Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-03

waterproof. The system has not been long
enough in use to furnish complete and
conclusive statistics, but the cleanliness
and comfort of tarred roads is fully con-
coded, and the protection of the macadam-
lied surface from wear and tear effects an
economy which goes far toward balancing
their additional cost"
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Conductors on the street cars have to keep
tab on many patrons of the different lines
In order to make certain that they get their
fares. 1t is the experience of the railway
employees that great many of the pas
sengers are always willing to ride free. and
many such persons are known as fare
dodgers"
ut is singular" remarked one of the con-
ductors that there are many persons
who are willing and ready to cheat the rail-
way compar es. Many are people who stand
well in the community and about whom
stories of attempted deception would not be
believed. but they will try to do q street
car company every time they ride upon the
cars.
Il seldom make a trip that some passen-
gers do not attempt to dodge me. just for
the sake of saving . cents on a car ticket
Many of these 'fare-dodgers will put up
newspaper and be earnestly engaged with it
when the fare is wanted, and others will
pretend they asleep or in conversation
with other passengers. Some of them will
even go so far as to declare they have paid
their fares.
The conductor said that hundreds of per-
sons abuse the transfer privilege, and it is
because of these abuses that companies
Sometimes demur to suggestions of granting
such privileges.
There are many persons in the city, he
declared who are transfer fiends. They
always ask for transfers, whether they
want them or not. Such persons frequently
have number of transfers with them, and
! it is not an uncommon occurrence for a
transfer several days old to be offered in
payment for ride. On my line there are
| a number of women who make practice Of
collecting transfers, and they invariably
give us trouble. Some of them will even go
so far to paste together pieces of two
transfers in order to have something to
tender in payment rather than pay the price
of the fare
1.-The efforts of the spelling reformers."
remarked an old army officer, Ito change
the spelling of certain official titles in other
branches of the government service directs
attention to the army as a good field for
spelling reform. The list of 800 words
adopted by the President and the public
printer changed the spelling of comptroller
to controller and the spelling of passed
assistant paymaster' and passed assistant
surgeon in the navy to past etc. Now
in the army there are several titles that are
| susceptible of spelling Improvement. Take,
for instance. the familiar words colonel,
lieutenant and Sergeant If the phonetic
system of spelling were apple, colonel
might be changed to 'kurneP and 1ieuten-
ant reduced to Iutenant,' or if the English
pronunciation were followed, to Ieftenant
o. 'luftenant.' AS the title sergeant is in
variably pronounced sergeant why
shouldn't 1t be spelled with an "a in the
first syllable instead Of an e. now.
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Speaking Of the allowances to cadets of
the West Point Military Academy" said
Gen. A l.. Mills, the retiring superintend-
ent, lit is a pleasure to call special atten-
ton to the figures relative to the accounts
of cadets and the amounts paid to them
upon graduation. total of S3S,O0O re-
manned to the credit of the class of 1905,
after they had paid an average of 500 per
man for uniform and equipment purchased
through the cadet store. In other words, an
graduate during his cadet career a suf-
ficient amount to go a long way toward
paving for his necessary outfit as an Of
ficer The same lberality as heretofore has
been permitted for purchase by cadets of
the simple luXuries authorized by the regu-
lations, for their contributions to athletic
funds and other purposes, and in the
amounts of money given them to spend
lille on leaves of absence earned by good
conduct"
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A fond father who resides in Columbia
Heights was telling his six -year-old son
several days ago that he should not do a
certain thing. and concluded with the state
ment, You see, my son, every time you
are naughty father gets gray hair in his
head"
The little chap meditated moment and
then, pointing to his grandfather, who sat
near said: Gee Whit pop, just look at
grandpa; you must have been a dandy
wi a how