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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-23
KAISERIN'S HEALTH POOR.
In Spite of Official Assurances, Der
lin Is Anxious.

BERLIN. August 23.-Berlin is anxious
ly awaiting the return of the empress,
concerning whose health alarming rumors
have been circulating for several months,
though 1t officially announced that she is
as well as ever. Whatever the truth may
be. 1t is certain that she has been in deli
cate health for nearly a year and the
crown princess has during that time been
performing a great many of her social
duties.
When the kaiser left for Norway the
empress went to Homburg to take the
cure and was expected to have been
back In this city to welcome the kaiser
on his return. Instead OF that 1t was
announced that her majesty was deriving
so much benefit from the cure that she
had been advised to extend IT for another
three weeks, and the kaiser went to join
her there few days on his return from
Norway, after first inspecting the From
tier regiments at Mayence.
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JOHN CAVE. BY W. B. Trites. New
York: Duff1eld & Co.

Having, through drunkenness, at the
age Of twenty-four. lost his place as q
reporter on one of the newspapers of
Chicago, John Cave returned to the
east So the story opens. And this IS
the way it ends: Then the hale old
fisherman, taking John Cave by the
shoulders. awoke again that soul too
timid ever to destroy itself. and too
weak ever to uplift from the morass its
weight Of flesh in sustained flight" In
between these points are crowded the
recoveries and lapses Of John Cave The
whole Is remarkable piece Of broad
realism. a big movement of transcript
edy that a weak will insures to its pos
SCISSOR. John Cave" is not a pleasant
story But since its author has chosen
to deal with things as they are, one
need not exepect merely enjoyable read
ing from him: A second novel. Bar
bara Gwynne," has more than fulfilled
the promise made by Mr.. Trites In this
first one. As novelists run. this one Is
a slow writer, but he is well worth
waiting for, since at present no Ameri-
can novelist bulks quite SO big in promise
as the author Of John Cave"
DE GARMO'S WIFE, and Other Stories.
BY David Graham Phillips, author
York: D. Appleton & Co.
Three Of Mr.. Phillips short stories
come together here. Two Of these have
to do with one or another Of the common
establishments Of marriage. One con-
Germs itself with the infatuation Of an
unsophisticated girl for a man more than
twice her years. All are of this authors
distinctive literary outlook and manner.
except that rather more than was his
habit does he here temper justice with
mercy. soften truth slightly away from
Its bitter logic. The married folks make
compromise instead of complete disas-
ter. The man saves the girl from her.
self, and incidentally from him. Mr..
Phillips personality as a writer Is so
striking and SO fine, his work Is SO char
acteristic Of the new ideals in fiction,
of its new purposes. that from the sum
Of his achievements no least part Of his
writing should be withheld.
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have languid air. But he hash t.
He seems charged with nervous energy.
He clasps and unclasps his hands, rest
less and eager always And the eyes
are ever moving. seeking. with apprais-
ing glances, the eyes and face OF the
man with whom he is talking. They
are wide-set eyes beneath bullying
brows, notified eyes that show grays
ascendency. and with touch of fleet
ing sadness in them The mouth In It's
breadth and mobility is not unlike the
mouth of Lincoln. Beneath 1t is a
jutting jaw, strong and well set.
To get him to talk at length for publ
cation on the problems that confront him
is a task impossible Of accomplishment
The Secretary is fresh from long business
experience in New York, where he mas
learned to keep his mouth shut. He has
conducted big business affairs. and he Is
trying to conduct the business OF the
Treasury Department approximately on
the lines he knows.
To those he knows and trusts ne Is
willing to talk more or less guardedly,
but never for repetition. Thus it is that,
while some department heads have a fair
ly liberal output of daily statements and
announcements, few have come from the
Treasury.
UNLESS I can talk about the depart
ment," said the Secretary the other day
in explaining his attitude, Il feel that
there Is no occasion for my speaking
publicly at all. And I cannot talk now
about the department"
The reason is that there are SO many
big problems pressing for solution that
until they have all been thoroughly look
ed into by the Secretary in all their
phases 1t would be unwise for him to
make a declaration concerning his policy.
Mere discussion of the information he has
acquired about the problems he does not
object to, save only that such discussion
is not to be repeated; but he holds HIM
self unprepared for taking positive
stand on any Of them.
The greatest new task that comes to
the Secretary OF the Treasury In this
administration is the result of legislation
now pending. Practically strange and
untried fiscal system for the government
must be devised. Heretofore our chief
revenues have come from the customs
tariff. The new tariff law admittedly
is to reduce that revenue materially.
