The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-03-09

The President has appointed John
Hays Hammond American representa-
tive at the coronation of King George
1t takes a rich man to fill an Office like
this, and the President found MIN when
he appointed John Hays Hammond,
whose millions reade in mines are IN
disputabIy and honestly his. While the
season for which he will act as Alneri-
can representative and Special Embas-
sador will really be only few days IN
length, he has rented one of the show
residences of Piccadilly Cor the corona
ton season. For this Mr.. l1anmanu
pays the nice little sum of $60,00O. Spe-
cial ambassador and Mrs. Hammond
are planning an elaborate round OF So
cial functions while il London. Some
of Mr., John Hays Hamnond's "pards
out West would say: You can just bet
your sweet life he's got the sponduliX
to make the show a success"
Mrs Paul Kimball, daughter of form
er Senator Cannon of Utah, one of the
Apostles Of the Mormon Church, died
in Chicago last week from the effect of
morphine poisoning. Foul play is sus-
pected. and the whole detective force
of Chicago is trying to prove 1t.
Another Washington girl is about to
acquire title, and this time it is one of
the Oldest ir all England and is th-.t of
one of the hereditary Chamberlains of
the British Empire. The lady is Mrs.
Sterling, formerly Miss Clara Taylor,
and the peer is Lord George Cholmon-
deley, who is only % years of age. Mrs.
Sterling is probably much older. Mrs.
Sterling was formerly the wife OF Capt.
Sterling, of the Scot Guards. You who
are reading this item will please pro-
nounce this hereditary Lords name as
''Chumley," no matter how it is spelled.
Miss Eleanor Patterson, daughter of
the late R. w. Patterson. of Chicago, a
very charming young girl who wilfully
married a Count againSr her fathers
wishes, but with her mothers corni-
vance, is now practically divorced from
him. The Count is GiZycli and his
front name is Josef. and he parades
around in Austro- Hungary when he
isn't worrying the life out of his wife
for money in this country. Count josef
was granted or received a separa tn
from his wife by a decree of the coSft
at Vienna, Austria. 1t would mean in
this country that the Count no longer
can be expected by the courts to sup
= port his wife, and that neither of them
could marry again. AS matter of
fact. the wife has been supporting The
Count ever since she married him, and
it is a further matter Of fact that the
Count has been supporting some other
woman and not his wife. SO that the
wife isn't going to suffer very much
from the separation. A year or two
ago there was sensational flight of the
Countess and her little daughter Felicia
from Austro-H Hungary to this country
under the protection of the Countess
father A little later the child Felicia
was kidnapped by her father. and J
little later restored to its mother by /
order of the Gar Countess Gizycki is |
now in Washington with her child, liy- /
ing with her mother. Mrs. R. W. Pat |
cria hi
happy married life having killed her
father who was fiercely opposed to the
marriage. The Count is Russian born.
but has large estates in Hungary, most
of which, it is said, have been restored (
by Miss Eleanor Patterson's dowry |
from her father.
Workmen in Washington are just now
engaged in tearing down the old Scot !
fish Rite Cathedral, which was erected
in 1888 and is being demolished 20 that
a large department store may be erect |
ed upon that spot When the corner
stone was uncovereda great many relics
were found under ii. some of them dat |
ing as fer back as 1902. 1t is said that
there is some Scottish Rite history con-
tanned in some of the papers, which
makes plain a wide hiatus In the South |
ern jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Ma
sons.
Rev DIR. William T Russell, pastor of
St PaIrick's Church, has been elevated
to the dignity of Monsignor of the
Roman Catholic Church by His Holt /
ness, the Pope. There are three other
churchmcn honored by this title. Father
Russell by virtue of this title, becomes
a domestic Prelate OF the Pope's house |
hold, having certain privileges at the
Vatican which are denied others. Of
course, II will not give him any more
powers IN this country, but in great
Catholic gatherings the title of Mon
signor viii give him ceremonial prece-
dence.
A short time ago Ruthven Lodge, the
house to which Dolly Madison fed
when the British stormed the Capitol,
and burned II and the interior of the
White House. was demolished 1t Is
one OF the mcst picturesque pieces OF
= properly in the District, and retained
its colonial style until the end. On the;
great front door was the huge knocker
which Dolly Madison is supposed to have
runz oh that perilous night. This knock
er was presented to the President OF the
and II will be placed among the relics
in their beautiful memorial hall.
II certainly does hurt the people OF
the South to get the truth told them
once in awhile in a history of the Unit
ed States. DCWn III fsodhohts
the Roanoke College, the Confederate
veterans are simply tearing their hair
out by the roots-tilat is, whatever is
leftover the introduction of a history
IF the United States which carries para
graphs relating to the debasemeHt of
negro women in slave days by their
masters as well as to paragraphs said
TO yiIlify Robert E. Lee. The history is
entitled "A History OF the United
States" by II. w. Elson. Elson is de-
clared to have been a former Kansas
classmate of Prof. II. J. Thorstenburg,
who is professor Of history at the col
lege."
Many prominent men of the State
have children at the college. Judge
Moffitt, of Salem, Va, directed the at
tenrion of the President of the college
TO the paragraphs. He was referred to
the professor of history, Thorstenburg,
and the correspondence was unsatisfac-
tory.
Immediately he is said to have in
structed his daughter not to attend the
history classes Other parents, 1t is
said. will take similar action, tho the
rules of the college are that any student
refusing to attend a class may be ex-
PEELED from the college. History will in
all probability have to go, but the facts
of history can never be changed
When he was young man former