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TUB CITI7.UN, Fill DAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1013.
ARMY OFFICERS ROUTED
FROM THEIR EASY BERTHS.
Twentytwo Ordered by SeereUry f
War to Join Troope.
Tncnt.v-tvi nrm.v officers who hnve
been .stationed in Wnshinpton for
year!. Including one of the rank of
brigadier general, linve been ordered
by the secretary of war to Join troops
The order came ns a great ptirprlwe.
because there hnd been no hint that
such a move wiih contemplated. The
rule 1b that every four yern an army
officer must scire two years with
troops. However, there Iibtc been va
rious ways of eluding the four year
rule. In some Instances the presence
of certain ofllcers has been deemed
necessary at the capital because of
their efficiency In the lines of cxeeti
tlve work to which they hire been as
signed. In other Instances "pull" has been
nble to keep officers In Washlncton
who preferred the social and club
life there to some post not having
most of the Joys for a pleasure loving
soldier Some of the men bj signed to
Join troope have been in Washington
twelve years and have well eitabllsh
cd homes there, while most of the
others have been away from troops
five to soven years. Here is the list
of those ordered to troop duty:
BrlgnJIer Gfneral W. W. 'Wlthfrsponn
Major Johnson HfiKOod. general staff.
Captain Charles D. Ubodts, general staff.
Captain James A. Moss, Twsnty-fourtli
Infantry; Captain Stanley D. Emblfk, sen
crnl staff. Major I'nul F. Straub. sern'ral
staff. Major II. E. Callan, coast nrtlllorv
Captain F. P. Bishop, coast artillery. Cap
tain James A. Ixijin, Jr., eubilstence de
partment; Lieutenant Colonsl John T
Knight, quartermaster department; Lieu
tenant Colonel David 8. Stanley, quar
termaster department; Major rrank B.
Cheatham, quart ermseter department ; Ma
jor A B. Brewster, Inspector genoral;
Lieutenant Colonel John T. Thompson,
ordnance department; Major J. H. Hire,
ordnance department; Lieutenant Colonel
George F Downey, pay department; Lieu
tenant Colonel W. D. McCaw, medical de
partment. Lieutenant Colonel M. W. Ire
land, medical department; Major I". S
Russell, medical department; Colonel H
P. McCain, adjutant general; Lieutenant
Colonel Benjamin Alvord. adjutant gen
eral, Lieutonant Colonel John Blddls Por
ter, Judge advocate
PASSING OF REVERE HOUSE.
Boston Hotel Had Housed Many Cele
brated Personages.
No hotel In Boston and few In the
United States are richer in associations
than the Revere House, which was re
cently destroyed by fire. Here stayed
In the heyday of the hotel's popularity
visiting royalty, famous statesmen and
soldiers and some of the prima donnas
who charmed a generation of Itostonl
aus now dead.
The Revere nouse waB named after
the famous Hoston patriot Paul Re
vere. It was opened on May 10. 1S1".
as the moU sumptuous hotel Hosto-.i
hnd had up to that time. The ball
room and the banquet halls were re
carded as models of splendor and of
convenience. I'arnn Stevens, one of
the best known hotel men of the ti:: e
and the landlord of the Trcnumt
House, was at its head.
It was patronized by Webster, Cleve
laud. Adelina Pntti, Christine Nils v
Emperor Pedro of Hrazll, King Knl.i
kaua of the Hawaiian Islands, Admiral
Mohammed I'asha of the Turkish navy,
his imperial highness the Grand Du'w
Alexis of Russia and Generals Grant
Sherman and Sheridan.
Here. too. in 1800, stnyed Prince Al
bert of Wales, the future King Edwnnl
VII. of England. One of the rooms in
the hotel had ever since been set aside,
faded in its decorations, but ricli in its
asiiociations. It was the room Prince
Albert occupied.
EACH GOLD PLATE AN ALARM.
New Burglar Device Protects Hotol's
Famous Service.
The owner of one of the blc New
York hotels, who is an electrical engi
neer and the inventor of several elec
trical burglar protection devices now
in use. has icrfe'ted and installed in
his hotel a new device for protectin t
the gold service of the hotel.
ThN sen!' e Is valued at several thoii
sand dollar and consists of vnrioi.H
plei es if glnss and gold filigree wori.
as well as sollefplate. It Is inclosed i'i
numerous cabinets, which up to this
time have hnd but the protection o;
loiK add I' "j
'J he devl' c Installed is io arranged
thut the lifting of any single pice win
ring an alarm bell In the housekeeper'
room in the main olllce and in th -room
of all the watchmen. The
shelves upon which the icoldwnre rest)
are Imlanced upon n sort of spring,
which it. set to a certain weight. The
removal of any of the weight, howev
er slight, connects the alarm circuit
and bets the warning gongs ringing.
