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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-04

Trinity, No. Sd and K sts.,. Rev
Charles Y. Grimes. Early celebra-
ton, 1880 a. m; S. s., GAS a. M
Bible class, 1000 a. M; Mathis, II
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Why She TeIephoned.

A PIECE of news too important to
- wait till night and too interesting to
be committed to the telephone reached
the woman about 1 o'clock, so she trav-
eled five miles to her husbands office to
relate it in person. She drew a chair up
close to his desk and began:
II came to tell you"
''Whr-rr-rr," cut in the telephone on
his desk.
The man talked into the receiver for
about five minutes, then made a few
notes, after which his wife resumed:
Il came to tell you that"
WYATT a minute" he said. There
goes that COMPOUNDED wire again"
1t went that time and ii went again
and again, only punctuated between calls
by the woman's Intellectual II came to
tell you" Finally she got UP in despair
Il think / had better wait till night to
tell you" she said.
Yes" he said, perhaps you had. I
seem pretty busy now
Outside the office the urgency of her
message overpowered all other considera-
tons. Putting by her recent experience
she sought the nearest drug store and
telephoned her news. He listened in ex-
clamatory astonishment.
And you waited TO telephone me that"
he said. Why on earth didn't you tell
me when you were here?"
oh" said she, Il had a reason"
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CURING upon American soil Never will
SO many women with famous names have
been brought together upon social oc-
casiOn. Every section of the country will
be represented. as will every generation
nov in the land Of the living-venerab
great-grandmothers, stately grandmoth-
ers. DISTINGUISHED matrons, reigning bellies,
radiant debutantes and even blush
ing girls in their tender teens will
be interspersed among the most fragrant
spring blossoms and the rarest of exotics
to form the most dazzling galaxy Of
beauty and color ever brought together
under one American roof
What their fathers, husbands. brothers
and sons have in part failed to accom-
p!ish with their Jackson day banquets
and jefferson day dinners, these maidens,
matrons and srande DANES, by invoking
the spirit of Dolly Madison, purpose to
effect by dent of tact. diplomacy, charm,
viands fit for the gods. the sweetest
scents of natures sweetest flowers and
the sweetest harmonies that can be con-
jursd UP by the wizards of music. AS
an institution for the promotion Of peace,
The Hague tribunal itself cannot boast
of the placating potency promised for
this great conelave of femininity, which
will devise ways and means to make the
lion lie peacefully beside the lamb. to
make the Kilkenny cats lap complacently
from the same plate. TO make the oil Of
radicalsm and the water of conservatism
mix in one homogeneous balm.
The subscription list is open to all
wives, daughters. mothers and sisters Of
present democratic members of both
houses of Congress. of present democratic
governors and governors-elect, of former
members of Congress now living in the
District of Columbia; also the wives OF
former democratic cabinet officers, past
and present of democratic justices of the
federal Supreme Court, of members Of
the democratic national committee and of
Press Club.
These scores of ladies will pay s5 each
and will serve as hostesses to the follow
ing guests of honor: Mrs. Grover
Cleveland Mrs. Champ Clark, Mrs. Will
liam ]. Bryan, Mrs. Alton b. Parker,
Mrs. Adlai Stevenson, Mrs. Edward d.
White, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. JUDD
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miles. and from Buena Vista, on the Pa
tuxent, to Chesapeake bay, eight miles:
'Battleships alone, if located at the
points above mentioned, could command
York, by the PatuXent and the bay, and,
with the cooperative fire of ships placed
in the other rivers, could control and
thoroughly rake all Of the narrow strips.
The length of the western Chesapeake
peninsulas, which might be dominated by
an enemy adding eight miles for inland
range would be. respectively, or, 30, 81.
81 and % miles. or total command Of
1861 miles. This statement assumes only
probabilities. 1t is altogether possible
that lighter vessels equipped with high
power guns could still farther penetrate
the several rivers and infiict damage on
a far greater area.
