Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-21
Chairman Finance Committee.

occur until one week hence. and while
many OF the foreign delegates have ar
rived in the United States, only few
have reached Washington. The ma
jOrity of them are not expected until
the official opening of the congress.
Washington's Man IN the Iron Mask
will be working this afternoon and to-
night in time to be seen by the visitors
from the offices Of the District govern
ment The Man in the Iron Mask" is
gentleman who puts his face into a
metal mask and lets a machine which
looks like an automobile engine do his
breathing for him. Who he is and where
he came from are dark mysteries, quite
In keeping with his role of the iron mask.
He was extremely secretive about the
whole affair this morning. when Star
reporter asked him to demonstrate his
apparatus
Il am here for the officials in charge.
and you must ask them. was his reply.
And who are the officials" he was
asked
The District government"
Iron Mask on the Job.
Then when he was asked whether he
intended to refer every one who had or
thought he had tuberculosis to Commits
sioner Macfarland. he said that perhaps
he would not. When he learned that to-
day was municipal day Iron Mask stated
that perhaps the Officials would request
him to make a demonstration later on.
So the Man of Mystery may be seen to-
night holding the mask over his face.
while the throbbing engine resprates au-
tomaticaly. 1t is a part OF Washington 5
exhibit. which is very small, but which
has a dash of excitement added to 1t
by the presence of the automatic lungs
and the iron mask.
Another novel and altogether startling
thing which, Washington has on view is
a pair of cows :lungs-the real thing
which look very much like d rather
tough beefsteak. Iron Mask was fitting
a long rubber tube to them most OF the
morning, but he was absolutely non
communicative about it. Perhaps to-
night the lungs will work.
A map of Washington has been pre-
pared by the local committee on pre-
vention of consumption, showing by red
and blue dots the location of every death
from tuberculosis in the city from jan
uary l. 1901, to January /. 1906. The
red dots indicate deaths of white per-
sons and the blue dots indicate deaths of
colored persons. The map looks il
there were few places left that have not
been visited by the tubercular bacilli.
Some Grewsome Exhibits.
The United States public health and
marine hospital service has some grew
some posters relating to Washington,
and which must have been painted by
the same master hand which portrays
the capture of the wild man of Borneo
on the canvas outside the side shows.
One of them is picture Of two coffins
standing on end very large black
one, which seems to radiate gloom in
dicateS that over i63 colored persons TO
every 100000 die Of tuberculosis in
Washington. A smaller white coffin
tells the spectators that nearly i6O white
people die Of the disease in this city to
every 1000
Another one of the pictures shows
two skeletons, one large gray and
gloomy one and the other gay-colored
orange one. The gloomy one SAYS that
he represents the people who die in the
United States every year from consump-
ton. and that he is much larger than
his happy little yellow friend who rep
resents all the people who have died of
yellow fever in the last lis years.
An interesting Washington exhibit
comes from the government printing Of
flce. 1t is a practical demonstration of a
method of cleaning cuspidorS without
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