Hence the passage of the income tax law.
So the collecting agency of the govern
ment, which is the Treasury Department.
must turn from the custom houses to
the individuals to collect the bulk of the
dollars required by Uncle Sam to support
his institutions.
In other words, a system of direct, as
opposed to indirect. taxation as the i'm
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KING OF SPAIN POPULAR.
His Absence From Regatta at Cowes
Generally Regretted.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence OF 1ne Sldr.
LONDON, August 13. 1913.
The recent visit of the King and
Queen of Spain to England again demon
strated how exceedingly popular Alfonso
is in London Wherever he went he was
the center of attention, and there were
general rejoicings among the nobility
that he would add his presence to the
regatta at Cowes. But the rejoicing was
short-lived Alfonso received word from
some of his ministers that his presence
was required at Madrid at once on ac-
count of new and formidable develop
ments in the ranks of the revolutionists.
With great regret, therefore. the youth
full king was obliged to hasten to his
capital, leaving the queen In England to
complete her visit with her mother.
Alfonso is very fond Of London So
cfety, for it was here that he visited
much with the late King Edward, who
was his idol. The Spanish king Is very
democratic in manner, and there clings
to him an atmosphere of romance due
to his many narrow escapes from the
hands of would-be assassins. Thes cool
ness with which he conducted himself
under these desperate circumstances has
made him the most popular man In
European court society.
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blocking Pennsylvania avenue at 10th
street having been selected by the pep
perry President Jackson. The Secretary
suite of offices is on the second floor
really the third floor if the high basement
be counted as one-facing the south Out
of his window, set in the broad. green
park, is the great equestrian statue Of
Gen. William T. Sherman, godfather or
his ambition. Upon 1t the Secretary
eyes first light when he turns from his
desk to look upon the out-of-doors.
Like most of the present cabinet, the
Secretary works alone in a large, bright
room, visitors being admitted one by one.
Unlike in other departments, however,
the majority of visitors here are by ap-
pointment and go in and out on schedule
time. In many cabinet Offices In the early
months of the administration SO great
was the press of visitors that schedules
and appointments were found not opera
tive.
With the common rule In effect that
senators have precedence over representa-
tives and representatives over mere citi-
zens, and with the common tendency OF
humanity to prolong a conversation, most
of the cabinet officers have SO far found
1t impossible to work on schedule. Not
SO Secretary McAdoo Somehow, he has
solved the problem, even with senators
and representatives. In this his business
training stands him in good stead.
His outer office, like the inner, is
simply furnished. but with dignity.
Modern Office appliances make up most
of the furnishings There are no mas
sive desks of an older day, but the
newer fiat-topped ones where papers
are not permitted to accumulate.
In the outer Office the throng OF
waiting visitors. while never very
large at one time, is Of a rather diff
ferent type than that found in other
cabinet Offices. 1t is q better dressed
throng. as a rule; men Of prosperous
habit and strong. reserved faces, for 1t
is here that the financiers and bank
ers must come for their interviews.
The Secretary, long and lean, has a
pronounced stoop when sitting at his
desk, though straight and angular
when standing. He is fond OF sitting
with ciasped or folded hands on the
desk top when he listens-and he lis
tens mostly-in dealing with visitors.
Erect. he stands six feet one inch.
Since his weight is only 40 pounds,
the slenderness of the man can well be
imagined. He is the southern noun
taineer in appearance, even to the blue
black hair that falls lank and straight
down behind the rounded slope of his
head. And in his soft, gentle speech
there is another evidence of southern
birth and breeding. A high. aquiline
nose, like the beak of an eagle. is
still another distinguishing mark. Face
and figure spell Georgia
In keeping with all this he should
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mirer of Abraham Lincoln
A man whose youth was one of hard
ship and suffering, due chiefly to the
devastation worked by Gen. Sherman in
his march to the sea, and yet a man who
holds that what Sherman did to his home
and his people is directly responsible for
his own success in life
These are some of the anomalies re-
vealed by a study of William Gibbs Nc
Adoo. Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States.
Thirty-fve years ago he was a penni-
less. saunt and hungry-looking lad strug-
Cling in a tiny southern town to get an
education by his own resources. Today
ne has behind him a record of wizard-like
accomplishments in engineering and
finance. He holds command of the larg-
est actual gold supply in the vaults Of any
government in the world.
