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estly requested. The rehearsal next week
will be at Manning hall, and Director-in
Chief W. r. Chapman will be present.
The letter boxes in the postoffice are be-
ing remembered by order of he depart
ment. The arrangement of the interior
OF the office necessitated the shifting of
the boxes in such manner as to make
consecutive numbering impossible with
out REMEMBERING, and it was finally
decided that renum bering would, in the
long run, be the best. Some confusion is
inevitable. The post master begs that
patrons Of the office who are box-renters
will be as patient as possible while the
work is going on. Y
Fred H. Lord, assistant postmaster of
Ellsworth, who has faithfully filled that
position for the past seventeen years, is
taking the first regulation vacation that
he has had during his long term Of SER
vice. He left Sunday for the Moosehead
lake region, and arrived at Greenvilie
Junction Monday night. On Tuesday he
left for Seboomook, where he will make
his headquarters, radiating from there
to the many points Of interest in that
section. Mr.. Lord left clerkship at the
Bangor house in 1886 to take his present
position. He has served under Post
masters A. w. Greely, A. r. Devereux, H
II. Harden and the present incumbent.
Several from Ellsworth attended the
Labor Day celebration in Bangor Mop-
dey. In the hose reel contest the Dirigos
of Brewer, pulled out first in 43 seconas,
with Orono second iB A seconds. L. the
100-yard dash Charles w. Hurley, of Els
worth, won in 10 8 seconds, with G. A.
Kavanaugh, OF Orono, second, and Willis
Dunn, of Ellsworth, third. The Bangor
Ne,os says: "The sports dragged, and
ended, as usual, in scrap. And, as u.s.
ual, Eagle hose team, of Orono, figured
prominently in it," The Brewer team
had trou BILE at the start, and claimed an
other run. OF course Orono kicked, but
it did no good. The Brewer team got a
second try and did the trick in 43 seconds
thus winning first place.
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COMING EVENTS.

Wednesday, Sept. 16, at Hancock hall
"Uncle Terry" under management of L.
G. Beckwith.
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. % and
24-Anuuai fair of Hancock county agyS-
cultural society at Mountain park.
Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Sept. %.
20 and 30-Maine music festival at BAN
gor.
Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept 20 and
80, at Amherst-Annual fair OF the North
erD Hancock agricultural society.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Oct. n,
10 and IA at Hancock hall-Annual fair of
st. Joseph's Cat holic society.
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NEW ADyERTISEMENTs THIS WEEK.
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ears open, and their mouth shut. He
impresses upon them the fact that they
are the employees. the servants of the
people. and must act accordingly.
He tells them that they must be ready
to take a certain amount of abuse.
When called upon to arrest drunken
man. he is likely to swear at them and
call them all manner OF names. but
they must make allowances for the fact
that he is drunk
They are warned not to use revolvers
and billies except when necessary. In
the case OF minor crime. such as a
petty larceny. IL is better that the man
should get away than to have the po-
liceman perhaps kill him or MAIN him
for life. The baton also must be used
with Judgment. The idea is for the po-
liceman to get his man and preserve the
peace with as little use of force as pos
sible. OF course, when dealing with
dangerous criminals, the policeman may
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a revelation OF what can be accomplish
ed by system and organization, those
twin virtues of the American business
man. In the ONCE are employed about
220 men and women, including engineers,
draughtsmen, computers, bookkeepers.
stenogTaphers. and photographers. The
Supervising Architect is, Of course. the
lord high chief. but under him is chief
executive officer who controls the policy
OF the office, its personnel and discip-
line. the letting OF contracts and adjust
ment Of claims. Then there are the
accounts division and the law division.
whose names imply their functions. and
finally the technical division. In this
latter there are many wheels within
wheels. For instance. there is an OH
ciaI designated as the chief of engineer
ing and draughtsmen. who has a "staff"
consisting of some eighty draughtsmen,
designers. engineers, photographers,
tracers. and printers. Next there is the
computing DIVISION, where dozen men
and women write all the specifications
and make all the estimates Last comes
the inspection and repair division, where
there are machines for testing all kinds
Of materials and a complicated system
for directing the work of the superin-
tendents and inspectors. whose duty It
is to care for and keep in repair the
500 buildings which Uncle Sam owns in
the various. cities, great and small.
New York's "Bie PULL
As might be expected, New York State
has had the largest contributions from
Uncle Sans pocketbook for Government
buildings. Then comes Pennsylvania,
and, in turn. Ohio. Massachusetts,, and
Missouri. North Dakota has had the
least money spent upon it for buildings.
