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specially is Searching all over Europe for
unique pieces of ancient furniture" espe-
cially of the Louis XIV. XIV and XVI genre.
for wealthy compatriots. Her name was
given me by an artist in his line who fur
nishes her unique" pieces in half-dozen
lots. He said she was splendid customer,
paid for her orders in advance and never
disputed the price. The only condition she
exacts is that all her unique" pieces must
be antique and ready for delivery In from
two to four months. 1 not only know the
proprietor, but also the foreman "a master
craftsman who directs the actual work.
Often have 1 been invited to come out in
the open court where, exposed to all sorts
of weather, heat and cold, fierce hail and
rain storms. one could see a number of
splendidly made and really exquisite pieces
of furniture in the process of being made
antique. One does not know whether to
laugh or be indignant at such wanton abuse,
merely to deceive and satisfy a ridiculous
mania. My friend Confidentially told me
that this lady had ever many "chateaux''
in America and estimated her yearly profits
at S., 600 or $4,000. The Searching all over
Europe" means calmly staying in Paris till
her orders are filled. She is an ultra rara
avis OF her kind.
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SKYSCRAPER TALK
PRESIDENT BABES PROPHECY
DECLARED GRoUNDLESS.

Commenting in this city upon recent
alarming prophecy by George w. Babb
president OF the New York board of fire
underwriters, that it was only a matter Of
Time when the skyscraper district of New
I)ik would be destroyed by fire, Architect
Fitzpatrick. the executive officer Of the In
ternational Building Inspectors Society,
says that while such a thing IS not beyond
the realm of possibility it Is highly i'm
probable under present conditions and
could. at slight expense. be made an utter
impossibility.
The skyscraper district of New York"
he said today, cannot be compared to any
thing there was at Baltimore, or in San
Francisco. In both conffa grations the tall
buildings suffered by reason of the vast
amount of poor buildings there was all
about them. Fire found but comparatively
little to burn within them. and in a great
many cases. though damaged themselves,
they served as a bulwark, a protection to
adjacent and more combustible buildings.
In Baltimore. as a matter of fact as
as the fire reached the skyscraper district,
small it was 1t burnt itself out in them,
and they actually saved the city beyond
them, stopping the fire much as dyke
does the thrush of flood tide.
In New York the downtown district is
immeasurably better built generally than
is that of any other city. There are more
tall buildings,and these, serving almost ex-
cIusively as offices. contain the minimum
of combustible material. Their tall steel
frames. protected and inClosed with i'm
perishable brick and hollow tile fireproof-
ing. give a fire IN the contents Of the build
ings nothing of a structural nature to feed
upon and destroy.
NO the skyscraper district of New York
Is about the safest place from fire in the
entire country and if the owners Of the
buildings would but go to work and put
wired glass in metal sash in the windows
where they have not already done so. thus
making it absolutely impossible for fire 10
find ingress into the tall buildings from
without that district would be so safe that
little or no insurance would need be carried
upon the buildings about which Mr.. Babb
Is SO much perturbed."
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foot of sth street the Washington and Po-
tomac Steamboat Company has erected a
new frame office structure of eight rooms,
and in this building the general offices of
the company are now located. The same
company for its excursion business within
the past few months has also erected
two-story pebble-dasb building at the pier
used by the River View and the Colonial
Beach steamers. This building took the
place of one-storv, tumble-down frame
structure and is a big improvement to that
section of the harbor.
The Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company has also erected fine Of
flee building at its pier. foot of It'll street
since last summer. and this addition has
done much to add to the attractivene5s of
the river front. All these buildings have
been built within the past eight months.
Within the past two years the office
building of the Mount Vernon and Marshall
Hall line has been enlarged and improved:
the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company has erected a building and
slips for the ferry and its daytime steamers
to Norfolk and the jamestown exposition.
and the District has erected the new
morgue building and the new headquarters
for the fireboat detail. These buildings
all two-story. pebble-dash structures. and
are handsome buildings. A visitor to the
river front who had not seen 1t in the past
four years would think he was in a locality
unknown to him.
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THE MEETING sNEEzED.
Rally Disturbed by
Pepper and Snuff.

