Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-18
PRESIDENT PLANS
AFTERNOONS OFF
With Secretary TumuIty,
Hopes to Shut Up Shop at
Noon Saturdays.
GIVES PART OF TODAY
OVER TO APPOINTMENTS
Charles r. Crane May Accept Post at
st. Petersburg-Other Good
Places to Be Filled soon.

President Wilson and Secretary Tum-
ulty will try hard tomorrow to start the
half-holiday schedule for Saturday that
gave them so much pleasure at Trenton
and Princeton. No engagements have
been made for the President at the ex-
ecutive offices and unless some pressing
business arises that compels his personal
attention he will spend the morning in
his library at the White House, working
on correspondence which has accumu-
lated and in the afternoon he will try
to get out for some needed recreation
a walk, ride or game of golf The Presi-
dent likes golf. but is not as strong an
admirer Of the game as was President
Taft. who was constantly striving to
better his score and who played three
or four afternoons a week at the Chevy
Chase Club links. The Presidents physi-
cal adviser frequently urges him to take
more exercise. which he needs to coun-
teract the great mental strain he is
under
DR.. Glazebrook for Foreign Post.
Senators Bryan of Florida, Lea of Ten
nessee and Simmons of North Carolina,
together with Representatives Pou and
Du Pre-, called on President Wilson to-
day and asked him to give a good place
in the foreign service to Rev. DR.. Otis
A. Glazebrook of Elizabeth, n. j., father
of DR.. L. w. Glazebrook of this city.
DIR. Glazebrook was the founder of the
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, is sixty
six years old and in fine health. The
| President said he knew Dr. Glazebrook
well and appreciated his qualifications foI
| mission abroad.
President and Mrs. Wilson this after
/ noon received a number of visitors, in
| cluding about fifty delegates to the Ma
| ttOnal Council of Women, the League o1
American Pen Women, and 200 Children
of the American Revolution. The Presi
| dent also received the students of the
high school at Glen Ridge. n. j., and
number of other visitors to the city.
| DIR. Charles w. Eliot, former head OF
Harvard University. who declined the po
sition of ambassador to Great Britain
i spent some time with the President thi.
| afternoon
Attorney General McReynolds, enterins
the executive offices today for the cabine
| meeting, said that he had done nothing
| toward finding a stftab1e man for judg,
of the Juvenile Court of the District ant
that he would not hasten in an examina
tion Of the papers in the case.
Crane May Accept.
| President Wilson is pressing Charles
r. Crane Of Chicago to become ambas-
sador to Russia, in place of Curtis
Guild, as already stated in The Star
and Mr.. Crane may yield to the wishes
OF the man he has the highest regard
| for. Mr.. Crane stated more than a
month ago that his business affairs, due
to his fathers death. and the taking
over of all business himself, would pre-
vent his accepting any position, al
| though he would like to serve the Presi-
dent Mr.. Cranes friends, however
hope he may be able to adjust his busi-
| ness so that he can go to Russia, but
| those intimately in his acquaintance saw
that he will not accept the place, at
| least for a year or so to come. If the
| President wishes to hold the Russian
| ambassadorship open to him that long
he may accept
Probable Appointments.
George w Guthrie and Frederick r.
Penfield Of Pennsylvania. whose nomina-
| tions to the diplomatic service have beer
| forecasted for weeks. have PRACTICAL,
been placed. Mr.. Guthrie, who is now
democratic state chairman of Pennsyl.
vanis and former mayor of Pittsburgh
will be sent to Japan. relieving Larz An.
derson. Mr.. Penfield who has had serv.
ice in the foreign field for the govern.
! ment, and has travelled extensively, will
be sent to SPAIN For the Mexican EN-
| baSSy no selection has been made the
! sending of new ambassador to that hot
| bed of revolution being looked upon as
recognition of the Huerta government fol-
| which this government is not yet ready
Secretary Lane has selected Maj. j. f..
| A. Strong of Juneau to be Governor OF
| Alaska in place of Walter T. Clark
| former Washington newspaper cores
| pondent. who has been governor for four
years. and who sent in his resignation
March 4. Maj. Strong is the editor of an
Alaska paper, ard has lived in the terri
i tory fourteen years. President Wilson
is expected to follow the recommendation
of Mr.. Lane and the nomination may go
| in without much delay.
James A. Ross, a colored democrat of
! Buffalo, who managed the negro bureau
| of the democratic national committee at
Chicago in the last campaign. has been
presented to President Wilson as a can
trict of Columbia. Representative Smith
| OF Buffalo urged Ross as the best man
he knew.
Representative Baker of California ar
ranged to the President some time to-
morrow about the Japanese situation.
When he called at the White House to-
| day he said ne had no further informa-
| ton, but expected to learn more definitely
about the legislative situation before he
saw the President.
Atlantic City Postmaster.
OF two candidates for the Office of
postmaster at Atlantic City, N. j., John
T. French and William B. Loudenslager,
developments at the White House to-
day were taken to forecast the early
designation of Mr. Loudenslager. Ed
ward Grosscup, chairman of the demo-
cratic state committee, saw the Presi-
dent this morning in the interest of
Mr. Loudenslager. Mx. French was at
the executive Offices to further his own
candidacy. but did not see the Presi-
dent.
The state committee is backing the
candidacy of Mr.. LOudenslager. He is a
Wilson man through and through.
j. Warren Davis. democratic leader of
the New Jersey Senate, also saw the
President with Chairman Grosscup They
talked over with the President his pro-
gram for thestrip to New Jersey in the in
terest of the jury reform measure and
other reform legislation. They urged the
President to be In the field at as early a
moment as practical. to stay as long as
possible, and to get in every lick for the
reform legislatiOns in order that a clean
sweep be made certain when the special
legislature shall meet to take up the
measures.
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