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Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-07-18

S. N. Simpson arrived from
Kansas City last week to spend
the summer. In speaking for Ida
ho Springs, he said: II have
always been in love with your little
city and can see for it a very pros
porous future" Mr.. Simpson is
a real estate man of Kansas City,
but he finds time each year to visit
this place. Together with H.
Montague he some years ago in
vested in some valuable ground
covering Filtration Heights, and
in 1901 the same was plated and
called "Pine Slope addition. "
Some lots were purchased by diff
ferent parties and handsome cot
tages erected thereon. In the
course of human events it is con-
fidently expected by Mr.. Simpson
to see the whole of that beautiful
peak covered by tourist and re-
sident cottages, with maybe large
hotel or so In fact, if Mr.. Simp-
son has hobby, it is upon the sub
ject of hotels. Two years ago he
pointed out the site that he had
selected for a hotel, at a point Just
below the reservoirs. 1t is al
beautiful location and commands
one of the grandest mountain views
that we have seen even in this
scenic resort. Outside that, the
facilities for obtaining all the
water needed are ample, either for
domestic use, irrigation or protect
ion from fire. Supplementing his
hotel project, he suggested that an
electric railway along Chicago and
Soda gulches and traversing the
slopes of the peak would be a
never-ending attraction for tourists
AT that time the suggestion of
hotel even looked a trife visionary,
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-07-18
Round Trip Excursion to Salt Lake City
and Ogden Via Union Pacific.

$500. Tickets sold daily June Ist to
September goth, good for return until
October 3Ist.
$1,000. Tickets sold June "a, rs, Aug
ust2, IS, 81, September to II, good for
return within 80 days from date of sale.
$500. Tickets sold July I3 to 18th,
good for return until August 3Ist.
Liberal stop overs allowed on any OF
nese tickets either going or returning or
10Th directions. See that your tickets
read via Union Pacific. For further in
formation call on your local agent or ad-
dress E. r. Griffin, general agent, gal
Seventeenth Street, Denver.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-07-18
Spend Sunday in Denver Now.

Train So, scheduled ont of Denver at
500 p. M. via the Colorado & Southern
for Golden, Idaho Springs, Black Hawk,
Central City and Silver Plume, will be
held on Sundays during the summer
months until $40 p. nj.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-07-18
Cholera Infantum.

This has long been regarded as one
Of the most dangerous and fatal dis
eases to which infants are subject. 1t
can be cured, however, when properly
treated. All that is necessary is. to
give Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil, as
directed with each bottle. and a cure
is certain. For sale by J. ]. Sherwin,
druggist.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-07-18
Spend Sunday in Denver Now.

rain So, scheduled out "f Denver at
3.2o p. IN. via the Colorado & Southern
for Golden, Idaho Springs, Black Hawk,
Central City and Silver Plume, will be
held on SUNDAYS during the summer
months until 6:2o p. m.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-07-18

Mrs. Thomas Green, daughter of c. f.
Fish, will next Monday move into the
latter's residence, in East Idaho, and
keep house for him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
A Great Scheme.

In one of the government departments is
a clerk from one Of the maple sugar states
who has spent many wakeful nights and
many daylight hours calculating how much
money there is in the crossing of sugar
cane and the vanilla bean. There are mil
lions in the proposition he said to a Star
reporter, land I'm going to see If cannot
get the Department of Agriculture to take
the matter up scientifically. submitting to
it all the ideas in my possession. 1 am
confident that the sugar cane and the plant
from which the vanilla bean is grown can
be amalgamated so that the flavor of the
bean can be injected into the sugar cane
This would make the grandest sugar and
syrup in the history of the world. 1t would
produce an article that would be worth
billions suppose it would do away with
the maple sugar industry, with which my
ather grandfathers and nearly all my an
cestors for many years have been identi-
fled hut all the same, l believe the scheme
is practicable and that there are millions
of dollars in it If II can be made to mate
rialiZei 1 think almost any chump can be
made to see that The Department of Ag-
in the way of intermiXture of plants and
vegetables So are private tinkerers. I no.
tice that some fellow has developed the po-
tato-tomato a plant that grows potatoes
underground and tomatoes above ground.
IT such a thing as that can be accomplished
can see no reason why my idea could not
he carried out 1t might take years of ex-
perimenting to do 1t, but the man who
stuck to the job would succeed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
That Unlucky Number.

