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LOCAL MENTION.
EXCURSIONS TO-DAY.

Norfolk and washington Steamboat COMPANY,
steamers from fot4 Of Seventh street for Old Pciul
Comfort and Norfolk daily st ssB D. n
Steamer Charles MacalesfeF for Mount Vernon
and Marshall Hail leaves Seventh street wharf Al 4
.. n. and 80 .. n. daily. ercept Sunday.
Steamer st. Johns leaves Seventh street wharf 70.
Colonial Beach At 10 D m.
Steamer for New River View leaves Seventh uar,.,
wharf at 10 a. rn- and ,. N. daily.
Steamer leaves Seventh serest wharf at D N. "a.
forty-mile moonlight trip on Potomac
Ca-B from Fifteenth street end New Yoss nv.up,
eTsRy quarter hour for main entrancs zoo Prrf
Chevy Chase. and Kensingion.
Washington Baltimore and Annapo,is Fieofrs,
Railway operates sxtythres limited trains esch a.
oetNeen Washington and Baltimore Ieayinr ~.
teenth street and New Ycrk avenue on ths he-1,
and hale hour. Aiso Trains to Annapolis I've -
utcs after the hour.
Cans from 18th and n streets northsast dir.ct 10
National Thinning School and BladensburR
Chesapeake Beach train schedule IN nilrosd colur.n
Take New York arcnae COLUMBIA Line) street -
E'r additional information phone Lincoln isn
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Why Heat gp Your Home RakInr
when the nearest grocer can supply Jno
G. Meinberg.s Breadf None better. -
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Special Sunday Rates for Touring Cars
to Baltimore, Ridgeville, Clarksburg, Sem
eca, and all other points in Maryland and
Virginia. Phone North 12l2 or write Ter
minaI Taxicab Co., 1923 10Th st. NV.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06
No Musts in a Vacation.
From Success Magazine.

From Success Magazine.
1 know people whose idea of a vacation
is an opportunity to write a book. paint
picture or to do something which they
have not had time or opportunity to do
before. A vacation for a hard worker
ought to mean freedom from all ''musts.
Many people are such victims of the i'm
perious must" they have such a con-
viction that they must do this, that they
must do that. that when they do have d
little leisure they cannot enjoy II. Such
a vacation Is not holdaying at all. 1t
is merely shifting ones work.
To get the most out OF your vacation
keep the must out of your play. Just
go out to have jolly good time, to play.
to frolic: be boy again, forget your
vocation, forget the past, be free.
The most important investment you can
ever make will be that of developing and
cultivating what will give you interest.
occupation and happiness in your declin
ing years. Remember that IL your whole
life is spent in a rut, IL all your energies
are devoted to your little specially, and
thing else, when you are finally forced
out of that rut by age or Ill health you
will have nothing to fall back upon for
satisfaction or enjoyment
l know multi-millionaire who with
all his wealth Is absolutely incapable OF
real enjoyment, because he cannot slow
down, he cannot shut off steam from his
producing. He gives one the impression
that he is always keyed up to the high
est tension. He makes one feel that
there is nothing worth while outside os
business; that it is the chief object and
aim Of life.
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in point of efficienc-. .--hnical beauty
and height.
The average height of other wireless
towers varies from go to go feet. There
is one at Fort Gibbons, Alaska, 90 feet
high, and one at Nome. Alaska, $40 feet
high. These have been considered the
most efficient wireless towers owned by
the government, but a private concern
a Brant Rock, Mass. has a tower $40
feet high which is capable of receiving
and sending messages more than 1000
miles.
The purpose of the government. as out
lined to the writer by Commander S. s.
Robinson. the expert in charge of wire
less biography al the Navy Department,
is to make the towers at Arlington the
most powerful wireless station in the
world and TO install at this station ap-
paratus of the highest power that money
can buy.
The 10000 kilowatt machine that will
he used to supply the sending power is
vented for projecting the electric waves
in wireless telegraphy. A test of this
machine, under the direction of the
Navy Department. was MAJ de at the Brant
Rock station. During this test it was found
the distance a wireless message may be
sent depended only on the height of the
towers and the power of the genera tor.