SHE'S A SCULPTOR AT 82.
Mrs. Cox Began Her Art at Sixty Now
at Work on a Lincoln Cast.
Although she Is eighty-two years old.
Mrs. Delilah J. Cox of Montclnlr, N.
J., Is at present making two piaster of
parls casts of busts that she has sculp
tured One of the casts la of Lincoln.
Mrs. Cox began her work as a sculp
tor at the age of sixty. She Is the
mother of Robert Lynn Cox, who suc
ceeded Grovcr Cleveland as general
counsel and malinger of tho Associa
tion of Life Insurance Presidents. Re
cently Mrs. Cox made several Indian
dolls and a Santa Claus threo feet
high, the face and hands being of
porcelain cement and the bodies of
thin rope. L'very article of clothing,
including leather boots, was her work.
Another doll in her collection was
earved from chestnut wood.
I COIfflTIS Of
City Was Scene of Struggles
Between North and South
I Before War.
BALTIMORE, where the next
Democratic national convention
Is to meet, was the city in
which assembled the first na
tional convention of the Democratic
pnrty, the city In which a national con
vention first gave forth the party's for- I
mal platform and that in which the '
first Democratic dark horse was nomi
nated for the presidency.
At the wish of Jackson, the first
Democratic national convention, which i
met at Baltimore, Mny 21, 1&12, eight J
months after the anti-Mason party hail J
set the fashion of such conventions by j
meeting in tho same city, formally I
nominated Van Burcn for vice presl- j
dent, but merely ratified the nomlna-
tlon of Jackson for president already
mnde by many stnto legislatures.
Jackson's candidacy and the nomina
tion of Vnn Burcn marked the well de
fined quarrel between Jackson and Cal
houn and prepared the way for the
factional struggle between tho north
ern and the southern Democrats.
The convention adopted no platform,
but expressed confidence In Jackson
and his policies. The man and his
policies really constituted the party
platform.
The national Democratic convention
that nominated Van Burcn for presi
dent met at Baltimore in May, IS".",
having been called thus early to offset
the candidacy of Senator Hugh L.
White, already nominated as an nntl
Jackson Democrat by the legislature
of Tennessee.
In this convention the vote of each
state, though not Its actual representa
tion, was In proportion to its strength
in congress. The convention was large
ly made up of federal officeholders, as
was that of 1R32.
Party platforms were embodied in
letters written by the several candi
dates in answer to inquiries addressed
to them by means of an understanding
among the leaders, nn awkward con
trivance that subsequently btought
disaster to Clay
A Democratic convention represent
ing twenty-one slates met at Balti
more in May, IStO, and nominated Van
Buren, though it forebore to make
any nomination for vice president.
The interest of the convention came
from its being the first to adopt a
definite platform of Democratic prin
ciples. This platform, which served
for many years as tho basis for Demo
cratic doctrinal utterances, urged a
strict construction of the constitution,
denied in the name of such construc
tion the power of the federal govern
ment to make internal improvements,
to nssume state debts, to charter a
national bank or to legislate as to slav
ery in the states, condemned by im
plication the policy of protection, de
nounced the propaganda of the aboli
tionists as dangerous to the Union, dis
approved any abridgement of tho nat
urnllzntion privilege, called for rigid
economy in public expenditures', for a
revenue limited to tho needs of such
expenditures and for the divorce of the
treasury from tho banks as Indispen
sable to the safety of public funds and
to the preservation of popular rights.
Upon that platform the Democrats
met their first disastrous defeat,
though it was brought about rather by
conditions than by the party utter
ance. The southern Democrat, who had
had it in for Van Buren slnco 1832,
obtained their revenge upon him at the
convention of 1844, which met at Bal
timore in May. Annexation of Texas
wns the question over which Van Bu
ren was defeated for the nomination.
Jackson had been misled Into writ
ing a letter that was used against bis
friend and protege, and Virginia, which
had chosen n delegation instructed for
Van Buren, had relnstructed against
him. The two-thirds rule adopted In
1&'!2 was reaffirmed In tho early hours
of the convention, and Van Enron's
friends, controlling a majority of votes,
ralnly strove until the ninth ballot to
force his nomination.
The name of James IC. Polk had ep
MAY HELP jVIRS. HARLAN.
