The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-29

one may pay anything, from l cent 10
Siio. for flag of the United States. The
latter price Will buy a beautiful silk flag,
12xls fee; in size. The cheapest Gags are
stamped on muslin with the coiors red
and blue. and are then tackled or pasted
upon sticks: they are not guaranteed to
wash. or this kind is the little penny flag
which the small boy wears on the lapel
OF his coat Such flags are put through
printing press like calico shirts and
eoms out all colored at the rate of 100 a
minute. Girls then snip them apart with
sharp shears and glue them 10 small sticks
hardly bigger than matches. The best
nags have canvas bag sewn along the
pole tackle.
Anybody Is at liberty to make United
States flags. Thus il comes about that all
sorts Of patterns Of the national ensign
are on the market ana In Use. But If any
one desires 10 have the colors as they
ought 20 be reference must be made TO the
standard apoted by the army and navy.
This standard. altered from time TO time
by the addition of fresh stars, y pre-
served. and Will continue 10 be kept by
the secretaries of war and navy. In the
war department at Washington, close by
Secretary Ayers office. IS DISPLAYED in a
glass case the true regulation flag Of this
country. To exhibit il better II is iiium-
mated by a brilliant electric light: This
lions, or else they are not correct.
The secretaries Of war and navy are
the cUst0d.aus OF the fiay Of The United
States. II a new star is TO he added they
determine just where on the blue field il Is
20 Ia put. Untn quite recently there was
some confusion as 10 the arrangement Of
the stars, no law governing the matter.
Indeed. congress has never adopted any
enactment on the subject, beyond re-
sH-.k
l'e added fer every new state admitted %
the union. II ISIS. however. the president
directed that the stars or the navy Tags
should te arranged ia parallel horizontal
rows, TIE same method had been adopted
By the army az an earlier period, Il ap-
pears, but the stars on tha flags 81 the
war department. were rot in vertical rows.
The navy having accepted vertical rows,
there was difereHce in design which was
r0s corrected uutu President Benjamin
Harrison ordered BIS secretary C war ard
secretary % the navy - agree between
themselves on one pattern.
The PREFER design fer the blue fa.a O,
Csd Glory i liked ana absolute. ether ar
raneemeufs 81 the stars. whieh commonly
sr~ distributed mere or less higxlefy- pig
g3edy. are wrong. Several spaces are pur-
pcse,y LET, rs the regulation pattern fer
TIRE Spangles which will represent states
Net to re admitted The las. state Let into
the un,oa was Utah. ~ IS-S ard she took
Der position a. ghe righ; hand end Of the
fourth row. There are six rows OF stars
IN the rag q the United States. number
ing forty-five IN al. Room IS not needed
SCR any more, inasmuch as the oaiy terri
tories remaining available for future states
are New Mexico. Oklahoma ana Arizona.
IN thiS account. However no thought -
taken u fbe great reservation which IS
Known As the TnJian Territory, from
which the slice named Oklahoma vas cax
uut. nor 81 Uncle Sans vast arctic prov
ince Of Alaska. Tits country Ia acquiring
feyessa rsai estate - fast just ~ frsteAs