The National tribune., 1910-11-17

sion, when he had charge or the much
taIked-of railroad bill. He was Chair
man of the Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce. Senator Elkins
has interests in West Virginia Goa
mines. railroads and other corpora.
tions.
! Think of an American citizen 5S
years old who has never until now SET
foot upon the soil of what he calls his
native land. But there is a man just
like that who is going to visit his ma
tive" city of Baltimore and later Wash
ington. He Is already in New York
He is Walter Winans. He was born in
Russia in 1852. His father was VIM
l.. Winans. of Baltimore, who went to
Russia in 1916 and started railroad
building in the Cars country. He
made a tremendous fortune, and his
son, Walter, born there, has never had
occasion to lift his hand to labor. Mr..
! Winans IS delighted with everything
that he has seen in the United States,
and considers il far ahead of anything
in England. He says that 1t reminds
! him more of Austria or Germany than
any other country. He likes the Amer
lean manners and American character,
as well as American affability. in not
demanding the quality and number of
| your ancestors before acknowledging
the asking of a civil question. When
asked about his American citizenship
Mr.. Winans said, rather lodging the
question:
Am I an American? Well, I shot
at the Olympic games for the United
States in 1905, with hunting rife,
winning the worlds championship for
the United States. For II years L have
held the revolver championship of Eng
land, using an American revolver.
American pistols are the only ones
worth anything"
'rHookworm" Ashford, as he is fa-
miliarly styled, but who in more cor
rect phraseology is DR.. Bayly K. Ash
ford. U. s. Army, with headquarters in
Porto Rico. is in Washington, having
just returned from Brussels. Belgium.
DR.. Ashford is considered the foremost
authority on the, hookworm In this
country, and he has just been to Brus-
sells, where Re represented the United
States Government at the recent Inter
national Congress on Industrial Dis
eases. He says the campaign against
the hookworm disease in Porto Rico
has been successful, and believes that
the fight in the South will be equally
so. In summing up the work done in
the South he says that they worked
four years in Porto Rico in studying
the disease, where 90 per cent Of the
population were believed to be suffer-
ing. without any reward whatever. Then
the Porto Rican Council provided s5,-
600 for the studying of the disease. The
next year $4,000 was appropriated, and
the campaign against the hookworm
has up to the present time cost nearly
S1S4,006. In all that time DR.. Ashford
states that 500, goo cases In a popula-
ton Of !, lis, 600 have been treated. He
states that the fall in the death rate
has been great, and that the improved
condition and physique of the laborers
who were once incapable OF perform
ing work has been tremendous. DIR.
Ashford is going to make a tour of the
ministrator of the Rockefeller Commits
sion.
Mrs. Taft wisely concluded that the
trip to Panama in company with the
President would be too much for her
strength. and decided to remain in
Washington Miss Helen Taft. who
had been counting on accompanying
her father. with whom she is very
chummy. also decided to remain at
home with her mother.
A returning American, who has been
doing the tight little British Isles dur
ing the past Summer, brings word
that the vicar and church wardens of
Stratiord on Avon are bitterly COM
planning of "a certain class of Ameri-
cans" who are out sightseeing. They
say that these Americans ostensibly at
tend the services of the parish church,
but come there merely 10 visit Shak-
spere's tomb, which is in the chancel.
They say that these Americans bring
picture postal cards into the church
and sit and address them during the
services. so the vicar has concluded to