Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-26
From Washington.
. Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington. d. c.. Oct. 20.

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dent Roosevelt for the first time since be
became President of the United States
will be out OF touch with the country for
a period of four days. During much OF
that time be will be beyond the interns-
tional three mile limit, and therefore be-
yond the confines of the United States.
This unprecedented action was deemed
necessary Thy the Presiden in order to
avoid the breaking ofthe quarantine reg
ulations of southern States. The voyage
will afford him four days of absolute rest.
At six o'clock tonight, aboard govern .
ment lighthouse tender, and in company
wi1h secretary Loeb and DIR. Rixey, he
will proceed from New Orleans to Sand
Key light, at the entrance of the Miss
i.ssippi river, where he will transfer his
flag to the cruiser West Virginia. The
course of the vessel will be laid around
Florida. thence straight to the Virginia
capes, covering over 100 miles in all.
1t is expected that she will arrive at
Hampton Roads on the afternoon OF
Monday, October 80, when the President
will transfer to his yacht Dolphin for
the trip up the Chesapeake and Potomac
to Washington, arriving about 3 a. N.
on Tuesday. During the voyage the
West Virginia will be conveyed by the
cruisers Colorado and Pennsylvania.
The West Virginia is equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus, and an
effort will be made to get into commu-
nication with one or more of the several
wireless stations along the coast
The Congressional subcommittee APP
pointed to investigate the possibilities OF
cutting down Uncle Sans printing bills,
began the real work of the investigation
this morning bp placing Oscar j. Rick
elts, the acting public printer, on the
stand. Ricketts, pointed out number
of the abuses, which have grown up and
are responsible for the prevailing ex'
travagance and waste of public funds.
Too many documents are printed and
bound. he said, and in large measure
the remedy lies with Congress. To get
rid of the superhuous documents piling
up in the store rooms, they are fire.
quently sent to public libraries.
Within the last s years not less than
800, COO of these volumes have been re-
turned, the libraries each declining
them or already possessing duplicates.
Bound copies of documents are held in
reserve for Senators and Representatives.
Not more than 80 per cent. are called
for. The binding Of this reserve could
well be cut off, Mr.. Ricketts, said. The
cost of binding this reserve of about
6I5,000 volumes exceeded 1858, 600
for the seth, 57th and 18th Congress.
Mr.. Ricketts, also pointed out duplica-
tions and Implications in the printing OF
documents and reports. The Civil Ser
vice Commission prints %, 600 copies OF
their annual report, he sail, and can
not get rid of it. Reports of the Bureau
of Labor are most uniformly wasted.
The cost of lithographing aud illustrat-
ing government publication, Mr. Rick
etts said, had grown from SSl, 900 in
1896 to 1856, 900 in 1905. The apprO-
prlation for pnblic printing and binding
he said, has grown from 81, 800, 600 in
1898 to Sc, 1855, 900 in 1905.
1t is reported here that the pool room
at ST. Asaph will be reopened within the
next ten days.
The Postmaster General has appointed
Of O =
torney in the Office of the Assistant
Attorney General for the POstofiice
Department.
The Postotfice Department has issued
a fraud order against the Cromwell
Simon State University" Of Reno, Ne
vada. Simon lives in Philadelphia.
81 am about the most unadulterated republi-
can bishop i'm the Methodist Church, but if
| were an Ohio voter this fall, I'd vote early
and often for Patterson" sand Bishop David
H. Moore, Of Portland. Greg just as he was
leaving the morning session of the semi-an-
nual conference of bishops, now being held
in this city, Bishop Moore comes from
Athens. Ohio, had relatives in the last Ohio
Senate who voted with Dos" Cox. The
bishop knows Ohio politics and just presided
Ohio. Bishop Hamilton, Of San Francisco,
presided at the morning session and Bishop
Berry. of Buffalo, at the afternoon session.
Other bishops reported at the afternoon ses-
sion. This evening several bishops Will adj
dress mass meeting at the Metropolitan
Memorial Church.
Consular reports to the Department OF Com
merce and Labor indicate that electric rail-
WAYS will succeed steam railroads for passen-
ger service in Japan. The government rail:
way passenger traffic between Kobe and
Osaka has been so affected by an electrl''
railway that the imperial railway bureau is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing
an electric line to meet the competition. To
forestall enterprise the government is con-
sidering establishing an electric road between
Toxic and Yokohama.
A feast is to be given this winter by DR.. H..
w. Wiley, chief Of the bureau of chemistry
in the Agriculture Department. The princi-
nal article on the menu will he chickens kill.
ed three years ago and partridges killed two
wears ago This feast" is part Of the plan
DR. Wiley has mapped out for his investiga
ton, requested by Congress, as TO the whole
someness of cold storage foods. During the
summer he has collected statiSt cs from houses
which handle these foods, showing the kinds
treated and the minimum and maximum
time kept in storage.
The annual report of Paymaster General
Henry T. d. Harris, of the navy, shows that
during the past fiscal year SS6, 266.S7 was
spent on account Of the construction of new
ships, including labor and material; $685.
67l SO were spent in repairs to ships at home
and abroad and that it cost the government
$40, 9Sl ,93s.37 to maintain the ships in COM
mission, other than the receiving ships, in
Guiding the pay Of officers and men. subsis-
tence and incidental expenses. For the Ma
rine Corps the government spent s, 2S9 ,5l5.43
during the fiscal year.
Virginia D. A. r.
The ninth annual conference of the