Pensions Also For tho Widows of Ad-
mirals Schley and Evans. j
Representative Swagcr Shirley of
Kentucky will offer nn nmendment to
the legislative, executive and Judicial
appropriation bill appropriating a sum
equal to one year's salary of an asso
clnte justice of tho supremo court tf .
tlte United Stntcs for the relief of 1
Mrs. Harlan, widow of Justice John
Marshall Ilarlan. Tho salary at th
time Justice Ilarlan died was $12,500.
On Jnn. 1 It wtos Increased to $11,500.
Tho same provision that Representa
tive Shirley asks for Mrs. Harlan wns
inadu for tho widow of Associate Jus
tice David J. Brower.
In tho senate Senator Rayncr of
Maryland introduced a bill nllowlng
pensions nt tho rate of $150 a month to
tho widows of Rear Admiral Schley
anil Rear Admiral Evans. Under the
general pension law each woman would
bo entitled to $30 a month, but this
turn is regarded as inadequate, as It
has been discovered that neither of
the ofllcers left any considerable es
tote.
MY YEARS
III BALTIMORE
History For the Democratic
Party In the Past Was
Made There.
reared on the eighth ballot, and on
the ninth, when Tan Buren's name
wns withdrawn, Polk received more
than the necessary two-thirds and was
hailed as the first "dark horse" to win
a Democratic nomination.
The historian Bnncroft, who became
Polk's secretary of the navy and the
father of the Naval academy, did
much to further the nomination.
At this convention for the first time
were seen those waves of passion and
excitement that have marked many
later conventions. The dignified Ben
jamin P. Butler of Now York Jumped
up and cracked his Iiecli together In
his excitement at the struggle with
the southerners over Vnn Buren, and
members stood upon benches In the
vain cfTort to hear or to make them
selves heard amid the babel.
The real work of the convention
was contrived, as usual, in the re
cesses. Silas Wright, who was nomi
nated for vice president because of his
known friendship for Van Buren, tele
graphed his declination, being the first
to use the telegraph for such a pur
pose. While the convention 6nt an
other convention, mostly of federal of
fice holders, nominated Tyler for pres
ident and tried to force him upon Use
Democrats.
Baltimore proved again an unlucky
convention town for the Democrats In
1S4S, In which year the fruits of Van
Buren's defeat by the southerners four
years earlier were seen In his accept
ance of the Free Soil nomination.
Luck returned, however, with tho
nomination of Pierce ns tho second
dark horse at Baltimore In June, 1852.
The next Democratic national con
vention met nt Cincinnati, exactly four
years later, when for the first time In
n quarter of a century Baltimore was
skipped. To Baltimore was transfer
red from Charleston the faction
quarrel of the Democrats In 18G0. The
factions northern and southern at
Charleston adjourned to meet, the for
mer nt Baltimore, the latter at Rich
mond. There had been at Charleston
In April GOG delegates, with 303 votes.
The quarrel over the platform, which
brought about the secession of many
southern delegates, left the conven
tlon with a majority, but unable to
agree upon a nominee. It adourned to
meet at Baltimore June IS, requesting
the Bouthera states to fill the vacan
cles left by the seceders.
The latter, with a few delegates from
the border states, adopted resolutions
against the Issuing of two party plat
forms or any change of party name
and adjourned to meet at Richmond
June 11. Some of the Richmond dele
gates were nlso accredited to Baltl
more. A complicated row over the
seating of southern delegates in the
regular convention led to a new feces
sion, and tho -seceders, with re-enforce
ments from the adjourned Richmond
convention, nominated one national
ticket, while the regulars nominated
nnother, and the party went forth to
defeat.
Baltimore again brought the Demo
crats bad luck In July, 1872, when tho
regular Democratic convention ratified
the proceedings of tho Liberal Repub
licans.
As n convention city Baltimore was
crowded and uncomfortable from 1840
onward. An extant letter from a dele
gate to the Whls convention of 1840
describes conditions ai almost unen
durable. Men were sleeping three In a
bed and half a dozen or more In
room. The writer of the letter thought
himself lucky to be entertained by a
friend, who was able to jrlve him a
room, which he shared with but one
other person.
At convention time In 1SC0 the city
was fairly choked with delegates 'and
others, nnd it wns crowded even in
1872. Since that time the hotel accom
modation of the city has greatly In
creased and the time by rnll between
Baltimore and Washington has been
bo reduced that it is easy to sleep in
Washington and attend convention sen
slons In Baltimore.
POPE'S CIPHER CHANGED.
Published Book Reveals Secrets, With
Code Messages Translated.
Tho Vatican has been compelled to
change the cipher or code in which the
pope's secret instructions aro tele
graphed to nuncios and delegates
abroad.
