St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-08-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Especial Correspondence


who has long advocated an improve
ment of that particular branch OF the
police service. Since the new squad
has been on duty on the principal
thoroughfares of the city 1t has cor
rected a large number of abuses OF
the police regulations.
The charge of maintaining the
handle bars of his bicycle on a plane
four inches below the plane OF the
saddle was preferred against Charles
A. Smith in police court the other
morning, and upon conviction the de-
PENDANT was compelled to pay a hne
Of 81. The regulation was made sew
eral years ago to prevent scorchers
from colliding with pedestrians by rid
ing head down at high rate of speed.
Very few arrests have been made late
~ for this violation of the regulation.
Free Quarters For Veterans.
A large number of letters are re-
ceived from day to day by the officials
of the citizens committee in charge
of preparations for the coming ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic asking as to free quar-
tiers for veterans. To all these COM
munications reply is made that the
allotment of free quarters is eXclu"
sively under the control of the national
headquarters of the g. A. X. at Min
neapolis, and that all applications for
such quarters should be made there.
In a circular letter sent out some
time ago by the committee to the de-
partment commanders of the &. A. K.
and division commanders of the Sons
of Veterans, attention is called to this
matter. The citizens committee Is
earnestly DESTROYS that all the old
veterans who wish to come, but who
may be debarred through inability to
meet the expense of quarters while
here, may be provided for, and so ex-
presses itself in all replies to letters on
the subject.
The District a Territory.
The District commissioners have re-
ceived from Secretary of State Hay
letter similar to those sent to all gov
errors of states and territories in the
United States representing the scholar
ships offered to Americans under the
terms of the will of the late Cecil
Rhodes. Mr.. Macfarland has moved
that the papers be referred to the
hoo r1 ,nf for &c mr.
after the receipt of that the commits
sioners will formally reply to the COM
munication of Mr.. Hay.
The receipt of the letters settles the
mooted question as to whether the Dis
trict of Columbia came under the head
of a state or territory within the mean
ing of the will or was merely city.
The letter being sent to the commits
sioners by the secretary of state is ac-
cepted as evidence from high authority
that legally the District of Columbia
exists in the status of a territory Of
the United States.
District Pays Union Wages.
n response to a recent communica-
ton from James e. Mitchell, acting
secretary of the Building Trades Coun-
Gil, regarding the rate Of wages paid
to employees in the District repair
shop, the District commissioners have
forwarded to him the following men,
orandum from G. 2. Coleman, superin-
tendent of repairs:
1.-THE following mechanics employed
by this department are receiving union
wages: Carpenters, So per diem; paint
ers, $3.50; timers, $3.50; bricklayers,
$780, aad laborers, $3.50 per diem.
The only mechanics who are not paid
union wages are the plasterers. Last
summer only two applications were re-
ceived for this class of work, and in
each case $3.50 per diem was asked
! As a very small amount of plastering
| patching) has to be done the two men
who made application were employed
and gave entire satisfaction"
Night Work Mt White House.
A night force of carpenters has been
put to work on the interior of the
White House. For the first time in
the history of the old building work.
men are driving nails and manipulate
ing saws and other tools by electric
light The night force began work in
the ancient attic.
Four bedrooms, presumably all for
servants, are being built in the attic
which, before the Roosevelt admins
tration, had been used for storage pur
poses only. A driveway is building
from the White House to the eXecu
tive avenue, between the White House
and the treasury.
Estimate For Deaf and Dumb.
The initial one Of the District esti
mates for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1904, has reached the commission
ers, coming from DR.. g. M, Gallaudet
president of the Columbian Institution
For the Deaf and Dumb at Kendall
Green. DR.. Gallaudet asks that the
commissioners include in their esti
mates to congress an item Of $1,000
for the expenses attending the instruc
ton Of deaf and dumb persons admit
ted to the institution from the District
of Columbia. This amount is the same
as has been appropriated by congress
annually for several years past.
Not One Objectionable Picture.
f Two women were walking through
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