The Washington times., 1911-10-11
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Il. 1911.

been installed In the navy yard. 1t is
complacently announced that this will
stop the apparent shortages.
The ethics, on the whole, which pre-
vail among the patent attorneys In
Washington are gratfyingly high.
D. J. callahan was not present at last
nights meeting of the Chamber of Com
MERGE That explains, of course, why
the meeting got into muddle.
A groom more than three times as old
as the bride was married in Washing
wedding of January and March or April
II Lieutenant Fodlois is an optimist
he will probably take the view that
with his appendix gone he will be able
to fly with less OF handicap than be-
fore.
The death Of Prof Francis A. Springer
marks the passing of theologian and
Sunday school worker of recognized
educator.
The increase in the cost Of living may
be borne with more or less patience so
long as It does not affect the price Of
the first supply Of puckwheat cakes and
country sausage.
Washington will again enjoy playing
host to Cardinal Gibbons tomorrow
when he dedicates Gibbons Hall at the
Catholic University and speaks at the
Columbus Day ceremonies.
The American Civic Association will!
back up the fight on the bill board nuis-
ance. This crusade promises to make
Washington almost as well known az
the fact that 1t is the Capital city.
Judge George William Crane, jr., 4
former Washingtonian, who is now the
boy judge" out in South Dakota, will
be welcomed to his old home when he
comes here on a visit with his bride.
Another organization has discovered
the advantages of Washington as a
national headquarters city. The Balti-
more branch of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society is to be moved here.
When the underground telephone cable
from New York to Washington is COM
pleted, II will be possible for 29S per-
sons TO talk simultaneously between
the two points. That will be some con-
versation.
The fact that a dying mother at
Brandywine, Nd, wishes to communi-
cate with her son, w. A. Garner, who
once worked in Washington, should
give the widest currency to the effort to
locate him.
Every farmer and suburban resident
coming to town these days brings with
him joyful news of a bumper chestnut
crop. ChestnUts are more plentiful this
year than they ever have been in this
section of the country.
The debate at the Mckinley Manual
Training School on the proposition, Res
olved, That universal transfers in the
District of Columbia should be granted,
will at least serve to excite interest in
this important subject.
mat washington taxes OH It's hat to
no city in the business and Industrial
world is indicated by the success Of a
Washington contracting firm submitting
the lowest bid for mechanical equipment
of the new model pcstoffice.
Washington's stand against the BILL
board nuisance is to be heralded abroad
as a model for the other esthetic cities
of the country. Come to think of it,
there are a great many other things
about Washington which are worthy of
imitation.
Yes, my son, the Cathedral OF Milan
is practically completed. after so many
hundred years, and the opening of the
Panama canal Is assured for the early
future-but the Lincoln Memorial is. as
Mr.. Kipling once remarked, quite
another story.
few freakish stunts on the Avenue
or elsewhere may not mean that a Wild
West show has come to town, but SIM
ply that the freshmen who attend
washington colleges must officially rec
ogniZe their inferiority to the overload
ship of the sophs.
It would be a memorable and sig
nifcant feature to have Rear Admiral
Clark raise his nag once more on the
Oregon and make the drst trip through