The National tribune., 1910-04-07

Presentation of the Empire State IL the
| National House of Representatives Mr.
Sulzer used to let the reddish lock ovel
his forehead grow long, and when M
lgot excited in a debate, which was
levery time he had anything to say upor
any question, which happened every
time any question came up in thu
| House. this long lock would shake dowr
lover his forehead and he would look
more like Henry Clay than ever. but il
Iremained for an italian in Washington
to satirize him. In a plaSter-of-pariS
art shop within n stones throw of the
Capitol is a life-siZe bust of Henry Clay
| 1t is, however, labeled William Sui
yer" Several of Suffers friends con-
graduated him on the fine likeness, and
it remained for comparative stranger
to discover that the complacent artist
and modeler in plaster-of-paris had
taken a bust of Henry Clay and in
scribed upon it william Sulzer."
There came mighty near being seri-
Gus faux pas in Washington the other
night. with high and mighty sir for
one side of it and high and mighty
designer of gold medals for the other
end of it, and a possibly scornful audi
ence in between. Sir Ernest S. Shackle-
ton, the South Pole explorer, has been
in Washington as the guest of Embas-
sador Bryce, and, knowing that he was
coming. the National Geographic Socie-
ty, with headquarters in Washington,
| decided to present him with gold
medal. When explorers are to be non
ored it is the custom to place upon one
side of the medal a hemisphere in relief
with a star, indicating that portion of
| the globe in which the intrepid explorer
| has gained his 1aurelS. There have been
three of these medals presented in the
| last three or four years-one to Civil
Engineer Peary, which was presented
by President Roosevelt; a second to
Capt. Amundsen for his exploration Of
the Northwest Passage, and the third to
Capt Bartlett last Summer for the as
sistance that he gave Peary on his Arc
tic trip. The same artist was instructed
to make the same kind of a medal, only
to change the legend on the other side.
He made the medal and forwarded it to
the Geographic Society, and rank out
slider who had a peep at it wanted to
know why the artist had starred the
Arctic regions for Sir Ernest Shacklc-
tom as that would make him a rank
rival of Civil Engineer Pcary, and Sir
Ernest wins his honors in the region of
the South Pole. OF course, there are
all sorts of fun being poked at the Ma
tional Geographic Society, when really
IL ought 10 De aimed Ut litt HlONiHCldl-
ism of New York artist.
King Menelik. of Abyssinia, is dead,
but his lion cubs and laughing hyena
still live. These were gifts from the
former great King of Abyssinia to form
er President Roosevelt, of whom he
was a great admirer. one of the cubs
and the hyena are out in the Geological
Gardens in Washington and doing well.
There were two of the cubs to start
with, but one died on the way over.
United States Senator and Mrs. Rich
ardson are mourning the death of
daughter Miss Lucy Richardson, who
did not survive a severe surgical opera
ton at the University Hospital in Phila-
delphia.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution and First Assistant Postmaster
General GranfieId are now considered
sworn enemies, and it all came about
because the First Assistant Postmaster
General decided to change the name of
old Tottenville, of New York to Bentley
Manor. The first name was derived
from the old Totten family. one of the
stanch patriots of Revolutionary days.
and Bentley Manor was the ancestral
property of rank Tories, who were
first to fee to Canada to save their
lives. For some reason or other the
citizens of Tottenville tired of their
name, and petitioned to have it
changed. Mrs. Donald Mclean, former
President-General of the ID. A r. did
not learn of this until it was practically
too late to prevent it. She could not
wait to write letter. but the night
message letter that she sent by wire
must have cost her a pretty penny, in
deed. Mrs. Mclean is nothing If not
patriotic, and the thought of a good old
patriots name being exchanged for that
of bitter Tory was just a little bit
more than she could stand. Assistant
Postmaster-General Granlield laconical-
ly replied to Mrs. Mclean that if the
people of Tottenville did not like the
name of Bentley Manor they could go
at it and petition TO take some other
name, exactly as they had petitioned
against Tottenville and in favor of
Bentley Manor; and so now it is Bent
ley Aanrr and the d. A. r. is mad