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The Washington times., 1902-03-17

entrances to the building. On the left
and at the extreme west Of the front
passengers with baggage will drive into
the building, and thence to the baggage
and ticket Offices. On the extreme east
Of the front will be a State entrance for
the President of the United States, or
visitors to the Capital City to whom it
is desired to show especial respect.
Behind all these rooms, and extending
the entire width of the structure, is a
lobby eighty feet wide. Then comes the
fence, which divides the main portion Of
the structure from the trains arriving
and departing. On the other side of the
fence is space Of forty feet to the ends
OF the tracks. The character OF the in
terror finishing Of the building will be,
1t is promised, the finest of any railway
station in the world
Twenty-eight tracks will come under the
rear of the building parallel to each
other. Six will be those from the tunnel
at depression of twenty-five feet, and
the remainder will be on grade Into the
station will come trains from every direc 4
tion. 1t will be as II stretching out from
1t were ffty-six great steel ropes, bind
ing the Capital City to this spot. and
holding the States together indissolubly
with this as their common centre
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
A GREAT CLASSIC PILE.
Architecture of the New Depot of the
Roman Style.

And now as to the character of the
great building.
Architecture Is frozen music"
This entrance gateway to the District
is the prelude to the wonderful symphony
some time to be written in stone, The
Capital of the Republic
The style of tho architecture will be
Roman. The stupendous arches in the
centre of the front Of the building, and
the decoration above them, statues five
times life size, eagles surmounting cor
ners of the roof Of the gigantic vestibule,
all find their prototypes in the world
known old Roman architecture
But the proudest Roman ruler in all the
seven centuries that Roman architecture
ruled the world as Roman arms did built
no such gigantic building to increase his
glory as this will be.
No arches ever built compare with them.
The imposing arches of the Washington
postofice Building will look like port
holes when compared with them. Two
four story buildings of the usual width
might be hauled intact through each of
the three. They are eleven times the
height of the ordinary man. Four steam
railway tracks at their usual distance
apart might pass through each.
What may be called the vestibule of the
building extends outward in front Of the
main walls, and in the centre Of the struc-
ture II is in this vestibuie that the
arches form the main entrances to the
station. This portion OF the structure is
2s9 feet front, 80 feet deep, and so feet
high into it will drive the carriages of
passengers, and II nay be used for great
concourscs of people on foot also, in
times OF military and civic functions. At
each side of the three central arches Will
be lesser entrances for pedestrians.
Back of the vestibue comes the main
building, extending over all 760 feet wide.
In its centre, directly behind the vesti-
bule. will be the main waiting room. PAS
by 1876 feet In size, or little smaller
than the court OF the Pension O1ice. Its
height to the apex OF its glass and iron
roof will be l25 feet.
To the left of the waiting room, as one
enters 1t from the front. are the ticket and
baggage Offices. To the right is another
waiting room.
Beyond these on either side are other
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
TEXT OF PROPOSED LAW.
To Be Enacted by Congress Authorizing
the Union Depot.

