The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-25
WASHINGTON LETTER
[special corresponience.l

Much to the delight of the senators
who have been compelled to find Offices
In the dark, dungeon-like rooms OF the
capitol building terrace and In the
senate annex, the Maltby building, the
announcement has been made by the
superintendent of the capitol building
that the new senate office building win
be ready for use of the senators when
congress convenes next December.
Cost of Senate Building,
Contracts have been let for the fur
niture, costing about $4,000, and for
the electric light fixtures. costing
about $4,000. Everything about the
huge stone pile is to be on a large
scale, and when the building is COM
pleted it win have cost the govern
ment about S4,5o0,O00
The new office building for the sem
ate will bring about Encouragement
of many OF the committee rooms.
Some of the most important commit
tees undoubtedly viii retain their pres
ent quarters in the capitol, since they
are more convenient than the rooms
in the new office building But for
the most part the committees will be
transferred to the new building. This
viii result in giving much more space
In the capitol proper for those who re
main there.
Suits For Senators.
The distribution of the suits, for
each senator is to be given suit con-
sisting of two rooms and private
bath, will be made after congress has
convened and probably will be de-
bly, viii be placed in charge of arrange
ments for the new building, as was
the case in the new house Office build
ing last session.
All the drawings for the senate office
building were made in the Office of Ell
lott Woods, superintendent of the cap
itol, subject to the criticism of the
consulting architect, John M. Carrere.
Classic In Design.
The exterior of the senate Office
building is classical in design. It-sug-
gests in its general division of parts
the Garde Mauble, ON the Place de la
Concorde, Paris, while the pavilions
are modelled on those of the Colonnade
du Louvre. Alphabetically the front
is divided into two parts, the lower
corresponding to the first story of the
building, constituting a ''rusticated"
base, on which, extending through the
second and third stories, is the colon
made, surmounted by its entablature
and balustrade.
The colonnade on B street between
the two fanking pavilions is 292 feet
~ inches long and is made up of sew
enteen bays" with sixteen pairs of
Doric columns and with a single col
unn at each end, making thirty-four
columns in all Elsewhere on the pa
vilions there are thirty-four additional
columns, total of sixty-eight. Each
column is twenty-nine feet high, three
feet five inches in diameter and rests
on base or pedestal three feet high.
Barracks Scene IN Wax.
Two interesting cases have been
added to the museum Of the quarter
master generals Office In the war de-
partment, state, war and navy build
ing.
One of the cases and by far the
more interesting Of the two depicts
the interior of a regular army bar
racks. Two privates are seated at
table playing checkers. 1t is the black
mans move, and the player is sitting
with head thrown back, abstractedly
putting at a cigarette. At the right
corner Of bis side of the table is an
ash tray, on which is heaped small
pile of cigarette ashes. The other fell
low is resting both hands ON the table
as If to say, 1--WE got you now"
Everything in the scene indicates the
scrupulous neatness of the barracks.
The other case represents three sol
diers standing together-a sergeant of
artillery a sergeant Of cavalry and a
corporal Of artillery The figures in
both cases are Of waxlike compost
ton and are intensely lifelike.
Parasite Kills Beetles.
A powerful enemy of the elm leaf
beetle, the pest which has threatened
LlduJ VI Iuc CITY DcuulAlu1 51hQC
trees, has been found by DIR. L. o.
Howard, chief of the bureau Of ento-
mology, department of agriculture,
who has for several seasons sought
some parasite to make Roadway against
the depredations of the beetle.
Six hundred of the parasites were
bred by the department and liberated
in the elm trees of the city. SO de-
structive did they prove to the elm
leaf beetle that the latter has prac-
tically disappeared. The parasite feeds
upon the eggs of the beetle.
Fort Myer improvements.
When the work of improvement at
Fort Myer which is now under way
is completed this fall, that post will, it
is believed, rival in attractlveness, as
far as its buildings are concerned, the