NEW YORK. September 4.-Several fol-
lowers of Maurice Featherson, leader of the
twentieth assembly district made their
presence known last night at a meeting held
in Union Hail, I'd avenue rear SD street, to
urge the election of Edward v Nicholson as
leader The meeting had hardly got under
way before everybody In the hall started to
sneeze and it didn't take a second guess for
the Nicholson admirers to know that
Feathersonites were present.
Magistrate Charles II. Wahle, the first
speaker. denounced the men who had sprin-
killed. pepper and snuff on the floor and de-
clared that it was a mighty poor style of
political fighting.
If the policemen in this hall do not ar
rest the men who have perpetrated this out
rage" said the magistrate Il will person
ally call upon Commissioner Bingham and
see to il that they are punished
The men who caused the sneezing made
their departure before the police could sim
gle them out.
When Asssmblyman Robert Wagner in
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MONEY FOR STREETS
Annual Estimates Submitted bY
Superintendent TWohey.
SUM EXCEEDS HALF MILLION
Increase of $43,4s0 Over Appropria-
ton for Present Year.
COMMENTS ON THE SERVICE
Street Cleaning Department Regarded
as One Of the Most Important.
in the District.

John T. Twohey. superintendent of street
cleaning for the District, in his annual es-
Inmates for the next fiscal year, to begin
July ! next, submitted to the Commission
ers yesterday. asked for an appropria-
ton of sJO0,S4 which sum is an increase
of $43.4sO over the amount appropriated
for this branch Of the local government
for the present fiscal year. or this total
amount S45,5 500 is to be devoted to sal
aries, an increase Of $3.50; s277 600 is for
street cleaning. an increase Of $4,000;
$l6S,340 for collection of garbage. refuse
and ashes, for which the same was ap-
propriated for this year. and $4,000 for re-
moval of snow and ice, which is an in
crease of $1,000.
This is one of the largest and most i'm
portant departments of the District, and
the increase asked for by Mr. Twohey is
looked upon by him very small, and by
other officials as remarkable, evidencing
economic administration. Only three EN-
ployes of this department We're mentioned
for increases in salaries. At the present
time there are ten inspectors employed at
the rate of 1,2CO, and 1t Is Mr.. Twohey's
idea to make one of these inspectors chief
inspector and pay him a salary of 81 400,
and having only nine inspectors at 81 200.
This change incurs an increase of SEQ.
Mr.. Twohey stated that r. E. Doyle, who
will get this promotion If 1t Is approved,
al the present time acts in the capacity of
chief inspector. and his duties are to over
see in a general way the work of the street
cleaning field forces, and this entails longer
hours of service than those required of the
other inspectors.
Another employee mentioned for a promo
ton Is A. J. Holt, stable foreman, who at
present receives salary of $1,000 The in
crease amounts to 500. G. l.. Dittmar,
stenographer and clerk of the street-clean-
ing office, Is mentioned for an increase
from S720 TO $500.
There Is at present only one hostler en-
ployed in the department, and Mr.. Twohey
has asked that OF his seven dumpmen
be transferred to the position of hostler.
Appropriation This Year.
The street cleaning department for the
present fiscal year is claiming the streets
under an appropriation of $4,000, but
Supt Twohey is of the opinion that by the
strictest economy and the closest figuring
he will need at least SIT, 600 next year
Even this increase Is figured upon the pos
sibilty of the limitation placed by Con-
gress upon the amount to pay for street
cleaning-19 cents per 1000 square yards
being increased at the next session of Con-
gress to % cents per 1000 square yards.
He is also meeting with difficulty in Sc
curing satisfactory and available dumps in
connection with this work.
Upon this subject MIR. Twohey sand: I'm
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Side Play of Tammany Fight.