Following are the title and the pre-
amble to the law which 1t is proposed
Congress shall enact. They recite the
general plan:
ITO effect REIMBURSEMENT and surrender
by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Company of its right to use and occupy a
portion of the Mall for passenger sta
tion and provide for a passenger station
and terminals in the city of Washington.
D. c., to be used in common by the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company and the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com
pany, and for other purposes.
Whereas, pursuant to resolution Of
the Senate of the United States, adopted
March s. 1901. plans have been prepared
for the uniform improvement of Govern
ment parks and spaces in the District of
Columbia, and said plans. as has been
represented to the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railroad Company, will be Sc
riously interfered with by the use and oc-
cupation by the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad Company of the portion of the
Mall granted to il for a new passenger
station site by the act relating to it, ap-
proved February IL. 1901, hereinbefore re-
ferred to; and i-tv
Whereas said Baltimore, and Potomac
Railroad Company, at the suggestion Of
the experts who have prepared the plans
for the Improvement of the park system
of the District of Columbia; and in aid of
the plan OF Improvement. recommended.
has, in conjunction with the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, considered
the practicability of single terminal
passenger station, with such facilities,
terminal tracks, and connecting railroads
as will adequately accommodate the pas
senger traffic of both the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company and the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad Company, 'front.'
ing on a circle, or plaza, to be laid out at
the intersection of Massachusetts and
Delaware Avenues, and said Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad Company has indi-
common with said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company single terminal pas
senger station, TO provide a new line of
railroad. as hereinafter specified, for its
passenger traffic in connection Herewith,
and to abandon and relinquish the right
now vested in IL to occupy portion of
the Mall for passenger station and con-
Meeting tracks, upon the terms and con-
ditions hereinafter specified
The provisions OF the bill may be stated
rs follows. all technicalities being elm
mated:
The union station will front on Massa-
chusetts Avenue. facing the Capitol, the
view OF the Capitol down Delaware Ave-
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
A BUSY WORKER.
Coffee Touches Up Different Spots.

frequently coffee sets up rheumatism
when 1t is not busy with some other part
of the body : ST. Joe, Mo-. man, p. "
Wise, says: About two years ago my
knees began to stiffeu, and my feet aad
legs swell, so that was scarcely able to
walk, and then oniy with the greatest
difficulty for was in constant pain. I
1 consulted DIR. Barnes. one OF the meat
prominent physicians here, and he dag
nosed the case and e1qu.re5, To you
drink Coffee Yes You must qcit us
ing it at once he replied. I did so. and
commenced drinking Postum In its place.
The swelling in my feet and ankles and
the rheumatic pains subsidized quickly. and
during the past eighteen months l have
enjoyed most excellent health, and. al
though / have passed the sixty-eightn
mile post. have never enjoyed life better
Good health brings heaven to us here.
know of many cases where wonderful
cures of stomach and heart trouble havo
been made by simply throwing away cof-'
fee and using Postum"
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
PLANS AT THE CAPITOL.
Exhibited to the Senate District Com
mittee and Others Interested.

Architect Burnham. of the Pennsylvania
Railway. Saturday brought 10 Washington
and exhibited to the Senate District Com
mittee his plans and drawings for the new
union station.
There were a hundred or more draw
ings, ranging all the way from the first
rough pencil sketches of ideas for columns
and arches and statues and roofs 10 the
finished water color painting. Accompany
ing them were many ground plans and
cross sections and street and plaza plans
and tunnel plans, exhibiting almost every
detail Of the building and its surround
ings as they will he when completed.
Mr.. Burnham went over the plans with
Senator Mcmillan and others of the Dis
trlct Committee. and later explained them
10 many prominent Washington people.
With this beginning before 1t the Sem
ate District Committee will complete its
work on the union station bill now nearly
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
DIVORCE PROBLEM
REMAINS IN A TANGLE
Court May Await Action on
Amendments.
Bill to Change Present Law Now Pend.
ing Before Congress-Fear of
Complications. l..

From what has recently been learned
relative to the status of the local OIL
vorce laws. it is probable the question
Will not be taken up for consideration for
some time. The decision to delay action
by the courts, it is understood, is made in
order to await legislative action on the
many amendments to the law now pend
ing before Congress.
If upon consideration of the matter by
the courts it should be determined that
divorce can only be granted for the single
ground set out in the CODE and the pend
ing amendment allowing divorce on the
grounds of desertion. drunkenness, and
several others. should be adopted. mat
ters would be terribly complicated.
Many Suits Pending.
Hundreds of suits for divorce now pend
ing in the local courts would have been
thrown out at the cost of great expense
and loss of time to the litigants. If they
still desired to prosecute their causes OF
action they would be compelled to begin
anew.
This would work great injustice in
cause the local courts will in all prob
ability not take any final action in the
pending suits, where the ground of di-
vorce is other than that mentioned in the
Bible until Congressional action has been
had in the premises.
Under these circumstances it is prob
able that the Washington Bar Association
will take steps to have the matter taken
up for consideration iu Congress at as
early date as possible.
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
AN ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.
A Mysterious Hand With an Umbrella
Frightens Young Woman.

