St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-05-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL Correspondence

,,on+ion of the baths which take up
ooodlv amount of space in the sub
,,con,ent of the capitol. They are a
LIMO honored institution and are main
toined at the governments expense for
4ho members. Care, however, has been
taken not to give undue prominence to
.bo fact that the taxpayers provide
r,,r,ntuous baths where their repre-
son+atives can go and recover from the
effects of state dinners or wilder dissi-
nations without more interruption than
AZ absolutely necessary from their Off
cial duties. The house baths are par
ticularly luxurious. The halls are car
noted with velvet which makes the
floor covering Of the committee rooms
onnear like burlap by comparison. The
+nhs are of heavy porcelain, the plumb
INC is silver plated, and all the other
furnishings are in keeping with this
o1ecance. The attendants are said to
ba +he most expert in the country, and,
while they are not carried on the pay
roll as "rubbers," masseurs, chiropo-
dists and manicures, theirs is the work
nj those specialists just the same.
ON the house side marble bathtub
mas lust been installed that is marvel
Gus in its elegance. The stone from
(which it was hewn was imported from
TtaIv. The tub was followed out by
Sand. and it's interior has been polished
until it shines like a mirror. 1t is said
To have cost over $1,000. This marble
4ub is placed in room which has a
vainscoting Of Italian marble. The
nlumbing appliances are said to be the
finest ever placed on bathtub in this
country.
walsh's Mansion and Block.
Thomas +. Walsh, the Colorado mil
lionaire, who has made his home in
Washington for the last four years, is
buiIding a mansion in the west end
which will be the most expensive, II
not the finest, in town. 1t is at the cor
ner of Massachusetts avenue and
Twenty-first street, near the homes OF
Mrs. Townsend and Mrs. Westing
house. and will have a frontage OF
eighty feet and a length Of ninety-hyt
feet. The frame will be entirely OF
steel and the materials for the walls
brick and granite, making the house
freproof.
On the first floor will be a large hal
containing a balcony for musicians
drawing, reception and dining rooms,
library and a conservatory The secont
and third floors will be devoted to thu
living rooms for the family and thei
guests. A large ballroom and a suppe
room will occupy the top floor and IL
the basement, besides the kitchen an(
other offices, a billiard room and win
closet have been provided for, TIT
house will cost in the neighborhood o
100000, and more than year will b.
required to build and decorate it.
The Colorado building office structure
also to be erected by Mr.. Walsh at tn
northeast corner OF Fourteenth and
streets, the Foundry church site, vii
be the largest building Of the sort il
Washington. Mr.. Walsh has just Sc
lected the design and the plans.
An Expensive Antique.
Because there is no record Of a nor
ey order for $15 issued seventy-thre
years ago big force of clerks in tn
postoflice department has been put
work trying to trace it. 1t is estimate
that it will cost the government 5000
salaries for clerks who are going owe
the records in an effort to find some
thing concerning this order
Representative Lands of Indiana pr
scented the order to Postmaster Genera
Payne for payment. 1t had been sci
to him by a constituent who had bee
unable to get it cashed. The order wa
issued by Asa Baker, postmaster
IMooresvile, Ind, in April, 1879. 1t
made payable to Robert Martin and
for SIS. Martin has been dead son
years. His heirs in looking over his p
,pers discovered the order. 1t was
good condition. The books kept by Ma
tin showed that he had never receive
the amount.
The heirs presented the order at Il
Westfeld Qnd) postotfice and deman
ed their money. The postmaster the
found that the postotlice at MooresVlI
had long ago been abolished. He sa
he could do nothing, and the heirs Sc
the ancient order to Representau'
Lands.
Used to n Presidents Desk.
Jimmie Garfield, as the people
Washington insist on calling the son
the murdered president, although he
now a man with tinge Of gray in
hair, was being initiated into his duti
as civil service commissioner by Pre-
dent Proctor and William Dudl
Feulke, his colleagues on the comm
sion. He had just been shown his roo
the same one in which Mr.. Rodenbe
of Illinois had worked, and Mr.. Foul
said impressively, "Mr. Garfield, y
will have the honor of sitting at t
same desk which President Roosev
used when he was member OF Il
commission"
Mr.. Garfield did not seem much
pressed. 81 am used to sitting at
desk that has been used by preside
of the limited States" he said. IL