The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1908-10-01
CENTER OF EDUCATION
Continued from rage one .


leges and universities which. with the
museums laboratories and libraries.
collected here, go to make the whole
city one great university. Washington
now has eight colleges and university,
seven professional schools OF law
three OF medical and dentistry and
three In geological. In addition there
are seventy private schools that attract
boys and girls from all parts of the
country. In these Institutes there are
47s professors and instructors and
more than $500 students. Washington
Is particularly well equipped In the
way or libraries. There are thirty
four district government libraries avail
able for the students and the general
public. They contain more than 1000,
3 900 books and pamphlets and more than
100000 other articles literary in char
acter--manuscripts, maps, music and
prints. In addition there are district
libraries and libraries OF private asso-
Citations and institutions. The greatest
OF all these collections of books is the
library of congress. housed in the larg-
est and best-eauipped library building
in the world and containing more than
100000 books and pamphlets and more
In the way of museums and labora-
tories there are the Smithsonian insti-
tuition, the National museum, tho Cor
coran Gallery of Art, the departmental
laboratories, the scientific bureaus Of
the government, as, for instance, the
many connected with the department OF
agriculture, the geological survey the
coast geodetic. the bureau of stand
ards, the washington Academy Of
Sciences, with fourteen affiliated scien-
ces. the Carnegie institute. and other
organizations
How extensive this feature Is. is
show by the fact that there are eigh-
teen chemical laboratories alone. at
tached to the different government de-
partments. In addition to these pure
" local institutions there are many
national scientific associations which
maintain headquarters here such as
the American Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Science and Archaelogi-
cal Institute of Amerioa.
Those cute little electric railroads
which were to have connected the sem
ate 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 I'm
ished with a coat of cement, hard and
white. and giving an excellent reflect
ing surface. but the travel in the sub
ways viii be in the good old way, on
foot, except that freight win be ham
died on rubber-tired electric trucks.
The running of electric cars just to
carry members and attaches distance
OF couple OF blocks. when the walk
ing Is perfectly good, seemed like use-
less expense. Critics might even con-
vey the implication that congress was
becoming enervated by luxury and. If
there Is anything the average con-
gressman dotes on, 1t 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
capiteT and grounds Eby sStuyvesant
Fish Of the Illinois Central He looked
over the plans ana prospectus of the
projected government owned and oper-
ated railroad and suggested that from
the standpoint of the practical railroad
man, the thing was going to cost d
good deal of money for short haul
TO Install an electric road over the
present routes from the capitol to the
house building, and from the capitol to
the senate building. would cost from
$4,000 to 100000, 1t Is estimated, and
60 operate 1t would cost about is per
cent of that SUM annually, perhaps
more.
Taking these arguments into consid-
Grafton, the house building commission
practically vetoed the railroad, but left
the matter in the hands of Supt.
Woods, who had decided to postpone
the embarkation OF the government I'm
to the railroad business and more COM
pletely than the house has DONE for it
gave to Mr. Woods absolute authoriza-
ton to follow his Judgment
Under the authority OF a resolution
Of the Isthmian canal commission,
adopted March 81. 1907, an enunera-
tion Of the population OF the canal
zone was begun on March last, and
completed on June 23. According to
this census the total population OF the
canal zone Is 50,003. or this number
24.963 are employed either by the 18TH
milan canal commission or the Panama
railroad company. or the total popu-
lation, 1885 are white: S4.Ts5 are me-
groes, and 5SS Chinese. OF the total
white population. 1858 persons are
from the United States, and OF these
6.21s are males. and 1850 females:
1850 married men and I,04s married
women; 451 children, 232 boys and 2Ig
girls between the ages Of s and is
years. There are also from the United
States IS coiored persons, 81 males and
16 females. No distinction was made
between negroes and mulattoes. and
II Is probable that considerable num-
ber OF Indians In the rural districts
were reported as black
United States Attorney Baker, on be-
half Of the attorney general, has flled
proceedings in the supreme court OF
the district, asking for the condem-
nation OF squares 63 and 89, which
are south OF Pennsylvania avenue. be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
Congress last May made an appropria-
tion for this purpose.
The land Is to be used for the new
buildings of the departments OF state
and Justice IT was sought to obtain
this at private sale. but 1t was found
that the owners wanted too much
money.
The petition flled BY the district att
torney contains a complete record of
the parcels Of land in the two squares
and the names Of the occupants and
owners.
Joshua Nj. warfield. brother OF q
former governor OF Maryland, is one
OF the largest owners In Square 63.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal com
pany, Howe Totten. the Easbys and
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