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Evening star., 1908-01-18
ADoRNMENT OF: CITIES. ~
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Development Of Parks and Other
Municipal Features. -

John N. Carrere.- Arnold w. Brunner
and Frederick Law Ofnlsted harH been
called in to study the problem of. develop
ing civic center in Baltimore. Tenta-
tive plans by local men. fer. the develop
ment of the civic center provide for car
rying in the future the cty's group of
buildings eastward toward Jones Fails
which is to be boulevarded, and then
southwark so as to include the market
buildings on Center Market place. The
plan includes the purchase of all ground
between Gay street and Jones Falls and
the parking of it temporarily until the
city is ready to erect buildings in the fu-
ture.
Ever since the organization Of a park
commission in Wilkesbarre. Pa, that body
has been giving a great deal of thought
to the Improvement of the beautiful river
front Only q short stretch of the ground
lying along the bank of the SusQuehanna
at present is parked. This is known as
the River Common. and it is so popular
that the commissioners have determined
to improve the entire water front of the
city. With that end in view they have
determined to have the bank riprapped
throughout it's entire length within the
city limits. A short wall was built along
the bank during the past summer. and the
present plan IS to extend this in almost a
straight line.
Evening star., 1908-01-18
MUNICIPAL PLANTS.
Texas Town Intends to Do It's Own
4 Paving Work.

Texas Town Intends to Do It's Own
Paving Work.
From the Municipal Journal.
There has just been completed at Fort
Worth, Tex. municipal paving plant,
.Yhich IS claimed to be- the only one in
Che southwest, This plant has. been con
structed not with the primary object of
repairing existing pavements.~ as was the
case with the Brooklyn and some other
plants. but for constructing, new: pave
msnts of rock asphalt. The plant was
constructed by the Downard-Lester AS
phalt Company OF Ardmore. Okla. which
company Is also under contract to fur
nish from its asphalt mines, near that
city. all the material needed for its oper-
alton, the company guaranteeing that
with this plant rock asphalt pavement can
be constructed. complete. at a cost OF not
over $50 per square yard, although this
pavement heretofore has cost $3.50 by
contract. The plant will be operated and
pavement laid by city employees under .he
direction OF the city engineering depart
ment. The pavement which 1t is intended
to Law will consist OF two inches Of rock
asphalt on five-inch concrete founda
ton.
In general the plant consists or rock
crusher for breaking UP the, asphalt rock,
an elevator. a mixer and a heating boiler.
The material comes from the quarry in
the form OF rocks OF large size and is
transported by rail direct to the crusher
The rock which Is to be used Is an as
phaltic sandstone. which has been used TO
a limited extent only IN this country. Ger
tain streets OF Sedalia, Mo-. among other
places. are said to have been constructed
OF this material over twelve years ago and
to be in excellent condition at the present
time
During the first three months OF its oo-
Grafton the Brooklyn municipal asphalt
repair plant laid 1850 square yards OF
payements. all of it being repair work
The cost of the work was S25.234. OF
which s5s54 was for repairs for which
payment will be received. 1t is claimed
that the plant can lay asphalt for 5ls
cents a cubic foot less than the ordinary
contract price. One Of the chief objects
accomplished is the prOmptness with
which repairs can be made. A system of
reporting holes has been established and
as a result 1t is said that asphalt pave
ments in Brooklyn are in better order
than ever before.
Evening star., 1908-01-18

the desert. which at El-Kelf circles a
small oasis fns which there is hidden
among fair-sized palms a meager Arab
village. Why the inn should have been
built outside of the oasis. away from the
village, 1 cannot tell you. But so ii is.
1t seems to be disdainful of the earth
houses Of the Arabs, to be determined to
have nothing TO do with them. And yet
there is little reason in it's disdain
For it, too is built Of sun-dried earth
for the most part, and has only the one
story possessed by most OF them. Fac
ing .fat desert it stands, but not illimita-
ole desert. The road that passes before
it winds away to land where there is
water, and from the trellised arbor. but
far off, one can see in the sunshine the
sharp, sbrill green of crops, grown by
the Spahis whose tented camp lies to the
right of the caravan turn that leads over
the Col de STA to Biskra.
Far, far along that road one can see
from the inn, till its whiteness is as the
whiteness Of thread. and any figures
dolls. and even a caravan is but a NOV
ing dimness shrOuded in a dimness OF
dust But toward evening, when the
strange cfearness of Africa becomes al
most terribly acute, every speck upon
the thread has a meaning to attract the
eye and set the mind at work asking:
I What Is this that is coming upon
the road? Who is this that travels?
Is it a mounted man on his thin horse,
with his matchbox pointing to the sky?
Or ts 1t a woman hunched upon trot-
ting donkey; or a Nomad on his camel?
naked in his rags, who tramps on his
bare. brown feet along the sun-baked
track, his hood drawn above his eyes.
his knotted club in his hand
Evening star., 1908-01-18
coURTSHIP CHANGES.
Modern Girl More Critical, But
Easier. to Win.


