The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-09-22

new war college for the army and sew
eraI imposing university buildings, and
extensive improvements are to be
made at the navy yard and the sol
diers' home.
When the house and senate office
buildings are completed the plaza east
OF the capitol will be nearly surrounded
by one Of the most magnificent groups
OF public buildings in the world.
When the supreme court building goes
up it will probably be without a rival
The Capitol Kitchens.
During the last session OF congress
Elliott Woods, superintendent OF the
capitol, got from the senate rules COM
mittee an appropriation OF $1,000
with which to go ahead and make OF
the senate kitchen and restaurant
cleanly and sanitary place. He also
got from the powers that be In the
house permission to spend a tidy sum
for the overhaullng Of the house
kitchen and Its enlargement to twice
its present size.
To Danish Rats.
Some idea OF the conditions under
which the senate cooks prepared the
viands In the past may be given when
1t is stated that the senate kitchen was
q regular paradise for rats.
Now II has been decreed that the rats
must 60. To accomplish this a new
floor, composed Of broken glass, a
sprinkling of lime, and over that four
inches OF cement an filing. will be
laid. No rat, 1t is CALCULATED, could
bore through the combination. The
plumbing and sewerage will also be
done over. There will be a cold stor-
age room built, ten feet square, and In
this all the perishable supplies for the
restaurant will be kept
An Ice Making Plant.
In connection with the cold storage
room an Ice plant will be installed
with a capacity OF two tons. This will
be the first Ice making plant installed
in the capitol and will add the duty Of
manufacturing ice to the many other
activities Of the capitol caretakers. 1t
will also presage the building Of still
larger Ice plant for chilling the air cir
culated in the house and senate cham
bers through ventIlating shafts. Big
six foot ventilating fans will bring
fresh air into the Kitchens. An 4mpor-
tant addition viii be a bakeshop In
which fresh bread and pastry may be
cooaed every day under government
supervision.
Government MapmAkers.
A United States geological party un-
Jr., Is now at work completing the sur
vey Of an area Of about 20 square
miles between Hanover and Wood
stock, n. h, undertaken largely
through the efforts OF Senator Proctor
and Dean Fletcher Of Dartmouth col
lege. At the conclusion Of that work
surveys near Lake Winnepesaukee and
Squam lake will be taken up. This
work will not be completed this year.
The maps will be useful to those inter-
ested In forest preservation, to Dart
mouth college. railroads and power
companies.
Surveying Maine.
A field party In charge OF Hersey
Aunroe is now at work on topographic
surveys Of portions Of Kennebec, An
droscoggin, York and other counties In
Maine. The party Is now engaged In
mapping an area Of about DO square
miles about Lewiston, and on the
completion Of this work will take up
and finish mapping an area between
Auburn and Poland. That work &C |
complished some preliminary surveys |
will be made about Fryeburg and |
Hiram, including surveys Of the roads. |
Elevations viii also be ascertained |
preliminary to the work Of mapping |
this section geographically next year.
1t is believed that the maps made as
the result Of these surveys VIII be |
helpful to tourists, 20 railroad and |
power companies, to the state In its
work Of improving the highways to
cities and villages as well as to pri-
Vate citizens. They win be engraved
on q scale Of one mile to one inch and
win show all differences OF elevation
for every twenty feet Of rise above sea
level Every road and house win be \
shown and the shape Of every hIIl out
lined
National Art Gallery.
By decision Of Justice Stafford In
the district supreme court II has been
determined that this country already
Possesses q national art gallery. This
decision II Interesting, first, because no
one realized that there was such q
thing a. q national gallery In this eoun-
tTy and. second, because IT brings to
TIE government and incidentally to
Washington the Harriet Lane John
ston art collection. which Is tnfrinaical-
y valuable. very beautiful and WI
form the nucleus around which q real
national collection eventually WIN b
built up. The pictures have Just been !
rGnafsrred to the custody Of ths
Smithsonian institution and WIN b
placed q exhibition a. soon a no.
sible CARL sCHoTIELb.