"Newspaper men are comparatively free
from superstition as a rule said one of the
craft. discussing with others of the pro-
fession a few days ago some of the strange
things he had witnessed during his news
paper career, "but the number 10 has it's
queer side for even the most cynical of
newspaper writer's. This may not be true
as to room 10 In a hotel or the number
when applied to other things that report
ers and correspondents come in contact
with. 1t does apply, however, to the menu-
scripts of the writer's. have known MANY
newspaper men who could not be induced to
stop a story they were preparing on page ID
of their manuscript. II they saw story
was going to wind up on page Is they
would resort to numerous expedients to
carry 1t over to page IA or would number
the last page 121a. At any rate copy read
ers and editors in newspaper Offices will
find that there is widespread effort on the
part of reporters to wind up story on any
page of the manuscript but page ID. Just
why this queer little-i idea should stick in the
heads of reporters don't know, unless an
idea that to stop the story on page 10
would cause bad luck somewhere. The
feeling of those have talked with Is an
parently not based on anything that ha s
happened to any one who had the hardi-
hood to chop his stories off on the unlucky
page referred to, but on a general fear that
something may happen IL this Is done
Outside of this superstition newspaper men
are as free from 'spooky' notions as men
Of any profession in the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
IN LABOR CIRCLES

Columbia Typographical Union, No. 101,
has begun the agitation for a universal
eight-hour workday in the District of Co
lumbia 1t is stated that delegations have
of late conferred with many of the local
employers relative to the matter With
the exception of those printers who are
employed in the local newspaper Offices
the local labor journal office and the gov
eminent printing office and it's branches,
the members of Columbia Union are now
working nine hours a day.
The union has within the past five years
brought nearly every printer in the city
into Its fold, and the present Is regarded
as most opportune time for the begin
ming of an eight-hour movement The
proprietors of three large establishments
have submitted a proposition to the Of
ficers of the union to the effect that they
will reduce the hours of labor twenty min
utes each year for three years, thus bring
ing days work down to eight hours 1t
is not known how this proposition is re-
garded by the union, but in view of the
standing of the craft throughout the coun-
try 1T is believed the employers will ac-
quiesce in the request for an eight-hour
day.
Such reduction in hours would by no
ship. since the larger proportion is carried
on the rolls of the government printing Of
flee and the local newspapers.
There is not the least apprehension
among labor leaders of national promi-
nence," said Mr.. James Duncan third vice
president of the American Federation of
Labor. to Star reporter today las to
the elimination of the crusade being waged
by the politicians, manufacturers and cap
italists of Canada. against national and in
ternational unionism within the confines
of that dominion. The bill introduced in
the provincial legislature of Quebec through
the influence of prejudiced parties has
passed its second reading. 1t will, accord
ing to law, have another reading and to
become operative will have to be ratified
by the house of commons of Canada The
latter action is without doubt extremely
improbable. and in my opinion the docu-
ment is destined to go to the official waste
basket The bill in question provides that
none other than a resident voter of Cam
ada shall organize workmen"
In answering mis- own inquiry: How ab-
surd such a movement is Mr.. Duncan
quoted a Canadian labor leader. as fol-
lows:
1T is to laugh to read the attacks from
all quarters on the foreign agitators who
should be debaIred from coming into Can
ada to exercise any authority over Can
adam workmen.' If the bringing of these
/ into Canada to perform. from the workers
viewpoint. legitimate business in connec-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
Private Residences.
Like a Big Pump.

