Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-14
Commission Meeting Delayed.

MT. IaIt consultation with Resident
Commissioner Cullom today was for
| the purpose of deciding whether to
call another meeting of the commits
sion
| II was decided not to do so until the
Attorney General renders his opinion. Mr..
Iaft gave Mr.. Cullom several dates. one
the latter part of this month and two in
December, when he will be comparatively
Tree as to engagements, and promised to
hold them open so that he may come to
| Washington again for a meeting of the
commission
1t will be necessary for the commission
70 assemble again in the near future to
decide on contractor for the foundations
Tor the memorial building.
| Mr. Taft intends to leave Washington
early tomorrow morning. He is stay
| ing at the home of William J. Board
man. on Z street, and will lecture this
afternoon at 4:4o o'clock before the
Masonic Temple, New York avenue and
18th street, on the Importance of a
knowledge of geography in promoting
international good will.
Mr.. Taft made a visit of inspection to-
day to the new building of the National
Geographic Society. on the Avenue of the
Presidents. near NJ street. He expressed
himself as highly pleased with the hand
the building makes. The lecture he is to
deliver this afternoon before the organi-
cation will be repeated at the Masonic
Temple tonight at o'clock
Pays Respects to President.
The former President dropped in at the
White House executive offices shortly
after 1880 o'clock this morning When
he had escaped from shaking the hands
of number of people who were in the
Railways and in the Office of Secretary
lumulty he said to Rudolph Forster:
Please take my card to President
pay my respects. l know he is a busy
man and therefore will not trouble him
about business of any kind
President Wilson directed that his
predecessor be ushered In immediately
The two men felicitated each other
heartily and chatted for few mo-
ments, when Mr.. Taft babe adieu and
again ran into a number of friends.
When asked ii he did not feel somewhat
at home in the executive Offices, he re-
marked:
oh, yes; but | am becoming more
college professors life'-the life that
President Wilson left TO enter politics.
Just outside the executive Offices Gen
John NJ. Wilson. intimate friend Of Pres
ident Cleveland. for years chief OF en-
gineerS of the army and former super!n-
tendent of public buildings and grounds
greeted the eXPresident.
BY George, Wilson,. declared the ey-
President, Il know that you were with
Washington at Valley Forge and assisted
l. Enfant to draw the plans OF Washing
ton city. but you are still not over TWEEN
ty-one years OF age
Sixty-Six Pounds Lighter.
Prof. Taft was complimented on the re-
duction in weight he has brought about
He said he now weighed ZIG pounds. a loss
of siNty-six pounds since he left office in
March last
Prof. Taft has returned to the White
House twice on visits of courtesy, more
times than any other President who ever
went out of office. A veteran employe
of the White House. who has kept a
memorandum OF these things for much
more than fifty years said that Andrew
Johnson never put his foot in the White
House after leaving there, although he
returned to Washington as United
States senator after he was President