Evening star., 1924-05-25
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.


nell has just been reelected presi-
dent of the Providence County Ken
mel Club for the fifth consecutive
term. This club puts on a big show
each year, second only to the one held
in Boston.
Mr.. O'Connell Is the owner of Rose
mere Kennels, licensed under the
American Kennel Club rules. He has
been breeding collies, Pekingese, Eng
lish bulldogs and Boston terriers for
eight years, and has been an exhib-
itor for six years.
He is well known as a Judge of col
lies, holding a judges license in the
American Kennel Club. He judged
collies at the last Washington dog
show and has accepted judging en-
gagements in New England during
the coming summer, including one
at Brookline, Mass, June II. Last
summer he was asked to Judge almost
every show in New England. This is
handicap. because IL eliminates him
from showing his own dogs.
His eighty-acre farm, Rosemere, is
eighteen miles from Providence. He
with his dogs, practically all Of which
he bred himself
Mr.. OConnell owned and bred
champion Rosemere Rambler, one of
the best known collies In the east
who was made a champion at the age
of seventeen months. and who died
suddenly several weeks ago. There
was only one other male champion in
New England at the time, and Cham
pion Rosemere Rambler beat some of
the best dogs in America for the title
Mr.. O'Connell still owns the cham
pion's mother, Rosemere Tesseldra,
who is almost through her cham
pionship, which he expects to win
this summer.
While Mr.. OConnell has bred Pc
kingese, English bulldogs and Boston
terriers, he likes collies best, and
specializes on that breed, which he
declares are "most intelligent and
affectionate."
The radio public and the newspaper
public are quite familiar with the
fact that President Coolidge recently
sent out a successful aerial S. o. s. to
recover the missing White House cat.
The public has also been quite gem
orally informed regarding the fact
that Mr.. Coolidge was presented with
a white collie
But up until now the public has not
been let in on the secret that the
Presidents favorite pets just now are
ten mongrel cottontails. Somehow or
other, an old she rabbit got into the
White House grounds. 1t probably
escaped from some Easter egg roller.
The President was much interested in
it. The next day his interest was
multiplied, for it was found.that over
night nine little cottontails had come
into existence
The President, who, as Is well
known. has a very conservative dis
position and usually preserves an un-
rufi1ed mien, became at once much
excited and personally discussed ar
rangements for hutch or warren
for the little family.
Inc other day he was out walking
WIN secret service man and talk
ing, which in itself is quite unusual
Tor silent Cal" who is accustomed
70 doing his walking in thoughtful
slIence, with the secret service men
trailing. But on this particular day
he was quite chatty about his new
said: ITO tell you the truth. Mr
PRESIDENT, | haven't seen the ra abbits,"
PRESIDENT Coolidge stopped abrupt
~, What, you haven't seen NV rab-
DTS! Turning back, the President
sald, come. we will go and look at
them right now" Thus the Presi-
oeht constitutional walk was aban-
doned and he took his recreation in
Playing with the little cottontails
X X X
Members of the House during the
last couple of days have been exam
ining with interest two large eJe-
plants tusks and a number of pho
tographs which have been dispIayed
in the writing room just off the
Speakers lobby. These are trophies
or Representative George Holden
Tinkham's hunting trip last summer.
The two elephants tusks weigh 129
pounds, and they are six feet ten inches
long. This elephant was shot on Sep
tember %, 1923, near Kenya Noun
tain, Kenya Colony, formerly British
East Africa, fifteen miles north of the
equator and $50 miles south of the
Abyssinian border. The pictures show
Representative Tinkham with other
trophies of the hunt, including lions.
rhinoceros, leopards, hippopotamus
and jackals.
Representative Tinkham had pre-
viously given a notable demonstra-
ton with firearms. The Congressional
Directory gives him credit for being
the first American to fire a shot
against the Austrians after the decla-
ration of of war by the United States
against Austria, at Capo d'Argine, on
The title of 'Chevalier della Corona
d'Italia' was conferred upon him by
the King of Italy. This title he has
not accented because of the provision
of the Constitution that no person
holding any office of profit or trust
shall without the consent of Congress
accept any title from any king or
foreign state. The letters patent and
insignia of the title are in the pos
session of the Department of State"
X X *
While the proposal of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution for
action by Congress which would give
the National Capital a distinctive
flag was under discussion, Represent
ative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas
made a casual remark that his state
had been under seven fiags-French,
Spanish, Mexican, Texas Republic,
Confederate, United States and it's
own state flag.
The first settlement in Texas was
made at Matagorda by the French,
who in 1890 were expelled by the
Spaniards. 1t afterward became one
of the states of the Mexican Confed-
Grafton. In 1921, when Mexico threw
off the Spanish yoke, Texas and Goa
hula constituted a state of the re-
public. 1t was shortly after this that
the first American colonists were per-
mitted to enter the territory under