Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-22
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

"A good many American cities are very
much wrought up over the subject of ade-
Quate water supplies" said George r. Ellis,
a civil engineer of Binghamton, at Will
lard's this morning. but the question of ex-
pense appears to prevent them from sacur-
ing comprehensive systems of water works
that will meet the demand for 100 years to
come. The great trouble with American
municipalities seems to be that they almost
invariably provide public works that are
merely sufficient to supply temporary neces-
stiles, without any regard for the inevitable
increase of population and the correspond
ing demand that accompanies Ii.
They do things better in Europe. Paris
is now considering plan for getting water
from Lake Neufchatel. 1t involves the
building Of tunnel 300 miles long and the
900. The engineer who suggests this plan
proposes to tunnel the Jura mountains and
give head Of nearly 40 feet in Paris
Manchester, England is now laying Lake
Thirmere under contribution for an mex
haustible water supply, and Glasgow in
Scotland, has already done the same thing
with Loeb Katrine. One of the most re-
markable feats of engineering in connec-
ton with water works, however, is the
formation of the artificial lake sixty-eight
miles from Liverpool in Montgomeryshire.
impounded and the storge capacity of the
lake is something like 2,OO0,0OO0O0 gal
Ions. l reckon Washington will have a suf-
ficient water supply some of these days
when Lydeckers tunnel is forgotten enough
to no longer prove a bugaboo to the au-
thorities.
A young man walked into the Riggs
House this morning Respondent in a white
flannel suit pink neglige shirt and q chip
straw hat with a blue and white band
around it. His tout ensemble might have
been. perhaps, pleasing II the russell shoes
which completed 1t had not been so vocifer-
GUS They creaked worse than a windlas.,
that never knew oil in its career
Just hear that fellows Shoes" calculated
Steve Durham, the manufacturer of army
brogans, who was i'll the lobby. Il hate
| to hear shoes raise such a rumpus when
they can be cured of their agony so easily.
How? Just take platter of some sort-a
big pie plate will do-and pour little lin
seed oil in 1t. Let the soles Of creaking
shoes rest in this overnight and in the
morning you will find that they not only
do not make any more noise. but that the
oil has made the soles impervious to damp
ness well. II you don't want to go to
so much trouble in order to cure creakiny
shoes. though, just go to a shoemak er' 8
shop and have him drive a couple of wood
en- pegs In the sole of each shoe. The result
will be the same-the shoes won't creak
any more"
"All this hue and cry about the dangers
Of the corset Is silly and ridiculous" said
DR.. J. A. McGill of Atlanta at the E5bitt
this morning. 1T Is not the use. but the
abuse of the corset that Is properly a sub
tect Of criticism. A corset. when worn
properly. Is an immense advantage to a
woman, and there Is no more harm in
wearing a well-fitting corset than there Is
In wearing a well-titting shoe. sensible
woman VINO does not think that II is the
perfection of beauty to squeeze in her waist
until her figure looks like an animated
hour-glass will never fail to bless her cor
set for the support ii affords her. OF
course there are some women built In such
a way that they do not need artificial as
sistance In holding their figures together.
but there Is not one such woman In a
thousand. and the other nine hundred and
ninety nine need corsets. / don't believe
In these stiff. unyielding cuirasses of steel
and whalebone, however. / think cor5etS
should be made to fit the figures of their
wearers. and be OF silk or brocade, or
some such yielding materials and then
they are not only things OF beauty, but are
undoubted joys to those who possess and
wear them"
II was out driving yesterday" said j.
w. Barr OF Denver at Wormley's this
morning, land heard lot OF fellows out
at road house complaining about the
dusty condition of the roads. They ought
to go out to Utah and experience one of
person who has never seen a dust storm
on the plains cannot conceive what a mis-
ery-breeding affair 1t Is. A strong wind
will come up and in less time than 1t takes
to tell 1t almost the air Will be completely
filled with the most impalpable sort of dust
particles imaginable. Doors and windows
and tent flaps are no protection against
the moving cloud. Everything is covered
with 1t. l have seen dinner placed on the
table at the ranch of a friend of mine
near Ogden. and made absolutely uneat-
able by a dust storm, which arose just as
the meal was served. The wind that blows
1t doesn't carry en- its operations like the
zephyrs you are familiar with In the east,
either. When the wind blows out on the
Utah plains II blows hard and 1t blows
steadily. There seems to be no rise or fall
to It's speed volume. The only thing l
know to compare with 1t is the wind given
out by one of these electric fans. and II
you want to know the Kind of breezes we
have out west in the plain country just
stand in front of an electric fan and about
half foot from 1t, and stay there for
three or four hours II you can. That's the
reason that the wind in the west sometimes
drives cattle crazy and men 20 drink when
1t begins to show what 1t can do. The
steady blow is relentless and unbearabe."