II was customary for girls to be ex-
trnsely, even slavishly. obedient TO: the
parents in the good old days-that is to
say, when they did not rebel and with
amazing audacity defy papa. In the
former and usual role a girl was merely
the echo OF her mother. suffused with
bushes. and. vide the novelists OF that
day "shy as a fawE." she gave no man
opportunity to press his suit save under
the maternal eye. An obedient daughter
makes q good Wife and she, the ac-
quiescent bride. went to the altar With
perhaps scant personal knowledge OF her
husband to be- says Helen Oldfield IN the
Chicago Tribune On the contrary. sn1
was sometimes so uplifted by love to
deeds of daring as to run away with the
lover uron whose suit her parents lfoWi-
ed and. clipping to Jersey or to NORTH
Carolina, with luck she was married by
convenient preacher in the nick of tilii:,.
before papa. hotly pursuing. had crossed
the border. II all depended upon whose
..steed was the best.
Runaway matches in these days are few
and far between for the good and suffi-
Client reason that the modern parent
knows his business better than to inter
fere when his daughter has made up her
mIbd TO choose her own husband. With
the parental consent II il be fort hcoming.
be withheld. Paternal authority was
much more puissant in We olden time
than today. The modern girl makes her
lovers path far more easy for him than
by any possibility the girl OF the past
could do. Men were. really and truly.
mast ers in their own homes. Supposing a
father OF a century ago objected TO his
daughters being married. he might re-
fuse TO allow young. man to visit at his
house or when he preferred TO he cour-
tepus he had only to assume that the calls
were for himself. and take the callers TO
his Office 10 smoke and drink and talk
po,itics or neighborhood news, away from
the ladies. who never committed the So
cial crime of invading the precincts de-
voted 10 The men of the family.
Should a youth be SO bold as TO signify
that his visit was meant for the ladies ne
Was allowed to see them all, collectively.
Evening star., 1908-01-18
'sThat. !"
Prof. Lounsbury, in Harper's.


One Of the most noticeable of the exple-
tive usages which beset the rapid writer
Is the. repetition OF that" after a SEN
tence containing an intervening preposi-
ton bearing upon the main statement
Few authors, indeed. there are who have
not at some time experienced the risk. If
not the reality, Of being caught In this
verbal pitfall. The difficulty of avoiding
1t is due to the fact that all the traditions
OF the speech are in its favor The repe-
tHion Of the conjunction in such cases
has a very ancient and honorab BILE history
1t is frequent in Anglo-Saxon; and the
same statement is true Of later English.
Chaucer. for instance, says:
There is u law that sayeth thus:
That IL man in point be aggrieved
That in another he shall be relieved.
There are occasions. indeed. when this
repetition becomes necessary to preserve
clearness in consequence of the ipterven-
tion Of several clauses In modern days.
however. the practice has been SO frowned
upon that the employment of the second
that" has been reduced to it's lowest
possible limits. Yet .idioms die hard; and
this one has been SO ingrained into the
texture of the race that few persons there
are who, after composing rapidly. do not
find it incumbent upon them to cut out
redundant that" which in an unguarded
moment has escaped from the pen.
Evening star., 1908-01-18
EFFECT OF SKATES.
Assertion That Good Asphalt Pave
ment Is Not Injured by Rollers.