It consisted of n scries of numbers
disposed according to a prearranged
system, assuring perfect eecrecy. Re
peated efforts to solve It proved un
successful, and It was considered the
best In the world. Even when the
French government seized the archive
of the pnpal nunciature in Paris the
iccret wns not divulged. Mgr. Mou
tagulul succeeded In hiding the key.
Marquis Crlspoltl, however, haB pub
lished a book dealing with the Vati
can's negotiations with Berlin in 1878
nnd reproducing the original cipher
telegrams and their translation.
Deeply grieved that the secret docu
tncnts have been published and real
izing tho futility of legal proceeding?,
tho pope has decided to change the
lystem for the first tune in 200 years.
TWICE MARRIED TO WIFE.
Mysttry 8olved Whan Attorney Ex
plains Situation.
Philadelphia, Jan. 30. The mystery
that surrounded the wedding in thli
elty tast Saturday of Dr. Hildgarde
Langadorf, a woman physician of Car
llsls, Pn., and Dr. Guy Carlton Lee, a
lecturer In the Johns Hopkins univer
sity of Baltimore, was explained when
announcement waa made that he had
married Dr. Langedorf under two
Mimea, that of Guy Carlton Lee and
that ot John II. Ayex, which la his
baptismal name.
STATUE COMMITTEE MEETS.
Plans Per Memorial to General Mead
Ar Discussed.
Philadelphia, Jan. 30. A meeting of
the General Monde statue committee of
Pennsylvania was held in Mayor Blnn
kenhurg'a olllce In city hall. Efforts
will be made to obtain an appropria
tion for n statue In honor of the rivll
wnr hero.
The proposition of forming n General
George A. Meade Ftate association was
discussed. Mayor Blnnkenburg has
lven the movement his Indorsement.
Killed In Bobsled Accident,
t'hltorn. I'n., Jan. .'). One boy was
Mlled and another was seriously In
jured when the sled on which they
were riding collided with a bridge col
umn. The dead boy was Alfred Dou
ble. Odd Death In Subway.
New York. Jan. aO.-Itnlph K. Shle
bier, a salesman, wan killed In the
subway while picking up bis hat.
which had blown on to the tracks.
Tithes In England.
A day wns, appointed for paying
tithea in England in 958, and nine
tenths of one's tlthable property were
forfeited for nonpayment
ItUSIIIXG SUMMER BOOKS.
Delawai'o & Hudson Co. Asks Co-operation
of Resort Owners.
Announcement Is made by Mr. A.
A. Heard, General Passenger Agent
of tho Delaware & Hudson Railroad,
that for the purpose of making them
of more value to the various owners
and managers of hotels and of camps
and cottages to let and for sale listed
therein, tho summer books of the
Delaware & Hudson Co. are being
prepared for printing with all possi
ble speed, that they may be placed
before the public at the time when
vacation plans are In the making.
To this end Mr. Heard earnestly
solicits the co-operation of all in
terested in tho development of the
resort sections reached via tho rail
and steamer lines of the Delaware &
Hudson Co.
February 15 has been fixed as the
final date upon which advertising
copy will be received and this date
applies alike to all advertising no
tlces, whether paid or free, new or
old, intended for the Delaware &
Hudson books. Because an adver
tisement has appeared before In these
books is not a guarantee that It will
appear again. Unless written au
thority for Its renewal has been re
ceived at the ofllco of the General
Passenger Agent on or before Feb.
15, the notice will be omitted from
the editions of 1912.
Tho advertising charges remain
the same. Owners of camps and cot
tages to let and for sale may have
their places listed in both the Dela
ware & Hudson. Camp and Cottage
Booklet, which will bo out about
March 1st and in A Summer Para
dise, which will be out May 1st, for
the single charge of ?3.00 if no Il
lustration is used; for tho single
charge of J8.00 if printed In half
page formation with illustration and
for the single chargo of $25.00 If
used In full-pago formation with Il
lustration. For A Summer Paradise,
the standard 360-page- resort direc
tory of Northern New York, three
classes of advertisements are receiv
ed; brief notices without Illustra
tions, for which no chargo Is made;
half-page advertisements with illus
trations, $8.00; full page advertise
ments with illustrations, $15.00.
Charges for all illustrated advertise
ments include tho cost of half-tone'
cuts. No To Rent or For Sale ad
vertisements are published free. Ad
dress all letters and advertising mat
tor to Mr. A. A. Hoard, General Pas
senger Agent, Delaware & Hudson R.
It., Albany. N. Y. 9t3.
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Farmers always welcome
In order to mako room for a ship
ment of Western horses, several bar
gains are offered for ealo at Bra
man's Llvory. Interested parties are
Invited to call and look thorn over.
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