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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15

no you know her -. this poor
~ woman who wakes up as tired
as she went TO bed!
Her head is still aching :. her
nerves are ragged -. she's on the
verge of tears as she faces another
day of work
II can't 10 through II another day
can't. oh, what is the mat
ter: What shall l do?" she cries.
How many young women are
fast approaching a nervous break
down because they let suffering
due TO female weakness rob them
of their strength and health.
In Offices or in their homes, they
drive themselves, working ION
NRENATH III Z D.,Ik,-.,,sr Il
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Lincoln at his second Inauguration, and pre-
sided at the impeachment trial of President
Johnson. The Chief Justice died in New York
City May T. 1873. and was first buried in Oak
Hill Cemetery, in Georgetown, but later his
remains were removed to Spring Grove Gene
terry, Cincinnati. Ohio.
The city directories for 1862 and 1866 show
that Secretary Chase resided at the northwest
corner Of Sixth and E Streets and it is probable
that he lived there even after the latter date.
The house Is still in fine state of preservation
and is occupied as a community house by the
Catholic Daughters of America.
In writing recently of Seventh street. it might
well have been said that in the early days of
Washington this street had many dwelling
houses on it, This afterthought came to the
writer's mind when he found that when Sec
rotary of the Treasury William P. FeSsenden
was serving in the Senate before entering
Lincoln's Cabinet in 1864 he resided on Seventh
street opposite the old Post Office Building.
Later, in 1865. he was living on K street between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets.
Though born in New Hampshire. yet Fes-
sender represented the State of Maine in the
Senate from 1854 to 1864 when he resigned.
He, too of the big of the country
who attended the Peace Convention of 1861,
with the best of inten ions, that came to naught.
Mr.. Fessenden returned to the Senate in 1865
and served until his death, in Portland, Me,
September g. 1869.
T INCOLN had two Attorney Generals, Ed
ward Bates and James Speed. The for
mer, like so many of our great men, was a
native Of Virginia, but was representing dis
trict in Missouri in the House Of Representatives
when invited to become a member of the War
Cabinet. He was much older than the Presi-
dent, having been born in 1893, and even
service in the War of 1812-1815 as a sergeant.
He, too. a lawyer and practiced in st.
Louis, Mo-, where he also held political Office.
He served in the House of Representatives from
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Of the 90 men Of that familiar name who had
served in the American Congress some time
between the years 1774 and 1927. He was
born in Boston Mass. April 49, 1903. and
served in the House of Representatives from
Indiana from 1843 to 1649. Like other mem
berS of Lincolns cabinet, he a member of
the famous Peace Commission which met in
1861 in the old Willard Hall Building, which
stood on F street about at the western end of
the Willard Hotel, in an effort to devise means
to prevent the impending war.
He went into Office with President Lincoln
and remained until January 1, 1863, when he
resigned to become judge of the United States
District Court for the District of Indiana.
While a cabinet officer he resided at 288 H
street north, which according to the new
system of numbering would be H street
between Connecticut avenue and Seventeenth
street He died in Indianapolis, Ind, January
z, 1864.
John P. Usher was native of Brookfield,
N. Y, having been born in Brookfield in
Madison County in that State, January g. 1916.
He was lawyer and on March 90 1862, was
appointed First Assistant Secretary of the In
terror, the position he held when he was
elevated on January 8, 1868, to the Office of
Secretary vacated by Mr.. Smith. After the
war he resumed the practice of law at Law
renee Kans. and died in Philadelphia Pa
April Is, 1889.
The writer did not find Mr.. Usher,s Wash
ington address in the city directory.
IRON the very early days when ST. Johns
Church, the Decatur House and the Dolly
Madison residence were about all the buildings
on Lafayette Square it was still looked upon as
the coming social center of Washington and
even today, though crowded somewhat by busi-
ness enterprises, the early inhabtant sees much
to admire in the old buildings that have been
permitted to remain
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complete without mention of the famous barrel
not the money barrel politicians love, but the
barrel of Bourbon whisky which lay in the
cellar, and when powder and shot could not
save the Capitol at Washington it did. Officers
of the ConfederateS made their headquarters
at the old house. which is scarcely seven miles
from this city, and proceeded to drink up as
much of it they could. They also found
the dresses and clothes of my half-siSter, Mrs.