NEW YORK, september 1.-THE fight in
the twenty first assembly district between
Magistrate Walsh and john F. Shaughnessy
brought out the reserves Of the West l25th
street station last night.
1he shaughnessy faction had meeting
scheduled to take place IN hall at bath
street and sth avenue. Shorty after the
meeting had been called 10 order 900 or 400
children appeared in front OF the hall and
began 10 shout and scramble for pennies
which. IL was said We're thrown by lieu
tenants OF Walsh. The noise made by the
children threatened to break up the meeting
and the police reserves had to dispense the
children.
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| BETTER RIVER FRONT.
THIS SECTION HAS KEPT PACE
WITH OTHERS.
Some New Buildings for Business Pur-
poses Recently Completed-Land-
scape Much Changed.

Within the past year the river front sec
ton of the city from the foot Of 14th street
southwest to the arsenal has kept pace in
improvements with any other section Of
the city
The latest improvements to be made are
the new office buildings and lumber stor-
age sheds of Johnson & Wimsatt and the
new saw mills and office building erected
by Johnson Bros. a. the foot of 10Th and
18th streets southwest. These structures
took the place of old buildings which were
destroyed by fire early In the past spring.
and are ornamental structures. At the
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STRIKE OUT, CHILDREN
MAYBE YOU'LL HAVE A CHANCE
IN SCHOOL POOLS.

Publication Of the suggestion made by
Henry B. Davis, District inspector Of
plumbing, in his annual report that in
struction IN swimming be made a part of
the public school curriculum. has created
widespread comment and discussion. The
idea Is not altogether new. for three years
ago Assistant Superintendent Of Schools
Percy NJ. Hughes, who was then director
of the high schools. In his annual report
to the board Of education. made recon-
mendation which had the same end in
view. Recalling the matter and speaking
OF Inspector Davis suggestion, Mr.. Hughes
declared himself heartily in favor Of in
structing in the art Of swimming.
Mr.. Hughes original report to the board
Of education reads. in part, as follows: Il
believe that every boy and girl ought to be
taught to swim, and to accomplish this
while in the high schools each school should
be provided with the means to attain such
an end. While the board is striving to i'm
prove the life conditions in the schools is it
not indeed worth while to secure to pupils
the power to assist themselves in emergen-
eies?" Continuing in this report Mr.
Hughes referred to several drowning acct
dents in which the lives of school children
had been sacrificed in that year, and he
made the specific recommendation that eff
forts be made to secure appropriations for
construction of gymnaSiums, with SWIM
ming pools attached, in the high school
buildings not then so equipped.
Capt. James F. oyster, president of the
board of education, also commented upon
the suggestion of Inspector Davis. stating
his belief In the value of swimming classes
among the children, but also giving the
opinion that there are other things Of
greater Importance. Capt. Oyster spoke
particularly of the necessity of replacing
several existing school buildings with mod
ern structures of sanitary design, and also
declared for more Fairgrounds before the
idea of providing swimming pools is serious
ly considered.
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permits We're taken out in August for the
construction Of 1900 buildings, involving
a total estimated cost of SAT $50, sol. against
II $50 buildings, involving s53. So. $50 for the
corresponding month year ago. an in
crease of forty-eight buildings and a de-
crease Of s., 921 500. or II per cent. OF the
forty-two cities. there were increases in
twenty-five up to as high 344 per cent
and losses in twenty up to as high. In one
instance. of 60 per cent. 1t will be OBJ
served that the losses are confined to the
larger cities and also to localities in which
building has been conspicuously active.
The figures in detail are as follows:
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BINGHAM BACK.
Monday VIII See Him on the Job.
Rumors of a Shapeup.

NEW YORK, September l+.-POlice Com
missioner Bingham returned from his va
cation yesterday after spending five weeks
IN Halifax. lie arrived on the steamship
Sylvia. which landed at the foot Of Thomas
street, brooklyn lie was met tn re by
Second Deputy Commissioner BIgher and
Secretary Slatt"ry. VINO took him aboard
the police boat Patrol. The Patrol put him
ashore an The Battery and he went to his
home where be will remain until Monday
morning. when he VIII be on the job.
With the return Of Gen. Bingham MuI-
berry street predicted changes in the de-
yartmeut II any are contemplated Gen
bingham W! not make them known until
Monday.
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LA TOILETTE CUTS STEPHENSON.
Wants Delegates, But Won't Deal
With New Senator.

