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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
11
A midsummer clearance offers reduced prices on Vien's Summer Furnishings and related goods. Include hats, two piece suits, neglige shirts, underwear, hosiery, neckwear, and more. Many items priced two to three garments for one, with two months remaining in season. Stocks include various fabrics and styles, though some sizes are missing in certain lines.
An advertisement promotes a line of men’s white neglige shirts and neglige shorts. It notes attractive prices as the manufacturer seeks to reduce stock, touts fine quality and finish, and mentions a splenid assortment of patterns, mainly stripes and intercerned effects, with all sizes from 18 to 17 and a price of $1.00 each, value $1.50.
Qurentine stock of Colored Neglige Shirts has been reduced to the small price of 109 cents. The former prices were 150, 200, and 253 cents. These season goods offer elegant fabrics, perfect fit, faultless finish, and a broad range of belt and shirt patterns in all sizes.
Price cuts bring two-piece suits within reach. Materials described as mixed fabrics in gray tones with proper cuts and tailoring. Coats feature satin, close-fitting collars, trousers with belt straps and trim bottoms, now $5 each, originally $8 to $10.
Several hundred pairs of fine Oxtons for women at nearly half price. Bright new goods from cases with patent colt dressy style and Cuban heels. All sizes 2 to 6, AA to D lasts, new and up to date. made for a firm that declined delivery on time.
Secretary Morton and party, including Miss Pauline Morton and Miss Jean Morton, sail from New York to Newport and Boston aboard the Dolphin. They will tour naval stations along the coast, with a launch and christening at Atlantic City pending, while numerous Washingtonians and relatives vacation at hotels and camps in Adventurous retreats.
Paris Aug 10 Theophilus E Roessle owner of the Arlington Hotel Washington D C died suddenly at the Grand Hotel due to aneurysm rupture Mrs Roessle at his bedside and will likely bring his body home to America He had been in poor health a year sailing July 29 on doctors advice to Europe His career spanned Albany New York and Washington D C where the Arlington Hotel became a social center He was quartermaster general for New York troops after the Civil War and later profited from hotel and banking interests in New York Washington and Albany He hosted many prominent figures including Dom Pedro Roscoe Conkling Blaine Hanna Reed and foreign dignitaries His death ends a long era of hospitality and influence at the Arlington.
The obituary sketches Roessle as well educated, genial, and loyal, with varied ties to old New York families and public figures. Surviving children listed are Elwood Osborn Roessle and Mrs. Edward N. Kenney, with a widow Nellie Taylor also noted. The deceased’s remains to be brought to the United States for interment.
Troops A B I K L M Fifteenth Cavalry and Twenty third and Twenty seventh Field Artillery left Fort Ethan Allen for Manassas Virginia to participate in autumn maneuvers. Officers accompany them and the units include 283 cavalry 214 artillery 12 field guns 403 cavalry horses 199 artillery horses and 80 quartermaster animals. The journey covers about 700 miles and may take three weeks, likely passing through Washington on the way. It is described as possibly the longest march in recent times and an experimental operation.
Mayor Teig of Dubuque Iowa announced Miss Margaret Treadway daughter of the Dubuque Club president as sponsor for the gunboat Dubuque to be launched at Morris Heights on the 27th. The decision ends an unusual Navy staffing incident and follows earlier delays in finding a sponsor.
Orders authorize leaves for Capt Hesty C Suither and First Lt Milogh Hiyard, with extensions for First Lt Lewis. Transfers in Twelfth Cavalry shift Lieuts Degen and Lush, while Wholley becomes professor at Mount Tamalpais. Several Coast Artillery moves and new assignments are announced, plus promotions into various regiments and corps with reported postings toward Manila and Washington duties.
Acting Secretary Ryan Ada of the Interior Department revoked approval for discontinuing the second assistant surgeon at Freemen's Hospital and for the $1,000 salary distribution among other employees. Auditor Garrison questioned the practice and staff delays persist as the comptroller and District officials weigh legality, with payrolls still withheld.
Brainard H Warner former United States consul at Leipzig will campaign for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. He will tour Maryland and West Virginia with Representative Dayton of West Virginia and work with his brother South ard P Warner now appointed consul at Leipzig. He studied in Germany and at Dartmouth, joining the McKinley administration.
The Isthmian Canal Commission lacks authority to end the Pacific Mail Panama Railroad contract while the railroad remains outside government control. Secretary Murphy advised President W J Burns that policy will be set after directors are elected the first Monday of April next year, when Isthmian Canal commissioners are planned to form a majority on the road board.
President Roosevelt yesterday appointed Regin H Post of New York as secretary of Porto Rico and Erastus B Wockwell of the District of Columbia as auditor of Porto Rico, effective September 1. The moves are temporary while the island government council is reorganized. Post currently serves as Porto Rico auditor and will replace Charles Hartzell, who resigned to resume business in the United States.
Minister Pearson reports that Seyid Ghaffer, murderer of Dr Labori, has been captured near Ararat and is confined in a dungeon at Tabriz. Persian troops pursue Khurdish accomplices as authorities prepare for trial. Pearson, on leave in the United States, plans to sail home via Asheville after a brief visit.
The Department of Justice announced that Judge Bayard T. Hainer of Oklahoma's fourth district is found somewhat irritable and brusque but honest, conscientious, industrious, and competent. The inquiry by Special Assistant Attorney General Charles W. Russell found no major faults, calling him a fine judge with faults shared by many.
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