The Washington times., 1921-03-27

open3---and that's what she proposes
to do.S
she.s an eminently sane person.
with the saving grace of humor and
gentps for friendship. The late
Theodore Roosevelt was heu friend,
she speaks casual lly OF that poor
boy" Henry Starr bandit and bad
been shot In hold-up. and Sll sorts
and conditions of persons In between
the two are NUMBERED among her
friends. She has an adopted daugh-
ter. who is now married and 1t IL
expected that they will come to
Washington to make a home for
Miss Alice" and look after her
social relationships for her,. "a, So
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INTERESTING MEN III
IN NEW SENATE. r.
The new Congress will bring some
picturesque personages TO the Senate
as well as the House. There lis, for
instance. Senator Samuel ID. Nichoi.
son. of Colorado. who is plain Sam
to the home folks. They have called
him Sam for twenty-five years and
will continue to do 80 IL he lives 70
be 100 and becomes President Of the
United States. Born on. Prince Ed
wards Island, he Is one of "a little
group of emigrants. from that little
island who rolled up millions In the
Colorado mines. He bek2n his career
working drill in the LeadviHe
mines-and he's now qualined to be
known as "the best dressed man in
the United States Senate
Starting at the bottom Of the min
ing game. he soon obtained a lease
a. xv-ar Il
something like a million dollars out
OF property supposed to be worth
less. After that the Guggenheims
took him over and he was put In
charge OF their held operations In
the Leadville district. Since then he
has frequently been called in con-
sultation with such engineers as
John Hays Hammond and he gave
Up salary of something like S1O0-
900 to come to the Senate.
Senator Nicholson has an apart
ment at Wardman Park Hotel and al
present he has his daughter, Mrs.
Melville, of Denver, with him. She
II was. you know, who christened the
battleship Colorado, launched last
week up in Philadelphia. A number
OF people went up from Washington
to attend the ceremonies. among
ant Secretary OF the Navy.
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Another interesting newcomer to
the Senate is the successor to former
Senator James Duval Phelan of Cali
fornia, Senator Samuel Morgan short
ridge. Mrs. Shortridge has not been
in robust health lately, so she is de-
ferring her coming to Washington.
and will remain for the present at her
fine home in Menlo Park, just outside
San Francisco. There are two sons
in the family. The elder, Samuel Nor
gan, jr., is following in his fathers
footsteps, and Is at present a student
OF law in the University of Califor-
MIA The younger, John Gashweiler
Shortridge, is sixteen, and is in
military school. Both will accompany
their mother when she joins the Sena-
tor here in June, but they will return
to California in the autumn to fin
ish their courses. Mrs. Shortridge
was Miss Laura Leigh Gashweiler,
daughter OF a famous mining engi-
neer. She Is a graduate of-the Sacred
Heart Convent, at Manhattanville, N.
Y. and is an accomplished lingust
and musician.
Like Mrs. Shortridge, Mrs. Richard
p. Ernst. wife Of the new Senator
from Kentucky, Is putting off coming
TO washington on account of i'll
health. She expects to be in Coving-
ton, KY, where she has a beautiful
home. until autumn and meanwhile
the Senator Is established at the
He's a lawyer and a cul-
tivated and delightful man. Senator
and Mrs. Ernst have two children. a
daughter who is married and a boy in
college.
Although Senator Tasker oddie
comes to the Senate from Nevada, he
is direct descendant of men whose
names were writ large in the early
history OF Washington. He is sixth
In line from that veteran merchant
and shipbuilder of Bladensburg. Chris
topher Lowndes. in whose yards were
built the ships in which the planters
OF Maryland and Virginia-George
among them-sent their
tobacco to England. Mr.. Lowndes
Rebecca Tasker, daughter Of
one royal governor and sister of
another. General Tasker F. Bliss,
now governor Of the Soldiers Home,
is also descendant of this Governor
Tasker. Another illustrious ancestor
of Senator Oddie is Benjamin stoddert,
first Secretary Of the Navy. Mrs.
Oddie, who was Miss Daisy Bendall,
of Los Angeles, is no stranger to
having been educated at
National Part Seminary. The Oddies
have taken an apartment at the Had
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Senator and Mrs. Ralph Cameron.
of Arizona, lived in Washington for
two years while the Senator was in
the lower house. Moreover. their
name is always connected with the
Bright Angel Trail, in the Grand
Canyon OF the Colorado, near which
their homo is situated. They have a
reputation for generous Hospitality
both there and I'm Phoenix, where they
spend part OF each year, which will
maintained in Wash
the Shoreham. g " '"
Senator Frank Willis or Ohio was
formerly Governor Willis'' and be-
fore that. again, he was Congress.
wan Wills" so that both he and Mrs.
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