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Kevomtlonnry days West Point
IN which Is now in the public eye
because of the hazing eplsod
was known as the Gibraltar of
the Hudson Washington saw the
itrategic advantages of the place and
tt was through his urgings that it was
rortifled and hold After the war he
aullined the plan of a military acad
emy there but It was not until the be
ginning of Jeffersons term that the
ichool was actually opened Even then
It had Utile discipline or elliciency and
It was sixteen years later in the presi
3ential term of James Monroe that the
West Point of today began to take
form Monroe appointed as superin
tendent Colonel Sylvanus Thayer wno
Is justly known as the father of the
Military academy Thayer remained
superintendent for nearly sixteen years
and under his able management the
West Point of fame came into exist
ence
On a June morning recently the writ
er took a boat at Cold Spring and
chugged across the broad river to West
Point I had previously made an ap
pointment by telephone and was told
that I would be placed under tho
charge of Captain Charles the acting
adjutant for the day There were so
much sunshine and scenery on the
river that by the time the boat was
across my civilian mind had forgotten
Just what oflice Captain Charles was
supposed to be holding and finally con
cluded it was officer of the day On
landing I found bunches of cadets all
along the way surveying There were
about forty seven of these squads oat
on this particular morning West Point
Is the most surveyed spot of ground on
earth
Op inquiring where Captain Charles
the officer of the day could be
found I was informed that he was
probably over at the summer camp
which was up a very tall hill and
across a very broad ground about a
mile as the crow flies but about three
miles and a quarter as a man walks it
on a hot morning
On my way to the summer camp 1
was waylaid and halted several times
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by the scenery On the top of Trophy
Point where stands the simple and
fine column known as Cattle monu
ment there is one of the most magnifi
cent views on the planet Looking
north up the nudson one beholds a
sweep of the majestic river reaching
ten miles or more to Xewburg On
each side are the mountains of the
Highlands Bull hill and Breakneck on
the right and Crows Nest and Storm
King to the left Jutting out into the
river are Constitution island Stony
Point and another green isle which
makes a dot of verdure in Newburg
bay When I got into the middle of
this scene I not only forgot all I had
ever heard about the office held by
Captain Charles but also where I
was or what I was there for I am
as much in love with the nudson and
the Gateway into the Lowlands as a
man is with his best girl and when I
got this new view of them I was real
ly irresponsible
Upon arriving at the summer camp I
was told that I must report at the
guard tent I did not know what in
fraction of discipline I had been guilty
of but learned I was only to go to the
guard tent because the guards are not
supposed to talk you know When I
asked for Captain Charles one of the
cadets was called to conduct me over
to that officers tent With chest out
shoulders back chin in you know the
formula this young man seized a
musket slammed it against his chest
about faced and with the magnificent
carriage of a pouter pigeon drilled
across the ground with yours truly
following humbly after
We found that Captain Charles was
not in Thereupon we about faced once
more and drilled back to the guard
tent Nobody knew just where Captain
Charles could be found but It was
thought he would be around about 11
oclock As I wanted to see the mu
seum I said I would go over there and
come back A guard pointed out the
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museum building which lies at tho far
side of another very broad plain I
was told that I was to go to this build
ing and enter the first sally port I
did not know exactly what a sally
port is but by that time I had my
Ignorance somewhat under control and
knew better than to ask dumfool
questions So I marched In as digni
fied a manner as possible across the
long parade ground I could not do it
In as proud and imposing a way as my
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pouter pigeon friend the cadet but
still managed to cover the distance
Arriving at the museum I found that
a sally port is really harmless if you
know how to get along with it and
approach it in an unconcerned man
ner as though you had been used to
sally ports all your life I could do
this all the bettor inasmuch as It looked
like a tunnel under the subway with
which I had been on terms of enforced
