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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
20
A brief item references The Washington Post publication location at Pennsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth Street, noting its proximity to government district landmarks.
Washington readers planning to leave the city are urged to maintain The Post subscription so they continue receiving reports on affairs at the Capital. Address changes can be made anytime. notification to the carrier or direct order to The Post ensures prompt delivery nationwide. Telegraph: Main 4205.
The new Washington school board, free of lawyer politicians, acts independently under a new law. It supports the superintendent with businesslike vigor and fairness, ending political manipulation in school matters and ensuring honest administration that courts public trust.
The Chicago Inter Ocean faces pressure after the Illinois Republican State convention. An editorial titled The Truth criticizes primary law bypass and candidate rejection, arguing such moves are un-Republican and un-American while contrasting with reform toward independent journalism. The Post notes a fragile drift from traditional party organs to freer press.
The essay scorns William Travers Jerome for vague reform promises while urging rugged honesty in state leadership. It analyzes race tensions, noting the negro question's political and social hazards, and critiques how party reform debates shape New York politics amid alleged plunder and ineffective prosecutions.
An editorial laments Secretary Root's remarks on Argentine women as incomparable beauty, arguing his Paris role misused diplomacy. It derides the South American trip as a diplomatic "mighty mess" and predicts tense reception upon his return to the United States.
A collage of opinion notes and political jests spans topics from Prohibition to Labor Day, GOP attitudes, and reform calls. It notes William Jennings Bryan, Taft, Fairbanks, and Hoke Smith, plus urges uniform divorce laws and fiscal prudence while lamenting wartime rhetoric and social trends.
A long London era notes that Roosevelt and other U S figures exhibit strong German and French, while European leaders like Campbell Bannerman and Balfour show mastery of languages. It recalls Beaconsfield and Beaconsfield era flattery to avoid French speech, warns that English statesmen must improve language skills in global diplomacy.
A roundup notes that Canada allows English or French in Parliament while New Zealand Maori speak with interpreters. reflects on Dutch English bilingualism and Boer War debates, with references to monarchs and diplomats.
Acting Postmaster General Hitchcock moves to end monetary fines for postal staff and replace them with uniform efficiency records. Assistant Superintendent John A. Holmes tours major U S post offices to discuss the shift. The change aims to curb humiliation and create consistent salary adjustments based on performance.
Frank R. Mowrer, newly appointed American consul general to Addis Ababa, will sail from New York September 1 on the Prinzess Irene. Details of his trip remain undecided, with possible Naples and Aden legs as he proceeds toward Abyssinia and Suez. The expedition's naval support under Admiral Brownson involves four armored cruisers Maryland Pennsylvania Colorado and West Virginia sailing to Gibraltar and Naples before further moves inland from Aden.
Hamburg postal authorities authorize Hensel Druckmann and Lorbacher to gift a work to a Washington art institution. New York brokers await details while Commissioner Macfarland consults the Corcoran Gallery trustees for suitable Washington galleries. No exact nature or inspiration of the gift has been conveyed.
Secretary Shaw moves to raise deposits of public moneys in national depositaries across the country to 50000 per bank, affecting about 150 banks and totaling roughly 000, six hundred more deposits. He notes no designated national depositories since the Panama canal era and cites Treasury surplus as justification.
Birmingham Aug 23 announcement says several sales of No 2 foundry iron were made at 6 a ton in the last two days and the market continues to rise. This is a 2502 per ton increase since early July. Producers have sold all reserve stocks and some large firms have disposed of all re makes of Seay iron by year end. Manufacturers warn a runaway market is threatened due to strong demand.
At the convention of the Associated Fraternities of America in Detroit a resolution pledges the group to fight any proposed minimum rate bill in upcoming state legislatures. The body also backs establishing a fraternal tuberculosis sanatorium at Las Vegas New Mexico.
The International Mercantile Marine Company announces David Lindsay, long time passenger agent in Washington, has been appointed passenger agent for the American and Red Star lines in New York. Hicks remarks at the local office 1306 Street Northwest. Emigrants sent to Canada report by Salvation Army show 12,000 not sent from this country during the flat season. Port Dalny opens September 1. A cable explains Pang owes her.
President Roosevelt held discussions with Postmaster General Cortelyou on the political situation ahead of the congressional campaign. Gifford Pinchot joined to discuss forestry policy and a possible new forest reserve in Northern Idaho while Secretary Joab left for New York on personal business.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr passed through Colorado Springs on the way to Glenwood Springs to hunt and fish for several weeks. He will be the guest of Lieut Em ery Lamb of Montrose during the bear country expedition.
Rio de Janeiro August 23 The International American Congress finished its work disposing of sanitation commerce patents and copyrights the Pan American railway and codification of International laws The Buchanan report urged countries to prepare tables of exchange fluctuations over twenty years to review effects on trade to aid a universal gold basis Two more sessions are planned for August 26 and 27 to finalize details.
Indianapolis Aug 23 The appeal of the State in the French Lick and West Baden gambling cases was filed in the Supreme Court today by Attorney General Muller. The appeal challenges Judge Thomas Buckirk of Orange County Circuit Court ruling that facts in quo warranto were insufficient to warrant temporary receivers for the hotel companies and an injunction against gambling. It also contests his decision that the State had not complied with special acts limiting procedure.
Columbus Ohio August 23 Consul General J Linn Rogers arrives from Shanghai on vacation with his wife and two children and five Chinese students. Two students are placed at the University of Chicago and one woman remains here as Sien-tung leaves for Lynchburg Virginia to enter Randolph-Macon College.
James J Hill declined to comment on rumors of a Morgan led syndicate negotiating to acquire Great Northern and Northern Pacific stock from Union Pacific. He denied plans for a $3,000,000 Great Northern stock issue, cited optimistic Western conditions, and complained of slow unloading by the commissioners delaying cargo movements.
Western Pacific Railroad plans a new California line calling it a great modern engineering feat. To span Eastern California between Oroville and Beckwith Pass, forty five tunnels will be bored. The longest tunnel exceeds 7,000 feet with others over 4,000 feet and a later tunnel to be 1,200 feet through solid rock.
The Palace Hotel fire loss in San Francisco is set at 1,302,610 while total building insurance stood at 1,265,000. Liabilities totaling slightly over 1,250,000 will be shared by ninety eight insurance companies, said to be the largest single risk loss adjusted in the country.
Franklin Lane of California was sworn in as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission just before Senate adjournment and began duties yesterday. BEC Clark of Iowa and James S. Harlan of Chicago will not be sworn in until Tuesday when the new law takes effect, with Chairman Knapp and Commissioners Clements and Prouty expected Monday for two meetings.
William Macdonald editor of the Transvaal Agricultural Journal visits Washington after inspecting California irrigation methods and Minnesota wheat breeding work. He notes the Transvaal department’s breadth, from tobacco and cattle to horse sickness, and praises South Africa’s soil diversity and potential for temperate and semi tropical crops. He cites Milner policy, seed selection, and hybridization as keys to future growth.
A garbled Chicago News fragment laments social pretenses and truth telling. It touches on apology, motherhood excuses, fate, and the idea of speaking only when necessary, reflecting wartime era caution in social discourse.
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