MILWAUKEE, September Ex-senator
La Toilette informed friends here yester-
day that under no circumstances is his
presidential candidacy to be involved in
Senator Stephenson's aspirations for a full
term in the United States Senate.
He wants the Wisconsin delegates to the
republican national convention, but he Is
unwilling that they shall be secured by
bargaining with Stephenson.
These declarations indicate that La Fol-
Iette and Stephe ason have reached the part
ing of tn, ways and that La Toilette In
tends to conduct his political future indie
pendent Of the Marinette statesman. 1t
also means that without La Follette's sup
port Senator Stephenson cannot be re-
elected.
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have not been conspicuous as active build
ing Centers there are material decreases. IN
Guiding Salt Lake City, % per cent; Mobile,
Sc: Louisville. 81; Pueblo, 20: Denver. 81;
Washington, 10 In the northwest building
is very active: St. Paul had an increase of
60 per cent; Minneapolis, 9. and Milwaukee,
O. Construction continues active in the
north Pacific coast cities. Portland leading
with an increase of "a per cent. and Spo-
kane, f. San Francisco and Los Angeles
are not doing so well, the former suffering
a loss of 40 per cent and the latter per
cent. The interior cities are prospecting. \
large number show handsome gain over
the corresponding period a year ago.
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BAR FOR MR.. PHILIPBAR.
Why Expulsion From German Y. M.
C. A. Holds Good.

NEW YORK. September 14.-Justice Abb
bolt in the supreme court, Brooklyn, yes
terday denied the application of Charles w.
Philpbar. a lawyer. for a mandamus to
compel the German Young Mems Christian
Association to restore him to membership.
He was expelled for saying. 1t Is alleged.
that the association could go to hell and
the trustees to the devil"
In denying the motion Justice Abbott
said:
We'll. the two PAGES TO which the petit
toner has consigned the trustees are close
ly allied. In any event, any young man
using such language is not a fit member of
the Young Mems Christian Association
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New Vases.

1t will probably be unanimously admitted
that roses are the ideal flowers for table
decorations at this time of year, and for
them and all heavy headed, short-stemmed
flowers large shallow bowls are the best re-
ceptacles. The new rose bowls, both in
silver and cut glass. are more squat than
ever, AMI a cut-glass flower basket with a
twisted glass handle Is one of the newest
features. With the flowers deity arranged to
look as if they had been carelessly put in
that studied carelessness is the last ac-
qufred and most difficult of all the arts of
decora tion-it makes a beautiful CENTER
niece
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The tide was all one way in the larger
rities The decrease in New York was 10
per cent: Brooklyn. ~; Philadelphia. 6;
Chicago, II; ST Louis %; Cleveland s.
Ptttsburg was notable exception. 1t shows
a gain of Ill per cent In the foregoing
buiIdine has been extremely active for
many years. but it is not believed that with
the prevailing high rentals it will suffer
much of a decrease, or that there Will be
any depression which will last for any
length of time from the present aspect of
affairs Conditions in all the cities men,
toned are upon basis too satisfactory to
permit a continued period of inactivity
in building. In another class of cities which
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Pettibone Seriously Ill.

BOISE. Idaho, September 14-George A
Pettibone, the alleged accomplce of Meyer
IN the murder of former Gov. Steunenberg
IS reported to be In a critical condition. He
was removed 10 hospital yesterday. An
operation will be necessary. There will be
10 further prosecution Of the case at pres
eni.
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DEFIEs THE LEGISLATURE.
Indiana Governor Won't Sign Bonds
Authorized Over Veto.

INDIANOPOLIS, September 14Gov
Hanley yesterday nulified a law of the last
legislature by positively refusing to sign
bonds for Vineennes University provided for
in an act of the last session.
When the act was passed to reimburse
the university for lands taken from it by
the state the governor vetoed the bill. The
legislature passed it over his veto and the
bonds were printed and were yesterday
presented to him for his signature. He re-
fused to sign them. giving as his reason
that the appropriation was Illegal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14
Anacostia Real Estate.

