Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-04
Newspaper Men in Washington
 to Have Unique Doings.
M'LEAN BABYS CHRISTMAS
Remarkable Gathering of Children of Wealthy and Eminent Families Rear Admiral Sampson's
 Son Now Officer in
 the Army.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

7 Washington.-O of the thriving
 Washington institutions in the Ma
 tional Press club in which virtually all the correspondents and local newspaper
 men have membership, with a great
 nonresident list on which the names
 appear of hundreds of the Well-knoWn
 newspaper men of the United states.
 The club has had great holiday tune
 of it in properly quiet way. Hospital
 ity has marked the season as IL should.
 During the next few months there will be many entertainments at the
 press club, and they promise to De or character which will excite country
 wide interest. Last year at the cluD there was debate as to the compara- tive merits of whiskers and bald heads as aids to statesmanship. Columns
 were printed about this affair, with Jo- 1 seph c. Cannon, former speaker Of the house of representatives, leading one side of the debate on behalf of whis- kers and Representative Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, leading the other side on behalf of bald heads.
 Something of similar nature, and yet entirely different. will be one of the features of the program for the tune between now and early summer, when , all Washington activities lag except those of congress, which at times must work under the broiling sun that threatens occasionally to set the as phalt pavements ablaze. The Nation al Press club entertains nearly every distinguished visitor from abroad who comes to the capital. Some day it's visitors book will be of immense value for the autographs which it con- tains.
 Mclean 1aby's Christmas.
 A good many years ago Thomas F. Walsh. an Irishman, poor in purse, but rich in energy, went to Colorado. There he worked as a laborer and
 miner. Finally when he had knowl- edge of Prospecting, Mr. Walsh used his senses and his strength to do things for himself. He succeeded so we'll that he acquired many millions, and then in after life he came with his wife and two children to live in the Capital City
 About a year ago Thomas Y. Walsh died Trouble had come to hip in his latter years His only son was
 killed in ali automobile accident and his daughter was badly injured, but she happily recovered and later mar ried Edward Beale Mclean. son of John R. Mclean of Cincinnati and Washington. Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh is still living, and as she shared many of the early privations of her husband, she must have been struck by the con trast between the scene in her Wash ington home day or two ago and the scenes in the early Colorado Cays. Vincent Walsh Mclean, the three year-old grandson of Mrs. Walsh, was celebrating the coming of Christmas. The child is heir to an enormous amount of money. Invited to help him enjoy his Christmas were some 35 or 40 children between the ages of IS months and 6 years. They were all the children of either wealth of of high official degree. Descendants of Gen. Ulysses s. Grant were present and of Elihu Root and of other men who are or have been presidents, army commanders, senators or foreign am- bassadors. It is probable that not in the history of social life in the capital have there been gathered together so many little ones who have clutched fast silver spoons ever since they were born.
 sampson's Son in Army
 Harold Burling Sampson, son of the late Admiral Sampson, who was in command of the fleet in front of San tiago during the Spanish war, has been appointed a second lieutenant in the United States army by President Taft. Young Sampson wanted to follow his ] father in sea career. and he was 1 appoiIted to the United States Naval | Academy He was compelled to leave 1 after having served as a cadet only 1 two years. So it Is that from the navy to the army has been transferred name intimately connected for years with the sailor life
 Representative Cooper of Wisconsin has introduced into congress bill to appropriate $10,000 to aid in erection of a monument to the memory of the l Cushing brothers-William Barker | Cushing of the United States navy;
 Alonzo Hersford Cushing of the. artil- lery, and Howard Bass Cushing Of the cavalry It was the sailor Cushing who rsked his life to destroy the ram Albemarle during the Civil war 1 The other brothers won fame as sol.
 diers In his bill Mir. Cooper speaks
 of the brothers as perhaps "the most l conspicuously daring trio of sons of one mother, all of whose exploits have been notod in the pages of his l tory.