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Evening star., 1901-06-13
The Building Regulations,

10 the Editor Of The Evening Star:
L notice that 1t is proposed to have a new
draft of the building regulations. Is there
never to be an end to this constant chang
ing Of the building regulations? 1t may be
that changes are needed, but one would sup
pose that with the repeated and frequent
changes that have been made since the
adoption of the Commissioner form of gov
ernment they would have become about as
perfect as human ingenuity could make
them, and that they might be left alone
for while at least recall that COM
mttee was appointed a year or so ago to re-
wise them. and as l recollect some of them
visited other cities in order to obtain in
formation. What has become of the report
of that committee? This frequent change
makes bad work for those who build
ana for the contractors, as no. one
knows when a change may be made
or what 1t will be. Some years ago the
cost over $4,000, exactly In accordance
with a similar building erected a short
time before, the plans for both being pre-
pared by the same architect. and before
the permit could be taken out, presto. the
regulations were changed and the plans
had to be repreparedi Such arbitrary pro-
ceedings without notice to the public are
very annoying and productive of much un-
necessary expense. delay and trouble TO
citizens. and ought not to be tolerated.
70 remedy these difficulties suggest that
congress provide for commission Of COM
petent architects and builders to prepare a
comprehensive set of building regulations.
and that when prepared Congress enact
them Into permanent law, and stop this
everlasting tinkering according to the
whim or caprice Of those who happen for
the time being to be in authority.
OBSERVER.
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Beach reservation. Lynn Shore reservation,
Middlesex Fells parkway, Mystic Valley
parkway, Revere Beach parkway, Neponset
River parkway, Charles River Speedway
LynnWay, Fresh Pond parkway, West
RoXbury parkway, Blue Hills parkway.
Whftmore Brook parkway; Metropolitan
water board of Boston, Mass; Spot Pond
reservoir; Cambridge. Mass, parks: Rindge
heid, Captains Island Playground; Charles
ton, s. c., parks; Meadow Park, Aring-
ton, Mass; estate of George w. Vanderbilt
Blltmore, N G.; grounds of the Vanderbilt
mausoleum, New Dorp, S. l.. Harvard Uni
University, Morgantown Pa; Rhode Island
Agricultural College, Kingston R. l.; Phil
lips Academy, Andover, Mass; t;roton
School, Groton. Mass; Hill School. Potts
town, Pa, and ST Paul's School, Concord,
N. H.
Charles F.. Mckfm.
Charles F. Mckim of the New York ar
chitectural firm of Messrs. McKim, Mead
q White was born In Philadelphia in 1S47
and was educated at Harvard and the
Paris Beaux Arts. Among the buildings
and monuments with which his name is
particularly associated are the Boston
Public Library, the capitol building at
Providence, Columbia University Library
and other college buildings, University
Club, Century Club, Harvard Club,
Deutscher Verein, all in New York; the
Algonquin Club at Boston, the Harvard
University Club at Cambridge the New
port Casino and the. ST. Gaudens Shaw
Memorial, Boston, and the French statue
of Washington in Paris.
Charles Moore.
Mr. Charles Moore is well known In this
city, having been associated with Senator
Mcmillan in the work of the committee on
the District Of Columbia since Mr.. McMil-
Ian became chairman of that committee
His famili iarity with the affairs of the Dis
trict made his assistance particularly de-
sired by the park commissioners, and from
the inception of their work he has been
connected with them. Mr.. Moore Is a
graduate of Harvard University He en-
tered newspaper work after his graduation
and was so engaged some years in Michi-
gan. Later he came here as a newspaper
correspondent. Mr.. Moore has found time
during the last few years to do a great
deal Of literary work, his book, 1.-The
Northwest Under Three Flags" having al
ready attained high place as an authority
on the history of the period and section of
the country with which it deals. He has
always taken a very active interest in the
development Of the District
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sistant. and remained there in that capacity
unti! February, 1908, although after the
death OF Mr.. Eliotsin March, 1897. he took
a leading part in the designing of the
works on which the firm were then en-
gaged. In the spring ofnses Mr.. Frederick
Law Olmsted ST., retired from business
and the present firm Of Olmsted Brothers
was formed.
Mr.. Olmsted is new at the head Of the
course in landscape architecture establish
ed last fall at Harvard University.
Some OF the wd1k in the designing of
part follow. the DIST Important. perhaps,
being those of thesHetroRolitan Park COM
mission, of whiehS9le It's been the chief
advisor since the Gath ~ Mr.. Eliot: Bos-
ton Metropolitan Park Ycommission. Blue
Hills reservation. Middiesex Fells reserva-
ton. Revere BeachsXeservation, Stony Brook
reservation, BeaVsr Brook reservation.
Hemlock Gorge reSersatton. Charles River
reservation. Nepohsa River reservation.
Kings Beach reservation, Mystic River
reservation. Winthrop Shore reservation,
Nantasket Beach reservation, Nahant
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grounds of the Middlesex Gun Club. Hen
don. England, was resumed under entirely
new weather condition yesterday Rain.
with varying winds, fell during the early
afternoon making shooting extremely diff
cult. The Americans gathered confidence
however, from their work of Tuesday and
their growing familiarity with their sur
roundfngs. At the end of the sixtieth
round, when each side had shot at coo
targets, the British gunners had broken
416 and the Americans 476
Out Of the first sixty targets W. r. Cros-
py OF . Fallon, ILL., broke IS; Frederick
Gllpert OF Spirit Lake. Iowa, Sc; John S.
Tanning of Jersey City, 50, and r. o. Hikes
of Dayton, Ohio, "a
The match closed for the day in a driy-
ing rain with the following totals: Ameri-
cans, ST.; British, 794
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Departure of the Park Commission
for Europe.
WILL STUDY DEVELOPMENT ABROAD
Seeking for Ideas That May Be
Utilized Here.


