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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-12

and cxercsers From there he had passed TO the Office
OF the foundry company In which he has an interest
called to his lawyer about pending suit. paid his
subscriptions to trade journals, visited under
writing firm, purchased Persian rug and opened
negotiations with diamond importer. Finding him
self with minutes to spare he walks Into the room
OF stock brokerage and watches the black
board He is excited noting that Y Y H. had fallen
Off ten points Horrors Overcome by the shock he
staggcrs. To friend who catches him he gasps
Doctor"
The friend, fearing apoplccuc stroke supports
him out into the hall and helps him door which
physicians nnme appears. The sick still has
strength to shake his head vehcmently. The friend
understands that an allopathst is not wanted and
stumbeS further TO where homoeopathsts sign Is
seen. Again the man holds back. The friend strug-
giles until he sights the door Of Christian Scientist
and tries to prop the patient against It Another
refusal In despair the friend the journey and
tries two varieties, finally landing with an
oSteopatb. where the consents to remain
Restored later. when he learns that Y. H. has
covered the lost ground he celebrates by ordering
fine gloves made for his wife, then continues his
round. He stops TO see how the colored glass
window for his church is coming on chats with
qualntancc who is running little bundle gold and
silver mines, hears that the theosophist the sixth
floor Is drawing many followers leaves n specimen
sent him from Arizona with u firm of assayers calls
at realty Office to learn the latest figure pAced
that lot places advertisement for Chicago and ST
Louis papers with an agent, notices pretty girl who
is entering the Office of theatrical company and
other closing the door of a vocal instructor and winds
up at the rooms of business club. he decides that
FIVE months trip around the world is whnt he needs
and leaves an order with Somebody's Tours TO make
him up two books of tickets so he won't have to
bother about transportation while he Is away. Final
ly having worked late that night he is unable get
home and goes up to the little bachelor hotel depart
mcDt on the top floor, where he gets room and bath
The Office building, which stands for all this and
much besides that the rccounting would be
wenrlsome Is itself machine that requires expert
guidance. 1t is n public character and such has
reputation 10 lose. 1t Is capital and such must be
watched and nursed. 1t Is community and as such
must be governed A recent incident which took place
In downtown Office building is of interest
The chips clicking mcrrly and the cards were
flirting from the dealers hand with precision that
spoke eloquenty of that genueman's long practice
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the glded lettering on the frosted doors is to drop
from mortgages to brewing association and to climb
from corsets TO ethical culture Many strange and
commonly unsuspectcd ways In which some PERSONS
earn their yclihoods are revealed to the Investigator
In roaming the Office building And there Is available
something or somebody minister to every legitimate
freak or fancy of human conception.
The employer OF james, will suppose. has
dropped into the little gymnasium of weight reducer
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-12

The third man TO tho left with a long, solemn fac,
and keen eyes, glanced around tho room approvnplv
Three other tables held their quota Of seekers after
truth as cxemplined by the royal flush.
The Superintendent.
Meat scheme of yours, this he observed with tho
gold mining company a blind"
The dealer nodded. Smooth friend got the plaoo
for me- Always some way of putting 1t over" he snd
They watch office buildings pretty close don't
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-12
IN the Great Shyscrapers. Housing Thousands of
Persons, Gan Be Found all the Necessities of Life,
Not Overlooking Mans Spiritual Perfection Of
Community Organization