Such possession contemplates only ma
val offense, but power that controlled
the entrance to the bay and the penin-
sula territories could at will land any
number of troops, debarking or shipping
them at pleasure. Omitting as improba-
BILE the conjecture that a permanent oc-
cupation could be effected, 1t is still fair
to assume that a temporary seizure could
be made, and 1t is certain that the Amer
lean forces sent to dislodge the invaders
would be compelled to fight at a serious
ploy the most battling tactics, could make
demonstration against one point which
would neceSSitate defense and then hurl a
force against some helpless situation.
with vastly inferior numbers, an enc
my could circumvent an UNNECESSARILY
superior force. With facilities for speedy
embarkation, tranSshipment and landing,
any number of feintS could be made, any
amount of deception practiced and many
important places left vulnerable to at
tack. Presenting, for example, a demon
stration against Richmond which would
require the attention of our army, what
could prevent an attack on Washington
while it's main defenders We're distant sew
eral days march?
aside from the strictly military as
poets of the case are collateral view
points which may we'll give cause for
alarm. With the bay under hostile con-
troll there would be the reasonable posi-
blity of an enemy's forces occupying not
only the 1856 miles of peninsula territory
on the western side but the entire strip
that lies between the bay and the ocean.
This occupancy would give to an alien
commiSsary an opportunity to till some
of the richest soil of the country and OBJ
tain therefrom an incalculable supply of
food stores"
tiveness it is obvious that different rules
apply to different detectives. A gun
which may be impotent against a battle
ship at a distance of six miles is vastly
potential against mass of brick and
stone at its practical limit of carrying
case Of war with an equal or a superior
naval force most of our ports are in dan
ger. New York, Boston, Norfolk New
port News and Charleston are within
two to five miles of ocean gunshot. Bal
timore and Washington are, strategic
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minutes and shook hands with as many
as 1000 people within this time.
She who thus won the hearts of the
people when she came to the White
House, a beautiful bride of twenty-one,
is now handsome matrOn of forty-seven,
with one daughter of debutante age and
another of fifteen, besides two strapping
sons. Since her wdowhood Mrs. Cleve-
land has spent some time in Europe, par
ticularly in Switzerland, where, at Lau
same, she has had her children entered
in private schools. primarily that they
might acquire a speaking knowledge of
French. And inasmuch as she had al
ready mastered that language, whose es-
sentials she learned at a French kinder
garten, she has spent her leisure at Lau-
same in studying Italian. Although 1t
has been fifteen years since she relin-
quished her exalted station as first lady
Of the land, her memory is still green in
the hearts of official Washington, which
Will give her a warm welcome II she de-
cides to assume the chief honor seat at
the Dolly Madison breakfast.
Upon the left hand of the toastmistress
at this interesting assemblage will sit
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, whom time
has touched as lightly as it has Mrs.
Cleveland. Mrs Bryan has been grand
mother for several years, and it Is a fact
not known to many that she has been
member Of the Nebraska bar for a quar-
ter century.
About these consOrts of the two most
powerful leaders which the democracy
has had within the past generation Will
be grouped all of those women of that
party who hope to be the mistress Of the
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which would insure accuracy of fire ana
subsequent execution"
Strategically, Washington is removed
from the ocean by its distance from Her
ring bay-about twenty-four miles. Baltl-
more is nearer than the mouth or the
Patapsco. practically accessible. Leisure
ly and without concern as TO Their safety,
hostile ships once in control or the en-
trance to the bay, could without him
drance traverse the fifty-eisht miles to the
Potomac the 40 miles TO the Patapsco
and proceed with the destruction OF
Washington or Baltimore. Fort Monroe
admittedly could guard the approaches to
Norfolk, Newport News and Richmond,
but the fort would undoubtedly be sub
iected to a concerted sea and shore at
tack, which might result in its loss,
calamity which would leave the points
beyond Hampton roads at the mercy of
an enemy. Battleships could not navi-
gate the James for any considerable DIS
lance. but gunboats can reach Richmond
Il y
with adequate Notifications com
paratively small number of artillerYmen
could hold the Chesapeake safely against
attack. Without these defenses, the pro-
lection of the bay and its circumjacent
lands must inevitably demand the service
of fleets and forces. To avoid whole
sale sacrifice Of our soldiers, to afford
commercial security and to insure ma
tional prestige is the duty of our govern
ment and by no single act may these
conditions better be fulfilled than by
placing an impregnable fertilization at
the country's chief strategic point"
Tentative plans for the defenses provide
for the big island fortress to be located
between the two Virginia capes, just
north of the channelway, which is five
miles distant from Cape Henry. 1t is to
be of stone and concrete, with walls APP
proximately fifty feet in thickness. The
fortress is to be armed with disappearing
guns or turret rifles.