So, as nothing as high GOO feet had
yet been attempted. it was thought this
height would he a good one to start
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BUILDING HIS OWN HOUSE AT NIGHT

are placed is matched by the circular
stone veranda, which runs around the end
and leads to the front door. A popularity
OF the house is that the steps. facing the
railway as well as the rear of the house.
are in reality at the side of the house.
thus necessitating the veranda leading To
the front entrance. When complete the
exterior will be of smooth gray plaster.
Inside are eleven rooms and two baths.
An entrance hall. to be finished in mission
style with beamed ceiling and open CRATE.
leads into the main living room. This *
eighteen by twenty-five feet, and looks
out over the railway, commanding beau
tiful view OF the surrounding country
This. too. is to be in mission style. On
the same floor are dining room, sixteen
by twenty feet; kitchen and a den. Ihe
kitchen is to be fitted with built-in re-
frgeratOr and frelesS cooker. The den
is to be one of the principal features or
the house, and will he finished in mahog-
any with a stone CRATE. Upstairs are SIX
good sized bedrooms. With the exception
of these rooms. to be finished mission
STYLE and the den. quartered and plain
oak will be used. Not only viii there he
electric lights. hut the heating will he &C
complished by the hot-water plan. There
will also he a large basement.
Among the visitors who have focked To
Fort Myer Heights to see this house have
been several architects. all OF whom have
been loud in their praises of Mr.. Sigg1ns
ability. 1t is estimated that where the house
to be duplicated by contractors IL would
cost S15,0O0. Mr.. Siggins says, however.
that when finished 1t will be worth $4,000
TO him. At the present time there re
main only the interior to finish and the
outer walls. Mr.. Siggins is now puttins
the finishing touches to the tiled roof, and
when that is complete expects to rush
matters to finish and have outside help
That means, however. that he will only
let outsiders do what he himself is unable
to accomplish, such as the plaStering.
electric fixtures, plumbing, etc. He eN-
poets 10 have 1t entirely complete by next
summer.
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In the summer months the heating ap-
paratus will be equipped with blowers
which will drive cold water through the
pipes OF the radiators, thus keeping the
room cool
X
The Navy Department has for many
years conducted coast signal service
and the wireless telegraph is the most
important part Of this service. 1t has
now finally completed chain Of inter
communicating wireless stations on both
coasts Of the United States. and in order
to connect the chain of stations directly
ton. and also to communicate directly
with ships at sea, it was decided to build
the towers at Arlington.
This close communication with Wash
ington by means of the wireless is apt
to do its part in upsetting one of the
oldest and most cherished traditions.
1t was only recently that President Taft
and party made a short trip by sea on
the yacht Mayfower. and during the
whole time he was at sea he was in
constant communication with Washing
ton by means of the wireless. This
suggests the Ultimate abandonment of the
tradition that the chief executive may
not leave domestic soil. That restriction
has been violated on two occasions,
once during eX-President's Roosevelt's
trip to the Canal Zone. and again when
Presidents Taft and Diaz met on the
Mexican side of the border.
1t was only recently that Congress
passed law requiring every outgoing
ocean bound steamship. carrying more
than fifty passengers to be equipped with
a wireless apparatus capable of sending
messages at least hundred miles, with
a penalty proviso Of 5000. This law be-
came effective July l of this year. AS
a consequence a new division was formed
in the Department of Commerce and
Labor to take charge of all wireless APP
paratus in use on ocean bound vessels,
and the first wireless ship inspectors for
the north and south Atlantic and the
Pacific oceans were appointed in June.
The Navy Department has been ex-
perimenting with wireless teiegraphy for
many years. In fact. In its search for
the best wireless apparatus it is claimed
at the department that 1T has made
actual tests of all of this kind of APP
paratus in the world. Experts at the
department say wireless biography is
indispensable to the efficient operation of
navies, both in peace and in war.