The park commission sailed from New
York today on the steamer Deutchland for
a trip to European cities, where they will
study park development with a view of
applying ideas they may get to the work
of determining upon park system for the
District of Columbia.
The commission consists of Mr.. Daniel
H. Burnham of Chicago, chairman; Mr..
Frederick Law Olmsted. jr., of Boston,
and Mr.. Charles F. McKim of New York.
Mr.. Charles Moore, clerk of the Senate
committee on the District Of Columbia, who
has been closely identified with the work
Of the park development, accompanied the
commission. The party will be away from
six to eight weeks, and during that time
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expects to visit at least eight ten Of the
is most advanced.
Daniel H. Burnhnm.
The chairman of the commission, Mr..
Daniel Hudson Burnham. has long been
one of the foremost architects of the coun-
try. 1t was he who was the leading spirit
in the designing of the wonderful city
which was raised at Chicago for the
worlds fair Mr.. Burnham was born in
Henderson, N. Y, September 4, 1916, and
removed to Chicago ten years later. He
was educated in Chicago and Massa chu-
setts, and studied architecture In Massa-
chusettS. He became head Of the firm Of
Burnham & Root, now d. H Burnham &
Co. Very many of the notable buildings of
ham, among which are the Rookery, Calu-
met Club, Womans Temple, Masonic Tenn
pie, Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, Great
Northern Hotel, Reliance building, Stewart
building, Great Northern building and the
Monadnock block His work elsewhere in
cludes the Mills building of San Francisco,
Ellicott square of Buffalo, Society for Saw
ings of Cleveland, Western Reserve build
ing of Cleveland Land Title building of
Philadelphia. Union station of Pittsburg
and the Frick building of Pittsburg.
F.. L. OImsted, Jr.
Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, jr., Is the
son of Mr.. Frederick Law Olmsted, the
landscape architect who made the plan for
the Central Park of New York and for
the grounds of the worlds fair at Chicago
He is now a member of the firm of Ohm
sted Brothers, landscape architects, of
Brookline, Mass
Mr. Olmsted is a graduate of the Rox-
bury Latin School and CT Harvard Univer-
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sity, having been graduated from the lat
ter in 1894. with the degree of A. B., after
course of study including the fine arts,
architecture and engineering. In 1891 he
superintendent of construction for the
worlds fair at Chicago. In 1892 he trav-
eled abroad with his father for five months
for the purpose Of studying the works Of
landscape architects In England and
France. In 1894 he was employed on the
triangulation of the thirty-ninth parallel in
Colorado, under the United States coast and
geodetic survey. During the following year
he was engaged in studying botany and
horticulture and IN learning the practical
operations of landscape architecture in
connection with the large work under his
fathers direction on Mr.. George W. Van
derbilts estate at Biltmore, N. G.
In December, 1898, Mr.. Olmsted entered
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Minor Cases Disposed OF.

