Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22

men OF the torpedo boat Winslow
who were killed off Cardenas.
Cuba. That fence, a photograph
OF which is reproduced herewith,
is part OF the output OF the .Jorss
concern. which has made that firm
almost as we'll known outside of
the District OF Columbia as right
here in the city. which has been
the headquarters of the firm since
its establishment in 1901.
1t is OF interest in this connec-
ton that the Jorss firm secured
the contract for this historic fence
after the keenest competition by
some Of the leading ornamental
iron-working concerns in this part
of the country. Jorss employees
submitted the original designs to
a committee of the Union Veteran
Legion which had charge of the
fund raised by popular subscrip-
ton for the purpose, and lorss
employees carried out every detail
of the work. The fence is hand
some affair ten feet in height,
with ornamented and embell1shed
panel posts. OF course, as con-
tract job, it sinks into insignifi-
canoe besides the Soldiers Home
proposition which is now in hand.
Here's a Real List.
| am awfully glad to see local
people patronize local Industries,
and the Jorss firm is certainly get
ting its share of its own particu-
lar line of business. Mr.. Jorss
gave me the longest kind OF a list
in the way of reference,
however-as the only thing | am
thinking OF building is a dog ken
mel, and neither structural nor or
namental ironwork is required
for a canine habitation. But the
list was interesting as showing
that people in Washington who
build houses seem to have the
same idea concerning orss re-
liability as did the suspended ele-
vator man. Just for instance, the
Joss firm erected ironwork in
the new Metropolitan Club, the
Shoreham Hotel, the Occidental!
Hotel, the Grafton Hotel, Fritz
Reuters, the Varnum Hotel, the
French, German and Chinese en-
bassies, the Gayety Theater, the
Burlington, Regina, Ontario,
Mendoza and Nolando apartment
houses, the Century, Hibbs,
American Security and Trust,
Bliss, American National Bank,
National Safe Deposit, Potomac
Realty, and Swartzell, Rheem and
Hensey buildings, the Scottish
Rite Home, the Alexandria post
office, the silver vault of the
United States Treasury, the adj
ministration building and the
Barnes Hospital of the Soldiers
Home, Hahn's shoe store, Lans-
burgh's dry goods store and the
Hugo Worch music store, and the
residences of Mrs. Herbert Wads-
worth, Admiral Miller, the late
Beriah Wilkins, DR.. Henry Fry,
Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio,
Christian Heurich, Col. Robert |.
Fleming, Alonzo O. Bliss, R.
Dickinson Jewell, Lieut.. Miller,
Mrs. Boardman, Mrs. Barney,
Miss Goldman and Rev. DR.. Ran
dolph H. Mckim. Outside OF this
the Jorss firm erected the mar
quise at the New Willard Hotel,
and the fences around the local
reservoir, the Soldiers Home, the
Mary Washington monument at
Fredericksburg, Va, the cemetery
of St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Church, the Glenwood cemetery,
and, as has already been men
toned, the cemetery at Key West
in which lie the bodies of twenty
four of the victims OF the terrible
explosion in the harbor at Havana,
Cuba.
Two Big Establishments.
Perhaps | should have men
toned that the building at
3I3-I5-I7 18th street northwest is
only part of the Jorss establish
ment. 1t is here that the orna-
mental work and fence work and