The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-20

sell. what are seemingly expressions
of a mind stored with world wide
knowledge homely sayings and express
sions are the results of deep medita-
tons and close examinations.
From this on 1t may be confidently
expected that the Cannon press bureau
will be working over time. that feature
of the boom being in the very Compel
ent and resOurceful hands of L. Wright
Busby, the speakers confidential Sec
rotary and Washington newspaper
man Of wide experience. Mi. 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 him.
self an adept in the game of politics
and with his chief occupying the head
line position in the forthcoming ma
tional 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 and Root. Fairbanks
and Cannon and possibly Shaw ap-
pearing in their celebrated parts with
Roosevelt always in the back ground
the American people are in for real
old-fashioned contest in 1908.
Elliott Woods, superintendent of the
United States capitol, building and
grounds and charged with the con-
struction of the senate and house Office
buildings is many sided man. Scarce
forty years of age he has accomplished
in his life more than Is vouchsafed the
leaders at sixty. 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 amateur photog-
raphers in the country. He has made
electricity a study for twenty years
, and now in conjunction with the cclst
geodetic survey he is engaged in q
series of experiments in wireless teleg-
raphy which gives promise of revolu-
tionizing present methods of catching
sound waves and transmitting them to
a receiver. All these things Mr.. Woods
has accomplished in off hours or really
in the night hours. He is among the
first to appear in his Office in the morn
ing and the last to leave. The secret
of this mans success is found in the
single word method" Every day at a
certain hour he is in his Office in the
capitol. On the same day at certain
hour he is in the temporary Office Of
the building being erected for office
purposes for the house of representa-
tives and at certin other fixed hour
he looks over the work going on for
q like building for the senate. He in
terviews the builders, takes up with
them the details of specifications,
solves the intricate problems of con-
struction and with his exceedingly eff
ffcient Captain Hunt. one of the clev-
crest men who ever went on 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 magnificent buildings ever con-
structed for purely Office purposes for
the nations legislators.
In the erection of the house of rep
resentatives Office building, an inter-
esting fact has developed in connec-
ton with the brick masonry work. The
first brick was laid at the site on the
afternoon of July 5. 1905, and on July
8, 1905, there had been laid in the
walls 10,880,000 bricks. This is be-
lieved to be the greatest number of
brick laid on any building in one
year In the United States, and probably
in the world. One of the causes con-
ducing this record-breaking feat was
the remarkable 'open" winter of 1906
O6. In those winter months the work