The National tribune., 1910-07-28

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
about Is years ago. when the Associat-
cd Press was organized, he became
member of the local staff. Mr.. Gross
was esteemed by all Government Off
cials. and commanded the respect Of
everybody with whom he came in con-
tact. Mr.. Gross told the world of Pres
ident Mckinley's death before any 9TH
er man, because he refused to sleep
while other newspaper men who had
been watching the wounded President
for hours dosed from sheer exhaustion
from loss of rest. Mr.. Gross never took
any chances il there WAS a ''Sto.y' in
his eyes many times during those las.
hours to keep awake for the death
watch, and when the news of the mar
tyred Presidents death was made
known he hurried to the nearest tcle-
graph wire and Informed the world.
Death took him with little warning, and
his going leaves 4 vacancy that it will
take some time to fill
Prosecutions against manufacturers
Of ice cream cones containing boraN are
to be instituted by the Government,
under the pure-food law.
Large seizures of cones were made
try by Inspectors of the Department of
Agriculture. Analyses of the cones
seized disclosed the presence of borax,
a property which has been held to be
deleterious to the human stomach.
The cones were found to contain also
saccharine and benzoate of soda. but it
was said at the Department that the
proposed prosecutions, would be based
solely on the presence of boraX. In
spectors will continue to make seizures
wherever cones containing boraX are
found. Manufacturers using boraX con-
tend that this ingredient is necessary to
make the cones hold their shape.
Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief of staff
of the United States Army, has arrived
in Washington, accompanied by Mrs.
Wood and their children. They have
taken up their quarters at Fort Meyer,
the same which were occupied by Gen.
and Mrs. Bell. 1t is beautiful home,
and stands on the terrace overlooking
the river and commanding view Of
Washington.
Forty-nine years ago July 81 the
first battle of Bull Run was fought 1t
was the first real clash between the
North and South in the great war of
the rebellion, and 1t resulted in defeat
for the Union army. The fearful loss
side was nearly 1900 and for the Con-
federates 100. The battle was an in
spiration for the South and discourage
ment to the North. TIE Deums were
sung in the churches In the South over
their victory, and day of Thanksgiving
was observed. In the Northern homes
prayers were offered for the souls sud-
denly hurled into eternity, sympathy
for the wounded and a stern determine
ton expressed to fight the war thru.
The personal strife among the officers
of the United States Marine Corps has
been going on now for several years,
and has caused extreme annoyance in
the Navy Department. There was final
ly a Court Of Inquiry. and this resulted
in letters of censure to nearly all of
the officers concerned. It is said that
no further judicial proceedings are con-
tempIated.
The censured officers are Maj. .-Gen.
George F. Elliott, Commandant OF the
corps; Col. Charles II. Lauchheimer,
Adjutant and Inspector; Col Frank L.
Denny, the Quartermaster at Washing
ton; Col. Charles A. Doyen, command
ing the Marine Barracks at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis; Lieut.-Col.
Thomas c. Prince, Assistant Quarter
master at Washington; Lieut.-Col.
Henry C. Haines, Assistant Adjutant
and Inspector at Washington, and Majs.
Louis ]. Magill and David d. Porter,
Assistant Adjutants and Inspectors at
Philadelphia and Washington respec-
lively.
Another man with a conscience has
been found. The other day there came
to the conscience fund of the Treasury
Department letter from a New York
man, who stated that he had put 1t
T m hn "a q
writer said that he had only just re-
turned from Europe. and had brought
with him some articles that were 'duti-
able, but which he had not declared.
His conscience got to hurting him like
the mischief, and so in order to satisfy
it he forwarded the $50 which repre-
sented the duties on the smuggled-in
articles.
N NJ Chase, of Savannah, Ga, was
in Washington for the first time the
other day, and it was right funny to
listen to him recount the miXed-up
condition of his mind as to the loca-
ton of the various Government build
ings, and yet Mr.. Chase is more than
an average type Of a bright man. He
says that the first blunder that he
made was while he was wandering
around the Capitol. He asked the guide
to point out the White House, and was
perfectly thunderstruck to find that 1t
was a mile away down the Avenue, and
at this season of the year not even the
white pillars Of the balcony of the Blue
Parlor are in view from the Capitol
portico, as they are in Winter when
the foliage is off the trees. He had an
idea. he said. that the White House
was just across the street from the
Capitol. He says his guide told him
that thousands Of the people who visit
the Capitol first asked to be shown the
living apartments of the President. sup
posing that the President Was housed
under the dome of the Capitol
A venerable employe Of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey and a devoted low
er OF his country and an old soldier
died in this city last week. Capt. Henry
NJ. Knight, who was born May 21, 1880.
He was appointed an apprentice en-
graver in the Office of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey in 1886. He was an
assistant In the Engineer Corps of the
Survey in 1851 and 1852, and assisted
in establishing the boundary between
the United States and Mexico. He
served during the war of the rebellion
was also one of the Oldest Masons in
the District, having been a member of
Washington Centennial Lodge since
1867. He was a member of the Poto-
mac Post, Department of the Potomac,
G. A. r. Interment was in Arlington.
Aug. President Taft will be the
guest of honor and make the address
at the unvailing of the big monument
erected by Massachusetts in memory of
the Pilgrim Fathers at Provincetown,