A report was made to Police Headquar-
ters yesterday that a mysterious attempt
at robbery occurred at the Sherman Flats,
Fifteenth and L Streets, about 10:30
O'Clock Saturday night.
A young woman who occupies room 105
on the ground floor of the fats raised a
window to admit the air. and then began
to disrobe to retire. She had taken off
several valuable rings and other jewelry
and laid them on a stand within few
feet of the window. She turned down the
gas and was about to lie down. when she
was almost frightened out of her wits to
see a hand grasp the inside of the sill of
the open window. The intruder had evil
IDENTIFY seized the sill to pull himself into
the room, but a scream scared him of.
She says the hand was white and held
the handle OF an umbrella.
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
WATTERS0N'S TROUBLES.
Complains of Many Blunders Made by
the Typos.

II haven't anything to say" remarked
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
Courier Journal" to a would-be inter-
viewer. who accosted him in the lobby of
a Washington hotel where he was re-
Gently staying.
When have anything to say went on
the facile oracle of the Democratic party,
who finds great JOY in his close view of
the dissension of the Republican party,
II write it: then l put it in my pocket
After a while l take it out, read it, and
write it again.
Once more put It away. Then write
it again, and send it down to the printer
and have it put in type. When l get the
proof / run over it closely and write it
again. and again it goes to the printer
They send it to me again in the revised
Sroof.
Then l make the last corrections and
send it down again. And then" said Mr..
Watterson. with heavy sigh. the con-
founded printer gets it wrong"
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
IMMENSE COST OF THE DEPOT
Expenses to Be Divided Between Rail-
roads and the Government

Such is the plan for the union station
and the gateway to the National Capital.
Its cost will be great to the railways and
to the District, but the railway COM
panies will bear by far the greater por-
tion of the burden.
The entire cost of building, terminal IA
cilities, elimination of grade crossings,
tunnel, and real estate will be at least
81. .Ooo, 900 to $4,000. 600 to the railways.
The building will cost $1,000, 900. The
elimination of grade crossings on all the
lines will cost $1,000, 900. The purchase of
all real estate must be added to this.
From this total sum should be subtracted
100000. which will probably be about
the sum to be paid the railways by the
District and the General Government as
their portion of the cost of the elimina-
tion of the grade crossings.
The District and the United States Gov
ernment will share equally the cost OF
rectifying the street levels in the vicinity
of the station and the opening of new
streets. The first cost of this work will be
not much more than 81. .000, 600. it is said.
The total cost to the city and the General
Government will be something like
$4,000, 900, or $1,000, 900 each.
AS an Offset to this, partially, there
will be released to the General Govern
ment the portion OF the Mall now occu-
pied by the Pennsylvania Railway and
smaller portions of public reservations in
the southern part OF the city. The rail-
ways are not to receive their pay for
changing track levels until the work is
entirely completed, so that the $4,000. 900
for this purpose will not have to be ap-
propriated for several years.
The sharing of the cost of the elimina-
tion Of grade crossings between the rail-
ways and the District and General Gov
ernment is entirely in accord with the
precedents In other parts of the country
Many OF the States have laws on the sub
tcct fixing the exact proportion to be
borne by the different parties to the con-
tract. In Massachusetts, for instance.
the railways pay half and the State and
municipality each one-fOurth of the total
cost. This is the plan adopted by the
Senate District Committee in accordance
with the suggestion Of the District Com
missioners.
The original railway bills provided that
The Washington times., 1902-03-17
AMERICAS CHESS VICTORY.
Match Won by Four and Half to Three
and a Half

