The National tribune., 1910-10-13

1 Autographs in six colors, and show il
the case of each material the protein
fat, carbohydrate. ash and water con
tents and food values expressed il
calories Anyone who desires any o
these charts may secure them by ap
plying to the superintendent of Docu
ments. Government Printing Office
Washington. D. c. They cost 81 pc
!set.
| In the carnival of death of Oct. 4
in which automobile accidents, over
| throw of monarchies, smashing o
trolley cars and hundred other tragic
ways of taking life, Washington, o
course. had to have its share. FoI
over three months at the Washington
| Navy Yard the Government has beer
manufacturing fuse So dangeroui
that the workmen who handle it are
reported TO have been wearing armol
three inches thick. All the machines
are said to have been under armor.
plate, and the loading has been man
| ipulated by means of looking-glasses
placed before a small hole in the
armor BY some kind of an accident
not yet explained, and which probably
| never will be explained, there was ar
explosion of this new secret fuse COM
position in the fuse-primer shop of the
| Washington Navy Yard Oct. 4, and two
men were instantly killed and one dan
gerously wounded.
| Lieut.. Ralph Payne Craft, inspector,
| explains about the new fuse. There
has always been a great waste of
shells" he said, and in designing the
new fuse, which is the product of the
| Washington Navy Yard, the object has
been TO get a fuse that will positively
make the shell detonate and explode
when it reaches the target. This we
have accomplished"
And it was not SO after all. That is,
that Miss Katherine Elkins and her
father had reconsidered their decision
that she should not marry the Duke of
Abruzzi. Miss EIkins has been abroad,
accompanied by her mother, pretty
much all Summer, and there have been
various reports about her meeting the
Duke of AbruZzi and their immediate
marriage: their future marriage: their
marriage contingent upon the approval
of the Italian Court; and 1t was all
guesswork- as most everybody over
here thought. Miss Elkins started
home on the 4th, and she cabled: Il
am coming home to be an American"
As matter of fact. this fair lady has
never been anything but an American,
and she possesses great deal of the
sturdy spirit of 'Old Steve Elkins," her
father United States Senator from
West Virginia
Maj. D. r. Lowell and family, who
recently moved to this city from Syra-
cuse, n. Y, have returned from their
vacation spent on the Maryland coast.
The Major was a Delegate from the
New York Department, G. A. R., to the
National g. A. r. Encampment at At
lantic City
United States Senator La Toilette
was operated upon for gallstones at
Rochester. Mimi, last Tuesday. A
great many complications We're found
after number of gallstones had been
removed. such as the intestines adher-
ing to the gall bladder sub-acute in
iammation of the pancreas and en-
larged Emphatic glands. due to septic
material which the gall bladder con-
tanned, all combining to make rather
serious ease of it. The Senator stood
the operation well, and his physicians
think that he will ultimately recover.
Gen. and Mrs. Leonard Wood have
been house hunting all over Washing
ton. The General. vino * Chief of
Staff of the United States Army, felt
that it might be better for him to make
his home in Washington proper rather
than at Fort Myer. Not a house could
be found in the whole city which was
satisfactory to the General and Mrs
Wood, so they have decided to remain
at Fort Myer for the Winter Gen. ].
Franklin Bell was the first command
ing officer of the United States Army to
make his home at Fort Myer, and he
had his house there very Handsomely
fitted up. as the Bells entertained eIab-
orateiy and pretty much all the time
Gen. and Mrs. Wood on taking possess
sion of the house found it so COM
Portable that they were reluctant to
leave it. hence the conclusion now to
remain there. Fort Myer is just across
the Potomac River from Washington,
and adjoins Arlington on the north
west.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, formerly
Miss Helen Hay. is returning from Paris
on visit to her home in New York
but il Is her intention to return to Paris
Immediately after the Christmas holi-
Gays. She has had for some months a
studio in the Latin quarter, and when
she returns to Paris expects to take I'D
her artistic work in real earnest. She
IS studying hard under one of the most
famous sculptors of Paris 1t is stated
that she VIII leave the Bohemian life
of the Latin quarter and move her stu
do in the aristocratic section of Paris
near the Bois de BOulougne. Mrs
Whitney has never cared a snap of her
finger for society as society goes. and
Is an all-around artist. She is the
author of a book of poems paints with
dainty touch and remarkable tech
nique, and is now devoting herself to
sculpturing in marble. She was at one
time one of the most noted whips and
horsewomen on this side of the water
Secretary Meyer has gone on five
weeks tour of inspection of the naval
Workshops of the country. He will
visit the naval training station of the
Great Lakes ct Chicago. the Puget
SOUND Navy Yard at Bremmerton,
wash, and the Mare Island Navy YARD
at San Francisco. He will then go back
10 New Orleans and visit the Navy
Yard there, and from there will take
the u > ;. Dolphin and visit the Navy
YARD at Guantanamo, Cuba It is rath-
sr expected that If the Secretary of
the Navy finds conditions favore Bile NJ
Iuantandmo there will be deyelon-
ments of the station there which win
become of special Importance from a
strategic point after the opening of the
Panama Canal 1t is the intention of
the Secretary of the Navy to return to
MS home in time to vote at the coming
election
A true woman knows that the pana-
cea for practically all ills of life is work
ana plenty of it. And so it comes
about that resolutions to that effect
which were introduced by Dr. Kath-
crime q. Davis, Superintendent of the
Bedford tMass.) Reformatory for Wo-
men, were unanimously adopted at the
international Prison Congress, in ses-
sion in this city last u,ta