El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-12

flats costs $4,000 a year. This, of
course. does not include fuel or lights.
There are 10 elevators, which are run
from { q. m. TO II midnight every day
while congress is in session, Sundays
included-each of them of course, re-
Quiring an attendant. Towels, and such
other toilet necessaries as brushes and
combs are supplied from the office. The
building is under the charge Of an
official "custodian'-Al Werner
The Custodian
Mr.. Werner, who keeps the hotel for
senator's is about 40 years of age, and
looks younger. He halls from Idaho.
and his beginning in life was made as
clerk in a drug store which was owned
by his mother, at a salary of SO a
week. For q while he did engineering
work on the Northern Pacific railroad
in Montana, and he has also been in
the real esate business He was a
member of the Idaho legislature when
that body elected senator Borah- 1t
was through BOrah that he came to
Washington and, after serving for some
time as assistant TO Elliott Woods, the
superintendent of the-capitol. was made
custodian of the senate flats Werner
is tall. dark, slender, and much liked
by everybody.
Capitol Superintendent.
II is Elliott Woods who, incidentally
to his duties as superintendent of the
capitol, controls both the senate flats
and the house flats. He is a most re-
markable man. Twenty years ago, or
Whereabouts. he drifted to Washington
from Indiana, and obtained employ
ment as a foreman of laborers on the
capitol grounds. His manifest ability
caused Edward Clark, the architect OF
the capitol, to promote him to the po-
sition of an assistant in his office, and.
when Clark died, half dozen years
since, he succeeded to the main job,
being recommended for the place to Mr.
Roosevelt by every member of the SEN
ate, including both Republicans and
Democrats
Because Woods was not an architect
the title of the manager of the capitol
was altered, for his benefit, to super
intendent He is not. in fact, even a
builder; yet it was he who put up the
two great office buildings, otherwise
known as annexes. which, as they stand
today, represent his ideas throughout
even to the smallest details.
incidentally, he is wonderful mu-
slcian, playing the violin, the piano,
and the old fashioned musical glasses
he can give a whole evenings drawing
room entertainment all by himself A
wizard at electricity, he was one or the
hrst men in this country to take up
experiments with the X-rays, and at
the present time he operates a superbiy
equipped wireless telegraphy plant just
outside the capitol grounds.
House Flats Custodian.
Inc custodian of the house hals Is
w r. Woolley, of Cleveland, Ohio, who
was formerly employed as a civilian
expert In connection with the river and
harbor work of the war department
FROM this he was detached t9 take
charge of the mason work in the build
Ing Of the house annex, and was later
on appointed to manage the building
that is to say. to keep the hotel for
representatives in congress. 1t is worth
explaining incidentally that both apart
ment houses are under the control OF
the respective committees on rules Oh
senate and house
Motors for Senator'S.
II mas always been regarded as a ma
ter OF course that senators should en-
JOY comforts somewhat superior 10
those provided for mere representatives
mus 1t is not surprising to nno that
automobiles are furnished TO carry
members of the upper house back ana
forth through the tunnel which con-
meets their flats with the capitol, Where-
as Legislators in the popular branch OF
congress have the benefit of no sucn
conveniences
Ever since the tunnels were dug De-
tween the capitol and the two annexes
1T has been a puzzle to decide what
mode oof transportation should be