Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-27
Gossip From Washington

flights, one lasting eleven minutes and ten seconds, the other consuming se- ven minutes and thirty-four seconds circling the parade ground more than 20 times and going many miles, tray cling at rate of 30 miles or more, it was the same quiet, almost demure man who used to make bicycles at Dayton who climbed carefully out of the cushioned seat ill the big white bat; took the goggles from his eyes and listened to the scores of sincere :, compliments. while he shook hands modestly with those in the crowd ! whom he knew. Those cute little electric railroads which were 10 have connected the Senate and House office buildings with the capitol are not to be installed-at least not for the present and perhaps not at all. The subways are to be fin ished with a coat of cement, hard and white, and giving an excellent reflect ing surface, but the travel in the sub ways will be ill the good old way, on foot except that freight will be han died on rubber-tired electric trucks
 The running of electric cars just to carry members and attaches a dis tance of a couple of blocks, when the walking is perfectly good, seemed like useless expense. Critics might even convey the implication that Congress
 was becoming enervated by luxury and, if there is anything the average Congressman dotes on, it is living down among the ''plain people,"
 But these reasons are not the only ones. There was some valuable expert
 advice given to the commission, and
 Elliott Woods, superintendent of the
 capitol and grounds, by Stuyvesant
 Fish, of the Illinois Central He look
 ed over the plans and prospectus of
 the projected government owned and
 operated railroad and suggested
 that, from the standpoint of the prac-
 
 ing to cost a good deal of money for a short haul.
 To install an electric road over the
 present routes from the capital to the house building, and from the capital to the Senate building, would cost from $s0.o0 to $100.000. it is estimated and to operate it would cost about 15 per cent of that sum annually. perhaps more.
 Taking these arguments into con- sideraton, the House building com : mission practically vetoed the rail- road, but left the matter in the hands of Superintendent Woods, who had de- ; cided to postpone the authorization of the government into the railroad busi-
 ness and more completely than the s House has done, for it gave to Mr , Woods absolute authorization to fol- Il low his judgement.
 Under the authority of a resolution = Of the Isthmian Canal Commission Il adopted March ?. 1907. an enumera- $ ton of the population of the cana . zone was begun on March 3 last, an( : conmplted on June 23. According t(
 this census the total population of the
 zone is 50,003. Of this number 24,96: U are employed either by the Isthmial 5 Canal Commission or the Panam; Railroad Company. Of the total pop 7' ulation, 14,635 are white; 34,7So ar, negroes, and 5S3 are Chinese. Of tn Il total white population, 6,S63 persons '- are from the United States, and o D. these 5,213 are males and 1,65O fe males; 2,030 married men and 1,O4 Ill married women; 2,173 single men am le 172 single women: 451 children, 23 T. boys and 219 girls between the ages o IS and 16 years There are also fror ai 57 males and 16 females. No distinc y ton was made between negroes an ' mulattoes and it is probable that 'e Considerable number of Indians in tn II rural districts were reported as blacl i- United States Attorney Baker, o to behalf of the Attorney General, ha It filed proceedings in the Suprem 'o Court of the district, asking for tn - condemnation of squares 63 and & " which are south of Pennsylvania avt ,e nue, between Fourteenth and Fifteel m tn streets. Congress last May mac to an appropriation for this purpose. .v The land is to be used for the ne n. buildings of the Departments of Sta
 and Justice. It was sought to obati
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