Bisbee daily review., 1902-11-26
WASHINGTON LETTER
Special Corresponcence.1 l


 tive committee of the Grand Army encampment to mark the historic points of Washington with placards permanently has been revived by the Business Mems association.
 Two hundred of these sites were marked for the benefit of the encamp- ment visitors, each marker bearing a brief history of the location or build ing. A small pamphlet was issued, and each article had a number which corresponded with figure on the va rious signs. These booklets were dis tributed among the visitors free of charge and were the means of thou sands of persons becoming more ia miliar with places made historic by the events of the civil war.
 Secretary Bulkley of the citizens ex- ecutive committee, who holds the same position with the Business Mems asso- ciation, is ia favor of petitioning con- gross to make an appropriation of S5.- 900 for the marking of these points of interest permanently. It is Mir. Bulk ley's idea to have placed at each of these 200 sites bronze tablets bearing inscriptions relating to the history of each respective point.
 The New District Building.
 It will be at least three years before the new District building is ready for occupancy, and it is likely that it will be nearer four years. Such is the statement made by Supervising Archi- tcct James Knox Taylor of the treas ury department regarding the i'm prOyement. .n which the people of the District of Columbia are much inter- ested. The plans for the structure. on which twelve architects are working in competition, are to be submitted by Dec. s. The decision of the judges chosen to make q selection will be made immediately after the receipt of the designs. Following the acceptance of the successful architects plans. the winner Of the competition will take up the work of preparing the drawings. plans and specifications. This task. it is estimated by Mr. Taylor. will take from eight to ten months. This done. the work can be given over to the con- tractors probably about q year from now.
 The erection of the building will re- Quire. Mir. Taylor says. from two to three years from the time the con- tractors start on the work. Consequent ly the end of 1905 is about the time that Washingtonians can expect to transact business with their local gov ernInent in the new structure devoted to its purposes. The limit of cost set by congress for the building is S9OO,- GOO. excepting mural decorations and painting. F
 Mckf1ley's Favorite Parrot.
 After an absence of about six months Loretta, fine famous talking parrot. to which the late President Mckinley took such fancy and liking. has re- turned to Washington and to her old home in a bird store on Twelfth street. Loretta is without doubt the most ac- complished talker in the city and one among several of the best talking birds in America. She Is a Mexican parrot of the common, yellow headed. green with patch of red running along the border of each wing variety found throughout the seacoast belt of our sister republic For something in the neighborhood of six months Loretta was at the White House. where she improved her English. doubtless by lis tening to those who came and went from the executive mansion.
 Loretta not only speaks good Eng fish, but sings different songs as well. and can swear little when occasion demands. While at the White House she used to amuse the president by singing "An Coons Look Alike to Me" whenever colored person. coachman or domestic appeared about her cage.
 MT. AlIison's Shadow Portraits.
 Portraits of President Roosevelt and ex-President Mckinley have been dis covered in the imitation marble walls of Statuary hall in the capitol. They were not ordered by Uncle sam. and they will not be paid for. They were painted into the walls by MT. Allison. the artist who painted the big pillars and walls in imitation of marble.
 The two pictures of the present ex. ecutive and his predecessor are similar shadow drawings. Both portraits are excellent. and. while it is difficult to discover them at first. so skillfully are they hidden, when seen they loom up lifeiike in size and can be observed nT aI1 hof or representatives now adorned by marbh monuments of the nations great men
 Futcre Newspapers.
 What will the newspaper of the fu- lure be like? Mir Victor Murdoch, ad-