Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-06-16
WASHINGTON LETTER


Senator Jacob Fl. GaIlinxar of New |
HnmpshHe has discovezwd why it y
tnmf tie city of Washington has such |
poor telephone service, and be has told |
LIS brothers of the senate ell about II.
Many complaints have been made re-
Gently TO the eject that persons using
The telephone can't get connected with
the subscribers with whom they wish |
to talk.
Senator Gallinger has told the sena-
tors, and his remarks have honorable |
place In the Congressional Record. that
nearly an the complaints turned In are |
from people who do not reside perma-
nently In Washington. Mr.. Gallinger
declares that more than half the mem
beers of both houses of congress come
from the country districts and that
most OF the visitors 70 the capital also
come hlther from houses along the line
cf march og the rural mail carriers.
The senator told his colleagues that
these countrymen do not know how to
use the telephone. II they have tele-
phones ct home, he says. they call up
central and ask for Hank Smith, and,
al everybody In the district knows who
Hank Smith is. central makes the con-
nectlon instantly. senator Galiinger
says that this Ii the method pursued
by country congressman and country
visitors when they get to Washington.
and when central asks the caller to
give number the caller gets mad. $50
there Ii an interruption not only to the
patron, but to the service as whole"
wanted d Fmsr or kids.
One De the New England senators,
whose voice Iii powerful In Republican
councils. has been stumped BY strange
requests from his Yankee constituents.
First, one woman wrote In an illlterate
| hand asking that he forward her as
early as convenient a wooden kid. 1t
seemed to the senator peculiar RE-
quest, but he thought little more OF it
till few days later another constit-
| uent appealed TO him. II would like
some garden seed, wrote this other
constituent. voter, ''for ! have q
strip Of land Of one acre and one pair
Of wooden kids. These am very de-
air0us of having.
| what III the dickens wooden kid
/ might be this senator had no idea, but
| his clerk started on the trail for in
formation. MIR. Pfessey. the assistant
l postmaster OF the senate, whose mem
l Org extends back to ancient New Eng
land days. readily explained. A kid.
he says. Ii q sort Of wooden bucket,
| little smaller than an ordinary wa
ter pail. without d bail. But one OF
the slaves pFOtrudes at the top, above
/ all the others, forming handle.
The senator's Yankee constituents. Il
| goes without saying. must do without
4 wooden kids at the expense Of your
| Uncle Samuel.
Mew white house Globe Needed.
Senator Dillingham; was at the ex-
ecutfye ofI1cea discussing Alaska at
fairs with the president. As is the
case with everything. the president
became very greatly interested, and. as
Mr.. Dillingham; had spent some months
Iii Alaska. Mr.. Roosevelt was getting
come information FIRST hand Finally
point was reached where some doubt
arose aa TO the geography OF the big
territory. and both gentlemen sought
the globe standing In the room, which
furnishes the geography OF the world
/ Or such occasions, and began to trace
our the places wanted. Following the
Yukon river to its mouth, they found
thar this mighty stream emptied into
| the arctic ocean on the north side Of
nering strait.
s*Xour globe lii too ancient for me,
. | Mr. President" said the Vermont sena-
tor. Fl have been there and know bet.
ter than that
There win be requisition for new
globe for the White House. as the one
which has served 30 long must have
been used before Secretaryg Seward
bought Alaska from the Russians.
why secretary shaw was Late.
a government scientist who has at
fained emlnence In his profession gave
dinner not long ago IL honor of Elk
. Speaker Henderson AZ this scientis'
! ii an Iowa man he decided 10 make Il
! distinctly an Iowa dinner ana invited
! distinguished Iowans Ia town. That
: iii course. included Secretary shaw
, Secretary Wilson. Senator Allison anl
. others.
The hour was o'clock. and all thu
guests we're then Oh hand except Mr.
shaw Yhe dinner party waited AM
visited Finally Il was T;30 o'clock
"shalI We walt any longer for the rec