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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
NOVEL CHAFING DISH PARTY.
The Girls Cook Things Good to Eat
While the Men Progress as Assistants.
Phone Main OIL.
From Harper's Bazaar.

An original young woman who longed for
some novel form OF entertainment for her
friends planned a cooking party Ii was
really an elaboration of the chatting dish
party. Several chatting dishes We're used
and also both the gas and coal ranges IN
the kitchen.
Twelve young people were invited. and
the girls were asked To bring white aprons.
When all had arrived a card was given to
each. The cards measured 4x5 inches. tied
with ribbons. Each card had a tiny picture
at the top Below was written the name
Of some article to be cooked-for instance.
Sandwiches in kitchen"
There was nothing more on the young
mems cards. The girls cards had, In ad-
dition, the recipe for whatever was written
above with other directions. Each CIR!
found al the place indicated all the mate
rails ready fer her work. One Of the young
men was chosen by the hostess to attend
and assist each cook.
After an interval of fifteen or twenty
minutes a gong was struck, and each al
tendant left his place and offered his sery-
ices to another cook. so that during the
time Of preparation each girl had IA chance
to compare the helpfulness and inspiration
of the several attendants.
Later in the evening. about $50. the CO.
quettish little aprons were laid aside. The
cdrus were matched by the ribDoLs and
pictures. This arranged-the supper part
ners. The supper consisted chiefly of the
results of the evenings work, with one or
two extras which required a longer time for
preparation. The hostess made coffee al
the table.
The meal as might be expected was n
merry one, with the frank comments and
suggestions Of both cooks and attendants.
AS the guests went away each was given a
little welding cake box filled with chocolates
and tied with ribbon. The evening was one
Of the most enjoyable of the season.
The pictures for the cards We're cut from
the backs of magazines, illustrated cata-
losues, etc. Below is given sample card:
(Plcture.)
Chocolate creams in kitchen pantry
Stir enough sugar into the whites of two
eggs to make II stiff enough to roll into
balls. Place balls on buttered paper and
dip into melted chocolate. Flavor cream
with vanilla before 1t is too stiff FIJI dish
and leave in dining room pantry Cool
them on the piazza, and don't catch cold.
To the above may be added: Dreamed
oysters on gas range. Fudge IN dining room
pantry. Cocoanut cakes IN dining room.
Popcorn in library. Salad kitchen
dresser.
Pinochi creamed walnuts or stuffed dates.
peanut taffy and roasted chestnuts could be
substituted or added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
Inside an Orange Packing House.
From Leslie's Weekly.

FROM Leslie Weekly
The things one sees in an orange packing
house are d pleasure TO the eye, delightful
to the olfactories. and when the local man
ager, or overseer. is a generous and in
dulgent person. also most excellent to the
taste. The operations quiet and simple,
but systematic. and carried on by all pos
sible mechanical and automatic devices for
the saving of labor and effectiveness of
service. At one end of a long building the
oranges are unloaded from the vans; at the
other end, u few minutes later, they are
snugly ensconced in railway car, ready
at the door to begin its long journey east
ward Between these points of exit and
entrance much has been done in a quick
and quiet way. First the oranges are gently
dumped into a receptacle, whence they are
carried on a belt or moving platform to an
upper part of the building, where they pass
slowly along before group of workers,
who pick out the culls, imperfect fruit,
and drop them into chutes for disposition
elsewhere. The other oranges are allowed
to pass on down an incline to the sep
arators in the meantime their weight be-
ing taken and registered automatically as
they move along. The separators consist
of long troughs with Sits or openings of
varying widths at the bottom, through
which the oranges drop according to their
sizes as they are carried along, thus sep
grating themselves into the three grades by
which they are known TO the market These
grades are based on size, and are known
as STANDARD, the smallest; Choice the
next in rank, and fancy" the largest Of
all. AS they separate themselves and drop
from the moving belt the oranges run down
in golden streams by little side chutes TO
small canvas platform box, whence they
are removed by the nimble fingers OF the
packers. usually young women wrapped in
soft paper, and placed in boxes for final
shipment. An expert packer will fill from
eighty to ninety boxes per day. From
these busy young women the boxes
carefully trundled to a nearby bench or
table, where other employees deftly nail and
close up the open side. One more turn by
other ready hands and the finished boxes
are passed into car drawn on conven-
lent siding, where, carefully secured and
piled to the roof, they are seen no more
until they reach the great distributing CEN
tiers in the eastern markets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
Only Pinnated Grouse.
rom the Springfield Republican.