ComStock, dressed up women and amused
themselves dancing and drinking. and instead
of pushing through Fort Stevens that afternoon
when few, if any, soldiers were guard, re-
manned at Silver Spring until morning. The
9Th Massachusetts, arrived the following day
and Washington saved. Gen. Early burned
my fathers house known as Falkland, which
adjoined that of Silver Spring"
Editors have a quiet, easy way of working.
and it is impossible to tell the amount of real
valuable assistance Postmaster General Blair
and his father gave to President Lincoln and
the cause of the Union. The writer had the
pleasure once of being shown through the
Blair house by its owner, Maj. Blair, who
pointed out the Office room where Robert e.
Lee was rendered the command of the Union
Army if he would remain with the North. with
the result quite familiar to all.
ERANCIs PRESTON BLAIR had three sons
Montgomery. James L. and Francis Preston,
jr., a Senator from Missouri. One of his
daughters became the wife Of Admiral 8. p.
Lee and inherited Silver Spring for her lifetime,
with the proviso it should go to the son, Blair
Lee, the present owner and recently a Senator
from Maryland
William A. Dennison, who succeeded Mont
gomery Blair Postmaster General. was from
Ohio and served as Governor of that State
before coming to Washington. He was wide
awake to the necessities of the Civil War, and
when Lincoln made his first call for troops and
Ohio's quota was set at IL 900 he offered 10000
and sent agents to Washington to insist upon
their acceptance After the war he retired to
Ohio and was candidate for the United States
Senate when Garfield was selected, in 1880, for
that honor.
It may have been forgotten, but Washington
at one time felt rather resentfuI toward Mr..
Dennison because a rank outsider he
selected in 1874 to serve one of the Com
misSioners of the District Of Columbia under
the temporary commission form of government,
the law then emitting the three years residence
clause and Gen. Grant took advantage Of the
Ioophole and appointed his friend Gov. Dem
niSon Later the law was changed but whats
the use of going furtherI
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1927 to 1929 and in 1850 declined the invita-
ton of President Fillmore to become the Sec
rotary of War, entered Lincoln's Cabinet in
1861, and resigned in September. 1864. He died
In st. Louis March Is, 1869. His Washington
residence was F street between Fifth and
Sixth streets northwest.
James Speed. who followed Mr. Bates as At
torney General, taking Office in 1864 was
Kentuckian, having been born in Louisville in
that State, in 1872 and died there June IS,
1887. He was also a lawyer of note and rem
dered conspicuous aid to the North when help
was most needed. Indeed, it has been said that
it was his firm attitude that brought about the
most effective steps taken by the loyalists Of
Kentucky to keep the State in the Union
After he left the Cabinet he resumed the prac-
tice Of law in Louisville and continued active
In politics well. He supported Grant in both
campaigns but shifted in 1884 and helped to
elect Gov. Cleveland. In 1866 he resided on H
street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets, which might have been his address
before this date.
SPEAKING Of Montgomery Blair, the Post
master General, is like speaking of home
folks, for here still resides In the old Pennsyl-
vania avenue mansion his SON. Mai. Gist Blair,
fine representative of fine family, and the
same can be said Of Woodbury. Blair another
son Of Montgomery and grandson of Francis
Preston Blair, who with John c. Rives pub
nshed for many years in this city the Globe.
Francis Preston Blair was born in Virginia
in 1871 and came here in 1880 in, the interest
Of President Andrew Jackson. He early pur-
chased an estate at Silver Spring, Md, where
he permanently retired in 1854. turning over
the house at 1851 Pennsylvania avenue to his
son Montgomery. Mai. Gist Blair, referring to
the Silver Spring property ut the time Gen.