NEW YORK, March 16.-After two days
of hard and eventful fighting, in which the
scales turned now in favor of one and
then again in favor of the other party,
the American chess players vanquished
their British opponents last night, this
being the seventh of the international Sc
ries of matches for the Newnes cup.
The victory was by the odd game only
and the Americans came very near being
doomed to disappointment, as at the time
to stop play there were still three games
upon which the contending parties could
not agree as to the results.
Finally the secretary of the Brooklyn
club cabled to London that Hodges and
Howell had surely won positions in hand
and that Newman's game ought 10 be
drawn, and requested the British officials
to come to a settlement.
After waiting anxiously for a few min
utes the answer came that Great Britain
would accept the terms of Brooklyn. and
heartily congratulated the Americans
upon their brilliant victory, as America
had won four and one-half games and
Great Britain three and one-half.
The Washington times., 1902-03-17

ready for presentation to the Senate. a
few details as to the location of the great
tunnel for the lines from the south of
Washington are yet undecided on, but
practically it may be said that the COM
mittee is through with its work. Sena-
tor Mcmillan expresses the belief that
Congress will pass the bill without much
DELAY
The Washington times., 1902-03-17

Description Of the Imposing Structure Planned
by the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroads as Union Station for..the
CdpitaL--The Depot Will Cost About Six
Millions, and With It's Approaches About
Fifteen Millons and Will Be the Most
Magnificent Of It's Kind in the World
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-03
has been the guest of R. c. Traylor, Of
No. ST. West Main Street. has returned
home
PropertY Transfers.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NJ Boswell and
wife to John T. Wilson. 81 feet on south
side OF Grace Street, 229 feet east Of Ry-
land Street, $4,000.
Ann Bushell to John A. Bushell, re-
recorded December 10, 1890, $1,o50.
James T. Gum to Felix and Minnie
Iradela, 81 feet on east side of Fourth
Street, 80 feet north OF Duval Street,
sl.60o
James w Martin and wife to VIM. P.
Wood, so feet on north side Grace
Street. 24o feet east of Ryland Street.
$1,000
HenT1co-W. b Bcndall to P. S.
Leake, Jr., 10 acres ten miles north of
Richmond, near Taylors Crossing, on the
r.. F. s, P. Railroad, $3.50.
Jane E. Kirby to Mrs. Laura Trumell.
Is feet on north side Graham Street, 105
feet from Marshall Street. Sl31.50.
Geo w West and wife to Frank Tynis
and Frank Tuna, 20 acres near Taylor's
Crossing on the r., T. & P. Railroad,
S425.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-03
CITY HALL COURTS
Suit for S5,OOO-Law and Equity Cour
Opens Next Monday.

Suit for s., 900 was instituted in the City
Circuit Court yesterday afternoon by Z.
T. Miller against the Bodeker Drug Com
pany. No declarations We're filed.
The September term of the Law and
Equity Court will begin on next Monday,
when the docket will be called and cases
set for the term.
Virginia Hall Glass has instituted di-
vorce proceedings against Jesse l. Glass
in the Law and Equity Court on the
grounds of desertion.
Suit for divorce was instituted in the
Law and Equity Court yesterday after
noon by Adelina Meade against Mack
Meade on the ground of desertion.
R. +. Tyler qualified in the Chancery
Court yesterday as administrator of Fan
ME A. Tyler. The estate is valued at
$1,000.
Robert A. Shepherd qualified as admin
istrator of Dennis Whalen. The estate
is about $3.50.
Marriage licenses have been issued to
William D. Barker and Sarah ]. Rudd,
Edward l.. Fort and Rebecca L. O'Brien.
a deed OF bargain and sale was recorded
In the Chancery Court yesterday by which
the property on Grace near Ryland Street
is conveyed to William P. Wood by James
w. Martin for $1,000
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-03
TIM MURPHY TONIGHT
He Will Be Seen at the Academy as Jay
Green in "OId Innocence"

