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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
19
A midsummer clearance sale offers steep prices on Vien's Summer Furnishings, snemling Hats, Two-piece Suits, Neglige Shirts, Underwear, Hasiers, and Neckwear. Many items are discounted two to three garments for the price of one, with two months of warm weather ahead. The shop stocks include Sennits, Split Strix, Melans, and Japs, with extreme and conservative styles to suit all tastes, though some sizes are missing.
An advertisement offers a line of white neglige shirts and mens neglige shorts. Manufactured to reduce stock, they are described as fine quality and elegant with varied patterns. Sizes range from 18 to 17? and priced at $1.00 each, value $1.50.
Qurentie stock of Colored Neglige Shirts has been reduced to the low price of 109 cents. The former prices were 150, 200, and 253 cents. These season goods offer elegance, ready made shirts, excellent cloth, perfect fit, and faultless finish with a choice assortment of belts and patterns in all sizes.
Classified ad notes two-piece suits priced at $5 each from an original range of $8 to $12, with materials described as mixed dress fabrics in gray tones, tailored cuts, satin collars, and trousers featuring lap straps and button bottoms, offered at reduced sale prices.
Several hundred pairs of fine Oxtons for women priced near half. Bright new goods from cases, exceptional value. Patent colt style with Cuban heels and turn soles. Sizes 2 to 6, AA to D lasts, all new and up to date from a firm unable to accept delivery on time.
Mrs. Morton wife of the Secretary of the Navy travels with her daughter Miss Pauline Morton and niece Miss Jean Morton departing from New York for Newport and Boston to christen the Cumberland. The party sails on the Dolphin with Attorney General Moody and Representative Foss, then visits naval stations along the coast before returning to Chicago. Other Washingtonians frequent Atlantic City, Ocean Grove and Adirondacks camps as society notes continue across resorts and upcoming weddings and engagements are announced.
Theophilus Elwood Roessle founder of the Arlington Hotel in Washington died in Paris at the Grand Hotel after a rupture of an aneurysm. His wife Mrs. Roessle was at his bedside. He had been in poor health for a year and sailed for Europe on doctor advice July 29. Roessle left a large estate and wide circle of friends including politicians, bankers, and foreign dignitaries who had visited the Arlington since its opening in 1870.
The text recalls Roessle as a well rounded man with general knowledge and social warmth. It names his children Elwood Osbourne Roessle and Mrs Edward N Kenney, notes his first wife died in 1883 and a second marriage in 1888 to Nellie Taylor of San Francisco, and mentions plans for interment of remains in the United States.
Troops A B I K L and M Fifteenth Cavalry plus Twenty third and Twenty seventh Field Artillery batteries depart Fort Ethan Allen for Manassas Virginia to take part in autumn maneuvers. Officers accompany them and a large unit roster lists cavalry and artillery personnel and animals. The journey spans about 700 miles and is expected to take three weeks, with a pass through Washington en route to Potomac crossings. It is described as the longest march in recent times and an experimental move.
Mayor Teig of Dubuque Iowa has named Miss Margaret Treadway as sponsor for the gunboat Dubuque to be launched at Morris Heights on the 27th. The act ends an unusual Navy sponsorship episode as the department had planned to choose a sponsor after the mayor could not find a suitable local candidate. The decision follows prior attempts and a public response in Iowa.
Orders grant leaves of absence for officers in the cavalry and infantry, with several transfers in the Twelfth Cavalry and Coast Artillery. Notable moves include Capt Hesty C. Suither of the Fifteenth Cavalry, and First Lieut Milogh HK Hiyard of the Sixteenth Infantry. Assignments span Mount Tamatipas, West Point, and the Manila-bound duties, with many officers detailed to academy postings, hospitals, and district commands.
Acting Secretary Ryan Ada revoked approval to discontinue the second assistant surgeon at Freemen's Hospital and to distribute its $1,000 salary among other employees. Auditor Garrison questioned the tactic, July payrolls withheld, and Comptroller to decide legality of the blanket appropriation and salary divisions.
Brainard H Warner, former United States consul at Leipzig and brother of South ard P Warner, consular agent at Gera, will campaign for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. He studied German social and political conditions, earned a PhD from Leipzig University, and will speak across Maryland and West Virginia with Representative Dayton, aided by his relation to Dayton.
The Isthmian Canal Commission found it lacks authority to terminate the Pacific Mail Company contract with the Panama Railroad since the railroad is not yet government controlled. Secretary Murphy advised President Burns that the commission will set policy after directors are elected the first Monday of April, when Isthmian Canal commissioners would form a majority on the road’s board.
President Roosevelt yesterday named Regin H Post of New York secretary of Porto Rico and Erastus B Wockwell of DC as auditor of Porto Rico, effective September 1. The moves are temporary while a full council reorganization is planned. Post is current Porto Rico auditor and has been in the city consulting with officials. He will replace Charles Hartzell, who resigned weeks ago to return to U S business.
Richmond Pearson, American minister to Persia on leave, met President Roosevelt and State Department officials. He says Persian authorities, pressed by his representations, have seized Seyid Ghaffer, the murderer of Dr Labori, near Ararat and jailed him in Tabriz dungeon awaiting trial. Troops pursue Khurdish tribesmen aiding the assassination. Pearson plans to sail in about a month after a brief stop at Asheville, North Carolina.
Oklahoma official Judge Bayard T. Hainer of the fourth district is praised as honest, conscientious, industrious, and competent after a lengthy Justice Department probe led by Special Assistant Attorney General Charles W. Russell. The report cites irritability and brusqueness as faults but finds no misconduct.
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