The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13

but rich men can accept. The present
salary. with nice management and
not too ambitious programme. Will just
about cover expenses. but | feel sorry
for the wife of the Gov rnor who must
Try to do what is expected of her on
less.
Eight thousand dollars a year. sui'i-
eient income though it may be when
II is expected to accommodate itself to
an ordinary eight thousand dollars
year standard of living. shrinks alarm
ingy when its recipient is expected to
maintain on it the dignity Of a Cabinet
position. If we had not had some pri-
yate resources | don't quite see how We
could have managed. Fortunately for
my husband. and more so for his sue
eessors in office, this figure was raised
20 twelve thousand before he lift the
War Department. and still there are
complaints which ! am amply able to
appreciate.
We finally settled. on the first of Oc
tober after my arrival at Washington,
IN n pl asdnt, old fashioned house on Is
street near Sixteenth. 1t was not the
most elegantly equipped house avail
able, but we preferred a little extra
space To the more elaborate modern
eonVeniences so We took it,
We were spared one item of expense
BY having the use of the War Depart
ment carriage and its big Irish coach
man. Quade. Quade was quite a char
acter He had been at one time in the
artillery service and had occupied the
position in which we found him through
several administrations. IL was never
sblc to lose the habits and mariners Of
an artillery man and Mr.. Roosevelt
used t. say he never drove behind him
without feeling as If he werr on the
taisson Of a gun wagon going into
action lie kept his horses in fine con-
tition. though a tr.na too fat perhaps.
and he took great pride in the speed he
could get out of TN m. lie would swing
around corners and dash past street
tars and other vehicles in a way that
vas anything hut soothing To sensitive
serves
lie used to feed Mr.. Taft's private
riding horse at the public expense, and
Mr.. Taft didn't approve of this. He
thought he ought to include the pay for
As keep in his personal accounts, and
he told Quadc SO, asking him at the
same time to have bill made out SO
that he might settle it. Quade regarded
him in utter disgust for a moment then
said:
"Well. Misther Secretary. what with
the good an plinty O. fodder we got in
the stables, guess We can 20 N
a-feedn' your horse here without the
Governments a-worryin' amy"
! remember going one day to a recep-
ton at the house of Justice Harlan on
the occasion of his twenty-fifth annver-
sry on the bench. President Roosevelt
vas already there and as we drove up
We found the bicycle policemen SUR
rounding the entrance waiting for him.
Quade, with great friendiuess but with
an absolute lack of decorum. leaned over
on the box and shouted to them as we
passed
"Ah. hegorra' Yen be a-waitin'
sround fer my boss one o these days"
Faithful Quade lived to see his
prophecy fulfilled. hut not long after
ward he lost his life at his post of duty
IN shocking accident He was driving
the Department carriage for Secretary
Of War Dickinson's family; the pole
broke, the horses became frightened and
kolted. There We're young children and
nurse in the carriage SO Quade
bravely held on to the reins and finally
succeeded in turning the horses into "A
fence. He saved the occupants Of the
carriage from injury. but he himself
vas thrown forward violently, falling in
such way as to break his neck
II was not long after our return to
washington from the first trip to Pam
anna before arrangements We're COM
pleted for the tour of the big Congress
sional party which Mr., Taft "personally
conducted" to the Philippines and back
and which was destined to be slightly
hsa Il 4
by the personality Of Miss Alice Roose-
welt, who, under the chaperonage of Mr..
Taft and Mrs. NewlandS. made the trim
just, as Kipling sings. for to be'old and
for to see"
knowing that should have an oppor-
iunity to go again to the Far East in
two years to be present at the Inaugural
lion Of the frs Philippine Assembly
decided to remain behind this time. did
not think | would much enjoy this brief
trip 10 the Orient with three children
and decided that a quiet summer in
England would he better for us all. So
took a cottage in oxford for the sum
mer and with my two younger children
ana one of my Cincinnati friends and
her two children made various trims
here and there and found myself most
pleasantly entertained. 1t was an cX-
teedlnEly quiet summer, unbrokcn save
by the somewhat lurd accounts which
we gathered from the British and Euro
pean press of the progress of the Com
Fressloual party with Mr.. Taft and
Miss Alice Roosevelt in the East one
German paper went SO far as to an
nouncc that Miss Roosevelt was I'M
douhtedly engaged to be married to her
fathers War Secretary.