Washington. official and social has not
vet become really acquainted with the
new Secretary of the Treasury. He comes
nearer to being a recluse than any other
member of the cabinet. The fact that his
wife died less than a year ago and that
he has not yet established his family in
the National Capital accounts in meas
ure for this, for his friends say that he
Is not non-gregarious individual So
far. his Washington life has been merely
immuring himself by day in his Office and
by night IN his rooms at the Cosmos
Club.
He is the hardest member of the cab
met TO see. for not alone has he the ire
mendous number of patronage callers
TO deal with-a task common to all men,
bers OF the cabinet-but he also has an
immense amount of public business to
transact personally, and great store of
knowledge which il IS imperative that he
must acquire quickly.
Hence his favorite sport of horseback
riding has not been practiced in his new
environment: golf, which he often played
when a resident of New York he tenn
porariiy has abandoned, and his loved
motoring is forgotten for the time. He
reaches his office not later than $50 ir
the morning, and rarely does he leave
therc for his club until close to in the
evening save when he goes across the
street To the White House for consuita.
tion or cabinet meeting.
Tie building where he works is q state.
il classical pile first of the departmental
buildings erected in Washington, its site
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portant source Of the nations revenue Is
to be established. Congress furnishes the
law practically in skeleton. The Treasury
Department must give effect to that law
by creating the machinery Of operation.
It Is up to the Secretary of the Treasury
to establish a method of making John
Smith show just how much more than
$4,000 year is his income, and to make
him pay taxes on the surplus. Briefly
stated, that is the problem, though it has
many ramifications and subordinate parts
It requires a REIMBURSEMENT of Treasury
Department business.
OF just as much Importance. but not SO
human a problem. Is the question Of bank
ing and currency legislation, which the
administration has put up to Congress.
Secretary McAdoo's predecessor in Of
flee, Secretary MacV eagh in his final an
nual report. said:
"One of the most important facts in
connection with banking and currency
legislation is it's urgency. AS long as our
banking and currency system remains
as it is the unreasonable disaster of a
panic will remain possibility.
This statement is not a partisan utter
ance. It's truth is not disputed by the
leaders of any political party. 1t can be
assumed to represent the attitude of the
present administration just as well as 1t
represented the attitude Of the last.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-23

1914. This Is an emergency panic meas
ure, to be made operative in time of need
by voluntarily formed national currency
associations throughout the country.
Never has there been occasion to use the
law since its enactment, following the
panic Of 1907, but Secretary MacVeagh
held that "the assured knowledge that
these facilities 0he facilities afforded by
the law for an emergency currency are
ready to act at once is of itself strong
preventive Of trouble
Patronage is still another problem-as
already indicated-that lies heavy on the
Secretary's shoulders. interviewer with
this is the question of economy of opera
ton in the Treasury Department serv-
ice question which. it is fair to as
sumo. appeals strongly to Secretary Nc
Adoo as a business man. The previous
administration found that there were
RAINY custom houses In the country the
total collections OF which were far below
the cost of maintaining them.
They were relics Of an older day and
older courses and channels Of trade. The
administration also found that there were
more government assay offices in the
country than it thought necessary. So it
recommended and secured some legisla-
ton looking to the abolition OF some of
these presumably useless government es-
Establishments. But every community af-
fected objects; and numerous democrats
who want the offices In those institutions
object also They and the senators and
representatives who take their view are
presenting some vexing questions to the
Secretary.
All of these things are but few of the
problems which are before the tunnel
builder SO recently called to Washington.
There is the budget system plan to be
studied to determine whether or not we
should follow the example of all other
governments and consolidate annually the
demands of all government services for
appropriations, SO that the executive,
through the Secretary of the Treasury.
may exert q larger and more comprehen-
sive control over such demands.
Then there Is to be considered the sug-
gestion of combining the highly efficient
revenue cutter service and the lighthouse
service, both now bureaus of the depart
ment, into one bureau still In that de-
partment, to consolidate them and
transfer them to the war department.
Still another Is the proposed consolida-
ton of all health safeguarding agencies
of the government-now widely scattered
in several departments-in the public
health service of the Treasury Depart
ment. There are dozens of these prob
lens, and the men who are putting them
up to the Secretary consider that each in
dividual problem is the most important
in the whole administration.
