The Washington herald., 1910-05-06

sons who ride on Fourteenth street cars
are willing to be quoted as saying they
hear the query 100 times a ride.
When perspiring humanity just released
from offices begins 10 crush itself in com
pact space in a car al New York avenue
and Fifteenth street preparatory TO the
return trip home. the question fills the
atmosphere.
Please step forward shouts the con-
ductor, but there is no forward movement.
for all the straps near the front are taken,
and persons in the rear are loath to rel
lease their grip. Seats are not for sale.
but sometimes may be had through cour-
tesy.
The fat man puffs and blows and be-
tween breaths asks the man sitting down
Have they decided yet what a crowded
car is?'' Nav" says the man sitting
down. naughty in possession of the seat
and interested in his newspaper
We'll. somebody ought TO get a gun
and go after en-" AYERS the fat man.
nearly losing his equilibrium and his hat
as the car hits a curve around Thomas
Circle. From Thomas Circle north pas
sengers begin alighting Strap-hangers
dive for seats and apologize for knocking
off somebody's hat Meanwhile the In
terstate Commerce Commissioner delib-
crates on the question: What is a
crowded car?"
The crab man is abroad in the land
again. The shouts OF "crabbie, crabbie. "
from the healthy lungs Of scores Of fisher
men announce daily 20 Washingtonlans
that the season OF the crustacean is at
hand
Washingtonians are planning Grabbing
trips down the bay IN search for the
sport. and already several excursions
have been made with good luck. II viii
be a couple OF weeks yet before Mr. Crab
will really feel at home in the waters of
the bay. and then the sport viii be on in
earnest.
There is just enough spice in the art
Of landing a crab TO make the sport worth
while TO say nothing of the pleasure of
eating the juicy white meat
Welcome 70 our city. Mr. Crab, some
human crabs" whose sole occupation
in life is 10 blight the pleasures Of other
folks. are with us all the time. and it's
a relief TO see a particularly useful and
inoffensive member Of the species return
to town. Again. welcome 90 our city
and our tables,
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Every time that any one does not have
anything 10 do here in the city he
seems TO try 10 scare up some fund or
( benefit or pot OF money that has been
lost or stolen years before and see what
has become Of it. Sometime ago we had
an agitation concerning barrel Of jew
els and gold that had been sent 20 Pres.
| idcnt Monroe during his administration
and had been put into the Treasury and
kept for him. and kept so well, his heirs
said, that II was still there
Then there came up this Lincoln fund
scare. and now some one claims that
there was $4,000 left 20 the public schools
by one Mathew Wright in the year 1871.
And he is trying 10 see what became
Of II. Pretty soon some one will say
that there is a pot of gold that his
/ grandfather put in the top of the Monu-
mcnt. and demand that IL be pulled
down and see If IL Is there. And the
/ one best bet is that he will get away
with it. During this season almost any
| thing in the line Of sensation seems TO
60 SO let's get together and see II one
Of our ancestors didn't put a diamond
in the hat Of Lady Liberty on top Of the
/ Capitol, and then get the powers that
be to investigate and see If It isn't there.
= . =
/ a sign in the street cars. up among the
I ads. reading san Francisco, 1915" has
/ attracted a large amount Of attention
/ and interest since il made its appearance
a few days ago. Speculation has been
/ rife concerning the meaning of il and but
/ few have reached the propHr conclusion
/ regarding II. It is really the opening
/ wedge i'm what is going TO be one OF the
/ greatest and most widespread campaigns
! for publicity that have ever been under
/ taken by a city.
! Previous 20 this time, it has only been
/ private interests that have advertised
/ themselves and thus added to their sales
/ But now one of the largest and, its ma
| tives claim, the most progressive OF
| cities has taken this method Of making
itself and its interests known 20 the
public
1915 is the date set by the city fathers
/ in which the queen City of the Coast
! is to be a model for her sisters Every
nuisance OF a public nature is 10 be done
/ way with. the streets are TO be widened,
more and handsomer public buildings are
/ 10 be erected and the city is to be Eener-
ally beauufed and made a place of de-
| Iight-so they tell US out there. Whether
| this will be really done or not remains
| to be seen-but one thing is sure, and
that IS that again the Westerners have
demonstrated their ability to keep ahead
of the prooession-in publicity as well
as in other things.
If the campaign Of advertising that has
been planned is carried out. it is safe
70 say that San Francisco will be the
best doomed city in the country by the
time 1915 gets here.
BY the time a copper-cOlored, last
quarter moon was emerging from the
horizon Thursday morning the premier
of comets loomed distinctly, though still
family. in a cloudless sky.
1t was just a shade more distinct than
when first seen in Washington without
| glasses at intervals between riffs in the
clouds of Wednesday morning The
weather map of yesterday morning gave
promise of another fine opportunity for
view Friday. The horizon on Saturday
morning may be more or less obscured
/ by hazy cirrus clouds, heralding approach
/ of the storm that has been over the
/ Rocky Mountain region for two or three
days. The next probable opportunity for
clear view will be with the fair weather
/ following that storms passage Of the