copgnraI 1slo by teScv rights
=. AMEs, I'm going out for half hour OF
'Out sir2 queries James the new clerk,
fresh from fathers store. He observes that
his employer is without hat or overcoat
and he is surprised.
mot outside, but around the building. I've got
somo shopping and general business to attend to-"
To 60 out Is an expressive term. 1t suggests that
man Is placing himself IN touch with the world at
large To go "out" In n modern Office building is to
venture from one of the countless body cells that
10 make up Its vast organism and circulate through
others of his cells The only difference In an Office
building is that he is placing himself in touch with
perfect compact chunk out Of the world at large.
Possibly you pnss your working day in Office
building. Probably you think you perfectly IA
miliar with that Institution or But are you2
1t is compendium of business, epitome Of COM
mercial and professional enterprise. 1t Is complete
including within its walls every essential and many
non-csscntias of modern existence
An occupant of Office building call the turn
on the residents of high Olympus. Without leaving
the four walls he Hnd first, every facility offered
by any first class hotel and then opportunity TO cult
vate patronize literature. investments, religion,
'1sms7 art, recreation, inventions, medicine, law,
banking speculation psychlcs health decoration. sci
ence general information and all branches of com
merce wholesale or retail. At one elbow telephone
links him with homo friends and immediate interests.
At the other pad of cable blanks represents potential
hold upon HonG Kong and Finland He can buy the
contents OF house pair OF socks, squander for
make It. attain wisdom lose a tooth, all in
person and without putting his out of doors.
An Office building is a hive, but hive where the
bees gather and store their treasures and carry on
their occupations without leaving the shelter
of the roof.
To begin tthc root, down IN the underground cham
bers where the Office building has its respiratory syS
TEN OF pumps and engines and fits circuatory system
OF boilers and pipes, there Is Turkish bath establish
mcnt. Having started Tins with opened pores and
freshened eye the investigator is ready to work up.
He ascends the natural level and is In the lobby
The lobby Is part bazaar part arcade and part railway
station. This being typical Office building there
dozen of elevators sliding to and from IT'S
face running regular schedules of express and local
and bearing the busy thousands of outside bees that
have affairs hand with the bees of the hive.
Toward the front Is the Side entrance TO bank
The bank occupies the cornerstone position, which Is
emncnty just and proper In a commercial and bus
ness community. Almost every occupant Of the build
ing must have intimate relations with the bank and
here 1t is in the same house with It's deposorS. Along
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ne SIDE adjoining the bank, IS a OF shops front
mg on tho street concession TO the larger public
but doing most OF their trade through their lobby
entrances Trunks and leather goods next to the
o1nk' establishing suggestive connection of ideas.
Hero s the place to get money here the place 10
get something TO carry It away In
The Wiles of the Candy Man
shoudcring the trunk store Is candy shop The
tnouem of this willy merchant is obvious IL one Is
gong a-Journeylng ono may as well pack a box OF
sweets III the valise. Bor another thlug the candy
store is always Just opposite elevator where the
nome"ard hurrying throag may note and be re-
minded OF certain small but hungry candy eaters.
10 WIKI straight out of the elevators is to walk
straigbt into the temptation of sweets
Ne&t III the row Is barber "paror' Usually u
IL matter Of pride loyalty with The occupants of
an once building TO have their chns scrapcd ond
tneF locks trimmed by tho operator on The premises
~ fs bad barber who cannot command bis own
'local trade Even the Office boys wander In with
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lofty air 10 sacrifice the FIRST, invisible down Mt
runous cost of twenty cents when they could achieve
the same result elsewhere for dime 1t Is a matter
OF honor that the building barber be given their
custom.
Adjoining, In order, shoe shop. haberdasher
cigar store and tailor. The investigator VIII OBJ
that with the exception the candy store and
possibly the bank there is nothing here to attract the
patronage of the fair But this Is the lobby where
everything is rush and huryburly Women do not
do their shopping landing stage, and 1t is
fact that office buildings have little to offer to
feminine trade. in spite of the stcnographers.
Over the opposite side, behind the elevators, is
side door Not just any side door but the side door
the naughty kind that everybody hears about during
reform campaign The shrinking investigator does
not enter but he the long. shiny and the
glitterlDg glasses and Is thereby wiser At the back
of the lobby IS a large restaurant where there Is
music during the luncheon hours. covering the twin
points of sastronomic and aesthetic Joy for the Office
building occupant 4 passage leads to n drug store
and clothing establishment Mt the other corner of
the structure
Clinging like fungi about the pillars In corners
OF the wall Is growth of minor enterprises booths
and stands, whercat newspapers magazines, flowers
fruits and the like triyiatles of commerce blossom
forth. One place OF vantage is taken up by public
telephone exchange and n of sentry boxes, an
otner ms tue Dluc ana WDlte Sign that announces
telegraph aud cable service. Through and between
and among these the crowd hurrles, pauSes and hur
ries again ccaselessy from early until late.
Tho first floor presents very different set of at.
fractions. Here is a luxurious billiard parlor Just
off the elevators where the occupant passes an idle
hour or nails his clerk who has such intention
himself. Spite OF the high tension and fast pace nt
which business Is driven an Office building there
always the wiser ones who manage TO salt in
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session with the worries for the good OF eye and health
Across the hall Is the entrance TO furniture firm
with display room that covers something like half
I'M acre or thereabouts. large part Of its trade, rs
III the case OF many other occupants Is drawn from
the building. 1t supplies Office furniture Of every
conceivable kind but stands ready to meet orders
for the home or club
ON the second floor tue digntarlcs of the place
usually assembled. Here Is of the large branch
omees oil big life insurance company, the headqunr
terS oi lire Insurance company, gus company and
uue guarantee company. Swnrms Of clerks and ste
noSrapherS centre here betImes In the morning and
along about noon the elevator stops the second floor
TO let OF sleek pursy gentlemen of important and
frownng aspect
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Toward the Roof.