Massachusetts has in cover down on
Martha's Vineyard a colony of eighty or
more pinnated grouse, scientifically know =
as the tympanuechus cuspido. Marvellous
as Ii may seem, these are said to be the only
living representatives of this species in the
entire world.
Natural history museums. taxidermists
and students of nature have been pursuing
them for years, until now specimens are
said to be worth anywhere from 500 TO
$500 each. Recently bill was passed In
the legislature putting a close time on these
birds until 1911.
The penalty for killing pinnated grouse
or having one in ones possession is 500.
Hitherto the fine was $40, which was not
enough to discourage hunting for museum
specimens.
DIR. Field, chairman of the Massachusetts,
Fish and Game Association, says.sThe pin
mated grouse formerly roamed all over the
country from Maine to Virginia and east OF
the Allegheny mountains.
TT Is q most delicious food bird, but it
has been hunted to the vanishing point The
flock at Martha's Vineyard Is the only one
In the world. / intend to put man spe-
cilally. In charge to protect 1t from specimen
hiiuterS."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
SURE HARBINGER OF SPRING.
The Country Grandmother's Sassafras
Tea an Infallible Sign.
From the New York Sun


why some people put their money on the
grounding when seeking signs of the COM
ing spring, l never knew said a man
wise in his own ccnceit For a good many
years 1 have read about the boy with top
or with marbles as being surer harbingers
of the vernal season than the advent of the
robin or the budding of the crocus. but l
don't put more faith in either than ia the
grounding.
Il have seen boys spinning tops in New
York for the last three months. OF course.
the past winter has been out of the Ordi-
nary run. To see tops, however. is no in
dication that fish are getting hungry.
The macble in the city is not a sign Of
bluebirds. Not by a long flight And I
don't know when l ever saw a boy ron
hoop In Manhattan That used TO be "a
sign of spring.
'sThe city boy. of course. knows nothing
about resUrrecting fish bait. In the coun-
try the first fishing worm is a sure pointer
that the backbone of winter has been
strained.
1T is in the home In the country. where
there Is a watchful grandmother and sew
eral children. that the best sign of spring
is found. I do not know where the grand
mother gets her prescience, but 1t is, UNI
erring.
AT the very first rising of the sap IN
fact, before vegetation feels the first thrill
of renewing life, the grandmother has the
intimation. When she makes sassafras tea,
then, indeed, do you know that spring is
nigh.
occasionally you will find a street ped
der in the city with punches of sassafras
bark for sale. and you may have noticed
that such peddlers are not of the ordinary
type;
THE sassafras dealer on the streets Is
always a Notwithstanding woman with
an apron and a bonnet that is never seen
in the shops, or a paternal-looking indi-
vidual who has chin whiskers. Country
appearances and sassafras go together.
II l were making a book on the weather
spring weather. would hike to the coun-
try and wait for the grandmother to steep
her sassafras tea. Then | would jump
back to the city and make predictions that
would cause the weather man to quit his
job and find some other means Of liveli-
hood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
Snake Bites.

