The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial correspondence.l

its immediate surroundings, larg
areas where rubbish, filth and tangle,
masses of wild brush growth abound,
To many visitors to Washington i
/ would be hardly believable to thinl
that almost within a stones throw O
| the spotlessly clean White House ther,
are big piles of ashes and trash, ;
wide area of sluggish marsh land ant
matted wilderness of trees and .scrul
underground. Yet this is the fact.
Ugly Spots In Capital.
although hundred years hav'
rolled by since the White House wa'
built, although civic improvement so
cieties have been hard at work in thei
| efforts to bring reform in the beautifi
| cation of our American cities and al
| though the national capital has hat
handsome improvements made in some
/ directions as far away as five miles
from the White House." said a wei
known official the other day, "yet OF
to the southwest, just beyond the site
where the palatial home of the bureau
of American republics is rising in the
air. there are views which for insight
liness would be hard to surpass.
Great Piles of Rubbish.
"Great piles of old water pipe, ole
wagons and long piles of manure ado
their unsightliness to the neighborhood
eff there is any part of the District
which should be kept handsome not
merely for the sake of cleanliness 1t
self and the health of the citizens OF
the District, but more especially fol
the sake of creating with foreigners
and other visitors favorable impress
sion Of Americas great capital, 1t is
that section Of the city within short
radius of the White House"
Senator Smiths New Home,
Senator William Alden Smith OF
Michigan has had the old property
which he purchased few months age
at the northwest corner of Sixteenth
and L streets northwest reRodeled sc
extensively that it looks like an en-
tirely new house.
The entrance hall extends across the
front of the house on the basement
floor, back of which is a large stall
hall. with broad stairs leading to the
main floor. Across the front of the
main floor is spacious drawing room
finished in elaborate decorative pias
ter work.
The dining room, on this floor, back
of the central stair hall, is finished in
mahogany, the paneled wainscoting
reaching almost to the ceiling, whicl
is beamed in mahogany. The library
which is Immediately back of the cen
trail stair hall on the basement floor
is to be finished in oak.
To Pasteurize Milk Supply.
In view of the definite tracing of the
outbreak of typhoid fever in George
town to the owner of dairy farm
the health officers of the District OF
Columbia and of the federal govern
xnent have renewed their efforts tc
have all milk pasteurized. so as tc
make it safe for use as food.
In the case of Georgetown it was
found that the germs of the disease
were conveyed to the milk by WON
an who had typhoid fever eighteen
years ago and whose body still gives
off virulent typhoid germs.
Surgeon General Walter Wyman OF
the public health service says that il
was established that at least 2 pei
cent of the recovered cases of typhoid
were bacilli carriers for a longer Oh
shorter period and that if they han
died milk they would infect it, bu
pasteurization would kill the germs.
Laundry War Planned.
The war which has been waget
against unclean lunch rooms and lodg
ing houses by the District health offic'
for the last several months is to b,
turned in a new direction. Announce
ment has been made by the Officials
that a crusade against the violators O
the regulation which requires all per
sons conducting laundry establish
ments at their homes to register witt
the department will be started.
The law was framed some week.
ago and is now in effect. 1t is est
mated that 10000 persons in the Dis
trict each week take to their home
soiled linen, which is washed, ironet
and returned to the owners. Only 13
of these have registered with tn
health office and obtained permits t.
conduct such business.
Buds to Dance.
All society knows in respect of Ethe
Roosevelt's coming out is that she will
be presented to 1t on Dec. % at littl
dance which is to be one Of the mos
| exclusive affairs of the season. Few
married folk will be present, the eS
ceptions, outside the parents of tn
debutante, being Admiral and Mrs
Cowles, the Douglas Robinsons of Ney
! York and Representative and Mrs
| Nicholas Longworth. Almost all tn
invitations are to be restricted to tn
seasons buds, few Of last winter an
several close friends of the president
| daughters who have been out two Q
more years
Wild Geese on the Potomac.
Several flocks of wild geese hav
been seen on the river by the officer
of the Washington and Potomac lin
steamer Wakefield recently One foe
of about dozen was seen near Ceds
Point and a still larger flock was n
ticed off the mouth of Potomac creel
about forty miles below this city.
The hunters say that it is seldol
that wild geese come to the Potoma
so early, and the indications point
a good season this winter. Wild duck
are also reported to be more hume
4 bus, and it is thought they will ais