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Show ! Washington Letter ; What It Going On in the National Capital Perry Belmont Build. j . tag Spi!e Fence to Shut Off View of Thomas Nelson Page ' ! , Great Demand for Ten-Dollar Bills. ; riD nr luT WASHINGTON. Perry Uelmonl and Thomas lJj ?;!. m Nelson Page have "a mad" with each olhor. i Kfip ' tiSv! tl Haplil-flie developments In tlio Btrlfo between the ' ' mM sJfP- millionaire and the ntithor have kept society and 32Ca' 'iftssii officialdom at the capital wondering what would jsT"' ft IH conic next. I t1 I' Mr- Uelmont won the latest round. Ho built L til I u !,,)'tl' f,'ncc r'B'lt across from Mr. Page's best- 1 LI I ' f! beloved window neat, and those who hate followed J if' ' j the llelmont fortunes In the struggle clafm easy JtSl ' honors for the capitalist. L l -' .Mr. Page drew first blood, and It was perhaps y A .'"; u stinging blow which marked the battlo's Incop- I II v ' t'OM' wu,'n 'l0 'M, home lileces for tho ninga- J , i 'hies which wert' not highly flattering to Perry I -i I I I Itclmont nor to his brother. O. It. P. Directly ncrosa from the rhimnlng homo or Sir. Page Is a triangular bit i of gionnd, 'largo enough for j hunt yard, but too small for a city park. One of tho Items Unit gets Into the "dotty" columns concerning ihe "homo llfo ; T of Brent authors" ascribes to .Mr. IMge the supreme plcusuiu of lingering In i his window seat uud peeking acioss his own lawns Into tho rostlvo bit. of k landscape gardening, - . Mr. llelmont read tho magazine articles. Ho a)so heard of tho anecdote i In which Mr. Pagu played the lead. A few days later tho teal estate transfer noted thnt the tilnugular tract of ground had passed Into the possession of P. llelmont. ' When next Mr. IMge sought recuperation from literary toll his Joyous i landscape had degenerated Into a barnyard symphony. Mr. Ilclmont's labor- t era had erected a high and unsightly wire fence and another force started In on a rock wall, which sets Mr. Page's property Into a settlement by. Itself nd with tho view terminating at tho lot line. In tho llulmont camp It Is rumored with gleo that Mr. llelmont Is to bwlld splendid home on his side of tho high stone wall, and Uiat there will be no communicating nnd handy side doors between the two neighbors. i t . AN INDICATION OF GENERAL PROSPERITY. 1 Secretary Shaw has succeeded In securing tho t-VIZVVVV- 1 return to tho treasury of 000 $1,000 bills. The &qyffiQrY$ placo of these In the cli dilation has been taken, TJilKVKpAyii V In large pait. by new ten-dollar blllH. The reason 4(zQjJTf Is that appeals havu been coining to tho treasury $yQt- 4 constantly to send out mnie tens, because there ,s (W'o was a tremendous demand for them. ixrWstl 0 This demaud N slmpl a sign of tho groat ' yhSS--LyP rt prosperity of the countiy. accoidlng to llnanclal A '-V0VV7j men. Seveial years ago there was'n constant cry ?y ls r . '-J , for'ono and two-dollar bills. That cry has passed g 1 1Y?7 and people are walling for tens. X-?lI N& The supposition Is that In these fat llnanclal V u S-, r- days the multitudes urn looking upon the ten- s&rC" -, . dollar note as lightly as they lookeil upon a note 6--JOv of one-llfth or one-tenth Its value In the ilnys I ' I when banks were breaking ami people wei asking the way to the snupliMiso. Thore Is probably mi Joke about the statement that the iletiiand for bills of a high denomination means Hut prosperity Is abroad. When wages aro - low and when people aio speudln:; little or nothing for luxuries they may wont ten-dollar bills, but they don't get them. The requests for "lenncis" worried the treasury department for a Ions ', whllo. Under the law It couldn't put these bills out oxcept In exchange for i money didn't come In us lapldly as It should; so It was that an attempt was ' ' " n,-do to got 'some notes of large denomination from the financial centers and ; 'Jry . lo put the "sawbucks" out In their placo. Tbcro Isn't much use for $,000 .','., j f , Ml' m 'ho paths of general circulation, and. It was considered bettor tc get lf 7 A-" them In and lot the tens out.' In this way the' secretary mnnftged to put' sy ',. ", " 80,000. ton-dollar bills Into the country practically at ino shipment. S , "JACK" QREENWAV DECLINES FEDERAL JOB. " I