Commander S. s. Robinson of the United
States Navy, is the navys expert on
wireless telegraphy. He is Admiral Cones
right-hand man. and when anything re-
lating to wireless comes up ne is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06

ted the following question to the muchly-
matrimoniated actor person:
Are you single married, divorced, or q
widower?"
Yes replied Mr.. Goodwin, just like
that. He believes that brevity is the soul
of wit, and he's right.
The last police census of New York
shows that there are nearly twenty thou
sand men and women in New York who
truthfully can, and no doubt do. say that
they're single, married, divorced and wild
overs or understanding the past tense, of
course, for some of the conditions. One
wonders in sort OF psychologist way
just what is the state of mind of folks
who've been over the entire system of
jumps in this way-what their view of
life is: If the game has left them any
sort of shred of illusion. / know quite
a number of folks in New York who
could have answered the census question
in the same way that Goodwin did.
They're now living alone. cha ppily,"
they claim. But few of them look it.
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may be to non-interference, II several
communications are being carried on in
the same vicinity in the common wave
lengths.
Wireless telegraphy has already been
the subject of two International confer
ences and third is TO convene In Lon
don either this year or in 1912. The sec
ond international conference. held in Ber-
lin in 1905, established wave lengths or
300 and coo meters for shore stations for
general public use. and also provided for
the use of any wave length between .po
and COO meters for ship stations, with 300
meters standard for communication
between ships and shore stations.
Wave lengths between 600 and 1,SDn
meters were reserved for naval and other
government stations, and wave lengths
greater than 1.GD meters were reserved
for special shore stations, each station to
be assigned a particular wave length as
might be directed. Congress has not yet
ratified the recommendations of this con-
ference, and until ii does the United
States is not a party TO 1t. though 1t par
ticipated in the conference. If We VIII
consider the great development in wire
less telegraphy it will be seen that We
have realized nearly all OF Sir William
Crookes' predictions though much re
mains to be accomplished in the way OF
accurate measurement of sending and re-
ceiving currents under different condi-
tions.
while we have not yet reached the las
stages in the imaginings of Sir William
when two friends having their instru-
ments attuned to their desired wave
lengths. could call each other at any
time or place and communicate al Will,
still, that is in the realm of possibilities
and may be realized much sooner than is
now expected
Copyright, 1911, by William L. AltdorferD
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Most of them strike me as bluffing when
they put in that happily" word. They
seem tired, or, more descriptive, ennuye
Divorced once, they're waiting for the
next divorce to be granted, and are sin
gle" in that sense / know a woman of
twenty-nine who has been divorced twice.
who lost one husband by death. and who
with a wonderful outward seeming Of
complaisance, now awaits her third di-
vorce. One marvels how calmness can
even be simulated after such a bunch of
experiences. 1t is wonder they do not
go shrieking through the world and land
smack-dab in padded cells. But they
have acquired stolidness. which is q
beautiful thing to know about in connec-
ton with the New York marriage rela-
tionship, one hears
THE other day met Robert W. Cham
bers, the most successful novelist in
the world, from the monetary standpoint
Mr.. Chambers himself is far from mag
lining that he is the best novelist in the
world; he is that harity among literary
folk. a genuinely modest man, but he has
made the writing of novels pay him bet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06

mean that the young persons or the
chorus were so very young. None OF
them. so far as | could observe, car
ried dolls, they were too busy to en-
gage in side games of come o-see
puss-in- the-corner or prisoners base.
yet generally speaking, the little bits
of things looked as if dolls ought to
be about their number and the games
mentioned about their childish way of
passing the gleeful. tittery hours.
Maybe they'll get by the Gerry So
ciety. which rules that no baby un-
der sixteen shall cavort in chorus
but I doubt it Really, there were
many of the poor little things who
appeared 10 me TO be well under six
teen. Most OF them wore dresses that
came only TO their shoe tops-they
were engaged IN the preliminary re-
hearsals and wore their street clothes
and very considerable passed. OF them
wore their hair down their backs in
braids.
