Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-02
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I am sure Mr.. Blank didn't do. I am going
to kiss you. And before she could resent
surprise the little girl remarked:
Yes, Mr.. Blank did kiss me- And he
kissed mamma, too" That ended the dis
cussion.
modern ocean greyhound has in its
crew men enough to make quite a village
ashore. and the general public, and even
passengers on the ships have no idea Of
the number Of men necessary to man and
handle, one Of the big ocean-going passen-
ger steamers. The master of the new North
German Lloyd steamship. Kronprinzessin
Cecilia, has command OF a force of 697
persons, divided as follows: Twenty-four
officers. surgeons. pursers and mail officers;
sixty-one engineers, electricians, boiler
makers and oilers; 231 firemen and coal
beavers; 20 stewards, stewardesses and
'tweendeck stewards; thirty-three dish
washers and pantry men; thirty-three
cooks, confectioners, bakers and butchers;
nine Marconi operators. baggage masters,
BARRIERS and booksellers. fifty-nine quarter
masters, boatswains, carpenters, safimak-
ers, sailors and lamp trimmers.
Talk about scientific revelations" re-
marked a street man to his neighbor In
14th street car the other day, but I
think a certain lady who lives in an adjoin-
ing fiat to me has the very latest in the
remarkable discovery that secondhand
sound waves have a marked effect upon
the sensibilities Of marine life. 1t hap
pened this way: A party who lives across
the hall from the lady was entertaining a
company of friends the other evening and
had set his new monograph in action. The
last blaring notes of Waiting at the
Church were dying away when q ring
and tapping at the door was heard. The
summons was answered, and there stood
the scientific woman in question. I must
ask to StOp nl9VfnR that DhOnORraDh'
she said, 1T disturbs my goldfish!
X X X X
One of the most active woman workers
for the restoration of the army canteen is
said to be a little old lady who lives in
South Washington, and whose only son was
killed in a drunken brawl in one Of the
low dives that infest the vicinity of army
posts. She pays frequent visits to the halls
of Congress, and never fails, when she
| meets member of either house, to urge
him to vote for the repeal of the anti-can-
teen law. Her son was private soldier
and had been in the army several years
before the canteen was abolished. Up to
that time she explains, he was a compare
lively sober lad But after the post ex-
changes were done away with her son
sought the low places about the military
| reservations that had sprung up like mush-
rooms, and became addicted to the use of
the poisonous compounds that were dealt
out under the name of whisky. These,
she added, converted him into maniac for
the time, and one day, while on pass and
wild from the effects of the stuff. he en-
gagged In row and was killed. The bur
den Of her plant to congressman Is that If
the canteen had been left undisturbed the
boy would now be alive. She asks them to
restore 1t for the sake Of "some other
mothers son who may be led into the prac-
tees Of the low resorts and become con-
Armed drunkard and gambler, and perhaps
meet the fate Of my boy"
She visited the Capitol Monday last and
called the attention Of the legislators to
the fatal shooting in bar room near Fort
Washington, down the Potomac, as another
tragic result Of the abolition Of the army
canteen.