Show APPRAISERS AT WORK UPON ALICE ORIENTAL PRESENTS Washington ton Nov o ant and of the resents presents received by Miss n Alice during i he her visit to t the e Orient hu hits begun The at the George on custom customhouse house have begun to open up the boxes boxe In which the presents w were re shipped and other souvenirs ot of the which resulted In a social con conquest conquest quest or of tIle the tat far east b by the presidents daughter The officials sa say the task Is any anything thin but Mn an es easy one the necessity laJ laid on them to appraise the goods on their commercial value Only about of the boxes have hao so I far been oPt opened ed and Collector Nyman and hl his staff are said to be somewhat I surprised as iJ the valuation of their con contents tents will exceed scarcely a few thou thousand sand dolla dollars rs AI Although thE presents have laid iu iii the strong room in the bas basement ment of the Georgetown building In which the customs house houwe is located tor or three weeks guarded night and da day there is no effort to get rh of them When the president that no special hurry lUrry was desired and una that the they should take the regular course the officials devoted their theft attention to the lar large e amount of mer merchandise merchandise chandise that had ahead already arrived Tho They were unusually busy owing to the importation of ChrIstmas goods As the work ot of appraising Miss pre presents is being done along with the tho other work of the o ce it Is if the last box will wUl have been examined amid the valuation fixed before next week eek Miss Roos Roosevelt nelt who is on a visit to relatives in Massachusetts f chu getts will probably be home hOln in tImeto time to reeve them at the White Houst Hom Some V of the presents she has seen I |