Since the present Supervising Architect
took charge of the Office all the new
buildings designed have been of the
classical style of architecture. OF all
the buildings in the United States, the
most famed. the most admired, and he
most popular with the masses as well
as with those who are by profession
architects, are the Capitol and the
Treasury buildings at Washington. and
these structures. particularly the latter,
now serve as models.
During the coming year the Govern
ment will make an important departure
in the method Of erecting public build
ings Instead OF having all the buildings
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the recommendation of the Major and
superintendent. There is no period of
probation for a policeman. and his ap-
pointment inducts him directly into the
service and lasts until he sees At to
terminate it by resignation or until he
may be discharged for cause or retired
for good behavior.
When an applicant is notified that ne
has been selected for appointment, he
appears at headquarters and is sworn
in by the chief clerk of the department,
Arthur Kemp. The oath in substance
is that the man will support the Con-
stitution of the United States and faith
fully perform his duties as a policeman
according to rules laid down in the po-
lice manual
The next step in the making of a
policeman is a private interview with
Major Sylvester, who generally spends
half an hour giving the novice instruc-
lions as to his duties as a policeman.
He tells the men TO keep their eyes and
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Supervising Architect would prove be-
yond the capability of any human being
The approval of sites and thousand
and one business details connected with
the provision of new Government build
ings form portion OF the duties of the
Secretary of the Treasury, although as
matter of fact, the Cabinet Board. so
called, consisting OF the Secretary OF
the Treasury, the Secretary OF the In
terror, and the Postmaster General, is
supposed to pass upon every set of
plans and append their signatures to the
drawings as the X OF official ap-
prevail After this iormality has been
gone through with the Supervising Arch
tect has working plans prepared. calls
Cor bids, awards the contracts, and starts
actual constructor.
Uncle Sans Business Office"
The establishment of the Supervising
Architect at Washinston-the business
office OF Uncle Sam. Builder"-affords
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responsibility of working out the big
gest Government contract is well
equipped for the herculean task. He
secured the position in 1897. winning
out in a competition with sixty other
architects representing all sections Of
the country. Mr.. Taylor performs for
a salary Of $4,000 per year work in the
supervision of the preparation of plans
and the supervision of the erection OF
buildings which no private architect
would undertake for less than $25, 900
year. That he leads a strenuous life
may be imagined from the fact that he
visits every site selected before actual
construction is commenced and many
times afterward. Now that there is a
prospect that Uncle Sam will have to
build number of Government buildings
in Alaska. Porto Rico. Guam. Hawaii
and the Philippines it begins to look as
though the tasks incumbent upon the
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the sectional jealousies Of that and later
times, and was completely suspended
for dozen years by the war. By that
South. and il was In measure shut of.
But since 1870 the South has been grid
ironed by railroads, and they have finally
passed into the hands OF the Hebrew
bankers. These men have no sentiment
but TO make money. They are arrang
ing matters so that the Southern roads
shall run on to New York. George
Gould. inspired by sentiments similar
to his competitors. is pushing the great
Wabash system into Baltimore and
Washington. It will come here. despite
what anyone says to the contrary. It
will be here by the time the union sta
ton is done. probably over the Norfolk
and Western or its cognate branches.
II sometimes smile at the exceeding
righteousness of some of our good peo-
pie, like the president of the Board OF
Commissioners. who express the idea
that Washington is to be preserved as
city of residents with the whirr and
hum of factory wheels and the smoke
and din of the railroads far away on the
hills. Don't fool yourself Washington
will be full OF railroad people from now
on. The dumping of'the first carload OF
Italians in South Washington to take
up the work of digging for the new
structures was the beginning of a move
ment which will ell the Capital CITY
with the scum of southeastern Europe.
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tories. II will then be a question not OF
as high tariff as the traffic will stand,
but a cheapening of the rates to a point
near the cost of operation. That will
lead inevitably to Government ownership
Of traffic lines. and their operation as
national undertaking.
