Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-02-01
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondence

Pretty nearly everybody Is interest
ed in the capitol and what is done each
year to make it more comfortable to
the peoples candidate, be he from New
York or Bingville. This year the an
nual cleaning of the building has been
in progress for several months-practi-
cally all through the recess-and ev-
erything put in readiness for the gath
ering Of the political clans in Deem
Der. And cleaning, painting, repairing
and improving building the size Of
the capitol is a mighty big annual job.
Capital Spick and Span.
This year the plumbing throughout
the building was overhauled and much
modern plumbing Installed. Every
thing in the heating and ventilating de
partments has been put in thorough
repair In the senate postoffice and the
house folding room new steel equip
ment has been put in. Several new
chandeliers have been installed in the
committee rooms and in the house
and house restaurants have been over
hauled and reconstructed, several arti-
fetal stone floors have replaced wooden
affairs in committee rooms and an in
conceivable amount of repair work of
various kinds has been done about the
whole big structure from cellar to
dome.
Committee Rooms Refurbished.
Over on the senate side the public
buildings and grounds and immigration
committee rooms have been painted
decorated and refurnished, and the
same thing has been done to the rail
ways and canals, military affairs, riv-
ers and harbors and labor committee
rooms and the sergeant at arms office
and pOstoffice on the house side. In
other committee rooms and corridors
the paint has been renewed, the senate
and house chambers have been painted
where needed and the supreme court
room was painted throughout, oil sup
planting most of the calcimine work.
Chrysnnthemums In Variety.
At the annual crysanthemum show
at the propagating gardens many beau
tful specimens of this autumn flower
were seen. The collection on exhibit
ton this year contained 100 varieties,
all OF which are practically new. The
most beautiful on exhibition was the
Beatrice May, blossom of unusual
size, the petals close together and beau
tiful in Wilderness.
Another was the Morton +. Plant
which was grown in New York 1t is
deep pink, very large and with loose
petals. The La Grande Precoce is a
product of Spain and is large and Of
a beautiful old gold hue. Another bios
som at the exhibition is one which
while originally yellow, becomes deep
bronze. There were also specimens of
buff chrysanthemums. One Of the most
which are of the most brilliant GRIM
son on the inside and of the deepest
gold on the outside The darkest flow
er of the exhibit was the Black Hawk.
which is of so deep crimson that it
looks almost black. There was also a
striped variety in crimson and gold
New French Embassy.
The building site upon which the new
French embassy is to be erected is To-
Gated on the south side of S street, be
tween Twenty-second and Twenty-third
streets northwest, and extends to De
catur place. 1t was purchased several
years ago by the French government,
and later plans for the embassy build
ing were prepared by the government
architect at Paris. For time 1t was
rumored that the French government
would not build upon the site and that
1t was awaiting favorable opportuni-
ty to dispose of the property, but the
announcement Of the appropriation of
$4,000 by the French government to
begin building operations will serve
to allay the apprehensions of some that
the proposed embassy building would
not be erected upon the SITE
Pulpit From Canterbury.
A0st Row Rapdall Thomas David