Elmendorf in West Eleventh Sheet,
New York City, after a summer spent
at Manhattan Beach. While advanc
ing old age has made heavy inroads
on the senator, he seems to be in
comparatively gocd health arid men
tally alert.
Navy Shake-up.
The biggest shake-up in the history
of the line of the United States Navy
is now in process of arrangement by
the Secretary of the Navy, who has
the approbation of President Roose
velt in the plan as outlined.
Os the officers now commanding
the eighteen battleships to make the
long voyage from the Atlantic to the
Pacific it is declared that only four
captains now commanding ships will
make the trip. The President and
the Secretarv of the Navv have agreed
to forward the long desired plan of
advancing young men to the fighting
line, and send their elders to shore
duty, according to information given
out last week, and of the eighteen
captains who will command and be
responsible for the $100.000.000 worth
of armament and equipment to -be
sent through the Straits of Magellan
to the Pacific, fourteen will be young
er men than those now in command.
As the plan now stands, it is said,
the following captains will hold their
ships and make the trip: Potter, of
the Vermont; Vreeland. of the Kan
sas; Osterhaus. of the Connecticut,
and Wainwright, of the Louisiana.
Shanghai Plans Welcome for Taft.
Preparations are on foot to give
Secretary Taft a big reception upon
his arrival at Shanghai. Thirty-two
Chinese corporations of Shanghai are
participating in the movement, which
has been approved by the Viceroy.
The project is not official, but is re
garded as a distinct evidence of the
friendlv feeling existing toward the
United States.
Czar Steals Timidly Into St. Peters
burg.
