The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-12

NEW YORK, March 12.-Although
he was born and has spent a large por-
ton of his life somewhere in that indie
finite and insignificant part of the
country west Of Jersey City, President
Taft appears to entertain a feeling or
fondness for little old New York. He
seldom turns down an invitation to
come to Broadway, and many times
of late the denizens of the great white
way have basked in the sunny radi-
|ance of the Smile
This is by way of Introduction to the
statement that the president is coming
Ito town again next week, the precise
date for the visitation being Tuesday.
The inviters, in this instance are the
officers of the New York commandery
of the Military Order of Foreign Wars
of the United States Mr. Taft was
recently made an honorary member OF
the organization, and at the reception
to be given in his honor next Tuesday
he will be presented with the insignia
of the order.
The order was founded in this city
in 1894 and is made up of veterans and
the descendants Of veterans of one or
more of the five foreign wars in which
the United States has engaged There
are now several state communicates
and a national commandery instituted
in 1896. The order has some 1000 mem
| bers and on it's rolls are the names of
Presidents Harrison, Cleveland and
Roosevelt.
The president has also been made
an honorary vice-president of the Lee
gal Aid society, which dispenses free
legal advice to the poor and needy, and
| on Tuesday evening the Smile VIII
beam radiantly from a box at the
metropolitan Opera house, where
benefit performance of Aida" will be
| given to assist the cause of the legal
ladders.
The society, which enables even the
penniless to indulge in the luxury of
fighting it out in the courts, has
been a great success. President Won
Ericsson reports that 10000 cases were
handled during 1909, an increase of
about 1000 over the previous year. OF
this number $4,000 cases were ad-
justed. About 100000 was collected for
poor clients Of the society. The report
showed a deficit of $4,000, which will
be made up during this year.
One of the most important features
of the work in 1910 will be the opening
|of a criminal branch to defend poor
and worthy clients who may be I'M
justly accused of crime. This project
was dropped last year because of lack
|of funds
The report Of the attorney in chief
shows that the largest number of cases
last year was those of wage claims,
and second came cases which involved
difficulties between husbands and
wives
President Taft will come to New
York again on May 9, and will open the
Actors Fund Fair. On that occasion,
| it is promised, the twelve most beauti-
full show and chorus girls in America
will strew flowers in his path. Mr..
Durham announces that the selection
of these dozen girls would be left to the
public.
! The directors of the fair have
planned to give President Taft the
most spectacular welcome ever accorded
the chief magistrate of America The
Seventy first Regiment armory, at the
cost of thousands of dollars, will be
| turned into a garden of Versailles,
with its exquisite vine-hung pergolas
and it's vari-colored fountains. In the
midst of a profusion of greens will rise
white court of honor, where President
Taft will be formally received. AS he
richly carpeted steps to the court of
honor, these twelve girls will throw
armfuls of flowers before him.
Pleasant prospect for the president,
what?
| Robert Romans, the actor, who will
appear in the production of Brand
at the New Theater on Monday night.
is about the chestiest gent in New
York these days. There's reason,
land she weighs twelve pounds.
| After the arrival of the young lady,
Mr. Romans was SO interested in tell
t ing his intimate friends of the good
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