The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy by Jacopo della Quercia

Author:Jacopo della Quercia
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781250025722
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

President’s Aide Now Maj. Butt.

WASHINGTON, March 24.—Capt. Archibald W. Butt, President Taft’s military aid, and who served in a like capacity with President Roosevelt, to-day became a full-fledged Major in the army. Capt. Butt passed his examination some time ago, but his commission was not ready to be signed by the President until to-day …32

HAMMOND QUIT YALE SCHOOL

Follows Prof. Huntoon in Resigning

From Sheffield Scientific Faculty.

Special to The New York Times.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 31.—The trouble in the Faculty of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, which recently resulted in the resignation of Prof. Louis D. Huntoon, has been followed by the withdrawal of John Hays Hammond from the Faculty and the consequent loss of his financial support …

Mr. Hammond is en route to England, where he will represent America at the coronation of George V.33

ROOSEVELT TO AID TAFT IN 1912 FIGHT?

President Is So Assured by a Friend Formerly Connected with Both Administrations.

THEY MEET IN BALTIMORE

And Have a Cordial Ten-Minute Interview—Ex-President is Invited To White House on Friday.

THE COLONEL SAYS HE HASN’T SAID SO.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who arrived on the 12:50 o’clock train from Baltimore this morning, was informed at the Pennsylvania Station by a Times reporter of the report that a mutual friend of Col. Roosevelt and President Taft had given the latter assurance that the Colonel would not be a candidate for the Presidency in the next election, but would leave Mr. Taft a free field. The Colonel refused to comment on the statement other than to say with a smile:

“You know I never give interviews.” Then he added: “But any statement purporting to come from me to the effect you have just mentioned is an unqualified falsehood.”

And, closing his jaws with a snap just before opening them again with a smile, he jumped into a taxicab and drove away …34

THE TAFTS TO CELEBRATE THEIR SILVER WEDDING JUNE 19

Second Such Event to be Observed

in the White House, and Mrs.

Taft, Then Miss Herron, Was

Present at the Previous

Occasion.

THERE is to be an interesting gathering of the Taft clan at the White House June 19.

The Herrons, representing the root and branch of the family tree of Mrs. Taft, will assemble there with representatives of the Tafts.

The occasion is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of William Taft and Miss Helen Herron of Cincinnati. There is to be a silver wedding at the White House …35

This last article was the reason Mary Harlan Lincoln had reminded her husband about their upcoming trip. As Robert closed the folder, he glanced at a nearby invitation calligraphed in copperplate script.

The President and Mrs. Taft

request the pleasure of the company of

Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln

at

The White House

on Monday evening, June the nineteenth

at nine o’clock

Dancing 1886–1911

Just like the presidential seal atop the invitation, the years in its corner were embossed with silver. Robert left the invitation centered on his desk so he would not forget it in the morning.

Finally, it was time for the last son of Lincoln to go to bed.

Robert turned off the lights in his library and walked down the hall to find his wife already asleep in her husband’s large white bed.

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