Judge Kimbail today disposed OF the fol-
lowing cases in the District branch Of the
Police Court: Taylor Gibson, vagrancy.
fined $40. with thirty days in default; John
Davis. jumping on a street car fined 81:
Joseph Fuget, vagrancy. fined $40 with
thirty days in the work house. as an equiv
alent; George Holmes. Joseph Holmes and
Etewart Carter. disorderly on a street car.
each fined 80. with sixty days on the farm
in default.
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Ladies' Play Sensational Tennis.

The two former national tennis cham
pions, Miss Marion R. Jones and Miss Bes-
sic Moore, were defeated yesterday after
noon in the doubles of the women's lawn
tennis tournament on the courts of the
Staten Island Ladies' Club, at Livingston.
The match produced a sensational bit Of
play for the fashionable gathering of spec
tators.
Miss Sarah Coffin and Miss Margaret
johnson. the Staten Island champions,
were the victorious team. The first set
was series Of prolonged rallies at the net.
each side winning on service up to 5 ALL
Miss Jones and Miss Moore took the van
tage game, but the Staten Island women
placed the ball SO cleverly that they out
maneuvered their opponents. who had diff
ond and third sets both went to Miss john
son and Miss Coffin with ease. Miss Jones
and Miss Moore tried desperately to offset
the winning streak of their opponents. but
We're unable to cope with their place shots
and cross-court smashing.
Victory for Fire Fighters.
A nine composed Of members of the Dis
trict fire department yesterday demon
strated at Chesapeake Beach that the local
fire fighters cannot only extinguish fires.
but that they can play base ball, the fire.
men defeating a strong team of street rail-
way men in a five-inning game by a score
Of to 6. The occasion was the annual ex-
cursion of the members of the local Street
Railway Association. and the fire depart
ment team was composed of Hunt, third
base; Cook. shortstop; Mcconnell, second
base; Watt. catcher: Markward, left field
Sullivan, pitcher; Coulter, center field;
Boyle. first base. and Sears. right field. The
team was captained by Fireman Boyle. and
was awarded a fine bat. catchers mask and
gloves. It Is understood the street railway
men were quite confident that they would
defeat the firemen, and were not little
surprised by the result
American Gunners Ahead.
The international clay bird trap shooting
match which Waa healin Tuesday on the
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Victory for Fire Fighters.
American Gunners Ahead.

The international clay bird trap shooting
match, which was begun Tuesday on the
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Sc. Shirting Prints. SIC

A lot of short lengths of Shrting Prints.
showing variety of neat and pretty patterns;
light grounds; all coors. Regular price of
Evening star., 1901-06-13

One case of excellent quality Batiste Lawn,
embracing a large assortment of colors-both
dark and light grounds; some navy blue with
pretty dotted effects; some navy blue and
stripes; some with pink grounds and pretty
figures: also assortment Of blue, lavender
and tan colors In all one Of the prettiest as
sortments we have ever had on sale All posi-
lively 12ac. and 15c. values-for 7l2c
Evening star., 1901-06-13
SC. Articles, Sc,

Petroleum Jelly Of best grade and best Sperm
Machine OH, that always sell for Sc. Special
at &c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25

town who is in the seventies. What
is his mental aliment? Upon what
great books does he feed? He reads
the Bible several times a day. He
pursues a course of historic reading
every day save Sunday. He IS sure
to read some great poet during each
week day. He reads regularly the
best productions of more than twenty
leading British reviews, magazines
and literary weekly Journals. He
has in old age gone over Gibbon,
Phutarch, Macaulay, Greene's
flour volumes), Schiller's "Thirty
Years War" Professor Fishers ex-
cellent "Universal History" and
minor works. He has read Shake
speare every three years, Tennyson
every three years, each in their en-
tiretv. He has read lately all OF
Milton save the Latin poems. He
has again read Goethe's Faust and
all his dramas, and Dante's "Di71ne
Comedy" and Scott's entire poetry
which he delights in although now
despised by certain living critics.
He reads three or four of the best
novels each year-Soott, Thackeray,
Dickens now engaging him to the ex-
clusion of other writer's he must adj
miro and whose works he has often
read-George Eliot, Charlotte
Bronte, Bulwer, Meredith, Black
more, Charles Reade and several
others. He endeavors in reading to
practice what he would preach.
He reads the best dead and living
critics and essayists. He reads
Hazlitt, one of the very foremost,
Lamb, Leigh Hunt, ''Nootes Am
brosianae," Macaulay, Montaigne,
Carlyle, and some others of the
past, and of the last two or three de-
cades, Ruskin, Frederic Harrison,
Froude, Saintsbury, Gosse, Lang,
John Morley, Hanley, Birrell, L.
Stephen, and a half dozen Others-au
British. Among American essayists
he prefers Poe, Lowell, Emerson,
Woodbury.. He does not give these
to make the extent Of his reading
known for he has read a thousand
others no doubt, but to indicate
what he regards as good reading, as
the best literature. He of course
would include biography, a delight
full form of reading, travels, and the
ology, but he cannot enlarge here
Wilmington Messenger.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
EVENLY DIVIDED.