<1SsSI L1O1A- A1@dt 0OO0 xASpAd1I AdVS-
ment Is Not Injured by Rollers.
Some one asks the editor of Municipal
Engineering whether the roller skating
craze does not ininre cement sidewalks,
and therefore Should be stopped, and the
editor says:
Roller skating on sidewalks seems to
be a temporary craze which soon dies out
when the weather changes and becomes
too hot or too inclement. and does not
again break out except in spots. so that
no stringent regulations are really neces-
sary. Good walks should stand the wear
without anv evidence OF abrasion except
a little at the edges of blocks next the
joints in the pavement. and this wear does
not extend far from the edge. A good
walk. Hike a good cement driveway or
roadway. should stand much more Sc
we're treatment than Il can receive from
roller skates. Bad workmanship. espe-
cially in the finish. and poor materials
will show up to greater or less extent un-
der continued wear. but the. craze will
probably not last long enough to produce
very noticeable results even on poor pave
ments."
Evening star., 1908-01-18

buildings than the old. one. and it throws
SUCH. ~safesuards about the use of re-
Enforced concrete as. to. make that mate
rial much less attractive. to the speculative
builder. - - -. -.
Seattle has Just passed a new building
ordinance permitting standard steel con-
struction to go up. to sixteen stories. but
limiting reinforced concrete buildings to
ten, stories and 1T. too. makes many re-
strictions. as to the use OF reinforced con-
-erete Minneapolis has gone a step far
ther and has just passed an amendment
to its building laws compelling every owner
who builds reinforced concrete building
to have a specially licensed building su-
perintendent constantly in charge of that
work. one directly responsible to the city
for the efficiency OF his superintendent.
Evening star., 1908-01-18

.eaisters .cotSsinso and aunts" and the
mother of the family. Was a wooer per-
sistent and a daughter refractory, she
might be sent to visit relatives at a dis
-tance.- (which. since railways and tele,
graphs. to say nothing Of motors. were
and postal facilities Were
circunlscrihed. usually was effective IN
sperating the couple. Moreover. bread
and water diet dn locked bedroom was
not considered too drastic nor too child
ish a punishment for the girl who def!ed
her parents and carried on clandestlne
courtship with her lover. and so had to
be reduced to reason and obedience to her
fathers authority.
When we reflect how many difficulties
which obstructed the path of true love in
those days have been removed. 1t is hard
at first to reconcile the present lack of
marriages with the plentiful number of
the past. The girl of today turns green
with envy when her great aunts tell her
how many offers her grandmother had.
Herein, however. lies the chief reason for
denying the fact that the modern girl
is really more easy to win than the old
fashioned one The modern girl is by far
more critical of the modern man than the
old-fa silioned girl ever presumed to be.
and is much less willing to abandon her
freedom than was the damsel of the past,
whose single idea Of success in life ap-
pears to have been to make good mar
riage. financially and socially.
A woman's determination to marry only
when She finds a man who really suits her
has been foisted by her wider education
and by the fact that so many careers i'm
possible TO the women of former day
have been opened to her. a fact which
naturally renders her practically inde-
pendent. 1t was different matter when
girls were taught that 1t was beneath
them to work. Then they were obliged to
marry or spend life OF dependence upon
parents, brothers or well married sisters.
Now any woman who chooses can fend
for herself and earn her own livelihood
and is. consequently. at liberty to marry
the man whom she wishes, instead of the
man who wants to marry her.
Evening star., 1908-01-18
Wild Turkeys for Massachusetts,.
From the Worcester Telegram.

From the worcester Telegram.
Wild turkeys for Massachusetts forests
is the latest project of Prof. Charles r.
Hodge OF Clark University. and he has
the figures brought out to the enthusiastic
limit. With start of q dozen pair OF
the wild birds of the south he would have
Massa chusetts woods occupied by S,244.-
Oil, IA beautiful wild turkeys in ten
years. allowing for a few accidental shots
and: some misfortunes. ). The project is
worth trying if. the hunters can control
their desire to get a few hundred thou
sand of the millions before they grow up.
The Wild turkey makes the best sport
that hunters know on the wing, after it
is well understood. and considering the
value OF the food when the game is
cooked. The wild turkey is lordly bird
when he has a reasonable chance for nfe
and he is at the same time so foolish that
he can be caught easily. The Mongolian
pheasant is said to be failure in Massa-
chusetts woods. and it is very unpopular
with people who have regard for other
birds. The pheasant is robber and de-
stroyer without gain to itself The
turkey has good reputation in the south,
and is winning new popularity. The pro-
fessor says it would cost only $50 for a
dozen pair. and they would make a repu-
tation for Massachusetts by raising
something like ten young birds a year to
each couple.
Evening star., 1908-01-18