From the Outing Magazine.
One day il happened that we killed two
rattlesnakes. which was quite eXtraordI-
nary so high in the mountains. The camp
fire talk that evening conferred on the
reptiles. We snapped the usual yarns and
experiences; INDUCED in the customary
argument as to remedies. Yves told of the
chicken which, when killed, split and tied
fresh TO the wound, chung there valiantly
for two hours, and then, black as your
hat, sr.' fell off of it's own accord. Billy
and l agreed that this was marvellous
Yves likewise gave as his disillusioned
opinion that whisky is not efficacious.
Why? Well, he knew of a man who, while
very drunk, was bitten, and who forth
with died And, of course, in this case the
whisky had a head start on the poison.
Yves" said /. did you ever know, in
your experience. of man dying from
snake bite?"
"Oh, yes" said he.
Tell me about 1t"
Well" he began, "a friend of Jim
Browns down in Tulare county was bit
and Jim told me
such a question. During fairly extended
experience in snake countries l have
made 1t a point to proffer that inquiry.
and up to date / have found just three
men in whose veraeity l had confidence
who claim to have seen a man dead of
snake bite Hundreds could prove cases
by the next fellow: and I have no doubt
that the publication of this will bring
forth many scornful expostulants who
have seen whole cohorts succumb. But
such have been the results of my own
careful and extended interrogations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

the development Of real estate In and
around Alexandria is the construction of
the new mammoth freight yards covering
an extended area to the north of the city.
The yard Is now nearing completion and
when 10 is opened for general use the great
railway transfer business there carried on
VIII ucCessitate the employment of hun
drCds Of men. This Will bring new families
to Alexandria for whom houses must be
provided. and the operation of the yard Will
therefore mean that many new homes will
be established on the suburbs Already ex-
iensive building plans nave been formu-
Ia ted for the accommodation Of the expect
ed influx OF population.
The completion of the doubIe-track sys-
TEN on the Washington. Alexandria and
Mount Vernon electric road between Alex
andria and Washington, with the conse-
Quent marked increase in the number OF
trains operated. has had much 10 do with
increasing the value OF real estate. not
only along the line of the road, but also in
Alexandria. Trains are now run both ways
about every fifteen minutes, thus aHording
20 the people who live along the line of the
road an easy and convenient access both 10
Alexandria and Washington. 1t offers, In
fact. nothing less than a street car service
which since the road has been improved
and the rolling stock materially increased,
IS now thoroughly reliable. II Is the excep-
ton rather than the rule for trains not TO
be run on schedule time. The result is that
business people Of Washington who have
chosen Alexandria 10 live in. and the nu-
merOus persons or Alexandria VINO are
daily employed In the capital city. are en-
abled TO travel to and from their work with
very little Inconvenience and delay.
A similar contributing factor 10 the en-
HANGING OF real estate values is the opera
ton OF "A well-equipped and modern ferry
boat between Alexandria and Washington.
These combined influences have had the
natural effect OF raising the real estate
values In this city and section.
comparison OF the present building in
terests of Alexandria with those of the city
fifteen or twenty years ago shows a re-
markable increase. Then Il was a stand
ing joke whenever a new building was
started. on account of the general accept
ance of the saying that Alexandria was a
finished city II had remained so long
without the addition of any new structures
that the erection OF a house here and there
was always the occasion OF more or less
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

ready occupied and because the demand for
houses In Alexandria is really greater than
the su ply, transfers of property are not
as frequently made as would otherwise be
the case. Two historic homesteads have,
however, changed ownership recently. They
are the handsome and stately old Wheat
residence on Prince street, which was sold
by DR. William NJ Smith to DIR. Samuel Is.
Moore for the sum of 50, 500 and the spa
cious home of Mrs. Cassius Francis Lee on
Duke street, which was sold some time ago
to Mrs. Catherine e. Makeley for 81 100.
The transfer was made through DIR. Will
lam NJ. Smith,
Effects of Spring.
The Virginia suburbs of Washington OPP
posite Georgetown are showing the effects
Of the opening of spring in renewed build
ing activity. and several problems of spe-
cial interest to Washington are being
brought to notice. A stair factory and a
dyeworks are just being completed at Ross
Ign, and plans are being made for many
new houses 10 be put up at Fort Myer
Heights Clarendon, Rosslyn and Ballston.
AT Ballston the village improvement So
ciety has just been organized. with DR. Wei
burn president and f. w. Ewing as sec
rotary. Similar societies are talked of at
some of the other places, and In all there
is a sentiment In favor OF keeping all sa-
looms closed as at present.
The Old Dominion electric line continues
to carry large crowds across the Aqueduci
bridge, as passengers come In from the
thickly settled section along the Falls
Church road, and there is talk of uncom-
Portable congestion at the Georgetown sta
ton. This has led 20 consideration of a
plan to make loop at the Rosslyn end OF
the bridge running westward toward the
pscking-house so that Capital Traction cars
can run across the bridge. transfer passen-
gers In Rosslyn TO the Old Dominion and re-
turn by the loop TO Washington This would
1 a "a win tyar
! ing the Capital Traction road with the Old
Dominion at the Georgetown end of the
bridge; but this connecting link would be
only about fifty feet in length and the ex-
penSe small.
An inducement held out for the erection
| OF factories at Rosslyn is exemption from
I smoke laws What this may mean tc
Washington viii be appreciated when the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

