Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1915 — GLAD TO GET BACK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLAD TO GET BACK

Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals, governor of the Canal zone, arrived in New York recently on board the S. S. Pastores. He said he would offer his resignation to take effect in November. Colonel Goethals is accompanied by his wife and son Thomas, and is here on a leave of absence to visit the Panama-Pacific exposition. The colonel expects to be put on the active army list, and if this is not possible, he will ask for his retirement with the rank of brigadier-gen-eral. He told newspaper men that he intended to visit the exposition as a private individual, and desired that no fuss be made about him by any of the officials. That Mrs. Goethals is anxious tp leave the Canal zone permanently was shown by a remark she made shortly after the ship left quarantine and started for the pier: “I hope never to go back,” she said.