The largest pump in the world, without
the shadow of a doubt, is in Washington.
1t is as familiar to the residents of the city
as is Pennsylvania avenue, and it constf-
tutes one of the chief objects of interest to
the thousands of tourists who visit the cap
ital city annually, yet probably not one
person in a hundred who is familiar with
this largest pump in the world will readily
recognize it by that designation.
The piston of this great pump is 500 feet
long, and about twenty minutes are reQuir-
ed for it's rise and descent. Fhe amount of
power necessary to operate this piston is
enormous. 1t is operated by electricity.
With every ascent of the piston-rod this
pump takes up an immense and precious
bulk, and with every descent it throws
forth the largest stream of any pump in
the world-a stream of animated human
beings.
This great pump Is the Washington monu-
ment.
From any elevation in the city from which
a view of the foot of the monument may be
obtained it's characteristics as a pump are
suggested almost daily. Particularly is this
true when there are large excursions of
visitors to the city. From a distance may
be seen a long line of people. stretching at
times, nearly all the way around the base
of the monument. When the elevator
piston Is about to ascend a stream of peo-
pie is seen to rush into the small doorway
of the monument, as though sucked up by
tremendous upward pressure. A few min
utes later the elevator-piston descends and
seemingly forces out stream of people,
who scatter in all directions down the hill
about the base of the monument. Another
stream Of human beings is taken I'D
through the doorway as the line moves
forward around the base of the gigantic
structure. The pumping operation is, re-
peated hour after hour, and day after day.
and to the observer of the incident from a
distance it is easy to characterize the
monument as an immense pump without
much stretching of the imagination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

The pretty fashion of bare tables for
luncheon and often breakfast as well,
which prevails especially in summer con-
tributes also to the pleasing idea of cool
ness, and is a boon to the housekeeper as
well, provision being once made in the
way of doylies large and small, centerpieces
and tray-shaped mats.
Hitherto linen of degree of fineness has
been the only allowable fabric for table use.
trimming coarse decoration on coarse ma
terial is finding favor for the table as well
as for the summer wardrobe.
Slavak Embroidery.
One house which shows novelties of all
kinds is selling quantities of Slavak work
for dining room use. This Is embroidery in
very heavy white cotton on a cloth resem-
bling unbleached sheetng, and not of a
very fine quality, either.
The designs are very much like those in
Bulgarian work. which are usually done in
blue and red cotton on similar fabric.
centerpfece and a dozen plate doylies
make the set, which come in round and
square shapes, and the centerpieces are of
two sizes.
These are inexpensive and with the gay
and not fine china mentioned above make
bility combining with fashion for the I'M
conventional life so desirable during the
holiday season of the warm months.
It's Good Qualities.
All this combination of durable cheap
and easily replaced table furnishing should
be appreciated as rest to the town house
keeper, for unless such concessions be made
to her the burden of all-the- year-round du-
ties often proves too much for over-tired
nerves, and a collapse is the consequence
toward which the care for a beautiful and
delicately appointed table may well be one
of the causes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
Likes Lively Music.

President Roosevelt is lover of 'jingly'
music" This remark was made to a Star
reporter by resident of this city who
observed President Roosevelt closely as he
reviewed the great parade at the dedica-
ton of the Louisiana purchase exposition
in st. Louis. There were many bands In
the parade, and most of them as they
passed the PRESIDENTS reviewing stand
played their 'grandest air-martial music
with majestic measures. These bands
made no visible impression on President
Roosevelt, but when a band from Denver
came up and struck up Garry Owen" with
lots of action in it, the President jumped
up from his chair and began to clap his
hands like enthusiastic scheolboy. He
kept UP the applauding, smiling his appre-
citation also, until the band had passed.
This same occurrence took place later in
the review. The quick. lively march caught
the President at once, and it might be well
for Washington music directors to take a
few mental notes on the Presidents tastes
in arranging programs in the future"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

BARRIERS local unions, Nos. 800 and 305,
met in joint session recently and drafted
the first sixteen articles of new set OF
bylaws. 1t was also unanimously decided
that every union shop shall hereafter close
at o'clock pm. on legal holiday if 1t
falls on Saturday; on all pther holidays, at
II o'clock noon. The report of the secre-
tary of Local Union, No. ',239, showed an
increase in membership of twenty-five
within two weeks and that seventeen more
employers had signed the union contract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
THE THORNTON TRACT. NEAR OLD LOG CABIN
ap11- s-13t

