The National tribune., 1910-07-21


are insupportable and Impossible 1t
does not make a great deal Of differ
ence however, as it is said dthat the
grandfather had no money and no prop
erty to will away. and that 1t was just
one of the wild hallucinations of
distorted brain" which he'd him TO make
that sort of will Cox Dyrenferth was
thought to be just little "battY," any
how, and the will goes TO prove it.
Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller, who
died a couple of weeks ago, left an es-
tate estimated to be worth about ST.
600, 300. 1t is to be held in trust for
children. The will is stated to be a
model of brevity. ~
Clement S. Ucker, Chief Clerk of the
Interior Department, starts West July
&c on a trip of inspection of Yellow
stone National Park and the new Gla-
cier National Park in Montana.
Reminiscent.
The marriage of Miss Portia Chase
Sprague to Mr.. Joseph n. Whitney, of
this city, which was performed in At
lantic City last week, brings a lot of
memories to mind. The bride is a
granddaughter of former Secretary of
the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and
daughter of former Gov. VIM. Sprague,
of Rhode Island. and Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague Possibly to the people of the
present day neither of these names
mean much Gen. VIM. Sprague was
War. Governor of Rhode Island, and is
one of three surviving War Governors.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, his wife, was
considered one of the most brilliant
and most beautiful women ever in pub
lie life in Washington. She was at the
same time one of the most willful, stub
born and domineering Of women, and
by great many people thought to be
extremely selfish. AS the head of her
fathers house when he was Secretary
of the Treasury beautiful Kate Chase"
ruled official Washington with a mailed
hand. After bang Secretary of the
Treasury her father was Chief
Justice, and it was in the hight of her
career that she married Gov. Sprague.
They had a magnificent 'Canonchet"
near Providence, r. l., and 1t was there
that her children were born. When her
daughters were old enough, she took
them abroad and educated them at a
fashionable school near Fontainbleau.
After her divorce from Gov. Sprague
he married again, and Mrs. Sprague
upon the death of her father returned
to this country and remained here. She
inherited from Secretary Chase his
the northeast section of the city, where
she spent her last few unhappy years.
Mrs. Chase, as she preferred to be
called in her latter years. never knew
the value of money, and 800 bill
was no more to her than 10-cent piece
as long as she had It in her hand and
could spend ii upon herself It was not
long until Edgewood was me-.gaged,
and it was about to be sold when she
died. Strangely enough, beautiful Can
onchet burned shortly after Mrs. Chase's
death, and all its priceless treasures
burned with IL. There were four chill
dren, son and three daughters, the
eldest of whom. Ethel, tried the stage
for time, and then married and now
lives in New York. The second daugh-
ter, Kitty. was mental incompetent
thruout her life, and the youngest
daughter, Portia, tenderfy cared for her
until her death a short time ago. Mrs.
Whitney was devotedIy attached to her
mother and her sister. After her moth
er's death she entered the Treasury
Department as clerk; and her salary
enabled her to support. her invalid sis
ter, Kitty. Mr.. Whitney. her husband,
has been for 40 years an employe in the
Treasury Department, and is many
years the senior of his Wife After the
death of her mother, Mrs. Chase. Mrs.
Whitney and the other children as
sumed their fathers name and became
reconciIed to him. Mrs. Whitney Is
fine French scholar, a musician and an
artist. She is deserving of a happy
married life, for she bore many burdens
during her younger years.
A Big Country.
Representative Ollie James, member
of the National House of Representa-
tives from the First Kentucky District,
has delivered himself of a political
opinion which is very cheerful, indeed
for the Democrats. He says that this
is a Democratic year, and that the Con-
gress which assemblies in December,
1911, is going to be an overwhelmingly
Democratic one, and then he declares
there will be the biggest graft-hunting
business that ever happened. And then
Mr.. James says: Il believe it costs 26
times as much per capita to run our
Government as it did when John Quincy
Adams was President"
And that is no joke. And the coun-
try is a hundred times richer and many
of thousands greater in popu-
lation than it was when John Quincy
Adams was President, and the Nation
has really grown with the times, don't
you know, and it would naturally cost
a great deal more to run it. When
John Quincy Adams was President, for
States and the White House were light
ed with tallow candles. and now it
costs very pretty penny to run these
two Government structures by electrici-
ty. In John Quincy Adams's time the
White House was heated by means of
freplaces, and there was always a
grumble because the great barns of
rooms could not be kept warm. Now
those very same rooms, changed not
one bit so far as partitions are con-
cerned, are heated by steam, and so Is
the Capitol When John Quincy Adams
was President Ollie James, big and
brawny as he is, would have found it
distinctly laborious proposition to have
plodded up Pennsylvania avenue from
the Capitol to the White House to c.-r
on the President. Our now world
famed and beautiful Avenue was then
partially cObble-stoned, and most of the
time in the Winter and in the rainy sea-
sons hub deep in mud. Now Ollie can
make the trip in a taxicab. Indeed there
is no doubt at all that Representative
Ollie James makes perfectly true
statement when he says that 1t costs a
heap more per capita now than 1t did
when John Quincy Adams was Presi-
dent. We were just fly speck on the
map of the world at that time, and the
mandates Of the President of the Unit
ed States amounted to just about as
much nationally speaking as this pro-
nunciamento of Ollie, James, bf Ken
tucky. In 1925, when John Quincy
Adams became President, the battle
fleet Of the United States was scarcely
as large and only a littlecmore offensive
for defensive work than the Potomac
Yacht Club. To-day the United States