Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-04-21
A GRAND CEREMONY
LAYING CORNERSTONE AT The
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
President Roosevelt Took Prominent
Part as We'll as Leading Citizens of
the Nation-President's Speech Very,
lmpressive-Masonic Fraternity Act
i've Participants.

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assemblage, with the president of the
United States taking a prominent part,
with the supreme court and the senate,
| the house and diplomatic corps as
spectators, and before a large con-
| course of people, the cornerstone of
the office building for the representa-
tiVes was laid with impressive cere-
monies Saturday afternoon. The ad-
dress of the day was made by the
president, who spoke on The Man
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Today with impressive ceremonial,
the cornerstone OF the largest office
| building in the world solemnly devoted
to the primary purposes of legislation
and the comfort of its legislators, was
laid with the Masonic fraternity as the
active participants, assisted by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who like Presidents
Washington and Fillmore, is a Mason,
and who, following immemorial Gus
tom, delivered the principal address.
In commemoration of today's event,
| the Masonic fraternity of the District
OF Columbia had been ordered into
line, and, with the grand lodge of Ma
sons, escorted by the several comman-
deries of Knights Templars marched
to the building. In the northeast sec
ton of the building, according to Ma
sonic usage, the cornerstone was plac-
ed. Work on that section had been
held back pending the ceremonies, but
| the construction of the outer part of
the rest of the edifice has progressed
up to the second story. Previous to
the ceremonies a copper box two and
a half feet long and Is inches wide was
placed in the stone in the presence of
the grand treasurer of the grand
lodge The box contains many rare
and unusual articles. together with
the coins of the United States and the
series of postage stamps now in use
Unlike other boxes used for similar
occasions, this box, which was made
by one of the employees of the capitol
has series of small compartments ar
ranged, so that envelopes containing
the articles many stand uprIan. in
stead of lying fiat, as has been the
custom heretofore This box was her
metically sealed and in position wheI
the grand master of Masons began the
ancient ceremony of placing the cor
nerstone in position.
The building dedicated will be elias
sic in design. 1t suggests in genera
division, the Garde Heuble, on tn
Place de la Concorde, in Paris, Will
: the pavilions are modelled on those o
the Colonna de Louvre. Architectur
ally, the front is divided into tive
parts, the lower corresponding to thu
first story of the building, constitut
ing "a rusticated" base, on which, ex
tending through the second and thirC
stories, is the colonnade, surmounteC
by its entablature and balustre. Some
idea of it's size is given by the follow
ing frontages:
On B street, AIS feet; on New Jer
sey avenue, 40 feet; on First street
452 feet and c street, 34S feet, making
total frontage of 1740 feet. or ap
proximately one-third of mile. The
building will contain 410 rooms fol
members together with multiplicity
of caucus rooms, audience rooms, post
office, restaurant and other features o.
a modern office building in any large
city. The long unbroken cornice o
the building leading up naturally tt
the capitol building and thence to the
great dome, the browning and domin
ating unit in the group of buildings
now on Capitol plaza, are calculated
by its designers to conduce to the de
sired effect of the making the capito
building more imposing and effective
Address by President.
mo good whatever will come from
the warped and mock morality which
denounces the misdeeds of men Of
wealth and forgets the misdeeds prac
ticed at their expense; which de
nounces bribery, but blinds itself u
blackmail; which foams with rage If &
corporation secures favors by improp
er methods and merely leers with lad
eous mirth If the corporation is Itself
wronged.
The only public servant who car
be trusted honestly to protect the
rights of the public against the mis-
deeds of corporation is that public
man who will just as surely protect
the corporation itself from wrongful
aggression. If a public man is willing
to yield to popular clamor and dc
wrong to the men of wealth or tC
rich corporations, it may be set dowr
as certain that if the opportunIlJ
comes he will secretly and furtively do
wrong to the public in the interest o.
a corporation. But in addition to hon
esty we need sanity. No honesty will
make a public man useful If that mar
Is timid or foolish, il he is hothead
ed zealot or an impracticable vision
airy. AS we strive for reform we fint
that it is not all merely the case o
a long uphill pull, On the contrary
there is almost as much of breechinl
work as of collar work to depend on
ly on traces means that there viii
soon be a runaway and an upset.
THE men of wealth who today are
| trying Tn preyent the regulation anf