Secretary McAdoo, however, has one
satisfaction; he doesn't have to scratch
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ices Of attorneys, short Of actual court
procedure. Business systems are ana
lyzed and described to permit their appli-
cation to all kinds Of enterprises. The
work Is carefully cross-referenced, and
is thus convenient of use, with a compact
but comprehensive index as a supple
mentary guide to the contents AS a
further aid to ready reference key has
been prepared indicating the subclassifi-
cation of subjects. Numerous full-page
Illustrations add to the attractiveness
and value Of the work, and each volume
is prefaced by handsome color frontis-
piece. The volumes are of convenient
size for easy reference. and the type is
large and set off with sharply contrasting
topic heads and subheads. Each article
is carefully condensed to present the
maximum Of information in the minimum
of space In many cases references are
from which the reader can obtain fuller
and more detailed information. This pub
LEGATION marks new era in American
business development, and is most
creditable achievement.
THE SPIRIT OF PARIS. BY Frankfort
Sommervi1le, author of "a Partisan
Princess etc. Illustrated in color
by Gustave Fraipont. Lucien Gautier.
Raphael Kirchner, Maurice de Lam
bert. A. Marcel-Clement, G. Rom.
London: Adam and Charles Black.
In a little dialogue, cleverly used as
the preface to this volume, the author
promises a cautious and hesitating pub
Usher that he will write a book on Paris
wholly different from any other Of the
innumerable books that have already
been written on this captivating theme.
It shall not be historical No. nor mere
description. Certainly not philosophical,
nor political. AS a matter Of course not
ethical. When finally pressed to his
point. the author vows to go out and cap
ture the very spirit Of the city itself and
bring it to book for the delight of read
ers. And so he fares forth. This book
is his promise fulfilled-a full, pressed
down. and running over fulfillment II
turns out that the spirit of Paris is a
homeless thing. 1t lives in the streets
gay and insouciant. nevertheless. II
haunts the theater. with leaning toward
first nights Is letter perfect on stage
literature and is. moreover. a much re-
spected judge of acting. This spirit is
keen toward artists, Is quite carried
away with fetes and festivals, and is by
no means Indifferent to the appeal Of appe-
tite. In fact, the cafe is its most fire.
quent resort. Sketches. incidents. scenes
reflections, bits of soliloquy, dialogue anG
Just talk tumble over one another here
in spirited and charming manner. Mr.
Sommerville has caught what everybody
feels In the air Of Paris, but what almost
no one can hold or express. The pictures
Of this book are marvels of delicate
beauty and indefinable suggestion.
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Y FINANCIAL SYSTEM

1t. He did not have the capital he need
ed, so he amazed Wall street by calmly
going into the nations financial center
and borrowing 1t. The man inspired con-
fidence In those younger days. 1t was
against all rules of financial operations
to let him have the money he wanted;
previous performances of tunnel COM
panies were such as to impair the credit
OF any one attempting to carry them on.
But McAdoo got the money.
Starting out to spend 81. 0OO. 600 in fin
fishing a partly constructed tunnel to the
Jersey shore, he organized the work so
well. got such high-ciass engineering tall
ent. put SO much life into a discredited
project, that he ended by spending S7o.-
100000 and building a tunnel, a railroad
and sky-Scraping terminal
Financiers called him crazy visionary
when he started. They invited him on
boards Of directors when he concluded
the operations briefly mentioned above
When his big work had been done he
went up the Hudson and bought fine
old house and five acres next to an estate
that had once belonged to Alexander
Hamilton. organizer of the Treasury De-
partment and it's first Secretary. Since
then, and prior to his entering the cabi-
net. he engaged in financial operations
in New York.
Though he had never been particularly
dCtNc IN polltIcS. MT. Mc-AuOO becdrnc
profoundly interested in the democratic
pre-convention campaign last year. He
was IAN original Wilson man" Both
before and after the nomination he went
into the work with all of his great visor.
When William +. McComkS was stricken
by illness In the middle of the fight Mr..
McAdoo stepped in as acting chairman
of the democratic national committee
Naturally he was one of the few men 1t
nnn6danf1v aynnnfQ6
President Wilson's official family.
osophy of living is Illuminated by some
biographical remarks he made in a speech
at Hoboken some years ago. He said:
Il was brought up in Georgia in the
path of Gen. Sherm1n's famous march
to the sea. AS Henry Grady once re-
marked, Gen. Sherman was a bit care
less with fire. and for this reason. among
other things. he never has been popu.
lar man in Georgia. For myself. however
l feel that | owe Gen. Sherman debt of
gratitude. He produced conditions and
an environment which made 1t necessary
for the individual to develop every re-
source and every power with which
nature had endowed him, in order TO
exist I believe that character is pro-
duced and developed to the highest de-
gree by hardships, suffering and poverty.
have never doubted that whatever OF
character and capacity l have developed
has been. in large measure, due to the
surroundings and conditions which Gen.
Sherman forced upon the people of my
section during that great war"