The main battery will be composed Of
the largest guns possible to mount, The
newest guns being manufactured for the
army are of fourteen-lnch bore and are
535 feet in length. The complement of
the Chesapeake Gibraltar will probably
be six of these monster cannon. Then, If
the present plans of the artillerymen are
accepted, there will be a battery of three
inch rapid-fire guns and one more
quartet of mortars-big, twelve-inch NOR
tars built to throw their huge shrapnel
cases aloft at an angle of forty-five de-
grees making untenable any position
within their somewhat limited range.
Assisting the island fort in it's guardian
ship of the channel smaller fort on the
mainland at Cape Henry is planned. The
area of land to be occupied Will embrace
about 300 acres. This fort will probably
be equipped with two or four fourteen
inch guns and another nest of mortars.
At the northerly side of the entrance will
be a third fort, on Fisherman's Island.
This fort will not be placed there to meet
the attack Of battleships. Ii will be
practically out of their range. 1t will be
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the four years between her fathers
terms, while he lived in New York.
No other young ladies can sit at this
table in the status of Presidents chill
dren, for Mr.. Cleveland was the only
democrat to become President within the
past fifty-one years and the only demo-
cratic President of the past sixty-seven
years who died leaving any descendants.
OF his predecessors belonging to the de-
mocracy Buchanan was a bachelor and
Pierce lost his only child, a boy of thir
teen, in a railway accident just prior to
his Inauguration, while Polk, Jackson
and Madison were childless. So the COM
mittee intrusted with the interesting task
of filling this table reserved for ladies
with the blood of democratic Presidents
in their veins will have to confine its
other invitations to the female descend
ants of Presidents Jefferson, Monroe. Van
Buren, and Tyler. The father of democ-
racy can be represented by the daughter
of his great-grandson, Thomas jefferson
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Coolidge, former minister to France. who
still lives in Boston.
She is Mrs. Lucius NJ. Sargent, and in
Virginia there are a number of Eppses,
RandoIrhs Andersons Burkes, RuffinS
and Meiklehams, descended from the Sage
of Monticello. And among the descend
ants of James Monroe there are, in the
north a number of GouverneurS. grand
daughters and great-granddaughters OF
pretty Maria Hester Monroe. who mar
ried Samuel L. Gouverneur in the White
House. Among these are three great
granddaughters of President Monroe
Miss Maude Gouverneur, Mrs. Roswell
Randall Hoes and Mrs William Craw-
ford Johnson, whose mother. Mrs. SAM
uel L. Gouverneur of Washington. has
lately produced volume CT her memoirs
Mrs. Hoes (nee Rose Gouverneur) Is the
wife OF a chaplain in the navy and lives
in Washington. while Mrs Johnson nee
Ruth Gouverneur) is the wife of a physi-
clan of Frederick, Md. In Virginia there
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are also descendants of President Mon
roe. through his daughter Eliza, who
married Judge George Hay of that state.
who prosecuted Aaron Burr at the tTea-
son trial There are also many living de
scendants of Presidents Van BuVer and
Tyler. especially of the latter, who mar
ried twice Among President Tylcr's
granddaughter eligible Cor the special ia
BILE at the harmony breakfast are the two
daughters of President Lyon q. Tyler OF
William and Mary College and the two
young daughters of the latter's brother.
d. Gardiner Tyler, former member OF
Congress from Virginia. Both of these
gentlemen are sons of President Tyler by
his second wife. There are also many de
scendants OF the same Presidents first
marriage.