Indian Agent Bellew of the Flat Head IN
dian reservation has received orders from
Washington to sell off S,000.000 feet of tim
Der which was blown down during the re-
cent blizzard. The government will allow
the purchaser Of the timber to erect tenn
porary sawmills ON the reservation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

comment. But now things are very differ
ent. In every section of the town new
houses have been erected until almost an
the available space within the cfty limits
has been occupied. The general demand Tor
buildings eith her to rent or to purchase mas
been so great In the past few years that
there is almost a scramble for every ne"
house that is built. As natural conse-
uuence the rents have increased with the
purchase prices. 1t is safe to state that
many people would move TO Alexandra
from a distance if more houses in desirable
parts of the city could be obtained.
Proposed Mt. Vernon Avenue.
A project of the highest importance IN It's
bearing upon the future real estate interests
of Alexandria and vicinity is the proposed
Mount Vernon avenue which. according TO
the plans, is to be one of the grandest ma
tjonaI boulevards In the world, and which
is to extend from the south bank of the
Potomac opposite Washington, to Mount
Vernon The prospects for the construction
of this magnificent highway are SAD 10 pe
brighter than ever. according to the route
selected, the avenue VIII be lald Close "
Alexandria on the west.
The advance of property values IN Ihe
city of Alexandria has not been cohsequen
upon any temporary squirt In reai estate III
terests or any boom engineered by real IS
tate promoters. On the contrary, the I'M
pfovement has steadily increased along SAFE
and sure lines, giving trustworthy promise
OF permanently At the same time the
ouickening of realty interests has been I'M
usually marked. The development has thus
followed median line between SLOW
progress and d sensational advance III
values.
Ii is safe to state that the greater por-
tior of the property in the city of Alex
ardria could be put on the market today
a figures twice as high as could have been
obtained ten years ago. The full import
OF this statement Is shown in the light OF
the conservative and substantial character
Of the real estate development. Notable
amcng the many new buildings which have
been erected in Alexandria In the past
few years are the permanent homes OF the
Citizens National Bank, a beautiful and
modern structure which cost. together with
the site on which II is located, the sum OF
SaO, 600; of Burke & Herberts Bank and the
Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust Company.
The building OF the Alexandria National
Bank thought not a new structure,
has been so remodeled and improved
that 1t is one of the most attractive build
ings on King street. The city post office,
which was recently enlarged and remodeled
at a cost of about 800, 600, has been made
one of the handsomest post Office buildings
in the state. This improvement has nat
urally had the result OF enhancing realty
values in the section adjoining the post Of
flee.
BY reason of the fact that nearly all the
space within the corporation limits is al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

is now a branch of the Washington Rail
way and Electric Company. Where there
was one house a decade ago, they say
there are now hundreds, and the belief is
general that there are hundreds more COM
ing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
Increase in Building.

