Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-04-20
A GRAND CEREMONY
LAYING CORNERSTONE AT THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
President Roosevelt Took Prominent
Part as Well as Leading Citizens Of
the Nation-President Speech Very
lmpressive-MasOnio Fraternity Act
i've Participants.

In the presence of a 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. The adj
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 a Mason,
and who, following immemorial GUS
tom, delivered the principal address,
In commemOration of today's event,
the Masonic fraternity of the District
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 a 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 witt
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 uprlsn, in
stead of lying fiat, as has been tn
custom heretofore. This box was hel
metically sealed and in position whel
the grand master of Masons began tn
ancient ceremony of placing the col
nerstone in position.
The building dedicated will be elias
sic in design. 1t suggests in genera
: division, the Garde Heuble, on tn
Place de la Concorde, in Paris, Will
the pavilions are modelled on those c
) the Colonna de Louvre. Architectul
: ally, the front is divided into tw
parts, the lower corresponding to tn
: first story of the building, constitu
/ ing "a rusticated" base, on which, e.
3 tending through the second and thir
/ stories, is the colonnade, surmounte
: BY its entablature and balustre. Som
: idea of it's size is given by the follow
+ ing frontages:
: On B street, 476 feet; on New Je
/ sey avenue, 40 feet; on First stree
452 feet, and street, 34S feet, maxim
A total frontage of 1740 feet, or al
: proximately one-third of a mile. TIL
: building will contain 40 rooms fl
e members, together with a multiplied
J. of caucus rooms, audience rooms, pos
e office, restaurant and other features {
Y modern office building in any larg
] city. The long unbroken cOrnice {
the building leading up naturally
e the capitol building and thence to tn
e great dome, the browning and domil
ating unit in the group of building
now on Capitol plaza, are calculate
!. by It's designers to conduce to the d
t sired effect of the making the capit'
h building more imposing and emectiv
Address by President.
mo good whatever will come frol
the warped and mock morality whic
: denounces the misdeeds of men I
wealth and forgets the misdeeds pra
! ticed at their expense; which d
nounces bribery, but blinds itself
blackmail; which foams with rage if
corporation secures favors by impro
er methods and merely leers with hl
eous mirth if the corporation is itse
wronged.
: KThe only public servant who ca
bA trusted honestly to protect ii
of the public against the mi
= a corporation is that publ
Will just as surely d