft'G nf mill
horses into a steady and vigorous
team" And surely this is high praise
even from ones own friends.
The Navy Department is at work ex-
perimenting with and testing a new
compass. 1t is thought that this new
instrument viii supersede the present
mariners compass, which has been used
by navigators for centuries. 1t is being
tested on the scout cruiser Birmingham
The new compass Is combined with
rapidly revolving gyroscope, which elm
mates the variation and deviation of
the needle Of the compass Navigators
believe that this new compass will rem
der the art of navigation very much
easier and remove the uncertainty Of
the ships position due to variation and
deviation of the ships compass. An
other advantage of this improved COM
pass is that the main instrument can be
the SHlpt Wnere
it can be protected by armor plate
Branch compass stations can be placed
at different parts of the ship, connected
by an electrical wire and the main COM
pass. The reports on the new compass
have thus far been very satisfactory.
1t cannot be stated. however, that the
new fighting masts on the ships which
look like the derrick around an oil well
are all that they were cracked up to
be. 1t cost $4,000 to install them on
each of the ships, and now it is said
that the tremor of them at the top is
SO annoying as to make them almost
valueless and officers do not like them
at all. They are suggesting that II
these were only about half as high the
excessive tremor might possibly be over
come
Society In Paris seems to be tremen-
doUsly interested in the Shonts girls
The unmarried one is Miss Marguerite
The other is the widowed Duchess de
Chaulnes, who is coming out of her
mourning a little and chaperoning her
sister in society. These tive young la
dies while here in Washington society
were considered two of the handsomesi
girls who had ever worn an evening
dress in the National Capital They
were very sweet, bright girls, dressed
charmingly and did not overdress. Their
mamma. Mrs. Shonts, whose husband
| at that time was Engineer of the Pan
| get along even without that graft, and
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