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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1904
Page
33
The Series of August Sales offers a wide range of textiles and home goods. Pollet Linens, Blankets, Spreads, Sheets, Pillow Cases, Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Rugs, Plattings, and more are featured with a focus on low prices. The sale gathers diverse departments to deliver value in beds and home furnishings for current or upcoming needs.
Annual clearance of wool blankets popular with households and hotels. Seconds from a leading East manufacturer feature slight imperfections with improved mill machinery, sizes for single to king beds, colored options, priced about one third to one half below regular costs. Second door on Eleventh Street.
A major August sale begins with a discount of one third to one half on one two and three pair lots. Readily available designs include Renaissance Drassels Net Irish Point Arabian and Imitation Arabian. Some four and four plus pair lots remain with first choice prized as designs and styles vary.
Mrs Nelson A Miles died at West Point after a day of calls and apparent good health. Gen Nelson A Miles was away yesterday, returning today. The 62 year old society leader, daughter of Judge Charles Sherman and niece of Gen William T Sherman and Senator John Sherman, will be buried at Arlington after funeral at the academy chapel. She leaves two children, Cecilia Reber and Sherman Miles, and sisters Mrs Colgate Hoyt and Mrs Don Cameron.
Consul General Gummere reports growing unrest in Morocco with tension rising since the Perdicaris affair. He notes foreign reps pressed the Sultan to enlarge customs storehouses, only to back off after tribal threats. He describes an attempted kidnapping of Harris of the London Times and warns the situation worsens daily.
Lieut Gov Curtis Guild and Gen Blackmar led a committee to invite President Roosevelt to Boston for the G A R National Encampment August 5 to 20. He may attend the 15th and review the parade, but likely will decline. A naval squadron of ten ships will be sent to Boston for the encampment, including the Massachusetts Des Moines Hartford Hull Whipple Truxton and five destroyers.
A funeral service was held today for George Francis Clay of Grand Rapids Michigan a midshipman on the monitor Florida who died of pneumonia in a hospital. North Atlantic Squadron midshipmen attended the heavy rain service at the soldiers and Sailors monument on State Street. The Rev J Homeyn Danforth officiated. Floral pieces came from various vessels of the squadron. The body will be shipped to Grand Rapids.
Rear Admiral Whiting reported to the Navy Department that the battleship Ohio logged an average speed of 17.86 knots on its prelim speed trial in Santa Barbara. The run is subject to tidal allowance and the contract requires 18 knots with a potential penalty of $25,000 per quarter knot for any shortfall.
The battleship Ohio completed its Santa Barbara Channel trial and departed for San Francisco today. The gunboat Annapolis and tugboats Fortune and Unadilla accompanied her. torpedo boat destroyers Paul Jones Preble and Perry remain. The trial board left without announcing results on tidal and wind computations critical to meeting government speed requirements.
The New York flagship of the Pacific Squadron will leave Bremerton between August 15 and 30 with Marblehead and Bennington, then be joined by the Boston in San Francisco. They will sail on an extended South American cruise, meeting the Chicago which sails from Boston for the coast. Rear Admiral Goodrich will shift his flag to the Chicago and steer the New York to the Atlantic.
The Army extends leaves and assigns duties for multiple officers. McCullough receives a fifteen day extension. Van Way gains sixteen days. Wheeler is sent to Dover powder depot for Ordnance work. Barber retires after incapacitation finding. Drucke to report for exam for first lieutenant. Thompson ordered Vancouver to Seattle and to oversee Alaskan telegraph work. Clarke and Carleton transferred to unassigned status. Officers to West Point.
Rear Admiral G A Converse named chief of the Bureau of Navigation from August 1 1904. Lieut J B Gimer detached to General Electric works Schenectady NY for home and 30 days leave. Lieut V Blue to duty Buffalo. Surgeon A G Grunwell to duty on Dixie. Movements include Saised Buffalo from Santa Barbara to Mare Island Scorpion from Guantanamo to Dolan Michigan from Chicago to Milwaukee Arrived Denver at Guantanamo.
