Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-14

The fireman of the Police Court building
was an interested listener in Judge SCOTS
court last Tuesday when certain smoke
law violations were being tried. He heard
the court with due gravity impose fines
aggregating $3.50 on the superintendent OF
the Potomac Electric Power Company
And then the Police Court fireman went
below and made a careful and critical eK-
animation of the smoke-producing appara-
tus of the court building in order to pre-
vent jf possible any dense gray or black
smoke from proceeding into the armament
from the Police Court stack, which is III
full and plain view OF the Dlctrict puhuiis'
whence the smoke law inquisitions are is
sued.
Above the grim Police Court line Of
smoke was curling lazily skyward' put u
was not dense" Neither was 1t gray
or "black" 1t was "a dark shade of steam
white" as a court attache expressed IT. ana
the smoke law was intact so lar as the
Police Court was conctrend
1T would be an awful thing, Sald d po-
Iceman If the Police Court stack should
be found violating the law at TINS time,
lust after Judge Scott has imposed me
nearly half a thousand dollars on the
electric company.
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man from a neighboring state called
al police headquarters early one morning
last week and asked if he were in the
right place to enter a kick.
What kind of a kick Is it?" he was ask
ed.
"only that l was robbed" was his an
swer.
Being told that he was In the right place
he proceeded to tell his story.
II fell heir to noble jag last night, ne
started out and fell in the hands OF
friends-friends for a short time at least
They took me In off the street and saw
that / didn't lose my overcoat. but what
they did to my watch and money was
plenty.
How much money did they take?" the
caller was asked.
I'm not kicking on the amount" he
said, but they didn't leave me the price
of drink If had had a bracer this morn
ing l would have felt In better humor How
well off are your
'I'll frankly admit have not the price OF
a drink" the sleuth told him.
The question of the strangers treatment
was discussed and he finally concluded that
the young men who had him In tow had
merely collected toll for their trouble. He
concluded that he was not so bad off after
all Others who had fallen in the hands
of such people had not been left an over
coat and had been deserted where they had
to remain out in the cold all night.
Say brother" was his familiar way or
concluding II wouldn't have my people
know about this for anything In the world
and you can just call it off. but l would
like to have the price Of drink
Good morning
- X y y x
When the Volunteer Signal Corps, U. S.
army, was being put in shape for active
service at the front at the beginning Of the
war with Spain, Its principal rendezvous
was at the Washington barracks. One OF
the best companies in the corps was that
which was known as 1.-The Connecticut
Company" many of its members being men
of splendid social standing in Hartford and
urbn haA ,aIun tearad for "
Ice with the flag from motives of pure
patriotism.
Among the members of the Connecticut
Company was Mr.. William G. Whltten.
who passed through Washington several
days ago en- route to his pinery on the
southern coast of Florida.
When 1 enlisted he said, II had sort
of presentment or intuitive feeling that l
would be wounded before the scrap with
the Spanish dons was over. Our company
was headed for Porto Rico, 1t was under
stood when we entrained a the 9Th street
station here. but We were sidetracked at
Tampa Junction and reached Jacksonville
in due time, where we were assigned To
the Seventh Army Corps, under Gen. Fftz-
hugh Lee.
''As time wore on and the Spaniards
hoisted the white flag. my prospects of
stopping a Mauser missile or the fragment
of Spanish shrapnel became more slim
But the intuitive something kept saying to
me, it seemed, You'll get 1t yet" and did.
Peace had been declared and our battalion
was passing through Savannah to take the
transport for Cuba, where several months
of hard labor awaited us. / was doing
light battery work over the hind wheel OF
a big transportation wagon when an off
mule in the lead became fractions and
made trouble for our team. I was thrown
ftom my perch and my leg was caught be-
tween the spolkes of the wheel and some
thing happened. l was sent to the hos
rital and isr long time went about on
ctutches. = received a wound. and bad
one, and my presentment verified
While the moon was not made by foreign
missile. my experience with government
mules in 1898 was such concluded that the
animal that brought bout my trouble and
his fellows were either secret allies of
Spain or else. for some reason. they had
hearty hatred for the American soldier"
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All that was left of the body Of a soldier.
MS uniform and coffin, found resting
place in the soil of Virginia near Vienna
not long ago. Railroad workmen unearthed
the few bones, buttons and pieces of the
box In which the body had been buried
When the first bone found and the la
borer suggested that he had unearthed
him. and thought the joke was on him.
But" he said Il short time afterward
here is a button"
Its a soldiers button" remarked an
other man in the group.
The men were then satisfied that they had
come across the body of victim of the
civil war, and We're a little more particular
about how they used their picks and shov-