Cijpt. ".lack" Oreeuway, rough rider and por- rJt sonal friend of President Roosevelt since thoy "v iTpk fought and camped together on the wot soil of & (jr Cuba, hnH been offered the position of commls- y r, 4 sinner goneral of tho land olllcu to succeed Wll- 1 rZT NWu "n,n ' Richards, who is shortly to go out of ty-j JL M) olllce Ho tannot. however, accept, anil greatly ' SffcP J Sw. df regrets his inability to do so, because of tho affec- $0 ri i' lL dipt (iieenwn) Is engaged In Iron mining In ' f I J Minnesota and has given ceitnln pledges to tho ' 8"' y yifl company he Is employed with. He does not think ? l-jTj (1 he Is ,it llbeity to ask release from any of these - . m ?? T'le ll0,-''l ex-soldler and football jilayor of I S-J Yal uaB uce" a R'"'81 ' President Kooaovelt toy ' ,, oyeral days. Ho Is received there on terms or tho most cordial friendship, . anil In past years has fienueutly visited tho president and family. Ho Is as much admired by the Uooi.ovclt boys us by the president. It was Oreonway's treat playing nnd mnnugonumt of tho Yale football toum In his college days that many times defeated Piesldont Roosevelt's alma mater. Harvard. The prowess of.arocuway and his victories In the punt appeal to the ltoosovolt iKiys as much as his courage In war and hi manly qualities In peace apyoal to tho president. It was Capt. Oreenway and .lohn 12. Mcllhenny. now a civil service com-slonort com-slonort who accompanied the president on his last trip throngluj the south, " ' nnd ho urfectlonatuly spoke of them as "tho two Julius." Ho succeeded In cutting Mcllhenny to come to Washington nnd taUo an official position, nnd , when ho began to hunt for a man he thought would bo bomb pioof against certain lulluences exerted In the laud office ho thought of (Irccnway. Thu latter's mining vendues .ire pnjlng lilm too well, though, to take a govern ment olllce FEDERAL JUDGES FACING CRITICISM. Ucfoie the winter Is over considerable is like- H-HHIBHK3 i y to be heard about federal JihIkoa who overturn -BJT laws on constitutional grounds after the ablest &, x ' lawyers among the nation's statesmen have spent (c &f MM weeks and montha In peifectlug tho same. Ho- (j'jtttt w! cent decisions with respect to the employers" -yH KU liability act !iue tho dlbcusslon. H v.i message to congress tho M H preuldent ruft-ried to the ease L H with which fedoraf Judges declare unconstitutional B nioasures wblcji huve been "solemnly'1 conildorcd j9R33t ! by congress. lM4l Almost everybody has foigotten Judges ABfl9ii t lCvans and McCnll were onco members of the HjHVH lower house of congiess. Nelthor of them niado CbJSi t n mark ns - constitutional luwyor. The fact Is lSL-i ., being pointed out that many occupants of tho federal bench In tho Jowar courts to-day ore men who, if their terms wore to expire this coming Bprlnjf. would bo known as "lame ducks." Most of thorn have been appolntod simply t, to Uko caio of them when the) got out of u Job. Judges Qiiarlca of Wlscon- . tin, McComas of Mnryland and Prltcbard of North Carolina wore all senators i who had lost out when elevated to llfo positions on the bench, Aside from Judgos Evans and McCnll, there is Judge Dayton of West Virginia, who wui f. a membor of tho house. Few. if acy, of these Judges whon In congress over r cut any figure In constitutional debates. Inasmuch ns President Hoosovclt Rj- Jim freely ciitlclscd Judicial .decisions In tho recent past, It is probablo that tho policy of rewarding so-called "lnmc ducks" also may come In for crlticon l, from othor sources of public llfo. A SAVING SOUTH AMERICAN DIPLOMAT. ' There Is a woll-known South American diplomat hore who Is rather njg- aardly In his-expenditures. Ho was tho President's reception to tho dlalo- matlo corps tho other night, and fairly ablaze with mid lace. Ilecause ot his rank ho was well toward tho end of tho line. Krery ono noticed that ho wore no gloves, but carried a package carefully wrapped In tlssuo paper In his hand. As tho lino fllod past tho President this diplomat, when only four ar , n5 files away from tho Presldont, unwrapped tho packago and pulled on a air of white gloves. Aftor shaking hands with .thu Presldont ho carefully removed tho gloves, wrapped them In the tissue paper, nnd put them li. kit pocket to await tho next reception. |