The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-09-08
WASHINGTON LETTER
rsneciaI Correspondence.l

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ill practically be realized.
T. bindings and bridges now under
ns,-nctiou Washington IL spending
e.OnnooOOO, Others which win cost
sooNonOOO are projected. The senate
"a bouse Office buildings viii repre-
a nn+ an expenditure Of 100000. The
oostarn front Of the capitol Is to Be
o~tsnded in marble at q cost OF ST.
SS0OO0.
Supreme Court BuildiaG.
fine building for the supreme
oonrt is in contemplation. The rail-
.Oods are expending $12,0O0.000 on a
rOognifcent union passenger depot
ITO steel bridges are to be thrown
GROSS the Potomac river, and the
largest cement bridge In the world win
snsn Rock creek. There viii be
~ war college for the army and sew
a-sI imposing university buildings, and
Extensive improvements are to be
made at the navy yard and the sol
diers home.
when the house and senate once
bindings are completed the plaza east
~ the capitol will be nearly surrounded
nv one Of the most magnificent groups
oi public buildings In the world.
When the supreme court building goes
nm if 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 a
cleanlv and sanitary place He also
got from the powers that be in the
house permission to spend tidy sum
for the oVerhauling 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
yiands in the past may be given when
# Is stated that the senate kitchen was
a regular paradise for rats.
Now II has been decreed that the rats
must 90. To accomplish this a new
floor, composed of broken glass, a
shrinking of lime, and over that four
inches Of cement and thing, will be
laid. No rat, it 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 viii
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. It
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 impor-
tant addition will be a bakeshop In
which fresh bread and pastry may be
cooked every day under government
supervision.
Government Mapmakers.
A United States geological party I'M
der the direction Of Charles Hartmann,
Jr- is now at work completing the sur
% - 81
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 Wlnnepesaukee 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
ooscoggin, York and other counties In
Maine. The party Is now engaged In
mapping an area Of about 90 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
eomphshed some preliminary surveys
VIII be made about Fryeburg and
hiram, including surveys Of the roads.
Elevations viii also be ascertAined
preliminary to the work Of mapping
tnls section geographically next year.
IL Is believed that the maps made a.
ne result Of these surveys win b
Oeipful to tourists, to railroad and
power companies, to the state IN its
WORK OF improving the Highways. to
cues and villages a. well a. to pri-
Ua1e citizens. They viii be engraved
% scale Of one mile to one inch and
VII show all differences Of elevation
,Of every twenty feet Of rise above sea
IsFeL Every road and house win b
.noWn and the shape Of every hill out