But to return to Washington. II you
will look at a good railroad map you
will see that the traffic of the country
finally centers in New York. To use
an old phrase all roads lead to Rome.
that is. TO Gotham. To do so there is
one great section of them that must
run South. They come down through
Philadelphia and Baltimore to Wash
ington. Some OF them branch of TO the
west from Philadelphia, others at Balti-
more. but the real dividing point for all
the roads is at Washington. Like the
arm of a man is the immense trunk lines
running from here to New York. Here
however. is the wrist and the hand
separates the lines to the South and the
West. There is the great Southern
system, the Seaboard Air Line. the
Chesapeake and Ohio, the Baltimore ant
Ohio. the Norfolk and Western, and IN
future years some of the roads beyone
the Mississippi to find their natural out.
let to the seaboard here.
The forces which will make Washing.
ton great railroad center have beer
silently working out since 1910. Thsf
men began to extend railroads into IN,
SOUTH The movement was hindered hy
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give the idea OF magnitude, as though
there was enough land in the District
TO afford space for the purpose Of giving
comfort and room to the thousands who
regard Washington as the mecca of
their pilgrimages. There will be suites OF
waiting rooms, so that the passengers
will feel they are not huddled under one
roof. Ticket Offices Will be models of
their kind. All the accessories of the
place Will be on a scale much larger
than city the size of Washington
would ordinarily demand In one part of
the station Will be a large set of apart
ments for the accommodation OF the
President and other notable travellers
who are not TO mix with the crowd II
the King of England should come to
America, or the Car Of Russia. the
apartments at their disposal upon arriv-
ing or departing would excel any 10 DC
found in their own lands. While these
arrangements are proposed for the
special comfort OF distinguished persons.
the ffumblest citizen OF the Republic viii
be cared for in a way to satisfy his re-
quirements. The union station. while a
grand building with the most costly
furnishings and appointments to be
found anywhere. will be democratic
place where all travellers viii feel ct
ease. and where their convenience has
been made special study.
The new terminal viii be in all re-
spects worthy OF Washington and worthy
Of the greatest nation on the globe
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ing Of the Government activities. The
Navy and War Departments build and
control their own buildings, which is
obviously necessary, since many of them
are Notifications or other structures
which require the exercise Of special
technical knowledge of a high order.
but all the other Government struc-
lures, such as postoffices and custom
houses. are planned and erected under
the jurisdiction OF the Treasury De-
partment, there being assigned to this
work division of the great department
known officially as the "ofice of the
Supervising Architect This institution
has. since its establishment. expended
upward of $3.50 100000 in purchasing
sites and erecting thereon public
buildings Of one kind or another.
The Supervisiag Architect.
]. Knox Taylor. the Supervising
Architect. who has on his shoulders the
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That His Lot IS Not Happu One Is Indicated bu the Fact Tha
There Are No Applicants for the Twenty-Five Vacancies
to Be Filled on the Washington Police Force.

and forward 1t to the District Com
missioners. From this list the ap-
pointments are made. Both the ply
steal examination and the civil service
test are quite severe. aud the applicant
who passes is pretty sure to make a
good policeman.
After being placed on the eligible list,
a careful inquiry is made by the depart
ment as to the character. habits, and
general standing of the applicant. II
It is found that any misrepresentation
has been made by the man. that he is
addicted to the use OF intoxicants to a
harmful degree, or is otherwise the vic
tim of habits which would impair his
usefulness on the force, his name is re-
jected.
Sworn in by Chief Clerk Kemp.
Not until one has passed successfully
this threefold examination is he really
eligible for appointment, and that is
done by the District Commissioners on
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people who built them or through whose
territory they run? PENNSYLVANIA has
lost Its railroad TO New York bankers
the GGarretts do not own enough of the
stock of the Baltimore and Ohio system
to cut any figure in the councils of the
company. The Southern railroads are
owned by Hebrews. and the Western
roads by bankers, many of whom were
never west of the boundary line between
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
New Formative Influences.
Peculiar influences are at work in the
railroad field. The recent combinations
OF properties are tending first to great
unifcation of traffic systems. in which
trunk lines will fit into the geography
Of the country, and then to Government
ownership. Just now the buying out
Of the railroad systems and their solidi.
hcation into systems which reach 10 the
producing centers and concentrate AT
the seaboards is by men who will make
money for the investors. The ultimate
object is to gather wealth from the
traffic business. This squints in two d.
rections. One l have mentioned thar
OF running the lines SO as to cheanep
the cost of operation, the other to get
as much as possible out OF the people
Tor carrying the freight After q while
the latter movement will amount to a
tyranny. and the idea will dawn upon
statesmen that the primary purpose OF
traffic lines is 20 serve the producing
interests. in other words, the farmers
the miners the millers. and the fac
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the first care of the engineers. With
this as a basis they worked out to the
building. the train sheds. and other ac-
cessories. The main idea was to afford
way for the entry of the traffic of the
roads. and the grand building which is
to rise on Massachusetts, Avenue was,
so TO speak. a secondary consideration.
