Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-20

Washington newspaper man of wide exper-
fence. Mr.. Busby is one of the veteran
newspaper men of the national capital,
having come to Washington to represent
the Chicago Inter Ocean years ago. AS
Speaker Cannon's secretary he has shown
himself an adept in the game of politics
and with his chief occupying a headline
position in the forthcoming national play
known as THE Presidential Candidate"
Mr.. Busby will be found in the vicinity of
his chief bearing his sword and some
times carrying his armor. With Taft.
Root. Fairbanks, Cannon and possibly
Shaw appearing in their celebrated parts,
with Roosevelt always in the background,
the American people are in for real old
fashioned contest in 1908
Woods n Many-sided Man.
Elliot Woods, superintendent OF the United
States capitol building and grounds and
charged with the construction of the senate
and house Office buildings. is a many-sided
man. Scarce 20 years of age he has ac-
complished in his life more than is vouch-
safed the leaders at co. He is an amateur
musician OF considerable ability He has
the honor Of having written the score and
much Of the libretto Of a comic opera which
had a successful presentation for charity
in Baltimore. He Is one of the finest anna
teur photographers in the country. He has
made electricity a study for twenty years
and now In conjunction with the coast and
geodetic survey. he is engaged in a series
of experiments In wireless telegraphy which
gives promise OF notwithstanding present
methods of catching sound waves and
transmitting them to a receiver. All these
things Mr. Woods has accomplished in off
hours. OF really in the night hours. He is
the morning and the last to leave The
secret of this mans success is found In
the single word method" Every day at
certain hour he is in his office in the cap
itol. On the same day at a certain hour
he is In the temporary Office of the building
being erected for Office purposes for the
house of representatives and at a certain
other fixed hour he looks over the work
going on for a like building for the senate
He interviews the builders. takes up with
them the details OF specifications solves the
intricate problems of construction and with
his exceedingly efficient Captain Hunt, one
OF the cleverest men who ever went on a
building as superintendent, gets the utmost
work possible out of the hundreds who with
trowel and level and square and saw and
plane are erecting two OF the most mag
nificent buildings ever constructed for
purely OfnCe purposes lot the nations Leg
islators.
In the erection of the house OF represen-
tatives ONCE building an interesting fact
has developed in connection with the brick
work. The first brick was laid at the site
on the afternoon Of July s, 1905, and on
July 3. 1905, there had been laid In the walls
10,SS0O00 bricks. This is believed TO be the
greatest number OF brick laid on any build
ing In one year in the United States. and
probably In the world. One of the causes
conducting this record-breaking feat was the
remarkable "open" winter OF l9O5-O6 In
those winter months the work continued
almost without interruption from either
snow or cold weather, and not more than
! twelve OF fifteen days were lost during the
entire winter by reason OF weather con-
ditions.
Opposition TO Brigade Posts.
There is no very great hope among the
members OF the general stan OF the army
that brigade camps will be established TO
any large extent throughout the country,
local conditions and politics seriously inter-
fering with any accomplishment OF his
Character Cities and towns, nearby which
are located army posts, will never consent
| to see those army posts reduced and FINALLY
abandoned, simply because il may be the
desire OF the secretary of war and some OF
those associated with him in the war office
TO consolidate posts In one great camp for
purposes OF instruction.. Senators and mem
beers will be found generally opposing the
scheme, although the policy of concentration
which has been outlined by the general
STAN is commended most heartily. not only
as money saver, but from the highest
military point Of view. Some OF the older
posts Of the army, particularly those To-
Gated in the bush" as remote garrisons
are called. will gradually be abandoned and
the more modern and most accessible gar