Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
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the dairy lunch room the other day and
one OF the newspaper men contributed ms
experience Never found your wife 1un-
ming candy butchers cart on TIN street.
did your he inquired Of the crowd Weh'
that is what happened to me the othef
Law Found she was making pretty
rood saleswoman- too. 1 was sailing down
the street the other day when Iouno
the head of my household chaperoning one
~ the aforesaid candy carts. and when
had picked myself up after dropping dead
with astonishment she asked me IL
wanted some Turkish delight or peanut
brittle Just about that time the candy
man came back and blessed If she did not
hand him over a quarter In dimes ana
nIckeIs that she had taken in while he
was gone.
''When | wanted to know the whyfore-
ness of It. she explained calmly that she
had asked him where a store was that she
was looking for. and he obligingly went
over to the next corner to ask policeman
In the meantime somebody came along ana
wanted some candy and as she said she
thought it was a shame that ne shouio
miss the sale her account, she soio
nickel bag of candy that was alreaoy
done I'D on the cart. l don't know III IL
was sympathy for a lady reduced TO that
sort OF work, but people seemed to throw
trade her way and before the dago had
gotten back she mad SOld three o-CeHt paSS
and a 10-cent bag, and turned over tne
quarter to the proprietor or the cart.
Search me If you can ever tel What
woman will be up to next. but l nave
come to the conclus' on that II get out
OF a lob | will borrow enough to set up
candy cart and let her support the FANNY.
If she made sales at the rate OF 70 cents
in three minutes and half. she wouiq
make more in eight-hour day than
do and that is no Joke. either.
1.-THE clock on the avenue front or the
National Hotel has indicated twenty-seven
minutes of o'clock for over hfty years.
explained a gentleman who takes much IN
terest in local history to Star reporter
for the reason that the hands are station
airy. They were placed that way the DAY
they were painted, and have remained that
way ever since. OF course, thousands ana
tens of thousands have during that time
asked for the reason for that particular
time. and many have been told that the
hotel had them fixed at that time to indi-
cate the exact hour of the death of Henry
CLAW. who died in room 80 of that hotel on
the morning of June 20, 1850. Now, the fact
"a that Henry Clay passed away on the
morning of that particular day, and at that
hotel. but another fact IS that he died at
t1.15 that morning instead of twenty
saven minutes of o. How the error occurred
[ never heard, but error 1t is, am certain;
ONLY recently / looked up the Congressional
Globe the Southern Press, the Sentinel the
National Iutelligencer and other papers VI
This city of that day, and FOUND that tney
were all agreed as to-the time being LILO,
though two of them fixed the time as pelhS
between IL and II o'clock
1T have talked with some of the employees
of the hotel about it. and they all seem 10
think that the time indicated py the ciock
is correct and that the newspapers OIL thas
the time from a number of other papers
and have no hesitancy in saying that the
clock and not the newspapers are wrong,
and | give the fact so that the guides VIII
not keep on telling the story they nave tolo
for so many years. 1t Is small matter
but 1t is just as we'll that we should be
right Some of the guides go so far as TO
explain that the clock stopped at that exact
moment and has never run since. The diff
hculty In that statement Is the fact that
there is no clock there in reality, the APP
parent clock face having been painted
Another thing which has impressed me
considerably in connection with this matter
is the way that the death of Gay was
treated. The announcement Is made IN the
editorial columns which were surrounded by
black borders 1t consisted OF the mere
announcement with no details, except that
death followed a long illness There are no
names of the physician or physicians given
and no details of the last moments.
X X
THE nut trade has already opened up In
the south for the season." explained one or
the guards on the Long bridge to star re-
porter. though the shipments so far have
not been very heavy. There have been some
chestnuts coming along, but only In sacks
and part car lots. The amount OF chest
nuts, walnuts and peanuts that come from
the south is simply enormous. and the
greater part of them pass over the Long
brige, though, of course, there Is a great
tbat
sailing vessels. One day last fall three
trains passed over the bridge, there being
thirteen cars In each train. filled solidly
with chestnuts. A few days afterward as
many walnuts came along. Last spring the
record single shipment of peanuts came
along from Rchmond-thirty carloads in
$4,000 to 10000. Most of this shipment
went west. though later on from five to ten
car loads came along every day, bound to
all parts OF the country"
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II suppose" remarked a government Off
cial TO The Star man. that it is only nat
ural that the experience Of Miss Alice
Roosevelt in the far east should have
caused considerable gossip in social and
official circles. According to the press re-
ports she has received gifts roughly
valued at over 100000, and the question
has been raised as to whether she viii be
required to pay duty on them. estimated at
anywhere from SlOsODO 10 S1Oopo Ruiefs
and potentates treated her like royal prin-
cess and lavlshed magnificent gifts upon
her, among them being rich jade orna-
ments. presented by the Empress of China
valuable bric-a- brac. presented by the Mi
kado OF Japan and the King of Korea, and
large pearls presented by the Sultan of
Sulu
1t is recognized that the Presidents
daughter could not have refused these gifts
without giving Offense to the donors, who
simply intended them royal proofs Of
their high personal regard for the President
of the United States Whether the gifts
viii be subject TO duty on importation, and
Z so how much It will amount to- are in
,eresdng questions To be decided when Miss
Alice arrives at San Francisco.
The constitutional prohibition against
the acceptance Of gifts from foreign rulers
ipples only to officers of the United States
government Miss Roosevelt is not in
-luded In that category. but Secretary Taft
Who also received valuable presents from
The Sultan OF Sulu is. and he will have to
obtain congressional sanction before he can
accept them"