Early made his attempt to capture or burn
Washington, says
Just before this Gen. Early made his raid
through Maryla1drv'toO late EaplyS a. hea was
called No history Of SilveV Spring would be
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Gideon Welles while serving as Secretary Of
the Navy from 1861 to 1869, in Lincoln's and
Johnson's cabinets lived in the residence
erected by Commodore Richard Stockton at
1907 H street, then facing the White House,
but no longer standing. John Slidell, who left
the United States Senate and cast his fortunes
with the Confederacy, resided there from 1853
to 1861. 1t was Slidell who was sent to France
by the Southern States as a commissioner, but
was taken from a British vessel on the high
seas by Capt. John wilkes, and later released
and an apology offered by the United States
Government to Great Britain for the unwar-
ranted act
Welles hailed from Connecticut, where he
was editor of the Hartford Times from 1926 to
1886. He well equipped to perform the
duties Of Secretary OF the Navy, having served
as chief of the Bureau of Provisions and
Clothing in that department from 1916 to 1s4o,
which gave him an inside knowledge that
proved Of much value to him in the conduct Of
his higher duties. He died in Connecticut in
1873, when in his 10th year.
CALMON p. CHASE, one of the outstanding
members Of Lincoln's official family, and
as Secretary Of the Treasury from March 8,
1861, to July /, 1864. the financier of the Civil
War, was born in Cornish, N. H., January IS,
1909
The Capital City was not new to him when
he entered the Cabinet, for 1t was here that he
studied law and was admitted to the bar in
1929 but left Washington soon afterward for
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged In the
practice Of law and drifted into politics, hold
ing several minor offices before he was elected
Governor Of Ohio in 1855, as a Free-soil Demo-
crat. and reelected in 1857 as q Republican.
In 1860 he was elected to the United States
Senate, and was sworn in on March 4, 1861,
and held Office two days when he resigned to
head the Treasury Department. On December
8, 1854, he was appointed Chief Justice of the
United States, and in his official capacity adj
ministered the oath of Office to President
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you are not needed at the front I'll see about
mastering you out"
A number of cases could be cited showing
his sympathetic consideration for those in real
distress, for, after ALL he was a good judge Of
men.
HAL H. SMITH. in writing of Historic
Washington Homes,' says
STANTON lived two doors west of the Metro
politan Church while practicing law, and also
lived there as Attorney General under Bu-
chanan at the end of the latter's adminiStra-
ton. Stanton was living there when he de-
Tended Daniel e. Sickles but went to live on
H street just west of Fourteenth, when he
became Secretary of War, and from the latter
place he moved into the house on K street north
of Franklin Square"
When Andrew Johnson became President
Secretary Stanton followed the customary prac-
tice of handing in his resignation, but at john
sons request agreed to continue in Office.
However. later on. when he took sides with
Congress against his chief his resignation
called for and promptly refused, whereupon
Gen. Grant was given his Office, and he re-
manned in the background until Congress met
and refused to sanction his removal, when he
resumed his duties. Later johnson again at
tempted to replace him, and it this last
act on Johnson's part more than anything else
that brought on the Impeachment trial of the
President and in which he was permitted to
retain his Office by the narrowest Of margins.
On December 20, 1869. Stanton was appointed
by President Grant q justice of the United
States Supreme Court bench, but died at his
K street horne four days after being confirmed.
T. B. Thorpe. who no doubt wrote of Stanton
from personal knowledge, leaves us this tribute
to his memory:
"At the time Mr.. Stanton died he was prob
ably the object of more bitter personal hatred,
and therefore the victim of grosser miSrepre-
Sentation as regards his real characters, than
any Of his contemporaries. Nor has death,
which proverbially tempers and finally destroys
personal animosities, up to this time materially
S0ftened this intense dislike on the part Of his
enemies, for his memory has been pursued
with ruthless cruelty beyond the grave. He
died surrounded by the members of his devoted
family, and received up to the last moment
the constant professional attention Of his warm
personal friend, the Surgeon General of the
United States Army, and the religious conSo-
lation of his chosen pastor; yet it has been
published and by some believed, that Mr..
