St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rSnecial Correspondenee.l

uonse is to have a thorough removal
linn on artistic lines, So heavy has
o,ovn the list Of favored guests in the
roosevelt household that it has been
found necessary to turn the great east
room into a state dining room. Yhe
oro.ent White House dining service, a
strange conglomeration of antique and
modern glass, silver and porcelain,
with many pieces missing, will be su-
norseded by a new service of Sevres
porcelain.
The present state dining room will
he used for small dinner parties. Like
the east room, it will be redecorated,
the present yellow color scheme being
obnoxious to the family. The entrance
mall is also to be renovated in order
that in general tone and character of
decoration it may accord with the en-
bellished east room.
IN addition to these changes there is
need for additions for lighting facili-
lies and also for staircase to the at
tic. a very urgent need in case of fire,
the servants now being dependent en-
tirey upon the elevator.
Much new furniture of modern style
IS required in place Of the nondescript
types now scattered through the por.
tons of the house devoted to social
uses.
Building Boom Predicted.
Mr. William II. Given of New York,
whose connection with several archi-
tectural publications has given him a
wide experience in building operations
throughout the country, in discussing
the outlook at one of the uptown ho-
tells the other night predicted a stupen-
dous expenditure for building construc-
tion this season.
The building work of 1902 set in
with the strongest financial showing
that has ever been recorded on this con-
tiDent," said Mr.. Given. washington
is likely to pile up record breaking
total this year, and no surprise need be
Occasioned if the local aggregate is
close to $10,O00000. The impression
prevails among the leading architects
IN New York and in various parts of
the Union that the national capital has
a magnificent architectural future and
that the next decade will record the
erection Of splendid federal structures
here which will make Washington the
most strikingly beautiful city in this
part of the world, considered purely
from an architectural viewpoint
TIE Washburns In Congress.
The visit to Washington recently of
former United States Senator William
D. Washburu brings to mind the fact
that his family is the only one that
ever had three brothers in congress at
the same time. They were Elihu b.
Washburn of Illinois, Cadwallader Col
den Washburn Of Wisconsin and Israel
WaShburn of Maine. They were all
brothers of the former senator from
Minnesota. Another brother, Charles
Ames Washburn, was, at the breaking
out of the civil war, editor Of The Alta
litornan # San Francisco. He was
Mt as Il commissioner of the United
Gates TO Paraguay and later as minis
er to that country. He was a dstin-
guIShed inventor.
The Two P's.
The phrase las like as two peas"
might in the case Of the Pulsifer broth
ers be made to read "as like as
two Ps."
Both brothers have been employees
on the senate side for many years. Pit
man has been a committee clerk for
twenty years, and Woodbury. has
twelve years to his credit. They look
alike, they walk alike, and they talk
and dress alike, so that they are very
frequently mixed up. Pitman Pulsifer
who is the clerk of the naval commit
tee, is often compelled to listen to
dreary figures about rivers and har-
bOrs, while his brother has to hear all
about the naval controversies. Both Of
the men are from Maine, and if one
should resign and go home the other
could play Box and Cox and fill both
cIerkships and nobody in the capitol
would be any the wiser
On the Old Testing Ground.
Between the two cities which Elijah
Morse selected for the first test of te-
legraphy there is now in full operation
system of wireless telegraphy, the
most recent and possibly the most
complete development Of the great in
VentOr's method of transmitting mes
sages. This new system is so far in the
experimental stage only, and no at
Tempt has been made to convert the
TWO stations, one at Brookland and the
other at one of Baltimores suburbs,
into commercial enterprise. But for
several weeks past the two cities have
Deem in instantaneous communication
without the aid of wires or any other
tangible mode Of transmitting words.
Building For Executive Offices.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
CorteIyou are both friendly, it is be-
AeVed, TO a recent suggestion for the
erection of an office building for the
White House in the White House
grounds The proposition is to put up
a structure somewhat temporary in
Character that would cost $4,000 to
$4,000 and contain sufficient quarters
Tor President Roosevelt and his entire