intimacy
To describe the museum itself and to
do justice to its wonderful historical
collection one needs an entirely fresh
supply of adjectives out of a dictionary
that has never been soiled by the hand
of man In it are trophies from all our
wars also a large collection of guns
whose brothels may become trophies in
Avars that are not yet pulled off There
is the flag reared by Ellsworth at Alex
andria there is a part of the flag
staff at Sumter there are old wooden
cannons taken from the Filininos
there are two handed Chinese swords
csiitured at Pekin there are relics from
Santiago and Manila there are civil
war relics Mexican war relics Indian
war relics and reiics from tho two
wars with our hands across the sea
cousins the English which they are
trying to forget as much as we are try
ing to remember The museum at
West Point is well worth any mans
time to see If he takes it all in it will
give him a headache and a higher ap
preciation of his countrys glory
On this particular morning however
I had a stern duty to perform Cap
tain Charles was still undiscovered
Parading back to the guard tent in my
best form I was told that he had not
yet shown up but an orderly who just
then happened along said that the cap
tain was probably down at the bat
teries where a lot of cadets were shoot
ing cannons at the side of a nearby
mountain and were occasionally hit
ting it This Avas down near the dock
and on walking back I found the dis
tance had increased from three and
one quarter miles to three and seven
eighths doubtless due to the expansive
poAver of heat in the middle of the day
Upon reaching the barracks we found
that Captain Charles A as not there
had not been there and nobody acted
as though he kneAV or cared Avhether
he Avas going to be there or not
The target practice is really very in
teresting especially to the people at
the other end of the line The West
Shore railroad had to construct a tun
nel so that the trains could dive into
a hole when the cadets becanm tno
enthusiastic in shooting at the loco
motive and the passengers One of the
biggest guns Avas trained on the top
of a mountain and made tho dirt and
stones jump up in a mos exciting
manner The only reason the top of
that mountain had not been all shot
away was that the gunners had not hit
it often enough I asked them what
happened to the people on the other
side of the mountain when the balls
missed the entire landscape and went
tearing up the atmosphere beyond
The orderly told me he did not know
but as there had been no complaints he
supposed either that nobody had been
hit by the stray shots or if they had
that they had been killed instantly so
that they did not know Avhat had
struck them
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figures at West Point where mathe
matics Is the chief study The Increaso
this time I found to be due to the fact
that it is a longer distance up a hill
than in a straight line At the guard
tent nothing had been heard of Cap
tain Charles and a cadet A as again
sent to his tent making the manem er
In the same splendid fashion as before
It was all in vain Captain Charles
was not there I began to have doubts
of that officers corporeal existence re
garding him as a myth like William
Tell or the man who landed on that
other celebrated William surnamed
Patterson Most famous people I find
are named Bill
The guard officer told me that my
last chance of finding a trace of Cap
tain Charles Avas to go to the officers
clubhouse Avhich he pointed out across
a parade ground in another direction
On the door of this building I found
an admonition to keep out on pain of
deatli or the guardhouse I do not re
member Avhich Just then a colored
mail carrier hovo in sight however
and as mail carriers like policemen and
editors are supposed to
thing I asked him and at last was set
right Yes there was a Captain
Charles he Avas an actual flesh and
blood person and Avas acting adjutant
He AA ould be found at the headquar
ters seven buildings up and four to
the left
Upon discoAering Captain Charles
my troubles were over Doors that had
before been shut suddenly opened I
Avas shoAvn all over eAerything from
the clean and up to date kitchens to
tho clubhouse and the library Better
than all I Avas invited to lunch and
met the other officers from Comman
dant noAvze Avhom I had roasted edi
torially in a NeAV York newspaper the
year before dOAvn the line I aais even
thaAved out to the extent that I told the
commandant about having roasted him
and he did not seem to mind it at all
What is the use of abusing anybody if
he doesnt knoAv about it or pays no
attention
At the West Point library are manu
scripts and famous letters that would
set the average collector crazy There