Stanton. borne down by remorse of conscience,
found life uncomfortable, and to escape its tor
ments filled suicides grave"
DURING the Civil War there we're two Sec
retaries Of the Interior, Cabel B. Smith
and John P. Usher. Secretary Smith was one
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you are not needed at the front I'll see about
mastering you out"
number of could be cited showing
his sympathetic consideration for those in real
distress, for, after all, he was good judge Of
men,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-15
VISITORS FROM
 LOS ANGELES
 GREETED HERE
Eighty-five Excu rsionists Are Delighted With
 Voyage to Alaska

Delightful! Glorious weather and a wonderfully beautiful country! A people, charming and hospitable This visit surpasses our fondest ex- pectations. It leaves nothing to be desired"
 i Such were the expressions of J A. Kerr. vice president of the Se- curity-First National Bank of Los Angeles and president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, who heads the excursion to Southeast and Southwest Alaska directed by the Chamber.
 T am sure I voice the sentiments of all members of our party" add ed MT. Kerr.
 Includes Many Leaders The 85 excursionists who include , many of the leading business, fi- nancial and professional leaders of Los Angeles arrived in Juneau on the steamship Aleutian at o'clock this forenoon. They remained until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when the vessel left by way of Sitka for Sew ard and way ports.
 The visitors on their arrival were met by officers and members of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce A large number of the tourists were : shown through the Capitol, many spending considerable time in the Territorial Museum. Motor trips were made to Mendenhall Glacier and nearby fur farms. Several par ties took airplane flights over Men, denhall and Taku glaciers. Some of the tourists went to the mine and the mill of the Alaska Juneau company.
 Courtesies Are Extended Every courtesy possible has beer extended the travellers since they left Los Angeles, said MT. Kerr.
 The vessels first stop on hel northern voyage was at Portland Ore. A day and night-from 1( am. until l1:30 pm-were spent there. The Rose Carnival was ir I progress and the California visitors were received as guests of honor They were escorted by the Mayor and the Chief of Police of Port land up the Columbia River, were shown all the floral floats and were given places of advantage to view the fireworks display. MT. Kerr and Ernest Walker Sawyer, per sonal representative of the Secre- tary of the Interior, were made Knights of Rosearia by the Queer of the Carnival.
 Flowers In State Rooms l The Aleutian was at Seattle only half an hour, but that brief time i proved sufficient for officers of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce te pay their respects to the travellers
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I. W.Asks Clemency in
 Wash. Case
Telegram Sent from New York City to Gov. R. H.
 Hartley

NEW YORK, June 15.-Several hundred persons attended mass meetine of the Industrial Workers of the World in Union Square Sat- urday to formulate an appeal to Gov. R. H. Hartley of Washington for clemency for six I. w. w. mem bers serving prison terms of 25 to 40 years for killing Lieut.. Warren Grimm, American Legionnaire dur ing an Armistice Day. celebration in Centralia, Washington, in l9l9
 Lieut.. Grimm was shot during a raid on the I. w. w. hall follow ing parade.
 One of the six men convicted Eugene Barnett, was recently pa roled by the Governor so he could care for his wife who is i'll.
 A telegram asking clemency was approved by exclamation and sent to Gov. Hartley.
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RAGGED ALPINE PARTY GUESTS
 OF BARRYMORE
Mount Falrweather Climb CTS Entertained on
 Palatial Yacht

Lifted all of a sudden from the depths of need and discomfort to the heights of plenty annd luxury was the Aladdin like experience in full degree of Ferris Moore, recent student at Harvard University, and to a lesser extent of w. s. Ladd, physician, and Allen Carpe, civil engineer, of New York City, and Andrew M. Taylor, guide, of Me- Carthy, Alaska, all of whom par ticipated in the recent expedition to Mount Fairweather, lofty pinnacle of 15,292 feet, 20 miles northwestward of Cape Spencer.
 MT. Moore is the youngest of the party. He is still in his 20's, but after his conquest of the peak with MT. Carpe he Jagged behind his companions in going to Lituya Bay, where the power boat Pheas- ant was waiting to bring the moun- taineers to Juneau.
 Rested In Cabin
 While the others had reached the shore and boat last Thursday fore noon, MT. Moore stopped in de- serted cabin and did not get to the beach until o'clock Thursday night. He was a disconsolate sight. His hair was long, his face covered with whiskers, inasmuch as his hair had not been cut or his face shaved since early in April. when he and associates left here on their mountain climbing mission. His shirt and trousers were torn and soiled. His shoes were worn through at the soles, and his feet, bare, had oeen lacerated by rocks and were bleeding. He was tired, cold and hungry.