based on lack Of knowledge OF the actual
conditions The ratio of pedestrians to
other classes of people who visit the park
can be determined with sufficient exact
ness from the data secured by the park
officials who have from time to time had
a count made of the passers by.
What the Figures Show.
1t is found. surprising as it may seem.
that the number of pedestrians equal
th,. number Of vehicles and horse
back riders. The point selected for
such an enumeration was the bridge
over Rock creek at the Pierce Mil road,
which is some distance from the north
end of the Zoo and several miles from the
center OF the city. 1t is quite evident that
walking as a recreation Is followed to a
considerable extent by the residents of
this city. and when facilities are supplied
in the parks the people more and more
will without doubt indulge in what is
generally recognized as a most desirable
form of exercise.
At any rate. whether those who go out
to walk do so for the love of being out
in the open air and among natures OBJ
jects. or simply from sense of duty, GER
tainly their outing will be the more en-
joyable from being spent amid such sur
roundings as the two great recreation
places which now ornament this city
afford to a very liberal extent.
Evening star., 1908-01-18
Walking Is Popular.

\ system OF paths Tor the use of the
foot passengers Is capable OF being made
a medium through which the beauties os
the park can be seen and appreciated TO
an extent that would not be possible in
ans other way. IT might occur to some
that the proportion OF the public that
would eiher care for such provision or
rsc it when provided. would be so incon-
siderable as to hardly make IL worth
while. IL tlere is such thought 1t Is
Evening star., 1908-01-18
Origin of the Cravat.
rom the Sartorial Art Journal.

From the SartOrlal ART journal.
While every man wears a cravat, there
is probably not one in a thousand who
could in an offhand way. tell You how it
came about that men. first placed such an
ornament about their collar. The word
cravat came into our language about 1886.
Prior to that year a feature of the uni
form OF the Austrian cavalry was wide
band of coarse linen worn in folds around
the neck under their snort hussar jackets.
This cavalry organization was called the
"cravate." Its members being styled the
"Cr"vates." Later i'm the seventeenth
century France recruited a regiment OF
cavalry, adopting for 1t the uniform Of
the Austrian regiment recruited in
Crc:ia. calling it the royal cravattes
Later in England the word "crabat" was
applied to a neckerchief. After the battle
OF Stcamk.rn n Flanders, in 1892. an
English officer brought home the steam
kirk long flowing neckscars edged
with fine Flemish lace, the ends of which
were drawn through a buttonhole of
enormous size. The neckwear today il
clearly traceabe to the steamkirk and
the modification 1t underwent. :.
Evening star., 1908-01-18
Bloomingdale Residence Sold.

The real estate corporation of Boss &
Hhelps has sold the residence OF Mrs.
Ophelia Warren 'Marsden to Mr.. George
T. Schmidt Of this city for $1,000. Tho
house Is known as No. 1886 LIST street
northwest 1t was built about four years
ago by Mr.. Haislip.s 1t contains eight
woodwork IS oak. Boss & Phelps have
sold six houses similar to this one re-
Gently in that section of the city.
Evening star., 1908-01-18
CARE IN BUILDING.
Government to Secure Improved
Regulations on the Subject;

The many accidents and actual col
lapses of buildings while under construc-
ton have given force to the warning of
such conservative bodies as the Interna-
tional Society of Building Inspectors, that
has long advocated more stringent regula-
tions of experimental construction in our
cities. New York's building code, now be-
ing rewritten. calls for a much higher
class of construction in all grades of
Evening star., 1908-01-18
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Recent Notable Additions to-
Residences of the City.
SPRING BUILDING OUTLOOK
Provision Made for Pedestrians in
Rock Greek Park.
POPULAR RECREATION RESORTS
Proposed Amendments to the Dis
trict Code Relating to Real
Estate Transactions.
SPRING BUILDING OUTLOOK
POPULAR RECREATION RESORTS

