Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspo ndence of Alexandra Gazette

Fashionable Washington is busy
guessing as to what will be done with
the nude life-sized statue sculptured by
Miss Alice Barney and posed for by her
sister, Miss Natalie Barney, that today
adorns the lawn in front OF the
home of the mother OF the Barney
girls. Mrs. Albert Clifford Barney, on
Sheridan Circle, The statue was ship
ped from Paris to be placed in the
Barney home. The artistic entrance to
the studio home OF Mrs Barney, how
ever. proved too small to permit the
entrance of the statue. The van men,
Indifferent or humorous, left the statute
bathing in the warm October sun.
All day today top-hatted men and veil
ed women found that their calls took
them by the Barney house and OF
course it was not the best form-but who,
pray, could help but litter at so extraor-
binary a sight as the nude recumbent
figure of daughter outside mothers
house. The Seeing Washington auto
mobiles detoured to pass the house and
the occupants stared in undisguised
curiousity at Deserted Ariadne,
alias Natalie Barney. The cable wires
between Washington and Paris were
used for instructions for caring for the
statue. Mrs. Barney and both her
daughters are at present in Paris and
do not intend to return until spring.
Meanwhile policemen are casting a
watchful eye near the statue to see that
the rude boys do not carry out their
threat to steal up at night and paint
some cloths upon the chilly lady"
When the U. S. Supreme Court met
at noon today a number of attorneys
we're waiting to submit to that honor
able body voluminous list Of ques-
tons Of importance which had come up
during the summer recess. As the
court postponed regular business until
tomorrow these will be submitted then.
There will be a score of petitions ask
ing the court to hear cases which have
not been adjudged TO the satisfaction
of the litigants in the lower courts.
Among these are the cases involving
the validity Of the state bank guarantee
law Of Kansas enacted in 1909. Will
liam Dalton Mann. president OF Town
Topics Publishing Company, will ask the
court to review the libel suit brought
against him by Samuel Dempster
OF Pittsburg. Dempster secured
damages OF $4,000 against Mann
for the publication OF paragraph.
The court will also reply to ten SINH
lar petitions submitted during last
term. These include the suit of the
government against Richards, Com
stock, jameson and Triplett for conspi-
racy to defraud the government out OF
thousands Of acres of land in Nebraska
bv fraudulent entries. The men were
found guilty in the lower courts. The
coart will also be asked to see that 81,
1OO. 900 being divided among the Cher
okee Indians is distributed according to
their decision. Early decisions on the
questions OF the rehearing of the Den
yer rate case and the Missouri and Mis-
sissippi rivers rate case will also be
forthcoming. II the court refuses to
rehear these the rates ordered by the
Interstate Commerce Committee will
90 into effect. The orders of the COM
mission have been suspended until
these questions are finally passed upon.
There are now seven hundred cases on
the docket for the present term. The
court began today one of the buslests
term in its history.
The census bureau this afternoon
announced the present population OF
Vermont as 355, 656; an increase OF
1885 or SO per cent since 1900.
IT was announced today that an
investigation of the methods employed
by National Bank Examiners will be
begun tomorrow by Lawrence 0. Muir
ray, comptroller of the currency, as
sisted by Oscar l.. Telling, chief OF
the Division Of Report in Murray's
Office.
In appreciation of his work in
breaking the worlds strike-out record
and setting new record of 3l3, which
is Il more than Rube Maddell's best,
the local fans today presented a purse
of $500. to Walter Johnson, the /
Nationals great pitcher. All the NOM
bers of the team and prominent fans
we're guests at luncheon given in
Johnson's honor. The local enthusi-
asts believe that Johnson's record
will stand for many years unless he,
himself, breaks it.
Study is being given by Asst Sec'y
Hillen. of the Treasury Department, to
a large mass of written evidence in the
case brought about by the charges made
against each other by J. X. Tailor,
supervising architect and Chas. Il. KEN
per. his assistant, but il was said today
the case d, not ready forsdecision. Hem
per has been released of his duties pend
ing the investigation on the certificate
of the doctor that Kemper is in ner-
vous condition and not able 10 withstand
the strain of his official duties and that
which comes from the investigation. |
He has not been suspended and is re-
lieved from work as really a Imatter of
health
Roosevelt on His Tour.