 On arrival at the beach, he saw smart looking craft not far off, shore. Can she be the Pheasant? he thought-a boat he had never seen but which he had not pictur- ed as anything like the palatial- looking vessel that met his view.
 Power Launch Lowered
 In answer to his shouts and sig nals trim, power launch was low cred, and made for shore. In the small boat, he was taken to the larger. She was the yacht Infanta. He was welcomed aboard of her by the owner, John Barrymore, famous actor on stage and screen.
 MT. Moore was shown to MT. Barrymore's private quarters, and
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T,oo Washington State Pioneers Execute Pact
 and Take Their Liues

SEATTLE, June 1.-Two elderly Washington pioneers, MT. and Mrs. w. J. Lewis, without money to buy food or pay rent, ended their lives by gas in a cheap lodging house, executing a suicide pact
 A note was left requesting that their bodies be cremated in the Georgetown crematory and the ashes scattered on flowers.
 Unable to find employment as a farmland and housekeeper at a ranch on Lake Sammanish, the couple probably became Respondent. The two were employed on the
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FRENCH LINER
 ITALIAN SHIP
 CRASH IN FOG
One Craft Goes to Bottom All Members of Crew
 Are Saved

HAVRE, June 15.-The Italian freighter Ungheria sank off Ushant, near the entrance of the English Channsl. after collision with the French liner Rocham- beau, aboard which were "A Amer jeans returning to New York.
 The entire crew of 29 men took to the boats and were taken aboard the Rochambsau None were in- jured on either ship.
 The French liner put back to port and the passengers will sail tomorrow on the He de France.
 The accident occurred in a heavy fog ten miles off shore.
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OIle Ol uIleSe Jle WnOle party cS- tablished a route to within 200 feet of it but was turned back by weather conditions. A few days later two of the party repeated the ascent and succeeded in attaining the top. They were MT. Carpe and MT. Moore.
 The party left Juneau April on the powerboat Yakobi, with Capt. Tom Smith. We returned here from Lituya Bay June 13 on the Pheasant with Capt. Maycock. It was our intention on leaving Ju- neau to make a landing at Sea Otter Eight, few miles west of Cape Fairweather and to proceed to the mountain by the route Mir. Carpe and used in 1926 when we reached an altitude of $500 feet on the northwest ridge.
 Bad Surf and Weather
 Unfavorable weather and surf conditions prevented the landing and Lituya Bay was made the base for the attack. We were equipped with Yukon sleds, skis and snow shoes, but the glacier route from Lituya Bay could not be used be- cause the very light winter snows there had already melted. The sleds were left behind. Proceeding up the beach to Fairweather Glac- fer in beautiful spring weather we made excellent progress. A trail had to be cut from the beach through about two miles of forest, half of which was dense alder growth, to the glacier moraine.
 Once on the glacier we met with series of severe late winter storms which caused much hardship and delay. For more than three weeks the mountain was not seen. It was evident that the route of the earlier attempt up the northwest ridge must be given up because of the shortness of time. Finally what was thought to be a possible route was observed on the southern slope of the mountain. At this time we had been storm bound by fifteen days of snow and rain at the mountains base during which fierce gales slashed the tents.
 Skiis and Overshoes
 All effort was now bent toward making progress to the foot of the new route up the steep part of the mountain. Skis and snowshoes were a necessity Ten miles of glacier work. where at times the snowshoes could not be worn be- cause of the steepness of the slopes brought us on May "A to camp at 5000 feet altitude just above the second icefall of the Fairweather Glacier and at the foot of sub- sidiary ridge to the great southeast ridge of the mountain. On May 25, a one-tent camp was established at a little over 5000 feet. The climb ing to this elevation was over very steep ice slopes and across two bands of rock cliffs which proved somewhat troublesome.
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ranch up to few months ago. Mrs. Lewis became ill and was taken to a hospital here, her husband re- maining at her bedside until she recovered. They returned to the ranch to find their positions filled by other persons.
 The only known relative is a daughter, Mrs. Guy Van Horn Of Marietta, Washington, the wife of a state representative. She said the aged couple were married in 1900 and described it as a belated romance. She did not know they were in want.