Above this point precedence ceases If Il can he said
10 eAist below. and the great, bcwderlng variety OF
INC once building runs on without rhyme reason
from oor TO floor aud corridor to corridor, Lawyers
DO not herd with lawyers publishers with pub
hShcr9 70 p7Ss along anv hall II random and inercct
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the President" On these occasions the presi
dent and Mrs. Washington were conducted to
sofa placed under a canopy. The president did
not stay there much, but moved about among the
other guests with the dignifed courtesy which
always marked him in society.
On his birthday in 1897 he and Mrs. Washing
ton were in Philadelphia. The ships in the har-
Dor dressed with flags and the houses were
decorated. Every half hour the church bells rang.
Government officials and foreign diplomats
called to congratulate him. The ball at night
in the amphitheater. specially foored and deco
rated. There about 500 guests and accord
ing to eye witness every countenance be-
spoke pleasure and appreciation; even Democrats
forgot for a moment their enmity"
The next year, 1885,, Washington attended the
celebration given by his friends and neighbors
at Alexandria and accounts declare that 1t
the last time he did He at Mount
Vernon in 1898 on his birthday, it being the
sion of of the greatest festivities in the his
tory of the mansion. the marriage of Nelly Gus
tbs. The ceremony was performed at early
candelight in the banquet room and was attend
ed by the gentlefolk from all the country around.
In spite of the wedding, however Washington
seems to have slipped away for look in the
doings at Alexandria; for there is an account Of
that celebration in an old copy of the Alexandria
Gazette in which his presence is mentioned. The
great event Of that particular day sort Of
sham attack on the town by three companies of
local infantry. They were embarked the
armed schooners Neptune, Trial and Mercury and
succeeded in making two landings, but after "a
heavy and continuous street fighting" were finally
compelled to surrender.
The general had arrived soon after the affair
began and when the evolutions were closed he
presented his highest respects to all the parties
engaged in them" Apparently being due for the
wedding eight miles distant, he did not remain
for any of the dinners which followed and at
which SO extreme number of toasts were drunk
that one trembles at the thought of how the
youthful soldiers acquitted themselves at the ball
in the evening.
That was the last of his birthdays which
Washington himself lived to celebrate. but his
home town faithfully continued the custom.
G. w. P. Custis. the grandson of Mrs. Washing
ton, spoke at the public dinner in 1s49 and said
it was the sixtieth celebration of February 20
which he had attended In Alexandria. The ac-
count of that dinner by the way. says that the
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sumptuous provision enjoyed with much
hilarity, tempered, however. with moderation"
Besides the birthnight balls there another
feature of the early celebrations in Alexandra
which was peculiar to that town. Washington
had founded an orphan asylum there and when
on his birthday there would be meeting. with
an orator, in of the churches, the orphans
were conspicuously present and came in for q
special piece of grafton. The account of the
meeting in 1910 says that after the Grafton col.
lection was taken up for the benefit Of the asy.
lum
The Alexandria celebrations often ad-
dressed by G. w. P. Gusts. In 1911 Richard B.
Lee was the orator. Some idea Of newspaper
methods of that day may be had from the fact
that although the celebration that time was men.
toned in the Gazette of February %, 1t not
until February 25 that real account appeared.
During the civil war the celebration of the
birthday ceased. Alexandria ardently south.
in its sympathies and was, moreover. too
much in the track of to take notice of even
it's own pet anniversary. 1t was not until 1870
that 1t began feeble revival of the old festival
That time there merely presentation of a
stand of colors to the cadets OF ST. Johns acad
envy by the young ladies of Mount Vernon Insti.
tute.
In 1872 the cadets paraded and there was q
birthnight ball once more, In 1875 real celebra.
tion arranged, to which thousands of strang.
ers' came and upon which occasion the houses
that were mourning at Lees death"-Robert E.
Lee-"a displayed the American flag" Many
houses displayed pictures of Lee and Washington
side by side. But there was brthnight ball
and on the platform of the speakers stand there
was vacant chair placed to honor the memory
of G. w. p. Custis. the old man eloquent"
Since 1876 the celebrations have been rather
irregular in the town which originated them But
of late years society has been formed which
arranges and carries out an elaborate programme
every alternate year. Whereas the orphans used
to be center of birthday attention, the interest
is divided now between the firemen and the sol
diers.
Last year there were detachments of federal
troops and of United States sailors in addition to
the District militia. Washington has perma
nent claim to pose as Alexandrias "favorite SON
and these biennial affairs the biggest thing
of their sort in the country. February 20 lie thu
Aexandrian's glorious Fourth.
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list throng that visits Mount vernon Is iounu ~
Tho isoI,tior of Washingtons birthplace. In con
junction with the erection Of the governmental
monument at Wakefield substantial pier was
built extending some distance out into the roto.
mac but this pier is now In shoal water ana
none of the larger steamers plying on the fo1o'
mac can reach it. In consequence the only avail
ab1e means of reaching Wakefield is to take pas
sage on one Of the steamers bound for Colonial
Beach, the leading summer resort OF the lower
Potomac and upon arrival at the beach to either
charter launch for the trip to Wakefield or else
reach the same goal by considerable drive over
roads that are none too good. Even this time
consuming method of making a pilgrimage to
Wakefield is impractcable in winter
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17

