The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
A GRAND CEREMONY
LAYING CORNERSTONE At THE
! NATIONAL CAPITAL. j
President Roosevelt Took Prominent
Part as Well as Leading Citizens of
the Observation-Disclosures Speech Very
lmpressive-Maso sonic Fraternity Act
les sli seeass .gssra8r !
i've Participants.

In the presence of distinguished
assemblage, with the president of the
United States taking 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.esTh ad-
dress of the day was made by the
president who spoke on The Man
With the Muck Rake"
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 Mason,
and who, following immemorial Gus
tom, delivered the principal address.
In commemoration of today's event,
IhC uudooAtC lIdIClhlly VI tuS
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 copper box two and
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 a series of small compartments ar
ranged, so that envelopes containing
the articles many stand uprlsu. in
stead of lying fiat, as has been the
custom heretofore. This box was her.
metically sealed and in position when
the grand master of Masons began the
ancient ceremony of placing the cor
nerstone in position.
The building dedicated will be clas-
sic in design. 1t suggests in general
division, the Garde Heuble, on the
Place de la Concorde, in Paris, while
the pavilions are modelled on those of
the Colonna de Louvre. ARCHITECTURE
ally the front is divided into two
parts, the lower corresponding to the
first story of the building, constitut-
ing "a rusticated" base, on which, ex-
tending through the second and third
stories, is the colonnade, surmounted
by it's entablature and balustre. Some
idea of its size is given by the follow
ing frontages:
On B street, 476 feet; on New Jer-
sey avenue, 40 feet; On First street,
ASP feet, and G street, 348 feet, making
a total frontage of 174O feet, or ap-
proximately one-third of a mile. The
building will contain 410 rooms for
members, together with a multiplicity
of caucus rooms, audience rooms, post
Office, restaurant and other features of
a modern Office building in any large
city. The long unbroken cornice of
the building leading up naturally to
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 capitol
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 to
blackmail; which foams with rage If a
corporation secures favors by improp-
er methods and merely leers with hid
eous mirth if the corporation is itself
wronged.
THE only public servant who can
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 public man is willing
to yield to popular clamor and do
wrong to the men of wealth or to
rich corporations, it may be set down
as certain that if the opportunlCy
comes he will secretly and furtively do
wrong to the public in the interest of
corporation. But in addition to hon.
esty we need sanity. No honesty will
make public man useful if that man
is timid or foolish, if he is a hothead-
ed zealot or an impracticable vision
airy. AS we strive for reform we find
that it is not all merely the case of
a long uphill pull. On the contrary,
there is almost as much Of breeching
work as Of collar work; to depend on
ly on traces means that there will
soon be runaway and an upset.
THE men Of wealth who today are
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