Five Cabinet members attended yesterday's cabinet meeting while others were out of the city. No major business was concluded. Dominic Murphy of the Panama Canal Commission met with the President to discuss isthmian canal matters. Postmaster appointments were approved for Cherokee Kansas John F. Price Chapel Hill North Carolina W A Lloyd Fort Payne Alabama R W Frasist Georgia Tennille I A Smith.
The General Land Office announced the Devil's Lake and Grand Forks registration for the Devils Lake Indian reservation lands will start at 9 a.m. on August 9 and end at 6 p.m. August 20. Regulations from the President's proclamation will be enforced. Applications must use government blanks from soldiers' agents. Blank power of attorney forms are issued by the General Land Office. other blanks must be obtained at the registration sites.
Minister Leishman in Constantinople reports the Sultan will answer the United States in a personal audience next Thursday, not yesterday, regarding demands to end discriminations against Americans and grant equal privileges, with focus on protecting educational and religious institutions. Postmasters named in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. A new counterfeit ten dollar note, issued by the National Bank of Commerce in New York 1882 series, has been detected by Chief Wilkie.
Acid and grit, deadly foes of teeth, linger in cheap dentifrices. Fine sounding claims do not make fine products. Your teeth deserve better than sacrifice to your pocketbook.
Paris reports Paul Potter sails to New York aboard the Kaiser with an Alaine play The Girl Who Forgot written for Mary Mannering as heroine. He will also oversee the production of his musical The School Girl with Edna May at Daly's in September. He brings several French dramas such as Montansier la Troisieme and Lune la Rabouilleuse, purchased by Charles Frohman, to be adapted for American audiences.
Commendatory resolutions adopted by Gunton Temple Congregation mark Rev Asa S Fiske D D pastor of Gunton Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church resigning September 1 1904. They praise his sermons and service, wish him well, and pledge ongoing prayers for his welfare and family as he prepares to preach in Philadelphia and spend vacation with relatives in Geneva New York.
The widow of Peter Wainwright Virginia Adela h Wainwright died Monday and was buried in Philadelphia. Services were led by Rev. Enoch M. Thompson at Gen. Catingerfield Parker's home in Washington. She was seventy, active in charity, and spent winters in the capital. Gen. Parker accompanied the casket. Burial in Ronaldson Cemetery Philadelphia follows. Nervousness is treated by Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Social and personal items record travels and visits of Bruce Wadsworth, Bertram Greene, Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, and other Washington figures. Secretary Taft rests in Murray Bay while Mrs Taft remains abroad, and many couples sail for Europe or Atlantic City for late summer. Includes society ties, marriages, receptions, and moves of families and diplomats, with several residences noted at Gray Gables and other well known spots.
Mrs Arthur Paget wife of Major General Paget Scots Guards is seriously injured after opening an elevator door and falling into the shaft at 35 Belgrave Square London Her thigh is fractured and knee injured but she is progressing as well as can be expected. Also Duchess of Marlborough injured in Blenheim Park fall and Miss Alice Roosevelt arrives Bar Harbor for a visit with Damroschs.
The Business Men's Parker Club of the District organized on Monday night with John F. Monaghan as president and Capt. T. R. J. Campbell as vice president. About a hundred Democrats attended as resolutions pledging support for Alton B. Parker were adopted, praising his judicial temperament and legal knowledge.
A Philadelphia Ledger study compares 1903 British railway safety with the U.S. fiscal year to June 20 1903. It shows far higher killed and injured rates in the United States, even when only counting passenger and employe accidents, and estimates total deaths near 9 000 with about 65 000 injuries when including other persons.
A humorous encounter unfolds as a diner questions a waiter about the repeated Willie tip motif. The waiter responds in a monotone voice while the narrator pockets change and the scene ends with a sigh and a remonstrance about waiter manners at a New York Globe publication.
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