Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-04-04
Editorial Correspondence

i've are back in New York
again after a trip to old Point
/ Comfort, Washington, Balti.
more, Philadelph etc. Wher
we came east we expected to
go to Bermuda but owing to
circumstances that confronted
the boy we failed to make the
trip, so we took the trip to old
Point Comfort instead, and we
can truthfully say we are glad
we didn't take any longer trip
on the ocean. We left here
Monday at 10 a. m. on a special
boat for old Point Comfort.
The day was stormy and we
hadn't passed out Sandy Hook
before the Atlantic was doing
Tits best to "make US sorry we
came" Well, in about an hour
after passing Sandy Hook we
lost interest in the game and
were truly busy with our own
affairs. 1t isn't necessary to
give the readers of the Times
our experiences for the next
ten hours. We reached old
Point Comfort some time dur
ing the early morning of Tues
day, March 26. Our friends
carried US ashore on a stretcher
I've didn't weigh much anyhow,
after our sea eynafience) and
Frank and .ooh a train for
Washington, D. c., arriving
there about $50 in the after
noon, and we sure had a siren
uous time in that city. The
first man our boy insisted on
introducing us to in Washing
ton was Richard Tyler, an in
surance, loan and land broker.
The readers of the Times will
remember of reading about a
fellow several weeks ago who
ran into the presidents car
riage with his automobile.
Well, Mr.. Tyler is the man.
Frank wanted to go out on
Connecticut avenue to call on
Mr.. and Mrs. Farchild CORNER
ly Miss Marion Belly and sew
eral other friends out there
and Mr.. Tyler insisted on TAX
ing us out in his automobile, so
we got in and started with him.
Say, Cramer and Deur and
Edgecomb would turn grey if
they should attempt to run like
this fellow did. We don't often
get scared, but the speed limit
is in Washington is fourteen
miles an hour, and Mr.. Tyler
doubled that going out Con-
necticut avenue. He made
every turn on two wheels gee,
| it was fierce. After we had
made our calls we started
back to town--the main part
of town and Mr.. Tyler insist
ed on taking us down to the
Army and Navy club for a
lunch. He went back about
twice as fast as he came, and
when we rounded the corner at
the Army and Navy club we
don't think there was more
than one wheel on the pave
ment. Excuse us, we don't
want any more rides like that.
After our luncheon with Mr..
Tyler at the club he took us
down to the Raleigh, where we
were stopping and bade us
goodbye. Nice fellow, but we
were surely glad to see him go,
for fear he would want us to
take another spin in his auto.
He is too swift a driver for us.
We went up to the capitol and
found it a real nice building, a
little large for a residence but
all right for the congressman
and senators to meet in. It is
built of grey marble and is
about as long as from the State
Savings bank down to Second
street and is finished in fine
shape in every part. Congress
doesn't act stingy when it
comes to building anything for
the government. One queer
thing about the capitol is that
it faces east instead of west.
When you look up Pennsyl-
vania avenue you see the coat
tails Of the statue that sur
mounts the capitol, instead of
it's face. The reason for this is
a story Of graft, the congress
men and senators in the early
day having bought all the land
east of the capitol for speculat-
i've purposes and held it so high
that the city naturally grew
west and left them holding the
sack. After doing the capitol
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