Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-12

white marble, provided with porcelain
tubs and equipped with all the latest
and most expensive conveniences for
ablution.
While the newly-arrived people
crowd into the elevators and are thus
conveyed from the basement to the
main floor of the capitol, the train
takes fresh passengers aboard and
starts on its return trip to the annex.
1t is busy hour of the day, and so no
freight cars are running-though at
other times the second track passing
through the tunnel is utilized for
trucks (roofless like the passenger
cars), which fetch fuel and all sorts Of
other supplies to the storage rooms in
the terrace of the capitol
Under the halcyon regime that is
about to dawn upon the Indiana dele
CATION every Indiana representative
will have room 16X25 feet in dimen-
sions, which will be his Office at the
national capitol. There will be a
marble lavatory with plenty of soap
in each room. so that the congressman
can keep his hands and face at all
times in an immaculate condition of
cleanliness, and there are bathrooms
in the building for the use of members
only, where he can take souse all
over as the spirit moves him.
Each room will have clock, run by
electricity, which will keep the time to
a gnats heel Of accuracy. There Will
be a telephone at his desk with local
and long distance connections.
And his desk will be worth sitting
before, if for no other purpose than TO
admire it. 1t will be a handsome
creation of mahogany and, while it
will cost Uncle Sam pretty penny, 1t
is counted economical in the long run,
as it will stand refnishing times with
out number, and the furniture experts
say it will last 100 years and then be
as beautiful as at the beginning.
There will be a mahogany desk and
chair also for the congressman sec
retary, a combination mahogany book
case, file case and wardrobe and a big,
soft leather chair, which will be the
seat of honor for guests.
In the center of the room will be a
work table mahogany also), five feet
long, and around it will be grouped
four mahogany chairs. On the floor
will be almost as fine a rug as money
can buy-a rug fit for the parlor of a
king. There are no poor rooms in the
building, as the interior rooms face on
large court and are as we'll lighted
and almost as desirable in every way
as those facing on the streets. There
are 420 Office rooms in the building,
and every room bears as close a re-
semblance to every other as one pea
to another pea. 1t will remain for
congress itself to say how the rooms
shall be allotted, but it is probable
that the allotment will be by state
delegations. If that plan is followed
the Indiana members will be housed
in 13 adjoining rooms. Thirteen is an
unlucky number on general principles,
and if any of the Hoosier members are
inclined to be superstitious they may
raise a point of order against being
grouped together in a constellation
of 13.
1t is all very interesting-even
though the description above given
represents glance at things as they
will be two or three months from now.
Though matters are being rushed with
the utmost possible expedition, the
tunnels connecting the capitol with
the new annexes of the house and SEN
ate, respectively, are not yet finished.
They are exactly alike in all important
respects. 1t should be said, too, that
whereas the house annex is nearly
completed that of the senate is not
so far advanced in construction, and
will not be ready for occupancy until
more than year from now.
1t is expected, however, that the
rooms assigned to the members of the
house in their annex will be furnished,
decorated and placed at their disposal
not long after the opening of the next
session of congress. Some additional
months may necessarily elapse before
the great caucus room and the puperb
dining hall are finished-not to men,
ton a variety of other more or less
ornamental details. Both of the new
buildings, which will cost $2,50O,000
apiece, are to be veritable palaces,
vying in the luxury and elaborateness
of their equipment with the finest
hotels in the world.