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General Miles wears many decorations,
but he values his Grand Army badge above
all the others. Even when dressed in full
legimentals. with his handsome yellow
sash spread over his broad shoulders and
wound about his capacious waist. his G. A.
r. badge. with its faded flag and bronze
star and eagle, is very much in evidence.
He wears it oddly and conspicuously. too.
The rules of the order demand that it be
worn on the left breast over the heart, but
General Miles wears it as old-world decora-
tons are often worn, at the throat, where
the closely buttoned coat meets under the
chin.
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Fifty years ago coal was not sold In
Washington, and such a thing naturally
what we call coal yard was unknown"
said MIR. Thomas w. Riley, the owner of
Riley's wharf. at the foot of 11th street.
My father" ne continued, started the
first cCal yard in this city. There were
ther no stoves which could burn coal, and
fires were made of wood exclusively. After
while coal-burning stoves were offered
for sale, and it was not long before they
were generally adopted. The new stove
was less troublesome and less annoying
well wood stoves were made, they would
smoke at times. The great trouble, how
ever. was the necessity of frequent filling
up, for even the hardest wood would not
last long. After persons once used coal
they seldom gave it up, and they could not
II they wanted to, unless they changed the
stoves. l have, therefore, seen the coal
business grow up from nothing to what it
Is here today, where hundreds and hun
dreds of tons of coal are burned each day.
iYron 10 ty;11 t~
coal in stoves made for wood. They had
but poor success, and in the end had 20 do
away With wood stoves altogether and get
stoves made with CRATES in them.
he latrobe stove. or Baltimore heater
as II was called, was invented by Gen. La
trobe the engineer of the Baltimore and
ONO railroad. and the father of Ferdinand
Latrobe, who for many terms served as
mayor OF Baltimore. 1t did a great deal to
make the use of coal popular. There are
now over twenty different kinds of la
trobes, Though they all planned on the
same principle. Furnaces. of course. came
after the adoption of coal. In former days,
as many old residents remember every
room in the house had it's own stove, and
IL Kept one person busy cutting the wood
ard feeding the stoves. In those days.
thotgh, the rooms were kept warm enough Ii
IN a way, such a thing as heating the halls
of house was never dreamed of, though
every one desired it. In early DAYS all coal
came by vessel, and the trains of cars
hauling coal direct from the mines as is
now done. was not even thought of. Steam
heating is of very modern origin, and
though 1t had a great run for some years
furnaces again are in the lead, as far as
numbers are concerned"
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There may be luck in horse shoes, and
believe that nine out of every ten persons
think so. but personally 1 have consdera-
BILE doubt" remarked the chief clerk of one
of the departments. My experience has
been that something else than horse shoes
is needed to make you winner. l remem-
Der the day l received my appointment to
the position 1 now hold. There were sew
eral others who We're and still are clerks
IN the same room with me, who were appli-
cants for the promotion I received. Our
competition for the promotion was a
friendly enc. Each of us did all we could
IN the way Of securing all the influence
that we thought would help us. Finally
the day arrived when the appointment was
to be made.
1t happened while on my way to the de-
par;ment that morning 1 met two of nv
rivals. We jCked each other considerab bly
ABOUT the contest, for each of us hoped to
be a winner. As we reached the corner of
10TH street and Pennsylvania avenue the
Sentlem v no was nearest the curb no.
ticed horse shoe on the concrete He ran
over and picked 1t up, with the remark
nat settles the matter in my favor and
mentally L really thought it did, though |
did not say SO. In two hours afterWard
the promotion came down, and NV name
was en- the paper. In less than six months
l Eau the disasreeable duty to perform OF
handing clerk his disc barge The fellow.
personally. was very popula" but as a
clerk he fell very far short 1 asked a
couple OF the clerks to tax: The yellow en-
Velope TO him. but they begged to be ex-
cuseu. Inc poor fellow was rather SIR
prised and terribly put out, but there wac
no way by which l could change the de-
clsion for the department insisted on his
removal, and for causes that were well
soral property in his desk, he found that
ne had seven horse shoes which he had
picKed up from time to time and placed
there He was believer in luck, but the
horse shoes did not save him."
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The recent horse show In New york >,
said a liveryman, has brought out MANY
new things in our business, among which
are some novel changes in liveries, several
examples of which are already noticea ble
In turnouts. The neatest thing that / have
noticed so far is the wearing of the mono-
grams or coat-of-arms Of the owners of the
turnouts on the sleeves of the coats The
driver wears the monogram of the owner of
the carriage on his right arm, while the
footman similarly decorates his left arm.
Inc monograms can, therefore, be seen
from either side. This idea grew out of
the custom of the jockeys on the race
courses wearing their numbers on their
sleeves. 1t is decidedly horsey, and. there
fore, proper. for everything that is horsey
goes these days. for the annual horse shows
have made such fads fashionable
Speaking of carriage outfits there was
never anything so odd as the way in which
CatacaZzy, the Russian minister during
Gen. Grants first term, had his carriage
people appear. The driver was gotten up
in a semi-military manner. but the footman
was attired in full military uniform. He
carried sword, and after he opened the
door of the carriage and let his people out.
he stood on guard at the door of the car
riage with drawn sword. part of his
duties was to lift the trail of the skirts of
the ladies who rode with him from the car
riage door up to the door of the house
where they entered. and to perform a SIM
liar duty when they returned to the car
riage. l remember also to have seen foot
men during Buchanans administration rid
ing standing on a shelf fixed in the rear of
the carriage. They gave a carriage a much
grander appearance than when the driver
and footman ride side by side on the box.
Secretary Fisk, who was Secretary OF
State in Gen. Grants cabinet had one of
these traps but he used 1t but little for the
style was changing about that time"