Another former mistress of the White
House besides Mrs Cleveland will be Ella
gible to attend this peace conclave. she
is Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland. who
presided over her brothers official home
during the first fifteen months that he
was President. She is a woman OF great
force of character and industry. whose
early life was fraught with sadness. In
early childhood she was orphaned by her
fathers death, then two of her brothers
were lost at sea when she was IN
her twenties and her mother died shortly
before her brother Growers first nomina-
ton. Up to that time she had conducted
a school in Indiana but had more lately
lectured before classes in history at a
New York state college for women. Since
President Clevelands marriage she has
taught history in New Work city, has
written books, including a novel trav-
eled in Europe and. in recent years has
lived at Dark Harbor, Me. She VIII be
eligible to attend the harmony conclave
as part of a class of distinguished wom-
en- made up of wives. mothers, daughters
and sisters OF former democratic presi-
Dental candidates.
1t is hoped that a considerable contin-
gent of her former cabinet women VIII be
gathered about Mrs Cleveland at the har-
mony feast Among those still living are
Mrs. Thomas +. Bayard, Mrs. Richard
Olney. Mrs Charles s Fairchild, Mrs.
William c. Endicott, Mrs. David r. Fran
els, Mrs Wilson s. Bissell. Mrs Judson
Harmon and Mrs. Hoke Smith, whose hus
band has Just come to the Senate from
Georgia More than half century hav-
ing elapsed since Cleveland's immediate
democratic predecessor buchanan left
the White House. none of the widows or
the latters cabinet officers are, so far
as known. alive.
This peace Jubilee of the wives, moth
ers sisters and daughters of the leaders
of democracy will be the first affair or
the kind in the history of American poll
tics and il is proposed that the Dolly
Madison Maytime breakfast shall here
after be an annual event in the National
Capital.
Copyright 1912 by John Elfreth watkinsD
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White House at this time next year. as
well as the wives of the present and
former party leaders.
Many of these honor guests Will be OLD
friends of Mrs. Cleveland, notable among
these being Mrs. Adlai Stevenson. who
was the second lady of the land during
Mrs Cleveland's last reign in the White
House; Mrs. Judson Harmon, who as one
of her cabinet ladies'" also received
with Mrs. Cleveland at state functions:
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. whose husband
Grover Cleveland at Princeton, and Mrs.
White, wife of the Chief Justice. whose
husband, then a senator from Louisiana,
made her a bride during the last Cleve-
land regime and shortly before President
Cleveland elevated him to the Supreme
Court.
Some interesting ladies. old and young.
will be hidden to that honor table that
is to be reserved for daughters and
granddaughters (some with various
"greats") of democratic Presidents. Con-
spicuous among these will be Miss Esther
Cleveland, whose birth in the White
was honored by gifts from all of the
rulers of the world, and Miss Marian
Cleveland, now a schoolgirl of fifteen,
who was born at BuZZard's Bay during
the last summer vacation which her
father enjoyed while President. Had Mrs.
Cleveland's eldest daughter, Ruth, lived
she would have been full-fledged society
woman by now, for she was born during
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tress who adorned the White House dur
ing the century following independence.
A century ago that charming dispenser
Of hospitality, tact and diplomacy-com-
mended by biOgraphers for her tolerance
and observation-disclosures reigning in
the White House, as, in fact, she had done
during the previous eight years, during
it's occupancy by the wifeless Jefferson.
Her birthday, on whose centenary this
harmony breakfast" will be held, was
probably not celebrated or announced,
for it was her fortieth-a milestone which
ladies are wont to approach with unac-
cuStomed dread. Moreover, it was not a
time for social gayeties, for black war
clouds were frOwning above the horizon.
