Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

committee, the library committee, the
old rooms of the ways and means COM
mittee. the clerks document room and
the House document room all have
been treated to that same kind of touch
ing up. In the rooms of the committee on
arts and expositions down on the ter
race new floors have been put in and
the rooms have been painted.
Talking about the terrace. some peoDle
wonder why the chairmen of commit
tees choose to go to the terrace. when
they might have rooms on the Senate
floor" or elsewhere in apparently much
more desirable locations. The reason
was revealed by one Senator. who. on
being asked If he would not rather keep
his old rooms instead of going down
to the terrace, replied: IF l stay up
here I shall have so many callers that
/ shall not be able to do any work.
Down on the terrace they will have
hard work to find me- And he Is on
the terrace still.
The Elevator Inspection.
Nowhere in the building is care for
the comfort and safety of the congress-
men shown more prominently than in
the management of the elevators. Dur
ing the sessions of Congress the ele-
yators-there are seven of them and
two more are being installed in the
House end now-are thoroughly in
SpeCI0u. IL tHciC 10 dhy uCASSS an eAAy
way the elevator where 1t is found 10
shut down and the superintendent -
notified at once At the close of Con-
gress special expert in such matters
makes a thorough examination of the
elevators He makes detailed report
to the chief engineer and he reports
to the superintendent OF the Capitol.
This summer new cables have been rove
on all cars, the bearings have been re-
newed and everything carefully pr IN
the best of condition. More than this.
all the boilers have been cleaned ana
new couplings put in, besides which there
has been a general overhauling or the
engines Every fan in the Nentiiatins
department has been overhauled ana
telephone. bell and ether wires have
been buried. and the festoons OF wires
which forme rly adorned the ceilings OF
the basement corridors are in evidence
no more. -.
House side is about to pass forever INC
House post office will be mourned py
the old members. 1t is going over "
the new office building and the space IL
occupies is to be given over 70 the
observation-disclosures. And just at the en-
trance at the southeast corner. near the
post office. us one goes in. Will pass pc
tween the two new elevators which are
to relieve the strain on the elevator
f 70 reserved exclusively for
members and their families. but In
which a member could seldom hnd room
to ride up to the House moor On the
second floor the elevators Will lana tnsir
passengers where the judiciary commit
tee formerly had its room. The work
is causing a deal of dirt at present.
but when finished it will be q great
comfort to the public
The game Is started by what is called
a '.buly-of.
The forwards are lined up against eacn
other in the center Of the ground; the
center forward on each side strikes WIN
her stick three times. first the GROUND
and then her opponents stick over the
ball The hall is then in play. and Is
81 eadi!y la'nchei on its rolling career
The whole aim of each is. of course.
to drive the ball through the opponents
goal, just the same as IN foot paii, "a
crosse, soccer. etc
A game lasts one hour and ten minI
utes, is divided into halves. and there
is respite in the interval when me
PLAYERS can rest up a little ana GET IN
for the final period ct play.
The players wear short skirts. not
AWAY M 10 the knees but at least a
trifie above the shoetcps, and they are
as lightly clad poss BILE so as 10 be
in condition to get up speed.
Naturally they like little bit OF snap
in the air for the scurrying. hurrying
flights after the ball, then hitting and
dodg.nc are warm exercise certainly far
too strenuous for the rays of midsum-
mer sun.
The opening days of November mark
the real beginning of the hockey season
for the gentler sex, and when there Is
a little frost I'm the ground and the ball
bounds away from the hockey stick after
a coed stroke, as though il were flying
over asphalt, then it Is that the fair
pIayer her full quota of endowment
cut of the sport.
But twenty-five can be in the game or
hockey. and every one of the girls finds
plenty of work to do at every instant
it is actually hitting the ball.
pushing an opponent out of the play,
or getting in a position to be able to
render service. there is always plenty
1oing in the game. and a lot of muscular
activity is required and Is developed