Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24

w LETTER
BY H. B. WALKER
WHITE HOUSE NJ. j. ANNEX
BY n, B, WALK
Star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg.
WASHINGTON, April "a.

New jersey looms large In WASH
ington nowadays. There are more
Jerseymen to be met on Pennsyl-
vania avenue in a few blocks almost
any day than one saw here in a week
in former administrations Seldom
does a day pass without from one to
dozen or more New Jersey visitors
at the White House.
Looks lust like it used to in Tren-
tom commented one visitor from the
home State as he was ushered INTO
Secretary Tumulty's office the other
morning and found a half dozen other
home people sitting about the room
Within a half hour yesterday after
noon | met in the lobby of the New
Willard Hotel an even dozen Jersey
men Not more than two of them
were in Washington on the same
GRAND. and it was purely by coinci-
dence that for little time the lobby
looked like that of a Trenton hotel
in the legislative session.
National Committeeman Robert S.
Hudspeth and Assemblyman Peter
James, of Hudson county. We're inter-
ested in trying to get somebody job
at the treasury department. James
wasn't after anything special. Har-
vey Thomas, editor of the Atlantic
City Review, had stopped over for q
day on his way home from stay
with his family at Hot Springs, and
by accident" met Judge Clarence
Cole. of the same county, while mere
Colonel Thomas H. Birch, of Bur-
lington, who has spent mostsof MS
time in Washington since Inaugural
ton, was in evidence, with tresh
gardenia in his buttonhole. Dan Fel-
loves Plat. of Bergen county, was
looking for Congressman Lewis j.
Martin. to talk over some postmaster
appointments
Edmond o. whittier, of East Or
ange. another frequent visitor TO
Washington. smiled happily over the
news that Il. Tracy Lanterman was
to be appointed as postmaster of his
home town, against the opposition
of Congressman Walter l. Mccoy.
Assemblyman Charles O'Connor
Hennessy, Of Bergen county, who Is
president of the United States League
of Savings and Loan Associations,
explained that with Herbert M. Gel
larius, of Cincinnati, the secretary OF
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| the league, he was Interested III
having the income tax clause OF the
| Underwood bill amended so as to
make certain that all purely local and
mutual building and loan associations
would be exempted from taxation. He
had also told the president of the
purpose to ask Congress to authorize
Mr.. Wilson to appoint six delegates
/ A ..xf nj States
convention of the International
League of Savings and Building Loan
Associations. to be held in London
in August, 1914.
]. Spencer Smith, of Bergen county,
and Richard C. Jenkinson, of New
ark, who are members of the New
Jersey Harbor Commission. said they
were getting the facts about the IN
adequacy of the Brooklyn navy-yard
and the governments requirements
for a new site, with a view to making
an aggressive campaign here later tc
have a new naVy-yard located on tins
Bayonne flats, in accordance with the
recommendation of the Legislature
last winter.
| Vice Chancellor James E. Howell,
of Newark. said he had just picked
out Washington as quiet place" to
rest for a few days.
! Walter w. Wick, of Bergen county,
is still busy Strengthening out the
tag end of the work of the Wilson
inaugural copmittee, of which he was
secretary. and waiting for the pres
entation of testimonial to him by
Washington citizens, to be made in a
few days. all of which has so far been
kept from him for a surprise.
Henry Alexander. of Trenton, for
mer editor of the True American, and
s. M Cristie former editor of the
New Brunswick Times. just happened
to be there. as did the writer