The San Francisco call., 1905-04-30
Transportation Managers of
All Parts OF Globe to Meet
in the National Capital
INTERESTING EXHIBITS
Miniature Worlds Fair Will
Show the Great Strides
Made by Modern Railways
BIZ JAMES s. TYLER.
stad Corres2ondenf u The Cas


CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING.
WASHINGTON, April 2s-Four or
nNe hundred railroad men. managers
q TRANSFORMATION lines in ali parts of
the world. viii visit Washington from
me zth TO the 10th Of next month and
discuss matters Of interest and benefit
te corporations that have to do with
tne transferring OF people and freight
In all corners Of the globe where the
locomotive has supplanted the oxen.
At the foot CT Fifteenth street facing
3. a section OF the public park that
slopes gently cityward from the base
OF the Washington monument, several
scores Of carpenters and mechanics are
putting the finishing touches on what
looks in the distance Ike a miniature
worlds fair. Low. white, gingery look
ing buildings, with forests Of fagpoles
creeping out from the available points
ot their roofs; pretty little office build
ings ana dosks, quaint looking struc-
tU1ss With tiny donses in gilt and
bronze, I'LL ten or twelve acres OF space
and form the machinery exhibit" OF
the International Railroad Congress.
Machinery OF all descriptions that
plays an important part in the speed
and comfort OF modern railroad traffic
is being installed. There are none OF
the ponderous mechanisms of the loco
motive. but only the finer adjustments
OF the steel annihnators OF time and
space, the latest things in Pullman car
equipment the daintiest finishings Of
the luxurious diner, the compressed gas
machines and storage batteries that
furnish the incandescent lights for the
really up-to-date thing in railroads
the twentieth century limiteds
Westinghouse, the airbrake man.
comes down from the smoky districts
with q fine display of compressed air
machinery that is so placed that It can
be seen at a glonce just how the won
derful Safety grips on possible death
are operated. The Westinghouse build
ing is one Of t4ae largest Of the fair
structures and is at the entrance Of the
exposition grounds. Ranged about the
sirbrake exhibit are the displays OF
many Eastern car and car material
manufacturers. and scattered over the
grounds are numerous electric light
poles burdened with hundreds OF arc
and incaneescent lights, that promise
TO transform night into day when the
time comes for them 10 be turned on.
The sessions of the International
Railroad Congress will be held at the
New willard HOTEL 1t has been the
custom 10 discuss railroad affairs at
the international Congress in the
French language, but at this session
there will be speeches in both English
and French. After the close of the ses-
sion special trains will be provided by
the American railroads for trips to
Chicago. Pittsburg. St Louis. Buffalo,
Cincinnati and other cities. The trains
q will be models Of American railroad
specials and no expense will be spared
te insure the foreign visitors the very
best that the railroad community af-
fords More than $50 railroads Of the
worlds system will be represented at
the congress.
A good story is told of the way
Pension Commissioner Nesperian War
ner made the discovery Of passed
papers" in the pension Office that re-
suited in the forced resignation of
corps of pension examiners and
great. deal OF scandal over pending
pension applications
Commissioner Warner noticed soon
after taking charge of the office that
a very loose system had been in vogue
whereby certain examiners who had
been years in the service had been al
lowed 10 pass Sn pension papers after
which pensions were allowed without
further question by the heads. Of the
bureau
one day a bunch Of pension papers
were laid on his desk for his approval.
q according 10 custom, and instead Of
signing them and handing them back
without further ado he said to the ex-
afniner, Leave them here awhile
want to look at them"
An hour cater Warner glanced
through the papers and the second
one in the bunch was that Of "Pri-
vate -, McLRae's Pennsylvania
Regiment"
9 Warner is an old soldier himself
and he happened to know something
about Pennsylvania troops. NC
Lanes Regiment % he soliloquized.
Seems 10 me know something about
that command He called the ex-
anainer and asked him a few ques-
lions. Then a sudden thought struck
him
do you know anything about these
paners2" he asked the clerk.
yes, sir, they have been passed
upon was the reply.
'Ciad to hear that" said Warner
with tone Of sarcasm. Il know Nc
Lanes men would have given any
thing to oc at the front for they made
n tremendous effort TO get there, but
4 seems to me-yes. In right-Mc-
Lanes regiment was held in reserve
and never smelt gunpowder except at
target practice"
4 hole IN the atmosphere marked
the spot where the examiner had once
stood and to-day there are ten good
Jobs being eagerly sought by mob Of
civil service graduates.
TIE building Of a number OF new res
lderces on i street, near Delaware
avenue, has nesessitated the tearing
down OF many oid houses that were
Identified With the early history of
Washington. one Of the old houses