during his lifetime
The honor of having originated the public OBJ
servance of February % is one of which the town
of Alexandria. Va. is jealousy proud Alexandria
was Washington's county town. He attended
church there; he voted and paid taxes there;
his physician lived there; he bought of its trades
men, contributed to its charities head of it's
Masonic lodge, organized its fire brigade.
Washington and Alexandra either contradict
the theory that prophet is not appreciated at
home or they exception to prove the rule.
Right after the close of the revolution Alexandria
began to celebrate the birthday of her hero.
Perhaps the old town had acquired the habit,
for the brthnight balls in honor of King George
had been the climax Of social functions under the
old regime. At any rate allegiance
more ardently transferred and the birthnight
balls became even more elaborate than the old.
Alexandria having set the fashion, other
places took up the custom. In 1874 the French
officers who had served under Washington cele-
brated February % in Paris; that is to say 1t
was not then February 20, but according to the
reckoning OF that day. February IL.
While he was president the birthday was al
ways celebrated at the city which was the CAPT
fai for the time being. At night there were gala
performances at the theaters and a ball which
the president and his wife attended
It IS recorded that one of these balls In Phila-
6elphia was enliyened by the fact that many Of
the young ladies' wore twined among their curls
tandeaux embroidered with the words Long live
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mother of Washington,
it was broken and its
fragments lie there to-
day, moss-grown and
uncovered. Later on
picnic parties landed
on the sandy beach
and made such a prac-
tice of carrying away
the bricks as souvenirs
that John w. Wilson,
the owner of the farm,
took steps to prevent
furth er trespassing.
Only a few of the old
bricks. together with
the cornerstones. are
now left. These bricks,
by the way, were
brought over from Eng
land nearly two centu-
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17

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ration. Cast iron. the most generally
useful variety. contains about five per
cent. of impurities. and the curious
thing is that it owes its special value
to the presence of these. Pure iron
can be shaved with pocket knife;
impure iron can be made almost as
hard as steel.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17
PITCHING a Curve.

Game Warden-This deer was found
dead on your premises, and yet you
deny that you killed it?
Farmer-Waal, it happened like
this: My wife was THROWN stun at
the hens, an some way the deer,
which was feedin' round back O. the
barn, got hit.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17

ries ago. serving ballast for the vessels, which
also brought all the woodwork and other fur
nishings The broad portico of the old house
faced the Potomac. which is here miles In width,
and In the estimation of many persons the view
at this point surpasses that at either Arlington
or Mount Vernon.
In the year 1896 the national government
erected at Wakefield a miniature copy of the
Washington national monument with the inscrip
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17

some appreciation for its associations. A sue
ceeding generation, however, demolished the
chimney and the remnants of the walls in order
TO secure the bricks.
A marble slab. bearing inscription giving
the date of Washingtons birth and other infor.
nation, which had been set into the great arch
of the fireplace above mentioned was removed to
the old family burying ground but in placing it
beneath two ancient fg-trees planted by the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS llll21EHrHe
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-17

Washington is the mightiest name OF the
earth-long since mightiest in moral reformation
On that name a eulogy is expected. 1t cannot
be- To add brightness to the sun or glory to the
name of Washington is alike impossible. Let
none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the
name and in its Naked deathless splendor leave
1t shining on.--Abraham Lincoln.
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STARTED IN VIRGINIA

Come, boys, close the window and make good fire
Wife. children. sit snug all around;
It's the day that gave birth to our countrys blessed
SIRE
Then let 1t with pleasure be crowned
Dear wife, bring your wine. and in spite of hard
times
On this day at least we'll be merry:
Come, MI every glass till II DER the brim.
II not with madeira-then sherry.