A recent addition to the residences of
1.-THE city is the one built by Frank c. Hen
Try at the northeast corner of Columbia
broad and Belmont street. which Is occu-
fpied by him. The dwelling was but re-
kcently completed by John II. Nolan from
plans prepared by Wood, Dom & DEM
ing. architects. 1t Is of colonial design
land is of sufficient width to have rooms
ION each side of the entrance hall. and
the spacious interior Is matched by an
hamplf lawn on the east side.
Another new house which is just fin
ished is the one that is being built for w.
A Gieseking at the southeast corner OF
@Bitmore street at it's junction with Goth
street. There is more ground than the
usual amount of space covered by the
house. and its interior has the advantage
of wider frontage than is commonly
allotted to city homes.
The residence of Miss Martha C. Cod
map at the northeast corner of I'D and
Decatur streets. the latter fntersecting
the block between r and s streets. was
built during the last year. and a feature
is the wall which lncloses In part the
emain entrance. which is from Decatur
street The architectural treatment is
colonial and the residence belongs to the
class of the larger type.
Outlook for Building.
A man who ordinarily does a good deal
of building was talking recently in re-
gard to the outlook. He said he is at
.this thine doing nothing and is making no
plans for work to be started the coming
season. He said that of course money
was not, very abundant as vet, and In
addition the material and labor market is
not in a very satisfactory condition, al
!; though. he, said he had been lately told
:. by a plumber that il he wanted any sup
plies in his line he could make better
prices than have hitherto prevailed.
The builder also said he understood that
j mill work is to be had on lower level
than was the case last year. He had
been .told, he said, that iron had declined
in price. He had not beard that any
change had taken place in the rates OF
nxrafyea In "a
Evening star., 1908-01-18

A plan for commercial clearing 8
house"-an institution through which
business houses could settle their debts
and collect their bills among themselves
without recourse to the banks-has been
laurched by the Chicago Creditmens As
SOciation.
The Lamar register., 1908-01-08
Another Rockefeller Gift.

Chicago.-Martin Ryerson, president
of the board of trustees of the Chicago
university. announced Thursday that
John D. Rockefeller has added $2,191,-
600 to his gifts to the university, maxi
ing the total of his benefactions over
$23, 10000
1t is also reported that the head of
the Standard Oil Company has offered
to treble all contributions to the me-
mortal library which the university is
trying to erect in honor Of William r.
Harper, its first president.
The trustees have already received
$l35.000 for this purpose and hope to
add $65,C00 to this sum, SO that with
Mr.. Rockefeller's contribution an $780,
900 structure may be erected on the
campus.
The gift announced today, like most
Of those preceding it from the same
source, is to be devoted mainly to geh-
eral endowment purposes. Securities
to the value of 100000 are set aside
for this purpose, thereby adding $780,
900 to the income of the institution.
OF the balance $155.000 is to Re used
to wipe out a deficit in the &c ,3unts
for 1906-7 and $4,000 will be devoted
to the purchase of books, laboratory
apparatus and other equipment.
The Lamar register., 1908-01-08
Admiral erownson Rebuked.

Washington President Roosevelt's
attitude on the question of the COM
mand of hospital ships in the navy,
which resulted in the resignation Of
Rear Admiral willard H. Brownson
and incidentally some caustic observ-
atoms on that incident and the con-
troversies among the naval officers
and their adherents as to details of
naval construction and methods of
training, were made known Sunday
when Secretary Metcalf gave to the
press two letters from the President
addressed to him on these subjects.
In the first of these letters Presi-
dent Roosevelt condemns in unmeas-
ured terms the act of Admiral Brown
son, declaring 1t to be unseemly and
improper. The question upon which
Admiral Brownson took issue with the
navy department the President de-
clares Is one on which there can be
entirely legitimate differences of opin-
ions, but, he adds, there is no room
for differences of opinion as to the
gross improperly of the admiral's
conduct in resigning sooner than carry
out the orders Of his superior officers
in such a matter. The officers of the
navy must remember that 1t is not
merely childish. but in the highest de.
gree reprehensible, to permit either
personal pique, wounded vanity or fac.
-ional feeling on behalf of some par.
ticular bureau or organization to rem.
der them 'disloyal to the interests of
the navy and therefore to the country
as a whole"