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ly. with the remark: Well, Major Schurz,
| am exceedingly glad to meet YOU Sim
pie as that incident was, II made the shirt
maker. and has been told over and over
thousands of times. The man himself is
known in business way now as Major
Schurz exclusively. Indeed, he advertises
himself by that name. In Indiana Schurz
is always pronounced as 1t Is in German
shirts"
During the war the theaters here did
an enormous business" explained q theat-
rical manager. land at very little expense,
comparatively, in the way Of advertising.
The old Canterbury Theater, which was
then on Louisiana avenue near 9th street
spent but little money in the way of ad-
vertising, except by a parade Of its orches-
ira with brass instruments every evening
from Willards Hotel to the theater. In
front and behind two large transparencies
were carried, announcing the attractions
there. Before the band you'd reach 9Th
street there were often enough followers to
almost fill the theater. Ten minutes after
the band started from Wizards a singer
would put in an appearance on the corner,
and for ten minutes or more he would sing
an advertisement of the attractions at the
Canterbury, where variety performance
was given. Kate Pennoyer was the Lottie
Collins of that day, and l remember the
singing advertiser used t. sing of her
Miss Kate Pennoyer,
Eight squares below here.
Oh. how 1 adore her!
did We put a street singer out now. he
would be run in by the police as g. nui-
sGnce.'
I'm the matter of receipts from patents,
the patent Office is d good many thousand
dollars on the right side from bicycles, 4"
said an official of that office, land the end
is by no means in sight. Thirty-five letters
patent bring in one thousand dollars and
there is scarcely month nowadays that
that amount of money does not pass over
our counter. There are almost as many
different kinds of saddles as there are BIZ
cycles. and hundreds of side issues in the
way of tires, tire cures, parcel carriers,
umbrellas, repair tools, &c. The bicycle It.
self Is almost free from patent, and peo-
pie can make any kind of a pattern of
wheel they see, but they don't do SO, be-
cause they can buy the wheel made much
cheaper than they can make it. Next to
electricity and the thousands of kinds of
machines, plants and apparatus that 1T has
brought into use, the bicycle has done the
most in the way OF increasing the receipts
Of the patent Office. A person would think
that everything desirable about bicycle
had been invented and patented. Far from
1t, there are more patents pending today
than any month since the wheel came into
public use. The policy Of the patent office
is TO patent everything for which a patent
is asked, whether the thing patented is
practical or of value or not"
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1T is the popular belief" says an old
resident, that the piles in the Eastern
branch crossing from the intersection Of
Pennsylvania and Kentucky avenues and
K and 18th street southwest are all that
remains of the bridge destroyed by the
British in August. 1914. when the Capitol
vas burned. AS a matter of fact the burn
ing of the bridge was the work of party
of marines, under orders of the command
ant of the navy yard Commodore Tingey,
and the purpose was to check the advance
of the British. 1t was only partially de-
stroyed, and having been repaired it form
ed one of the lines of communication with
the branch section of Prince Georges coun-
ty till its total destruction in 1916. This
bridge was built under act of Maryland
of 1I95 Incorporating the Eastern Branch
Bridge Company. The bridge at the foot of
11th street was built about 1890