Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-17
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Senieekiy Letter Touching the Washington
Familiar to Philadephians
BY J. Hampton Moore


~ the manner in which pleasure yachts
shall be taxed for the purposes of the war.
The representatives from inland States, Of
course, regard pleasure craft as a proper
and profitable source of revenue but there
are many indications that great returns
may not be expected from this kind of
craft. In the first place. IT Is difficult for
yacht owners to obtain coal or other fuel.
In the second place. the army and navy
regulations concerning the use OF all craft
on the inland waters along the Atlantic
coast are such as to temporarily deny the
pleasure formerly obtained from them.
Yacht owners like Commodore Louis
Eisenlohr Colonel James Elverson, Jr.,
and William r. Ellison are unable to use
their boats in wartime freely here.
tofore, but these are not the chief con-
siderations. The construction of yachts
and motorboats has been falling off be-
cause of the more profitable employment
obtained by the boatbuilders and boat
crews in the navy yards and aircraft fac
tories. Most of the small boat builders
along the New Jersey coast have quit their
yards and gone into war construction work.
ono of the best known Of these is Captain
River, near Barnegat Bay, has been known
to Philadelphia and New York yachtsmen
for nearly a quarter of a century. Captain
Rote is of the superintendents of air.
craft construction at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard, where he recently con-
graduated for the efficiency Of his force
by the Secretary of the Navy.
MUCH satisfaction is expressed over the
A'A advancement of Brigadier General L.
w. T. Waller to the rank of major general,
and OF Colonel Cyrus s. Radford, depot
quartermaster. United States marine corps
at Philadelphia, to the rank of brigadier
general. These officers of the marine
corps have made themselves extremely
popular in Philadelphia.
General Waller, who has been making a
number of patriotic speeches recently, will
be remembered from the days of the Peace
Jubilee which Philadelphia held, with
President Mckinley as chief guest, for the
returning soldiers and sailors of the Span.
h-American War. Waller was then
colonel. who had achieved distinction in
Cuba. One OF his right bowers was q
youthful officer. Lieutenant Neville, who
These men made many warm friends in
Philadelphia at that time.
Colonel, now Brigadier General Radford
has been a part of the growth of the
quartermaster's depot at Philadelphia from
its modest headquarters at Broad and
Washington avenue to the great manufac-
turing and storage institution it has since
become. The general has been here so long
that he Is now about we'll known on
the Main Line, where he suburbanites IL,
as he is in the vicinity of the navy yard.
WHlLE many Democrats are getting the
W worst of 1t in primary elections, a
fewholes are being punched into the ranks
of the Republicans. The Republican con.
gressionai committee has been rather
harshiy invaded Its chairman, Frank
Woods, OF Iowa, was bea ten at the pri-
maries, and now Dick Austin. of Tennessee
who put the punch" in the committee in
the last campaign has gone down in Ten
nessee. Austin was chairman Of the finance
committee, and in row with former
Chairman William b. Mckinley. of Illi-
noiS. was supported last year by George s.
Graham, the Pennsylvania member of the
committee. Austin charges that he suf-
fered unfair treatment in the recent con.
test and declares his purpose to run inde-
pendent. His case and that of Woods are
peculiar in this-that Woods was accused
or voting against the draft Of soldiers and
Austin was accused Of voting for It,