The Washington herald., 1908-01-22

course Of a political conversation. and
branching of from the main subject.
as train from the East pulled ND al
the dinky little station Of most de-
pressing town in the fever-aud-ague dis
/ trict Of Arkansas. d passenger. thrust
/ ing his head out Of "A car window de-
manded In bitter tones Of detected
( looking citizen who was leaning against
the station door: Tell me, what do YOU
call this dried-up, dreary, God-forsaken
placer That's near enough, replied the
native in a melancholy voice; let Il 80
at that
ohio is for Taft" said y. T. Flesher
/ Of Middleport, Ohio. at the Cochran yes
| terday. Mr.. Flesher is here attending d
meeting Of the river steamship and ferry
/ boat engineers, who viii 90 before the
/ superintendent Of steamboat inspectors
Of the Department Of Commerce and
Labor to advocate certain changes in
the rules governing the ferryboat service.
Yes. OHIO is all for Taft" said 4fr.
/ Flesher Foraker has absolutely 10
chance. The central and executive com
mittees Of nay county are composed OF
Foraker men. They called a meeting
| recently. hoping to have sufficient ad-
hereHts in attendance 10 control the res
olutions. The Taft people came in such
numbers that the Foraker people gave
up. No; For -eT has no show
Bryan seems 20 be the man for the
Democrats, at least, his name is men
toned everywhere. Johnson is not much
known in Ohio. 1 mean Gov. johnson.
Of Minnesota. who is SAID TO be a can
didate on the Democratic ticket. I did
not mean Tom Johnson, OF Cleveland
Business in Ohio is picking up some.
and ] hope il viii be all right again be-
fore long. Yes, the financial troubles af-
fected business Considerably. But I guess
its on the memo now"
Philip Spencer, a Pittsburg manuac-
trer who is here on business before
the departments and is registered at the
Cochran, in speaking Of Pittsburg as q
center which supplies the government
with all kinds Of articles needed in the
army and elsewHr-- said, yesterday.
The United States government few
days ago awarded a large contrac. TO a
PittsDurg firm. An order for 5000 trunks
for the use Of Uncle Sans soldier boys
IL the Philippines has been placed with
Fittsburg hrm. The order may be in
creased TO 5000. or even 1900. II is one
Of the largest single orders ever given to
any trunk concern in the United States.
"Of course the War Department gave
out the work, But trunks are not the
only articles that make Pittsburg famous.
When the government is in need of ar
NOR il comes 10 Plttsburg.
But back TO trunks. Il viii take these
trunk people about five or six months 70
ELL the government order, and viii give
employment 10 seveHty-five men. IN addi-
ton 10 the regular force Of W0rkmen. An
immense amount Of material viii be used
in the construction OF the boxes. which
will be similar in size and dimensions to
steamer trunks.
If the 300 trunks were placed ii a
row they would extend a distance OF 45
miles. IL viii require 100 cars 10 transport
them. or about three traiul0ads. The
trunks viii be made OF three-ply veneer
basswoOd and covered with fiber. A car
load Of locks VIII 90 into their Coustruc-
ton, 10 carloads OF veneer, IL carloads Of
tacks. 8 carloads Of fiber. and several
carloads OF hardware and trimmings
1T will require 72,@00 corner clamps to
protect the corners. Fifteen hundred
nails viii be used IN each trunk, OF a
total of 13.6l7010.
Most of the trunks viii be sent from
Pittsburg 10 Texas. A few have already
been started there for the company IS
turning out from 75 10 To q day. iu ad-
dition TO its regular output.
THE plan OF thus eQuipDiuy soldiers in
ra -rff
showing that the government is tsking
excellent care Of the men. 4 large
number of soldiers recently have been
started for the Philippines from Texas
and California and eacu one has been
provided with a trunk IS -eu all tho
rest Of Uncle Sans lighting men. In the
event Of war, trunks Will be left be-
hind.
There will be more trunks, provided
Congress makes the necessary appr9pria-
ton
The festive prune has been dethroued.
do not, therefore. despair. boarGers Of
Washington The customary six-pounds-
for-a-quarter variety OF prunes is quite
out Of sight. both the supply and the
price The boarding house lady who IS
conscientiously regarding the perpetuaity
OF the prune now gets two pounds for a
quarter instead Of six
This Is the essence Of q prune talk
James F. Miller of Los Angeles, Cal,
give to a reporter of The Washington
Herald in the lobby of the Metropolitan
Hotel yesterday afternoon. with regular
iutermissions which were devoted by the
prune men 10 sampling "pTune juice"
or some liquid Of that color at the nearest
wet goods emporium.
"This years crop Of sweet prunes from
Southern California was short said Mr..
Miller; there We're fewer on the trees,
and they nearly all grew to a large size,
The price for the small sizes took such
a jump that Erocers will not order them.
and so any prunes served now are not 10
be sneezed at-big. luxurious fellows. that
cost enough to put them on a par with
more aristrocratic fruits.
'The Washington and Oregon prunes
do not make an economical dish They
are strongly acid and require quantities
of cane or beet sweetening, whereas the
time-honored California product, so in
timately associated with the boarding
house industry and hash foundries. IS
usually Qet me whispa. ~ served sans
sugar. I believe that's a French word,
that sans
But the fight Of prunes, as It were,
need not alarm the economical house
holder, for apTicOts are about the auly
thing sailing in the same high atmos-
phere. They can only be reached By
balloon people. The crop was short, and
the l21k-cent variety is up 10 80 cents.
Raisins, though are plentiful and
cheap. and other fruits are STAYING just
a little high out of sympathy with
apples. of which there was only about
one-fOurth Of a crop.
''The probabilities as to general grocery