Mr. Kefersten to devise a plan for the
treatment of this property which Will not
make it necessary to disturb the house and
will practically leave the grounds unoccu-
pied.
The alterations will be confined to the
interior of the house, so as to make 1t
available for use as an apartment house
There will be five apartments of six rooms
each provided, and the old porches, with
their outlook on the lawns, and even the
conservatory, will remain for the comfort
and convenience of the new occupants
Similar in style with the old house will be
the new structure, which will encircle the
outer edge of the lawn. 1t will also be ar
ranged in suites of rooms. 1t will be two
stories in height and the walls Will be COW
cred with pebble dash and will be treated
in the broad style which is characteristic
of the Italian method.
The outlook from the new part will be on
the old lawn, and it is the intention to
save, as far as possible, the trees which
are on the place, so that there will be not
only an eXpanse of green grass but also
the grateful shade of spreading oaks and
naples AS there will be space between
the lines of the property and the walls Of
the new part, it will stand detached and
will have the further advantage of almost
sylvan surroundings.
Sales of Realty.
The following sales were made by Stone
& Fairfax, real estate brokers, during the
week: For F. A. Blundon, five houses, Nos
so, 30, a. IS and 60 T street northwest
So, 600; being 5000 each. For L. E.
Breuninger, 1881 Princeton street, Columbia
Heights, $3.50. For John L. Warren, No
81 northwest, $4,000: % U northwest,
S4350. For E. c. Jordan, 1910 F northeast.
Private Residences.
An addition is to be made to the number
of houses in the vicinity of Sheridan Circle
by the Potomac Realty Company. This con-
Germ has purchased from Henry A. Willard
four lots on the north side of r street, west
of 22d street, and at the intersection to the
north of the former street with Sheridan
Circle Each lot is J0X9Ila feet, and the
price paid was $3.50 per square foot, which
aggrega ties SOS $50. 1t is the purpose of the
new owners to erect residences on this prop
erty.
Plans are being prepared for house to
be erected for Mr.. Joseph Beale on the
north side of r street and fronting partly
or that street and partly on Massa chusetts
avenue, which leaves Sheridan Circle at
that point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
The Old Cooke Place.

C. B. Keferstein. architect, is engaged in
working out plan to utilize the old Cooke
place, at the southeast corner of Both and
@ streets. This property has a frontage of
2O2 feet on Both street and $50 feet on @
street. and while the old house, which was
designed in the Italian villa style, is I'M
usually roomy, especially for city home,
there is still ample space left for lawns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

At the regular meeting of Retail Clerks
Union, No. 262, George B. Squires who
recently resigned as it's president, was
presented with handsomely inscribed gold
ring as mark of appreciation and esteem
of the membership. Mr.. Squires served
five terms as president Of the body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

81 thought Smithers had given up his
horse in favor OF automobiles. but 1 saw
him buying heavy pair of animals today
"Oh. they are merely to bring the auto
mobiles home when they break down.
Cincinnati Tribune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
Bare Tables,

which we depend so much in warm
weather.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-10-01
Germany's War Hoard.

1t is not generally known that
Germany has intact the indcm.
nifty which was paid by France
after the great war OF 1870. In the
Juliustrum of Spandau this enor.
nous sum in gold, amounting to
fG.OO0,0OO in value, lies hidden in
great boxes. The little town, Is
miles outside Berlin, is most heav.
lily g%arrisoned. and there are sew.
eral giant arsenals and ammuni.
ton stores, so that any scheme to
lay hold of the sum Of money
would be doomed to defeat at the
outset. The idea in boarding IN
this vast sum is original. 1t is
that there may be money ready at
any moment to provide for one
weeks operations in the way of
mobilization. ..'..... 0
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-10-01
THE CHIEF TOWER DIRECTOR.
Worth a Passing Thought When
Rolling Into a Big Depot. =