1t will be the fitting finale OF a system
Of railroad transfer which bothered the
brains of engineers for months before
any thought was given to Its magnifi-
cent proportions and elaborate ornamen-
tation. In the minds of the railroad peo-
pie the tunnel. viaduct. yards. and ap-
proaches are of greater Importance than
the building of the station.
Plans for the Station.
The plan of the station. however, is on
an elaborate scale COMFORTING with the
idea of Washington as a seat of gov
eminent. 1t will be built large and Will
embody the best thought of the archi-
tect. The building will be as imposing
almost, as the Capitol itself Whether OF
marble. granite or limestone it will be
beautiful and satisfy the taste of the
most critical artist. 1t will follow the
general lines of the architecture of the
Capitol, which is broad aud fiat. The
front will stretch across $50 feet OF
space. with towers at the corners, and
grand facade extending over about
one-third of the space. and will contain
the front entrances. There will be many
others. and. within. the N2rridors viii
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Some OF the men who wish to become
patrolmen make great efforts to bring
influences to bear on the Commissioners
and others in order to gain their ap-
pointments. They ask their friends in
political, business, and fraternaI society
circles TO call on the authorities, or
write to them or behalf OF the would-be
patrolmen- Clerks and other city off,
Gals receive such requests from their
friends. Pulls of all kinds are at
tempted, and the weak efforts OF some
of the applicants who are not skilled in
such business afford much amusement
others, however, bring so much .infiu-
ence to bear that their efforts prove an
noying.
It has been charged In Washing
ton. as In other large cities, that
places on the police force cannot be OBJ
tanned without pull. Such statements
usually come from disappointed seekers
for positions. and such men are often
bitter in their denunciations. But it is
evident that with the system followed by
the Commissioners. the applicants who
possess real merit have every oppor-
tunity to show IL. in contrast with the
men who lack II. and influence and pull.
no matter how strong, find II decidedly
difficult to make much Roadway toward
landing weak applicant. The efficiency
OF the District department is an elo-
quent argument for the care that is tax
en- in making appointments.
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less in magnitude than the station
building. The probability is that this
structure will be let TO a separate con-
tractor. This would save time. AS soon
as the necessary grading is done, after
the building OF the retaining walls. and
as soon as the north walls of the build
ing are above the line of the sheds. this
work can be started and go on at the
same time. The train sheds will occupy
vastly more ground than the station
building. They will be supported on
stone foundations and the framework
will be of steel with immense trusses on
steel pillars. The roof Will stretch over
many acres upon the framework De
meath, and will be of iron. II is prob
able that some bridge building company
will secure the contract. The tracks,
freight handling devices and passage
ways for passengers and baggage will be
constructed under the immediate super
vision of the company. This part OF the
work requires the minutest care, and ex-
pert engineers will watch every move of
the laborers. as they prepare the ways
which in future will convey the people
of the world into one of the finest rail-
road stations on the planet.
The track plans have already been
studied out with a view to the QUICK
handling OF trains and baggage. Every
detail Of this part OF the station was
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n old Washingtonian whose mem

A n old Washingtonian whose mem
~ cries run back about fifty years
was standing the other day on
the site of the proposed union station,
looking at the workmen tearing down
houses and clearing away the trees for
the new Improvement. He watched
the workmen silently for some time,
when a friend accosted him and asked
whether he was deploring the tearing
down OF old homes or dreaming OF the
future when the trains would be run
ming high in the air above where he
stood.
The old man declared that the latter
would be nearer the line of his medita-
tions. 4 was thinking" he said. that
Washington is taking steps now which
viii make It the chief railroad center
IN the East. Everything points that
way. Within the next few years II will
be the terminal Of all the Southern and
FIVE of the big Western lines. This
union station, which Congress has de-
creed shall be open TO every railroad
when IT is built. Will within the genera
ton now living. be as fun OF railroad
life as any station on. the continent
u have been a student Of railroad
building ever since the civil war, and
I have studied the subject for a long
time previous TO that time, and do Won
know that the railroad interests OF the
country are now in the hands of stranR-
ers, so 10 speak. and not one OF the big
lines Is owned or controlled by the