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ton. In the interim they have been kept
at work as Car cleaners, switch tenders
and at other work in the mechanical ser
vice of the company. 1t was but the work
of couple of hours to get them back to
the hills, and as they had been trained to
the work they caught on very rapidly
Without their experienced service 1 don't
think the company could have managed to
keep the cars moving for a couple of days
after the fire, when things were very con-
siderably mixed Nearly one-half of the
horses which were pressed into service
for the first three days were knocked out
and lone for by their severe work, unac-
customed as they were to it. The mules
however. seemed to thrive on 1t. 1t took
two men to manage each pair of mules
one to drive them and brake the car and
the other to keep the mules going for
though the mule last a long time at
heavy work. he let's his steam run down
unless he is kept right up to his collar
with whip.
X X X
THE water cooler that stands on the
main floor OF the nth street corridor of The
War Department building. in front of the
office of the chief of engineers" said Capt
William Lee to a Star reporter, has prob
ably had as much water drawn from it as
any other water cooler in the possession of
The government. 1t has been in use for
nearly forty years. and for half that time
mas been in my charge. 1t was originally
purchased for the Winder building and re-
manned there until the officers and clerks
OF the Engineer Corps of the army were
transferred to the new War Department
building. AT a rough calculation over one
hundred thousand gallons of water has
been drawn from it. Many of the public
men OF these years have drank from ii,
including the leading army officers of the
war and since. and senator's and represen-
tatives running up into the thousands. The
strange part of the thing is that the gov
eminent can today, notwithstanding its con-
slant use during all these years get more
Tor II than 1t cost wheli purchased which
cannot be said of most Office or corridor fur
niture. What gives 1t it's value now is the
Inc portrait of an American Indian paint
co on It. The portrait was painted from an
actual sketch. and While the Indians name
IS not known, it is understood that he is
Dig chief of tribe. On several occasions
Ten or nfteen years ago, some visiting In
dlan chiefs in passing it recognized the
portrait and did the greatest reverence to
Els memory. They tried to explain to me
ca the water cooler, but it has been so
Tong since 1 talked Indian or had occasion
10 dc 50. that l did not fully understand
IN additlon to Its long years of service. ii
tlon and lining of furnishing the coolest
grass of water that can be obtained in the
building" ~ 'iie
x !. X X X
Things are very different here writas
former High School student of this civ
now in Boston, to a Star reporter "fror,
what they are in Washington, in many ways
and particularly in regard to being seen
carrying school books through the streets
In Washington it would only be the cus-
tonary thing If the student carried his
DOCKS Here high school boy or girl or
d STUDENT at the Tech, or, indeed at any of
the colleges, would not dare to be seen with
HIS OF hef DOCKS, on the streets While
Boston runs to books, it is not the proper
thinS Tor any one. man or woman, to be
seen carrying them, the idea being. T sin.
pose. that knowledge comes to Bostonians
direct, instead of through books. If wou,d
MAKE the High School fellows and girls
iaush. as it did me, if they could see the
CROWDS OF young people on the streets on
their way to, or returning from the schools
ana colleges, with their books hid away in
siliai. saicneis, travelling bags paper boxes
ana the like. Some are brave enough to
carry them In long green bags, but these
are few compared to the satchel carriers
Il have 1oted my books openly in nv
nand, as L did when going to the High
School. but 1 have been told at least a
dozen times that it is not proper to do So
that is, 1t is not the Boston way of doing
things, and that there is no way proper ex-
cept the Boston way. l don't want to an
pear odd. and l suppose l will have to give
in, finally, but l intend to have some fun
out of them before l do so. Lots of things
the boys and girls in Washington do are
| came here. For instance, the High
Schools college yell, is not proper Boston
has decreed that it is nonsensical and friv-
olous, bad form and all that sort of thing
Here is where the only genuine education
is dealt out-in their minds
X
Speaking of Partisan politeness" re-
marked a Washington man, II think a
CO Mt hgt-o
wife discovered in Boston and imported
for domestic purposes. rather takes first
place over all corners in that line Not
long ago 1 said something to her about
Farragut Square, ard she asked me where
it was.
We'll I replied, 1t is somewhat scat
tering, perhaps. but might say it was at
! 1 and 18th streets
"'At l and 18th streets. did Won saw
sir? she repeated in a tone which seemed
to me TO have a note Of shock in it.
Yes: anything the natter with that?'
/ said. bit annoyed
She hesitated a moment and then SEEM
ed to take courage.
If | may be so bold sir she said fac
ing me like heroine, taking my Boston
education into account as worth anything
against the Washir gtoh methods, 1 should
say there was, sir
And. pray, i said. with a superior air
may ask what it is?'
Only. sir. the transposition of terms. >
she explained. Now in Boston we have
been taught differently and I hone Won
will excuse me If, when / am asked where
Farragut Square is, reverse your method.
sir, and say that it is at 18th and I streets
sir. If one of our Boston children should
put the first. sir. he would be punished
Then she courtesied and went out of the
library, and 1 have adopted her correc-
ton