A lesson in arithmetic is no joke
a painful reality, rather-yet d Bos-
ton schoolboy is alleged to have been
inspired to humor by the very worst
of the problems in long division.
After he had failed on the sums
the teacher set, he asked permission
to give one of his own. The priv
lege was granted.
"My aunt has eight children, " he
said, ''and she doesn't like to favor
one above another. She was at the
mar .et the other day, and she bought
eight apples for them, one apiece ;
but when she got home she found
she'd lost one apple. All the same.
she divided the apples so as to give
each child the same number. How
did she do it?'
The GLASS hadn't got along to frac-
tions, and the boy insisted that his
aunt knew about algebra. So the
puzzled teacher finally asked We'll.
how did she divide the seven apples
so IS TO give each of the eight chill
dren an equal NUMBER"
"She made apple sauce. Sci.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
WHEN POTATOES ARE POISONOUS

correspondence of The Progressive Fan mer
The humble but useful potato has
been a good deal in evidence Of late,
one scientist declaring that under
certain circumstances it may he very
poisonous, and another asserting that
it is likely soon to become extinct.
Prof. Langworthy Of the Agricul-
tural Department in the Year Book
just issued, in dealing with the pos
sible dangers from eating potatoes
says "AlthOugh under ordinary cir
nary circumstances potatoes are I'M
questionably a wholesome food for
most persons, illness is sometimes
caused by eating them. Causes Of
acute poisoning by potatoes are by
no means unknown. So far as can
be learned the abnormal symptoms
in such cases e. caused by the
presence Of sOlanin in the potatoes.
Several years ago 357 soldiers in a
battalion of the Austrian army
showed symptoms of soIanin poison
ing. The potatoes used for food
we're examined. The fresh ones con
tanned a small amount of solanin,
while those which had sprOuted con-
contained much more, still larger
amounts being found in the sprouts
than in the potatoes themselves.
The potatoes undoubtedly caused the
poisoning in this case. Potatoes a
year old which have lain in a cellar
and shrivoled and small potatoes
which have sprouted without being
planted are considered especially
dangerous and should not be eaten.
If perfectly fresh potatoes contain
any solanin, the amount is so small
it does not cause harm"
More serious is the declaration of
scientists that the potato is degen-
Grating along with the sugar cane,
both of which are said to be failing
from the methods Of their cultiva-
ton, both having been propagated
for SO many generation from buds
the sugar ane from the joints of
stalks, and the potato from the eyes
of the tuber-that they have al
most lost the power of Producing
fruitful seeds. For a century or
more, during which reproduction
from buds can be successfully con-
tinued, the fact that the seeds them
selves become sterile or dwindle
away and disappear, does not seer
particularly important. Finally,
however, there comes a time, like
the present, when a whole species
shows signs OF the deterioration
which precedes extinction; and it
is then only by crossing one plant
with another plant, or one variety,
with another variety, that the life of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25

the species can be renewed. But :.
the plant has lost it's seed-prodnoin1l
faculty, such crossing is eviden+ISS
impossible, and the degenerate
must continue to it's logical resnI1
This, it is said, has now occurros
bo.h sugar cane and potatoes n.y.
usually failing to ''set" their soodo
The same, however, is true Of Il.
banana, which has had no sao5'
within the memory of man and vs.
is fourishing as we'll or better tbo.
ever. A. B. N.
Washington, D.. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
ORDERING EGGS UNDER BIG DIFFICUL,
TIES.

