Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-28
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police are very strict with him, but IN order
to stand them off he had in his hands an
old clay pipe with the stem broken on flush
with the bowl and he would stop passers-
by and ask them for money to buy new
pipe. at the same time exhibiting the powa
he held in his hands He usually got taS
money, or 3 cents. but 1t soon a1nouilteo
up to enough for drink
I've got good one up my sleeve, zoo,
Pat O'Brien, another of the sleuths. sus-
gested II was in the Police Court recent
ly when a man was brought before the
Judge for begging. The officer who mace
the arrest informed the court THAT the oe-
PENDANT had been visiting stores in George
town bareheaded, begging for old hats: IN
a good many places he was given mats
which he carried to a secondhand dealer
where he disposed Of them for enough
money TO pay for several GROWERS.
The life and occupation of an enlisted
man of the navy are not pictured In very
attractive colors by Surgeon L. w. Curtin,
attached to the training ship Buffalo, which
vessel Is soon to start from Hapton Roads
for the Philippines az convoy of the torpedo
boat fiotilla. assigned to Rear Admiral
Evans Asiatic fleet. In a recent report. re-
ferring to the ships of the navy. he said:
these ancient hulks are. from sanitary
standpoint the rookeries of the modern
navy They have declined to the status of
prison houses, or. perhaps more aptiy
named. houses of detention, ships no longer.
Their faults cannot be remedied. The life
of the sailor is a healthy one when he Is
afloat in q clean ship on clean water. But
ships In commission on the sea and the
same at navy yards under repairs are very
differently circumstanced. To keep a ship
and a ships company clean under the most
favorab bile conditions requires strenuous ef-
fort, and embraces no small measure OF
work I'm the daily routine. When 1t becomes
necessary to visit yards for repairS-and
considerable periods thus spent is the COM
mon experience of vessels in commission
all efforts fail. and the ships company falls
! into a condition. the squald dirtinesS of
which breeds discomfort. disease ana de-
mOTaliZatiOn, so far the economy of the
ship is concerned. That these conditions
are in large measure provocative of de-
scrtiOn seems certain. for it should be borne
in mind that the modern navy is recruited
| almost exclusively from class radically
different from that of former times, and
that the old sea-dog of seasoned physique
and tough morale whose endurance was
great has been replaced by "a type much
more Welding"
| Surgeon Curtis calls special attention TO
the necessity of maintaining an efficient
system Of forced ventilation, and he aptly
| styles the blowers the lungs of the ship.
* y x
Passengers on a Pennsylvania avenue car
the other evening, most of them on their
way to the theater. We're treated to
beautiful illustration Of the confidence and
frendliness of childhood. little girl of
four years was sitting in the front seat of
the rear car-an open one with her mother
and father. She was tastefully dressed.
A mass of golden hair tumbled down over
her shoulders, her bright eyes sparkled
and in her tiny arms she carried i'm
mense doll hugging 1t tightly to her youth
full hnSnv y1rith no ine Of har
Every seat in the car was filled by the
time the War Department building was
reached, a young man in evening dress taxi
ing the last one, which happened to be
next the child
She eyed him for a moment then coauet-
tishly smiled as she read in his kindly
eyes that he was worthy of trust. and. evil
IDENTIFY wishing to show him some mark of
especial favor. handed him the doll The
young man was visihly embarrassed, but
quickly realized that the child was tender
ing him her dearest possession, and with
friendly smile took the doll and patted It's
head. The action fully satisfied the young
mother that he was worth cultivating, so
she said
isn't 1t a be-e-oo- full doll?"
Yes. indeed" answered the young man;
but his embarrassment grew Is her childish
Voice piped the words so clearly that every
passenger heard them and began to laugh.
She, too. heard the laughter and turned
to- investigate wonder filing her big eyes.
She climbed onto the seat, and. leaning
her arms the back. gaZed quiZZCally at
the people in the car. gentleman sitting
before her spoke to her and she smiled at
him, too. Then a thought suddenly struck
her. and nothing would do but that she
must put into execution d plan quickly
| formed.
TN let you see my doll. too. If you want
! to-" she said to the man before her, and
! before he could answer she had taken it
| from the object her first Irritation and
| handed it to the second. There nothing
| for him to do but take the doll and pay it
/ a few compliments. which ne did. The
/ child was delighted that it ShOne in her
! bright eyes, and seeking for more praise
for the object that was so dear to her she
| passed it TO the lady with the gentleman,
| then asked her to pass It to the next one,
| and 50 on through the car. Every man
| ard woman on the car had to take that
! doll before the transfer station at 14th
street was reached and every one had to
| say something nice about 1t. too for when
| she heard nothing she cried at the top of
her voice to know if it was not beautiful
| doll
At 14th street she left the car taking her
mothers hand to alight, and as she turned
to go she waved her hand at the passen-
gers and cried, happily, Goodnight, every
body"
* X x x
zone of the first things that a hotel clerk
should learn" said a veteran in that line of
| business to a Star reporter today. sis to
read i signature upside down as it is being
written. In fact, that is the first thing l
taught when | entered d hotel to learn
the business.
The clerk behind the counter should fol-
low the writing of the signature of the
guest and soon it Is finished he should
be able to call the new arrival by name as
If he had known him from the day of his
birth. The clerk who turns the register
around and studies the signature in order to
learn the name of the arrival is a bungIer
1t IS not only easy to learn to read writing
upside down without hesitation. but 1t is
easy to learn to read the signature merely
by watching the movement of the writer's
hand"