I am fully conversant with the fact
that in this odd age of chicken
fanciering il is perfectly possible for
a young person to wear her hair in a
braid, and to keep her skirts at her
shoe tops, when she is well past the
Gerry age. But these were really and
trulys. They were honest-Iniun girly-
girlies
! asked the manager who is staging
several of the shows about 'em. He
said the statUesque show girl is deader
than nine dodos in public estimation
(which. to him. naturally means Broad
way estima tion). and that the suuab.
wren. broiler. pony. chicken tyne of
chorus girl now was the only accept
able kind.
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went steadily on, relying on his memory
instead of the actual drawings
OF course, long Before this point had
been reached he had again secured en-
ployment. But this did not retard the
progress of the house, as in all the years
he has been at work he has worked on it
practically every day. Now that he is
again at work as a carriage trimmer, he
puts all his time of evenings. holidays and
Sundays on the house. Strange as the
idea of working at night may seem to
those not acquainted with this novel
project. it is far from being that to him.
When Intercepted regarding working in
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of certain peculiar atmospheric changes
which occur after darkness sets in.
Referring to statement Of Sir VIII
liam Crookes regarding people who might
want to find out what the other fellow
was doing and attempt to steal messages
from the air. Sir William says: Con-
sidering there would be the whole range
of waves to choose from, varying from
a few feet to several thousand miles.
he believed there would be sufficient
secrecy. for the most inveterate curiosity
would surely recoil from the task of
passing in review all the millions of pos
sibIe wave lengths on the remote chance
of ultimately hitting on the particular
wave length employed by those whose
correspondence it was wished TO tap.
However, practical considerations nave
limited the number OF wave lengths now
in use.
1.-THE wave length is the problem in
wireless. There is sufficient range OF
possible wave lengths to provide any
needful communication If fixed stations
only were necessary, but since the princi-
pal use and developments Of wireless
telegraphy have been with and between
ships at sea, which are continually NOV
ing and varying their distances from each
other and from shore stations. the prop
lem is by no means a simple one.
"A station that must be ready to hear
any number Of vessels can only hear
them all if all send with the same or
nearly the same wave length, and this
applies also to vessels desiring to com
municate with each other. II vessels in
the vicinity of a shore station desire to
communicate with the shore station IN
reference cannot be prevented. Prac-
tically the only recourse Is to division
of time
lone operator can be ready to receive
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the prospective towers, not only in view
of the actual work to be accomplished.
but as a forecast of experiments to be
conducted along wireless lines. The plan
of the government at this station will be
to conduct experiments that will demon
strate the greatest possible distance
wireless message may be sent
In order to get the best results possible.
the towers will be arranged in the form
of an isosceles triangle, the central one
being at the apex and standing 600 feet
over all The other two towers will be
each 40 feet in height and self-support-
ing-that is. there will be guy ropes
from one to another. Some idea of the
massiveneSs of the framework in the
towers may be gained from the fact that
more than 900 tons of steel will be used
in the construction. Notwithstanding
this, they Will not be bulky. but will
present the pleasing appearance of a deli
cate Cobweb traCery against the sky line.
The original plan called for towers OF
reinforced concrete, but as one of the
towers will be higher than the Washing
ton Monument. patriotic naval officers
decided that a change of material would
be necessary to avoid detracting from
the memorial to the first President. A
two-story building will be placed north of
the main tower 1t will contain the
necessary mechanical apparatus for the
operation of the station. This structure
will be of permanent brick and terra
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of the Atlantic ocean. from the north
pole 10 the equator, and even beyond.
All this is to be accomplished by the
wireless telegraph. And three gigantic
towers are soon 10 be erected near
Washington.