The chief tower director! You
who sit quietly in your car, give
no thought to the mind which
causes the train a second or so
after it leaves the station to jolt
and shunt this way and that until
it finally rolls swiftly, safely and
easily out of the yard in it's ap-
pointed track. Indeed, the
chances are that you never heard
of the tower director. Yet, says
Eserybody's Magazine, the liza:
bilities are that, did this. man
make ever sc slight an error, suf.
fer, for one instant ever SO infn.
itesimal a lesion in memory, your
train would pile itself in a pic.
turesque. mass of wreckage.
1t is a little two-story. affair,
the tower. Below are the assist.
ant train-dispatcher and his an.
sistants; above, in a little bay
window Of glass built over the
track, sits the chief tower direc.
tor. Directly behind him-sug.
costing the looms in a wooden
mill-arc. the pneumatic inter.
locking machines which operate
all the switches in the yard. At
the directors elbow are tcle.
phone and speaking-tubes and
telegraph instruments and push.
buttons innumerable, while at the
north end of the office is the desk
of the neutrality-suspicious., who
seems to do nothing but answer
telephones. or ring them, or push
electric buttons, or write on slips
of paper which he generally sends
over to the tower director.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-10-01
HOUSES OF THE MOORS.
Are Kept Beautifully Clean and Sweet
The Oriental Roof.

In Fee, the capital of Morocco,
most of the houses consist of sew
eral stories, each being provided
with a light veranda running
round it and connecting the
rooms. All the windows and doors,
says the Chicago Daily News,
open out into the patio, or court
gard, the windows opening in the
upper stories being covered with
close trellis work. All the houses
have fiat roofs, with a wall some
four to six feet high running
around, and from four p. m. until
sunset the roofs are given over to
the ladies exclusively, who eau
walk about and take the fresh air
without being seen by any of the
opposite sex. This reservation is
q law which is never broken and
no man would be guilty of being
seen on his or any other roof dur
ing the forbidden hours. Owing
to the fact that the women of the
house are not allowed to be seen
by any other man than the lord
and master, all domestic Offices
are situated away from the house
proper. In many Of the larger
houses, besides the water foun.
tains, others playing scent or
scented water are to be found.
Sections of the courtyard are also
slightly sunk and these portions
are filed with scented oil, which
is used to perfume the rooms.
The Moors are exceptionally par.
ticular in discarding their foot.
gear before entering a room or
crossing a rug or carpet; they
even change slippers before enter
ing the courtyard from the street
Thus the houses II kept beauti
fully cleanand sweet and are not
as many people would suppose
must. o. close w.. .-.----,. w.. .,-~:
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-10-01
!. CARRIES HAT IN A N
Lawyer Won't Cover Head for Fee.
~. Of. Getting Bald.

.Ha-"
There is a man in Macon, Mo-,
who hasn't worn a hat for Is
years. lie doesn't live out at the
asylum, either, says the New
York Sun. William Pierson
Beach was born in Newark, n. j.,
April -, 1910. He made his way
west in. 1855, by. selling books
along the route, and to-day he is
one of the prominent lawyers Of
the county, and is sup to his eyes,
in business. But he won't wear a
hat. -. =, H..
To escape criticism for cxag.
gcrated' economy, he always car.
rics in his hand wherever he goes
the latest thing in mems head.
wear, but it never under any cir
cumstanccs gets on his head.
, Two men made a wager on Mr..
Beach's eccentricity one day. One
bet lie could create a sensation
that would cause Mr.. Beach to
put his hat where it belonged for
a moment. The other bet he
couldn't. The challenger APP
preached Mr.. Beach with both
hands extended, inviting a double
shake. Mr.. Beach dropped his
hat on the sidewalk and greeted
the challenger in the same man
ner that the welcome was prof.
fered. ".s.E. g n
h." If it's raining or showing, Mr..
Beach defers enough to. .conven.
tionality to carry an umbrella.
But no blizzard has been severe
enough to make him cover his
head. !
His reason for not wearing a hat
is that he thinks thereby he as
sures the retention of his hair. At
63 his hair is as strong and album
dant as it ever was.
ut may look strange to see o
man tramping through crowds al
ways without a haiti he said, re.
Gently, "but I'll leave it to any
person of common sense whether
it's as odd az q bald-headed man.