are autograph letters from Frederick
the Great all down the line including
the original of General Grants imme
diate and unconditional surrender
There are original full length paintings
of Presidents Jefferson and Monroe
Most notable of all however are me
morial tablets to James A MacNoill
Whistler and Edgar Allan Poe both of
whom were students at West Point
but neither of Avhom graduated nor be
came a soldier Yet it may AAell be that
the fame of Whistler and Poe Avill be
kept green after that of all the Avar
riors turned out at West Point has
faded so much greater is it to create
even though it be but a painting or a
poem than to destroy
J A EDGERTON
BRISTOW FOR SENATOR
Postal
Fraud Investigator Named
Republicans of Kansas
by
Joseph L BristoAA the investigator
of postal frauds for the United States
government who has been made the
Republican candidate for United Slates
senator from Kansas to succeed Ches
ter I Long after a bitter fight in the
primaries throughout the state has a
striking record as a public official
Mr Bristow first gained national
fame because of the able and impar
tial manner in which he investigated
the great postal frauds in Cuba The
result Avas the prosecution of Xcely
and Rathbone Three years later anil
still a fourth assistant postmaster gen
eral he was named by President
RooseAelt to rip out the fraud be
lieAcd to exist in branches of the post
office department in Washington And
Bristow ripped no matter hoAv many
high and mighty statesmen or politi
cians sought to protect their friends
As a result Bristow six feet tAvo and
as thin as half a fence rail loomed up
pretty big as a national figure eAen as
a vice presidential possibility
During McKinleys administration
Bristow incurred the enmity of Mark
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Hanna and everybody in Washington
Eaid Hanna would get Bristows scalp
But McKinley stood by Bristow and
Kiid to Hanna I guess Ill try Bris
Ioav aAvhile longer which meant that
BristoAV could stay in tho postoffice
department as long as McKinley Avas
president When complaints Avere
made to Roosevelt about Bristow by
poAverful politicians Roosevelt said
The one thing against Bristow is that
he is so infernally honest
had to discover Captain j Bristow has long had senatorial am-
Charles and having mached down the
hill I marched up again in reverse or
der from the famous king of France
The distance to the guard tent had
now groAvn to four and five sixteenths
miles One must be accurate in his
bitions He was for years a newspa
per oAvner aud editor After editing
the Salina Republican he became pub
lisher of tho Ottawa Kan Herald
Born in Kentucky BristoAV is uoav fifty-eight
years old
The Adored One
He is a confirmed bachelor In fact
his attitude toAAard women is almost
that of a mysogynist His particular
bete noire is a new acquaintance of his
sister Miss Blank
He met her in the street the other
day and seeing no way out of it stop
ped and spoke to her She saAV how he
Avas fidgeting to get away and said
You seem A ery preoccupied Ah I
know You are thinking of the one
you adore
I adore no one was his stiff re
joinder
You cant deceive me I know you1
are deeply in love Besides your sis
ter showed me a photo of the object of
your devotion only last night It isnt
a type I admire But there every one
to his taste I wont tell any one
Goodby
And before he could reply she was
gone
When he reached home he said to his
sister
What girls photo did you show Miss
Blank last night
Xot any The only photo I showed
her was one of yourself
Then it dawned upon him Avhat Miss
Blank was driving at London Scraps
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salt factory on an automatic plan
When the tide comes in it fills a lot of
shallow basins and the AA ater is pre
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by closing the gates The atmosphere
is so dry that the water e aporates
rapidly and leaves a sediment of salt
in an almost pure state Avhich is scrap
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to market Within the coast a little
farther tho percolation of sea Avater
through the porous rocks into pits and
hollows has caused immense deposits
of salt to accumulate The salt is
taken out in blocks six or eight inches
square and sold In that form As soon
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has solidified and Is ready for the mar
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question one day I asked her Avhat
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trying to keep track of John
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silver from Cairo from Turkey of
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