Through his Navy Department he has
decided TO build them. one 500 feet
high-45 feet higher than the Wash
ington Monument-and the other two
$50 feet each. With towers OF this
great height. situated on the highest
point near Observation-Disclosures, Va
Uncle Sam will he able to direct the
movements OF his war vessels any
where on the Atlantic ocean within
5000 miles of Washington, and perhaps
farther if the possibilities of the tow
ers come up to expectations
Not only will he issue Instructions
direct to his watchdogs of the deep by
means of this powerful station. but he
also plans to have score ships scat
tered all over the Atlantic. from coast
to coast and from as far north as the
fcebergs will permit to as far south as
the electric waves of the wireless may
be forced to penetrate. Through his
scout SnlpS reporting everything that
goes on IN their vicinity he is thus
taking steps to prevent any unwelcome
visitor slipping In on him. and hence
TO be we'll prepared in case of emer-
gency
The plan also includes the Pacific
coast, where it is proposed to erect a
station somewhat on the same order as
the me to be built here. this station
to be located I'm the vicinity Of San
Francisco. 1t will be of such great
height to afford communication
with all the wireless stations on that
coast and with war vessels at for
a distance of more than 1000 miles.
The station al Colon, Panama. is ex-
peCted to take care OF the gulf and
vicinity. although 1t is proba BILE the
station at Washington will he able to
communicate direct with vessels in the
gulf and the Caribbean sea. Later on.
It has been suggested, the height of
the station at Colon be increased, so
that eventually the entire south At
iantic as we'll as the north Atlantic and
the Pacific may come under the watch
full eye of Uncle Samuel.
The towers at Washington will be
the highest of the kind in the world.
They will also be the most powerful.
capable of sending messages direct
from the Navy Department to vessels
in any part of the Atlantic ocean. AS
compared with other wireless towers
throughout the United States. these
will far surpass any before attempted
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will to try. SuCn Is the pliIioS-
phv of a certain man who, to prove IT,
has almost completed a two-story, eleven
room house without having had any preVl-
Gus experience in building. The house Is
situated at Fort Myer Heights. Va, and
rises from the crest Of steep hill over
looking the Falls Church car line. The
man who has thus put his theory into
practice is Samuel Siggins, Canadian
who has lived in Washington the past
twelve years. Not only is the house
thoroughly modern, but the style In
which it is being built and the ideas
which it's builder is carrying out are by
no means rudimentary. OF Spanish design,
with tiled roof and high arched porch,
the house is in every way real house.
MI Siggins is carriage trimmer by
profession Five years ago he was forced
to abandon his trade. So he set to work
to find something to do in his enforced
leisure, Finally he conceived the idea Of
building a house. He knew nothing what
ever about drawing plans, erecting
building or any of Inc other things COM
monty supposed to be necessary in order
to carry out such a feat. But neverthe-
less he decided that he would build
house
He looked up books on the subject cuts
and various articles, and when all had
been carefully perused. decided that none
contained that for which he was seek
ing. So he set about drawing the plans
along his own ideas. For one whole Win
ter he worked over these, In a little shack
erected on the spot where he is now
building the house.
These completed. he set about making
the ground ready. This was a consid
only steep, but was also covered with
brush and trees. He cleared them away
single-handed. and then turned his atten-
ton to the foundation. The ground upon
which the house is being built was ex-
tremely rocky, and SO Mr.. Siggins con-
structed g. derrick with which to lift the
rock. This he also used to assist him in
putting the big stones in place for the
mited them. Some of the stones measure
Ave feet in length and two wide, and
weigh more than 500 pounds.
At the foot Of the hill trickles a small
stream that assumes large proportions
when 1t rains. And SO Mr.. Siggins. alive
to every possibility. bridged and damned
this little water course. He further in
stalled hydraulic ram with sufficient
power supplied by the water to force
water to the attic of his house. But that
was not the only use to which the little
dam was put Mr.. Siggins was going to
make poured" house and needed sand.
And this the dam furnished, for when
the rainy season was on the stream car
ried large quantities of it down, all OF
which was caught and safely held for
him b the dam. In addition to this, he
erected a winch with which he hauled all
the stone and sand up the hill by hand.
He was progressing nicely when the
shack in which his plans were kept was
destroyed by fire, everything inside being
burned. In addition, he lost about eight
hundred dollars worth of flooring and
oak finishing he had piled nearby. But
he by no means ceased work on the
house. Despite the loss Of the plans. he