Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-03-29

luck SnOulQ not De getting MS Ir1eQQS IN
trouble"
Whats the matter with him?" inquired
another friend.
Last year he went to the races with a
sure thing and it was almost necessary
| for him to walk home He not only lost his
money, but he was a Jonah in every re-
spect The car on which he started home
broke down and then he got in an electric
vehicle became disabled he got in wagon
and the horse ran away. The wagon was
demolished and he finally got home on a
street car.
His sure things were not wanted.
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Jimmie" Garfield, to whom President
Roosevelt has offered the position of civil
service commissioner to succeed Commits
sioner Rodenberg, is said to possess many
of the characteristics of his distinguished
father. He began in public life where his
father did-the state Senate of Ohio.
In that body he served two terms and was
then hustlng candidate for the nomina-
ton for representative, being defeated by
Representative Jacob A. Beidler. Jim
mie' Garfield has an extensive law practice
in Cleveland He married a daughter of the
late John Newell. who was for years presi-
dent of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad. Mrs. Garfield is said to
be worth. a million iii her own name, in.
herited from her fathers estate
Jimmie Garfield lives at Lawnfeld,
Mentor, the home of the late President
The house has been enlarged since the for
ner Presidents death. The little frame
building which WAS his fathers study ad-
joins the residence. All the books and pa
perS of the late President are kept here
and they are in the same position as when
he left them to enter the White House.
The son has been for years a pronounced
civil service reformer
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ct rail xIyaX
crossing policemen have experienced trouble
because of the color of the helmets provid-
ed by the department.
Brown top policemen is the term ap-
piled to them. especially by violators of law
who come in contact with them.
The brown helmets, it is claimed by some
of them. interferes with their efficiency,
and they are anxious that Major Sylves-
ter shall issue an order permitting them
to have their headgear dyed.
One day last week one of the crossing
men had occasion to speak to a pedestrian
about an alleged viola ton of a police regu-
lation, and he was surprised when he was
told to go to the street corner and remain
at his post.
You have nothing to do with me-" the
officer was told. You're nothing but
brown top man.
Almost every day some of the men have
an unpleasant experience. and it Is likely
that they will appeal to the superintendent
of police or the Commissioners to change
the color of their helmets.
X
What is the matter with you all, any
how inquired the man in the loud check
suit. who is attending the races at Ben
ming. Il never seen such a town in all
my life Do you ever stop to realize that
there is not place in this whole bloomin'
town where a gent. can get In on little
game? And you claim to have 2J0, 900 peo-
pie here Why, they amt a town of 90
600 people out west what can't flush up
some kind of layout where you can get
a run for your money
They tell me here that outside of a few
little poker clubs, which are hard to get
INTO and not very exciting after you get
there, fellow cannot find a game In this
town. No faro, no keno, no wheel of for
tune, nothin' dom. Is it SOP
The listener admitted that such was gem
orally understood to be the fact. The town
! was dead slow. from that point of view.
Wen, It's an outrage, continued the
| sporting gentleman from the west. Il
| don't see how you alt stand it. You shut
/ up your saloons. too, right in the shank
| of the evening. Whoever heard of a town
| OF this size closing up the commissary at
| midnight, right on the dot? l know to my
| sorrow that it amt no bluff about that
| closing up either.
| And l understand that you all are proud
| OF your record; that you take delight to
| pointing to this here dearth Of sporting op-
| portunity. Well, you are welcome to It
| When the last heat is run I'm off for a
| more salubrious clime where a fellow has
| a chanst for his white ally
| And the gentleman with the loud check
suit walked sadly away, shaking his head
| X \ X
The work of rejuvenating the lawns In the
| Capitol grounds is now In progress, and
/ with true patriotism the seedmen. who
| have prepared the great stretch Of grass
| north Of the Senate wing, have stuck to the
| colors of the flag in their selection of a
| grass mixture. They have put in the ground
a mixture of red top, white clover and blue
| grass. This is regarded as an ideal combi-
| nation for the lawn. The enemy of the
| green sward at the Capitol Is an invasion
| of weeds. which has been fought steadily
| but which always results in q mastery OF
| the sod within a few years to such an ex-
| tent that 1t becomes necessary to play the
| fields and make up an entirely fresh lawn
| II some one could suggest a way to keen
! the obtrusiye weeds from these LONG
| stretches of lawn a great saving would be
effected, and the appearance of the Capitol
| grounds would be improved.