Miscellaneous Mentions

Miscellaneous Mentions

"The trouble with this senatorial work is that there isn't enough to keep one busy. . . . We are all overpaid! I'd like to go back to railroading it; it is the most fascinating business in the world. Senators' vacations are too long! We waste too much time!" So said James Couzens, U. S. Senator from Michigan, interviewed last week during his 55th birthday. One-time freight-car checker, onetime Ford vice president, Senator Couzens is reputed to be the richest member of the U, S. Senate.

Eugene A. Gilmore, Vice Governor General of the Philippines under the late Major General Leonard Wood, will not soon be replaced as Acting Governor General. Said Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War: "There will be no haste to fill the vacancy. . . the vice governor is carrying on ably."

William S. Vare, U. S. Senator-elect* from Pennsylvania, addressed the international convention of the Loyal Order of Moose in Philadelphia (see p. 28). Said he: "As a member of the Senate of the United States, a citizen of Philadelphia, and a member of the Philadelphia Lodge of Moose for 20 years, I welcome you to Philadelphia. This is the proudest moment of my life." Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, returned from Peru where he has functioned for four years as ambassador. Loquacious, onetime Senator Poindexter made remarks: "There are heavy investments of American capital in Peru. ... It is a country of immense natural riches. ... I have some ideas myself as to relief measures for the farmer, but am not prepared just now. . . ." Still in Peru is Mrs. Miles Poindexter, U. S. replica of Margot Asquith, said to have remarked on the occasion of her hus- band's failure to secure re-election in 1922: "Washington voters, like a widely-advertised brand of tires, smile at Miles."

Red Top, big, dark house, rambling across the top of a windy hill in Cleveland Park, Washington, D. C., was once the home of Grover Cleveland. Here he repaired in hot weather. The rooms, swept by a fresh continual draft, were filled with the rustle of stiff conversation and stiffer silks; the approaches were guarded, then as now, by large iron dogs. Now Red Top is filled with the rhythmic music of carpenters' hammers; Red Top is being torn down to make room for a modern house, one not infested with reminders of stuffy and strenuous gaiety, hushed talk Coxey's, "Coin" Harvey and the Princess Kaiulani.

* Mr. Vare's opponents contend that he is not rightfully a "member of the Senate of the United States." When the Senate convenes in December and Mr. Vare rises to take his oath of office, these opponents will doubtless move that the oath be not administered. It is felt by some that Mr. Vare's pre-election expenses were scandal- ously high.