Building operations have been booming
IN Anacostia during the recent season. A
number of attractive dwellings and several
Commodious business structures have been
added TO the town. The local real estate
firms have completed a number of sales of
property and additional building is to be
commenced at an early date.
The completed buildings include two brick
structures on Harrison street opposite
Adams street for John Hirsch. the cOmbi-
nation store and dwelling erected by A. o.
Brady and occupied by the owner at Har-
rlson and Pierce streets, and the modern
lied premises at - Harrison street for
George +. Pyles.
Bryan COnnors has built a frame resi-
dence on Pierce street near Jefferson street.
John f. Fort, who bought the Smith prop
erty at Washington and Pierce streets, has
transformed the old house into villa of
attractive design, which he is now occu-
plying.
"a frame cottage. at 6l4 High street. on the
same scale as the other cottages in this
neighhorhood, which has come to be rec
ognized a new Anacostia by reason
OF the pretty type of suburban homes built
there. y frame residence, containing mod
ern improvements. has been completed for
George W. King. jr., in the same section,
on Maple avenue. which he will occupy in
short time. Charles F. Linger has had
constructed on Harrison street near 18th
street a cottage on the bungalow style, be-
Ing one story high containing number of
large rooms. with modern improvements
MIR Llnger recently moved into his new
home.
Joseph l. elliott has built frame dwell
ing AT premises 414 Jackson street. In the
Morris road section William II. Haydens is
causing extensive improvements to be
made 10 Ills property at 100 Morris road.
Edmond w Burke 5 having a frame dwell
ing built At 414 Chestnut street John l..
Warren has under construction two two
houses in
street
Down at Washington Highlands subur-
ban home is in course of construction for
Oswald Ebert of the Washington barracks.
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BUILDING DECREASE
OPERATIONS IN FORTY-TWO
CITIES FOR AUGUST.

Building in forty-two of the principal
cities for August shows an increase of
forty-eight in the number of buildings and
a decrease in cost of II per cent Accord
ing to official reports to Construction News.
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his speech mentioned the name OF Paddy
O'Brien, one of the candidates in the four
cornered race for the leadership, there was
an outburst of applause and the NEE ting
almost resolved itself into an O'Brien af-
fair
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Filling Ord srs for antique" Furniture

From the World Today.
There is an exceedingly bright and fash
ionable woman with headquarters in one of
the leading eastern watering places. Her
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In Holland the horn as warning signal
is reserved exclusively for the use of mo-
toriStS
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Recent Sales.

Moore & Hill, Inc, have effected the fol-
lowing recent sales:
For ex-Gov. William Pitt kellogg, prem
ises 1853 V street. Washington Heights
This is one Of the row of houses erected
the first of the present year. The pur-
chaser is a local attorney. who expects to
occupy this house as his home. The price
paid was about $4,000.
For Charles +. Calhoun 1888 Kenyon
street. Columbia Heights, a frame house
and lot for 5000.
For Thomas II. Pickford. 54S 14th street
southeast, for $3.50.
For William J. Fentress, 1913 18th street
northwest. for 5000.
For Henrietta and Harriet c. Rubenacker
1Tp 9TH street northwest, business prop
erty. for about 5000.
For Andrew c. Wiley. premises 1899 5th
s rect northwest
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Long, Low Structures.

ION the other hand there are many
whose tastes incline toward the long, low
structure and 1t cannot be doubted that
public buildings of this character appeal to
the artistic senses of some. But these
structures are only possible where there is
an abundance OF open space, such as park
ing and lawns. to the end that a proper
artistic perspective may be obtained, as
with the contemplated structures along the
Mall for instance Were these or similar
buildings placed in a thickly built-up sec
tion of a city the necessary perspective
would be lacking and they would be voted
out of place.
perfect entirety that all surrounding con-
ditions must accord. and If more office
space IS needed as it is. and has been
practically since the inception OF the gov
eminent. our future public buildings must
either extend upward by the addition of
more stories. or spread out and cover more
superficial space. Either case would be
satisfactory to government officials and
others interested in the housing of the
governments working forces in the capital.
If only the appropriations are provided by
Congress.