Necessity is the mother of inven.
ton, and a hungry Frenchman illus
trates anew the wisdom of the old
adage:
He was in an English restaurant,
and wanted eggs for breakfast, but
had forgotten the English word. So
he got round the difficulty in the
following way:
"Vaiterre, vat is dat Walking in re
yard?"
"a rooster, sir"
"Ah! And vat you call re roOs-
taire's wife, ~vaiterre?"
"The hen, sir"
"And vat you call re shiIdrens of
re roostaire and his vife?"
"Chickens, sir"
But vat you call re schicken be-
fore zey r schickens?"
EGGS sir"
"Vell, vaiterre, bring me two"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
HIS MASTERS SOBER REQUEST.

The policeman had given his testi-
mony, which was unqualifedly to
the fact of the old gentleman's in
toxication. Then the old servant
was called to the witness-box. There
was a mingled expression of indig-
nation and determination on his
countenance. He testified fatty, to
the surprise of the court, that the
old man was sober when he came
home. The magistrate proceeded to
question the witness.
"You say that Mr.. - was sober
when he came homer"
eyes, sir"
"Did he get to bed alone?"
"No, sir"
"Did you put him to bed?"
eyes, sir"
"And he was perfectly sober?"
eyes, sir"
"What did he say when you put
him to bed?"
"He said, Goodnight.
Anything else?"
eyes, sir"
"What was it? Tell US exactly
what he said, every word"
"He said as how l was to wake him
and call him early, for he was to be
the queen of the May"
The old man was fned.-The King.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
HOW THE APPLES WERE SOLD.

The Washington Post declares that
half the members of the House of
Representative busted themselves,
during a leisure hour, over the fol
lowing problem given them by Rep
re%sentative Loudenslager of New
Jersey:
A man who had three o n called
them together, and told them that
he proposed to make a disposition of
his property. He said that he had
n hundred and fifty apples, of
which he would give fifteen to his
youngest son, fifty to his second son,
and e~ighty-fve to his eldest son.
"Now," he said, 81 want you to
go out and sell these apples at the
same price, and yet each of you
bring me the same amount of money,
and the eldest must fix the price
When the Congressman heard this
problem they laughed, as if they
we're being imposed upon.
''It cannot be DONE" said one.
"Is it a sell?" asked another.
Nothing but the sell Of the APP
pies, replied Mr.. LOudenslager.
With this assurance the statesmen
began to work. For a quarter Of an
hour they figured, and then they
gave it up, as the children say.
"Well," said Mr.. Loudenslager,
the boys went out on the street,
and the youngest son met a man who
asked him what he would sell his
apples for.
"'You must go tony eldest broth
er, said the boy, and the man did as
he was told.
81 will sell you my apples for one
cent a dozen, said the eldest brother.
So he sold eighty-fOur Of his apples
for seven cents, and had n apple
left, while the youngest boy sold
twelve of his apples for n cent
and had three remaining
1T was then very easy to comply
with their fathers requirements.
The eldest son fixed a price of three
cents apiece for each Of the apples
left over. He sold his remaining
one for three cents and had ten cents ;
the second boy sold four dozen of his
fifty apples for four cents, and the
remaining two at three cents each,
and had also ten cents while the
younger bother sold his remaining
three apples for nine cents, which,
added to the one he already had,
gave him ten cents.
$50 the thee boys complied with
their fathers conditions, and each
carried home the same amount of
money"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
THE BEST TIME TO ANSWER A LETTER.

The best time to answer a letter is
while you are under it's spell, and be.
fore your interest in it has grown
cold. Home letters should be regu-
lar. The glow and impulse of love-
stimulated anew, will be responsive
~ stirred, if the reply is not tOolong
deferred. I am always sorry for
families who suffer the lines of com
munioation between them to weaken
or rust because of -carelessness IN
writing, and many a time my heart
has ached for the disappointment
visible in an old face, when some
young Jean or Molly, whose letter IS
wistfully anticipated, has forgotten
to send it at the right time.-Mar-
garet E. Sangster, in The Ladies
Home Journal for June.
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7

"Can you tell me what sort of
weather We NAV expect next month";
wrote a subscriber to the editor of a
paper and the editor replied as fol
lows:
cit is my belief that the weather
next month will be very much like
your subscription"
The inquirer wondered for an
hour what the editor was driving at,
when he happened to think of the
word unsettled" He sent in the
required amount next day.
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The Home Circle.
NATURE.

As a fond mother when the day is DER,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken ~playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly treasured and comforted
By promises of others in their stead,
Which, though more splendid, may not please him more
So Nature deals with US, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently, that we go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we know.
Henry ". LOnqfeUOw