Congress had just doubled the tariff to
buy guns to be used against the mother
country, and the Madison household was
upon the eve of period of gloom due to
a long series of American defeats culmi-
mating in the burning of the White House
itself and the heroic escape of Mistress
Dolly with the portrait of Washington.
ripped from it's frame with her hairpin.
Ii is most fitting that at this great
function celebrating the 10th birthday
of Dorothy Madison the chief seat of
honor-at the right Of the toastmistress-
has been offered to Frances Folsom
Cleveland who, among all democratic
mistresses of the White House, most
nearly approached the immortal Dolly
in popularity, tact, charm and social
success.
A quarter century ago Mrs. Cleveland.
bride of less than a year, had just
concluded her first social season at the
White House. Her name was upon every
lip, her face was familiar to the hum
blest dwelleg in the most isolated corner
of the land and the thousands who at
Washington had viewed the actual radi-
ance of her smile returned home to cher
ish it's memory as long as they might
live to sing her praises. At her levees,
at public ceremonials or when abroad
in her carriage she beamed upon the
multitudes with the benevolence of mother
love. At public receptions in the White
House she stood with her husband as
long at a time as three hours and forty
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~vHE Senate last week passed the
Notifications appropriation bill
carrying an amendment provid-
u ing $4,000 for the purchase OF
800 acres on the shore of Cape
Henry upon which to erect fortihcatlons.
This is the first step toward the plan 10
construct an American Gibraltar to pro-
tect the mouth of the Chesapeake bay
and the Capital of the United states
For several years the military and naval
experts have argued that the present
protection at this strategical point Is
wholly inadequate and should be strength
ened. They hold, as does President Tart,
that il is impossible to effectually guard
the entrance of the Chesapeake bay with
the biggest guns at Fortress Monroe.
This fort has the safety of several Amer
lean cities in its keeping 1t Is the out
post defense of Washington and Baltl-
more and with Fort Wool. it stands as
a sentinel keeping watch over Norfolk
and Richmond, and many smaller cities
in tidewater Virginia and Maryland.
Plans have been prepared involving the
construction of artificial islands OF stone
and concrete between Cape Henry and
cape 0narleS, d Instance VI dpo0t
cen miles from Fort Monroe, upon which
is 10 be placed the most powerful bat
teries The board coast defense has
recommended the island fortfication. esti-
mating about 100000 as the cost Of the
construction OF the islands and break
waters, and about s5.00O.0oo for the forti-
ncations These figures also include the
cost of an auxiliary fort on the shore OF
Cape Henry.
While Secretary OF War, President Taft
recommended the project and in an ad-
dress before the deeper waterways con-
vention at Norfolk. Va, two years ago,
said: You are here at the end of Ches-
apeake bay, which is the greatest stra-
tegical point of naval rendezvous in the
United States. We have a very heavy
and very formidable coast defense at
we want TO protect this coast We ought
to protect, with as much emphasis as
possible the entrance to Chesapeake bay.
Now that can be done in one way-by
erecting an island on the middle ground
between Cape Henry and Cape Charles
and placing thereon a fort that should
be impregnable. That is what l want.
1t may surprise the average intelligent
American TO learn that any point on our
II must be a shock to most OF them to
realize that its most important locality is
utterly lacking in means to repel the in
vasion of an enemy. In estimating the
possibilities OF successful attack by a
foreign navy there are two factors for
consideration. First, the vulnerability OF
the defense; second, the strength of the
enemy AT the outset 1t may be promised
that no single power could effect wide
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Brutal.

NICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN. in an
interview in Washington, sa d of the
smashing of boom:
1T brutal smash. 1t was so
brutal so cruel, it reminds me OF Mar
rit's retort.
"Marrit'S wife, at the end of the usual
breakfast table quarrel, burst into tears
behind the coffee urn. and, as she search
ed for her handkerchief, walled:
"'You said, the second time / refused
you, that you'd rather live in eternal tor
ment with me than in bliss by yourself"
"'Well. l had my WISH, growled Mar.
rit''