Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-14
PALACES GOING UP
UNCLE SAM BUILDING TWO no.
TELLS FOR STATESMEN.

UNCLE SAM BUILDING TWO no.
TELLS FOR STATESMEN.
White Marble Apartment Houses, One
for Senators and One for Con-
gressmen, Will Soon be Ready
for Occupation.
Uncle Sam is building two apart
ment houses in Washington. They
will be the most magnificent struc.
lures Of their kind in this country.
and will cost $2.500,00o apiece. Exclu.
sively for use by congressman, they
will be to all intents and purposes de.
tached wings of the capitol, though
separated from the latter by several
hundred feet. One of them will be
occupied by senators and the other by
representatives.
These official Congressional flats"
as they might be called, will be de-
voted wholly to the personal convent.
ence and comfort of the legislative oc.
cupants, who will be surrounded by
every imaginable luxury. In effect.
they will be huge hotels, each of them
occupying more ground than the Wal.
dorf-Astoria in New York, though not
SO high; and the dining rooms will be
on a great scale and very handsome
though guests" will be at liberty to
have their meals served in their rooms
by messengers on the government
pay roll and in uniform, if they so de.
sire. Also, there will be magnificent
barber shops; and, indeed, the only
regular hotel feature lacking will be
bedrooms, all of the apartments being
intended for daytime use merely-a
fact, which, nevertheless. will not bar
occupants from utilizing their quarters
Tor sleeping purposes if they wish.
The two buildings. which are to be
of white marble, will be exactly alike
in respect to their exterior, and will
not differ much so far as their inter.
Tor is concerned. Thanking the capitol
at either end, they will form with the
latter harmonious architectural
whole, the great dome dominating the
group as the central feature. 1t would
suffice, then. to give description OF
one, in order to convey a satisfactory
idea of both-save for one or two diff
ferences, relating particularly to the
number of rooms. In the southern
flats. allotted to the lower house.
there will be 41O rooms-one for each
representative. On the other hand, in
the northern flats the amount of space
comprising the whole of three floors)
will be occupied by 80 apartments.
Now, at the present time there are
In the house 391 members and dele.
gates; so that 10. rooms will be left
over for future margin. In the sen.
ate there are 80, so that quarters for
eight additional senators from possible
future states will be available. But
it will be observed, the smaller num-
Der of senators makes it practicable
to supply them with much more COM
modious qaurters and, while each rep.
resentative will have only one ROOM
there will be for each senator an
apartment in the proper sense of the
word, comprising room for himself
slightly smaller room for his secre
tary, and bathroom.
These senatorial apartments will be
very handsomely decorated and fur.
nished. A small army of uniformed
messengers will be at hand to furnish
the requisite service, and, with private
staircases and private elevators for
the exclusive use of the wearers of the
toga, the whole outfit will be of the
most comfortable, not to say luxurious
description. Furnished private apart
ments in a white marble palace, with
rent and all sorts of incidentals paid
for by the government, are not by any
means to be sneezed at, so to speak.
In earlier days, when more simple
manners prevailed, congressman were
content to rub along with fewer com.
forts and conveniences. Though the
capitol was much smaller building
than it is today, the space it afforded
was made to serve FOR committee
rooms and all other legislative pur.
poses. But congress, of course, has
grown numerically, and. though the
capitol has been likewise greatly ex.
banded, the wants of members of both
houses have multiplied. For good
many years past every senator has in.
sisted upon having his private suite,
| and, the committee rooms in the sen.
ate wing being too few, the Maltby
building actress the street, has been
occupied for the purpose.
Meanwhile it has seemed to MANY
representatives that they were not get
ting their share of the pie, as it were.
and SO they have insistently pushed
a movement for the erection of a
building outside, which would contain
suitable quarters for themselves. Thus
1t was that eventually $5,OO0,OOO was
appropriated to put up the two great
apartment houses here described-the
senate naturally insisting that the up.
per house should not be left out.
I'VE are most wasteful and ex
travagant nation" said the Barnard
college girl as she sprinkled damp tea
leaves over a rug, preparing to sweep
it. This is what we do with our tea
leaves. Then we throw them away.
In England many of the well.to-do fam.
lilies dry the tea leaves and sell them
to the grocers, who sell them to tho
poor people in the neighborhood."