The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-01
WEST VIRGINIA
TAKES PART IN
CAPITAL NEWS
Events of Washington, D. C.,
Are Reported by Telegram's
Correspondent There.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-When
George c. Cole, erstwhile Westonian,
thinks of going back to Prince Rupert
away up somewhere in British CO.
lumia, not a great distance this side
of where Old Doc Cook claimed to
have done some pole discovering
when George c. Cole thinks of that
return trip by boat and rail and
sledge, well, he thinks that he will
not return-this is all. While here
on business with the state depart
ment Mr.. Cole is pondering the pro-
gram OF his future. His friends here
are making little wasers among
themselves that he will not BIO back
not to Prince Rupert, anyway.
They are inclined to believe that he
will decide in favor of Weston or
Wheeling, and at either one of those
places take an Office and hang out a
single as temptation to lltigants
who are in search Of expert barrister-
! ial assistance.
They have ten foot rainfall at
Prince Rupert every year, according
to Mr.. Cole. They also have snow
falls, thermometric falls and pitfalls
! in proportion. When the price OF a
fried egg drops from sl.25 to an
even dollar, that is accounted some
bit of drop. too. But that rarely
happens. When Mr.. Cole was United
States consul at Dawson, which was
the post he had previous to pleasant
sounding Prince Rupert, he didn't
mind the snow and ice and an oc-
casional seventy-two degrees below
zero--he got used to that But
when town can add to all that ten
feet of rainfall year, as does Prince
| Rupert. it is too much for Consul
Cole, and has about decided him TO
pass up the long and silent night life
Of the Arctic regions.
! Mr.. Cole had just finished term
| in the West Virginia state senate,
when, through the late Senator Eli
kins, he received a call to the consul
ar service. His first trip,out to the
| service was in the direction OF the
equator. He was sent to Buenos
Aires, which was very tropical and
very pleasant. That city is called
the Paris OF South America" and
is now about the size of Philadelphia.
Life there was delightful and dream
like for Consul Cole while 1t lasted,
but 1t didn't last long for him. Soon
| he was on his way to Dawson, which
transfer, it must be admitted may
have been In the nature OF jumping
from the frying pan, but there we
must drop the figure OF speech, as
1t was by no means landing In the
fire. Ever since then, and 1t has been
eight or ten years, Mr.. Cole has been
consulting for Uncle Sam in that cold
and sterile country. And he is now
ready to quit.
Passports, once so easy to get
from the state department, are now
secured with difficulty and, even af-
ter the most convincing proof that
! they should be issued, are granted
reluctantly. This was again shown
| to be the case this week when pass
port was, after much difficulty and
! red tape, secured for Harold Bloch
one of the younger Bloch Brothers.
of Wheeling. Mr.. Bloch desired to
20 to. France to take his sister, who
| Is the wife Of a gallant Frenchman,
who is in the trenches, but who will
be in Paris on a two weeks furlough
by the time his wife and brother-in-
law arrive there. They sail on jan
uary s, but there was a lot Of work
| to do to convince the state depart
ment that Mr.. Bloch's business was
! Justify the warrant being issued to