Green in .'Old Innocence"
Mr. Tim Murphy who has always held
a warm place in the hearts of Richmond
playgoers. will be at the Academy TINS
evening in his most successful role, as
Jay Green, in "Old Innocence. He VIII
be supported by Miss Dorothy Sherrod,
one of the most noted beauties of the
American stage, and a very capable
company.
1t has been said that Mr. Murphy $
portrayal of Old Innocence is positively
wonderful If plays were the more adj
mired for their ancestry then odd In
nocencer would stand to-day as the arts
tocrat Of the theatre. for the clever story
was embodied in the Latin classic many
years ago. It was translated and dram
tized for the Italian stage and the ne"
century finds it still a favorite in that
country. Meanwhile it passed into a
French translation and under the name
of La Petite Oi$eau (Thc Little Bird
it ran for three years in Paris.
But its success was so marked that /;
was at once translated into English. and
under tho name Of "a Pair of Spec
tacleS," it ran for two seasons in Lon
don and was presented three times be-
fore Queen Victoria,
In it's Americanzed form the critics
claim that Mr. Murphy has the best yer,
sion Of all, and for the two years he
played it the work Of this artist in the
character of the lovable. trusting old
man was received with such praise as
seldom falls to the lot of any actor.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-03
MUCH BUSINESS
FOR CITY At TORH[Y
Mr.. Pollard Back from His Va
cation and Will Settle Down
to Hard Work.

City Attorney Pollard has returned TO
the city after spending vacation OF
several weeks in the mountains
He has a number of important mat
tiers before him, upon which his opinions
are sought by the City Council, one o.
the most important Of which is the mat
ter of the encroachment of a building
upon the city property at Fourth ana
Cary Streets The committee having TINS
matter in hand has asked the City At
torney to state whether the city can per-
nit the houses to stand, and upon what
conditions.
Another matter of great importance was
referred to the City Attorney by the
Ordinance Committee. Under the new
Constitution a number of changes are
to be made in the charter. In view OF
this, the Ordinance Committee adopted a
resolution asking the City Attorney to
draft a charter, which. after having been
Gil, could be presented to the Legislature
as a model for charters OF cities in the
same class.
There are several cities in Virginia IN
the same class with Richmond, viz: Nor
folk. Lynchburg, Petersburg, Alexandra
Roanoke and Danville.
tee on the 18TH a date for a special
meeting of that committee to consider
the franchise of the Richmond Telephone
Company will be fixed. The City Attor-
ney will have much to do in this matter,
also, in the way of revising OF drawing
UP the ordinances.
At a. recent meeting of the Street Com
mttee it was determined to give the
Richmond Telephone Company an oppor-
tunity to complete its new system and
show the public what it proposes to give
them before final action should be tax
en- on the application for an amendment
to their franchise.
The request of the Postal Company te
place it's wires under ground is before
the City Attorney and the City Engineer
a report on this will probably be made
at the next meeting of the Street Com
mittee.
Mr. Pollard said yesterday that he f1ac
been resting, but would get to work
at once on the large amount Of business
now before him.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-03
LADIES' ATTENTIONS!
vogue's Fair Wooers, M. Bannett & Co

Vogue's Fair Wooers, M. Bannett & Co
Prominent and well patronized Ladies'
Tailors and Habit Makers, of Fifth Ave
rue, New York have opened their estab-
lishment at I'll w Main Street, where
they began to exhibit their large and
choice collection of elegant models i'm
ported direct from Paris Vienna and
Berlin. and fashions that are the latest
Importation from all fashion centers of
the world.
All ladies are invited to call and be con-
WINGED that this is THE LADIES' TAIL
oRING that has been needed IN Rich
mond for a long time.
Reasonable prices and valuable sugges-
tons are chcerfully furnished.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-03
A IadY's Work.

Mrs. T V Evans, OF lower Henrico
county a little lady whose health is not
the best, has struck upon a happy way
Of getting healthy outdoor exercise, and
at the same time gain living for her
self
She has purchased the right to the Cy-
clone Churn power, and with her little
son drives over the county exhibiting the
clever invention for sale and delivery by
the manufacturers.
Mrs. Evans is a highly respected lady,
and like the invention she sells. stands
high in the esteem of the good people of
that county.