Altogether In Northeast Suburban Wash
ington a close approximation by the local
building department has 1t that nearly or
quite $50 new houses were built during
the past year, or were started during the
year and are now approaching completion
Even at a low average valuation per house
(and many of them cost from s., 900 to S. 600
apiece it will be seen that this building
activity alone In this one fractional part of
the city, has resulted in increasing the to-
tai upon which the District revenue is based
by more than one-quarter of million dol
lars, and all indications for the immediate
future it is said point to an era of build
ing such as the northeast has never seen.
Several of the assistants TO Building Inspec-
tor Ashford, who are charged with super
vision of all structural work ir the north
east, whatever its character, and who are
actually on the ground among contractors
every day and all day, have united In
saying that scores upon scores OF people
are getting ready to build as soon as set
tied weather Is assured.
Several men who have closely followed
the development of the suburban district
to the northeast of the city, and even of
those districts which lie outside the jurisdic-
ton in Maryland, have attributed the all
most phenomenal growth of those sections
to the extension along Rhode Island avenue
and through the very center of the
suburban northeast OF the trolley line which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

ably: active and promising youngsters
Nearly IL not quite all OF the subdivisions
in the northeast suburbs conform to the
established system OF city streets. as laid
down by the District Engineer Comm ssion-
er and his assistants. and as the city grows
northeastward 1t will be along lines which
make for beauty and continuity of thor
oughfares. instead of encountering and en-
comprising nests" of peculiarly laid
streets such as are often found in other
cities where neighboring villages have been
gradually absorbed into the greater munich
palitiss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
The Numbering of Squares.

One great change is promised soon when
the local engineering department completes
the PRONUNCIATION OF Its rule for numbering
consecutively all squares within the District
OF Columbia. Even now all lots and sub
divisions are recorded according to the new
system OF lot numbers. and while the pro-
motors of the various suburbs and sections
are permitted to name their subdivisions
as they think best, and to use the titles for
advertising purposes, the actual cords of
transfers of the property must follow the
serial numbers thus established.
During the latter part of the past fiscal
year citizens associations and property
owners most Interested in northeast subur-
pan Washington have been particularly
active In advocating before Congress and
before the Commissioners the improvements
In streets which they have declared the
growth of the section warranted Besides
Rhode Island avenue which has been n
matter upon which all interests conferred
the various portions of the northeast have
come forward with bills of local Importance
Tor carrying out street plans. All Brook
land, Tor instance, is Interested in seeing
9th and 1th and Franklin and Monroe
streets extended. graded and opened TO
trafhc, and many other interests in the
northeast are concerned in the proposed
widening of Bladensburg road which has
long been contemplated but which now
seems nearer realization than ever
y peculiar feature of the developmpnt of
one section above Rhode Island avenue was
the continued use by the public OF a lane
known as Mills avenue. This formed the
only direct means of communication with
the city for large area. and despite the
fact that 1t was not in conformity with the
| city plan there were several houses built
! upon 1t. This condition rehearsed at a
| nearing before the Commissioners, ard
| finally a bill was formulated and presented
In Congress for increasing the width of
| Mills avenue to fifty feet and for making 1t
| public thoroughfare. This action which
| Will probably receive the ratification of
| Congress is only another indication of the
| spreading interests which are leaving un-
| touched not one portion of the.heignts north
| of the caDita1
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-29
PAY TAXES TODAY.
Collectors Office Will Keep Late
u Hours To- DaYs and ID Morrow. 4

81 Collector Frank W. Cunningham and
all OF his force have been kept busy for
the past few days receipting the tax bills
OF the good people who are are an xlous Z, TO
save the per cent; penalty I that VII
be added stoSall tax bills not. paid by TO- TO-:
morrow. ss5 ISL !, -
The collector, who is noted for his Sac &C
comr,odatlng disposition, is & keeping his
office open all kinds OF hours to meet E'|
ytheiSwlshes OF belated tax -payer
e. All !; tax bills not paid to- day or TO-
morrow will have the per &C. t. penalty
added .l Captain Cunningham will hold his
office open to Is o'clock tonight and TO-
morrow night to give everybody 3, q ia'r
chance to avoid the u int1lctlon ot inc g
Enenalty Nv ~ H ~ sss99 8s'El