Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-12

washington, April lit IS a
root pity the boiling pot is not as
700 as a caldron for there is SO
brch to put in it these stirring days.
wish might give some account OF
i, that TRANSFERRED in he house dur
no the strenuous week just past dur
he the Tolls Repeal debate. Every
ay the galleries were crowded and
eonle sitting damned together on
very step. l don't think l ever saw
he press gallery SO filled before. Not
(nly were the Knights Of the Print
IA Magic Stick out in force but
cal live secretary Of the navy, Mr..
Daniels, did not disdain to "sit with
khe boys" and make copy for his pa
her. In the presidents gallery the
White house was represented only by
Mrs. Wilson's social secretary. Mrs.
champ Clark and her pretty little
laughter, Miss Genevleve, with a
barty of friends, occupied the front
ows Of the speakers gallery on Tues
hay-the great day when the public
ktormed the capitol en- masse to hear
Champ Clark's speech.
It was wee bit trying to see a
large package of lunch handed over
the heads Of the crowd to Mrs. Clark,
hitter we had sat fasting for many
hours. Every one of us broke the
ZENITH commandment when we saw
Miss Genevieve generously distribute
The tempting sandwiches and dain-
HES among their guests. Later we
wiz ro
hired and hungry-but this time a
still larger box, on being opened a
corsage bouquet was discovered hid
Hen beneath the folds of pale green
Tissue. 1t was SO large that Mrs
CLARK had trouble in fastening it to
bier waist. We all knew mere man
had selected it as soon as we saw It,,
For it was formed of hard round
bunch of violets thanked by stiff
bow of lovely white roses which were
In turn thanked by rampant formed
[of red ones. But we were more criti-
tcal because it was not sent to US
land because we had been sitting still
Dis ,ening to orato1y for six hours
without particle Of lunch.
GOOD News for Irish, American.
s~Fhe bronze statue Of Commodore
John Barry. the Irish patriot. has
arrived and been set up in Franklin
square on the Fourteenth street side
[of the park on the fine white marble
pedestal ready to receive it. The
Figure being of new bronze looks al
most the color OF gold and contrasts
K harmingly with the pure white mar
|hle base. The artist has shown the
Sturdy fighter-the first commission
led commodore in the United States
|navy-as standing in uniform with
his cloak thrown back over his broad
shoulders. His right hand holds a
Eroll and rests lightly upon the han
die of. his sword. The entire head.
as well as, the face of he figure and
THAT Of the marble lady below him,
IMPLYING Fame, are entirely conceal
led awaiting the unwilling in May.
A 81. all boy having carefully inspect
fed the monument, turned away with
the remark: Gee! 1t looks like both
Eof EN- er goin' to be hung" AL
ready plans have been perfected for
entertaining the thousands who will
visit the city May 1918. Besides the
Irish concert at the New Willard
.ihere is to be a slmptuous banquet
which the old sea-dog himself no
doubt would attend with pleasure
were he here in the flesh. For judg-
ing from his tight waistcoat he was
"a bon-vivant and by his rotund shape
we know Uncle Sam didn't stint ra-
.ions for the officers mess, even In
his day. There viii also be q pill.
grimage to the home Of that still
greater patriot who sleeps at Mount
Vernon.
Unlike Barry, whose monument
was completed most expeditiously,
we'll remember how for years and
years Washingtton's famous obelish
stood half completed on the mall
a silent rebuke to every onlooker. W.
'hildren used to sing as we played
upon the5hill "First in War and FRS
in Peace, but Last In Getting Monu
ment." The Grant memorial on FRS
street at the entrance to the capito
grounds has the marble terrace
and foundation ready fur years. Thu
guarding lions and one bronze groul
has also been in place for Ion,
time. So long in fact that the fash
ionable green-tinted locks Of thu
king Of the beasts have run and th'
bronze stain discolored the whit
marble base on which they rest.
Large Crowds at the Fete.
The COSMOPOLITAN Fete this las
week held In New York City by tn
suffragists at the list regiment ar
1nory was q great success. The Re
view of all Nations particularly VOL
much praise and the visiting crowd
were unanimous in their approval o
the novel feature q. having . full
equipped Montesso:i school wit
teachers In attendance 30 that par
ents accompanied hy their childrel
might leave them to enjoy themselve
protected from the crowd. Not onl
did the little ones appreciate the wis
provision tor Observation-Disclosures bu
II was boon. to their mothers. Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait made the ad
dress for the International .Ailianc
while Hrs. Stanley Mccormick, tres